flashgnash
joined 2 years ago
I think torrenting someone else's copy of a game is still illegal regardless of if you own a copy yourself
I'm talking purely ethically, I don't consider it to be any different where I paid for the game originally if I can no longer access it via that platform
Pretty sure roms are only legal if you rip them yourself from your own console.
I don't think it's legal for people to distribute them but torrenting makes that an unwinnable game of wack a mole to shut down so they don't bother usually
So far I've had one hard drive fail and lose a bunch of my work from long ago (before I knew to use git), have physically lost memory sticks to similar effect
On the other hand I've still got everything in my Dropbox that I worked on as a child, everything on my old web server was still there until I pulled it down and cancelled it, all the contacts on my phone I have ever made, and I've never lost a steam game
I get not wanting to put your faith in big companies and I don't like the idea but so far they've proven far more reliable than I am in looking after my stuff
(I also tend not to keep anything sensitive in there and open source all my code nowadays anyway so leaks and ai training don't bother me that much)
I'm not being sarcastic, and I don't follow American politics that closely so I didn't know about this. I also don't see why people think the right response to that is to just do the same thing though
What about when that HDD gets lost or dies, then I need a backup.
Without an automated system will be unreliable and a pain in the ass to maintain
If it's automated and not just a hard drive I shove games on every now and then it requires a machine to run it and constant electricity
At which point what's the point of even buying it if you're going to torrent it later on anyway though
Would have just the same claim to ethically pirate it if I were to buy it there as if I bought it on steam
My concern with this and other platforms like gog is that I can be fairly confident valve isn't going under anytime soon, and that they have no interest in taking games away from people
I don't have nearly that same faith in a project that's only just started and doesn't have the amount of money behind it valve does
Sure, once you own these games you own them but that means having to store every single game I've bought somewhere incase they go under and it all vanishes
Your child full of micro plastics, their child full of micro plastics and their grandchild full of micro plastics will be joining in eventually
At least asbestos and lead didn't get passed down to children and permeate the entire food chain and all the water
No need to apologise for what you enjoy it's just a hobby
Furry ERP is the thing that weirds people out and doesn't sound like you're into that
My question here though is has anyone actually managed to achieve that using the nft as proof? I feel like you'd struggle to do that even with regular copyright which is actually recognised legally.
I'm pretty sure nfts have no weight legally and proving they're using your avatar to people in general is only going to get you made fun of for having an nft in the first place
PC is powered off when not in use because it's only for gaming and occasionally a build server.
Laptop locked if I'm going out of sight of it, hibernated if I'm going away for more than half an hour or so/need to put it in my bag
Occasionally left on with the screen off if I need it for something remotely but then I'll remotely shut it down when I've got what I need