While I hate that this happened, it's kind of...fun?...to be in a more wild-west corner of the internet again where this kind of shit sometimes happens. I dunno man the lack of stability is refreshing. Less corpo and more chaotic energy. Real wasteland shit.
mikezila
joined 2 years ago
What will the community do then? Carry on. There's always a new hotshot waiting in the wings. This cycle has been going on since before I was born and it'll continue long after I'm dead. There will always be new cats and new mice in the scene.
I've never heard of a Steam ban for running a pirated game that uses cracked steam_api.dll. The whole point of the cracked .dll is that it doesn't communicate with Steam anymore.
While I personally haven't run into the same roadblocks as you when using alternatives, I appreciate the counter-point and reality check.
I have not had to pirate software since I was a teenager. There are free/FOSS tools that do all of what I need well enough that I haven't needed to even consider non-free options. Documents I just use Google Docs/Sheets, video editing I use kdenlive, sound recording/editing I use audacity, screen recording and game capture I use OBS, photo/image editing I use GIMP, etc.
It's not that I am opposed to software piracy, I just have not had to do it. I would if I needed too but it just hasn't come up. For games I typically either buy them for a console or Steam and don't pirate them.
The only thing I really pirate with any regularity anymore is tv/movies/music, and most of that is just finding things to add to my jellyfin rather than anything that's new/current.
Stock up while you can! Try to download some longer series and then when you're off wifi break them up into an episode a day or so, so that there's always something new to look forward to, in the same way you'd have new content on youtube each day.
I'm not "okay with it". Empress is a psycho the scene would be better without, but when they're gone, it doesn't all just burn down. There'll be someone else. There always is.