You're gonna carry that weight.

Yeah, I do, though not in ghost or anything like that. There isn't really anything "normal" in life, we only render things as "normal" according to our values and goals.

Oh yeah, a club thing

https://www.animemaru.com/study-confirms-users-with-anime-profile-pictures-have-a-higher-iq/

Short reminder: Bethesda killed Prey 2.

I think I don't have anything against piracy as long as it's copying, not theft, because in the end it benefits author by making him more popular and after all people don't own ideas, it's ideas who own people

Now this sentence here is wrong. It's not piracy who makes author more popular, it's his own creation which makes him more popular. If creation is good, people who can afford buying it buy it, people who can't afford it pirate it or they just don't touch it if creation didn't capture their attention.

Okay, but would it be better to have people pirate stuff or not? Well, it depends on a business practice companies use and on an industry they are used. Of course pirating is better for consumers, because they get access to creation for free (and sometimes in places where no legal access to a product exists). It's better for an existing product, because more people can provide feedback. Would it be better for a creator (and publisher if there is one)? Well, more people gonna hear about product, that's good. Some people which can afford it gonna pirate it instead of buying it, that's bad for creator, but such drawback can be negated to some degree by a good business practice and industry you work in. Creator after seeing his creation being pirated might not create anything afterwards, but that depends on a creator.

Quote from: MarKhan on July 25, 2018, 04:56:56 AM

I think I don't have anything against piracy as long as it's copying, not theft, because in the end it benefits author by making him more popular and after all people don't own ideas, it's ideas who own people. Author owns the expression of idea.

i know what you mean, but i wouldn't say the average person who pirates honestly spends a lot of time advertising for the products they're pirating—why would they, it's not their job

I don't think this is entirely true, I don't think that someone would loudly scream about creation they pirated, yet majority would share it with friends, because they like it. And I think most of "pirates" like what they pirate, because why someone would pirate something they don't expect to like? Only if they have to work with it, but would someone pirate thing if he/she doesn't have work with it and they don't like it?

if you have some kind of platform where you can reach thousands of people and say "hey this game is cool buy it," then maybe that works, but even then, people don't like having to spend money on something they don't know they'll enjoy, and most of the ones who refuse to do so will never talk about it at all, giving no exposure whatsoever

But "hey this game is cool buy it" can provide at least something, it makes some people aware that game exists in the first place, which might not be a big deal for a AAA company, but for some indie dev, which didn't done marketing part (because lack of recources/money) it can make wonders. And you have platforms as Discord for example.

It's not about reaching thousands of people even, it's about reaching individuals who would love this game and supported it by not just bying it, but providing support.

basically, there's scum on all sides—we're all just selfish pieces of shit, that's the bottom line

Depends on what you mean by "selfish". Would be person who only thinks about helping others "selfish"? Yes, if we count satisfying your inner morals, principles (being aware of doing so or not) selfish, but that would mean that no matter what we do, it's selfish and classification of people into selfish or not is redundant, probably as well as existence of the word "selfish". Otherwise, no, not everyone is selfish.

Quote from: Solonoid on July 25, 2018, 01:19:54 AM

I download roms

i've actually warmed up to piracy a little tiny bit, just because i've become so fucking disillusioned with every media industry ever, to a point where i would literally burn them all down if i could—seriously, fuck anyone working in any of those industries

it's still, at its base, a bad and wrong thing to do, because it's still theft—but i just don't give a fuck anymore, shit is way too goddamn expensive these days and no one deserves to make that much money off of simple entertainment, it's fucking bullshit

anime is the only art form i hate enough to not monetarily support in any way whatsoever, no matter how illegal it is

I think I don't have anything against piracy as long as it's copying, not theft, because in the end it benefits author by making him more popular and after all people don't own ideas, it's ideas who own people. Author owns the expression of idea.

By not theft I mean that person who pirated content doesn't claim to be a creator of the thing copied at the very least.

I don't think that copyright laws work well either, I think they are obsolete. I think if I start to create something I share it for free and if I hear that some (insane) people want to support me then I just start a patreon or something.

I also noticed that creators suffer more from big industries using/reusing their creations rather than from regular people copying and sharing stuff.

To summarize (and to repeat myself): pirating might be bad, but most of today's business practises are so much worse.

Quote from: Verbatim on July 22, 2018, 11:53:47 PM

Quote from: Aether on July 22, 2018, 11:29:11 PM

>priskilla

how the fuck else would you presume to say it based on its spelling

Well, you don't say suskeptible, conskious, condeskending, diskipline and so on either. There's probably a rule on when it's a soft or hard c (like in discrimination) but it's pretty unintuitive to pronounce it as priskilla.

You always die alone

Pink Ying & Blue Yang

Meh...its about right.

Yeah, not far right tho

I speedrunned it

Ok, but if in all seriousness

Quote from: Verbatim on July 18, 2018, 08:44:13 AM

Quote from: The Waifu Master on July 18, 2018, 08:15:44 AM

whoa wait when did verb become a weeb
wait he dislikes coybow bebop what a cool dude me too
wait he likes SEL wg=hat a fucking loser

you should be the show's biggest fan

I get it because it's a bunch of nonsense that effectively adds up to nothing but at least it's aesthetic

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Serial Experiments Lain. The message of the show is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of S.T.E.M and technological progress in 1998 most of the messages will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also Lain's double personality outlook, which is deftly woven into her characterisation - her personal philosophy presicely represents concept of persona and shadow from Friedrich Nietzsche literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the message show delivers, to realize that they're not just are mere predictions about modern technology progress- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Serial Experiments Lain truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the fat guy with glasses, which itself is a cryptic prediction about anonymity on the today's internet. What fools... how I pity them. 😂 And yes by the way, I DO have a Serial Experiments Lain poster. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- And even they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand.