the most important thing to have when pirating is common sense
the second most important thing to have is a vpn
the most important this to have when pirating is common sense
We disagree actually, it’s to have well written tutorials and not to rely on the idea that people can just know things from nothing.
We get the frustration in this meme but honestly, we never liked this kind of attitude in tech spaces, it’s exclusionary, gatekeepy and harms people. We understand not wanting to answer every single question but some well written tutorials etc to link to are better than having everyone starting in ignorance and getting in trouble or being harmed for it.
Especially if said tutorials keep up to date and add more answers to people’s questions over time.
After all, being helpful actually helps the pirate community in that more people seed, so helping others is actually win-win. There’s really no downsides whereas expecting others to know everything or being rude stops this from happening and thus is a loss for all of us.
Tutorials can’t cover everything. Once you encounter something completely new, you need common sense to extrapolate from your existing knowledge (which could be from a tutorial or experience, etc).
In the end, whether we’re talking about piracy, work or life in general… You need to be able to adapt to situations, not just read guides.
That’s not to say well-written tutorials shouldn’t exist, but the common sense part is still more important IMO
Sure, but the problem is that people aren’t taught those skills necessarily. So it does help when people are willing to help out in case those skills or ability to do that or for many other reasons aren’t possible.
We get that not everybody can or wants to, but a quick “I’m unable to help you” is fine, yet we see so mahy people being rude instead. Leave space for those who can or want to help instead 🙂
Who is “we” in this?
Please read our profile.
My client doesn’t show these things, and i’m honestly not interested enough in the matter to read someones bio to put their odd form of expression into context, even if it would show them.
For the sake of efficient communication i would suggest adjusting either by putting that context in your comment or by expressing yourself more clearly.
My Lemmy client doesn’t show profiles by default and it’s a pretty popular one. Perhaps it might be wise to introduce yourselves in a sentence or 2 in the future.
Well, that’s a fault of the client. Really it should be working on such basic functionality, if it doesn’t have it already.
What do you mean?
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Dissociative identity disorder…
Nope. Plurality.
Yeah, I’ve read this webpage, it’s in your profile. It seems to refer to plurality as DID, for example in the
#mythssection.It also says: “There have been no such studies done on non-clinical plurality yet, but interest has been growing in the field.”
It is also saying that DID is one type of plurality, it is not calling it the only type.
Not all of us have the clinical/medical type of plurality, DID, OSDD etc etc.
If you’re genuinely interested then: https://pluralpedia.org/ explains many more types. Especially this page, gives a basic starter: https://pluralpedia.org/w/Plurality
Okay, thanks for explaining.
Dunno man. Common sense for us in IT is different compared to layman. For example, I thought it was common sense to treat incognito mode only as a shortcut so I wouldn’t have to clear browsing history and local cookies everytime. Then I read about users thinking incognito mode actually protected them against snooping or fingerprinting.
Common Sense™ 2015 still going strong
4·4 months agothird most important is a good torrenting application
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I pirated this meme in the highest quality I could but lemmy compresses the image to 60-70% of its original quality, that’s why it’s so blurry 😅
This seems like a meme about piracy for script kiddies. These issues don’t really exist for anyone who knows what they’re doing.
Hence the “starter pack” lol they do indeed not know what they are doing
I thought starter packs weren’t supposed to be ironic, did I miss something?
Perhaps sincere tutorials but starter pack memes are a different kettle of fish lol!
It literally is a meme, an ironic one.
We all have to start somewhere, it’s better to help than gatekeep.
A serious question: what’s wrong with pirate bay? I have been using it to download movies, shows and language learning content for over a decade, and I never had any problems.
Don’t download games and software from it and always check the file extensions and make sure they’re not something like Movie.mp4.exe or Movie.mkv.exe, other than that you’re good.
But I want to see the funny colours
Also watch out for any link files, .com files and .bat files.
Also watch out for any link files, .com files and .bat files.
I think you meant .lnk files instead of link files.
.scr and .uue are also becoming popular means to spread malware through torrents.
I like how Microsoft came up with an obscure extension for screensavers, which is just an .exe in disguise.
Nothing is wrong with it. I imagine you’d be the type to survive in the wild west because you’re equipped to do so while people around you die of dysentery.
it’s just guilty of being around for so long so it’s popular which attracts a lot of attention.
chrome, mcaffee, pirate bay, utorrent. am i back in 2010
Fat girl bad, noted.
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One of my favourite things to do online is browse the comments of their torrents looking for the people saying “you’re so pretty” etc
{intitle:game I wanted}{infile:*torrent}
This was how I used to format my piracy searches. 13 years later I recognize that forcing the search engine to generate direct links to the torrents instead of handing me pages I could get was probably where those viruses came from 😅
I don’t understand folks that pirate games. I don’t think there’s a particular service issue currently between all the platforms and sales.
If I’m boycotting a publisher/studio, I just don’t play their games. If I find them too expensive, I just don’t buy it and won’t play it. And if it’s not worth buying it at full price, I’ll just might buy it on sale later.
Movies and TV shows on the other hand… There’s definitely a service issue there.
Money doesn’t grow on trees, also people just like free stuff?
It’s not free. The associated cost is searching for an appropriate release, potentially eliminating any issues with it and then still risking becoming part of the botnet.
In contrast, buying games on deep sale is pennies and it just works.
I wanna live in your world where all games cost pennies
I didn’t say all games. I’m a patient gamer. I buy when they go on sale, years later. Unless it’s a really well received indie game. I try to pay full price for those.
Steam (and I assume other platforms as well) change prices depending on region. So what may seem unaffordable in Canadian Dollars, is likely well priced in Hungarian Forint or Czech Korunas.
Thankfully I don’t have to deal with any of that shit on private trackers
Good for you. You do you. I’ll keep pirating all the games I can, and if they are from a respected developer (fuck you Ubisoft, EA, Blizzard, etc.) AND I like the game, then I’ll certainly buy it.
We don’t disagree. Our approach is just different. Neither of us are throwing much money at these companies.
Just the other day I’ve bought the FO4 GOTY edition for (checks email) C$13.37 (lol), which included all DLCs, and I thought it was a fair price for the quality of the game and content it provides. With the 30% cut that steam takes, I hope Bobby or Todd or whoever is in charge now is happy.
We used to had demo version of games, often made with care. Now we have 2h play on Steam while we can refund, instead.
Devs* learned to make first 2h nice and intense and to scream it’s awesome and the wow effect, and everything later super bland and repetitive. Nice 2h long game may be worthy 8€. 2h long fun and 200h boring fuck is not worthy 80€ the devs request.
As devs I point some devs and often publishers who own dev studio and makes orders too.
I don’t trust the bitches.
If I find whole game fun and worthy the price, can pay even 80€, can put it on the wishlist to buy on promo later, or in extreme cases, even buy few copies for friends includes pricy dlc. IF I find it worthy as whole.
I’m a Linux user and the games I play are usually not supported, so troubleshooting time often exceeds the two hour return window. This is nearly a non-issue these days though.
I’m a Linux user as well (arch btw) and I just look at protondb and https://areweanticheatyet.com/ as a reference. If something comes up as less than stellar, I’ll just skip purchasing it.
Longest I had to tinker with were Project Zomboid (due to ancient gfx before I bought a new one) and Jedi Fallen Order (just to fine tune for performance/fidelity, took about 15 minutes).
I understand if you regularly go for games that require a lot of tinkering you might need more time though, but the Steam return is 2hrs of played time, not 2hrs of owning the game.
on a sale later
Or just show the publishers the middle finger by sailing the seven seas.
This was me basically before I started to learn how to do shit properly.
Ie. when I was a teenager and learnt about pirating through low quality youtube vids
In Linux, if you run games with Lutris, you can have them sandboxed with your sandboxing app of choice (personally I use firejail) by changing the “command prefix” option in the configuration for the game (or setting it as the default in the global Lutris configuration).
Also Lutris defaults to a different Wine instance per game, so Windows-specific malware would only ever affect the wine instance of that game.
So if you’re worried about pirated Windows games might contain Linux specific malware meant for when the game is running under Wine (as Wine is just an adaptor, not an emulator or sandboxing layer) you can go as crazy as you want in blocking what that executable can access, all fully under your control.
Ever since, fitgirl and Dodi repacks came the fear of malware were completely removed - well atleast for me!
It also protects your machine from any spyware in the original game, as it’s very easy to have the sandboxing deny network access beyond localhost.
Personally I run everything inside the sandbox with networking disabled.
Why no one is speaking about Dodi-Repacks 😔
This meme is older than Dodi.
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Back in my day, we didn’t use VPN!!! We would download unfiltered!!! /J
