Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

Green Man said:
There are two types of "archivists", the people who make a BIG FUCKING DEAL out of preserving something, and the people who find a random disc [or disk], realize it's not archived anywhere, rip it and upload it and think nothing of it. But the "PIRACY AS A STATEMENT AGAINST EVIL CAPITALISM" shit does get quite tiresome, and a lot of people act like it makes them special. Literally everybody under age 60 has pirated shit before, you're not special. Then you have the Redditoids who will do that gay "hint hint wink wink" shit about piracy like it makes them some edgy rebel.

It doesn't really make a statement or have any overarching goal, it's just "gimme dat for free" and nothing more. Maybe the people running the sites can claim they're making some kind of "statement" or rebelling against the status quo but Joe McDick over on Reddit who acts like he's some leet hax0r for knowing what Deluge is acts like he's really beating The Man™️ when he's just downloading a fucking rip of a Japanese hentai game or some shit.
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I’ll add that the “piracy doesn’t have an effect upon games sales” is also a trite motte and bailey. There’s obviously some people who pirate a game who would otherwise purchase it, it’s just an extremely small proportion compared to the amount of people who wouldn’t even if piracy wasn’t an option (and that it’s therefore stupid to subject your paying customers to a worse experience by implementing anti-piracy bloatware). Gaben was 100% correct that having a service where accessing the game is as easy as possible is the most effective piracy deterrent (coupled with plenteous sales that manage to make customers out of people who won’t even play the game). I guess these sorts of rhetorical maneuvers are necessary in public debate, but it’s undoubtedly annoying.
 
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pyrinyx said:
This is what I hate about the pirating community in general and not just with games. This incredulous need to flex about how much you've downloaded and the stretches one will go to, to justify it.
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yes, and? all they do is host a local backup so they can flex. if they don't consume the content, can they even really be called pirates to begin with?
in the end I rather have something stashed somewhere as form of preservation years down the line, only if it's purpose at the time is to flex (which doesn't matter to most people anyway). so who cares really?

all in all in it's a very strange sentiment. at least "getting shit for free even if they could afford it" is comprehensible, but I don't even know wtf this is to spend time and energy getting angry about.

Jarch6 said:
I guess these sorts of rhetorical maneuvers are necessary in public debate, but it’s undoubtedly annoying.
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it's just the reduction of one aspect. there is so much going into MUH PIRACY both pro and contra and it's secondary or even tertiary effects, it makes it hard to discuss especially with people having a thumb up their arse for whatever reason.
it is funny tho whenever something like that EU study comes out it gets memory holed as fast as covid vax alternatives...
 
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Jarch6 said:
I’ll add that the “piracy doesn’t have an effect upon games sales” is also a trite motte and bailey. There’s obviously some people who pirate a game who would otherwise purchase it, it’s just an extremely small proportion compared to the amount of people who wouldn’t even if piracy wasn’t an option (and that it’s therefore stupid to subject your paying customers to a worse experience by implementing anti-piracy bloatware). Gaben was 100% correct that having a service where accessing the game is as easy as possible is the most effective piracy deterrent (coupled with plenteous sales that manage to make customers out of people who won’t even play the game). I guess these sorts of rhetorical maneuvers are necessary in public debate, but it’s undoubtedly annoying.
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Worst effect of piracy is that it encourages hate-playing games instead of hate-ignoring them
 
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GloryToArztotska said:
Duke Nukem was always safe-edgy and anyone pining for the "good old days" of the franchise is lacking in critical thinking skills. I am genuinely sorry if I upset anyone with this statement, I take no joy in it because it was a bitter pill for me to swallow too.

That much said, Blood was the superior Build Engine game anyway.
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Duke Nukem Forever could’ve been something special from the 1998 build. Something about blocky, expressive 3D graphics has a charm to it. Not that I would not had liked the 2001 build, but it looked too serious compared to previous entries.
 
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Green Man said:
There are two types of "archivists", the people who make a BIG FUCKING DEAL out of preserving something, and the people who find a random disc [or disk], realize it's not archived anywhere, rip it and upload it and think nothing of it. But the "PIRACY AS A STATEMENT AGAINST EVIL CAPITALISM" shit does get quite tiresome, and a lot of people act like it makes them special. Literally everybody under age 60 has pirated shit before, you're not special. Then you have the Redditoids who will do that gay "hint hint wink wink" shit about piracy like it makes them some edgy rebel.

It doesn't really make a statement or have any overarching goal, it's just "gimme dat for free" and nothing more. Maybe the people running the sites can claim they're making some kind of "statement" or rebelling against the status quo but Joe McDick over on Reddit who acts like he's some leet hax0r for knowing what Deluge is acts like he's really beating The Man™️ when he's just downloading a fucking rip of a Japanese hentai game or some shit.
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I don't consider the game preservation argument to be annoying at all since it only really gets used due to how anti-pirate arguments tend to rely more on semantics and demanding that pro-piracy people make increasingly academic and ethical arguments justifying piracy itself, while indirectly insisting that if a single person pirates a game just to avoid paying money, that somehow runs in mutual exclusivity with preservation and invalidates the other argument even though two people making digital copies of a game can have wholly different motivations.
 
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Noxe said:
Love me some Viva Piñata. It's absurd they never put it in modern consoles. It'd be cool if it was put on other consoles now that Xbox is putting games on stuff now.
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Think there's a PC version. Remember the show being entertaining, but I was a dumb kid at the time.
 
pyrinyx said:
This incredulous need to flex about how much you've downloaded and the stretches one will go to, to justify it.
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Most of these people are just digital hoarders who suffer from some sort of obsessive compulsive disorder or just plain old autism because lets face it, the only panties your Plex Media Server running on Kubernetes are going to get wet belong to "girls" who wear rainbow-colored socks and have penises.
 
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ZMOT said:
yes, and? all they do is host a local backup so they can flex. if they don't consume the content, can they even really be called pirates to begin with?
in the end I rather have something stashed somewhere as form of preservation years down the line, only if it's purpose at the time is to flex (which doesn't matter to most people anyway). so who cares really?

all in all in it's a very strange sentiment. at least "getting shit for free even if they could afford it" is comprehensible, but I don't even know wtf this is to spend time and energy getting angry about.
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The only people who care about this are fat retarded neckbeard nerds with no life, are you one of them, perhaps? Anyone else would've just shut up and enjoyed what they pirated, they don't need to be loud and proud about it. It'd be called just simply living and going about your business.
 
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AndSothisIsChristmas said:
Fire Emblem Engage is superior to Fire Emblem Three Houses (ignore the irony of my avatar). Monster Hunter Rise is superior to Monster Hunter World.
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I enjoy 3H progression and story, but the gameplay is a bit dull and the Persnonafied "dude, school!" setting makes the game a drag to play. I've heard Engage has excellent gameplay but the gross V-tuber character designs put me off. I should give it a chance.
 
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pyrinyx said:
The only people who care about this are fat retarded neckbeard nerds with no life, are you one of them, perhaps? Anyone else would've just shut up and enjoyed what they pirated, they don't need to be loud and proud about it. It'd be called just simply living and going about your business.
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Because they're coping. When I was in college, the guy with a terabyte shared drive of pirated games was a cool dude. This was because ten dollars was a lot of money when I was 18. Getting stuff for free instead of paying seems pretty clever when you're 18. When you're older, bragging about stealing a game is like bragging about shoplifting a bag of chips or sneaking a can of Coke into the movie theater. It's absolute nigger-tier behavior, and nobody thinks you're cool or clever. So the people who are still into pirating when they're old enough to afford games have to create an identity for themselves that they're somehow cool crusaders against THE MAN, or smarter than those niggercattle who give their money to woke corpos, or archiving treasures of human civilization (thank GOD somebody has preserved Armorines!) or whatever. The self-image of an enlightened hero who's above it all absolves them of their need for normie approval, what with the years of other guys in the dorm praising their badass pirate server long behind them.
 
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XL xQgg?QcQCaTYDMjqoDnYpG said:
I disagree
Buying the latest FIFA(TM) or Pro Evolution Soccer(TM) or Football Manager(TM) for the Playstation(R) on release is a clear telltale of a nigger to me
Or the latest Call of Duty(TM) or Battlefield(TM)
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You can just not play those games.

Games that aren't worth my money certainly aren't worth my time.
 
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