Really funny when I advocate piracy on plebbit and all the whiny little insects are like "ohhh my gooOOOoooDDDd if everyone did that, who would make new media?" Yeah I can only hope, loser
Without piracy I would have never gotten interested in film and given the university system thousands of my future dollars
Nintendo hates you. They don't listen to fans, they put out copyright claims on YouTube for music that's not available on any other medium. They put out cease and desist letters for fan translations, mods, and even independent games if they're deemed too similar.
They'll gouge you at every opportunity, from dlc to having a toy plead to its owner to buy another.
Thinking of what Nintendo and companies like them have done to hold back creativity is worth a lot more than what some people would've paid instead of pirating.
Not even getting into the fact that piracy isn't the issue they make it out to be. Why be loyal to something that holds nothing but contempt for you?
Kotaku is unironically based, they're the only gaming media outlet that appears not to be in the pocket of the big three console competitors, or even worse, those clickbait article assholes who just steal social media posts and calls it an article
-7DeadlyFetishes
Claiming there was an ableist slur in a Persona 5 song was a bit of a bruh moment though
I pirate literally every piece of not-free media I consume, so I am always shocked to remember there exist people who think this is some kind of moral transgression. Absolutely some of the lamest people on Earth.
Even if a company lost real money every time I pirated something, I'd still do it. I'd do it more often in that case.
They always ask "Why do you think [Media Company] owes you something?" They don't owe me anything, but I certainly don't owe them anything either. Especially not the little money I have when I can easily get what they're selling for free.
People who think that a corporation as huge and rich as Nintendo is right now loses enough sales from piracy to effect overall the bottom line that much is an idiot.
There's this strange thing that happens with Nintendo which i don't think i've seen with any other gaming company, where the company gets treated as some legitimate institution. Like, there's this special status to a product being 'officially licensed' and anything else is bootleg, as if it's a government giving developers a permit to make a game for their systems. The way this poster writes about "kotaku being blacklisted by nintendo!!!" feels like they think nintendo is some international organization that is going to place sanctions on them or something... i dunno, it's weird
Sometimes I wonder if I'm a bit too emotionally attached to Nintendo but then I remember all the ROMs I've downloaded without a second thought
