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danielquinn, do piracy w Is it wrong to pirate movies I've purchased digitally and load onto my Plex server?
@danielquinn@lemmy.ca avatar

There’s a couple angles you can take on this. My favourite is from the dotCommunist Manifesto:

Society confronts the simple fact that when everyone can possess every intellectual work of beauty and utility—reaping all the human value of every increase of knowledge—at the same cost that any one person can possess them, it is no longer moral to exclude.

Essentially, this argues that the unethical position is the one that creates the false scarcity.

Another less extreme position would be that many countries allow for exemptions for format shifting: if you buy a CD with some music, you’re legally permitted to rip it so long as you don’t distribute copies. One could argue that someone in your position is operating within the spirit of these laws… provided that you haven’t torrented the videos since that necessarily includes some partial distribution.

Finally, the least generous interpretation would point out that you didn’t buy the videos in the first place, but rather a licence to let Vudu stream them to you. Given that you don’t own anything, you’re not morally entitled to own it in a different format. This is why many people have rejected the streaming model.

As someone in camp #1, I think you’re a-ok ethically, but I thought you might want a broader perspective.

MystikIncarnate, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of August 20th

After years of hearing so much about the games, I loaded up pokemon on my retro handheld.

Started with Ruby for no reason in particular.

I’m splitting my time between that and D4.

I also have the following games on the back burner at various stages of completion:

Deep rock Galactic LoZ: LTTP Last of Us Part1 on PC Tiny Tina’s wonderlands

There’s more, I’m just too tired to go look at my “recent” queue in steam…

Any suggestions for games that I should play on my retro handheld, it supports everything from neogeo up to ps1… More or less.

FrederikNJS, do piracy w Are there any decent apps i can sideload on to my Android TV for streaming?

Streamio + Torrentio

three, do piracy w Where do i find sea charts for sailing? (Baltic sea)

this is one of those things i wouldn’t pirate. maps and weather are extremely important when sailing and having legitimate sources of these things is something you should be doing. you wouldn’t pirate a first aid kit would you?

PoisonedPrisonPanda,

you should be doing the anti piracy commercials.

knapsackinjury,

I would download a car

000999,

Does paying for something make it better?

Or is that a capitalist illusion?

pedro,

A movie? No

A piece of information that your life might depend on and you need to trust the origin of this information? Yes

BigBananaDealer, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of August 20th
@BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee avatar

replying gtav and playing some more rock band 3. im gonna also buy papa’s freezeria on steam maybe tonight or tomorrow

merrick, do piracy w Are there any decent apps i can sideload on to my Android TV for streaming?
@merrick@normalcity.life avatar

Cloudstream

soulsource, do gaming w What's a good game you played with an awful tutorial?
@soulsource@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Cultist Simulator. However, finding out how stuff works is half the game…

(The devs also posted a manual meanwhile, that explains the most obsucre mechanics.)

Adramis, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of August 20th

I’m trying to beat Final Fantasy Tactics - I never got past Act 1 as a kid. I’m currently up through Golgarion Execution Grounds. Turns out the secret is to not bomb in all-offense and get nuked into the ground. Who knew?

Cannizzaro, do piracy w What's the best piracy for music?

rentry.org/firehawk52 This is really good for downloading lossless music

AceFuzzLord, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of August 20th

Hahaha, my computer would catch on fire if I tried running Bauldur’s Gate 3.

Hell, Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 Platinum Edition lags a little whenever I ride a coaster and the camera starts facing all the guests in the best park I have ever designed.

Happened last night and is probably gonna happen again when I eventually boot it up again to work some more on the park. Thankfully it doesn’t whenever I build my absolute monstrosities in the coaster designer mode.

M1st3rM, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of August 20th

I quit my xcom2-lwotc run. I guess I didn’t play optimized enough. Enemies keep getting stronger and stronger and my science is too slow to keep up. It got to the point where I could only finish missions with massive save-scumming and now I benched it. In my next attempt I’m gonna be quicker about everything and build up multiple teams right from the start but for now …

I am playing BG3 :D

JackbyDev,

For xcom2 you need to immediately research the upgraded weapons as soon as you begin your campaign. It feels counter intuitive because it takes so long but it really puts you into the correct pace. I don’t remember when it best to upgrade them again or armor but that’s the best start. Also aggressively use grenades because they’re guaranteed hits.

For BG3, be sad there is no overwatch, sorry, I mean readied action like in D&D.

M1st3rM,

Thanks will try that when I come back to it. BG3 should take a while though I’m afraid :)

AlicePraxis, do piracy w What's the best piracy for music?

several people have mentioned soulseek and I agree but nicotine+ is better than the official soulseekQt client

antlion, do piracy w Convert m4p files? (iTunes DRM?)
@antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Just re-download in a better bitrate and format.

Pistcow, do piracy w What's the best piracy for music?

Nice try, Sony.

JCPhoenix, do gaming w What's a good game you played with an awful tutorial?
@JCPhoenix@beehaw.org avatar

Ultima Online. Idk how it is now, as I haven’t played on vanilla servers in like 20yrs, but you basically just got dropped into the game. Luckily, I had a friend who did play who taught me the basics. Otherwise, I woulda just been running around town aimlessly.

Eve Online is kinda like that, too. Originally, I don’t think there was a tutorial (I started in 2005). Over the years, they’ve implemented a tutorial and iterated on it. Or just completely re-did it over and over again. It was bad. Like Ultima Online, Eve is a sandbox MMO, so no tutorial can show you everything possible in the game. But even the basics felt like not enough and just long and drawn out. The system in place today is certainly better, but players are still better off making friends quickly to learn the ins and outs.

Planetside 2 also originally didn’t have a tutorial. I played the original Planetside back in the day, but the games are pretty different from each other. So it was a bit rough in the beginning. I remember coming across the early biolabs and running around the bottom of it for a quite a long time until realizing there were then “satelite bases” which had jumppads to the top of the biolab entries.

Even when a tutorial was introduced, it was pretty crap. Like sure you learned the basics of how to move, and how to shoot, and how to spawn vehicles. But the game is so much more than that. Big parts of Planetside 2 is understanding the map and environment, flow of battles, where each bases’ capture points are, and of course positioning. And that’s all stuff you don’t get in the tutorial because there are so many different bases and the continent are large. Plus, some of that can only be learned by playing the game. Which can be frustrating when a player is dying 50 times in a row while getting a single kill (if they’re lucky), because they don’t yet understand anything I mentioned.

Hellebert,

Yeah but Eve Online isn’t a good game either 😋

JCPhoenix,
@JCPhoenix@beehaw.org avatar

You’re right…It’s the best! 😎

It’s an OK game. I say that, yet I keep getting sucked into it. Quit for like 10yrs, then I came back in 2018. Stopped playing again at the start of 2022, only to come back again at the start of 2023. I have a problem…and her name is Eve!

Hellebert,

I’ve also been playing Eve like 10+ years myself and every time I think I’ve won it I haven’t yet.

One of the best aspects of the game is the community around it though, rather than the actual gameplay. In fact, a lot of the gameplay is rather stale these days.

JCPhoenix,
@JCPhoenix@beehaw.org avatar

Agreed. I’m in the one of the null blocs, and have been since for last 4-5yrs. I’m not particularly deep into the community, either the alliance or Eve in general, but I just like playing with other people. Are F1 Tidi blobs fun? No, but I’m still playing with people. Logi wing can be fun, trying to get everything organized, and then keeping cap chains organized and going while get melted. I was doing FW earlier the in year, which is ofc much smaller scale, so I got to chit chat and know the regular gang that I ran in. Which was nice.

Compare that to FFXIV, where I really don’t have to talk or work with anyone, other than in instances. A single player experience in a world filled with others doing their own single player experience. Yeah there’s community, but it never feel like it resolves around the game; it’s all just extraneous stuff like nightclubs and stuff.

Gameplay wise in Eve, I feel like I’ve done everything I’ve really wanted to do in the game. After this many years of playing, the mystique and curiosity is gone. But the players do still make it interesting from time to time. Thank god for that.

Hellebert,

A game came out recently (called Palia) that essentially forces you to make “pals” to achieve certain things and even be able to gather certain resources. My other half has been playing it and was complaining about the “forced” interaction in the game and I told her similar things to what you’re saying about Eve, that interacting with others to achieve goals will actually become the best part of the game in the long term.

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