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Posted May 16, 2024
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richlind33: Critical thinking is the antithesis of groupthink, virtue signaling, or political correctness. If you can support an opinion/position rationally, it doesn't matter if it does or doesn't align with popular opinion.

Groupthink is a positive feedback loop, critical thinking is a negative feedback loop. One increases the impact of bias, the other one reduces it.

There is a difference between saying that piracy is not immoral, and downloading commercial content without paying for it.

One does not necessarily follow from the other.
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Sachys: still talking mass drivel at every opportunity.
employ some critical thinking.
learn to understand the terminology you employ.
Is this what passes for reasoned discussion in your neck of the woods?
Posted May 16, 2024
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richlind33: Is this what passes for reasoned discussion in your neck of the woods?
Wouldn't that be something more akin to a random series of burps and other outgassings?
Posted May 16, 2024
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richlind33: Is this what passes for reasoned discussion in your neck of the woods?
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GamezRanker: Wouldn't that be something more akin to a random series of burps and other outgassings?
I want to give him the benefit of the doubt. I really do.
Posted May 16, 2024
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rtcvb32: Yet the point still stands, that capcom won't put the few hours of effort... Even if it would sell quite well...
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foad01: No it doesn't. You are comparing the situation for a company with hundreds or thousands of workers with the situation for a small team (1-4 persons). There are developers who don't want the extra work. You might disagree with them, but at the end it is still their decision where to release their game besides Steam.
Hmmm... but if the game is already released on Steam, i don't see why it would be a big issue to add to other store fronts. Or at the absolute worst case, taking an iso of the PS1 or whatever version, and wrapping an emulator with it as a single executable.

I guess that logic is beyond me.

Though, if it isn't provided... then people who wanted it and aren't willing to wait or go with DRM are just going to do what they do anyways. Well no skin off my back.
Posted May 16, 2024
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Mafwek: It was illegal hiding Jews in the Third Reich, so what? For me piracy is wrong if good and honest people get screwed over do to that piracy, and I yet have to see that happening.
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foad01: Yeah. And murder is fine as long as it hits the right person. /s
People think murder is perfectly fine since there is death penalty all over the world. So I don't know about that one.

In any case, there is difference between theft and murder (or other violent crime), and comparing piracy with a theft is questionable as well, since it doesn't always mean lost sales.
Posted May 16, 2024
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foad01: Yeah. And murder is fine as long as it hits the right person. /s
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Mafwek: People think murder is perfectly fine since there is death penalty all over the world. So I don't know about that one.

In any case, there is difference between theft and murder (or other violent crime), and comparing piracy with a theft is questionable as well, since it doesn't always mean lost sales.
Many cultures have had words differentiating a legal or justified killing, and an illegal killing - murder. Can we have two different terms for acceptable and unacceptable theft?
Posted May 16, 2024
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Mafwek: People think murder is perfectly fine since there is death penalty all over the world. So I don't know about that one.

In any case, there is difference between theft and murder (or other violent crime), and comparing piracy with a theft is questionable as well, since it doesn't always mean lost sales.
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SultanOfSuave: Many cultures have had words differentiating a legal or justified killing, and an illegal killing - murder. Can we have two different terms for acceptable and unacceptable theft?
I think it's a question of whether or not law has legitimacy, and the degree of enforcement that is required to uphold it is a perfect indicator.

Read Rousseau's Political Economy and you'll understand the conditions that are required for law to function for the benefit of all, rather than for those who rule by virtue of wealth and power.
Posted May 16, 2024
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g2222: You are free to assume everything and anything, however absurd it may be. Cheers!
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GamezRanker: And here comes good ol' gaslighting. I wondered when they would arrive...
huh?
That was a fancy way of saying that I find lupineshadows' assumption absurd.
It's quite a dick move of them to casually turn the OP's very simple message on its head.
If BreOl72 started this thread to promote piracy, then Gandhi secretly endorsed violence.
Post edited May 17, 2024 by g2222
Posted May 17, 2024
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Sachys: still talking mass drivel at every opportunity.
employ some critical thinking.
learn to understand the terminology you employ.
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richlind33: Is this what passes for reasoned discussion in your neck of the woods?
nope.
that usually involves making somebody pick up their teeth with broken fingers.
I have gone above and beyond.
Posted May 17, 2024
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richlind33: Is this what passes for reasoned discussion in your neck of the woods?
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Sachys: nope.
that usually involves making somebody pick up their teeth with broken fingers.
I have gone above and beyond.
Ah, so you fling poo out of generosity.

An unusual pathology, to be sure.
Posted May 18, 2024
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g2222: huh?
That was a fancy way of saying that I find lupineshadows' assumption absurd.
It's quite a dick move of them to casually turn the OP's very simple message on its head.
If BreOl72 started this thread to promote piracy, then Gandhi secretly endorsed violence.
Well said(aside: I also found that bit of their assumption to be absurd)

I was just going along with the thing I was doing ITT earlier(pointing out things like virtue signaling, etc). That reply to your post, however, wasn't meant to be taken as seriously as the others....Apologies for the miscommunication :)

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richlind33: Ah, so you fling poo out of generosity.

An unusual pathology, to be sure.
I just viewed the visual documentation
You're correct...quite unusual o.0
Post edited May 18, 2024 by GamezRanker
Posted May 18, 2024
Would getting Unreal Tournament 4,Jazz Jackrabbit 3D as torrents be considered as piracy?
Posted May 18, 2024
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TheHalf-Life3: Would getting Unreal Tournament 4,Jazz Jackrabbit 3D as torrents be considered as piracy?
Unless you are on a boat and holding someone up at gunpoint while doing it, i would say no.
Posted May 22, 2024
Thread locked and suspensions for derailers of the discussions were issues.
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