How did they know you were gay?

While they have acted shady pertaining to American labor legislation, they operate globally and they do not deny aid to those in need. There isn’t a checklist of criteria you have to meet in order for the Salvation Army to help you.

Download bato. Download rom pack. Put roms in rom folder.

I’m a massive fan of my V1 Switch. There’s an insane library of games available for Switch, and I’ve played it fairly regularly since launch. Problem is doing what you want to do with it. The Switch is not a platform that supports emulation in a way that’s user friendly or enjoyable.

If you want a handheld with all of the bells and whistles for emulation, get a steam deck.

Nice! I’ve got the 2 Disc collector edition DVD set.

Let’s do one better, let’s get this kid’s dad’s game popular and create a page for it on Twitch! Send a message to the big publishers that there are enough people willing to resurrect an ancient game and that there are far bigger community building experiences to be had than a potential next live-service game from Ubisoft.

I’m gonna start looking into bulletin boards now and see what it takes to get involved with this community.

I’m looking at almost 1Gbps up and down. How fast is it normally?

Not super helpful.

We’re all here on Lemmy anyway, so it’s like shooting fish in a barrel.

FWIW, the Switch is a fucking amazing console. Don’t let the “but it isn’t as powerful as my PS5” bros convince you otherwise. There are top notch games on Switch.

Vänner sold separately. May not actually show up when delivered.

What bitrate are you using? x265 is the best encoder at the moment for file size efficiency, and it supports HDR, but if your bitrate is in the basement, it won’t matter what encoder/wrapper you use. When h264 was the standard, I wouldn’t go lower than 8000kbps for HD video.

FWIW: archive.org torrents are perma-seeded. If you can find the torrent on archive, you’re in business.

Man, songza was so great. It was my default music app 11 years ago lol

For a while, it was noted that the “Hip Hop Caviar” playlist had a direct and noticeable affect on single/album sales and streams on other platforms. So yeah kinda, although people are still interested in owning the music they like, but a not-insignificant portion of humans don’t care either way.

Despite crappy licensing agreements and the tenuous relationship between consumers and ownership of a thing, finding a way to circumvent paying for a thing that is for sale in one form or another, is theft.

Actually, even if you are an EU citizen, downloading copywritten material for free is very much considered theft. Ever read those FBI or Interpol statements at the beginning of films?

You’re taking a thing that costs money, for free. I don’t see how it’s anything other than stealing.

If you go to a theme park, and they want $20 for you to enter, and you decide you don’t want to pay, you’ll be in violation of their rules. Those that did pay will leave the park at the end of the day with a great experience, but with no presumption of ownership of the park. This is analogous to piracy by copying a movie. You didn’t want to pay the entrance fee, so you found a way to have the same enjoyment for free. The people that paid for their media, however shitty the licensing agreement is, received the agreed upon service with no presumption of ownership.

I’m not here to defend streaming services or crappy licensing deals, but to pretend that it’s not stealing, gaslighting everyone here into following your train of thought, is the definition of unearned moral superiority. You’re not entitled to free media.

Whatever you need to tell yourself to sleep at night. It’s definitely stealing. This is a piracy community. Don’t feign moral superiority. They offer a product, you don’t want to buy the product so you find it for free elsewhere. A digital file that you experience for a cost is no different than a book you buy from a store, regardless of the state of ownership after the fact. And regardless if it’s a locally published author or a multi billion dollar studio, there’s a cost of entry. Semantics is all you’re arguing, not the legitimacy of piracy, when you share that copypasta.

Piracy is a service issue. Give people the option to stream all of their media with an option to download for the nerds, and sell it at a reasonable price, you will hurt piracy. Splintering all media up into a thousand streaming services and implementing black box licensing agreements is what pushes people to piracy.