Fucking hell does anyone remember when piratebay was cool and everyone involved with it was cool af and it was cool to be an internet rebel fighting against it all?
I really fucking miss that period of the internet. I'm not misremembering am I? It was like that.
What was the tipping point?
I keep coming back to the death of MySpace. It was still cool and the internet I remember still existed when myspace was still a real thing, when Facebook took over the entire internet changed.
I mean, I think specific tipping points like that are more based what era your formative years on the internet were in. People who were heavy into Usenet and whatnot in college point to whenever AOL opened up usenet to everyone but that was like 1993 so there's still like at least 8-9 following years of really important (imo) shit like Geocities, MySpace, etc that came into the fore.
Personally, I think the real tipping point was probably not the death of MySpace but instead Web2.0 in general - in a slow death by a thousand cuts sort of way. Smartphones and mobile apps in general were the real final nail in the coffin. I remember as late as ~2008 still having friends that were just completely oblivious to the internet and believed Hackers was an accurate depiction. But that tracks, since prior to ~2011 less than half of adult americans owned a 'smartphone' and now that number is 85% as of February 2021.
2000-2010 was probably the last decade where that was 'the internet', even if it was basically in its final death throes by then. After tablets and smartphones became accessible, not only did you have the average 18-35yo on the internet but now those same people could also buy grandma an iPad for Christmas and get her on the internet at large. By then, of course, as @bud said -- the internet was already being corporatized but now there was an even larger void created by these newer internet users & boomers that even more corporations could fill.
It's so interesting though how depending on the difference in age, two people can have wildly different ideas of what the internet is/was. My younger brother, for example, is only a few years younger than me but does not have the same level of nostalgia for shit like phpBB forums and stuff like albinoblacksheep/newgrounds that I do - despite us both having the same level of access to the internet at the time. His early memories of the internet instead line up with when I played WoW in 2006-7 when the Burning Crusade was released since that was when he really started taking an interest in computers/pc gaming/the internet as a whole.
The people that did pirate bay are still cool, haven't got the boomer brainworms yet
Nintendo fans will go from correctly decrying Nintendo as the most hostile company out of the big gaming companies to dying on a hill to defend its honor from anyone opposing its supremacy in a millisecond.
It makes me feel like humanity is hopeless when I see these types saying dumb shit about trying to encourage corporations to be better for the consumer (nothing ever happens of course) and not examining the conditions that caused the issue in the first place
Nintendo as the most hostile company out of the big gaming companies
Meh. They all suck for different reasons.
Please notice me, billion dollar company that only wants my money
one time a coworker said he would never pirate a game in fear that if he's ever strapped to a polygraph test he'd fail the question "have you ever broken a law"
Lol. Imagining this guy sweating bullets after he realized he's jaywalked before, or drank under-age or some equally stupid illegal thing.
i actually brought that up to him and he said pirating is different, since "that's stealing"
Dear god. Even our insane legal system doesn't characterize it as theft. The media industry propaganda is working I guess.
Old games fall into a weird limbo wherein it's all second hand sales unless it's on a virtual library platform like steam or the virtual console. So is it really breaking a law if the copyright holders were never going to see money from that sale anyway?
It's still copyright infringement, which is illegal. The concept of intellectual property is beyond stupid. Especially now with how easily information can be copied ad-infinitum, there's no enforcement mechanism that isn't just pissing in the wind.
The concept of intellectual property is beyond stupid.
Very much so.
he says it's in case a potential employer gives him the test and he needs a job
oh hell yes, I say lines from this one occasionally: "It's great. It's crack." and "Ok Mr. Pants"
Man, just say no lmao
Never submit to a polygraph test, why would you put your fate in the hands of some pseudoscientific bullshit voluntarily
I was going to make a snooty European comment but apparently polygraph tests are sometimes used in the Finnish court cases too
In some aspects, definitely, but there are much worse places
:side-eye-1: Just don't look up things like Finnish trans legislation :side-eye-2:
Finnish people when a foreigner says they like salmiakki
:so-true:
:pog-fish:
I myself tend more towards dejectedly crying out voi vittu
Can westerners stop licking the boot for five seconds?
If a westerner doesn't lick boot for five seconds, is he truly a westerner?
I make sure to keep up my westerner status by having a large supply of readily available boots in my closet. The taste of leather is delicious! :bootlicker:
Now that we're old we can complain about how Spotify has ruined the morals of the next generation because they never learned about the benefits of piracy.
Also to be less sarcastic I think it was eye opening for a lot of people to hear all this propaganda about how piracy was killing music, only for it to not matter. Everyone was pirating music and surprise, no record labels went bankrupt. Makes you think :thinkin-lenin:
Spotify did what everyone who was pirating back in the mid-90s wanted.
Songs-on-Demand Radio.
Like, once that happened, why bother pirating music unless you're really invested in dodging ads? 20 years ago, you literally couldn't listen to the music you wanted unless you pirated it. Now I just bang the title into a browser and click the link.
Bu..but piracy with kill Nintendo! I mean, it's not like Nintendo has enough cash in the bank to run deficits for 38 years .
Man, I just randomly remembered that one weird game I played 20 years ago, now I wanna play it again
:cheems: o noes Nintendo/Sony didn't put it up on their marketplace or include it on their overpriced retro console gizmos, or they did but it's an inferior version, guess I won't play it
:swole-doge: I found an emulator, console bios and game rom in 10 minutes, time to play
Ethics in Game Journalism is when you talk about how the Switch has a functioning emulation software and criticize nintendo for being a shitty company for failing to support older games and consoles.
Remember that time somebody pulled apart Nintendo's official retro console, and found that they'd just stolen all the shit from the emulators they've been trying to shut down for decades? Boy I bet they suffered some consequences from that little bungle!
All I want is a fucking retro version or remaster of OoT, Majora's Mask, Wind Waker and TP. And they just keep doing jack shit about it!
I have it on good authority that Wind Waker and Twilight Princess have Switch remasters in the pipeline. And since the Switch has been so thoroughly pwned, that means you can play them for free shortly after.
Is this like my cousin whose uncle's dad works at nintendo? Or are you for real?
Have newer switches been broken open yet or is it still just the unpatched model?
Came across the post on :reddit-logo: , everyone crying about pirating but no one mentioning that the game can be in 4k but Nintendo won't do it
Piracy does what Nintendon't. I'm playing upscaled Metroid Dread right now.
