Underwaterbob @ Underwaterbob @lemm.ee

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Maybe the old Japan/Korea relations play a role in Nintendo’s neglect?

While I don't doubt that that could also be part of the reason it never released here, it is a fact that the DS sold more hardware than games here in 2007.

In South Korea, many video game consumers exploit illegal copies of video games, including the DS. In 2007, over 500,000 copies of DS games were sold, while the sales of the DS hardware units was 800,000.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_DS

And yeah, as far as issues plaguing the world today, software piracy is pretty far down the list of ones that need immediate attention.

using Nintendo as an example of a victim steels me in the other direction

Yes, Nintendo is pretty disgustingly anti-consumer in a lot of cases, but in the case of the DS in Korea, I think they were entirely justified in just not releasing their next console here. Why bother when it's going to get immediately hacked and sold chipped in every little video game store with a pile of burned discs next to it? If you're selling something, and you know one of your customers is going to take your thing and copy it and resell it, why on Earth would you ever sell anything to them ever again?

I agree we shouldn't immediately label piracy as theft, but we definitely shouldn't dismiss it as totally harmless, either.

I haven't seen someone explain how a digital creator is supposed to make money without charging, y'know, money for their product.

Maybe the question we should be asking isn't whether or not piracy is theft, but instead whether or not piracy is harmful.

The makers of Hangul Word Processor in Korea had to be bailed out by the government because despite the fact that their software is installed on almost every single computer in the country, and is most certainly on any computer used in any official capacity, almost no one paid for it. That means that at least some part of my tax dollars were used to support a software company I abhor. Their always-running updater shows ads in the taskbar. (At least it did when I was forced to use it.) The actual word processor is janky and crap, but at this point they're so in bed with the government, they're never going away. All because everyone and their dog pirated their software back when Korea's PC industry was sweeping the country.

Nintendo sold more Nintendo DS Lites in Korea than games. Retailers sold flash carts loaded with games right beside the units. Who's going to pay $50 for a single game when you can pay $50 for a hundred of the exact same games? The next console released by Nintendo (WiiU) never came to Korea. I wonder why.

Maybe piracy isn't theft by some outdated definition of the term, but it most certainly isn't not harmful either.

I aspire to be as good a father as Bandit.

Yep. They made him an amazing father and role model without coming off as sanctimonious at all.

And there's the one episode where they switch Bingo's and Bluey's positions in the song and it's completely unexpected and amazing. Bluey is GOAT! I really can't think of a better kids' show.

Cowboy Bebop and Bluey.

Yeah, the downvotes in here scream of "I can't refute your point, so I'm just going to downvote you!" Do they think creators should just give away their creations and hope money falls on them from out of the sky?

Well, your analogy is even more flawed. I hardly think a painting store is going to be OK with you treating their stock like you own it. Also, once they sell a painting, it's gone and you no longer have access to it. Just how exactly do you propose an artist make an income if their output should be free for all to peruse as they see fit? Exposure doesn't put food on the table.

Not that I am in any way defending the fine art business which is nothing more than a giant money laundering scheme for the filthy rich.

Another example: if I go to an art gallery and look at paintings every day without ever buying anything, is that stealing? I’m ingesting their art daily for free. No, I’m not. That’s the purpose of art galleries.

I think you'll find that the vast majority of art galleries are not free. And, they tend to rotate their content regularly, so you have no control over what you have access to. Pretty much everything this thread is complaining about Crunchyroll doing.

One tiny stone had me calling an ambulance. I thought my appendix had burst or something. I passed it later that day, and I almost missed it it was so small. Evil little bastards.

I smoked daily for about ten years. I got off the cigarettes and smoked e-cigs (no one called it vaping, then) for another year or two, then quit cold turkey without much issue and only the occasional minor relapse thanks to my significant other continuing the habit for a few years after I quit before she quit, too. That was about fifteen years ago, and I don't crave them at all anymore. The smell is actually a huge turn off for me, now. I can't believe I ever thought I was fooling anyone into not knowing I was a smoker. That shit seeps into everything.

Usually cheese. It's expensive in Korea if you want something other than processed neon orange slices. If I happen to have a block of something nice I paid way too much for on a whim, I'll definitely plan a few meals around it.

A scrambler doesn't have walls? It would definitely splatter someone anyway.

I trust auto save in... Souls games.

I'm about an hour into giving this circular cursor thing a try, and I think I'm a convert. You think it'd be hard to click on things given the overlap, but the color swap when you're over an interactable really sells it. Thanks!

Well, none of the three (four?) times I went to Thailand did I explicitly go for the sex tourism (unless honeymooning [not with a Thai] there counts), but still, I saw a lot of it, and even had my bits groped backstage at a drag show (all in good humor), and I can't imagine there are many tastes they don't at least attempt to cater to. At least ten-fifteen years ago. I haven't been in some time, now.

Sounds better than my method of having the first ten-fifteen years of collecting arranged neatly by artist names in folders labeled alphabetically followed by a few different folders labeled by the year I downloaded (not the year of release), a few genre folders, and a a few, uhh, folders sorted by how I acquired the music torrented or through Soulseekqt. Yeah, mine is a complete mess. Pulsar player for Android makes it incredibly easy to sort through stuff anyway. I did conveniently fail to put a lot of the stuff I rarely listen to on my current phone anyway. I'm not too egregiously awful. I do at least listen to everything I download at least once or twice. I had a friend in the 00s who just downloaded everything whether he listened or not. Yeah, I'll keep comparing myself to his 20+ year old standard of digital hording.

Stardew Valley is creeping up on being my most played Steam game of all time. Entirely on Deck. I am starting to loathe it a bit now though. I'm very late game, and it's super grindy. It's just so chill though, I have trouble putting it down. I love me some brain rattling difficult Souls games, but Stardew Valley just lets me completely zone out. I also get something close to seven hours of battery with it unlike anything demanding that kills it in 2 or 3.

Then there's Dark Souls 2 where very early in the game there's a coffin that gives you the option to enter. Do so, and you come out the opposite sex you were when you went in.

I've spent some time in both countries. Thailand is Thailand for women, too. More so than Italy as far as I can tell.