ipkpjersi @ ipkpjersi @lemmy.ml

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$100 LOL

They really, really, really, really earned it.

I think it is fair. When you buy games through GOG, you get the offline installer. Nobody can take that away from you.

When you buy games through Steam, you can only install them via the Steam client. If the Steam servers are offline, you cannot install your games. In theory, some games are without any DRM, and you can just zip them up, but even then that doesn't always work, and you shouldn't have to. That's not to take away from Steam, of course, it is great at what it does.

Providing an offline installer that works no matter what is as good as "owning" the game IMO, even if "technically" you are just purchasing a license to use the game.

Holy shit that's so accurate LMAO

Google went from don't be evil to fuck you all.

True, that's a good point. Well, two good points.

That's what private trackers (and torrents in general) are for, but private trackers commonly share copyrighted materials, which is of course not so legal depending on where you live.

Yeah but if I replace them, it's not like I get my saves back, right?

Yeah, Google Cache does seem like it has been gone for years. I can't even recall the last time I was able to use it.

Which bcrypt does, since it generates a unique salt per-password.

I'd hope that passwords would be unencrypted, really they should be hashed ;)

Yeah, I could also use my DSLite to dump GBA saves at least. My GBC saves are unfortunately all long gone because the batteries dried up.

It is really cool being able to dump save games, so if these multi-dumpers can do so, that's amazing.

You're right, they should keep supporting acts of genocide because doing anything else is just too darn hard.

Very well said!

Nintendo doesn't even care about that so tbh fuck em.

Honestly, as cool as this is, I just keep collections of downloaded entire game libraries like PS1, PS2, PSP, 3DS, NDS, GB, GBC, GBA, NES, SNES, etc.

I'm more interested in preserving my save games, which I can dump myself on my modded 3DS for 3DS and NDS games, plus my PSP I can just copy paste those save games from the memory card. Those are more what is really irreplacable. Everyone has my games, not everyone has my save games.

Because most people aren't going to ditch them regardless of how many ads they put, and that's good enough for them.

He still has a point, though. People talk big, but when it comes time to act, most of them won't.

I thought they already killed it? They keep killing it multiple times.

I'll believe it when I see it. 4TB SSDs are still not affordable.

Firefox now offers the option to collect a minimal amount of data for them and inform the network indirectly.

This is a good thing for the end user.

I'm not sure that collecting data is actually a good thing for the end user, but to each their own I suppose.