for legal reasons, I don’t pirate anything… but a friend told me that piracy is more convenient, and that it has more benefits (like, retain ‘ownership’ of content without annoying DRM)

train of thought (legal): what streaming service do I need to subscribe to to watch this? okay lemme go grab my wallet and sign up for an account

train of thought (piracy): click download

if companies don’t want you to pirate their media, they should make it more convenient and flexible to purchase legally. adding DRM and making things subscription-only will push more people towards piracy.

but then I just end up hearing the first word of each sentence as I read and it ends up like, “The… A… My… Who…. What… how…. When… over….”

for games like that, check if they have a different language that’s voice acted, many RPGs will have Japanese voice acting, and that helps avoid this problem

I have a personal computer, but if I’m going to be sitting at my computer, I’m not usually going to be browsing social media (besides video host/stream platforms)

and I prefer not to browse social media at work using my accounts.

I wish that older games were still available in some official capacity. There’s nothing morally wrong with pirating a game that’s no longer available for sale.

https://vimm.net/ - my favorite ROM resource

I’m not so sure about that…