or even pseudo-incriminated for attempting to maintain our own life.

It seems so stupid that I’m like a suspect for wanting an exchange of information without dropping my pants and bending over. No, I don’t want cookies. Yes I want to read the article but no, I don’t want to “sign up.”

It makes me feel like being a f*cking hermit. But I prefer to pirate. Even though I’m not that good at it. Screw them. I got two private trackers, a VPN, and I hope that’s enough.

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    With some games you need to pirate them if you don’t want a Russian nesting doll of launchers and accounts

    I’m not a gamer but is this really true? I thought it was the other way around, that pirated games were the ones filled with malware.

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      Absolutely. Sure pirated games run that risk but communities are big enough to usually snuff it out quickly if it’s a malware filled crack. Going through legitimate means a PC gamer is likely to have steam, epic games launcher, blizzard launcher, EA, Ubisoft, and probably more I can’t think of. Many of these are clunky and slow and demand online connectivity or multiple sign in auths every time you just want to play a damn single player, offline game

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        Sure pirated games run that risk but communities are big enough to usually snuff it out quickly if it’s a malware filled crack.

        Big time. Even rumours of a repackers adding malware blow up on communities like this.

        Core characters in the repack community also occasionally ask for and receive donations. I’ve donated to DODI, FitGirl, and Gnarly. Hopefully they receive enough to discourage them from anything malicious but they’re also adored and respected by the community.

        Going through legitimate means a PC gamer is likely to have steam, epic games launcher, blizzard launcher, EA, Ubisoft, and probably more I can’t think of. Many of these are clunky and slow and demand online connectivity or multiple sign in auths every time you just want to play a damn single player, offline game

        I purchased a Call of Duty title recently and that was a big thing. The amount of ads in the launcher was wild.

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          I didn’t even think of the ads when writing that, but damn that’s probably the worst part of it all! Thank you for adding that major detail, clearly my very minimal usage of most of those launchers was showing lol

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        Ooooh I see what you mean, thanks.

        communities are big enough to usually snuff it out

        That’s awesome, power to the people!