The use of “real jobs” already tells me that you don’t respect artists, which is likely the real reason why you don’t want to pay them.

Because, you’d find this hard to believe, that there are people who want to enjoy a hobby without feeling like selling out.

Hobbyists have bills to pay, too.

That’s an awfully defeatist way of looking at it, IMO.

I feel like “not paying artists” makes as much for a better world as “not tipping waitstaff”.

This has been my concern, as well. Games rarely ship as a finished product anymore. All the disc is really good for is acting as a token for ownership. But even that is limited, as the disc often doesn’t even have enough space to fully install a playable version of the game, and you still need to be able to download the rest of the game from official servers.

For what it’s worth, ChatGPT has gotten better at citing its sources, so it’s easier to fact-check it.

These nazis are desperate to share Kirk’s fate.

As they should, honestly. While those bots can be used to track down and identify predators, they have also been used for harassing and doxxing innocent users. There’s little to no security oversight with those bots.

Shut the fuck up, Elon. We’ll be celebrating your death, as well.

If you used soap, that could be why. Soap can deteriorate the rubber gaskets and adhesives that keep the ingress protection together.

Just FYI, view counts don’t always update in realtime. Depending on how many views a video already has and how many views it’s had in the last hour, the view count may only refresh server-side in intervals.

There was some Michael Jackson rhythm game for the DS that would, when it detected it was a pirated copy, replace all the normal midi instruments with vuvuzelas.

Arkham Asylum would disable Batman’s glider ability, making pirates plummet to their deaths unexpectedly. Somebody reported this “bug” on the developer’s forums, and a dev replied back “It’s not a bug in the game’s code, it’s a bug in your moral code” before explaining that it was an intentional anti-piracy hook.

One of the ARMA games (2 or 3, I think) would start playing bugles at random intervals and would make your guns’ accuracy slowly get worse over time.

Some developers are pretty damn clever at it lmao

The skin on your body isn’t uniform; it’s at varying textures and thicknesses in different parts, and its absorbency varies in different parts, as well.

The skin around your anus is very resistant to infection due to its particular mixture of these properties.

I agree! I think the Fediverse needs more “normies” to be present around here. Not just for the sake of having more numbers and being a more popular platform, but we need difference of opinion, and it needs to be embraced much better than it currently is.

When everybody in a community agrees on 99% of things, they tend to become rather tight-knit. But whenever that 1% comes up which goes against the flow, the reactions around here tend to be quick and harsh, and the 99% of other things you previously agreed with that person on get thrown out the window all because they don’t share the same opinion about Linux as you, or something.

It’s not a healthy pattern for a growing community.

I notice that a lot here on Lemmy, and I think that’s because most of us here have at least an above-average understanding of current technologies, and tend to forget that we’re a very small minority of people. So when above-average understandings are commonplace in your online bubble, your view of what an “average” understanding is can become skewed.

I might’ve cropped in too close the first time. https://files.catbox.moe/e42k6l.jpg

I’m taking about this part: https://files.catbox.moe/vdd9zb.jpg

There was no special chip on the cartridge either, not sure where you heard that from.

Hmm, I may be conflating or misremembering some details, possibly involving the Earthbound Zero prototype cartridges that were floating around for a while. It’s been a long time, but I do distinctly remember that very early in SNES emulation on PC, that there was a bit of a struggle getting Earthbound (Mother 3) to pass the piracy checks, though every emulator for the last ~20 years handles it just fine now.

It may have been a different Nintendo console that did a voltage check. But I’m pretty sure I didn’t just make that up out of nowhere. Now it’s gonna drive me crazy figuring out what I’m trying to remember. :(

Earthbound is notoriously difficult to emulate accurately, partly because the cartridge had a unique chip on it used to detect if the code was running on an authentic cart, for piracy detection. The game will run a check on this chip to read its voltage; if it’s not at the correct reading or if it returns a null value, the game would know it was running on a bootleg cartridge.

What it did then was kinda sinister. It didn’t stop you from playing the game. But it GREATLY increased the spawn rate of enemies, making the game significantly harder. Then, if you managed to make it through the antipiracy hard mode and get all the way to the final boss, the game would intentionally crash itself as soon as the battle begins, and it deleted your save file. You couldn’t finish the game. It let you get 99.99% of the way there, uphill, and then says “get bent” and wipes all your progress.

Look closer at the left split. OOHHHH BABY A TRIPLE!