[s_m_t]

Piracy is very cool. It allows people left out on the price-consumption curve to enjoy what everyone else is enjoying. Usually children, students, and people living in third world countries with low incomes or bad exchange rates. I pirated tons of software when I was younger, you probably couldn't price software cheap enough that I would (or could) actually buy it. Now it simply isn't worth my time to pirate.

I still pirate roms and games that aren't sold though :)

[juliangmp]

Reminds me of this great quote from the developer of Ultrakill: “culture shouldn't exist only for those who can afford it”

https://x.com/HakitaDev/status/1797245014268891236

[Peacefulz]

I just finished my Retro Arcade catalog earlier this evening. I'm setting up a pi5 in our living room. It's super exciting to be able to expose my children to my favorite childhood games all the way up to the PlayStation 1 on a single device.