How do you justify not paying for EverQuest?

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

Originally Posted by u2024 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You like justifications? I hope you like to read.

1. A restaurant (or a grocery store) chucks expired food into a dumpster behind the building. The trash is not a promotional item or a complementary item intended for paying customers, and most people won't even consider looking at it, but a few old and homeless drug addicts are happy to eat it, especially after it starts to ferment and sprout various strange smelling mushrooms.

Restaurants deliberately ruin their food before throwing it out. My cousin that used to work at a restaurant had to pour paint on food before it was placed in dumpsters

When I worked in a retail store as a teen, my favorite part of the job was being ordered to break to pieces any products we were throwing out to prevent dumpster diving

And in the spirit of crazy tangents like this post…..

…When I don’t get sleep I don’t really get cranky like most people. I do definitely get dumb though. Sorta like drunk minus the fun parts. Just slow and stupid. And last night I for some inexplicable reason had an icepick headache for hours that 4 Advil couldn’t touch. This resulted in only like 2-3 hours sleep. I should have called out of work but didn’t

So I can’t at this time think or remember clearly enough to try to sus out who this might be. But I did read more of this rambling tirade than I had expected to. So bravo if this is a person. I guess go fuck yourself if this is an AI bot though. Or go cybersex some desperate maladapted nerds or whatever else you AI bots do. But I think there is a chance this is a person and like I said, interesting post for a TLDR

[Ekco]

make warez groups great again, used to just kill entire video game empires, now they lockbit hospitals for crypto and kids die

[Reiwa]

Originally Posted by Ekco [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

make warez groups great again, used to just kill entire video game empires, now they lockbit hospitals for crypto and kids die

I always pronounced it "wah-rez"

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

Originally Posted by Reiwa [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I always pronounced it "wah-rez"

I remember warez sites as places I could go to pick up some cracks for the pirated version of the game I wanted to play and a nice fresh batch of free viruses

Any warez site or mp3 sharing site always threw in a few free viruses with their deals. I appreciated the little extra

[Ciderpress]

Originally Posted by NopeNopeNopeNope [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I remember warez sites as places I could go to pick up some cracks for the pirated version of the game I wanted to play and a nice fresh batch of free viruses

Any warez site or mp3 sharing site always threw in a few free viruses with their deals. I appreciated the little extra

You mean my copy of photoshop that had a readme.txt with a weird ASCII skull logo at the top wasn't really from Adobe?

Actually goofs aside I wish I still had that cause you don't even get to own adobe products anymore. Renting software is pure cancer.

[Ekco]

Originally Posted by Ciderpress [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You mean my copy of photoshop that had a readme.txt with a weird ASCII skull logo at the top wasn't really from Adobe?

Actually goofs aside I wish I still had that cause you don't even get to own adobe products anymore. Renting software is pure cancer.

why i'm ditching windows now and getting used to Ubuntu, enshittification is about to go fucking parabolic

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

Originally Posted by Ciderpress [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You mean my copy of photoshop that had a readme.txt with a weird ASCII skull logo at the top wasn't really from Adobe?

Actually goofs aside I wish I still had that cause you don't even get to own adobe products anymore. Renting software is pure cancer.

I still feel bad though for pirating a fancy commercial version of Sony Vegas Video (this was more than a decade ago) to make WoW pvp videos. Man that software was hard to learn for someone with no vid editing experience though. So not user friendly…

But I used to pride myself on telling people “I’ve never stolen anything”, when that software was at the time retailing for a few hundred. And plus all the MP3’s I pirated probably adds up a definitely hundreds of dollar’s worth. I guess I assumed digital was like intangible and thus not a thing when it came to stealing

I also stole company time at a lot of my first jobs. I remember one time I said I wasn’t feeling well (was just a hangover) to pad my leaving my post and going to the warehouse to sleep for a few hours, all without the manager knowing because co-worker friends covered for me

I think that most people who claim they have literally never stolen anything ever are either lying or forgetting

[Ekco]

the "freewarez" scene was different, on aol you could join a public chatroom called server and a bot would send you a iso in like 100 parts because the email file limit was 10mb or w/e and the crypto currency at the time was aim accounts with good names, i remember my friend having "R0M" or "ROM" a 3chr aim account and that was a big fucking deal

IRC and usenets and a bunch of other places we're legit also, back then it was about good fun like you'd see a post about download this free cupholder and it would open your cd-rom drive

[Ekco]

https://www.wired.com/1997/04/ff-warez/

[Ciderpress]

Hey now Windows is great, for example today win10 informed me that in october it won't be supported anymore, and the PC I built 2 years ago can't upgrade to 11 without some kind of horse shit physical security chip or some god damn stupid bullshit.