How do you justify not paying for EverQuest?

[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

[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/

[Shourty]

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

No. No it doesn't, but I recently found out cromulent is a real word now and I'm so happy about that.

That's fine.

[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

[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.

[Wakanda]

I've paid for TLPs before. I think I actually have some kronos on my account, but haven't logged in since... Oakwynd I think it was called? I just don't enjoy TLPs or the fact that it feels like you are significantly gimping yourself if you don't box. And boxing is super exhaustive, like... no thanks.

I learned a lot on TLPs though, like you really truly learn the lay out of Sol B, Hole, Lower Guk, Sebilis etc. in ways that aren't really possible on P99. Because on TLP your entire group will be pulling dead side of L GUK, and in Sol B I was playing a Monk who was camped at BNB but pulling the whole zone, all the way up to Efreeti. In P99 you don't really get to see the lay out of the zones like that because it's not feasible or realistic.

Also playing an Enc on TLP made me better because of how insane the expectations are. On TLP you are literally having to mez 30 mobs indefinitely while in a camp because of the insane chain pulling. That skill in particular transfers over to P99 fairly well.

You don't learn near as much about charming on TLPs, but the CC'ing a million mobs while keeping your groups buffed... TLP teaches you this really well.

[Duik]

TLP = Handholding. Got it.

[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