I hate getting this when Google absolutely knows that I’m the one logging in and actively using said account!

I get it, verification this and verification that, but for fuck sakes, it’s nothing but an obstacle course that drains seconds and minutes of doing.

It’s way too small, even smaller than Lemmy, to really bother.

Here’s my problem with Reddit-alternatives - they only focus on a handful of communities. You’ll have your politics, your gaming, your technology, your news .etc

But where the hell are all of the fun ones? Reddit had micro-communities in spades, that’s what it is known for. If the alternatives aren’t trying then they aren’t trying hard enough.

If you ignore the social stigma about them about how many ways people inject their social philosophies and other mind junk into the fabric of the films. As well as not look to into things, then it’s just as Star Wars as they come except Disney-fied.

Everyone to a degree is contributing to the problems we prop up. I realize and understand that even if I stopped doing whatever I feel I’m contributing to the problem of, I’m only one person and I’m not that much of a difference maker. Okay so I stop, but what about the 999 people left that are still contributing to the problem? How long will it take them? Will they ever notice? I doubt it.

If I change for the better then good for me I guess, but just simply me stopping is not going to change the world. This has to be a group effort and until the rest of the group changes for the better, nothing will be solved.

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@OP - These are the people I’m talking about.

Thanks for being a demonstrating example.

I noticed this happening recently as last night. I was wondering what the fuck was going on. 30 minutes my ass, for example, I listened to Alice in Chains’ Them Bones which is a 2 minute song, after the “promise” of 30 minutes ad-free and I got ad after fucking ad. Then I get a song, then it’s ad after fucking ad. I’ll be lucky I get 2 more songs before it’s more ads.

I’m actually going to be looking into a media player that has bluetooth in it so I don’t have to ever put up with this spotify shit.

No I don’t. It’s just a dumb internet toy and I’m glad Lemmy and the Fediverse treats it like that. It used to annoy the fuck out of me with Reddit, where they tie your account to it. Too low or negative? Good luck posting anywhere or tripping the spam filter bot that thinks you’re an evader so you get banned over it.

People have this idea in their heads that the higher their karma is, the more righteous they are and that they can’t think or say wrong. When, based on experience, a lot of the time that people with high karma counts happen to be from the most insufferable bastard human beings I ever come across.

It kind of does matter. If you’re hot-swapping in and out nearly all of the time for this and that, that is considered suspicious activity. If you knew a single thing about how networking works, they can see just about anything. Where you went, the unencrypted data that is sent and received and vice versa. They may not know exactly the file you downloaded or the page specifically you’re at, but they can put two and two together if they think your activity lines up with the data it is coming from and to.

And once again, I have said, if you read at all, downloading gigs and gigs in a single day. You’re bringing up streaming which is something they’d know and expect by now, so of course it’s not going to bring attention. They also are aware that VPNs are advertised so much that they probably expect you to hop around to stream something you can’t normally.

They’re not going to directly ask you why you’re using a VPN, they’re more than likely going to ask you why are you using so much data up on X date and Y date? And then they could ask you what purpose did you have visiting this site at those dates too.

My point is about the amount of consumption you put into downloading many files, they don’t give a damn about your streaming habits since they know very well we’ve been in the age of streaming for a while now.

Kinda wish you’d be a little more detailed here.

So while everyone is telling you what to use. Let me tell you about how to behave as a pirate, least suggestively, not strictly. You need to not be a blip on the radar. Well how’s that? You don’t download gigs and gigs of data in a single day, you have to be a little more spread than that. Because even if you’re safe under VPN and everything, if an ISP thinks you’re being suspicious at any degree, they’re gonna look into it.

I make sure I don’t download more than I can chew and since I’m on a data cap of 350GB a month, it helps me enforce this. I’ve been at it for well over 25+ years so by this point, I’ve about acquired a lot of what I wanted so I’m in a little of my winding down period.

Try not to listen to the pirates that just boast about themselves and their habits, they’re doing things you don’t know about and are probably above your skill since obviously you claim to be very new at this.

Dude, get the hell out of here. Stop turning everything political.

I like to donate and purge things that I think have lost all levels of relevancy to me. If I look at something, think when the last time I’ve used it was, if I feel anything at all for it anymore and if I foresee any future use for it and base my decision on that. It has helped greatly in making my apartment look entirely manageable and not be a hoarder.

I would have to trash my apartment around to make it messy as if it was a hoarder’s place, but the most mess I ever get is maybe I forgot to grab a plate or two or maybe some things are left behind. Things that take no time at all to deal with while still maintaining a decent apartment.

I also do shadow-blocking too. If I see someone who’s going to be an antagonizing prick for no reason to someone, good reason to block just to save you the future trouble if they decide to target you. There are just a lot of people online who treat it as a hobby to go around shitting all over anything and everyone.

I do this a lot whenever I have my 5-year cycle of migrating accounts. If I have lost track of and forgotten entirely the purpose of an account I had once made and know it is not essential or required, it is gone.

Unfortunately, there are services and places out there online in which they do not allow you to delete accounts. I wish this would be a federal law of some kind because it would lessen your footprints online. It is bad practice and I automatically label them as data farms because really, what reason do you have to not allow people to delete their accounts? You’re setting people up to be collected in data breaches and therefore your data falls into the hands of someone you wouldn’t want to have it.

Well for one thing - document heavily on the idea of the product. This is a must. Figure out your target audience - who or what is this for? Figure out an rough draft of costs and ideas how much you’d like to have sold this for.

And then once you figure all of that out, you’re going to need to file a patent.

Wherever and however this idea of yours will come about, these are the kind of things that are important to deal with.

They released the original Anniversary Collection (Mixed 8-Bit and 16-Bit games) in 2019, Advance Collection (The GBA games + Dracula X on SNES) in 2021 and the Dominus Collection (The DS games) last year. So, there’s probably some hope that maybe the next collection would probably, maybe have Symphony of the Night, Rondo of Blood, the Game Boy games, the N64 games and maybe a few PS2 ones? I don’t know where they could go from there but that’s all that’s left as to what to re-release.

Either way, I don’t have all the time in the world for them to get around to it.

Thanks for posting this.

I long gave up though on the PSP version beforehand, though am keeping it around because there are some games that I never got the chance to play on the PSP. So I pirated them and kept everything PSP for future use.

The remake on the PSP, feels so damn stiff! Like you make an action, you’re committed to it and you have almost no way to change course or immediately pounce out of a situation. That was what was pissing me off so much and I failed so many times trying to get to Stage 4 and figure out where I needed to go in it to unlock the game. The guides are vague and no videos that I watched really showed where you had to go.

So I returned to trying to pirate the Turbo Grafix, the Turbo CD (acquiring all BIOs) and downloaded at least 3 files of Rondo of Blood. After much tinkering, trying and error, I finally have a working copy. And in that game, the flow of the game felt much smoother than the remake, reinforcing my feelings earlier about the remake on the PSP.

Again - fuck Konami.

They threw Dracula X into the collection with the GBA games. That made no sense, lol.

Unsure if a moral-boosting image or just OP overlaying a pirate-bdsm mistress image with moral images and text.

Well, people may feel like they don’t have a right to things. But my problem with that kind of a stance is, why do we allow and enable these kinds of companies who feel it is their right to deny, remove and refuse to distribute legal alternatives? It seems like we feel it is our right to at least enjoy something we’d like to have.

And this moreso applies to people who actually have paid for things. Like for example, online games. One of these days, sometime or another, some big MMORPG is going to be pulled offline for good. And you, a faithful player, has put lots of time, effort and even money into the game for years which would make you a loyalist to it. But the game is pulled offline now and the company will not ever make an offline mode. They just cart out the same old song and dance of “Thank you for your years of support, blah de blah, we’re going to go now and uh, thanks for your money too, goodbye” and that’ll be that.

I mean, wouldn’t that be a little off-setting to you? Sure there’s some gullible people out there who happily piss away a lot of things and in some strange unironic way, accept this kind of practice. But there’s lots of other people who want to keep going on for however long and they too could very well have been paying customers. Shouldn’t it be their right to continue enjoying that game or should they just walk away disgruntled and jaded because they now see their investments as an entire waste?

The whole idea of whoever and whatever has a right to what is entirely case-by-case and subjective. I don’t feel I have a right to everything in a store I work at, I have to pay for something to have it and I’m not going to act like I have a right like I do have them otherwise. What I feel I have a right to, is to go and grab copies of things I know very well that no company is going to lift a finger in ever re-purposing for everyone to enjoy once again because they operate on some stubborn arbitrary system with themselves.

And if people want to take into account about the idea of respecting creators and everything? Dude, a lot of disrespect goes around to creators from these companies that helped create. It’s very well-documented at this point. I now am starting to see pirating as just a way to gain a little sense of redemption for those disrespected creators who have to tolerate their bosses that have absolutely no clue or care in the way in how these things operate.