“license holders”

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Everything is accused of being AI nowadays, so it’s definitely hard to tell whether saying so is a joke or not without making it really obvious.

You guys have CD Projekt Red, so that makes up for it.

Only because him not smiling is so unnatural. It’s real.

I got a PSP 3000 in 2012 and jailbroke it. It was part of a long line of jailbroken portables:

DS Lite: 2010

PSP 3000: 2012

OG 3DS: 2019

OG Switch: 2024

Then I got a Steam Deck in 2025 and could run all of the games from those portables without having to jailbreak anything. Glad I got it while the price was reasonable!

No, just Bernie, then Bernie again!

Theft is, in itself, a form of wrongdoing.

No, it is breaking a law, which is not necessarily wrongdoing. As I said, there are many unjust laws. Laws are not the arbiter of morality.

Since you said it can be justified morally under certain circumstances, but still consider it wrongdoing, this might just be a case of semantics. Something that is morally justified cannot also be considering wrongdoing to me.

So yes, it is theft. That alone doesn’t tell me whether or not it’s wrong. In this specific case, the data center thefts, I agree it is wrong of them to take items that are not theirs for the purpose of profiting from them. However, they are committing theft against something that itself constantly commits far greater theft by its very nature, not to mention great harm to the economy and environment. So it’s bad things happening to bad people, which I am not going to object to like I would if it happened to someone innocent. There are degrees of wrongness.

It’s actually sorta difficult to find a picture of him where he’s not talking or smiling. I found this one, and he’s kind of unrecognizable:

His best known role is portraying a corpse for 2 movies. A gig’s a gig!

He was. Guess he’s too dumb to realize that he’s dead as well.

I’d say it was like the Matrix, since his body was still in the chair. Can’t really holodeck out of that.

It’s crazy how well the original Doom and Doom II have aged. While modern source ports have improved it with higher resolutions and level limits, the underlying gameplay is as fun as ever even today. Other, more advanced competitors of the day like Duke Nukem 3D haven’t aged as well.

No, what people are saying is that not all theft is wrong. It depends on the circumstances. Is that really so hard to comprehend?

The reason I used a “stealing because they’re starving” example is that you said there are NO exceptions to the idea that all theft is wrong. I strongly disagree, and further think such inflexible thinking is destructive. While you have said that the punishment should be different depending on the crime, something being a crime is in itself not a reason to believe it’s morally wrong; there are unjust laws everywhere.

Same reason I don’t use the Hypervisor Denuvo bypasses.

Luigi Mangione murdered the CEO of United healthcare. That is not up for debate.

Actually, it is. That’s what the whole, y’know, trial and “innocent until proven guilty” thing is about.

I’m okay with not meeting your strict black and white standard of morality. In fact, I find it immoral. “You stole bread because you were starving?? You’re EVIL!!”

Theft is wrong when you’re taking something away from someone who will miss it. Multi-billion dollar corporations will barely notice if their shit gets stolen, so I don’t care if it does.