Ive only bought 1 thing recently from Nintendo within the last year: a Switch Pro controller.

Why the controller? Cause Switch emulators. They work wonderfully. I dont have to pay a cent for games. I can download the games and their updates. And there's quite a few Switch emulators.

Im not going to pay a company to automate my own abuse.

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okdood64 an hour ago | parent [-]

I'm confused. So you just completely pirate all your games?

	▲	boca_honey 7 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		This shouldn't be confusing. Pirating software Is the defacto practice for most of the world, excluding anglo countries and I guess Japan. In places like Russia, China and the global south, many/most non-free games are out of reach for the vast majority. Also most people here don't buy into the moral outrage of piracy, which is effectively propaganda IMO.
	▲	nekusar 41 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		No. Ive bought games, including recently. I agree with Gabe Newell, that piracy shows a severe service delivery option. And in the case of Nintendo, they have no problem destroying your hardware on a perceived "back action on your owned hardware". Of course, hacking laws dont apply to companies. And Switch does braindead things like "not permitting to back up save data or back up digitally purchased games"... So yeah, in cases of Nintendo, I acquire appropriately. They have proved themselves to be an absolute horrible actor here. Fuck'em.