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The real problem with piracy: Too much choice! (quokk.au)
submitted 2 days ago by AloneDownUnder@quokk.au to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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I think overall that piracy is good.

It returns control over media, instead of being bound to specific platforms or stores.
It allows you to test things on your hardware, before committing to a purchase.
It makes it possible to recover old media that you physically lost.
It makes your media portable, able to copy it to a new device or hardware without being locked out.
It makes things sharable, able to give a copy to a friend to have them try it out.

But one thing I find difficult is just the sheer amount of things that exist nowadays.
I don't know how you guys manage it, but I have more media on just my laptop (external drives and such excluded) than I could really enjoy in my lifetime. How to even make choice of what to watch, play, read, next?

I know, very much a first-world problem. But still, it boggles my mind.

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[–] AloneDownUnder@quokk.au 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Maybe sounds like a stupid question. But how would you go about and do that?

If I just take a list of all games and try to select from that what I want, that seems like a unsurmountable task.

Even just starting with getting a list of games, where do you get this list. Top 100 games of all time? Latest 100 releases? Again endless possibilities.

[–] rayf@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't take a specific time to create a full list. I just add things when I found them in news, or someone talk about it, a YouTube video, sometimes I just watched a movie, and I'm curious about others made by the same director. The list just grow when I discover something that catch my interest. Otherwise, yes, it would be tedious.

[–] AloneDownUnder@quokk.au 1 points 1 day ago

Maybe I just have too many things that catch my interest.

The difficulty is never creating the list but actually going through it later and finishing items from it or trying out things.

[–] 007ace@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ive got movies, games, books, tv series. Its not a list that I have to get through at any time, but when I have the itch for something specific I look on the list and pick something that Ive got waiting. I have a few subscription services but most of my media is on my home server, so i dont have to worry about losing access. My big thing is just falling too far behind. But thats not so bad either. Lets you binge a series and not be kept waiting. As for games, I changed from Console to PC when the PS5 was sold out 5 years ago. Before that I would mod and pirate every system. Ps2 and 3, Xbox and 360, DS, 3ds, psp, vita... Emulation for the switch. Nothing holding me back. Now, I shop the steam sales.

[–] AloneDownUnder@quokk.au 2 points 1 day ago

I used to do the same with my Nintendo DS and my Xbox 360 and just modded and do other things with it, but eventually I just got rid of everything and just have PC now.

Maybe I should just replay and emulate some games from the past.