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I have never heard a convincing argument that any piracy is ethically or morally wrong: no one is being deprived of anything. You have to manually construct a scenario where someone is about to pay an independent artist for their work and then decides to use a copy instead, and even then I think it's hard to argue any actual harms.

They're all in bed together.

No, we're at the point where the people pushing these laws do understand how the Internet works, and they want to control all of it.

I think you're both interpreting the original quote in different ways. It was the obvious choice only because it was popular, but it wasn't popular because it was the best at reviving old hardware. There were many better options for squeezing performance out of old systems, and they would have been more "obvious choices" than Ubuntu for anyone with any knowledge of the Linux ecosystem.

Can't you still transfer content to them? Just pirate everything you paid for and manually put it on there. I have a newer Kindle and I have never once connected it to their servers, just use Calibre.

Wow, what brilliant circular logic. Only people who enjoy the game are the target audience, that's a great marketing tactic right there.

I am EXACTLY the target audience for this game. Space sims have been some of my favorite games since I played Wing Commander II. I was just as wowed by the initial trailer for NMS as anyone else. The game let us all down and I don't think it deserves a pass for adding a bunch of boring activities to do in addition to the boring core gameplay.

I've tried it multiple times over the years and getting fun out of the game is like squeezing blood from a stone. The core gameplay is a shallow grind, and almost all of the updates just bolt on other shallow systems onto that core. I legitimately cannot fathom what you enjoy about it unless you're playing with friends which can make anything enjoyable.

I mean, I won't defend the stability, but the gameplay is unironically better? At least you can see interesting things when exploring, and dogfighting is so much better it's barely comparable.