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Ash!//Bots!@Lobotanist5/23/2023, 5:07 PM

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jae @jkap5/23/2023, 1:42 PM

look i'm not gonna advocate for General Piracy on my fucking work account but i will wholeheartedly advocate for piracy in cases where It Is Otherwise Impossible To Buy The Thing In Question.

you can't buy 3ds games anymore. sure, you could pay scalper prices for a cartridge (none of that money goes to the devs or publisher) but if the game you want was never released on cartridge? too fuckin bad, your only option is to pirate it.

nintendo is obvs within their rights to make piracy on their platforms more difficult, but to do that immediately after shutting down all legal methods of purchasing games is just pointless. who benefits from this? literally no one. what does nintendo gain here? some sort of ideological superiority? it's dumb.

anyway. it's really easy to hack your 3ds. anyone can do it. i recommend doing it while it's still easy.

#3ds piracy #piracy discourse

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Snazzy the Dragon @snazzy5/23/2023, 2:13 PM

There are so many international movies that either due to a lack of interest or problems with rights/ownership are totally unavailable in the west on steaming platforms.

For example, if you want a lot of obscure wuxia/Kung Fu movies the best you can do is buy used DVDs off eBay! And those can get pricey due to their rarity.

Setsune @Setsune5/23/2023, 2:50 PM

Disney Vaulting so they can sell them again to us at some nebulous point in the future emulated and with major functions missing or disabled.

Anyway there was a chance I might not have bothered to hack my 3DS, but I am definitely doing it now.

An Adorable Sergal @adorablesergal5/23/2023, 3:19 PM

There's a strange space a lot of us exist in where we despise corporations, but ground much of our cultural wealth on commercial properties.

This probably worked out a lot better when copyright lasted 14 years and not for eternity. There's a point where I feel certain things become ours in common by default, in spirit if not in written law, and the nostalgia of enjoying these things, referencing them, etc is a manifestation of that spiritual reclamation.

It's weird to now live in a world where cultural wealth is still held hostage, can be wiped away with a removal from an app store or streaming service, or iterated upon endlessly while any community creativity is quashed.

Comic book/game shops represent the perfect microcosm of this relationship to corporate IP, venerating and preserving the past as if it has become ours while cementing our dependence on cultural mercy from corporations. I love preservation, and I have major respect for the people who dedicate their lives to saving every scrap of culture they can find...

...but I experience another feeling when I walk into those stores and see an ancient Zelda cart for the original NES sitting in a glass case right below an ad poster for Tears of the Kingdom on the wall above.

I think it's time to dig out my old 3DS from storage. Maybe I will play something on it, or just stare at it in existential confusion.