man the yuzu stuff making people do actually people should be paid for their (piracy) labour discourse (raking my nails down my face)
like the nintendo bootlickers using it as a heh see they deserved to get shut down for it point are stupid and wrong. but as a hobbyist copyright-breaker myself (in a different area where we don't have a litigation-happy company like nintendo breathing down our necks, though we do know we're being watched) with the state of copyright as it is you do, in fact, have to not take any money at all to help yourself stay under the radar. we certainly could run a ko-fi or something to try and make back the theoretical thousands of dollars of labour we've done, but then we'd also get immediately smacked with a cease and desist at best. as it is, we just get immediately copyright struck if we upload anywhere that isn't the usual torrent sites.
like i acknowledge this isn't like ffxiv modding where i think no money should be exchanged because of my personal principles. when it comes to fansubbing, i fully support fansubbers getting subs bought out if the show they worked on gets an official release (i think this has only happened once with english tokusatsu, but still...). making an emulator is a lot of work, and over the years it's certainly basically become a job to them, and they would have made a lot of money doing it somehow above-board. but you can't take money, ever. it opens up a much wider host of legal issues.
smugly declaring that actually people should be paid for their labour doesn't really contribute anything to discussions and completely ignores the legal conditions that pirates are working under and will continue to work under. just feels like empty signalling.
