I voted Harris in 2024, don’t assume what you truly don’t know.

Nobody fears Trump, he’s just a fat, aging and delusional buffoon who only shouts and lies like it is his second nature behind breathing.

We’ll see if it even stand the test of time, how it takes on weather .etc

But that’s what makes GIMP special. There’s some users who feel that Photoshop has stopped being relevant for some uses among those users. GIMP may be a decade behind but it could be swimming in what people remembered best about Photoshop before its enshittification and retains that kind of nature.

The day the Internet Archive was being attacked and sued, was the signal.

Well for one thing - document heavily on the idea of the product. This is a must. Figure out your target audience - who or what is this for? Figure out an rough draft of costs and ideas how much you’d like to have sold this for.

And then once you figure all of that out, you’re going to need to file a patent.

Wherever and however this idea of yours will come about, these are the kind of things that are important to deal with.

They released the original Anniversary Collection (Mixed 8-Bit and 16-Bit games) in 2019, Advance Collection (The GBA games + Dracula X on SNES) in 2021 and the Dominus Collection (The DS games) last year. So, there’s probably some hope that maybe the next collection would probably, maybe have Symphony of the Night, Rondo of Blood, the Game Boy games, the N64 games and maybe a few PS2 ones? I don’t know where they could go from there but that’s all that’s left as to what to re-release.

Either way, I don’t have all the time in the world for them to get around to it.

Thanks for posting this.

I long gave up though on the PSP version beforehand, though am keeping it around because there are some games that I never got the chance to play on the PSP. So I pirated them and kept everything PSP for future use.

The remake on the PSP, feels so damn stiff! Like you make an action, you’re committed to it and you have almost no way to change course or immediately pounce out of a situation. That was what was pissing me off so much and I failed so many times trying to get to Stage 4 and figure out where I needed to go in it to unlock the game. The guides are vague and no videos that I watched really showed where you had to go.

So I returned to trying to pirate the Turbo Grafix, the Turbo CD (acquiring all BIOs) and downloaded at least 3 files of Rondo of Blood. After much tinkering, trying and error, I finally have a working copy. And in that game, the flow of the game felt much smoother than the remake, reinforcing my feelings earlier about the remake on the PSP.

Again - fuck Konami.

They threw Dracula X into the collection with the GBA games. That made no sense, lol.

That’s why I call the Super Bowl the Commercial Bowl. It’s one of the American’s biggest hypocrisies. We bitch and gripe about seeing so many ads and commercials, but we take one day out of the year to focus on one sports event that are now primarily known for commercials, trailers and reveals.

AND THEN WE GO BACK TO BITCHING ABOUT COMMERCIALS THE NEXT FUCKING DAY! THIS IS WHY WE WILL ALWAYS SEE TONS OF COMMERCIALS AND ADS!

Golf is offensively boring, because it is such an elitist sport, takes way too much land to even play, we’re talking multiple football fields and stadiums here. The only appeal it attracts are just richie losers with boring personalities, older people and just plain elitist people. The only time Golf got even remotely interesting, was when Tiger Wood was playing. But since that era is long and gone, it is straight back to the basics.

Honorable mentions:

Racing - All of it. I don’t care if it’s Nascar, Formula 1, Truck Series .etc You are essentially watching people go around and around any track. All the while, corporate sponsorships galore, everything is a walking living billboard for so many sponsored companies trying to remind you what to buy or subscribe.

Poker - I loathed the days when sports networks decided, even ESPN for a while, to broadcast Poker events. Just watching a bunch of random gamblers, at a table, playing cards, for hours. What a productive event to broadcast…

The Kentucky Derby - Predates vehicular racing, only with horses and not as much sponsorship. It’s just another venue to gamble at and disgusts me it is over the lives of horses.

All Olympic Events - The only things the Olympics are currently famous for, are what’s going on around it politically and whether there’s controversy. It has lost a lot of relevance and importance for decades now.

Sir, this instance is called ‘No Stupid Questions’.

This is by and large - a stupid question.

This administration was established for one goal and one goal only - destroy shit. They’re doing that with tremendous success.

Asking for anything else is obviously out of their depth, every single one of them.

Unsure if a moral-boosting image or just OP overlaying a pirate-bdsm mistress image with moral images and text.

Well, people may feel like they don’t have a right to things. But my problem with that kind of a stance is, why do we allow and enable these kinds of companies who feel it is their right to deny, remove and refuse to distribute legal alternatives? It seems like we feel it is our right to at least enjoy something we’d like to have.

And this moreso applies to people who actually have paid for things. Like for example, online games. One of these days, sometime or another, some big MMORPG is going to be pulled offline for good. And you, a faithful player, has put lots of time, effort and even money into the game for years which would make you a loyalist to it. But the game is pulled offline now and the company will not ever make an offline mode. They just cart out the same old song and dance of “Thank you for your years of support, blah de blah, we’re going to go now and uh, thanks for your money too, goodbye” and that’ll be that.

I mean, wouldn’t that be a little off-setting to you? Sure there’s some gullible people out there who happily piss away a lot of things and in some strange unironic way, accept this kind of practice. But there’s lots of other people who want to keep going on for however long and they too could very well have been paying customers. Shouldn’t it be their right to continue enjoying that game or should they just walk away disgruntled and jaded because they now see their investments as an entire waste?

The whole idea of whoever and whatever has a right to what is entirely case-by-case and subjective. I don’t feel I have a right to everything in a store I work at, I have to pay for something to have it and I’m not going to act like I have a right like I do have them otherwise. What I feel I have a right to, is to go and grab copies of things I know very well that no company is going to lift a finger in ever re-purposing for everyone to enjoy once again because they operate on some stubborn arbitrary system with themselves.

And if people want to take into account about the idea of respecting creators and everything? Dude, a lot of disrespect goes around to creators from these companies that helped create. It’s very well-documented at this point. I now am starting to see pirating as just a way to gain a little sense of redemption for those disrespected creators who have to tolerate their bosses that have absolutely no clue or care in the way in how these things operate.

Freedom to Breed. Easy for me, because I don’t plan on having kids ever and I don’t really think it is a good idea to be having kids if you’re unable to sustain them much less, yourself.

If a better world means we have to limit the amount of people we bring in here until everything chills the fuck out, so be it. There is absolutely no reason or benefit to bring in 3 - 12 kids at a given.

Yeah because it’s probably going into the pockets of his nazi friends.

And have a good chance of them being stolen.

If they’re even going to try…

So why do you pirate then?

The main reasons people pirate are:

• Affordability concerns
• Corporate Greed
• Region-Locked/Deliberate Unavailability (Not releasing content in other countries, exclusivity .etc)
• Refusal to meet Demand and Supply
• It’s Free, so I’m going to get it
• Dismantled Consumer Rights

Don’t get me wrong, I would have happily bought a copy if it was available. But because of 1, 3, 4 and 5 alone completely justifies pirating.