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apropos of nothing, here's an old blog post i did about piracy and when/whether it's ok and things like that when the people who make the games aren't even getting to keep their jobs, far less profit from a game's success, pirate those suckaz tbh www.joewintergreen.com/one-time-a-g...

the total biscuit thing was honestly so dumb... he was literally like "uhh no it isn't? they charge money?" made no attempt to think

Another thing about piracy is that if you let yourself fall into the mental trap of seeing every pirated copy as a lost sale (which is straightforwardly not true, but easy to think if you're unfortunate enough to see a piracy stat about your own thing) you go immediately insane

The idea that you have *lost* millions of dollars because that many (mostly unverifiable anyway) instances of piracy allegedly occurred is just insane...wait til you hear from the Stats Genie the total number of sales you have failed to make in general, you're gonna Flip Out

When I was ~20 me and some of the InFlux gang put out an iOS game, a sorta carmageddon-inspired thing made out of our old HL2 mod. Grossed like $2000 at a price of $2... an iOS piracy site had it downloaded like 80 thousand times. You absolutely cannot mentally afford to look at that as stolen money