Oh, har de har, it's Talk Like A Pirate Day, the most hilarious day of the year. If you've never heard of it, it's a day where we all get to be frightfully amusing by saying the things a pirate would say! In honor of this national holiday, I have decided to get into the spirit of things by talking ... like a pirate!
Ahem ...
"It's not theft because the game is still there when you download it! Using that twist of logic, it's now morally acceptable for me to download the Humble Indie Bundle without paying for it! No, stop being ignorant, I wouldn't pirate games if it didn't have all that oppressive DRM in it! That's obviously why I download things like World of Goo and Serious Sam: Double D ... they've all got SecuROM!
"Hey, what's that? A developer's made a game that doesn't look exactly the way I want it to? Time to boycott it, and by 'boycott' I mean I'm going to download it illegally because I'm angry enough to take a stand, but too spineless to deprive myself of the experience. Not that it matters, I'm just looking for an excuse to justify my shitty behavior rather than just admit I want to play games without paying for them like a responsible adult person! Wheeeeeeee!"
What are your best pirate impersonations?
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11:00 AM on 09.19.2011 | 
On topic: "I'm only pirating it because I hate Origin! EA has no right to set up their own gaming download service! Fuck them!"
Seriously, no one bought that game. If you played it, odds are you pirated it.
I would be absolutely flabbergasted if this turned into an arrrrrrguing thread.
That's not how it works. The retailer takes that hit, not the devs.
My father said "Now son, this choice deserves deliberation
Though you could be a doctor or perhaps a financier
My boy why not consider a more challenging career"
Hey ho ho
You'll cruise to foreign shores
And you'll keep your mind and body sound
By working out of doors
True friendship and adventure are what we can't live without
And when you're a professional pirate
That's what the job's about.
It's the store who loses money. But in the end, the devs next game will be hurt because stores won't be as anxious to stock it.
what, you actually buy games? LOL! i bet that's expensive!
i have better things to spend my money on, like COCAINE.
If i were you i would buy the games instead of accepting review copies.
Its easy to bash when you can literally play any game you want, not everyone has that luxury, especially when the average wage is the equivalent of 750$/ month and games cost up to 95$.
With that said, piracy is obviously still wrong.
He pays for many of the games he reviews. Plus, it's part of his fucking job. Get real.
This is still completely valid, every way you try to turn it.
"(Using that twist of logic,) it's now morally acceptable for me to download the Humble Indie Bundle without paying for it!"
This however, is not.
I just received a review copy of a high profile game. I am mailing that game to somebody else to review. I will then be going to GameStop to pre-order that game for myself.
Nice try, but your presumptions make you look foolish.
Your excuses are as good as the pirate's.
WUT?!
(Kaizou Sentai Gokaiger)
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