• PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Folks here are like “everyone uses it. Eventually all gamers realize it’s better”

    Me, having never even heard of this in my 30 years of gaming: 🫣

    • djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      22 hours ago

      I mean, do you pirate games? If you’ve never gone to a torrent site in your life it’s not surprising, but FitGirl’s repacks are so numerous that it’s hard not to notice them if you do pirate.

      • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
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        18 hours ago

        I used to torrent frequently, but rarely software.
        Since I graduated and started making adult money I haven’t really at all. When I want to vote with my wallet, I just don’t play it at all (usually these are live service games anyways).

        Although I’m going to start torrenting music and video again on principle.

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      1 day ago

      It’s a catch 22. If everyone uses it, game companies get it shut down, and then it doesn’t exist, and then nobody uses it. The only existing methods of piracy are little known. That you’ve never heard of it is expected.

      • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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        19 hours ago

        Huh, the site isn’t opening for me at all, DNS_PROBE_ERROR or ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED on my browsers. I wonder if it’s a country-wide block in Brazil? I saw some news yesterday on the police raiding pirate servers

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          18 hours ago

          the IP address is 103.224.182.241 if you want to try adding it to your hosts file to circumvent what appears to be a solely DNS-based block. or just change your DNS lookup server I guess.

          • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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            17 hours ago

            ping 103.224.182.241 gives me a “general failure”. At least I can still find stuff via qbittorrent’s builtin search