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irstupid on 27 January 2010
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ChichiriMuyo said:
irstupid said:
ChichiriMuyo said:
That's not actually necessarily true, Twisted. There are a lot of ways to get PCs for very cheap, sometimes even free, that wouldn't necessarily apply to software. Like AW86, you've clearly led a life of relative privilege, and it's simply unfair of you to judge others by your standard of living. I, for one, have only bought one computer in my entire life yet I've had at least a dozen. Why is it, then, that my having a PC necessarily means that I can afford software?

I'll say this again - just because in YOUR life things have worked out a given way does not mean that your life is an appropriate model for the lives of others. Millions of people have computers they didn't pay for, actually, and your assumption that everyone who has one pays for one is laughably narrow-minded.

ah BLAMMING your life now huh.  grow up.  There are 100's of games I would have loved to play, but never got to because I can't afford to buy them all.  If I really wanted to play the game, say a new zelda comes out.  I will want to play that 1000%. there will be nothing stopping me from playing it.  I will figure out a way to get money, if I need to get a job at somewhere I woudl ahte like a convenient store or fast food or something.  If I coudlnt' then i would wait and ask for on birthday or christmas, if they didn't get me it I woudl still find a way.   Hell could even go and donate plasma a couple times a week for 40 dolars or something.  there are ways of getting money if you look.   I mean hell how many hours you spend wasting searching forums or posting on here about games.  you could spend that time looking for a way to make money or just working more hours at your current job.

 

No matter how poor I have gotten adn trust me I have been in negative for months till i got out, that just means I have to wait till i can get that game.  Hell I could even resort to borrowing from a friend or renting for a week from blockbuster or something.  Just because I'm struggling for a while doesn't GIVE ME THE RIGHT to steal. 

 

You aren't going out stealling food for yourself or family, or sleeping on the street because you can't pay rent or mortgage.  You figured out and cut back expenses in order to pay for those things.  NOw if you want a video game and are low on funds you have to cut back on other things to afford it.  Whether that means not buying a case of beer the next time you were going to or not going out to eat for a while.  That's part of life.  I dont' want to hear no Democratic shit and blame society and expect someone else to do it for you.  If you want something you have to work for it. 

 

Hell if you look at my games list, I have played a lot of games for current systems and yet I only own a Wii.  I have found a way to play and finish the other games for other systems if I really wanted to play that game.  And why I don't own the other two systems is because I can't afford to. 

Blaming?  Not in the least.  I too live a relatively priveleged life.  The thing is that I have perspective, and you don't.  I can afford to buy most of the things I want, but I'm sympathetic to the plight of those who simply can't.  You think being in the negatives for a few months is poor?  THAT is relative privelege.  The vast majority of people who pirate aren't allowed to go into the negatives.  If they run out of money, they just starve.  The idea of credit is foreign to them, and the fact that it isn't to us proves that we have so much more than the average pirate it is emberrasing.

Really, your whole argument is childish and baseless.  Every word of it drips of ignorant luxury, and shows you simply don't understand how good we've got it and how bad the REAL average person has it.  If anyone needs to grow up, it's you.

yes i know i live a privilaged life.  i'm not the poor upbringing that has parents working 2 jobs each or whatever else you want to bring up for example of having it rough.

 

but pirating/stealing is never the solution.  if you have to resort to stealing something you shoudlnt' have it.  pirating is never acceptable.  there was a girl who was homeless that worked hard in school got straight A's and got a full ride to harvard.  so if a girl that has no parents, no home can figure out how to get perfect grades and get into one of the best college's in the world then no one has an excuse that they can't afford a game.  they aren't trying, they are lazy cheap crooks.

 

i want to get a hdtv real bad and wanted one for a long time.  my tv is a 27" sd tv i bought with my own money i saved up 8 years ago.  I have had plenty of times I could have afforded to buy a hdtv that many on this brag about and would have been fine money wise.  i coudl have taken out a bigger loan for that year in college, or done a monthly slow plan, or used my credit card or even gotten a new credit card.  But I don't like to have a lot of loans or pay something monthly cause i iknow it will cost like triple the original cost by the time i pay for it.  So here I am still so many years later with the same ol TV. 

 

Now i don't want to hear shit about people who have expensive tv's, consoles, computers, ect saying they can't afford something.  they managed to get that with their money somehow, they can figure out how to get money to buy a game.  If you got your computer by making with free parts, or even bartering with someone you are smart enough to figure out how to get your hands on a much cheaper piece of software.  The majority of pirates are not the people that are these super poor, helpless, worst situation in the world people.  they aren't playing games, they have other things in life more pressing to worry about than finding out how to get COD6 so they can play online.  THe pirates are the peopel who know the in's and ends of computers and have pirated hundreds of games and are doing it because they are digital crooks.  they think they won't get in trouble and they aren't stealing from no one.