PiraHxCx

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[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 hours ago

Thanks everyone for the replies. I see there is a lot of features that I have no use for so I never explored (controller stuff, cloudsave, social features, achievements, etc)... I guess auto updates are cool though, but I only play old games anyway :P

 

I know lots of you have grown with it so that's just the way it has always been for you and you are used to it, but older gamers, why do you need a launcher?

I've started PC gaming in the mid to late 90s but only when visiting cousins and friends. Got my first PC in 2001. I have some original games but I'm like 99% pirate, especially for "newer stuff" (read: anything that came out in the last 20 years lol). Modus was always the same: run the installer, click the shortcut, play.

I created a Steam account sometime in the late 2010s, I remember I did because I saw they were giving Metro games for free and I wanted to play them, and I started collecting free games that looked cool, but it really really bothered me that I needed to open their store to install and play the games. Even if I made desktop shortcuts their program would run in the background, and usually complain if I was offline... I just found everything so useless... run software to run the software I want to run, why not skip the middleman? Also I have always been on shitty hardware and I didn't like that extra RAM consumption going on in the background.

Eventually I stopped using Steam, deleted my account, and went back to piracy, but with the loss of some trusted trackers and stuff, and me starting running banking and other important shit on the same PC, I decided to start buying games, and then I found GOG, and what a godsend store! When I buy the game I get the installer so I can do whatever I want with it, and I don't need any third party application to install or run them.

I see a lot of people saying they don't buy games from other stores because their launchers are shit... but what do you even need a launcher for? Not having a launcher is my requirement to buy a game lol

[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Amelia wasn't AI-generated, she was literally goverment-generated for a stupid game saying you should mind your own business instead of watching and sharing content online or you can be arrested (people are just using AI to create more art with the character, but the character was created by the government). In the game the content was anti-immigration stuff and Amelia the girl trying to get the main character to get involved, so some dumbass just gave them a waifu lol
The game however basically tells you have to choose between being a racist or accepting 1984-surveillance (which UK is already doing anyway). Really great government propaganda.

[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I have no idea how it works, we have two main brands, Duosat and Azamerica, I found a fake Azamerica shop here https://azamerica-brasil.com/ you can see they have several models (the models are real, just the shop is a scam [the prices are way way off :P], as it's illegal you need to find the right person to buy from on Whatsapp or Telegram). I used to be on the Duosat forum and they have a team working on hardware, software and the streaming, but they moved to a Telegram group some years ago and I never joined.

[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

I found a video of a guy showing a model similar to mine, he shows the streaming (the UI is crap, but hey, it's free lol)... watching the video I just remembered, you can also access a lot of random public cameras around the world, they should add the hacked Flocks to the list https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDfQoAtc9GM
It doesn't show him exploring satellites though (he is just on the StarOne C2/C4 menu), although kinda useless to try satellites from other countries since the channels are going to be on a foreign language and there won't be subtitles.

[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

I don't use IPTV though, you have to pay a monthly fee to use, I just bought a satellite decoder and I can get any channel from any satellite my dish can reach, and the groups that sell those give you free access to their private streaming they update constantly with new releases... I got mine in 2018 or 2019 I think, at the time IPTV was like BRL$20 a month and the decoder BRL$800

[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 5 days ago (6 children)

lol, that's about the number of IPTV subscribers you'd find in a Brazilian city with 5k people :P

[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yes, I agree, this Homer guy completely lacks decorum by seeing some stranger celebrating and trying to interrupt and censor it. Like, how do you just barge into someone's conversation and try to rule how it has to proceed? Very rude indeed.

[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 117 points 1 week ago (3 children)

this shit is so old, but old fuck should be sucking dick and balls instead of policing how people celebrate anyway

[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 week ago (5 children)

This doesn't answer who is that Dem presidential candidate who isn't in Israel's pocket… perhaps Paperboy Love Prince?

[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (11 children)

And who was that blue button for?

[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 week ago

Other Brazilian here: Although they don't care much about piracy at individual level, there were local servers seized and from time to time they take down some locally hosted sites, so although it's safe for you to download and even p2p share stuff, you can get unlucky hosting - if it's near elections and some politician needs to pretend he is having the police working.

R.I.P. Manicômio Share

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