Not true. For most of human existence we worked on average like 4h a day. More on harvest and sowing season, practically nothing during the rest of the year.

And before agriculture, we didn’t really work like that. You did stuff all day, mixed in with a lot of socializing and resting. But no one had a job and people didn’t need to spend x amount of time doing y.

So not sure what you mean by this. The idea that humans live to work is exclusively a product of the Industrial Revolution.

Bro wishing physical games kept existing is infinitely more pie-in-the-sky than continuing supporting archiving and piracy projects…

And my point is it’s not about owning at all. I don’t see any of the stuff I download as “mine”. I have access to it. But how can you have property over something that can be infinitely copied? How can you own something infinite?

Don’t you guys see that this “ownership” thing is a scam? Set-up by the people in power? The only real meaningful ownership here is their ownership of all gaming developers and publishers.

Yeah I just mean they’ve stepped out from making exclusively CRPGs way before being bought out by Microsoft. And they are still making weird more niche games from time to time. Like Grounded, Pentiment?

The developer being Obsidian…? Makers of Fallout New Vegas…?

I dream of a world without anti-piracy laws where old games are simply publicly available for all. We have different ideas of what the problem is here.

Physical media that exists for games doesn’t last so if it’s not constantly produced it will just decay in a few years.

Legislation should allow game archiving (pirating) and archivists should work to find a way to best keep the games. If thats physically somehow, sure. But I doubt it. Games are digital.

There’s basically no serious longterm digital data archiving that is kept in discrete physical media.

Also, individual ownership is not the right way to solve this. These things should be publicly available for all, not kept private by a few people.

Right… the lack of making informed consumer decisions is the cause of the rise of fascism. Got it.

And I mean physical games will just stop being made, so good luck keeping ownership of those.

I think the solution is to pirate, and start stockpiling memory.

But it’s not a downside of being digital. It’s a downside of greedy corporations that are using a product that is superior to increase their control over consumers.

Games are too big to fit onto discs. You buy a physical game and still need to download 80% of the game…

And buying things digitally is just more convenient. You don’t need to leave the house, wait for delivery… digital games don’t scratch, get lost etc.

They get you by giving you an option that is just better 🤷‍♂️

Problem is you don’t own the digital games. Literally the only problem.

It’s way beyond a tech demo. Each Avatar movie invented dozens of new techniques. They actually film using cameras. They do a CGI movie with cameras, filming real actors acting. And they become huge blue aliens, while being filmed on a camera. It’s truly insane. I don’t like the movies themselves, but the BTS for them is crazy.