#i pirated the first game lol

[jusiri]

every so often i see people complain about how 'their app auto updated and they dont like the new version and they wish they had the old one back' and like i dont get it because you can?

do yall not know you can downgrade apps??

you just need the APK, its the exact same way app stores install apps except youre doing it manually

you aren't always stuck with an update you hate, you can just go back (with exceptions for the apps that force you to have the latest version in order to use them 😒😒)

like you can even go back to the really old tumblr app, i tried it once

theres a few versions with bugs that crash the app upon opening but going up like .001 or whatever usually works

the old app doesn't even have ads, they just dont work, nor does it have tumblr live

polls dont work of course, and it doesnt have the new version of the notes, where reblogs and comments are separate, but if you don't care about that its still there

its still functional

you don't have to use a version you hate

turn auto update off, and manually install apps, and you have so much more open to you

you can even install apps that used to work on your devices that the app store says arent supported anymore

9/10 times that app still works they just removed it for some reason

theres a thousand and one websites that collect the old APKs for you to download them from, its the same concept as pirating

its not some thing you usually have to go in and mess with the code, its built in to a lot of devices for you to be able to do it

my tablet literally has a file section built in to sort installable files in

You can go back!

You don't have to use it!

Reverse that thing, go back, its there, you have choices!!

#tumblr update #app update #idk any other tags to use lol #but like yeah ive been using Apks for years #its literally no different than pirating games or whatever #its probably easier as a matter of fact #literally the only thing is to make sure its not a virus #and in the years ive been doing it i think only one has had a virus and that was a shady app in the first place #a lot of things are still there #you dont have to deal with the new‚ you can return to old!

[diagoose]

pm2 is a great wholesome game with nothing problematic whatsoever and i am a great dad btw

#also shout out to that time when i was going for the crime boss ending annd did a lil too good with my stats #and so my daughter ended up usurping Lucifer and becoming the queen of hell #which good for her #it is ungodly the amount of hours i have sunk into this game #one of my fav games #first played it on an old website when i was younger #it was pirated and you couldn't save your game and i don't think you could even go past age 14 #probably gave my school's computer tons of viruses lol #pm2 #princess maker #princess maker 2 #dia's doodles #video game fanart #studio gainax #digital art #cartoon art

[felixwriting]

OC in 15 or Fewer Tag

Tagged by @jezifster and I am...doing both Tobias and Sirena because they are a unit ok lmao. Did 8 for Tobias because he's not very chatty and 12 for Sirena because I'm lazy lol

TW: incest, cannibalism, murder

Tobias

"LET MY SISTER GO!"

2. "We have to do what he says, Rena. We don't have a choice. And even if we did, even if you were free to choose if that man lived or died and you still chose to kill him, I would still love you. Okay? I would still love you."

3. "I made a secret pocket in my boot. In case they search my actual pockets."

4. "I don't really want to go back. Even when we're free."

5. "If we don't get out of here, shower and change our clothes, I will lose my mind."

6. "I wonder sometimes, now that we're gone…do you think they miss us at all? Do you think they even noticed?"

7. "Sirena De Ville, love of my life, my very heart, the one with whom I will die, my blood and soul, more important to me than the very air we breathe and more vital than the Void in which we live, you have to sleep."

8. "You're trying to kill my wife and I. I think I'm entitled to be a little bit pissed."

Sirena

"I'll bite your fucking fingers off if you try it!"

2. "I'm going to eat this whole block of cheese, okay? Suck my dick."

3. "I didn't think it would be so easy. It shouldn't be that easy to kill someone."

4. "Relax, will you? We're armed, you've seen me fight, nothin' is going to go wrong. And, if it does, I'll just fuck someone up. So you can chill out for a minute. I'll keep you safe."

5. "Yeah, but no one knows who we were. All they see is some pirates. Which maybe should also be unwelcome. Possibly we're just really bad at knowing when people don't want us around."

6. "That's not an excuse, I should've been better. I'll- I'll try to be better if something happens again. I won't let-"

7. "Because…fuck, I don't know. I don't like killing people who aren't fighting back. Feels wrong. Don't fucking tell anyone about this. Now give me your arm, I'm going to have to cut it."

8. "I've always wanted to get married in the middle of some nonsense."

9. "I'm going to rip out your throat and eat you alive. Literally."

10. "I'm giving you a chance because I'm feeling a little playful, a little merciful, I think you don't deserve that mercy but whatever. I don't control where my whims take me."

11. "I figured that would sound better than just saying my moral code is just what feels correct in the moment."

12. "Alright. Something weird is going on here, and I don't feel like leaving it alone."

Tagging @koganelovesmcclain and leaving an open tag for whoever wants to do this ^.^

#space pirates #tag game #writeblr tag games #cw incest #strange violence #tobias and sirena #I love these blorbos from my brain lol #most of these are from the first draft and probably won't make it to the final thing #but still

[writernopal]

First Line and Heads Up 7 Up Tag Mash Up

Tagged by @writingmaidenwarrior! See their post here!

Tagging (gently): @sam-glade @elshells @kittensartswriting @crowandmoonwriting @moonluringfrost

Alright, so the first few lines of AASOAF 3 are super spoiler-y, but only if you have context (i.e., live in my brain), so I will post them here anyway, but below a cut if you don't want spoilers of any kind.

Is this proper, my lady?

Why shouldn’t it be? She asked, looking at me with those round, frosty eyes. We have danced many times.

Yes, but not where we could be seen, my lady.

Enough with the formalities! She hissed as we swayed together. You act as if we’ve only known one another for mere centuries!

I chuckled. My apologies.

Nothing more with the impersonal. Call me as you always do.

Is that wise, my lady?

#i swear this story is about pirates still lol #heads up seven up #first lines tag game #tag game #writeblr tag games #aasoaf #aasoaf 3

[nomaishuttle]

the way that literally every aspect of the horse ranch expansion pack either was covered by/shouldve been included in a different pack. Lol.. horses shouldve been in pets or cottage living sheeps and goats shouldve been in cottage living the build style is cottage living and strangerville the clothing style is cottage living and strangerville likeee. the world is pretty but its also ely similar to some of the other worlds we have. and nectar making is a completely seperate skill from that juice skill or whatever. IDK

#the fact theyve managed to stretch out a Basic pets pack into like. 4 different packs basically. lord almighty. #cats and dogs + my first pet stuff + cottage living + horses literally all couldve been one pack. maybe not cottage living but likee. idk #obv soesnt rly matter 2 mebc Brother im not wasting money on this game ! im pirating it lol. but yk #i am also once again annoyed to see ppl being like omggg i hate how little is included in this its supposed to be an expansion pack... #but im buying anyways bc i lovee horses/i like the bb/i like the world/well i have every other pack #like im gonna be real kys. pirate it. this is the reason sims 5 is gonna be what it is. bc you guys will be like omg nooo this pack is so #bad AND STILL PAY FULLPRICE FOR THAT SHIT!!! #why would they put in any fucking effort into making a game playable or fun in any way when you ppl will pay them for shitting and smearinh #it on the wall #i also. like that theres more indigenous representation but also imo it feels kind of like. not at all fleshed out. i like the hairstyles i #like the townies but idk ... not rly my place 2 say im just like. sideeying it a little biy

[devilfish-landing]

heard the news about the first arc of wizard101 being free for the rest of the year. pretty cool! i think KI should make the first arc of pirate101 free next .

#'but isn't that the whole g-' did i stutter #even as a kid i raised a couple eyebrows at how early the first paywall was lmao #but fr . i think more of pirate should be free. not a lot. just more #and like. it'd get more people to try it. win-win situation #so cmon kingsisle hop to it . #as for the wiz news itself i *could* give the game a try but ill be real i played it for a bit as a kid and didn't like it all that much lol #jj speaks

[jackredfieldwasmyjacob]

i thought these templates were fun, so i gave them a go :)

(sorry for the shitty quality of the images, i tried lol)

#story of seasons #rune factory #i started writing an in-depth analysis below explaining all of my choices but i accidentaly deleted it and i don't feel like retyping #everything again #so i'll just do a quick summary here in the tags #first with the boys #i didn't realise i had a type and that type was fishermen but i'll embrace it #joe is my fucking man like i played the wii version of mm so i couldn't romance him #but i got him to 10 hearts and he was my best friend he's genuinely one of my favourite characters in the series #gustafa the man the myth the legend. tbh i don't really like the bachelors for awl / cute #i think they're the worst of any games lol #but gustafa is fine i like him with his funky hat and his cool glasses :) #toby is actually the only bachelor i've married!!! and he's also my favourite story of seasons character ever he's the bestest <3 #i'm not a fan of tott's bachelors tbh i picked hiro just cause #same with sos i'm not a fan of any of the characters in that game imo they're really bland #emilio is hispanic i'm hispanic what else can i say <3 #joe is literally named after the best character of the series AND he's a pirate. 10/10 #i haven't really played rf5 so my picks there are just based on the hour or so i've played #kross my sweet sweet child i will protect him at all costs <333 #and bob <3 just bob #onto the girlies #i normally play as a guy so they were much more difficult to choose #i struggled a lot #mm was my first story of seasons game and ann was the first bachelorette i ever married :) but i like literally all mm bachelorettes #imo one of the strongest roster of bachelors / bachelorettes ever #they're all phenomenal #flora!!! an archaeologist!!! like me (kinda)!!!! the bestest!!!! #i'm still mourning the fact she's not a bachelorette in the remakes #tumblr ate my tags for most of my opinions on the girlies which were a lot™️ i hate it here #anyways if you want me to talk about them more leave an ask (or really just leave any ask about story of seasons)

[zackcollins]

Paint Him Like One of Your French Catchers || STL vs PIT || 09/10/22 || 📸: Justin Berl ©

#pirates lb #the first picture of the two of these if the most popular picture on tylers getty images page #and i find that absolutely wonderful #because its so wonderful to know that im not the only one thats a thirsty bitch for him #i showed one of my friends the picture and she called us (the thirsty bitches) 'heine-hoes' #and that is such an accurate description honestly #im a heine-hoe both sexually and romantically because i do be in love with this bitch #anyways #enjoy this moron being provocative lol #tyler heineman #lars nootbaar #pittsburgh pirates #st louis cardinals #baseball #mlb #major league baseball #mlb regular season 2022 #not hockey #r.t. posts game pictures #gamje pictures #r.t. posts pictures #pictures #r.t. talks #babygirl jr king #this boy is r.t.s type #r.t. is such a simplord for tyler heineman #source: getty images

[raylex]

💫 for Pierre, that guy always looks so funny whenever you post about him ( @gible-love-nibles )

HOWDY hope you're having a good day!! always love getting a chance to talk about pierre because he's one of my slightly less known f/os >:)c he's a lovable bastard.

SO to introduce you to pierre i'm gonna need to start off with a whole nother ratchet and clank character - coincidentally also a (secondary) f/o of mine, and then segway over to pierre.

this is rusty pete! he's one of the main space pirates introduced in ratchet and clank: tools of destruction. he's the first mate of captain romulus slag, a secondary villain in the game, and he's a bit of a goofball and provides a ton of comic relief. very fun very silly, we appreciate characters like that.

what's he got to do with pierre? see, the thing is, pierre is essentially just an alternate dimensional counterpart of rusty pete. i fr fell in love with an au version of a pre-existing character (i love pete too don't get me wrong).

so in the game ratchet and clank: rift apart, we're introduced to this plot point that all of the dimensions in reality are breaking because of shenanigans(tm) put into work by the evil dr. nefarious (bet you couldn't tell he was evil from that name). alternative dimensions have sort of been a part of the story in the past, the device the dimensionator was a major thing in tools of destruction, but we never actually got a glimpse into another dimension until now. so we've got counterparts of every pre-existing character, including rusty pete. leaving us with...

pierre le fer, ~Gentleman Extraordinaire~, the biggest tryhard to have ever existed. i love him, he's so stupid.

take that goofy drunk space pirate rusty pete except make him posh, flamboyant, bisexual, and french, and you've got pierre. pierre thinks he's such a hotshot and he thinks everyone wants him but everyone thinks he's just kind of annoying HAHA. his own crew has even tried to get him executed multiple times. so impolite 🙄

he flirts with pretty much everyone he meets but he's... generally not really liked by anyone. it's okay though. i like him :) he is my piece of shit (affectionate).

he's got this overly confident badass facade but he's a huge coward and a weakling and runs from every fight he can. essentially he is my pathetic little meowmeow.

#shoutout to robot space pirates gotta be one of my favourite genders! #ask games #gible-love-nibles #<- because i talk about him a bit too lol #💙🏴‍☠️ gentleman extraordinaire 🏴‍☠️💙 #🧡🏴‍☠️ you're my top first mate! 🏴‍☠️🧡

[girlwithfish]

games i played in my childhood

#tjis barbie spy gameboy game on my sisters gameboy!!!! i also played a kim possible game and a barbie pegasus game i thinkkk? #i never had a gameboy bc i was a liddle kid but i played my sisters a lot #i think the first game i played that ican rmeember is this dora game that had its own like console i renember y cld build a bridge. #ialso played this ispy compjter game w a disc nd evrrything a lot w my sister on the computer #it was like pirate island themed or smthhhh i forget #pokemon pearl & animal crossing wild world ds games i played a lott also this pixie hollow game lol

[kimmkitsuragi]

played sdv co-op w my sister ^_^

#first time im playing coop and the first time im playing this game since like. 2020 lol #but the shocking thing to me is apparently i have 160 hours on steam #it's horrifying bc i just looked up when i bought this game on steam #and it's january 2020 #and it means i played too much sdv that year (which makes sense bc covid) #BUT. what is so horrifying is that ive been playing this game since 2016 sjsjdjfhfh #(by pirating the game - which im usually fine with but this game has been so consistently cheap so idk why i never bought it lmao) #this all means that i spent wayyyyyyy too much time playing this game through the years #if i have 160 hrs since 2020 lmao #anyway. yeah #sdv #🗒

[springcatalyst]

my sifu rip started crashing on startup so a little treat for me I'll finally buy the actual version

#i wanted to get it legit for a while anyway literally. just cause theres some stuff i cant unlock #because i dont have access to the deluxe content. and i have to 100% everything forever #and so getting it legit will make me play it thru all the way over start over again? but honestly #thats kind of a win. like yes i lose all my achivements and eveything #but since its a skill-based game ill be able to run thru it pretty fast again #and all my arenas and everything wont be hard to re-get. cause im good at the game by now #its always sad to delete progress but. it ok. gives me an excuse to restart LMAO #normal about that game if anyone asks #i like pirating games first because i hate to spend money and then not like a game. but by now. i know im gonna keep playing this game #so sure ill get it. why not. also it was on sale so. yeehaw #oh its black friday isnt it. i forgor. lol. thatd be why

[pyrriax]

YO MY FAVORITE POKEMON IS UNFEZANT. IVE NEVER MET ANYONE WITH THE SAME FAV BUT WE HAVE FAVS IN THE SAME EVOLUTION LINE. *SOLIDARITY HANDSHAKE* (pidove is adorable btw i love that little pigeon)

YAAAA PIDOVE EVOLUTION LINE LOVERS!!

i like pigeons and i am ALSO a fan of unfezant i love the pun in the name (yes i know that that's a pokemon thing but ALSO it just WORKS)

lookit those BIRDS

#ask a ghost #asker: s1ld3n4f1l #i'm HOPING i spelled your username right lol #im so endlessly fond of this gen of pokemon though i just <3 they're so great #PLUS it was the first pokemon game i didnt pirate (because im not counting the weird port of emerald for windows phones of all things)

[pagesofkenna]

so what if i write a coffee pirates game

#you know how many years its been since i thought about coffee pirates? almost ten #apparently i wrote that first story in 2012 hot damn #by game i mean like. a hypertext story #imagine how cool it would be if i made a full coffee pirates game tho? #2.5d isometric seattle coffee shop stealth game #im thinking the color palette of bastion with the controls of mario odyssey? #anyway no. i wanna write a boring text game lol

[devilishdelights]

I got the lucifer card but I fucking forgot to finish the missions like a dummy and I didn’t get the memory card, I’m still kicking myself for it

Oh shit LOL I didn’t even do the missions. There sm u gotta do in this game it overwhelms me, so I just focus on the one thing I want the most (that mam ur) and fuck off w the rest 😭 in the end I can just screenshot the cards I like and admire them in my camera roll lololol

#those mission cards r nice af tho barb lucifer beel and mam all look so good #when I first started playing obm the pirate event was going on and I had no idea what to fuckin do!! there was so much goin on. I think I #did the first book for it but I deadass was only on lesson 1 of the main storyline so I was like what the fuck why r these guys acting like #this lmfao 😭 now that I know how to play!! I’m upset I didn’t play the pirate event! luckily it’s on LD now but damn #like there’s still stuff I don’t know my way around w on this game and it’s just bc there’s so much !! my brain is simple. too much work #!!! this is the first time I actually figured out how to and was able to do the celestial blessings LOL #ask

[canmom]

"don't post links to pirate sites" as a security through obscurity strategy seems... weak. if a pirate site is so obscure that almost nobody can find it, it's also essentially pointless.

but yes, if a pirate site is common knowledge, the feds will be working on destroying it. so the idea is i assume to achieve an intermediate level of obscurity, where you have to have a certain amount of talent for asking the right people or searching the right things to find it. but... whatever capacity for research you are asking people to have on that front, the feds are equally capable of it, and they have a whole lot more time on their hands for tracking down pirate sites! security through obscurity is a losing game for piracy. the perfect sweet spot where people can find your pirate resource but the feds cannot is something of a mirage.

if not that, than what?

the current piracy system involves a few different tiers of accessibility, and various components that are more or less decentralised.

torrents are the most resilient tech because to stamp out a torrent (with DHT enabled) you have to suppress every seed. so, you have big public torrent trackers like TPB; these are well known and rely on hopping domains and redundancy for security. the ratio of seeds to leeches tends to be low, but the number of users is large enough that there will be at least a few seeds out there for most stuff. torrent clients have gotten a lot better at seeding strategies that take into account your seed ratio and what's currently available in the swarm, so if you just leave everything on seed and open your torrent client fairly often (use a VPN though lol), you don't really need to think about it.

then you have private trackers; these operate on an invite basis. the problem with this is that when the pool of users is so small, the odds of a given seed being online are also small. to prevent torrents dying, they gamify it: you get points for seeding and if you don't have enough points you can't download anything until you seed more. to help people get back in the game there will be 'freeleech' events. being active on a private tracker takes a bit of work.

and of course you have to get in in the first place, which tends to require a proven track record of seeding on other private trackers, and some kind of interview with the operators. getting involved in private trackers is a much bigger ask, you have to figure out where to get your foot in the door, and work your way up to the more insular trackers. it's like a mini subculture. it's valuable, but not scalable.

at the top level of inaccessibility is the warez scene. this is a whole subject that i'm not even gonna get into, go read wikipedia. historically this is where the files actually come from, before getting distributed on public trackers, usenet etc. but good luck getting in there lmao, they are understandably quite paranoid.

of course, for stuff to get on pirate sites you need somebody to go the effort of ripping and encoding it. this is where a major point of failure exists. when RarBG went down recently, the biggest loss was not the existing archive of torrent links, which can be backed up - it was that they were very active at converting scene releases into torrents with a decent balance of file size and quality, which then filter out into the various public trackers. that is much harder to replace! but what killed RarBG wasn't even suppression by authorities - according to their statement, it was a bunch of the admins getting covid or dying or fighting in the Russia-Ukraine war, which made the whole operation impossible to continue. so despite the thousands of people who download RarBG torrents, this single point of failure was overstressed and broke.

as far as the ethics of spreading links to pirate sites go... if it's something like a mega drive, yeah, the chances of a takedown are pretty high if it gets noticed! no question. but those things are by nature short-lived; if you want to use that for archival you're building on sand. there's also databases like emuparadise, but there was no saving that through obscurity, it just took Nintendo a minute to bring the case.

in this kind of centralised case, the clock is ticking from day 1. what we want is to maximise the number of people who are able to save copies while it's up, and then some of those people can put it up again somewhere else and keep the authorities playing whack-a-mole. (for a small collection of files, a sensible measure would be to make a torrent and a mega drive side by side, so that people can download the mega drive and then add the torrent to their client to seed if it gets nuked.)

as for torrent sites, the thing is that torrents rely for effectiveness on a swarm that is either very large or very responsible about seeding. if it's a public tracker, it has to be well known or it's pointless. instead of security through obscurity, the form of security for these sites is try to make the resource itself hard to take down - operating the tracker/archive in countries that don't have copyright treaties, maintaining mirrors, and of course distributing as many seeds as possible so the torrent can stay alive even if the site goes down.

the major problem with a dead torrent site is discoverability. if it's harder to find the torrent, fewer people will download it, the existing seeds will gradually go offline, and of course you can't download a torrent that you don't know exists. and while you could imagine a system of broadcasting metadata about a torrent (title, encoding etc.) in a DHT-like way but that would be so vulnerable to fakes and spam. maybe some kind of cryptographically signed 'this torrent is good' declaration is possible? I know certain torrent clients tout discovery features, but honestly I don't know how well they work. I'm sure there are projects that are way ahead of the game than me on this question.

but yeah anyway trying to browbeat people into not sharing links to pirate media is 1. futile, by the time you see it the cat is out of the bag 2. not a sustainable strategy for security. if you wanna lecture people, 'use a VPN and seed your torrents' is evergreen ;p

#torrenting #piracy