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[–] null@piefed.nullspace.lol 24 points 2 days ago (27 children)

The mental gymnastics people need to do to feel better about getting something for free against the wishes of the creator is so wild.

Just own it.

[–] maddie1312@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

My favorite is people who use “archival purposes” as an argument for having a dump of some shit like SMB + Duck Hunt cart for NES. That shit isn’t going anywhere man, you just want to play it for free and that’s ok.

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