Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

"It's expensive, but I still want everything, so I pirated it. Seems pretty justified."

Look, I've pirated a ton in my life, but this whole "This is actually a noble pursuit" is such a load of fucking horse shit. We want something and don't want to pay the price that is required to get it, so we take it. The best part is "preserving" it, because we all know that when this guy is done playing, it will be deleted and he'll never think of it again.

While I am also not a huge fan of their DLCs it does actually make sense.

The base game is still a good game many many years after release and it's even better now than it was at release due to the free updates that come with the paid DLCs. There is also little reason to buy every single DLC at once or at all. You buy the ones with features you like. And there are obviously sales too. Don't buy at full price! Everybody knows that.

"The complete experience..."

Dude most of those DLCs for Stellaris are just new parts for customizing the look of your civ. Only 2 actually are like expansions for the game that add more than just aesthetic content.

Not saying you should have bought it over pirating, but like... You could have saved bandwidth by also not getting most of those DLCs at all.

Look guys, you don't need to justify your piracy. There is nothing ethically wrong with pirating media.

Anticonsumer practices are justification enough. If someone has a childish response of "uR sTeaLiNg!!", give them an equally childish retort and tell them to eat your farts.

you can pirate games but don't jerk yourself off about it, you don't have to justify downloading video games as media preservation to not be a bad person because of it

Your reminder that Nintendo 64 games on the Nintendo Switch are using an open source emulator that Nintendo has not contributed to or endorsed in anyway, and is believed to be using game ROMs collected by preservationists.

Historical piracy was never about social justice, especially when you consider that a number of pirates during the 1600-1800s received government's blessings to operate, so long as they didn't attack the nation's ships.

Pirates simply did on sea the same thing highway robbers have been doing on land since the dawn of civilization.

Actual piracy involves a lot of corpses of mostly innocent sailors, IP violations are a victimless crime.

This was not wise. Green bubbles usually mean "now they know".