*laughs* Pirating IS pirating, but I cant say that I am 100% against it. In my youth I didnt have **** for money, and honestly my parents wouldnt have given two ****s to assist in the situation.. (this was some, like 5-6 years ago, I was like 15) So I had to make due, learning about coding in C/C++, html, java, and eventually reversing that process to learn about the underground **** that you all despise today *LOL* I dont blame you though. Especially now that Im a grown man who handles his own ****.
Damn straight I paid for SE4... but honestly, I cant say I paid for SE3 back then, it was given to me on a shiney CD-R some years back. Not that I could have paid for it if I had wanted to anyway.
But on the brighter side, that act of piracy allowed me to taste a game that would lay a devastating parasite within my mind *lol* And its because of that that I even bothered to look at SE4 when it was coming around... Seeings how I am not some 15 year old punk anymore, and I can hold my own job and apt, I outgrew the whole stealing software thing, and have a totally legit copy of SE4 Gold... It would be nice to turn the tables around and make due somehow by BUYING an old copy of SE3 (Havent played that in sooo long - lost the cd as well), but that seems a moot point now.
I suppose the moral is this - Stealing is stealing, and YES its wrong, but I wouldnt condemn that dude. I aint no damned Robin Hood myself but I'll tell you this - Had I never gotten ahold of that copy of SE3 a few years ago, I would have never even HEARD about the Demo to part 4, and never had downloaded it (in its 28 mb glory), and Never, ever have purchased it.... So think what you will, but I havta thank the darker past for the brighter future, so to speak
SE4 is fabulous, and it just feels better knowing you can play without fear of being charged with theft *LMAO*
PS - (well, I cant say Im against it if ya steal from Microsoft *LMAO* - **** those fags)
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By the way... I am not advocating piracy or defending it, justifying it or anything of that nature... I am merely offering my viewpoint some years ago and recounting the series of events that lead to my own sense of redemption *lol*
Rest assured I would never even post this crap unless I had felt that I somehow leveled the scales a bit by purchasing SEIVG...I mean it is moderated by Shrapnel and MM *LOL* Just to clarify that I am not some Butt-Pirate supporter *LMAO*
But hey - **** happens. Ya do stupid ****. I'm just glad I never let it get outta hand, especially now that Im older.
[ 21 March 2002: Message edited by: Cynapse ]
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