this post was submitted on 17 Nov 2023

1950 points (98.7% liked)

Microblog Memes

microblogmemes@lemmy.world

11,974 readers

10,053 active

1,537 users here now

A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
Absolutely no NSFL content.
Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

RELATED COMMUNITIES:

founded 3 years ago

moderators

ReadyUser31@lemmy.world

aeronmelon@lemmy.world

needanke@feddit.org

It feels so futuristic (startrek.website)

submitted 2 years ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

208 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] s_i_m_s@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Genuine games being sold with cracks to remove the DRM instead of recompiling it without the DRM because the DRM doesn't work on modern machines and they can't be arsed to recompile and actually fix anything so even they resort to piracy.

It's absolutely ridiculous.

parent

hideshow 4 child comments

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago

Yeah I still haven't forgiven EA for making me waste 15 fucking dollars on a fucking sport demo disc that didn't fucking work on my computer, and I had to reinstall it uninstall it so many times that I used up all five of my installs, because apparently you don't get those back when you want install. Fuck you EA

parent

[–] Syrc@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Excuse me, what?

Got any links for that? I’d love to read more about it, that seems really stupid but also believable considering our current market.

parent

hideshow 2 child comments

[–] skygirl@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

It's a bit of a rabbit hole, but Rockstar was caught recently selling a cracked version of their game on steam.

A lot of the time the person / group doing the cracking leave a digital signature. Here's a hacker news link to the original Twitter thread that caused a bit of fuss recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37394665

parent

hideshow 2 child comments

[–] Syrc@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Jesus Christ that’s embarrassing. And it’s not even one of the companies commonly labeled as “lazy” like EA or Ubisoft.

parent

hideshow 2 child comments

[–] 000999@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 2 years ago

Rockstar is well known for dodgy PC ports, though.

parent