man, these guys are awesome! good old, passionate game devs even to this day. we really need more people like this in the game development industry, from the top down.
Ayyy the replacement drive works! Guess I really did just get a bad drive. Now I can watch Sponge Out of Water without resorting to piracy! Wouldn't want to be like Patchy, would I?
Well, I had to pirate the software to play Blu-Rays in the first place because for some reason the drive doesn't come with it, and Blu-Ray is a horribly over-protected medium that I'm not going to pay $100 to play discs I already own on a $60 drive on a $1500 computer. I've heard it is one of those scummy softwares that also tries to get you to pay for updates so you can play newer discs which is just stupid.
Is it not enough that I bought the physical disc to begin with instead of ripping it from the internet? This proves that piracy is mostly a service problem, just like our good man Gaben said.
mainly post about music and games, and share art from artists i like.
obviously i don't condone any sort of abuse/exploitation irl, go fuck yourself.
currently learning japanese.