Sentrovasi

Yeah, kinda puts paid to the idea that piracy is about sustainable, non-DRMed software for all when the one company whose niche is ensuring that such resources are available is being undermined like this.

Wouldn’t it eventually fill up with blood and holy water

It’s weird cos you’re the only person bringing up pirating first (others are bringing it up as a talking point you’ve raised), and that’s not the dichotomy - it’s not dubious reselling sites or pirating, it’s Humble Choice, the topic of your post, where the games are already discounted, the developers have decided to opt in, and some money is actually going to charity.

Even if you bring up your original post as providing “options for everyone”, it was written in the spirit of advertising grey market sites as an alternative to Humble Choice, and therefore it’s entirely fair that others are bringing up the harms of grey market sites so that everyone knows what the risks are between them. I used to use those grey market sites as a kid more than a decade ago before I understood that they were a tool by scammers to make their money, and now I no longer use them. It would only be honest for you to have talked about that in your original post rather than ignoring it because the only alternative to you is piracy.

I (charitably) think the fact is that they may also have misunderstood Cyberpunk to be more about hacking than it actually is, and are using “spy” despite a lot of CP2077 not being necessarily about remote hacking cameras at all.

The concern is rarely the people who are engaging and discussing with a critical mind, but the silent majority that consume with less time for criticality. As we’ve seen on Reddit, hive opinions end up prevailing on any site that is algorithmically sorted, and if one side has the numbers and dogged persistence to filibuster harder, it doesn’t matter if there is intellectual pushback; a culture war can be won on memes alone.

I think that’s generally the danger with allowing all “facts” in the name of critical discussion. Jokes are funny until suddenly they aren’t jokes anymore, and implications are debatable until a consensus, rather than independent analysis, declares them fact. That’s pretty much the internet.

instead try to engage utilizing informed rhetoric with sources to dismantle western propaganda

I think it really depends on whether you consider this line to mean engaging in good faith discussion or sealioning with alternative facts.

At least on other instances, they may be subject to more stringent moderation. It’s easy to say “just ban them” when you’re not the one who will have to manage all 20000 of them.

The two examples in your later paragraph are wholly different cases: the second is a completely different use-case and the first one is actually less morally unambiguous than you think.

But even people who like making stuff would be able to devote more time to their work if they were given the means to sustain themselves through their work without needing to work another job, wouldn’t they?