Is it just me, or does anyone else feel like nobody ever really does anything anymore? It's kind of hard to explain the feeling, but it feels like there's never anything made or shared just for the sake of it anymore, everybody is constantly looking to get something out of it, usually for as little effort as possible. Money usually, but you also see instances where free projects get shuttered cause the owners weren't getting enough clout or whatever they were looking for. :awoo_think:

Not even sure it's necessarily a bad thing, it just seems like you can't find anything that isn't slathered with e-begging or paywalls of some kind anymore, and it feels odd given that AFAIK most of the costs of hosting online things in general have gone down over the years.

The entire piracy scene is basically dead now.

@DrRyanSkelton
But that's the baffling thing that prompted this: it's not really dead. It feels like it's dead or dying, everything feels much more mercenary and profiteering and limited than it used to, but when I actually sit down and take objective stock of my options, piracy has never been better. I can get just about anything I want with ease compared to how things were not so long ago. Which is why it's all so confusing, why does it feel like everything's getting worse when it isn't really? :awoo_what10:

Well yeah that's basically how it's dying. Everyone is chasing money now. You have more options now though because the only thing that isn't trivial to break is Denuvo. But the community and character is all gone from it because all the best crackers are now chasing money or real jobs.