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ParanoidObsessive posted...

There are reasons why I tend to see myself more through the lens of super-villainy than through pretensions of being a "good" person - I'm more than capable of knowing what I'm doing is immoral and still not giving a fuck.

I'm not sure if I'm ready to put "downloading a 20 year old video game to play on an emulator during my lunch breaks" on the list of reasons I may eventually succumb to cartoonish supervilliany, but I could certainly see how trying to platform with touch controls might push someone over the edge.

That being said, I'm not even sure if the depriving content creators of income argument holds for older titles and consoles since even if you're going to pay for an older system or title used or new in box, you're only paying a third party seller that hoarded it.

You may as well make the same argument for buying used games at GameStop since the creator isn't seeing a dime from that purchase either. You might have a marginal case with VC releases and the like, but those are a small percentage of the titles out there where the rights could even be worked out. Who are you ripping off when the developer went under a decade ago? I get the argument for current media, but it's a pretty paper thin argument for retro gaming when all you're left with is a specious issue of morality at best.
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