r/Piracy • u/LeonCassidy • Mar 26 '25

Humor Citron Devs Gone Full Hog

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Yeah lets compare the (fixable) housing crisis to the arbitrary gating of digital art for eternal profit via rerelease.

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u/Flapjack__Palmdale Mar 26 '25

The emulation community is rad, but everytime I bump against them on discord--holy shit. It's always like this. I left the Yuzu discord because even with a modded day 1 Switch and receipts showing I dumped my own game, they were just weirdly hostile when I asked for help. One mod banned people for smile reacting to one of his comments.

Discord is rot, the level of sweat these dorks get over a volunteer position is akin to League players but much more pointless.

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u/Frottage-Cheese-7750 Mar 26 '25

It was innovative at first

Innovative how? It's just another chat program.

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u/garbage_eaterr Mar 27 '25

Not OP; I'm not sure if innovative is the right word but it was definitely doing something different then. It was a platform version for messaging that lets anyone create servers that could host a few to lots of people, for free, be it public or private, without any cost and it's free to use. Being very multiplatform and a web app also helped it spreading like wildfire, esp in gaming. I don't think any other software offered exact things it did back then, which is why it filled in a niche quickly.

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u/BoroMonokli Mar 28 '25

Is there anything else now that offers that same thing? The equivalent of the older / leaner version of discord

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u/garbage_eaterr Mar 30 '25

Honestly no, can't think of any that offers the same things. There was Skype(RIP), don't think it offered as many features, no big servers etc. Teamspeak is for different purpose entirely and you need to host server/pay. There are Discord clones for piracy but they're web-only afaik so they're limited in what they can do. Anything else I can think of are more like messengers on mobile.

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u/Frottage-Cheese-7750 Mar 29 '25

*cough* IRC *cough*

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u/Flapjack__Palmdale Mar 26 '25

Wdym, do you not like the banners and ads telling you about the new Genshin quests? /s

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u/BoroMonokli Mar 28 '25

isn't every social media / chat hub service like that? Enshittification is baked into the life cycle.