You’re on the wrong side of Lemmy for these kinds of opinions. Over here Ukraine is the aggressor and the global south are a beacon of hope for the future of mankind. Puked a little in my mouth just typing that.

I pirate all the time. Until recently mostly on public trackers. Had malware once when I was like 12 and that’s about it. Sounds like a skill issue. Also, most cracked games get updates.

They don’t, but they also kinda do … They communicate with each other and with animals, they have different chemical reactions to different stimuli, etc. just because they’re different from you doesn’t mean they don’t suffer. Probably less than factory animals, that’s for sure, ofc. But not everyone that eats meat supports that shit.

Bunch of great suggestions already so I’ll add these:

Sid Meier’s pirates!

Majesty

Gothic (it’s actually getting remake, but if the intro they’ve showed is anything to go by, it’s gonna be a disappointment. We’ll see…)

Wow, so many links and so much effort just to say: “enemy super smart and powerful that creates world-wide misinformation and controls the world”, but then they’re also super stupid and sends a “CIA agent” to do an ama on reddit. Fascism 101, isn’t it?

Psyop is a big word. Overblown, maybe, but definitely not a psyop. Just because there’s no evidence that they’re getting murdered doesn’t mean what’s happening is ok.

People are more likely just uniformed, like the vast majority of people everywhere. And it’s easy to distrust america when they’re all over the news with their fucked up stuff. And despite all that they’re still above 50% with russia and china not much higher, so… Whatever.