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 Posted: Fri, 17th Aug 2012 19:52 Post subject: Guesstimate how much money "you wouldn't have spent any |
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way" via stuff you've come across online that were suddenly to be found on your HDD throughout the years since you first got internet.
personally it's safe to say that i've broken at least a couple of million USD.
movies, games, music, applications, porn(yes, porn... most free porn isn't really free since somebody is paying to have it distributed) etc.
it's a bit unnerving to think that i've "spent" that much were i forced to pay for everything myself.
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Sin317
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| Posted: Fri, 17th Aug 2012 20:01 Post subject: |
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"couple of millions"
you have to "pirate" 20,000 games @ 50 bucks to get to 1 million.
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| Posted: Fri, 17th Aug 2012 20:02 Post subject: |
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Yeah, I try not to think about it.. heh. That figure is way too uncomfortably high.
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Lutzifer
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| Posted: Fri, 17th Aug 2012 20:04 Post subject: |
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| Sin317 wrote: | "couple of millions"
you have to "pirate" 20,000 games @ 50 bucks to get to 1 million. |
if you count all the copies send out to friends, it might be an accurate guesstimate  |
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| Posted: Fri, 17th Aug 2012 20:11 Post subject: |
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nvm
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| Posted: Fri, 17th Aug 2012 20:28 Post subject: |
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Lutzifer
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| Posted: Fri, 17th Aug 2012 20:30 Post subject: |
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| Sin317 wrote: | you'd need a LOT of friends to come anywhere near that number 
just imagine, you pirate 100 games a year (and thats a lot more then anyone does) it would take 20 years for just reaching 2000, or 100k.
So to hit a million in 20 years, you'd have to pirate, e.g., 100 games a year for 20 years and then send each game to 10 friends ^^
thats a lot hehe. |
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| Posted: Fri, 17th Aug 2012 20:44 Post subject: |
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| garus wrote: | | I'd never buy all the games I played. |
+1, nor watch all the movies and shows I've watched.
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| Posted: Fri, 17th Aug 2012 20:53 Post subject: |
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Honestly, I don't think $1m+ is out of range. Like asucahayashi and Mister_s said; once you start throwing in ROMs and movies? Yeah--- that's when prices go up. I have the full sets for most classic systems - MAME notwithstanding and that's a whole new ballgame too. MAME has a lot of games that were once dedicated cabs, no JAMMA or MVS or CPS there, but actual cabs that were set to one game -- and those games cost THOUSANDS of dollars to buy. Then you have JAMMA/MVS/CPS cabs with interchangeable boards, which usually ran anywhere from $400-3000 depending on how popular the game was or how easy the operator could get them.
SNES games used to run $60 a pop. There are around 1700 titles in total, counting duplicates from all three major regions, so that's what? $102,000 already! Just off one Goodset.
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| Posted: Fri, 17th Aug 2012 21:13 Post subject: |
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Definitely six figures.
Wait I mean I've never pirated anything in my life!
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Lutzifer
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| Posted: Fri, 17th Aug 2012 21:49 Post subject: |
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and dont forget, we are stealing all that money DIRECTLY from the artists!!! xD
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ixigia
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| Posted: Fri, 17th Aug 2012 21:51 Post subject: |
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It is really hard to guess such a huge number, let's say that I've been pirating pretty much everything since the first day that I got teh internetz (1997 if I recall correctly), and I've downloaded a lot of stuff for friends too...1000 years of prison at least!
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Lutzifer
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| Posted: Fri, 17th Aug 2012 22:30 Post subject: |
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we are all going to hell. I just hope the games they have there will be good xD
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| Posted: Fri, 17th Aug 2012 22:34 Post subject: |
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| Lutzifer wrote: | | we are all going to hell. I just hope the games they have there will be good xD |
Of course there will be. But they'll all be played on old arcade machines. Except the coin slot isn't gonna accept coins, if you know what I mean.
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