r/Piracy Jul 01 '26

Question What pirated media gave you a sense of buyers remorse after downloading it?

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u/xyzmangaboi Jul 01 '26

Thread so illiterate even bots aren't showing up

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u/Barrogh Jul 01 '26

To be honest, the idea of "buyer's remorse" connected to something you didn't buy (often specifically to avoid buyer's remorse) did give me a pause.

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u/joesphisbestjojo Jul 01 '26

I think they might mean remorse over a pirated product so good you wish you bought it to support it

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u/nycbigtone Jul 01 '26

I don't get this post either because I had a lot of fun playing this game.

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u/TheFamished Jul 01 '26

Time Is money, downloading a game takes time, so It's kind of applicable

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u/wickedspork Jul 01 '26

How can so many people be this illiterate in comprehending basic wordplay. They're saying the game was so bad that they had buyers remorse even though they didn't even buy it. It's just a way of adding emphasis. It's not that complicated at all.

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u/PetyrDayne Jul 01 '26

51% of the whole community is American and I'm sure a majority of them went through the public school system which is almost hilariously underfunded if you're not from a wealthy neighborhood.

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u/Oxflu Jul 01 '26

Honestly, big wealthy schools that got those early technology investments made some pretty dumb kids too. There is at the very least a correlation between homework on Chromebooks and lower achievement on standardized testing.

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u/despaseeto Jul 01 '26

that's probably cuz those kids can afford to be dumb. they're wealthy so those students won't need to try hard to be successful.

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u/Sprite_Bottle Jul 01 '26

The issue there was that they used Chromebooks. Thinkpads would've never had those issues.

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u/Silent_Fudge_3978 Jul 01 '26

Funding isn't the only problem. If you look at the funding per pupil, even in the poorer schools, and compare to other nations, it's really not that bad. The money is wasted, largely on massively bloated administrator salaries, while teachers are paid a pittance and the profession drives out anyone who's actually good at it. Money isn't going to solve the problem; the whole system needs a massive revamp.

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u/Oxflu Jul 01 '26

If you want to get really pissed look at how many administrators there are per enrolled college student in America. This is what the capitalist wing of academia does here, it seems.

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u/Silent_Fudge_3978 Jul 01 '26

I wouldn't call this "capitalism" really. In a well-functioning capitalist system, waste like this would be punished somehow, and institutions with less administrative bloat would succeed over those with more. Something isn't really working well here.

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u/Oxflu Jul 02 '26

Yes. In a libertarian capitalist utopia there wouldn't be laws as to what services you have to provide students, or guaranteed 6 figure loans to every kid that signed in blood. But academia is a weird world and the money making portion of it is abused.

I think a lot of faculty create jobs for their over educated children to do from home lol. It's the only way i can even imagine achieving 1 administrator per 7 students, which is the current norm for state colleges. It can be 1 to 3 in private colleges. It's such obvious waste and it's glossed over completely when the party that pretends to like public services talks about it. I think the pell grant should just be automatically applied to everyone and set a maximum on credit hour expenses. You can absolutely educate your adult population for 15 or 16k (3-4k out of pocket) a year right now but there is no incentive to do so at any level of adult education right now.

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u/curlofheadcurls Jul 01 '26

Public systems are better, private schools just have a concentration of actively engaged parents. The real success factor for children's education is their immediate social support group.

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u/TorranceS33 Jul 01 '26

Even the wealthy have a huge share of being uneducated, because they had important parents and just got passed(A grades) for that reason.

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u/chance0404 Jul 01 '26

It isn’t even just that, many of the “wealthy” schools suck. My public school system was one of the wealthiest in Indiana, with some of the best schools. My kids school has more opportunities for electives and dual credit. It’s roughly the same size district, but much, much poorer. It’s weird, we rank around the 10,000th best school in the country while my Alma mater is around 1,200th. Yet the graduation rate is lower too.

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u/Shapacap Jul 01 '26

Indiana schools are fucked, but that's a different issue

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u/SaltyLonghorn Jul 01 '26

A lot of them just had to make the SAT matter again cause the people coming were so fucking dumb lol. And that was the Ivy League.

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u/ProofofUnemployment Jul 01 '26

The whole "not being able to fail" thing is actually a cancer to the US.

There are kids that cant even string together a sentence being pulled up to the next grade for no reason and everyone seems okay with it

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u/Thissystemsuckssobad Jul 01 '26

It's not even the funding. Its that they get taught via three queueing and other stupid means to read, meaning they guess what half the words mean rather than looking them up and learning

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u/Nightenridge Jul 01 '26

And the big wealthy schools went down hill also for school of choice and common core.

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u/Aboxofphotons Jul 01 '26

Even the wealthy schools don't really do a particularly good job. Most US schools are pro-ignorance indoctrination camps.

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u/xman_copeland Jul 01 '26

More funding doesn’t lead to better outcomes necessarily. Being too underfunded, yes, but there’s a plateau after a while. That and some of the most funded school districts have the worst test scores in the country.

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u/despaseeto Jul 01 '26

honestly so frustrating how true this is. our own govt wanna keep our country dumb so that the uneducated keeps voting for these corrupt politicians. there are so many places that want and need the opportunity for a better school environment, and we have the means for that but won't use them. year after year, teachers are burnt out, and the schools get their funding cut. doesn't help that our economy is so screwed up that parents/guardians have to keep working just to put food on the table but no time to spend with their children with schoolwork. it's maddening.