I'm scared to pirate games

I'm scared to pirate games.

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The viruses, I just cant

What are you scared of?

pirate games not scary what are you babby? afraid of captain hook?

Pirate ROMs then. Can't hide virus in ROMs. Or get games from gog-games.

Going to prison for years longer than an actual murderer

Computer viruses sneaking in with them

Only get games from igg-games.
Disable antivirus when prompted

If you can't pirate a game without getting a virus then stick to buying

they only go after big dogs and suppliers. Watch out for viruses. Just don't be retarded.

Smart, too many virus

To manipulate the fear in others you must first master your own

Get a VPN or find games in parts instead of torrents if you can't.

same, OP

>pirated earthbound as a teenager
>ended up getting a really bad trojan I could not get rid of for months
>multiple antiviruses either couldn't find it or did find it but couldn't remove it
>WoW account got stolen by chinese gold farmers

Ended up having to completely wipe my hard drive in the end. Lost so many memes... so much porn...

Had I been as computer literate as I am now back then, I might have been able to take care of it, but I was a dumb teenager with boomer parents.

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>download from gog-games
>get no viruses
its easier than buying actual games whats wrong with you?

Never paid for a game since my 16y i'm 32 now AMA

too bad gog's library is kinda shit

Same, I only pirate ROMs and games from GOG

ROMs don't give you viruses. You probably downloaded a shitty emulator from a shady site rather than from the emulator's project page like you're supposed to. Entirely your fault and you deserved it. It takes like 2 minutes tops to google a program and make sure you're downloading it from the correct place, that's just basic fucking internet 101 due diligance shit my dude.

lmao stfu

I grew up in an era where literally visiting a website could automatically infect your computer with a virus and I'd just reformat everything and start over (never really tried to use antiviruses, and I don't know if they could be trusted to completely eliminate a virus). Nowadays I pirate games all the time, even if it's an exe from a sketchy website that uses rapidshare and the links all spawn tons of popups. Either I've caught no viruses at all or my computer is filled with very subtle cryptominers. In general the modern Internet seems to be a lot safer than it used to be. I guess because there's been enough time to patch obvious security issues, combined with the fact that most of the Internet has consolidated into a few sites that put some effort into making sure they're sanitary since giving consumers viruses isn't good for business. Plus there's adblockers and NoScript now. I don't think viruses are that big of an issue anymore, and even if you catch one, it's not a big deal. Just reformat and restore data from backup.

Here's some fun games I enjoyed from GOG
One Step from Eden
Ys Monstrum Nox
Cold Steel iv
Terraria
Have fun user~

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But the sketchy ad pages you have to go through before you get to the countdown timer to get to the zip file download link

Not true, I got a virus from Earthbound.exe

An Earthbound virus jumped out of my PC and killed my dog

still your fault. adblockers exist.

KEK

I've seen this happen. Our family computer had a virus and the dog was chewing on the power cable. At some point the infection must have spread because there was this loud popping sound and the dog never woke back up

i do this, what's going to happ

If this is the pirate thread then can some pirate chad confirm if Fitgirl stuff actually has a miner embedded? It's the latest hot rumor and while it might be fake I don't wanna chance it.