Its the best way. Its cheaper, you have plenty of user reviews to check first, and you get a completed game, without bugs.

AAA games are just too expensive and many are just not finished at release now. I’m not forking out top dollar for a half finished game. Outer Worlds 2 is still $89.99 CAD. That is absolutely insane in my opinion. I enjoyed the first one, but I also bought it on sale. Indy games nowadays are generally a better bang for your buck anyways and theyre only $30-40 regular price and they are also generally at a finished state or at the very least very honest about the state they are in.

I’ll probably pick the game up in 2 years when its $20 on Steam or something.

Or not a teenager worried and stressed out about how and when to talk to their parents or something.

From my understanding nobody knows. The DOJ said it was already removed, but the NYTimes claimed they found 40 images of CSAM. The DOJ said they immediately removed them Saturday, but a lot of files that didn’t contain CSAM were also removed. I’ve extracted the 101GB torrent and haven’t come accross any yet, but there’s a ton of files in there too. People have yet been able to download the entire ZIP and are trying to scrape everything individually as far as I know.

As for the legality, I’m not a Lawyer and I don’t live in the states, but It’s all information that’s been released to the public by the US DOJ as required by a court order, so it’s a call that only you can make. With the amount of data that’s already disapeared I’m personally choosing to host it regardless, and I’ll seed whatever anyone else can salvage of dataset 9 too.

I’m downloading 8-11 now, I’m seeding 1-7+12 now. I’ve tried checking up on reddit, but every other time i check in the post is nuked or something. My home server never goes down and I’m outside USA. I’m working on the 100GB+ #9 right now and I’ll seed whatever you can get up here too.

Its been 8-10 months I think. I haven’t had any major problems that weren’t caused or complicated by my own ignorance of Linux as a whole. I’ve learned a lot. I have gotten every game I wanted to play so far to run, one way or another. I set up my own home lab server for streaming and cloud storage complete with a VPN to allow remote access. I have also set up a Windows VM for some stubborn software that my partner uses from time to time (I honestly thought this would be harder than it was.) I also am in the process of indoctrinating several coworkers. I’m currently running 1 PC with Bazzite, 1 with fedora KDE, 2 with Mint, and a server running Ubuntu server and using casaOS as an interface.

I’ve really enjoyed the learning curve. My future plans were to change my server from CasaOS to something else, and to build a new gaming PC and try CachyOS, but that might get put to the side while hardware prices cool off a bit.

Same. Haven’t had any problems.