Hello Pirates.

Let me tell you a tale of a bounty I am proud of partaking. I have installed Risk of Rain Returns on a fresh Arch Linux distro, Wayland (i also needed XWayland) , KDE plasma 6, and GPU-accelerated.

Moreover, I have used another laptop i have at my disposal to become a 24/7 i2p router, which is able to capture the warez that were necessary to perform this bounty. This bounty can be obtained without the use of a vpn, since the game can be downloaded from the i2p postman site.

Because it was an exe file, I had to take certain steps to allow it to execute on my system. I installed lutris, as well as the arch linux dependencies that it required, and launched the installation executable through lutris

This journey was not without its challenges and setbacks. One such challenge I had to face to secure this bounty was to install the xorg-xwayland-explicit-sync patch. The nvidia drivers 550 is weird when playing games through XWayland, because it would render frames out of order. Applying this patch, as well as using envycontrol to switch to nvidia mode (i am on a dual-gpu laptop) worked in fixing this issue

overall, I am happy with this bounty. I actually feel morally regretful when pirating games, more so than pirating movies, because of just how much sweat and tears developers had to put in to making it happen. But I am broke, and I have bought Risk of Rain and its DLC in the past, so in the moral calculus of piracy I think I’ve balanced it out. I am quite broke right now, however, so games are outside of my price point and I’d rather have something to eat.

I love i2p. There’s so many cool warez in there, and I believe it’s the future of piracy. It allows us to decouple ourselves from VPN providers, because who knows how long until they turn against us.

  • @Sharp312
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    32 months ago

    Thats cool but how long did it take to download the game? It mustve taken hours right? What were your router settings, 1 hop for speed or 3 for anonymity?

    • @aldalire@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      62 months ago

      A couple of hours, it was only like 470 MB. Although I put in the torrent at night and let my dedicated router do its thing and it’s ready for me during the day. Theoretically you can get away with 1 hop but i don’t really care about speed; the torrent will complete sooner or later. For regular browsing of i2p 3 hops is recommended though. If i’m not paying for it i don’t complain about waiting tbh xD