I'm not good with tech. People discussing coding and pirating and modding goes right over my head. I'm bringing this up because it's something that always annoys me. People act like piracy is so easy. It's not! It's not! I can't do it beyond the simple part of finding a website. But even after that, can I cast the pirated shows to my tv? No! Fuck no! Me and my dad basically have to rely on streaming services, because there's nothing else that really works for us. Nothing! It's frustrating.
I took a coding class for online schooling. The teacher was wonderful, but then I just felt like a bigger piece of shit for not being able to follow along with his lessons. Technology is not my thing, and yet I feel like everybody expects me to be a fucking expert! It's horrible. Absolutely horrible. I just wish that people could do it and teach how to do it without losing me in the math and science and tech of it all. It's awful. Abysmal.
This is getting brought up because my copy of Fire Emblem Echoes has died. It's just dead now, and that kills me. Apparently the cartridge is broken or something, and it just won't work. It's depressing, and I'm already depressed enough as is. Seeing thing like promotion of piracy over streaming, or mods for Fire Emblem games or even other video games...I don't know how I could make that work. I want to play my fire emblem games actually on my 3DS or 2DS, but I don't know how to add mods to a console. That's like gibberish to me. And piracy of media? Forget it. Unless it's on YouTube, I can't share it with my dad by casting it to the TV. It's so dispiriting.
In short: I support piracy, but I despise how everything and everyone seems to just expect me to know how to do it. It makes me feel like an idiot, and posts shaming people for having streaming services clearly don't understand my position. It's just judgmental moralizing from the position of someone who understands tech probably thinking I'm an idiot because I don't. sigh...
