banteg (@banteg): i find it fascinating how many people are driven by resentment rather than love.

i find it fascinating how many people are driven by resentment rather than love. they raise their flags against corporations, but their entire imagination is of a corposlave. they hate sony, jailbreak the ps5, only to build a pirate store for the exact same games sony has carefully chosen for them to consume. they've rejected the transaction, but accepted everything else. the loudest anti-corporate rebels are the most devoted corporate consumers. meanwhile, someone makes original ps2 discs work on a ps5. someone ports an obscure forgotten game to the browser. someone spends years decompiling a game nobody remembers, just because they love it and think it deserves to live. these people might not even hate sony. they're simply curious. they see a locked-down machine and imagine all the wonderful things it could do, rather than all the free stuff they could get out of it. and their work is far more subversive. it expands what is possible instead of merely finding a cheaper way to consume what already exists. i think that's the fundamental difference between creating out of resentment and creating out of love. resentment lets your enemy define your goals. love gives you goals of your own.