“Your sound card works perfectly”

Whiterun guard would like to know your location

BGM Type:

☐ Arrangement

☑ Original

Rust monster came by after they died

Biblically-accurate paperclip

You expect too much of me. I’m just a talking dog who likes drugs.

I haven’t played SC, and i haven’t played Eve in a while, but here is some readily available information:

1. Eve has been in release state for 20 years.
2. Eve has an ancient dedicated player base that probably knows the game better than the devs.
3. Most old players place a priority on helping new players and keeping the game healthy.
4. You can’t walk around outside your ship.

Printing press? Fuck off, reading is for squires

Ponyo

Lacuna Matata

I’m an archipelago enjoyer myself.

2020 in a nutshell

Time to cue the Fleetwood Mac

I just think they’re neat

Here’s the thing. If there’s a 1% chance that the task will no longer be necessary by the time it’s due, I can’t afford to risk wasting the time to complete the task. Much better idea to spend that time in stress-paralysis until there is a 100% certainty of the task being necessary.

Being ambidextrous is helpful if you break one arm. But if you break both arms you will have to ask your mom to help out.

Measles, that old-timey disease we didn’t really think about as kids because of vaccinations. Welp, that’s coming back. Thanks to fucking idiots.

It’s mind-blowing how bad they fucked up Overwatch. All they had to do was keep the OW1 servers and progression for PvP, and sell PvE expansion packs. Expand the lore through PvE expansion packs and offer exclusive cosmetics that people can show off in PvP, but don’t stop releasing cosmetics that can be obtained through PvP gameplay.

Add on a battle pass for more exclusive cosmetics (NOT FUCKING HEROES), and bam you’ve got a stew going.

That would bring in more than enough revenue to keep the servers running and making a tidy profit for years, like TF2.

Is it predatory, though? Or are people just upset because they fell for pre-order hype, despite it being 2024 and they should know better.

Let’s not muddy the waters by comparing it to gambling. Pay-to-win (or pay-for-convenience, which, in my opinion, is the same as pay-to-win) is not gambling. It’s just shit. You’re not paying for a randomized chance at a reward. You know exactly what you’re getting.

I don’t have first-hand knowledge of the game, but from what I have seen, there are no predatory IU elements to lure vulnerable kids into stealing their mom’s credit card.

Don’t get me wrong. I think the MTX is shit. I was mildly interested in the game, but now I won’t consider it even on 75% Steam sale. Capcom won’t be getting my money, that’s my choice.

We don’t need the government involved in regulating shitty entertainment. It’s not water or electricity or healthcare. You can just not buy the thing. If you start calling for regulation of everything you don’t like, that’s how you get geriatric politicians who never played a game in their life and still call it “the Nintendo” deciding what you can and can’t have in your game.

If enough people are buying it, they’ll keep doing it whether you like it or not. So why waste your energy getting mad about it?

You already lost the fight when you start talking about “bad behavior” and “blame.” Just accept the fact that you’re not the target audience for shitty modern AAA games, and move on.

It’s OK. I’m not the target audience either. I’m not the target audience for Taylor Swift concerts, either. Does that make it “bad behavior” if I don’t like her ticket prices?

Stop getting mad about companies making money. That’s literally their purpose. There are plenty of other products out there to buy.