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darkknight109 posted...

-Everything to do with microtransactions, loot boxes, paid DLC, season passes, and basically all the money-grubbing dirty tactics that has turned gaming into absolute shit in the last 5-10 years. I honestly can't remember the last time I played a new, triple-A title, because of all the bullshit that modern gaming tosses in fistfulls at you that prevent you from actually enjoying the game. It has to have been almost a decade now - last one honestly might have been Skyrim. Since then, I'm basically exclusively into retro gaming and indie titles, because at least those games usually don't have their heads planted firmly in their own asses.

People have been saying this for like ten years and it's still a flat out lie ten years later.

Do those monetization practices exist? Yes. Is it happening to every AAA game? Not even remotely. The biggest offenders are the annual franchise games and it's not exactly like those were ever not money grubbing

If you ever think you overthink things (I know I do) just read one of this guy's posts

You should probably get diagnosed by a mental health professional if you are being sincere because this is not normal

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Also I'm 31 which means I've been coming here for over half my life. Yikes. Lots of good/weird memories though. Now I guess I just come here to see which faces recognize, but tbh I don't think much memorable stuff has really happened in at least five years. It's probably a good thing because everyone is more mature, but I miss some of that chaotic vibe tbh. Like the last super crazy thing I remember is the aunt butt guy

Okay bro, it's been like ten years. I think it's time to come clean. This is a gimmick account, right? Like, nobody actually speaks this way

I would be at 16 years if I still had my original account. God I'm so fucking cool

Secret of Mana is sad solely for the fact that the soundtrack is way better than the game. I heard some of the soundtrack before I had even played it so I thought it was gonna be like a legendary 10/10 game. I know it does have its fans, but it's pretty weak among the top SNES RPGs

Very good game by far

Serious_Cat posted...

Is it not just a USB connection?

He's talking about a wireless controller. They have USB cables, but they're only designed to be used with the console. It's confusing, because the cable actually only provides power to the controller, but it's still connected over BT

I'm pretty sure you can't do it wired unless it's some special adapter I haven't heard of. I do know for sure that you can't use the play and charge kit wire for a PC like you can with the console

I'm so sick of the looting + crafting that plagues a lot of open world games now. It's all bloat, I'd rather just find arrows than craft them. It's a little better when you craft meaningful stuff, but I'd also rather that just be a reward for completing a special puzzle or dungeon. That shit sucks when you have to get an unusual item to craft it and then most of the time even when you find the right enemy it's a low drop rate anyway

Imagine if the democrats actually had a unified vision and rallied around stuff like single payer healthcare and making marijuana legal

Instead their big midterm promise is to solidify rights that were rolled back that they had ample opportunity to solidify in the past

Solar_Crimson posted...

I don't see the purpose of that. A docked Switch works just fine as a console. The Switch Lite at least is smaller and more made to be carried around; I don't see what benefit a console-only Switch would have.

Yeah the docked only one would have to be like $150 to even bother with imo. Or have better graphics but I don't think people want the higher fidelity going to the "inferior" version. It's unclear who the market would be for such a thing, but the lite has a more tangible audience

Will_VIIII posted...

I'm also surprised we never saw a standalone switch console sold, to contrast the switch lite.

Like, a hardware box that you only plug into the TV? I'm not surprised we didn't see that cause it's a totally different design paradigm.

They should probably do another one unless they want to try catching up to MS and Sony in terms of computing power. But it would be kinda weird to do that now after years of being behind and finally landing on something that justifies not being as powerful.

I kinda hope the next iteration uses a dock that somehow adds power to it, though I don't know if such a hardware exists anywhere. Does the steam deck do it? Idk much about it. IIRC, the switch currently "unlocks" in docked mode by being able to consume more power but the dock itself doesn't actually affect anything. I feel like anything less than 1080p60 for the next iteration docked would be disappointing, that's already kinda out of date. 4K would be cool but I dunno if that's possible

I don't know if it counts as a "story" but my childhood best friend is now a huge maga bigot. And I'm not even saying that like a "willing to look past the prejudice" republican, this is a guy who like regularly acts as though trans people are ruining his life. Plus every other form of bigotry you can think of, racism, xenophobia, etc

I used to be insecure about my job because it wasn't really in my "field" but since finally moving on to new jobs, I think that's mostly gone. I never ended up in the right field but I'm so far removed from college now that it kinda doesn't matter. I've had to learn to stop trying to find happiness from work and just be content that I'm getting solid pay for relatively easy work.

I used to regret taking the job I got out of college, and while I definitely wouldn't take it if I had a do over, what I really regret more about it now is letting that insecurity affect me. I definitely became more withdrawn because of my job shame which in turn has had me drift apart from relationships that I don't know how to repair now.

I listen to music but definitely feel like I'm not remotely "with it" enough to talk about with someone who is passionate about it. Also have barely been to any concerts so I don't know much about that whole scene even though it seems like it would be fun to go to more.

Also not having had a lot of partners. I guess it can change any time but these are key social milestones that I haven't "leveled up" and now it seems overwhelming

Gotham Knights is getting pretty panned I think, it's not a good example. It does seem like this kind of thing is more common, but that could just be because game discussion is so omnipresent now. One thing that's definitely real and doesn't help though is that developers have gotten way too liberal about using patches to fix clearly unready games instead of just obscure or minor bugs.

Gaming in general is fine imo. Every time one of these topics come up people talk about practices from shitty games like CoD and Ass Creed and act like that's the entire industry (those games do sell a ton tho)

Their website is terrible, it's one of those ones where content from the article is often barely discernible from ads on a quick glance, and like half the site is ads

emblem-man posted...

Psilocybin?
Again? That was on the ballot when I was in Colorado years ago and I swear I thought it passed

I think that was just in Denver, and just decriminalizing simple possession

The one now is statewide, and is not just decriminalization, but establishing controlled therapy environments for consumption

Judgmenl posted...

I don't really think people miss duckbear, they just want the board more active but they're not willing to actually make threads.

Yeah this makes some sense, if nothing else he was prolific/consistent.

LinkPizza posted...

That said, I did like a bunch of his topics not too long ago that were just asking us random things. Like which character out of the 10 wasnt Capcom and the stuff like that. It was kind of fun

Huh, I don't remember these at all, but that does sound much more tolerable than the tabloid stuff

Who has been saying that they "hate" him? People here are making a bunch of valid critiques and it's the defenders who are concluding that this is "hating"

What is it that people even miss about him? I guess some of his quirks were amusing but I always felt like we were laughing at him, not with him. He like barely interacted directly with anyone either, I have no idea what his personality is outside of an apparent love of sensationalism

I'm chewy. Look, some of us think ducky is just an annoying weird guy. Why can't we agree to disagree on it

You're jumping to a lot of conclusions if you think I'm saying duckbear is a worse person than open racists and transphobes. But people generally don't talk about how they miss people's racism like they make topics every month praising a guy who was unquestionably a troll

Watch for the right to start saying that throwing a beer in a very public event with cops everywhere is EXACTLY the same as making a coordinated break in to a private home and attacking an old man with a hammer

I don't think I've ever brought up duckbear outside of topics where people talk about how much they "miss" him

How was he "inoffensive" when he was constantly posting a bunch of sensationalist race baiting stuff and asking if pedophile teachers are hot

EvilMegas posted...

The fact the people hated him more than the actual racists or sexists or just general shitheads that posted here over the years just for being "TMZ lite" has always irked me.

I never got the fixation.

I don't think anyone thinks this except the actual racists, etc. themselves

It's more like he was such a robotic troll baiting weirdo that why even say anything positive about him at all? At least even the worst of everyone else would sometimes try to interact like a normal human being

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Yep, this Godbe guy is a perfect example. Too many Americans see crime as this black and white, good (cops) vs evil (criminals) thing. Nobody ever stops to think about root causes or alternatives, or whether the consequences of certain crimes even matter or if the punishment matches appropriately

It's not a major issue to you, but you seem content to throw more money away on cops for it without looking into any alternatives. Again I'll say this is why America sucks ass

I think you mean doggy dog world, but not surprised. People who get idioms wrong are a diamond dozen

Godbe-Bryant posted...

I dont know the intrinsics of it. Just annoying seeing it happen.

This kind of attitude is what's killing America. "Well I don't actually know why it's wrong, I just feel like it is!"

People just get told by corporate media what to be mad about and then never dig further or apply critical thinking

I think you should just comment "this meme sucks" one time or something. They'll probably keep doing it but I think people like that need to be checked once in a while. Honestly it's not even about making fun of them for being unfunny, but constant meme sharing is bad compulsive behavior imo

Weren't a lot of the 9/11 truthers always right wing? I can't really explain why but I think it might have something to do with the unpopularity of all the middle east conflicts. Then again, invading Iraq was at least initially quite popular with republicans, but of course 9/11 truthers are a small outlier.

I guarantee that a lot of those Trumpers who hate Bush now were totally on board with everything at the time, even though they probably wouldn't admit it. They're shameless and don't learn their lesson. A lot, but not all - and definitely more than ex-lefties who switched

Man, I hate cringe memes. They've given us a huge surge in unfunny people who think they're funny. Once upon a time people would have to at least attempt to make a joke, and that would probably be enough to hold them back pretty often, but now they just repost some shit from a fellow smoothbrain

I disagree that games have gotten bad and especially disagree that it's hard to find a good one, you have tons of resources at your disposal to find out about good games. Honestly whenever people say that I feel like it's just coping with the fact they play less. I mean it sounds like you're conflicted about how much one should play.

I will say that I think the "AA" tier of game, if you will, has largely disappeared. Something that's like a Mega Man X or 2D Castlevania or a non-FF JRPG. Now indie games sort of occupy that space, but not entirely. Thanks to indies we get types of games we wouldn't have really seen 15 years ago, but some types have also been lost.

I still game multiple times every week, but I do think my interest level has changed. I used to play probably every day but I try to fill some of the days between now with other hobbies. I also can't remember the last time I played a game nearly all day (I think it was BotW and Mario Odyssey), even like a three hour session is really long to me now. I think I'm just at a point where I've played too many games that are in my wheelhouse, it's rare something really blows me away enough to get addicted to it.

Nicht probably doesn't do this shit on purpose, but yeah... you'd think that at some point in fifteen years, most people would pick up on the idea that maybe you should stop confidently speaking on things you have little knowledge and no personal experience with

And then there you go again making some kind of thinly veiled value judgment on America because you were told you were wrong

Nichtcrawler-X posted...

There are still privacy laws in place. If a winner wants anonymity, they will have reasonable anonymity.

Why do you always say incorrect stuff matter of factly like this

You don't live in America and you don't know the laws in America where most of us live

Lots of states make the winner public, whether they want to or not. I'd rather win a lesser prize though I think even the second prize is only like a million. A mil is nothing to sneeze at, but I wouldn't be able to retire off that

Cops for sure, they're portrayed like a complete opposite of reality

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If someone said porn was a "hobby" I'd be concerned

3D printing

This topic really needed to be bumped

Never understood why people thought he was interesting. I mean he is "interesting" but in the way that you're looking at a total weirdo

I will say though that I think there is some truth to the idea that they just assume everyone else is as corrupt/immoral as they are... I mean, I think the ideology kind of falls apart otherwise. Which is not to say everyone on "the left" is a moral paragon, but on average...

The reason they act concerned about it is to prime people for when they steal elections. The fact they are doing it themselves is just further proof that they're full of shit, but I think they'd be screaming about it either way. Same thing with all their pedophilia/grooming BS