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Topic | wtf with that ZannoL topic |
MrMallard 04/29/21 9:52:21 PM #17 | SolidShadow3 posted... I was enjoying the stupidity, but all that stupidity made me really interested in the actual topic at hand."So there I was, barbeque sauce on my titties..." --- It's like one of those Chinese kites flying in the wind, and then some kid with a shotgun sends a bullet through it Now Playing: Minecraft |
Topic | Finally watched Toy Story 4, my thoughts *warning long read* |
MrMallard 04/29/21 9:51:22 PM #2 | I feel personally attacked, lmao That's a reasonable opinion to have. --- It's like one of those Chinese kites flying in the wind, and then some kid with a shotgun sends a bullet through it Now Playing: Minecraft |
Topic | Too much negativity on CE, and yet its still here. |
MrMallard 04/29/21 9:47:51 PM #9 | I made a comment about a King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard song named Intrasport, and someone told me it was the worst song they'd ever heard in their life. It was probably the most overt criticism I've ever directly heard from someone, and I spent a bit of time evaluating whether I liked the song or the style. Which is silly, of course, but after getting an outsider opinion on what happened, it made me re-evaluate CE's tone. Like, when Lindsey Ellis was cancelled recently, she put out a video laying out all the claims people used against her. It was an hour and forty minutes long, so there were people who justifiably didn't want to watch the whole thing. But there were people who were invested in something she did called the Rape Rap, and in the video she mentions the full context of it - that as someone who had been raped and who hadn't opened up to anyone about it, the skit was a cathartic and amusing thing that helped her cope with the reality of what she had been through. She also realised that it should never see the light of day, and it was then uploaded against her will 2 or so years after she made it because she didn't know that it had been automatically uploaded to the TGWTG server without her knowledge. So upon explaining the series of events as relayed in the video, the response became "so she's not taking responsibility for it, then." I occasionally share some of my favorite things on here, and I make some unexpected but appreciated connections with some users over some of that stuff. But I don't come to CE for good judgement, and I try not to let CE's opinion soak into my own perception. I mean Christ, there are people here who legitimately thought that Rotten Tomatoes was fixing superhero movie scores in favour of Marvel because BvS justifiably got a dogshit score, and at one point might have been calling for a Gamergate-type movement against the site. Why should I let some asswipe from a collective where that sort of horseshit happens throw my musical opinions into disarray? I might as well jump into an open sewer and start eating shit if my judgement's going to be that bad. --- It's like one of those Chinese kites flying in the wind, and then some kid with a shotgun sends a bullet through it Now Playing: Minecraft |
Topic | Is FF7's 'character dies' the biggest plot twist in gaming? (Spoilers) |
MrMallard 04/29/21 8:33:29 PM #77 | I think Doki Doki Literature Club had a bigger plot twist. In a post-FF7 world where postmodernism is as large of an aspect of video games as it is, stuff like that is inevitably going to be dwarfed by what comes after. --- It's like one of those Chinese kites flying in the wind, and then some kid with a shotgun sends a bullet through it Now Playing: Minecraft |
Topic | Take a look. Trump may be making a return |
MrMallard 04/29/21 8:28:52 PM #90 | RiKuToTheMiGhtY posted... Trump is not going to win again, he had his chance and lost, stop pretending he is going to have a better/bigger chance in 2024.I'd love to agree with you, but we need to face the facts and prepare for the worst case scenario. Nobody took Trump seriously until it was too late, and he won the 2016 election. He still has an impassioned audience, shit like qanon is still alive and he spoke at this year's GOP conference with a golden fucking statue of himself to rapturous applause. He didn't even get stripped of his presidential privileges when he got impeached the second time, for inciting a fucking insurrection attempt. He has influence, and he has the means of getting back into power - we need to prepare for the possibility of that happening. Trump won once, and he can win again. He's already sowing the seeds for his political return. He has an audience who is willing to storm government buildings to get what they want, and some of them are so desperate to have him back that they make up conspiracy theories about Joe Biden stepping down in secret and giving control of the country back to Trump. That base exists, and it got him into power the first time. It can very well get him into power a second time. All that you accomplish by denying that and saying he doesn't have a chance in hell is that you create a docile environment where placated people who think they're smarter than they are turn up their noses at the problem at hand, and then act like a headless chicken when it comes back around to kick them in the ass. That's 2016 in a nutshell, where everyone was so convinced that a joke like Trump could never become president, and then he was. You're entitled to your opinion, but I don't think anything good can come out of saying "Trump's finished, he's not coming back, we should stop worrying about it and just relax". Trump is running again in 2024, he has a base of psychos and conspiracy theorists that hasn't fractured apart, and failing to recognise that opens us up to the possibility of another dark horse victory. --- It's like one of those Chinese kites flying in the wind, and then some kid with a shotgun sends a bullet through it Now Playing: Minecraft |
Topic | Tall duck |
MrMallard 04/29/21 4:15:23 PM #17 | lol, thanks for the tag. --- It's like one of those Chinese kites flying in the wind, and then some kid with a shotgun sends a bullet through it Now Playing: Minecraft |
Topic | Marjorie Taylor Greene: School is indoctrination, not education. |
MrMallard 04/29/21 8:27:26 AM #10 | Solar_Crimson posted... Because qanon supporters are fucking morons. --- It's like one of those Chinese kites flying in the wind, and then some kid with a shotgun sends a bullet through it Now Playing: Minecraft |
Topic | Arizona governor signs bill banning abortion for genetic reasons |
MrMallard 04/29/21 7:55:27 AM #15 | Imagine banning abortion based on the grounds of genetic rape. "If we can abortion based on genetic defectsz think if all the people we'd be killing for the crime of being differently abled!" Yeah but imagine how many babies would be aborted because a brother raped a sister and created a genetic abomination that had little to no chance of a good life. Fuck off. --- It's like one of those Chinese kites flying in the wind, and then some kid with a shotgun sends a bullet through it Now Playing: Minecraft |
Topic | Create a save point for yourself or rewind time up to 24 hours. |
MrMallard 04/29/21 7:52:50 AM #6 | 24 hours. I've made mistakes. --- It's like one of those Chinese kites flying in the wind, and then some kid with a shotgun sends a bullet through it Now Playing: Minecraft |
Topic | Why does this board hate me so damned much? What's the problem? |
MrMallard 04/29/21 7:31:43 AM #32 | You're a creep. You're a weirdo. What the hell are you doing here? You don't belong here. --- It's like one of those Chinese kites flying in the wind, and then some kid with a shotgun sends a bullet through it Now Playing: Minecraft |
Topic | I'm drinking in my kitchen. AMA |
MrMallard 04/29/21 7:25:21 AM #6 | I've had some support through other avenues, but I'm gonna bump this thread one more time. --- It's like one of those Chinese kites flying in the wind, and then some kid with a shotgun sends a bullet through it Now Playing: Minecraft |
Topic | I'm drinking in my kitchen. AMA |
MrMallard 04/29/21 6:37:12 AM #5 | BloodMoon7 posted... Why does it hurt? Why... Curse... Curse upon this earth.Hi. Thanks for posting. Veggeta X posted... The next time you wanna drink you should just DM me and we can play games together instead.I appreciate it, but the only interaction I have with GameFAQs folks outside of GameFAQS are the discord channels I'm already in, and I'm kind of content with the amount of contact I have. I appreciate the offer though - thank you. Kobe Bryant posted... Finishing my scotch whiskey atmMy man. More of a gin dude, personally, but I hope you enjoy the scotch. --- It's like one of those Chinese kites flying in the wind, and then some kid with a shotgun sends a bullet through it Now Playing: Minecraft |
Topic | What's your favorite love song, CE? |
MrMallard 04/29/21 6:32:27 AM #10 | I can list a few favorites. I can't pick just one. My latest favorite is Somebody Loved by The Weepies. Basic melody, basic lyrics, but it gets across exactly what it needs to. https://youtu.be/2WkqKC4wv78 My favorite classic is Romeo and Juliet by Dire Straits. It's more of a breakup song, but I can't resist the gentle fingerpicked melody and lines like "Juliet said 'oh, it's Romeo!/You nearly gave me a heart attack!'" and "Juliet/when we made love, you used to cry/you said 'I love you like the stars above, I'll love you till I die'". It's a very sharp, witty song in places, and I love the "If you can fall for chains of silver, then you can fall for chains of gold" verse. https://youtu.be/rC95MEenIxA When I was yearning over my last crush, I developed a pretty unhealthy reliance on a handful of songs that fed that yearning sort of feeling in me. That crush didn't go so well, and I've been nosediving on and off partially because I haven't been able to process my own feelings on the matter. Sara Bareilles' "1000 Times" is still a good song in relation to that yearning feeling though - like of course, you've gotta realise no-one is going to want you to approach them more than a handful of times - or more than once - about your feelings for them. But for someone in that yearning phase, 1000 Times really captures that feeling of a one-sided affection. https://youtu.be/Gs7C7Bbb9Lo --- It's like one of those Chinese kites flying in the wind, and then some kid with a shotgun sends a bullet through it Now Playing: Minecraft |
Topic | Your reaction: Your teenage son is dating Soulja Boy |
MrMallard 04/29/21 6:19:44 AM #5 | I'd tell him to be a good influence and tell his boyfriend to stop selling cheap emulation machines at a premium on his website. --- It's like one of those Chinese kites flying in the wind, and then some kid with a shotgun sends a bullet through it Now Playing: Minecraft |
Topic | I'm drinking in my kitchen. AMA |
MrMallard 04/29/21 6:18:21 AM #1 | I was sober for three and a half months, then I went to the pub. It was the right call, my other options were enduring the unendurable and lashing out at my friends. I was planning to go to the pub every second weekend and have a social drink, but I got sick and ended up staying sober again for nearly a month. But the same mental issues - and lack of healthy coping methods - that led to me drinking the first time? They came back with a vengeance. I decided I would only drink alcohol in a social setting, but I'm drinking the last of my gin at the kitchen table and I have a four pack of cider to wash it down with. Ask me anything. --- It's like one of those Chinese kites flying in the wind, and then some kid with a shotgun sends a bullet through it Now Playing: Minecraft |
Topic | Shows with interracial best friends were race doesn't/barely come up. |
MrMallard 04/29/21 5:55:41 AM #10 | Storm Hawks --- It's like one of those Chinese kites flying in the wind, and then some kid with a shotgun sends a bullet through it Now Playing: Minecraft |
Topic | April.28.1967 Muhammad Ali was stripped of title for refusing to serve in Vietna |
MrMallard 04/29/21 3:33:54 AM #7 | RemixRBG posted... Since then we have never had a mandatory draft despite the wars we've had since in US History.Good man. --- It's like one of those Chinese kites flying in the wind, and then some kid with a shotgun sends a bullet through it Now Playing: Minecraft |
Topic | Take a look. Trump may be making a return |
MrMallard 04/28/21 9:55:41 PM #14 | Damn_Underscore posted... Trump would just hurt the Republicans' chances at winning if he ran againThe GOP national convention wheeled out a golden Trump statue and had him as a keynote speaker. He is the Republican party at this point. --- It's like one of those Chinese kites flying in the wind, and then some kid with a shotgun sends a bullet through it Now Playing: Minecraft |
Topic | Reminder: People are STILL falling into the Q cult |
MrMallard 04/28/21 9:53:12 PM #17 | WrkHrdPlayHrdr posted... Ever ask one of them where you should be looking for your research? The answer is always some form of "it's out there, you just have to look" when what they really mean is Youtube.Or stormfront --- It's like one of those Chinese kites flying in the wind, and then some kid with a shotgun sends a bullet through it Now Playing: Minecraft |
Topic | Clown covers Nick Cave song |
MrMallard 04/28/21 6:26:06 AM #12 | GhettoFlip posted... dude he sucks and really dumb lookingI went through his covers last night, I was on Secondhand Songs and it has a list of every cover he's ever done. Even when I only picked out the ones I thought I'd like, I listened to a lot more misses than hits. This cover is a good cover. He's got the voice for it, and the poses and movements he does as he sings genuinely add to the melancholy mood of the song. I'm not here to be like "hey leave the clown alone he's great", though I don't begrudge the other users who are doing so. I'm here to point out how good of a cover this is, whether you like the gimmick or not. And like I said - while I very much enjoy the gimmick in theory, it didn't do a whole lot to endear me to his other covers. This one, hands down, is my favorite Puddles Pity Party song, and if you ask me it's a legitimately good cover of the original song. --- It's like one of those Chinese kites flying in the wind, and then some kid with a shotgun sends a bullet through it Now Playing: Minecraft |
Topic | Clown covers Nick Cave song |
MrMallard 04/28/21 3:33:44 AM #3 | This video unironically makes me appreciate the physical performance of an artist just a little bit more than I did before. --- It's like one of those Chinese kites flying in the wind, and then some kid with a shotgun sends a bullet through it Now Playing: Minecraft |
Topic | Texas Senate approves bill that declares minor Trans Healthcare, child abuse |
MrMallard 04/27/21 11:31:16 PM #28 | Medussa posted... i. knew. i. was. trans. at. 4.Oh shit, I didn't know you were trans! I don't really know what else to say that wouldn't potentially come off as dumb and weird, and I kinda used your post to springboard into another bunch of points about healthcare. Sorry, lol. But yeah - I think people come to terms with some heavy emotional stuff at younger ages than we give them credit for. I was bullied throughout all of school, and I think I came to terms with the fact that I wasn't liked and that I had no self-worth at like age 10. I figured out the connection between depression as a word and as a feeling when I was 11 or 12. I started thinking about gender and sexuality when I was 14. Some people just know right out of the gate though, and when they go through an unconventional life experience - whether that experience is innate to their body like being transgender or being disabled (which I'm saying separately, not as a correlation), or whether that experience is forced upon them by outside sources like bullying, racism or sexual harassment - they come to terms with the effect it has on them and how it affects them socially, and they understand the degree of care that they need to live stable, fulfilling lives. If you try to make that care harder for them to obtain, or if you obfuscate the options that they can choose from, you're denying someone a degree of personhood. And the fact is that you, as an outside influence with little to no insight into the condition and no stake in the care they receive outside of ideological opposition, can't justify witholding care from someone on the grounds that you don't understand what they're going through, or that you don't think their condition is legitimate. Some people know that they're not straight or not cisgender from the moment they can perceive themselves as a person. Other people come to terms with it over time. To deny them therapy and reversible medical care that's as simple as not taking a pill any more, because you don't understand how they feel, is awful. Especially when they have a better idea of what they're going through than you do, and the care that's being denied to them is a non-intrusive way of confirming their condition with a medical professional and allowing them to transition as an adult. --- Now Playing: Ni No Kuni, Hyrule Warriors, Stardew Valley http://error1355.com/ce/MrMallard.html |
Topic | Texas Senate approves bill that declares minor Trans Healthcare, child abuse |
MrMallard 04/27/21 11:02:10 PM #22 | Keep in mind that trans healthcare for minors is comprised of puberty blockers and therapy. The child is given space to express their stated gender in therapy, and they're evaluated by the therapist to see whether they're deserving of gender-affirming surgeries or hormones when they're 18. Puberty blockers are reversible - you stop taking them and puberty progresses as usual - and the therapy is in place to allow a potentially transgender child to have a space to come to terms with their gender identity whether they end up being transgender or not, as well as to monitor their well-being and to judge whether they display the hallmarks of transgenderism. At no point in that process is any child told "you are the opposite gender, and you should modify your body chemistry to alter your development". Trans healthcare for minors is keeping an eye on them, speaking with them and allowing them to come to terms with their gender identity - to which they may affirm that they're transgender, or come to any number of conclusions about their gender, including that they're ultimately cisgender - and letting them transition when they turn 18 after everyone in the equation is satisfied that their quality of life would be significantly hampered by being forced to live life as their assigned gender at birth. How is that abusive? Otherwise, they're like any other kid. They go to school, they make friends and they grow as people as they get older. Healthcare options for transgender children give them the room to come to terms with their gender identity, and if their gender identity is consistent, they transition as adults. Fuck all the scaremongering, there's nothing abusive about giving your child space to assert themselves, support to live healthy, happy lives, and therapy to help process what they're going through and to orient themselves. --- Now Playing: Ni No Kuni, Hyrule Warriors, Stardew Valley http://error1355.com/ce/MrMallard.html |
Topic | My fiancee broke things off with me today |
MrMallard 04/27/21 9:01:50 PM #28 | awesome999 posted... So, uh, do you like girls TC or was the topic title a typo? Cause fiancee means women, fiance is menWhy does it matter? Her fiancee left her. This topic isn't about her sexuality, it's about her partner leaving her. --- Now Playing: Ni No Kuni, Hyrule Warriors, Stardew Valley http://error1355.com/ce/MrMallard.html |
Topic | Why did Robin Williams do it? |
MrMallard 04/27/21 9:00:41 PM #18 | He suffered from terrible mental health issues, sure, but I think it's only one aspect of the story. He had been diagnosed with a degenerative brain disease, and it's believed that he killed himself because he didn't want to go through the process of forgetting who he was and becoming a burden. So he slashed his wrists and hung himself, to ensure that he wouldn't live to see a point where most of his mind was gone, he was a drain on his family and his wellbeing was taken care of by other people. --- Now Playing: Ni No Kuni, Hyrule Warriors, Stardew Valley http://error1355.com/ce/MrMallard.html |
Topic | My fiancee broke things off with me today |
MrMallard 04/27/21 8:43:53 PM #11 | Sorry to hear that, Flamey. --- Now Playing: Ni No Kuni, Hyrule Warriors, Stardew Valley http://error1355.com/ce/MrMallard.html |
Topic | She call me Lex Luthor wat do |
MrMallard 04/27/21 2:38:45 PM #4 | I don't think Lex Luthor is evil enough to fake his brother's death for attention --- Now Playing: Ni No Kuni, Hyrule Warriors, Stardew Valley http://error1355.com/ce/MrMallard.html |
Topic | How Cops "Legally" Shoot Someone |
MrMallard 04/27/21 2:29:52 PM #6 | SSJPurple posted... They should only be using deadly as an absolute last resort.They still commit crimes with the cameras on, and the police department's just refuse to release the footage. There was a dude who got fired for groping dead women in the morgue and recording it on his phone before showing it to his co-workers, and he got done for it after they caught him doing it through his bodycam. There is no excuse, and bodycams should come with the strictest code of conduct possible. But the sick, incompetent fucks who get away with murder and other crimes still get away with that shit when there's video evidence, because the department protects them by refusing to release the video evidence. --- Now Playing: Ni No Kuni, Hyrule Warriors, Stardew Valley |
Topic | Fallout 4's dialogue is only good if youre the sarcastic jerk. |
MrMallard 04/27/21 2:25:36 PM #4 | Gee lan, how come SBallen lets you have two topics? --- Now Playing: Ni No Kuni, Hyrule Warriors, Stardew Valley |
Topic | NYPD detective whacked in head with stick in broad-daylight attack |
MrMallard 04/27/21 2:05:19 PM #83 | Rapid99 posted... I've been looking for this meme for fucking ages. Thank you for posting it --- Now Playing: Ni No Kuni, Hyrule Warriors, Stardew Valley |
Topic | Cop Accidentally Shoots Self in Mouth After Mistaking Gun for Soup Spoon. |
MrMallard 04/27/21 12:11:31 PM #25 | DarthAragorn posted... Link?Just looked it up and A) they've really slowed down lately and B) it's actually associated with Hard Drive, some kind of nerd website. Regardless, if you dig down a little bit, you'll find some good ones. https://mobile.twitter.com/ViolateGeneva A few good ones I found scrolling down: https://twitter.com/ViolateGeneva/status/1362497119224033284?s=20 https://twitter.com/ViolateGeneva/status/1304153981250351109?s=20 https://twitter.com/ViolateGeneva/status/1256989774369427458?s=20 https://twitter.com/ViolateGeneva/status/1278035884730978305?s=20 --- Now Playing: Ni No Kuni, Hyrule Warriors, Stardew Valley |
Topic | First-grader in Minnesota dies of COVID-19 |
MrMallard 04/27/21 12:07:51 PM #5 | America didn't do jack shit about guns when some fuckwit massacred a preschool, I doubt any anti-masker is going to be moved to tears about a child who died of Covid. --- Now Playing: Ni No Kuni, Hyrule Warriors, Stardew Valley |
Topic | Cop Accidentally Shoots Self in Mouth After Mistaking Gun for Soup Spoon. |
MrMallard 04/27/21 12:05:30 PM #20 | TheGoldenEel posted... Hard times is only good for music satire, everything else they do is junkI like their associated Twitter account about whether you can break the Geneva Conventions in video games. --- Now Playing: Ni No Kuni, Hyrule Warriors, Stardew Valley |
Topic | Please order the book the corporate elites don't want you to read on Amazon |
MrMallard 04/27/21 11:40:08 AM #9 | God, he looks like the world's most uncomfortable snail in his profile pic --- Now Playing: Ni No Kuni, Hyrule Warriors, Stardew Valley |
Topic | Would you go to Turkey on vacation? |
MrMallard 04/27/21 8:21:41 AM #42 | I'd be too tempted to acknowledge the Armenian genocide and I'd probably get beaten up for it. It doesn't help that I think they're committing genocide against the Kurds, so I wouldn't visit on principle anyway. --- Now Playing: Ni No Kuni, Hyrule Warriors, Stardew Valley |
Topic | Why is the GameFAQs stance on console hacking so hardline? |
MrMallard 04/27/21 8:18:50 AM #4 | I think it all comes down to DMCA. If a company finds material which infringes on their copyright - i.e. an unlicensed use of one of their songs, or a promotion of illegal activity that intentionally violates the EULA they mandate for users of their devices and enables piracy which affects their bottom line, they can ask a platform like GameFAQs to take it down under threat of litigation for the users and the platform. Hosting illegal or illicit content can also affect AdSense, so if GameFAQs is caught hosting something that goes against AdSense's terms of service, this whole website can lose its entire revenue stream. TV Tropes had two major ad scares like that due to perceived NSFW content. If you want to talk about homebrew or custom firmware or hacking, you need to find a platform that does focus on that sort of thing. This website wants to focus on "legitimate" gaming - anything beyond the word "romhack" is gonna get you moderated, because there's a lot for GameFAQs to lose. --- Now Playing: Ni No Kuni, Hyrule Warriors, Stardew Valley |
Topic | When did gamers just accept mediocrity? |
MrMallard 04/27/21 7:58:29 AM #42 | First of all fuck off, Breath of the Wild was a great re-imagining of the open world genre and one of the prettiest and most optimistic post-apocalyptic stories in video games. I understand that people have problems with the game, and those issues are valid, but I disagree that it's mediocre and I adore the sparse atmosphere and the sprawling, entirely explorable world that they give you to explore. Second of all - gamers accepted mediocrity for a variety of reasons. They accepted a lack of backwards compatibility because companies went "oh no we can't make the games work :( you're just gonna have to buy the remasters and ports :( they have trophies now so you should buy them again :) buy the new ones instead of the stinky old games :)", and if gamers have any legacy to their name, it's nuthugging their favorite companies and slurping up all the diarrhea that gets served to them. It's been happening since the "Console Wars" between Nintendo and Sega at least. I've been bringing this up a lot lately, but another polarising wedge that was driven into gaming was Gamergate. You can see how bringing ideology into the gaming space affected the quality of the games people championed with Hatred - a game decried as a mass shooting simulator by the left (which, I mean, it was) and which was taken off of Steam, only for the right to rise up and argue against censorship of the game. The game wasn't that good, and it was explicitly a controversial cash grab made by a bunch of shitheads - but the way it was talked about, it was as if it was a vital and necessary and needed part of the gaming space, with its exclusion from Steam being tantamount to political censorship. So the political radicalisation that occurred within the gaming space began to dictate the sort of games that certain sides would prop up and try to take down, regardless of quality. I still maintain that games like Hatred - especially ones that get that much word of mouth - can absolutely survive being sold independently. Even in a landscape without itch.io, all you need to do is put the game files up on your website and let people access the files once they pay the fee. And you don't even need to pay a cut to Steam, which means you're making more money per sale. But that's a tangent. But overall, gamers accept mediocrity because that's what they're used to. Companies took an inch here, an inch there - then they began to overreach their boundaries for the purpose of proposing something less controversial that "fixes" the issue they were trying to introduce. They said "we can't make games more user friendly" when what they meant was "we don't want to fuck with our bottom line, which we've padded through methods that make games less fun for you to play". And because people tie their identities to the games they play and the companies that make their favorite games, we let them. It's the same reason liquor brands are introducing these new colourful characters and narratives to their brands. They tell you the infamous history of Smirnoff, how the recipe escaped Russia during the Russian Revolution and found its way to America in the 1920's - they create characters like James Squire and tell you stories about how he stole hops and barley to make beer, and he got a light sentence because he gave the judge three barrels of ale. They're personalising the brand and tying it into an identity that customers identify with. And they're using that personal investment in the brand to get people to spend more money on it, regardless of the end product. This is a conscious decision by multi-billion dollar game companies. They take functionality and content away from games, and they play on the consumer's investment in the brand to get away with it. And then when people start catching on, they'll do something ridiculous that everybody hates - and then they'll walk it back, and possibly offer a "solution" that's a half-step towards the original problematic action, but which "fixes" the most egregious aspects of what they were gonna do. And more importantly, they've planted the idea in people's heads, so when they try again later on, less people will resist it because it's been normalised. The PS3 store is a gonner. They were gonna shut it down in July, along with the PSP and PSvita stores, and gamer backlash prevented this from happening. But the store is going down in the next three years, and this first initial backlash was instrumental in normalising the idea in people's minds. The next time the news comes out that the PS3 store is gonna be shut down, there will be more people who see it as a reasonable action - it's been 20 years, the PS4 and PS5 have been out for over 10 years and nearly 5 years respectively, it's time for the PlayStation 3 to go. We're angry now, but it serves to plant the idea in our mind - hasn't the PlayStation 3 been out for a long time now? Haven't people had enough of playing PlayStation 3 games? If less people use the online infrastructure than the amount of money we use to keep the store alive, aren't we justified in shutting down the online functionality of the store? The biggest con in gaming, the method that conditions gamers to accept more and more egregious bullshit, is tied to the relationships and identity that people associate with the gaming experience. It can be how much of their identity they throw in with a company like Sony, or it can be their political identity and how it relates to people like them and the issues they champion within the gaming space. People who want to feel like they're chasing out non-gamers and people who objectively want to make their hobby worse by their own inclusion? They champion games like Hatred regardless of whether the game is good or not. People who view companies as benevolent enterprises with their best interests in mind, and sympathise with the company line as those companies add advertisements to the home screens of their new consoles and neuter backwards compatibility to sell ports and remasters of games you've owned multiple times? Who view other companies as rabid vultures trying to attack the Good Guy - and themselves by extension - and who make pointless excuses which paint their favorite company's actions in a good light even if it's only to fatten up their bottom line? They eventually call for the end of online services for older consoles because their relatable buddy Sony said it's time, or they defend publishing monopolies that don't make any sense except to force people to spend money on one company's platform. The way that people tie their personal identities into the gaming space, and all of the conflict and polarisation that results from people defending their identities by defending their favorite companies or their favorite fan platforms, is the biggest reason why so many gamers will eat horseshit if it's sold the right way. --- Now Playing: Ni No Kuni, Hyrule Warriors, Stardew Valley |
Topic | Asian lives don't matter until black lives matter |
MrMallard 04/27/21 7:13:23 AM #3 | Posted by a white girl. Fuck off with this divisive dogshit. --- Now Playing: Ni No Kuni, Hyrule Warriors, Stardew Valley |
Topic | Has science ever managed to explain the evolutionary purpose of humor? |
MrMallard 04/27/21 2:59:14 AM #17 | it gives people the bare minimum amount of happiness to stop them from murking themselves --- Now Playing: Ni No Kuni, Hyrule Warriors, Stardew Valley |
Topic | Complete this sentence: "It was me,..." |
MrMallard 04/27/21 2:44:51 AM #18 | Austin! Aww, son of a bitch! --- Now Playing: Ni No Kuni, Hyrule Warriors, Stardew Valley |
Topic | Is it moral/ethical to fuck an AI replica of a real person? |
MrMallard 04/27/21 2:41:38 AM #31 | FortuneCookie posted... If you get turned down by a blonde, is it ethical to ask out another woman with blonde hair?But it's not just another woman with blonde hair. It's the same woman, with her personality altered so that she loves you. No-one's gonna argue that you're an asshole for dating a blonde after getting turned down by a blonde. The question is whether it's shitty or not to create a double of someone with the difference being that they love you whereas the original person doesn't. It's the same person otherwise. --- Now Playing: Ni No Kuni, Hyrule Warriors, Stardew Valley |
Topic | The perfect girl except she has constant diarrhea |
MrMallard 04/27/21 2:32:52 AM #17 | It is huge problem --- Now Playing: Ni No Kuni, Hyrule Warriors, Stardew Valley |
Topic | The perfect girl except she has constant diarrhea |
MrMallard 04/26/21 3:44:02 PM #15 | IHeartRadiation posted... is the missing leg also not includedher name is CINNAMON --- Now Playing: Ni No Kuni, Hyrule Warriors, Stardew Valley |
Topic | The perfect girl except she has constant diarrhea |
MrMallard 04/26/21 2:06:33 PM #11 | nothanks1 posted... Can I watch her diarrhea everywhere?WARNING Sometimes it runs down her leg be prepared --- Now Playing: Ni No Kuni, Hyrule Warriors, Stardew Valley |
Topic | The perfect girl except she has constant diarrhea |
MrMallard 04/26/21 2:02:59 PM #9 | Sheiky-Baby posted... So, she has Crohn's disease?Great sense of humor Cares for you Very nice Just smells a little --- Now Playing: Ni No Kuni, Hyrule Warriors, Stardew Valley |
Topic | Android vs Apple searches on pornhub chart |
MrMallard 04/26/21 2:01:01 PM #46 | Apple got that normie shit --- Now Playing: Ni No Kuni, Hyrule Warriors, Stardew Valley |
Topic | The perfect girl except she has constant diarrhea |
MrMallard 04/26/21 1:59:57 PM #5 | CapnMuffin posted... "Constant" gives me pausewould you still date her,she is great otherwise --- Now Playing: Ni No Kuni, Hyrule Warriors, Stardew Valley |
Topic | Clown covers Nick Cave song |
MrMallard 04/26/21 1:56:37 PM #2 | GDI I'm gonna get it to the one or two people on CE who might kinda sorta like it, come hell or high water --- Now Playing: Ni No Kuni, Hyrule Warriors, Stardew Valley |
Topic | The perfect girl except she has constant diarrhea |
MrMallard 04/26/21 1:55:39 PM #1 | ![]() Would or wouldn't? --- Now Playing: Ni No Kuni, Hyrule Warriors, Stardew Valley |
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