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Gamerguymass posted...

Was she high? That was like one long rambling sentence where she didn't really know where she was going with it.

She's speaking to children in a way to foster curiosity and to engender hope.

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Like it's the same asinine, milquetoste reality TV dreck it's always been, with the same boring veneer of true romance. But I'm not gonna lie, seeing them take that in a queer direction made me feel really happy. That's representation. Give that lady a house full of hunky men and smoking hot ladies to pick and choose from - let her live lavishly! Fantastic.

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idk, but I love him all the same.

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Nah, the trans-plant joke saves it imo.

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UnholyMudcrab posted...

I can't imagine the bisexual community is going to be very happy with this

How do you figure?

fwiw I thought the preview was pretty great, it was your standard Bachelorette trappings with a focus on both male and female contestants. If you're talking about the co-ed house leading to more drama as the contestants are at risk of pairing off with each other, I can see how that could be seen as sensationalising the concept or otherwise hurtful to the bi community - but personally, it's an angle that's made me the most interested in this show that I've ever been.

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Just saw the teaser, which is great - and it introduces a new complication in that the male and female house members are hooking up and getting into each other.

I don't like these shows, but I honestly kinda love this twist on the formula.

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Jesus dude, that's a lot to go through. I'm sorry for your loss, and it's extremely distressing to see a person just say "yeah I'm gonna die, message if you want but I probably won't reply".

Do you have any good memories of your dad?

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Short of going "all of it is just called sex now", I'm fairly W/E about it. We have terms for anal and oral sex, and I guess you could just go "they had anal sex" instead of "they had gay sex", but the gamut of sexual acts you can engage with aren't so innate that they can be described as "straight" or "gay". And maybe they didn't have full penetrative sex, but they still got off and it was still a very intensive intimate act that they refer to as sex. Do we go "they had oral sex and frottage to completion, but it wasn't gay sex"?

I think there's room for nuance. Honestly, it might just suffice to say "they had sex", and whatever assumption you want to make about what they did with each other is your business. It communicates the same message. Anything beyond that isn't any of our business, and whether they're the same sex or the opposite sex, I think it's adequate to just say "they had sex". But it's no skin off my nose.

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Also I just want to say that like any of these topics I make, I try to sum up my point in the last paragraph of the post, which is usually the shortest paragraph or at least a solid, rounded summation of what I was trying to say. So in this case the tl;dr would be:

MrMallard posted...

This isn't a civil debate. This is you getting the vaccine or shutting the f*** up about it if you're that upset about it, because whatever alternative you want to push will harm more people than it will ever save.

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Kloe_Rinz posted...

I didnt really read your post but I agree that vaccines should be mandatory for all, and people should be quarantined by the military until such a time they are vaccinated

in Australia its different because its still very early days of actually being able to get Pfizer so you should give them a fair chance before putting your foot down

The thing about Australia is that we're making it so that only double-vaxxed people can visit areas like pubs and non-essential businesses - until December 1st, where all restrictions are going to be lifted in time for the Christmas rush. You know, that magical time of year where people are packed wall to wall inside enclosed spaces to get holiday bargains on TVs, video games and toys.

Seems like a really fucking stupid idea. Like if they were gonna commit to non-essential lockdown for unvaccinated people, why would you make it for less than two months? The decision feels extremely cynical and arbitrary

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But your nieces and nephews won't be posting on here because your brother Mitch got shot in the line of duty before he could have kids, right?

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If people don't want to respond, that's their prerogative. Even if no-one responds, it's just therapeutic to get it out.

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No more of this "I'm not anti-vax I just think we shouldn't enforce a mandate" shit. This is a line in the sand with no room for enlightened centrism.

I'm going to be frank, I put off getting the vaccine for a number of reasons. I was sick when AstraZeneca came to Australia and I wanted to give myself some time to feel better before I got the shot and potentially got a fever or whatever. Something happened in my life that tanked my mental health and made 2021 the worst year of my adult life. I'm squeamish about needles. My reasoning got flimsier and flimsier, and I just sort of coasted along. That was wrong of me to do.

What finally motivated me to get the shot is that my town finally got its first confirmed case of COVID. Which is ridiculous on my part. I could have gotten the virus from a close contact site and suffered the full brunt of the virus, and I only committed to the vaccine in the wake of that close call - fully accept that it was the wrong thing for me to do. Now is absolutely the time to be responsible.

The problem is that not everyone is going to heed that same line of logic. COVID isn't deadly, but when it is for certain people, other people won't die by getting it and shouldn't be forced to get the vaccine, but when they might pass it onto other people, masks and vaccines are infringing on their individual civil rights and you'll have to pry their decision not to get vaccinated from their cold, dead hands.

You could be in the most virus-ridden city in America and there'll be people protesting for their right to dodge vaccination and to avoid wearing masks. And then these fucking rallies become super spreader events, and a bunch of doorknob-licking morons and any innocent victims they came into contact with catch the virus, die or obtain permanent health issues.

If you're an essential worker like a doctor or nurse - if you work in a field in which you work with vulnerable people such as children, the elderly or immunocompromised people - you don't have a fucking choice in the matter. Your sense of duty and ethics should win out in favour of the vaccine, and if it isn't, fucking retire before you hurt someone.

If you're a retail worker or a frontline worker of any stripe, you should get the vaccine for the sake of the public as well as your own health, because when everything opens up in December in time for Christmas shopping, you're basically a sacrificial lamb for your company to make as much profit as they can at the expense of everyone's health, including yours.

And if you're a private citizen, employed or not, whether your job is affected by lockdown or not - you almost certainly have older folks like parents and grandparents. You almost certainly have family members with children. You might even know a few immunocompromised people in your life, I know a woman who has to suppress her immune system due to a condition she has. There is no reason not to take every precaution to protect yourself and others.

But you want to sit on a message board and post biased research about how people with strong immune systems don't need the vaccine, and a strong immune system makes the vaccine redundant.

A couple of thoughts:

• Not everyone has your chad immune system, and you can still spread the virus to people who will be more affected by the virus
• COVID weakens your immune system
• You can get COVID multiple times
• Ergo, the less careful you are about COVID, the more likely you are to put a lethal amount of strain on your body that the virus will get the better of. And you're still objectively more likely to harm others by not using masks or vaccinating.

Here's the thing about denialism as a concept. It starts off with the seed of the idea. "All these COVID deaths are actually caused by pre-existing conditions, not COVID itself, therefore the death figures are inflated". Then that ramps up into calling the concept itself into question: "COVID is dangerous for some, but not everyone, ergo not everyone has to be responsible".

Then you have scaremongering - "the vaccine hasn't been properly tested, it could cause any number of critical side effects". If you're especially bought into it - "enforcing mask mandates makes it easier to kidnap children". This is where people say that the vaccine is what actually makes you sick. Then you have outright rejection - "I believe it infringes upon my civil liberties to become vaccinated, [all of the other denialism bullshit] are valid reasons as to not put this into my body, any body who enforces this policy is committing crimes against humanity".

And to support that outright rejection - legitimization and assimilation. "There's this study that says that vaccines lower the immune system and a strong unvaccinated immune system will always prevail over a compromised vaccinated immune system". Nevermind the millions of people around the globe who died in agony, who went from the peak physical condition of their life to being brain-dead with a machine breathing for them because their lungs collapsed. Nevermind the research we've gotten about the effect COVID has on the human body from these people who've died. Our focus is now on this flawed experiment that says that vaccines hurt people.

Look at any conspiracy movement looking to discredit something they don't agree with. They plant the seed, they feed the idea with weighted, biased inquiry based in bad faith, then they build up the thing as a boogeyman - a bad thing their campaign is trying to combat for the good of everyone. Then based on that characterisation, they outright reject it - at which point it becomes denialism. And to support their viewpoint, they take whatever they can get to legitimize the idea to as many people as they can - including flawed science that is later scrutinized, but which get people off the fence because "it's science", and they strike while the iron is hot.

This isn't a rational scientific debate we're having. COVID will kill you and your loved ones at worst, and at best it does untold amounts of damage to your lungs, your immune system as a whole and maybe even your nervous system. If you want to play softball with COVID-19, don't complain when people aren't as civil as you'd like. You have a choice to downplay this global pandemic that has killed millions and affected the lifespans of countless others - but everyone else has the choice to call you out for that, because whatever your angle is - the vaccine is bad, or the virus isn't that bad, or the virus doesn't matter because we're all gonna get it - spits in the face of the people who've died, whose death could have been prevented and whose condition could have been managed if their immune system had some sort of way for preparing itself for their brush with the pandemic.

This isn't a civil debate. This is you getting the vaccine or shutting the fuck up about it if you're that upset about it, because whatever alternative you want to push will harm more people than it will ever save.

The real question is, though - how moddable is that statement? Because it sure doesn't seem to be moddable to downplay the effectiveness of the vaccine.

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Bump

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Make me

oh wait you just did

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Nah, trains don't come through here any more.

I could share a Weakerthans song with a line about hearing trains at night, I think it's more of a metaphor for trauma but it can be taken literally too.

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Nothing serious, thinking about a dumb name like MrMallard's Nothing Clan.

I'm interested in skilling, but there are long stretches where you're not getting anything done. Knowing you're in the same boat as someone else and having someone to talk to and commiserate with would be great, and I'm thinking of attaching a signing bonus to anyone who wants to join. Like damn son we're all farming drops, let's get that shit together - and shit, we can run the Blast Furnace together.

Since the focus is skilling, I want to offer new members:

13 bars of metal for each type of metal up to mithril, for them to eventually be able to make their own armor
10 unstrung bows of every type up to Yew shortbow + the appropriate amount of flax for them to string them
1000 arrow shafts
100 Pure Rune Essence

And like people could just try to take advantage of the offer by joining, getting the free stuff and then leaving, but the max value of that stuff is like 15,000 gold. 13 mithril bars are like 600 gold each, 13 steel bars are nearly 400 each, and unstrung bows vary in price but cap out at the low hundreds. Flax, arrow shafts and Pure Rune Essence are like 2-3 gold apiece, and if they want to offload a bunch of that junk without making something with it, then I don't want them in my clan to begin with. And those materials are easily replenishable for little to no cost to me - I can make all of that stuff out of raw materials that I can gather myself.

I've got gold in my bank to live off of, and because my mining level is 85, I can grind out some runite ore if push comes to shove. I'm farming gold nuggets at the Motherlode Mine, and it gets me more mithril and adamant ore so that's great.

My eventual goal is to get a beaver pet and to be able to make a full adamant set. I also want to be able to make a runite bar. If there are other people who are as into skilling as I am, maybe having a place where that sort of thing is encouraged could be a good thing.

Another idea I have is associating days of the week with skill names. So like Mining Mondays, Woodcutting Wednesdays, Fletching Fridays, Smithing Saturdays and Slayer Sundays. But it's not a weekly schedule where everyone is expected to log in daily and grind out the same skill as everyone else because you can only level up your mining on Monday. They're more like special events, like you can do your assorted tasks at your own leisure, but every now and again there'll be a message ping like "YOOO HOW MANY OF YOU MOTHERFUCKERS ARE PSYCHED FOR SLAYER SATURDAY?!?!?" or "WHO THE FUCK IS UP FOR WOODCUTTING WEDNESDAY?!?!?" and if the response is tepid it doesn't go through. Also because I can't think of a skill that starts with T, we have Blast Furnace Blursday.

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The right is so ass blasted about cancellation, but who were the motherfuckers getting upset over Pokemon in the 90's?

Who staffed protest groups to picket media over "family values"?

It was them. It's always been them getting upset, until they disagreed with what people were going after. Then it was fair game to start calling the complainers soft soyboy beta snowflake cucks.

It's always been so fucking stupid because the left at least do what they do under the veneer of "he's a rapist" or "he yelled the n-word on stage like 5 times and told a black guy he'd be lynched if it was 100 years ago". Conservatives get shitty because "evolution goes against my religious beliefs" and "satanic imagery corrupts the minds and values of anyone who see them". What a fucking joke.

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GrandConjuraton posted...

Poor argument. Weapons like swords could never cause an incident like a mass shooting can, so they would automatically be less of a problem.

I'm sure there would still be mass slayings, but everyone involved has more of a chance of surviving because swords are bulkier and it takes a lot more force and effort to wield one.

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Life would be a lot harder in some respects, I think farmers would be the most affected by a change like that.

But I do think that the elimination of all guns would be a net positive. No more guns doesn't equate to no more war, but it makes war a lot harder to wage for everyone involved.

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It's a whole new world we live in! (do do-do do doooo do)

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I'm not too hot on Pink Floyd. I don't hate them, but I'm indifferent.

I could post some music I do like, but it's all just weepy heartbreak pop or indie folk, lol

Ran into a friend at the bar, I've spent the last five months trying to cut him out of my life. I was already gonna get shitfaced, but that has influenced the next few days of my life in a big way.

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One more time for the girls

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Pfizer club baybee!

Honestly, when I went to get my shot, the fact sheet they gave me warned about heart inflammation with the second shot. So yeah, Pfizer has the same level of risk.

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Yes, the Olympic winter sport. Homer and Marge start a curling team.

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Just pulled the Jager out of the freezer, drank a mouthful and felt it sink to the bottom of my stomach like a rock.

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NoxObscuras posted...

They give me a good chuckle usually, yeah.

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He'd probably beg for death, because he'd be well over 100 years old and everything would hurt

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Oh yeah, I'm realising a lot of problems stemming from a fucked up upbringing.

On a more wistful note, there's a great How I Met Your Mother scene where Marshall is recounting a story about his dad in the wake of his death. The first part is here:

https://youtu.be/j0wfV_RQ7pc

And I can't find the second part.

The second part is a mental conversation Marshall is having with his dad where he reveals he never knew what was out there in the darkness. He just put on a strong front and hoped for the best.


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Just mixed some Jagermeister with some dry ginger ale. It's not half bad.

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There's a great quote from an old Australian prime minister. There must have been some issue about some policy or whatever, and who I'm assuming is the head of the opposing party takes the floor to ask him a question.

He asks something along the lines of "if you're so confident in your party's policy, then why not call an early election?" to a large uproar in the chambers.

The PM stands up and takes the floor, and he responds:

"Because I wanna do you slowly."

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Questionmarktarius posted...

Pauline is the one to get a wa-, but they're probably the same person anyway.

Oh shit, you're right!

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https://youtu.be/c5vh7jtrW2Y

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Zikten posted...

If it's any comfort, there is the possibility that untold eons from now when the entire universe comes to an end, there might be another Big Bang and a new universe. And maybe in that universe, a new version of you will be born someday. Maybe it's happened already an infinite number of times

My brand new starchild self is gonna rip his asshole open with a massive shit all over again? I didn't sign up for that!

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I was just thinking about this while rationalising a big order of fast food. I figure we're all gonna die, and I'll probably die with a burger compacted to about the size of a human fist lodged in my windpipe, so I might as well cram as much garbage into this garbage factory as I can before the lights go out.

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Kinda want to try passionfruit vodka. Passionfruit is the best flavor of anything, and I'll fuckin fight you to the death over it.

I'm gonna order a mess of burgers from McDonald's over Menulog and drink the Jager I have left from last night. I've still got half a bottle so I should get pretty messy.

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Like do you ever crack a smile at the start of a movie and think to yourself "I think I'm gonna really enjoy this"? That was Booksmart for me.


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g0ldie posted...

if you haven't seen it yet, you should see Good Boys.

the raunchy stuff plus the innocence of the kids made it super funny, IMO.

felt like a kid Superbad, but obviously not as outrageous.

Hell yeah. I'm using a TV channel app, so it has to be on that channel before I can watch it. But this looks like a great movie, so I hope one channel over here picks it up soon.

Also @ #3 - whether it's a popular take or not, you're preaching to the fucking choir. Seth Rogan and Bill Hader as shitty cops hanging out with the shittiest delinquent high school student was my favorite part of the movie. I don't give a shit about Jonah Hill and Michael Cera in this movie.

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...and frankly, I think it's better. Shit, one of the main characters is Jonah Hill's irl sister.

Like I remember watching Superbad as a kid and just not getting it. Like haha, they're getting alcohol and Michael Cera dropped the vodka he wanted to give to a girl he wanted to fuck because a bum assaulted him. The McLovin subplot was the most watchable part of that movie, watching Jonah Hill acting like a live-action Cartman was annoying. I was also too young to understand the conflict between Seth and Evan - I've been thinking of revisiting the movie because I think that plot point will resonate with me super hard nowadays.

But Booksmart kind of eliminated the need to do that, because I like it much more than Superbad. It's about a pair of best friends who spent all of high school studying to get into Ivy League schools, only to learn that all of the slacker students got into Harvard and shit too while they were goofing off. The really unpleasant main character decides that they have to go to the big high school party at least once, which sets off this chain reaction of yadda yadda yadda it's Superbad. But it's a good Superbad.

It got review bombed because it was Feminist Superbad, but I really liked it - but then again I'm a massive liberal douchebag, so that might just reinforce a desire to never see Booksmart. I just found it to be a lot more charming out of the gate, and while I wasn't big on the part of the movie where they're trying to get to the Big High School Party and keep going to the wrong ones, the glue of the movie - the two main characters and their relationship - really held everything together.

Zoomers got the best version of Superbad. Maybe this bodes well for the future of the human race.

There's a scene where the two main characters are watching porn in the back of an Uber with a pair of earbuds - I won't spoil the joke, but I laughed like a motherfucker at the punchline. There was also a pretty good part where someone pulls a gun on them. But moreso than any big laughs, the movie just has a very endearing vibe to it.

The characters are best friends, and they fucking feel like it - the first thing that happens in the movie is that they dance at each other while giving each other compliments. They spend ages building each other up and like talking about their feelings and stuff, it really nails the surreal humor and earnestness that zoomers have.

One of the characters is a raging lesbian, and she's interested in this dumb skater jock named Ryan who's like gender non-conforming. And Ryan is just fucking STUPID, it's amazing. They got way too little screentime.

The worst thing I could say is that the other main character who isn't a raging lesbian is just kind of a stuck-up unpleasant person. But it's intentional and the movie comments on it - it's less "Jonah Hill playing a live-action Cartman" and more "holier than thou nerd slowly understanding the harm she's done to herself and everyone around her". And if the words "feminist Superbad" make you froth at the mouth and see red and black out for a couple seconds out of sheer rage, you probably won't like this movie.

But shit man, as far as high school party movies go, Booksmart is legitimately really good. If you liked Blockers, the movie where John Cena butt-chugs a beer, then I think you'll love Booksmart. And both movies are better than Superbad.

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Wasn't a fan of 3. 4 was stupid and bonkers, and while I haven't finished 5 it's got a ton of content and I like it well enough.

I prefer the Reminiscence version of 3 that has Kiryu narrating the events of the game. Actually playing the game was a huge chore.

I'd go back and play 4 anyday. I love how fucked up the faces get when you punch the shit out of them. I probably wouldn't replay 3 unless I got the remastered collection, and that's not happening any time soon.

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Fucking hell, I threw back half a bottle of Jager last night. Left it in the freezer until it got frosty, and then started drinking mouthfuls of it at a time.

I fucking love Jager, dude. Jager is a drink that can ruin my life if I let it, it goes down like golden syrup.

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Depends on the crime. Sex offenders of any stripe should go straight to fucking jail. Assault or robbery should be investigated more thoroughly and measures like probation and therapy should be utilised to attack the root cause of the crime.

There's something innately craven and evil about sex crimes, and it comes from within. It can be lodged into a person though molestation or other experiences that affected them in the past, but when you rape or molest, that's it. You've ruined another person's life to cum. That's on you for the rest of your life - that's who you are.

Assault and robbery are super shitty, but they tend to stem from systemic problems like poverty. Short of killing someone, the damage caused by assault and robbery can be recouped, and whatever led to a person committing those crimes can usually be addressed with therapy.

Can therapy help a rapist or molester? Sure. But that therapy needs to be behind bars, because committing such a vile fucking act is inexcusable. A thief can be fixed and the damage they caused though their crime can be fixed easily. There's a bunch of different factors that can lead to assault, and while the crime can leave lasting damage, you can fix a person who assaults another person by addressing the root cause of that crime. When you rape or molest - even if you can be rehabilitated not never do it again - that's who you are. That's an effect that can never be washed clean. And it's a crime that deserves incarceration, rehabilitory or not.

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Zoomer. Kids are the future, and olds are going to die and leave the earth to the next generation.

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saspa posted...

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Ok so I skimmed the google page for this gamepass thing and my eyebrow is more than a little arched right now in bewilderment. The concept of streaming video games seems counterproductive. Video games are a lot more of an intensive time investment compared to a 2 hour movie or even an entire show that you're passively watching; if those get taken off sure it's upsetting but whatever.

But if I've sunk time in to learning the mechanics of a video game with multiple save files spending 60+ hours in a game, only for my save file to be worthless because a game disappeared... wtf? There's a reason that arcades started to dwindle after the NES and home market of video games flourished, and there's a reason that not everybody rents.

Are people really supporting the idea of a netflix equivalent but for video games? Hell even digital purchases are frowned upon because they're contingent on the service remaining active and are little more than a license to play rather than an actual copy of the game.

Do you know about "cloud versions" of games for weaker hardware, or PS Now which is Game Pass except you don't even download the game, you stream video of a remote machine playing the game?

Game Pass has its faults, but despite predating the other two things, it's the best option on the market. It's basically digital rental.

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I'm gonna burn it all down today, and sweep all the ashes away
Now Playing: Pokemon HeartGold, Minecraft, Oldschool Runescape

Anal loogies? I think you mean poop my friend.

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I'm gonna burn it all down today, and sweep all the ashes away
Now Playing: Pokemon HeartGold, Minecraft, Oldschool Runescape