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Oddly enough, besides Yahoo, this is the only site that I used to visit back when my parents got Internet for the first time in 97 that is still around. I also don't visit Yahoo anymore so it is the only site from that time that I still pay attention to. So in that sense I guess I would miss it.

That said, even in my "prime visiting days" I would post way less than most people here. So I would probably recover pretty easily. It might actually convince me to make a Reddit account (probably not).

Articles about physical games sold vs. digital:

https://mynintendonews.com/2022/12/27/72-of-console-games-sold-in-2022-were-digital-vs-28-physical/
https://www.gamebyte.com/90-of-video-game-sales-in-2022-were-digital/
https://assetsio.reedpopcdn.com/GI22_Infographic_YIN_dev1C.jpg

I think the biggest indicator that it might be going away is revenue. All physical games sold in 2022 accounted for a little over 10 billion in revenue, vs over 170 billion for digital.

Smashing Pumpkins, seen them twice. Both times was amazing. Would go again if they ever came back to my area (they have only done it twice in 30 years)
Lamb of God and Megadeth were both pretty good too. Saw them together last year.

The whole "Disable ad block or GTFO" is stupid. Like, if you tell me that, 99 times out of 100 I am going to GTFO, then what are you gaining? You aren't even getting people who will share your content with others who might not have ad blockers. It is literally lose-lose. Either accept that a large amount of people are going to be viewing your site with an ad blocker, or offer a premium service that does more than just disable ads and actually makes people want to use it.

Good luck, certainly not an easy habit to break, but the benefits are well worth the effort.

BoomerKuwanger posted...

Didn't wikia used to look more like Wikipedia, or was that someone else? I swear you used to be able to find wikis that looked like that and didn't have ads everywhere or shit layout

I think so? They had the same management as Wikimedia (Wikipedia's parent brand) before they all left around 2010. That was probably when everything started going to hell.

EvilResident posted...

But the forums only serve as a vehicle to generate money thru ads, right? Otherwise the forums dont make money(?)

It is no secret that the only reason Red Ventures sold Gamespot/GameFAQs is because it wasn't making them enough money to keep investing in it. I doubt Fandom is going to get rid of the ONLY thing that potentially makes money on the site.

EvilResident posted...

Im thinkin Ill stick around until they actually close the forums down. But I have my doubts if they will actually do that. Does this site still generate income just from the ads shown to the visitors or something?

I could see Fandom keeping the forums around for a long time and probably merging all of the FAQ contributions into their site (for worse or worser)

I heard her excuse basically boiled down to "I couldn't have doxed him because I have no idea what doxing is!" Umm...it is the thing you did, which is highly illegal, that pretty much anyone and their mother could tell you is highly illegal, even if they don't know what it is called...

But she isn't going to get banned. She is Youtube's golden child. She would have to literally murder someone on video before they would consider it.

To be perfectly honest, I have never eaten spam in my life. And unlike when I said that about Kimchi (which I ended up buying and enjoying shortly after I made that statement), I never will.

HelIWithoutSin posted...

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/326670/view/6717740121820282043

No specific date given. I couldn't find any info if it's being removed from other storefronts.

Licensing most likely, that is usually the reason for games being removed.

Given how money hungry GW is, not surprising a smaller studio couldn't afford to renew the license on a smaller game that probably doesn't sell very well.

https://imgur.com/GKElQJV

Sharks are always my backup team to watch when the Sabers inevitably shit the bed.

papercup posted...

Literally any time any conflict has happened in my lifetime, everyone has claimed its WWIII. Ill believe it when it happens.

Thing is, with the way globalization is nowadays, WWIII is pretty much impossible.

It would require pretty much every nation not in NATO (That can muster any kind of military) to join together against NATO, and good luck with that. We would know what is happening long before they could co-ordinate any kind of attack.

The only difference I see between modern cartoons and the ones I grew up with is modern cartoons depict everyone as ridiculously skinny. Which, for some reason, no one sees as the cause of modern day body dysmorphia.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Suzanne Somers died:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne_Somers

Very different people.

Kind of appropriate she died of cancer, given her stance on cancer treatments.

Go back to simple banner ads and I will gladly disable ad block. Otherwise, I consider ad companies terrorist organizations and I don't negotiate with terrorists.

Side note, I have a tab open to travel.state.gov because I am renewing my passport. How the HELL is that the site that uBlock needs to block over 3,000 ads on?

The only job where I could have potentially been in one, the company was so small (<10 employees) that they couldn't afford to hire anyone in a union. In my limited experience though, they did kind of bankrupt the company they worked for and screwed my mom out of SSI for like 5 years.

Thank you for your revival of a discussion from over 12 years ago...

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/map-comparison-burnout-paradise-map-isnt-200-sq-miles.429642/

I mean yea, developers will lie about map size because people think bigger is better. I prefer Burnout Paradise to most "open world" driving games because they at least fill the world with tons of stuff to do in every inch of the map. Having a map the size of Starfield doesn't help if 90% can be ignored to get the full experience of the game.

I had one for a while, but it was one of those "Windows 10" tablets. It was frustrating to use, because Windows 10 in a tablet environment is annoying, so I got rid of it.

I haven't really seen a need to get another one, I don't see the advantage of having an iPad or Android tablet over a phone, since if I want a bigger screen I will just use the "linked phone" functionality in Windows.

I am thankful that I have (seemingly) no allergies what so ever. I was allergic to wasps and hornets growing up, but I grew out of it. A peanut allergy would be the worst.

Like I have known people so allergic to dairy that they need an epipen if their skin so much as comes into contact with milk, and I would even prefer that to a peanut allergy.

Shrek posted...

Bobby kotick is staying on until the end of this year, and then he's gone

https://tinyurl.com/4p8th369

I have been using Youtube Premium back when it was called Google Music. Honestly, not a bad deal. And before that I just used whatever ad blocker I have on my computer. So yea, haven't seen a Youtube ad in like 20 years.

If GameFAQs started doing that, I am leaving and never returning.

BucketCat posted...

The thing I don't get is that a lot of people cannot afford homes, even if they're making decent money for their area. Then also lumber prices are up, like I was going to rebuild my deck last year and decided to wait, and this year it was significantly more expensive....So I'd imagine the cost to build a home is way higher too. Then there's war everywhere, so not only is the lumber costly but the fuel is too. Meaning cost to buy a brand new home is probably way, way up compared to an already constructed home.

But, with all of that in mind, right now in my city there are 12 new neighborhoods being constructed. Not like a one-off home being built in a lot, but 20-30 home communities are being built. They're not even cutting down the woods or anything in my area (which I think they would to at least re-use that local lumber), but are instead just building them in vacant fields.
It makes absolutely no sense to me, but it seems like new neighborhoods are constantly popping up. There was one that finished being built 5 years ago and there are a grand total of two families living in that neighborhood that I've counted. I ride my bike through there all the time and it's some weird, creepy ghost town and they keep building more and more.
I don't like the look of the neighborhoods, either. They all look like that movie "Vivarium" if anyone is familiar with it...which doesn't fit aesthetically at all with my area, which is the stereotypical midwestern small-medium sized city.

Everybody wants to buy new. If they can afford it, they don't want to buy a house someone else has lived in. When my real estate agent worked with me to buy my house, even they treated buying an older house as "settling".

And right now, the only people who can afford to buy a house are the ones who buy new.

There are convenience stores (at least in my area) that offer cards kind of like what you are asking for, but they usually only work for those stores, or they are more like an American Express card where you are expected to just pay off the balance every month. Or you could pre-paid cards (like I do when buying something from a "sketchy" site), but that goes more into the management thing you are trying to avoid.

Sounds more like you need to restructure your accounts in such a way that it isn't too much management for your tastes. Don't know why you can't just have a checking account with a debit card and one (or two) savings accounts and move money into the checking account when it gets below a certain amount, or split up your paycheck in such a way that your checking account only gets as much money as you want to spend in a week or two.

Solid_Sonic posted...

Any other way to get a card you can spend money from a bank account from that isn't from the bank?

...why?

adjl posted...

It really raises the question of why the admins bother letting them come back. Second chances are great and all, but when an account has spent 5.5 of the 6 months it's existed in purgatory, there obviously isn't much value in only temporarily banning it.

Pure speculation, but I think there is a karma "threshold" where they will just keep putting you in purgatory. Then once you go below that threshold, ban hammer. Anyone remembers DSP9 or whatever his name was? He spent years in and out of purgatory before his karma got below like 700 or something, then they just banned him.

I honestly never had any hesitation about living alone. Not one bit. I went from always living with someone the first 23 years of my life, to always living alone the last 17 years, and those have easily been the happiest 17 years I could have ever hoped for.

Shrek posted...

pardon

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/6-gamefaqs-announcements/80356040

Not a complete "exit" like CJayC did back in the day, but he doesn't do a lot of the admin duties that he used to anymore. Including reviewing suspended accounts.

MightBeOverSoon posted...

Get your reasonable and informed response the fuck out of here please. This is clearly not the place for it.

Oh, well, then I guess they were just not impressed with the size of Shmen's load?

Time in purgatory has less to do with the severity of the offense and more to do with how many offenses are on your history.

Really though, you would be better off asking an admin, mods don't decide how often you spend in purgatory. I don't know who that would be since SBAllen stepped down.

MeatiestMeatus posted...

The reality is that Maine is a decidedly middle class state. Average household income puts it squarely in the middle of the pack looking at all 50 states, too. This website is about stereotyping appearance and if you were to drive around the state you'd see a lot of beards and "rustic" clothing, meaning that AI image is closer to what a typical Mainer looks like, as you'll see a lot less button-down shirts and "yuppie" wear traveling about.

As I mentioned, the image in that article looks like a couple homeless people, which I agree isn't typical of an average Maine resident, but that general look is closer than what a "yuppie" image would be for your average Maine resident.

The Connecticut image is what I would associate more with yuppies, and I wouldn't consider the Connecticut image to be closer to the average Maine resident than I would the Maine image

Maybe it depends where you drive, but when I have driven around Bar Harbor, Camden, Portland, Boothbay, etc (Where most people in the state live), it is extremely upper class and yuppie. What you are describing sounds more like New Hampshire, specifically the northern part. Yes, some of that bleeds into Maine, but not as much as you think.

MeatiestMeatus posted...

Maine isn't upper class yuppie... I live in Massachusetts and go to Maine regularly for work. There are yuppies around the more populated areas but Maine is absolutely thick with blue collar and rural types

Every state is thick with "blue collar and rural types". Hell, like I said, I live in New York, and I have absolutely driven through areas where electricity and indoor plumbing are a scarcity. However, ask the average person what New York is known for, and it is that city that accounts for <1% of the land area and >40% of the population.

Same with Maine, the majority of the population lives on the coast. That is where the yuppies are. Therefore, Maine is primarily yuppies. Not that I care, I would love to live in Maine (if I didn't have family obligations here). But you can't deny reality because other areas exist outside of that in the state.

Unlimited, my mobile data plan also includes home Internet. Verizon basically makes them one and the same with 5G.

MeatiestMeatus posted...

Truth is you could find people to fit those images in every state if you're looking for them

Maine makes sense if the AI is culling from news reports about the increased homeless population in the Portland area

Still lower than pretty much any other state in the country. If anything, the Rhode Island picture is way more accurate, both Maine and Vermont are upper-class yuppy areas. Although given how much lobster I see around Maine, I still think the Louisiana picture makes the most sense for Maine.

Also, just a random thought: Why do AI insist on putting 6 fingers/toes on all humans? You would think someone would fix that bug by now.

Having been in Oregon recently, it is surprisingly accurate.

Vermont and Maine are just plain wrong though.

Also, I want to know where my couch of money is since I live in New York.

For my first run, I might just do a Toadette run. Ultimately I will probably play as all characters assuming you get some reward for beating the game with all of them.

I haven't had student loan payments for the last 15 years. I payed that shit down as quickly as possible. Then again, I only had like $25K so it was pretty easy to do that in about a year or two.

I haven't been there in a long time, but I used to go there for a variety of things. Clothes, kitchen stuff, books, video games, board games, etc. If I was bored one weekend, I would go to one just to buy a jigsaw puzzle for like $1, and take it home to assemble it. Usually missing a piece or two, but still fun. Then if I had a bunch of them sitting around, I would just donate them back.

I prefer Salvation Army though, since the prices are usually better. Goodwill seems to overcharge.

Doesn't even come with any sides. That is like the best part of KFC.

That was just random word vomit, which is probably what that pizza tastes like too.

Always take pictures of everything (carpets, appliances, rooms, etc) before you hand over the keys to the landlord so when they try to pull that you can sue their asses for your security deposit. Did that with my last apartment, but the landlord was actually really good and only docked me $15 for not cleaning the inside of the microwave.

But, to be fair, when I moved my mom out of her apartment she pretty much trashed the place because she was a hoarder, so I just made sure not to provide them any contact info since I knew it would cost them 3X - 5X the cost of the security deposit to repair everything.

It is a bit weird for me since my neither of my parents were religious in the slightest. But everyone I have interacted with who is "religious" treats religion more as a social gathering than something that impacts your day to day life. In other words, it isn't really mentioned all that much.

130, I haven't deleted a contact from my phone since 2010.

Shrek posted...

yes she did.

by just continuing to run. in her gerrymandered district where she is essentially unopposed.

She was a Senator, not a Representative. They don't run in districts. Her "district" was the state of California.

Yellow posted...

Batman once murdered people left and right like a generic vigilante

I have read pretty much the entirety of the golden age Batman, and I can say this is exaggerated a bit. Yes, villains died quite a bit, but Batman was really only directly responsible in one or two instances. In most cases it was the "Villian trying to escape and accidentally killing himself" trope mentioned above. Probably the most infamous case of him straight up murdering someone was his first comic (which is the one everyone shares as a "SEE, BATMAN KILLS PEOPLE!!!" case). But after that it was accidents in pretty much all cases.

I will say though, golden age batman felt no remorse over those deaths. He just went "oh well..." and walked away like nothing happened.

Far-Queue posted...

RIP and I don't want to dump on someone recently deceased but we need age limits on politicians and SC members. That she was allowed to continue in her role at 90 and in clear cognitive decline is insane

Shouldn't be restricted to age limits maybe but there should be some set of parameters that officeholders need to meet in order to remain in their role. If they have health issues but have reasonable cognition and can still do the job for the most part OK keep on keeping on but holy shit Feinstein should've been gone months if not years ago

I think term limits more-so then age limits will help that and solve a lot of the other problems in congress as well.

4 terms for a representative (8 years) and 2 terms for a senator (12 years) would do wonders. The only downside I could see (besides members of congress not being able to hold onto power as long, which is THEIR problem, not ours) is having to pay out more in pensions since we will have more retired congressional leaders. But even as the raging libertarian I am I would happily have taxes go towards that if it meant we didn't have Senators sitting in the same spot for 30 - 40 years and dying in office.

Edit: And yea, add limits on the Supreme Court as well. Like you can only serve on the court for 12 years.

I don't use lip balm.