general gaming

[thorny loom]

https://ukie.org.uk/loot-boxes

UK released guideline principles for the industry to follow regarding lootboxes with self regulation

[wintry canopy]

I just won my first duel of the day and it put me to silver tier 1.

[unreal idol]

Nice

I've been slacking hard on MD the last 2-3 months but now with new dumb DW support out it's time to ruin people's days

[slim thorn]

now that I'm done being distracted by Outer Wilds, I'm finally going to make another attempt at finishing Returnal

[wintry canopy]

I only only started playing a few days ago as well, and I've only played around with Dragonmaids.

[mossy flume]

Accurate

[unreal idol]

Dragonmaid is a pretty solid deck for newcomers. I played it a lot last year and enjoyed it but I've forgotten all the combo plays lol

[rancid herald]

Dragon maids..?

[mossy flume]

Pretty sure that’s an anime

[unreal idol]

And a YGO deck

[mossy flume]

Clearly I’ve been missing out

[unreal idol]

Yes

[mossy flume]

Definitely been missing out.

[quiet swift]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9e72j136SGg

[rancid herald]

anime sure is weird

[quiet swift]

Thank you captain obvious!

[rancid herald]

you're welcome, citizen

[wintry canopy]

If anyone wants to learn more about Dragonmaids. https://youtu.be/9yx0GYvRQ2A

[rancid herald]

til france exists in yuguoh

[fresh bane]

Yeah in the Bonds Beyond Time movie Jaden is in Italy

[wintry canopy]

Apparently France does exist, I've found a French character.http://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Sherry_LeBlanc

[fresh bane]

Yeah

I'm pretty sure YGO takes place in Japan

[mossy flume]

It does indeed

Sometimes in Egypt as well

YGO is largely supposed to take place in real places

America exists too

[fresh bane]

With the arguable main character of the entire franchise being Egyptian I don't find it surprising that our countries exist there too it's mostly just cities that are fictional places

and yeah, one of the most iconic characters is 'murican

aggressively american

IN AMERICA

[mossy flume]

Yep

[slim thorn]

I think I've just about made it to Returnal's biome 6 boss

today's following the usual pattern of a few warm-up deaths then decent progress the instant I stop sucking

ugh, the boss actually killed me, even with my revives

still it was all stuff I could've dodged so I know now I don't need to do any of biome 5 for this

[fresh bane]

https://tenor.com/view/calliope-calli-calliope-mori-hololive-cr1tikal-gif-19460019

Insane how a single update with a seal managed to give TF2 yet another all time peak

[quiet swift]

https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/haptic-shirt-lets-you-feel-every-upper-body-impact-in-assassins-creed

[rose rose]

What I really want is to feel the upper body impact of falling off a roof

What could go wrong

[mossy flume]

Combine that with Apple Vision and we get The Oasis levels of immersion

I wonder if this is derived from the haptic gaming vest from circa 2008

[quiet swift]

since the image ain't loading

[mossy flume]

I will approve of any company whose name is OWO

[white phoenix]

can't wait to experience how it feels to get fucking stabbed

[rose rose]

I did some video work for a furry con a while back with an underlying company called Our Way Oklahoma.

Which was always abbreviated, of course

(they have since renamed the company.)

[true maple]

Haptic feedback undershirt? Totally a furry company working on better fursuits

[quiet swift]

Cowards

[rancid herald]

A custom cooling shirt might be better

[slim thorn]

#Returnal: welp, as I hoped, electropylons are the hard counter to the 6th boss

[mossy flume]

I was just about to ping you to ask you where you were

And yeah, those pylons are OP

[slim thorn]

||I know there's a 3rd act so this isn't everything, but still yay||

omg ||the biome 6 datacube processor is right behind where the boss sits||, that's just mean

[fresh bane]

''With AC Mirage, we're going back to the roots of Assassin's Creed''

Also AC Mirage: still RPG, teleportation skills, fucking haptic feedback bee stings

thanks Ubisoft, you really know exactly what we wanted

[river veldt]

haha the OASIS is immediately what i thought of

[wind stump]

83% advertising space before users experience a seizure!

[white phoenix]

ads with the haptic feedback shirt and ar/vr headsets are going to go crazy

[fresh bane]

Every year it gets increasingly funnier to me how much they resemble Abstergo as a company

Imagine everytime you lied down on the Animus you had to go through a bunch of annoying ads and pop ups

[slim thorn]

for MA's amusement, here's my stats page after completing Act 2:

[mossy flume]

Very nice

I should dig up my stats when I get the chance

I’m at the end of the final act IIRC

Only 11 deaths and already getting into act 3, damn, making me look bad

[slim thorn]

this is one of the rare times when I might actually be above average at a video games

of course the moment my focus or patience runs low I die in the starting area, every time, so it's still "might"

hm... interesting status

[wind stump]

great, i'm being gaslit by my fucking wife

this is what i get for saving your ass from that freaky skeleton god, you ungrateful bitch

[slim thorn]

ooooh I had no idea you were playing that

[wind stump]

i found i had it installed

I did play most of the first but I fell off

[slim thorn]

I hope you enjoy ||Pollo Power||

[wind stump]

ah yes the thing from Dead Cells

oh my god i'm going to shit explosive eggs aren't i

BRUH I KNEW THERE WERE LIMBO VIBES ABOUT THIS PLACE

[fresh bane]

''pueblimbo''

damn that's nostalgic

[wind stump]

i feel old recgonizing a Limbo reference

[fresh bane]

it's not that old right?

[slim thorn]

#Returnal: that is not at all where I expected to find it but YES

[fresh bane]

it's only.... 12 years old

[slim thorn]

it was part of the beginning of the "indie games are good actually" phase of our lives

[mossy flume]

Clearly I need to finish this game before you do

[slim thorn]

the real question now is how many of these do I need to find

and can I accomplish anything else this cycle now that I've found it

[fresh bane]

friend

[thorny loom]

https://exputer.com/news/games/study-players-games-toxic-communities/

[slim thorn]

oh good, if I restart a cycle from the menu it doesn't increase my "death" count

[white phoenix]

what it only came out yesterday

... guh

[visual hill]

https://github.com/wipeout-phantom-edition/wipeout-phantom-edition

WipeOut Phantom Edition is an enhanced PC source port of the original WipeOut. It uses game data from the PlayStation version and is much more comparable to the PlayStation version than the official PC port.

[sage raptor]

Thank god for source ports

[fresh bane]

well, at least Inside is way more recent haha for sure it's like a couple years old or something right?

dear god

[thorny loom]

Almost thought that said phantom menace

[visual hill]

Wipeout Pod Racing

or even better, Wipeout POD Racing. (If you get the reference, you're a genius)

[slim thorn]

ok, ||2 fragments|| is enough for now

gotta give MA time to catch up

[untold vigil]

I'm so tempted to get this game you guys don't even know

[fresh bane]

speaking of, there was a new star wars pod racing game released very recently wasn't there?

[light gate]

Odd that there is no source code provided.

[slim thorn]

Returnal?

[untold vigil]

Yes

But I bought so much crap lately I can't justify buying more stuff AFTER the sale

[slim thorn]

plus, considering the difficulty, this is one I'd hold off on until you can be confident you'll have several hours to play uninterrupted (and be in the mood to do so)

[untold vigil]

Yeah

[white phoenix]

oh that's only 4 years ag- wait

[untold vigil]

I cant focus on jack anything

[visual hill]

my guess is that it's based on leaked code. There's an issue asking for source code release, we'll see

[light gate]

Yike if it is leaked.

[visual hill]

(the comments in https://github.com/wipeout-phantom-edition/wipeout-phantom-edition/issues/5 make me think so)

I remember reading about WipeOut 1 source being leaked a while ago too, but maybe I misremember it

hey, remember that's how we got Thief source ports too 🙂

the Thief source code was found on a CD in a trashcan in 2010

[light gate]

PFFT

Okay thats different

[visual hill]

the Daikatana source port was also made this way, John Romero handed over the source to a modding group under NDA

(I consider it leaking because he hasn't been part of Eidos for a loooong time, he did this a long time after Ion Storm went defunct)

[wind stump]

he clearly got sick of people wanting to be his bitch

[light gate]

I just don't know how Sony would respond, considering Liverpool is gone and the og devs are also pretty much gone.

[wind stump]

liverpool still exists as a city

[light gate]

Wipeout Pure was more of my jam tbh.

Pulse is... a little different but I don't hate it. It pretty much is an advanced Wipeout iteration.

Also, Pure has probably one of the best Wipeout Intros in the series. https://youtu.be/8n9QqB1uiU8 (Flashing content warning)

[thorny loom]

https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonROMhacks/comments/152bwt4/pokémon_compass_20_a_scarletviolet_overhaul/?

Surprised there’s already romhacks for scarlet and violet

[sage raptor]

Good

Pokemon games never live up to their potential

Fan intervention is basically required.

[chilly mural]

[unreal idol]

why on earth is rain still a thing in totk

[unreal idol]

no for real

literally the worst thing in BOTW besides weapon durabillity

[rancid herald]

PK over here wishing Tears was as hot as europe is

[slim thorn]

it wasn't a big deal for me, but I guess most of my early game climbing was in caves, and I found the quest for the anti-slip outfit pretty early so I had more pieces of it as I got farther into the game

[rancid herald]

"Why isn't this game just desert?"

[arctic fern]

FYI theres the #1067547311640678480 thread
ad rain is still a thing because its used as a puzzel mechanic
but you can get potions and armour to deal with it now so thats neat

[rancid herald]

anyway

it was annoying game design

I tried playing diablo with the controller but it seems like I have to manually map each button ?

[slim thorn]

wow

I've only ever had that experience in an emulator

[rancid herald]

it might not be the case... I tried the remapping and it didn't seem to recognize my controller so it might be a battlenet thing

[quiet swift]

It might be your controller or bnet or something, yeah. Should be remappable

[bleak lintel]

Xbox and PlayStation controllers should be premapped.

[chilly mural]

New Sor pfp

[rancid herald]

it should be but here we are

[thorny loom]

you should ask DSP how he feels about that lol

[wintry canopy]

I'm currently participating in the master duel monster type festival and pretty well with the Lab loaner deck. I'm totally going to make a Lab deck next.

[wintry canopy]

it was going well.

[wind stump]

it goes well until it doesn't

such is life

[graceful bridge]

https://youtu.be/oPUMd-Dxvvk

[wintry canopy]

I just got the duel mate you could get by participating in the festival, and with that done I'm going to bed.

[dire gate]

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/19/23797238/microsoft-activision-blizzard-merger-agreement-extension

Expected

[quiet swift]

What's the tl;dr?

[graceful bridge]

1. It was not a Civ killer
2. It had some bad bugs out of the gate that pushed some people away, but have since been fixed.
3. It has a thriving mod community, but there's just not enough players to really support big mods.
4. It's a fun game, but plays rather different to Civ, so people looking for a Civ alternate may bounce off it.
5. Worth buying on sale just to try it out, last big Steam sale had it 80% off.

Oh, and the console port is likely dead.

[cloud tree]

Ah, it feels so good to go back to Rayman Origins after so many years

My old save file was still on my PC! I deleted it tho. I want a new experience

[quiet swift]

I did try it when it was a... demo? Open beta? The combat felt too different to me to really enjoy

[graceful bridge]

The combat is very different. It's much more tactical, you have to plan your moves well and take terrain into account. It's fun in its own way... but most of the time I'd rather just do it the Civ way.

[wind stump]

This is why you don't label things an "X killer"

[graceful bridge]

The company didn't. Overhyped fans did.

[slim thorn]

did the Humankind devs use that label, or was it a public zeitgeist thing?

[wind stump]

ahhhh overhyped fans

Okay, fair enough then

[slim thorn]

zeitgeist, got it

[gaunt marten]

It's no no man's sky

[young creek]

sometimes it works

its time to ditch skype :')

[gaunt marten]

Remember when Breath of the Wild was hyped as the next Cod Killer?

Because if so you need to check your faculties

[young creek]

Of course I remember this real event

[slim thorn]

I haven't heard that

[gaunt marten]

I bet @Clyde remembers. We need him in Manechat

[young creek]

Might be worth transfering manechats entire userbase to a server with Clyde

[gaunt marten]

Good old gullible bot

[dire gate]

Well Link eats a lot of fishes, I'd assume some of them are cods

[arctic fern]

that pretty much sums up my whole experience with the game

[graceful bridge]

Yeah. Turns out, I prefer the civ building aspect more than the combat aspect of 4x games.

[graceful bridge]

https://www.humblebundle.com/software/raiders-ghouls-scifi-modern-wasteland-3d-printable-bundle-software

[rancid herald]

What was the combat like? Instances like games like endless legend/age of wonders 4?

[quiet swift]

https://twitter.com/InvincibleGtG/status/1681333009079828483

Invincible: Guarding the Globe (@InvincibleGtG)

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[slim thorn]

this feels like overkill for guarding a single item

[visual hill]

look at the track's location

[slim thorn]

it's spelled with one l

[mossy flume]

Nice

[mossy flume]

Keys just so that sometimes, don’t worry about it

[slim thorn]

interesting that the biome 1 and 3 fragments practically gave themselves to me immediately, but biome 2 is still hiding its

I'm just running around with a spitmaw now for variety's sake

welp, I cleared literally every room in the biome and went back looking for green triangles on the map and turned out ||tanking the glowy red water was the answer ||

[mossy flume]

You should have an upgrade by now which lets you walk in that water

Among other hazards

I could tell you what zone has it if needed

[feral tulip]

https://twitter.com/Bee_Kirby/status/1680773450993115146?t=ptb8iurlTCHuVEAS7zBtHw&s=19

🏳️‍⚧️🐝Bee'Jam Blues🐝🏳️‍⚧️ (@Bee_Kirby)

attack names for the first boss in a kirby game vs. attack names for the last boss in a kirby game

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504

Twitter · Jul 17, 2023, 2:56 AM

[dire gate]

Two planets approach the Roche Limit

[slim thorn]

I actually looked that up earlier since I do not have it, I'll probably try to find it when I'm back in b5 but since the game apparently lets you never get it it's probably too late for it to matter

[mossy flume]

You can loop back around and pick it up

But yeah, it’s possible to miss

[slim thorn]

right at the time I had no idea I missed anything

and I already have fragments 1-3 which iirc are all the places that had red pools anyway

but anyway time for b4

[slim thorn]

oh right, b4 also has red pools welp that one was also tankable

[thorny loom]

It was okay but not a civ killer

[slim thorn]

#Returnal: I like how the translation accuracy ||plummets back to 1% when it becomes obvious this was never alien writing to begin with||

[mossy flume]

Heh I never noticed that

[slim thorn]

oh, actually, this is my favorite example:

||the first time I bumped into it I had to stop and go... "wait, would aliens have 'rearview mirrors'? "||

[wind stump]

[slim thorn]

#Returnal: uh... I've never seen you here before

[mossy flume]

⚫

[thorny loom]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2357570/Overwatch_2/

Steam

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“You could not live with your own failure. Where did that bring you? Back to me.”

[arctic fern]

stop giving overwatch any thought

its not worth your time

[sage raptor]

True but I hate battle.net

[thorny loom]

Its just hilarious to see them put it on steam

Really wish they would put starcraft 2 on steam

[quiet swift]

Damnit. Not only did you post it before me, you posted the exact same quote I was thinking of when I first saw this news

[slim thorn]

#Returnal: wooooow the 5th fragment made me feel stupid for redoing this whole area

also I still haven't found the upgrade that's allegedly here despite redoing nearly every room

||now I've done every accessible b5 room, but I see one unused door high up on the map that appears to be linked to a translocator I maybe could've reached when I first entered and can't now; I'm going to assume it's hiding there and just move on to fragment 6||

[mossy flume]

It was a bit tricky to find, I’m not sure if it even spawns every time but I think it does

I think it was down low when I picked it up

[slim thorn]

welp I'm already in b6

...they better not have put it behind this yellow forcefield door

and no I do not care about the datacubes

let's finish this

sure, rub it in why don't you

||"This will be the last time I return."||

I have found the house

...oh

of course

[wind stump]

THE ARCHER CLASS
IS MADE UP
OF ARCHERS

[quiet swift]

This has similar energy to this

[thorny loom]

Space genshin

[thorny loom]

I can see through her hair on the eye

[slim thorn]

that's a standard anime thing yes

[wind stump]

that is also from the same series, funnily enough
Fate sure does love its weird redundant writing

[slim thorn]

to be fair, the meme line was a translation "error"

I'm not familiar with the archer line but my guess is that in the original text it was defining the English word with the Japanese word (I've read FSN, so I know it used the English "archer") and there was another failure to properly localize that into something less literal

[wind stump]

I blame UBW because that's the first result i got

[quiet swift]

Both of these are Fate screenshots aren't they

God damnit Fate

[wind stump]

[slim thorn]

I suppose that one could be snarking about how many of the Archers don't seem to ever use a bow

[wind stump]

Or as Nero would say
Umu! (TL Note: Umu means Indeed)

(that's not actually a translation, it's just that one of the last episodes of Fate Last/Encore I watched had dubbed voice with subs and so I actually learned what Nero means when she says umu)

[slim thorn]

I suppose I've been doing a casual speedrun so this is all the equipment I have on me for this last bit

all I need is electropylons, right?

confirmed: all you need is electropylons

[mossy flume]

Yep

That boss was kinda maddening otherwise

[slim thorn]

final stats page

I think the only thing left for me to do now is check out the Tower

[slim thorn]

wheeeee I vibed again

I'm gonna keep going until this place finally kills me and call that my score; I'm curious how far I can get but otherwise I think I'm about ready to move on to another game

[unreal idol]

It's been a while since I've heard the audio and I'm by no means an expert in this franchise. I think the line is accurate, it's just nonsensical without context. The context is comparing humans to Servants, and I belive its difficult/harder/impossible to kill Servants in normal methods. Hence, "(regular) people die when they are killed"

I think at least

This franchise is nuts

[slim thorn]

right, that's why I put "error" in quotes

I haven't heard the original line in ages either but what I remember is that to an experienced speaker he's "obviously" contrasting human frailty with all the superhuman nonsense going on

[unreal idol]

Yeah basically

[slim thorn]

and the chosen English phrasing was just so overly literal it came off as idiotic

[wind stump]

yes but no context fate is funny

[wintry canopy]

I started making a Lab deck, I've been playing in the festival and found I like the play style. Here's how it's coming along.

[wind stump]

*not actually a fate line but this is a line i adore

and now i have to binge Unlimited Blade Works Abridged again
Fuck I swear this and SAO Abridged are two things I keep coming back to grumble grumble

[slim thorn]

how am I not dead yet!? I brought a shotgun to a long-range boss fight I've never done before!

[slim thorn]

finally died in phase 3, though it was as much carelessness as anything else

oh that's what the planet's name means, really should've looked that one up sooner

ok, these are my Tower of Sisyphus stats after that one attempt:

empirically speaking, I am 2.5% above exactly average!

ok, now I'm done with Returnal

[wintry canopy]

I just got to Gold tier 5 in master duel.

[wintry canopy]

My Lab deck got some big updates.

[quiet swift]

Reminder, these two closing soon

[dire gate]

[arctic fern]

88: two purple pikmin

Btw #1122665553341984808 exists

[dire gate]

I feel like a purple pikmin

[arctic fern]

Man I'm hype for this game

[mossy flume]

I’m amazed that I live in a world where I can play a major PC game like the Mass Effect trilogy in a remastered edition on a portable handheld device like Steam Deck and it runs at a solid 60FPS and just… everything works.

[sage raptor]

It is magical

[thorny loom]

Im commander shepherd and this is my favorite post on the citadel.

[peak berry]

AK74U

[wintry canopy]

There's two new Sunbreak event quests. Swole Simian Silliness and Lunag-awoooooooon!

[arctic fern]

mass effect is, what, 12 years old now? even remastered they only did so much to the graphics

2007 for ME1, 16 years

its a nostalgic game now

[uneven epoch]

i still have the, what's it name, ultimate edition? complete edition? either way i have that downloaded when i bought it cheap on sale. as soon as i need another extended break from ff14 (important to take breaks when playin mmos, no matter how much fun they are) (though when that will occur exactly is a mystery), i plan to make a mass effect thread bc it will be my first time ever playin the triology. quite literally the only things i know about the games is that 1) its space game 2) main character is called sheppherd (sheppard? somethin akin to that) and 3) a blue alien guy is the popular romance pick

well, and that its a bioware game series

[arctic fern]

back when bioware was good, yeah

its a really good series

[uneven epoch]

i played the dragon age triology that was very fun and i enjoyed it a lot

I'm a bit wary bc space settings aren't rlly my thing, but if the companions are as well written n have fun interactions like the dragon age ones im confident ill manage

[arctic fern]

im commander shepherd and this is my favourite store in the citadel

[hasty patio]

I still need to do a run through ME. I played the original back on the 360, karma breaks and all and have two versions of the "complete" edition (360 and PC respectfully).

[random steppe]

ME really nails the big blockbuster space action movie feel, so if that's your thing you should go for it

Also IMO, go for female Shepard, I'm sorry, the dude is okay, but the female version VA is just better

[arctic fern]

its still one of the best scifi RPG games out there
its really well done, a believable universe, fun characters

[uneven epoch]

well, that was gonna be my pick anyway

one of these days games will finally have a nb voiced protagonist choice n then i will vibe thru the stratosphere

[uneven epoch]

its, not really, but like i said as long as the characters are fun im willin to bear with the space stuff

afterall thats how i expect endwalker to go when i get there in a few months to years ||the moon's haunted n i so wish i didnt have to bother but if i dont go itll make alphi sad, so begrudgingly i shall board the space ship||

[quiet swift]

I think male shep is the only one that has the best/most unexpected line in the games though. (bringi don't click) ||I'm sorry, I'm having trouble hearing you- I'm getting a lot of bullshit on this line.||

[arctic fern]

omg i didnt know that line existed

[tawny jacinth]

Honestly I feel like OW2 must be in a terrible state if Blizzard is bringing it to Steam

Since they’re giving up 30% of their revenue for more player reach

[astral steeple]

they are apparently bringing it to the EGS as well in the future

not fully confirmed yet though but some stuff points to it

as well as them possibly collabing with fort

cause Blizzard recently DMCA'ing a fort modder who ported OW2 characters into the game claiming the modder "leaked future content"

kinda dumb on blizzard's part to even reveal that within the DMCA itself lol

[bleak lintel]

Blizzard continued to engage the Overwatch® and Warcraft® communities with live operations in the second quarter. While engagement and player investment in Overwatch 2 declined sequentially in the quarter, the Overwatch team is looking forward to the August 10 release of Overwatch 2: Invasion. This will be the largest seasonal update yet, planned to include new PVE Story Missions, a new game mode, and a new hero progression system as well as an additional hero.

So yes, OW2 has been in decline after they killed the pve mode.

[astral steeple]

is OW2 even worth jumping into lol

i had kinda wanted to get into it cause the pride event last month, but never ended up actually downloading it

[bleak lintel]

I hear it has one of the worst battle passes in gaming.

[astral steeple]

oof

[gaunt marten]

So it's just a pass with no battle

[young creek]

i dont think it can lose to Hearthstone having two battle passes

[quiet swift]

I keep seeing that as a game, the fighting and the stuff in the matches? It's really good and fun. As a product, battlepasses and all, it's terrible

[astral steeple]

probably not worth getting into if the battle pass system as a whole sucks then

[gaunt marten]

I still don't know what a battle pass is for sure. It's like an in-game purchase where you pay money and then have to do in-game activities to earn a bunch of stuff on a predetermined list?

But if you don't play you get nothing?

[astral steeple]

yeah you basically buy the battle pass, and then level up by playing to earn the rewards from the tiers

[bleak lintel]

Usually battle passes have a free tier too. It's design to keep people playing so the community is healthy.

[astral steeple]

yeah

[bleak lintel]

Except OW BP seems to be very grindy and slow so it does the opposite.

People stop playing because they don't feel it's worth their time.

And shooters is a crowded scene compared to the golden era of Overwatch.

[gaunt marten]

It feels kinda silly to pay and also have to play or else you don't get rewards, so I hope the free tier is reasonable

[dire gate]

The premise goes something like "you pay $20, you get less value if you don't play after that, but if you play enough you get more than $20 value"

Usually

[bleak lintel]

Blizzard is also a very stubborn company that doesn't seem to course correct until things are in a dire state.

[dire gate]

Many BPs have instant rewards, but very often they aren't equivalent of what you pay for

[bleak lintel]

Which is why all eyes are on the Diablo team after they released one of the worst balance patches in gaming history.

[dire gate]

Most of the times it's definitely beneficial if you are going to play the game anyway

[astral steeple]

like with fort, theres 100 main tiers, with 30 or so free tiers

then after tier 100 is 100 more bonus rewards for the people up for the challenge

with its Battle pass its only like 8 dollars

other games have done a similar thing but are usually a bit more expensive

[bleak lintel]

Most games you don't have to buy the BP at the start, you can wait until you've progressed it then pay.

[dire gate]

Yeah modern BPs are pretty flexible about such situations

[young creek]

I think in Fortnite the battle pass gives you more than enough currency to buy the next battle pass too which is pretty good

[astral steeple]

yeah fort's can be bought at any point in the season as well

the free tiers are like sprinkled throughout

yeah you get 1500 vbucks total

so you basically can just keep buying the next one

[dire gate]

IF done correctly, it is basically an improved subscription plan

[astral steeple]

they also have the crew subscription service that gives you the battle pass instantly just for owning the crew pack, and then 1000 bonus vbucks and a whole skin set

which is 12 dollars a month

so thats even more worth it than just buying the battle pass itself

[dire gate]

Honestly I personally don't think bad BP itself should be a huge problem in a decent game, since one can simply ignore it, but usually a game with a bad BP system is bad by itself

[astral steeple]

yeah

pubg mobile being one lol

pubg mobile actually annoys the hell out of me

like

i like the console version

but the phone version has the dumb crate shit

like you have to spend like 500 dollars just to even get the chance to get the dragon ball skins

and thats only the two goku versions, two vegeta versions, and then frieza

not even counting both gohans and piccolo

which isnt available for like 24 more days

[dire gate]

This may be a hot take but actually I don't care much about the pricing of cosmetics

[astral steeple]

yeah same

im fine with the prices of cosmetics if theyre like able to be directly bought

but if its the crate shit then hell no

like with fort the most expensive skins in its shop are only 20 dollars/2000 something vbucks at most

below that the skins are usually 1500 vbucks, 1200 vbucks, or 800 vbucks

though recently theyve been bundling skins with the other items in the set for that skin

so its only the 2000 something vbucks for the bundle to get all the items instead

[dire gate]

I'm probably the least against-randombox/gacha person in this entire server so

[astral steeple]

id have less of an issue with loot crates/etc if it wasnt that expensive and RNG based

like going back to the pubg mobile thing

not even worth spending 500 dollars to get the dragon ball skins

like at least with Fort, to get all the dragon ball items with their bundles, its like 13k vbucks

which is only 84 dollars

somewhat pricey still but its at least kinda reasonable given how many dragon ball skins and other cosmetics there are in the game

[sage iris]

https://youtu.be/tYxZ_LOlFnU

[slim thorn]

I don't have strong opinions on the pricing of purely cosmetic microtransactions, the bigger issues imo are when these games either obfuscate what their prices are, and/or deliberately encourage a culture of shaming free or low-paying players as if it's inherently wrong to not want to be a whale

[gaunt marten]

On the other hand shaming whales is always morally correct

[slim thorn]

if one happens to be a whale, is financially fortunate enough that this is affordable, and one's game has none of these deeper predatory design issues... then I'd be fine with it

how many microtransaction games actually pass that bar I have no idea

[wind stump]

like at least with Fort, to get all the dragon ball items with their bundles, its like 13k vbucks

which is**only 84 dollars **
for cosmetics
"oh but it's reasonable because of how many skins there are-"
I'm going to put this politely

that's a fucking ridiculous standard of "value"

you are paying more than a AAA game
for a cosmetic pack
in a f2p game

that's absurd. i say this as a gacha player fully aware of how much i've spent, i'm aware i'm part of the problem, but holy shit i don't buy $80 bundles

[gaunt marten]

80 one dollar bundles

[astral steeple]

i mean

ive spent like 14k usd on the game since july of 2019 lol

ive never had an issue with the prices of the cosmetics

im at like 1,411 skins at the moment

[static bluff]

[astral steeple]

out of the 1500 something skins

[uneven epoch]

[astral steeple]

also with the dragon ball stuff, its not a single 80 dollar bundle

its multiple bundles together that equal the amount

with 3 of them released later on

after the original bundles came out

[uneven epoch]

i dont think ur gonna convince anyone that's a sensible purchase no matter how u frame it

[static bluff]

Jello. Tree.

[astral steeple]

to me it was worth it

[static bluff]

Every time general gaming lights up and it's fortnite talk again i'm like 😞

[arctic fern]

THIS IS NOT A GOOD THING
THIS IS AN ADDICTION
PLEASE, IM BEING 100% SERIOUS HERE, GET PROFESSIONAL HELP
IM NOT JOKING OR BEING SARCASTIC, THIS IS GENUINE SHOCK AND CONCERN

[astral steeple]

its not an addiction tho

its a hobby for me

also its not like im disregarding my rent and food, etc completely and blowing through my paychecks

i make enough that im able to buy the skins and stuff in the game

without causing issues

[arctic fern]

You could buy a car, or a down-payment on a house
But you bought skins

[astral steeple]

i dont need a car

and im fine where im at

dont need to buy a house

plus i cant live on my own at all

so where im at is fine

[graceful bridge]

Sorry I missed your question. Yeah, combat in Humankind is like Endless Legend.

[astral steeple]

my city is small enough that everywhere i need to go is within walking/biking distance

so a car would be a complete waste of money

plus gas

not even worth buying

[uneven epoch]

again, you arent goin to convince anyone. lets just collectively drop it

[quiet swift]

Tunic: dear fucking lord, these alligators fucking suck

[tawny jacinth]

And here I thought I was bad with my $1k TF2 backpack

But atleast I could cash out if I wanted

[uneven epoch]

stop. this topic is over

[thorny loom]

https://www.pcgamer.com/its-a-gundam-shame-yet-another-live-service-game-goes-the-way-of-the-dodo-after-barely-a-year/

another one bites the dust

[little badger]

I have a spare code for The Crew Motorfest closed Beta if you’d like it since it’s an EU code @visual hill

[sage raptor]

https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2023/07/20/what-happened-to-dolphin-on-steam/

Dolphin devs finally talk about what happened

Tl;dr, they're legally in the right, but dolphin is not going to be on steam

[dire gate]

The whole emulation industry is frankly in a legal gray zone anyway, there is no reason for them to try too hard

It's not like Dolphin would announce "Uhh actually we violated law and we were almost fucked" anyway

Nintendo talked with their own lawyers, Dolphin did the same

[unreal idol]

Yeah them trying to get on Steam was ultra paint huffing mode

[arctic fern]

well not really

legally they're in the right as they said, otherwise nintendo would ahve shut them down a decade ago, but steam didnt wanna risk it

[dire gate]

Can't really tell what is going to happen when they try to argue everything on court, it is a total mystery at this point what would the legal decision will be. Both have point of arguments and both have lawyers behind them. The "legal protection" emulators have is old and vague.

Nobody, including the game corps, want to challenge it

And I'm pretty sure that goes same to emulators

They don't want to challenge it

And frankly they don't have to

It is good as it is now

17 U.S.C. § 1201(f) is a significant legal protection for emulation in the US, and it is why Nintendo has yet to legally challenge any emulator with the DMCA anti-circumvention clauses despite the law going into effect 25 years ago. Unless a court rules that our understanding of the law is incorrect, we have every reason to believe that our decryption of Wii game discs is covered by this exemption.

[heady bridge]

To be honest, not really sure why Dolphin wanted to be on Steam in the first place, if anything being in that crowded storefront makes you less visible...

[dire gate]

This is a really sketchy argument; it can mean that "the decision is simply so rigid that no one will ever argue and it is there for 25 years untouched", but can also mean that "the decision is old as hell and honestly who knows what will happen"

And afaik it is more likely the latter; but it's too risky for anyone to actually go for legal dispute anyway

[sage raptor]

Cloud saves

I use RetroArch on steam for cloud save parity between my PCs + steam deck

[sudden magnet]

Aren't emulators legal so long as they don't include any proprietary files (BIOS)?

[dire gate]

It's not "written in law", it just have few decade old court decisions. But yes, as far as nothing happens it is mostly covered as reverse engineering and is protected at least partially.

[sudden magnet]

DOSBox is an emulator, but uses no files from any version of DOS, and is often packaged with games to make them work properly.

I know EA uses it to get very old titles working.

[dire gate]

The current state of emulation, I would say, is in "undocumented mutual peace agreement"

Like either side don't want to go too aggressive and try to deal with potential legal mess.

It's not like corps can't murder a single emulator anyway, they can sue them multiple times and kill their business with legal cost

Sony lost their DMCA case against Bleem, but the whole legal dispute was just enough to make Bleem shut down due to the cost.

A single YT video can't be an enough reference, but here's something related : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wROQUZDCIMI

Interestingly the uploader just made this comment:

I skimmed through the blog post after reading your comment, and it does not look good. If they are going to continue pushing forward like this, they need to consult a lawyer. The video goes into why 1201(f) isn't a sufficient remedy for Nintendo's present argument: it's not enough to say, here's 1201(f) without justification for why 1201(f) is a cure for a 1201(a) argument, and that justification doesn't presently exist in the law, nor is the offered rationale in any way compelling. I need to take the time to write up a proper response when I am at a computer and not just using a phone.

Dolphin also isn't paying attention... they didn't read the footnotes, which puts exactly such a legal action on the table.

They really ought to lay low and relax with these blog posts, especially if they are going to make legal arguments in them justifying their decision without the requisite legal knowledge. This is unnecessary and foolhardy behavior.

[arctic fern]

this is why they didnt make a blog post till they had more info
their initial one was ill-informed and they knew it but didnt want to say anything incase they made it worse

[heady bridge]

My view is did they need to say anything at all? Really what they should of done after the (frankly unnecessary) attempt to be listed on Steam failed they should of just shut their mouths, put their heads down and carried on the good work they do with their emulator.

[dire gate]

It did seem like Nintendo simply just wanted them off Steam

Honestly the whole 'letter' just sounded like a warning

More than "we are coming, you are fucked"

[heady bridge]

I feel them doing this whole Steam listing thing was basically for publicity, but that's playing with fire when it comes to Nintendo, especially with something with legal grey areas like emulation has, it felt like that the previous status quo was at least something Nintendo could turn a blind eye to.

[slim thorn]

work's out, time to play Sable (in the quiet vc)

[little badger]

@graceful bridge

[slim thorn]

[little badger]

Did you push the button?

[slim thorn]

it told me to stop pushing the button

[little badger]

[visual hill]

I don't have much time this weekend unfortunately, so feel free to give it to someone else

thanks for the offer nonetheless

[wind stump]

bruh, i got advertised a Touhou fangame in a Touhou fangame

[slim thorn]

they know their audience

[little badger]

No problem!

[wind stump]

It's not even the same developer!

They just randomly shout out another 2hu fangame because reasons???

Fuck, I guess it works!

The kicker is that Lost Branch of Legend launched BEFORE Dreamland of Infinity!

that is a 200% baller move, ngl

[tawny jacinth]

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/19/23799550/activision-blizzard-esports-layoffs-overwatch-league-owl

??? Wtf happened to Overwatch lmfao

[wind stump]

it fell off

• ratio

• TF2 actually fucking updated

[weak river]

Still in shock

[wind stump]

eh they did announce it earlier in the year

[tawny jacinth]

Deadass TF2 hit new player count records while Overwatch 2 completely implodes

[wind stump]

i was hoping for a new weapon or balance changes but

at least the weapon skins look rad

[weak river]

New weapons/balance adjustments would have been great, for sure. That being said, I'll take what I can get.

Adding a new gamemode was certainly not something I had anticipated, at least.

[fresh bane]

all TF2 had to do was add a cute seal into the game and a new all time peak players has been reached

https://youtu.be/UX_jqkk3Q5I

this one's for the TF2 haters who always laughed at TF2 calling it a dead game

[white phoenix]

remember when matpat called tf2 a dying game in 2017

I member

[sage raptor]

I remember when matpat said the pyro was a gay man because his ring finger was the same length as his index finger

He deleted that video

[white phoenix]

wait that vid's gone now?

lol

[sage raptor]

Matpat has done irreparable harm to gaming discussion and I hate him :)

[green fulcrum]

Lol, this is literally the devs (or is it just the one guy that's still standing?) just f*cking around and adding random shit because they can. I love it

[white phoenix]

I was under the impression that it's a fanmade map

[thorny loom]

Didnt help that overwatch 2 basically killed its main selling point with gutting the pve mode

[thorny loom]

It is. Valve just took it and said here. Content and buy lootboxes and stop saying our game is dead

“Were busying working on csgo 2”

[sage raptor]

Community maps can and do become official. Happens in CS as well.

[thorny loom]

[thorny loom]

Between 2017 and 2020 yeah it basically was

Then valve showed their actually doing stuff besides steam with half life alyx

[white phoenix]

except it never left steam's top 10 at all

a lot of things in that video were wrong when he posted it

[thorny loom]

Granted i don’t remember much of any updates for it during that time frame other than bug fixes

[slim thorn]

I like these floaty worm things

[fresh bane]

what

the only Pyro 'theory' I remember reading was that Pyro is actually a girl but I don't think that ever had any substantial reason to it and it was more just fans wanting to make that up, though it eventually came true that the original/classic Pyro is an old woman in the comics

[fresh bane]

Honestly as much as people say that it is dying and all that and I understand why they say it surprisingly enough TF2 never really lost that spot in internet popularity and despite falling off a little bit it never quite completely went away and a lot of people have been consistently playing, community content being created constantly, viral memes popping up from TF2 every now and again

[green fulcrum]

Valve, to ex-Overwatch players: "You could not live with your own failure. Where did that bring you? Back to me."

[slim thorn]

apparently I'm channeling Nire today because after Sable's tutorial I went immediately into this world's giant desert and have been stuck doing random stuff here for hours

[sage raptor]

Valve has teased the gender thing many times. In the main menu there used to be a stat thing that was like "5 kill streak with pyro. Can you beat her?" Which was patched a week later. There's also the official subtitles in the Meet the Pyro video using both pronouns.

[astral steeple]

completely random but if the next nintendo console is called the Switch 2 that is such a missed opportunity

it should be called the Super Nintendo Switch lol

[arctic fern]

The Nintendo Entertainment Switch

[slim thorn]

Nintendo Amusement Rectangle

[wind stump]

Nintendo's Awesome Device for Software

or NADS

[slim thorn]

Famicom 2020

[mossy flume]

Switcheroo

[rancid herald]

my favorite is calling it the Swiitch

[quiet swift]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5_5aYk4WMo on the more positive side of overwatch, part three!

[wintry canopy]

I've made a few more decks in master duel, I started with Dragonmaids.

[white phoenix]

While they did do this for the SNES, I fear that naming their next console that might make it seem like it's only a mild upgrade akin to the ps4 pro and xbox one x

could be a wii u situation all over again

[fresh bane]

I so hope they're gonna repeat the Wii U situation with the next console

Just because it would be so hilarious

[sage raptor]

"Super Switch" is still way less confusing than "New 3DS" or "Wii U", plus there's already precedent for it

[white phoenix]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgqGdIoa52s

[fresh bane]

Considering there's already the Switch OLED and Switch Lite the only way I can see anyone thinking a new Nintendo console isn't some form of add-on or different version of the already existing Switch is if it doesn't have the word Switch in it at all

[fresh bane]

not the remastered Peter face /s

did they change MJ's face too? She looks so different and so much older

[white phoenix]

Yes

not sure how I feel about it

[fresh bane]

She looks like she's 40, which isn't necessarily a bad thing at all, but she just looks like a completely different person, more like MJ's mom than MJ herself

and Pete somehow looks younger

[white phoenix]

and miles hair

it'll all take some getting used to

I keep on mixing up peter and harry in the trailer because they look so similar

[fresh bane]

I kinda like Miles' new 'do but I do associate Miles more with the buzz cut than any other hairstyle

Also how the hell do you manage to get that hair in the mask?

[white phoenix]

magic

[fresh bane]

I don't know how to feel about || Harry || being Venom but I'm not super opposed to it, I'm very suspicious of Osborn though since I don't think we've seen anything about a Green Goblin in the previous games I guess he's a good guy in this universe...?

[slim thorn]

at this point who hasn't been Venom

[white phoenix]

actually, we did see his helmet in the previous game

[fresh bane]

I don't remember that

[slim thorn]

twice I've read actually really good comics where Gwen was Venom

[fresh bane]

me, I wanna!

[white phoenix]

It's hidden as a little easter egg when you go snooping around as MJ in his apartment

[fresh bane]

Weird, I guess he dropped the villain alter ego?

[white phoenix]

it makes me think that venom is the "villain" in the first part, and green goblin is going to be the big bad at the end

[fresh bane]

Or maybe it's just an easter egg and nothing more

[white phoenix]

it's a prototype helmet

[fresh bane]

Ohhh so not yet then

interesting interesting

[white phoenix]

[river veldt]

shouldn't this game be called Spider-Men since there's two Spider-Mans

[fresh bane]

Well there's definitely stuff I'm on the fence about but I'm still relatively open to see how the story is gonna play out, I'm down for Kraven getting some love in media and hopefully a faithful-ish adaptation of Last Hunt

[white phoenix]

mr negative's in the trailer too looking john wicky

[river veldt]

Mr Negative

i hope Big Wheel is in this game

otherwise it's an instant 0/4 from me

[fresh bane]

Considering he looks kinda unkempt and in orange clothing I'm willing to bet he's been in prison and hasn't really been grooming himself

If only Mr. Negative used our special Manechat 20% off code for today's sponsor Manscaped

[slim thorn]

I was going to say "unlike all those immaculately groomed prison inmates"

but then I remembered how many supervillains canonically have extremely cushy prison lives

[river veldt]

yeah also in real life

Al Capone had a very cushy prison life

is Al Capone like an irl supervillain

[slim thorn]

street-level heroes in general have a lot of villains who could arrange that

depending on how exactly one defines a "supervillain", there've been a lot of irl ones, and he might count

[fresh bane]

Kinda the reason why so many supervillains and criminals are still a thing in these contexts is because whenever they go to prison they're usually (usually) powerful and corrupt enough to basically be a time-out punishment and if they're mentally unstable then they're pretty much just kept on a cage and not really being given any serious treatment and probably just abused by guards and what not, or just ignored entirely

[slim thorn]

we've certainly had lots of charismatic celebrity criminals

[river veldt]

Spider-Man Noir vs Al Capone

i forgot Capone got jail time for tax evasion and not the other things

[fresh bane]

I don't think Spiderman Noir would have many issues with al capone considering that Peter doesn't really have that many problems with just shooting his problems in the face

[slim thorn]

granted, the real life criminal kingpins usually don't end up kickboxing a superhuman in spandex to defend their underworld empire

[fresh bane]

not with that attitude

[sage raptor]

hopefully we can change that someday

[slim thorn]

has organized crime ever been taken down by a vigilante irl?

[fresh bane]

I don't know nearly enough about that to really properly answer that question but I'm going to guess no

[slim thorn]

yeah I'm not aware of any

[river veldt]

actually now that i think about it, does Spider-Man ever really have problems with the police like Batman does ?

[fresh bane]

I know vigilante justice has worked with some individual criminals before but organized crime and mafias being taken down even just temporarily by just the one dude? Extremely unlikely

[fresh bane]

Yes?

[slim thorn]

the only vigilantes I can think of with good PR are either a) in contexts like the wild west where vigilante justice was kinda the default anyway, or b) the folk heroes like Robin Hood and Ishikawa Goemon who weren't really "super" (if you ignore the later mythologizing)

[fresh bane]

He's a vigilante still, he's always had trouble with police

Eventually both Batman and Spiderman in some instances manage to get the police's trust and if you get some stories of them after years of being in the mask they even work with the police but still

[slim thorn]

Spider-Man and Batman have both had times when the police did and did not like them for various reasons

[fresh bane]

Having finished 2099 a little while ago whenever Peter and Miguel switch places in time and the cops are chasing Peter around in 2099 one of the things he comments is how at least that hasn't changed from where he comes from

[river veldt]

well

sorry for forgetting i guess

[slim thorn]

I believe the default is for Batman to have a more contentious relationship with the police, except Gordon personally, but that's more because Batman is always the darker broodier character

Spider-Man is just really hard to see as a menace to society if you've ever interacted with him in person rather than swallow JJJ's propaganda

[river veldt]

also basically all the cops in Gotham are corrupt

[slim thorn]

yeah, while Marvel New York cops are... however corrupt they need to be for Kingpin to work, but that depends what story arc we're in

[fresh bane]

and also because the police usually also have a bit of an insecurity problem with this guy in a furry costume making a mockery of them and making them look inept, which, they are, but they don't wanna admit that obviously

[slim thorn]

I prefer outclassed over inept

[river veldt]

what was that guys name in Batman TAS

[slim thorn]

but yeah in these worlds no one's given cops the equipment they'd need to reliably take down superhuman criminals

(there are many superhero storylines in which this happens, but it's always temporary or in a separate continuity or whatever, because part of the superhero genre is being just like our world but with added special people)

[white phoenix]

this guy in a furry costume
shoot, when you put it like that...

[river veldt]

a lot of superheroes are in furry costumes

[slim thorn]

don't forget the guys who straight-up get genetically or magically altered into anthro animals, no costume involved

[river veldt]

Cheetah

Cheetah Lady

[slim thorn]

Man-Bat, Lizard, Cheetah, etc

[river veldt]

Man-Bat is very funny to me idk why

[fresh bane]

Yeah that's a better way to put it

[teal sonnet]

Ok I have a theory who is Venom, and I am very very sure about it after this trailer.... || Will be Peter. Miles will need to try save his ass ||

[fresh bane]

To be fair, even when non-super villains are involved, the cops still are relatively totally outclassed by Batman, I do enjoy whenever they make Batman and the cops somewhat of a team, not fully working together but the cops knowing when to take advantage of an opportunity and doing whatever they can to solve the situation

[river veldt]

that's an interesting theory

[fresh bane]

Only to immediately go like ''this doesn't mean we're not gonna arrest you tho!'' after the crime is done

[fresh bane]

Pretty sure they already all but confirmed it's Harry since we see Miles and Pete fighting Venom in promotional material and they kinda just outright said it during a presentation

[slim thorn]

which comes back to why did Bruce spend all that money on bat-gadgets instead of urban renewal

[teal sonnet]

oh sadge

[white phoenix]

yeah and in the first game, harry is shown with the symbiote

[slim thorn]

(Nire knows this but for everyone else: at least in modern comics Bruce usually is also investing in urban renewal)

[fresh bane]

and then Batman White Knight addresses that question by forcing Batman to share his tech with local law enforcement

[teal sonnet]

Idk inside me still feels like they bating us

[slim thorn]

yeah White Knight was one of the separate continuities I was thinking of when I said that earlier

[teal sonnet]

like they wanna do stuff different

Also I do wonder if spiderverse made them change stuff on miles

not that need

[fresh bane]

And yeah I don't know exactly when it happened but for most of the time by now Bruce focuses both on fighting crime directly and trying the best he can to use his power and money to indirectly and gradually make gotham a better place

[white phoenix]

the ui when you play as miles is definitely inspired by spider verse

[fresh bane]

which almost always ends up being an eternal battle and he never seems to make that much of a change if you consider Batman's history as a character as a whole I wish some stories did show how Bruce has impacted the city since he started being Batman and seeing the city at least become a little better

[teal sonnet]

also wtf, they changed mary jane?

[slim thorn]

my first thought there is of Kingdom Come, though you could easily argue that doesn't count

[teal sonnet]

whyyy

she was awesome before

[fresh bane]

well the overwhelming popularity of Spiderverse is inevitably going to have some effects on the main comic counterpart of these characters which I can't say is something I'm super fond of, except for Miles because Miles before had been a pretty boring and underwhelming character and the movies really helped out

[teal sonnet]

I want more Peni Parker stuff

[fresh bane]

Yeah I'm not happy at all with MJ's change

[teal sonnet]

her universe is awesome and needs more content

[slim thorn]

eh? Miles was great in his original Ultimate Spider-Man run (granted many of the later comics were meh, but that happens to everyone)

[teal sonnet]

I do really like Miles on the game

[fresh bane]

Well a lot of these different Spidermen don't really get their own comics to shine that much, Miles has been getting more popular, I don't know if Ghost Spider's comic is still ongoing but I always heard that it struggled with sales and staying afloat, and others like Noir, Peni, India have pretty little content and the main stuff was always the Edge of the Spiderverse stuff

And Shattered Dimensions which is still the best and arguably what started this whole Spiderverse craze

[teal sonnet]

Ghost Spider will for sure get more content

[fresh bane]

I haven't started 2099's second and third volume but I kept reading that it involves even more time and even dimension hopping which is kind of underwhelming because it feels like they don't want Miguel to shine on his own and rather share the spotlight with Peter and the main universe superheroes... I guess that's why so many people say that the 1992 run is still the best 2099 content out there

[astral steeple]

tbh i mainly want them to use Web Weaver spiderman in a game already lol

even if its just a costume in the new game

[teal sonnet]

Web Weaver still too new tho

but I would like it

[fresh bane]

Well I've always heard the same being repeated for a while even before ITSV that Miles was always kind of bland and after the Spiderverse movies and even the PS games everybody started talking about how much better Miles is than in the comics and how they did his character so much better

[astral steeple]

Web Weaver is one of my all time favorite spiderman based characters

Besides gwen

[teal sonnet]

I wanna see Silk in game or something

her design is just awesome

[fresh bane]

The Spiderverse movies even did the relationship between Miles and Gwen a lot better, that's something I remember seeing when I looked over the comic event a while ago now after the first movie I think, and not only was their relationship a lot more forced in that but there was also this weird age gap between them with Gwen being pretty much college aged and Miles still being in school, maybe he was a bit older by the time Spiderverse happened but he'd still be hovering around 15

The movies do the whole relationship a lot better and they don't overplay it too much, feels very natural

[fresh bane]

We all know there's a reason why Silk isn't around

Too many Peters

[astral steeple]

that randomly reminded me how in the web weaver universe, gwen is actually just straight up Morbius lol

[fresh bane]

yessir

I still very much do not like superhero outfits, especially a Spiderman outfit, that has any part of the body uncovered especially the face or hair for whatever reason but it works for Silk, I don't know why

It just works

oh god I accidentally did a Jojo reference

[astral steeple]

oh yeah Silk in the Web Weaver universe is a guy

[slim thorn]

yeah I think we're talking about entirely different comic arcs

the comic event called "Spider-Verse" was certainly mid

[fresh bane]

I'm talking about Miles' comics as a whole, although it's less about me and more about the general opinion surrounding him as a character, I did read a bit of him way back but it's been a while and even back then I personally wasn't interested in him and I'm still relatively uninterested in Miles even to this day

[slim thorn]

my impression is that he hasn't had an interesting solo run since USM, so that's probably why you heard what you did

[fresh bane]

maybe it's less about his comics being mid and more about the movies doing his character better but I'm probably not the one to argue that point since I'm not savvy on him

maybe, although I did hear people say he works better as a sidekick to Peter/whenever he shares the spotlight with Peter which is something I can probably see since I do enjoy him and Peter working together

[slim thorn]

his original USM run and the Spider-Verse movies are both excellent versions of the character, either being "better" would be mostly a personal preference thing

especially since the whole emotional arc with Prowler is very similar in both

the biggest differences are mostly due to one being a long-running comic with an established continuity and the other being a single original movie

for example the USM comic went into much more detail about his home and school situation (iirc the opening chapter is him getting into his first choice high school... by lottery, which touches on all sorts of rule 2 stuff), and his early meetings with Peter's friends and family were a lot more complicated and emotional on all sides

[gaunt marten]

My brother got second place in the Saudi Fighting Games League
https://fxtwitter.com/SaudiFGL/status/1682079292761489410

Dang, video is not previewing

He's to the right and he plays May. The Game is Guilty Gear Strive

I think the full video is this one?
https://twitch.tv/videos/1877117218

He definitely got filmed from a weird camera angle

[teal sonnet]

she just looks badass as hecc

[fresh bane]

yeah... badass...

[slim thorn]

ok, now we know what Nire's drawing next

[fresh bane]

lol nah I don't know much about Silk other than what immediately happened after Superior

I'm more a fan of Mayday who I'll probably end up drawing once I read through her comics

[slim thorn]

also fair

[fresh bane]

I actually already did some sketches of Miguel genderswapped

[slim thorn]

(I did read Silk's one solo comic run, it started out really good but didn't stick the ending)

[fresh bane]

seems to be a thing with most of these alternative Spiderman versions unfortunately

[slim thorn]

it's common with a lot of comics, and stories, in general

all serialized fiction tends to have word of mouth correlate with good starts

[fresh bane]

Especially if there's more than one writer

I'm actually surprised at how much 2099 managed to feel pretty much like one big one shot comic

I feel like it didn't have that specific problem thanks to not having so many writers putting their hands on it

I might check out Silk's solo comic if the good portions are relatively short and easy to get through

I know a lot of people really really like her and wanna see her getting more attention

[slim thorn]

yeah, iirc the whole thing is like a dozen issues, you can read it in a sitting

[fresh bane]

nice

now that I mentioned him, are you interested at all in reading Miguel's stuff?

[slim thorn]

I would be if I was still reading comics

[fresh bane]

are you not reading comics anymore?

[slim thorn]

nope

some media are phases for me, I haven't touched ponyfics or comics in over a year now

(unless you count the Twilight Princess manga I guess)

shows/movies and games rarely hit zero, but the ratio changes, e.g. I've definitely been gaming a lot more than usual the last few months

[fresh bane]

dang

did you decide to not read any more or are you just not into comics right now and you're just doing other stuff?

[slim thorn]

mostly the latter, hobby interest levels aren't exactly a conscious decision

I wouldn't hold my breath on it coming back though

[fresh bane]

ahhh I though something happened or you decided to abandon comics entirely

[slim thorn]

nah nothing that dramatic lol

[fresh bane]

Well if you're ever feeling like doing it again I'll just let you know that the first volume (1992-1996) is only like 42 issues long and recently it has been all super conveniently shoved into an ''Omnibus'' release with all of Miguel's stories from the start to the end in 1996, I think the next Omnibus releases will have vol 2, spiderverse and probably also vol 3 since vol 2 and 3 are even shorter than vol 1

it's also newly colored which is much better than the original in my opinion

[gaunt marten]

Zoom pranked him so hard he couldn't bear to read comics anymore

[fresh bane]

just thought I'd let you know so you can keep it in mind if you ever feel like it later down the line since it's pretty short

[rancid herald]

I finally sat down to watch this.

the footnotes!

[gaunt marten]

They did consult a lawyer

[rancid herald]

Moon is apparently a lawyer

[dire gate]

https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkximRDwTsXqm06nYI3VSP2xlTaaFf45mLg

[rancid herald]

although not one in ip law

[dire gate]

This is exactly why I tried to copy paste

YouTube community posts don't embed

[gaunt marten]

Makes sense

[dire gate]

This part is probably the important point Moon tries to make

ironically for a person who suggests "dolphin didn't read", I guess he also didn't read the part that dolphin specifies that they have consulted to a lawyer

[thorny loom]

Yeah. I doubt nintendo will do anything. As they stated they have had 15-20 years+ to actually do something

Plus Nintendo would not really gain anything from this.

[dire gate]

Oh they will if they are absolutely sure they can win

The whole legal base of emulation was just "court decision"

If they win the case, they make another "court decision"

What Moon is suggesting is pretty scary; he is suggesting that 1. Nintendo has a legally respectable reasoning, which means they actually have a high chance winning thi, 2. Nintendo apparently has a willing to go for a legal dispute if needed, 3. Valve will be very unlikely to help Dolphin in this case, rather they'd help Nintendo and 4. Having a legal court decision saying "some part of emulation may be considered illegal" can be critical

Whether you respect his opinion or Dolphin's stance is your own decision

[thorny loom]

Again. Nintendo did nothing for years until they tried to go onto steam.

[dire gate]

That doesn't mean they are safe.

[thorny loom]

Will see but i doubt Nintendo wants to spend the legal resources required on this.
Not only would this be massive bad pr it ultimately would just make dolphin/emulators like rom distribution and they get to play wack a mole with it.

[random steppe]

I think that point 3 is kind of dumb,from what I read

[thorny loom]

I think valve keeping it off steam was ultimately a good thing

[random steppe]

Valve will share what they have if compelled to do so in discovery by either party is my guess

[thorny loom]

^

[random steppe]

Which is helping neither side, it's just what's legally required

[thorny loom]

To add on.*. The recent study of the whole 87% of classic games are no longer able to be obtained legally or very easily would not help nintendos public image at all going into such a lawsuit

[random steppe]

I mean I think they will go to war over a fucking penny

Optics don't matter, didn't they destroy that bowser dude life?

[thorny loom]

he also profited of piracy

[random steppe]

Too many Nintendo fans can see no wrong for them to care

[thorny loom]

which is a lot easier to argue in court against compared to this

[random steppe]

Yeah but I am just saying optics don't matter

I am sorry I don't care what you did to the corporation, it will never look good in my eyes for them to destroy your life forever

[thorny loom]

you wont get argument from me here

he should have definitly been punished. But not THAT harshly

[random steppe]

Also all the fan projects they c&d

That also looks awful

It looking good just isn't a factor for Nintendo

Especially when it comes to protecting their IPs

[dire gate]

No, the point is not that Valve is going to choose a side, it's that they would rather choose Nintendo's side if they have to choose one

It was Valve who first asked Nintendo anyway

[feral tulip]

https://youtu.be/jdrp6aY5tHg

So good

[fresh bane]

Termina
giant moon with a face

oh no it's happening again

[slim thorn]

I believe this video came out (and I watched it) before Dolphin's longer lawyer-informed response post

[dire gate]

The comment was after the response post

[slim thorn]

oh I see what you mean now

well, he did say "skimmed" and that he'll do a proper response later

and iirc Dolphin's more recent post doesn't mention the interesting footnote at all so there is that

[dire gate]

I think the proper response he said is the community post, but he still thinks that they didn't consult a lawyer so that's that

But most of his points should be valid

[slim thorn]

yeah I think we're saying the same thing

the fact that multiple professional lawyers are coming away from this with seemingly opposite conclusions just emphasizes how meaningless it is to speculate about gray areas of unsettled law

[dire gate]

Yeah the conclusion should be "we really don't know"

Also I accidentally deleted a message lol

[slim thorn]

which is what Moon's video actually concludes after all

[feral tulip]

It is inspired by majoras mask alot ye

[dire gate]

Overall I feel like Nintendo probably have some legally respectable reasonings, but also think they won't push too hard if Dolphin doesn't try to go hard

Problem is Dolphin seems to be a bit overly confident about their position

[slim thorn]

there's a good argument that Dolphin is "not primarily designed for circumventing protection", and also a good argument that the "reverse engineering exemption" isn't as strong as we want to think or even applies to keys, and so on, and so forth

yeah I think Nintendo's aware of how shaky all sides are and that's why their letter was so carefully worded with an argument that probably bypasses the 1201(f) exemption and just a letter instead of any genuine legal action

it is our interpetation that removing the Wii keys would not change whether the exemption in 17 U.S.C. § 1201(f) applies to us or not.

Moon's recent comment is basically correct that this post just kind of assumes that (f) covers keys, when it's very easy to read it as (and personally I'd guess was originally intended as) only covering personal use of them during development but not including them in the final commercial product

[quiet swift]

So this is less for the current games than for next weeks'

[gaunt marten]

https://twitter.com/randall_kznr/status/1682195135810125824

[email protected] (@randall_kznr)

Oh my god they really did just call it that

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[icy crescent]

[quiet swift]

I mean if the gameplay is actually as advertised in those ads... why not?

[arctic fern]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2348100/YEAH_YOU_WANT_THOSE_GAMES_RIGHT_SO_HERE_YOU_GO_NOW_LETS_SEE_YOU_CLEAR_THEM/

Steam

YEAH! YOU WANT "THOSE GAMES," RIGHT? SO HERE YOU GO! NOW, LET'S SEE YOU CLEAR THEM!

"Those Games" is a collection of minigames that you wantedto play to your heart's content, but couldn't, so we developedthis game with cute and comical stickman characters for you tofully, thoroughly, and enjoyably play as many times as you want!Clear a variety of minigame stages and missions in "Minigames"!Clear all minigame stages to unlock ea...

Price

$9.99

▶ Play video

[river veldt]

oooh it's those mobile game ads but for real

[feral tulip]

Epic

[graceful bridge]

https://hard-drive.net/hd/video-games/game-introduces-easy-mode-called-im-35-and-have-one-hour-to-play-this/

[arctic fern]

funny but mood

[graceful bridge]

Yea

[quiet swift]

i mean that's what story mode is in some games

Jedi survivor, for instance

[robust spear]

https://youtu.be/fm0HREwtckY

[rancid herald]

Food

[heady bridge]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/330829852708044800/1131930228466401320/IMG_0298.jpg

I do have to wonder how common this pair will be among amiibo, I imagine they'll be pretty rare

[wind stump]

oh deer

[gaunt marten]

Playful deer pun, playful deer pun, or fucking animal murder

[dire gate]

[wind stump]

Honkai Star Rail writing in a nutshell

[slim thorn]

be not afraid of the giant pink floating worm

[wind stump]

NO I'M GOOD THANKS

[quiet swift]

[slim thorn]

she gave me a stamina upgrade

which in a BotW-alike, makes her objectively the best NPC

[untold vigil]

Aw she so cute

I am love her

[fresh bane]

Stop staring at me with them big ol' eyes

[quiet swift]

[slim thorn]

now that work's over I'll be streaming this in quiet vc

[thorny loom]

Oh god

https://www.nexusmods.com/mountandblade2bannerlord/mods/5754

[visual hill]

heh, I remember playing a game called Angels vs Devils that pit baby angels/devils against each other

https://www.mobygames.com/game/27814/angels-vs-devils/

[rugged flax]

https://www.theverge.com/23802801/pokemon-sleep-iphone-android-hands-on

[unreal idol]

Pokemon Let's Go Home and Sleep

[uneven epoch]

pokemon hydrate and pokemon get some theraphy comin in 2025

[slim thorn]

I really like Sable's whole aesthetic

(and now I wanna know why whoever built this huge bridge felt the need to also put enormous warrior statues on it)

[slim thorn]

I knew there was nothing up here, but

[gaunt marten]

The true MMO experience

[little badger]

@visual hill thank you Tia for positioning the sun perfectly

[visual hill]

there is a TDU Solar Crown closed beta form by the way

it's under much stricter conditions though

personally, I'm more curious to see how that game will turn out

[little badger]

Yeah I got the email today.

Will you be playing.

[visual hill]

I have no idea

chances are, the fact you're selected is under NDA anyway

[wind stump]

x-posting from the FFXIV thread because I had a similar moment earlier

[little badger]

Yeah.did you see the gameplay reveal a few days ago? It looks good.

[little badger]

[wind stump]

for a decade old this game can have some stunning moments

[slim thorn]

something something art style

[visual hill]

no, I generally don't pay attention to trailers

CS2 and Ratchet & Clank for PC are the only game trailers I've watched this year so far 😛

[little badger]

The PC version of the crew beta is only reaching 10 FPS but they are releasing a patch soon.

[visual hill]

yeah, I've seen someone else on a server having performance issues and crashes despite having a beefy PC

so I guess I'm not losing out in the end, since I only have a PC

[little badger]

I’m playing it on console. But it’s really good handling is so much better than the last game.

[visual hill]

I've never played a Crew game

I did watch Accursed Farms' video on the first game though

[uneven epoch]

my favorite place of the game ive seen so far is the purple caves in gyr abania. not only bc aesthetics but bc it has monk lore

[little badger]

I enjoyed the first game

[visual hill]

"Your car is a little banged up, but it's nothing serious."

[wind stump]

it'll wipe right off

[visual hill]

you can choose to clean your car without repairing it, cleaning makes sponsors happier

[wind stump]

yeah but i find it funny the idea of cleaning your car to repair it

[slim thorn]

following the trends of every other game I've ever played

the one part of Sable I don't understand yet is the fishing minigame

[quiet swift]

[rugged flax]

[fresh bane]

you WHAT

[visual hill]

I remember mastering fishing in Kirby and the Forgotten Land.

[fresh bane]

I remember unironically enjoying fishing in Ocarina of Time, Twilight Princess and most recently Sonic Frontiers

[river veldt]

i love fishing minigames

games basically instantly become 10/10 if they have a fishing minigame

[slim thorn]

I forgot TP had a fishing rod as soon as I left the tutorial

then you were all sad I didn't know I was supposed to use it on Ganon

[river veldt]

ye

[fresh bane]

I love that you say ''I was supposed to use it on Ganon'' as opposed to ''most people like to use it on Ganon'' implying that the fishing rod is the intended way to fight him

[slim thorn]

the real reason the manga isn't canon is that manga Link never used his fishing rod in combat

I feel like Cap would appreciate all these baby worms

[river veldt]

aww babies

[visual hill]

I haven't tried Minecraft fishing in a long time

I remember when there was only 1 kind of fish

now you can even fish Call of Duty!

https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Cod

[dapper cedar]

yep, classic nintendo consoles

[sage raptor]

Cat is my favorite retro console. What games do you have for Cat?

[dapper cedar]

just Meow unfortunately, have always struggled in finding games for that one

[sage raptor]

Meow is a classic

Very cute kitty btw 😻

[dapper cedar]

oh i love her, no gaming hardware could compare to Astra 💜

don't imagine most gaming hardware could render her either, fur is hard to simulate

[river veldt]

oh man PS1

legit one of the best console designs

[gaunt marten]

No

We broke every PS1 we had

[river veldt]

i meant aesthetics wise

[gaunt marten]

Oh, okay

I liked the PSone too

[river veldt]

yes !

[gaunt marten]

https://imgur.io/gallery/Hx6EGGI#xaEJZSy

[visual hill]

I've had a PS One

not sure if my brother/parents had a model before the PS One, but it was my first console and I remember playing it way after the PS2 came out

(between 2004 and 2007)

games I've played aren't necessarily that well known (or that great), I've spent a bunch of time on Crash Team Racing, Gran Turismo 1 or 2 (forgot which one), Spyro (not sure which one either), Street Skater 2, Grudge Warriors

I replayed Street Skater 2 last month and it's quite good, despite being a carbon copy of THPS. Some creative level design, lots of secrets and shortcuts, and I have a soft spot for downhill-style levels for some reason

there are quite a bit of childhood games I've replayed in emulation recently, usually I ended up enjoying it and playing the full game

(like Driver – I actually finished the tutorial here, unlike when I was a kid)

[static bluff]

I got the ps one and the gameshark attachment that plugs into the back for epic hacking

[river veldt]

did you have the screen so you could play it in the car

[visual hill]

haha, I did have third-party memory cards for the PS2 (larger size) but never had much in the way of hacking devices

though nowadays, there are probably more emulated games I run with at least one cheat active than games I don't do that in ("cheat" means any memory manipulation, so a 60 FPS hack counts as a cheat)

[hidden elbow]

https://vxtwitter.com/BynineB/status/1682512643565711362

[gaunt marten]

Spyro vibes

[green fulcrum]

Very much so. I thought of Magma Cone mixed with Crystal Glacier's aesthetic.

Magma Cone's entire latter half is a steep vertical climb like this one.

[quiet swift]

eyetwitches at a gigantic dumbass at work (well, customer)

[mossy flume]

That's an awesome idea.

[wind stump]

Man, I'm really enjoying NieR so far!

[minor plover]

wife in Dark Souls, 50 faith build, NG+:
frees Lautrec
goes to Firelink
Sunlight Spear
Lautrec loses half HP and goes flying off the edge
fuck that guy.

[dense crypt]

Gud

Kill dat guy

[quiet swift]

https://twitter.com/AndrewGoudreau/status/1460878438374379521

dru (@AndrewGoudreau)

yo idk

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[fresh bane]

''Luigi you can't just defy the laws of physics and ride a turnip into the sunset''

''lol. lmao.''

[river veldt]

oh that's a reference to the Super Mario Bros 2 level where you have to sit on an egg that Birdo spits across the ocean

[weak river]

[Pictured above: the climactic death of Commander Shepard at the hands of the Reaper commander Harbinger, circa 2186]

[quiet swift]

fweeeee

[visual hill]

I just finished MGS Ground Zeroes

it feels so weird playing a MGS game where the controls aren't clunky

[white phoenix]

tpp is even better because you can spam dive

shame that the series ended there

[fresh bane]

TPP is arguably better, in TPP a lot of Snake's moves are very different

Ground Zeroes feels more tight than TPP, Snake doesn't move as fast so it makes controlling him feel like it needs very deliberate thinking meanwhile TPP is just full on action fantasy

I've always weirdly liked Ground Zeroes over TPP myself but of course Ground Zeroes isn't even technically a game and is more like a demo

[slim thorn]

wait what

[weak river]

Ground Zeroes is definitely a pretty neat experience. I prefer Phantom Pain, I'd say; it's a slightly different experience when you factor everything in, but I like most of the content, and there's more of it.

You're definitely not the first person that I've heard say they prefer GZ, though, and I can see why. In a number of ways it feels more like a traditional Metal Gear structure.

[fresh bane]

Not a lot of gadgets, can't call in for resources, gotta procure most stuff on site, pretty tough enemy placements and security and you're actually infiltrating an enemy base with limited space

Definitely feels like a traditional MGS experience

[gaunt marten]

Japan, home of Fortnite

Also in the same store: Kingdom Hearts, Kirby, Apex Legends, PUBG

[dire gate]

Among those I'd say...Apex is the biggest there

[gaunt marten]

Well Fortnite had the biggest display. Apex had a sticker

[dire gate]

They paid most

But from my knowledge Apex is really big in Japan.

[rough sleet]

https://youtu.be/45wZzgX5Pwg

in short: Ubisoft are going to delete your account with all the games and purchases if you won't log for too long

[gaunt marten]

That was true ten years ago

[proud warren]

ok but what are they planning to gain from this?

[gaunt marten]

You buy the games again and they spend less on servers

[proud warren]

all I see are a loss in customers

[fresh bane]

probably also done to get rid of all those lost/unused/inactive accounts, but honestly there should be a better way to do that if that's what they wanted to do, this just seems mean spirited and clearly intended to just make people lose their games and have to regain all that again
I hope most people, in the case that they lose their accounts, don't actually make another one or try to get it back at all, it's money down the drain at that point but honestly I could never live with myself re-purchasing all the games in my library again if I actively used the service

[gaunt marten]

It does seem shortsighted

[rose rose]

I would bet someone at some point just didn't think very hard about there being paid content tied to the accounts they are cleaning up

[fresh bane]

if there isn't some ulterior motive then this is simply an extremely stupid decision that anyone with any amount of foresight would immediately shut down at the mention of

[rose rose]

Lawyers and accountants tend to both be big on cleaning up data you don't need any more.

[fresh bane]

I'm honestly waiting for the day Ubisoft goes under at this point they seem desperate, at least this seems like a desperate quick move to get rid of as much stuff on their serves so they can save up money but I could be wrong

any day now.... any day now....

[rose rose]

Ubisoft is 20,000+ people split between 45+ companies, which is an excellent way for something important to be missed.

[fresh bane]

I can't imagine such a huge decision would be taken lightly or not reviewed thoroughly, but then again...

If that was the case I can imagine whoever made the decision would be in huge trouble if they decided to backpedal because it was made in a rush or something

[rose rose]

It's only a huge decision if the people who made it thought it was

If they didn't then they probably wouldn't go to get it reviewed unless there are very robust processes forcing it to happen anyway

[fresh bane]

I think there's a significant risk of potential huge losses of customers or users of the service that even to incompetent people it'd seem like something to carefully think about

[rose rose]

It's also not entirely clear to me what "inactive" means or when this policy comes from

Is this a fifteen year old decision that has only now actually taken effect? Probably not but I don't know.

[fresh bane]

I guess all that's left to do now is sit back and watch the whole thing unfold and see what happens

[rose rose]

My guess is that they will backtrack and apologise

In which case I will further believe my oversight theory

But I suspect it'll take them a good while to untangle enough to do so

[fresh bane]

I sure hope they will, even if we're talking about only getting rid of accounts that have yeeeeears of inactivity it's still an iffy decision

[rose rose]

If they don't then

I will be very unimpressed if they let it stand.

[fresh bane]

at this point I would not be surprised really

a lot of people have been talking about potential suing if they do decide to go through with this permanently but I dunno how much legal ground there is for suing over this

also wonder who would even want to go through the hassle to do that

[rose rose]

Almost certainly none whatsoever

I would assume (without having read it) that this exact thing is and has always been in the ToS

[fresh bane]

to be fair people did mention that those things usually tend to not be a be all end all in court

[rose rose]

"we will close inactive accounts" is pretty standard

[fresh bane]

but still, we're talking a lot of money and time regardless

[rose rose]

Especially with warnings in advance

(and, depending on what "inactive" means, perhaps content that you demonstrably don't care about)

Feels like a hard sell

[fresh bane]

If anything, the most likely thing that would happen in the case of people being upset and this going through, and honestly wouldn't be that bad at all, is for some sort of regulations surrounding these digital sales and preventing these cases from happening, don't know if that's a thing now but considering they're doing this I'm going to assume no

[rose rose]

It is not, they are all licenses that can be rescinded at any time for any reason.

[fresh bane]

digital is already pretty iffy as it is since you're basically ''renting'' something for as long as your account exists or the servers exist, no way to play or truly own it yourself withouth going through the service first and if it goes down then bye bye to your library

[rose rose]

If "inactive" is six months there might be a more compelling argument to be had

Having skimmed the terms I saw nothing about inactivity, just a general note that your account "may be terminated or suspended at any time, without notice, for any reason"

(also, binding arbitration, so they cannot be sued anyway)

[wind stump]

i finally finished NieR Replicant

[sage raptor]

Ending E?

[wind stump]

Ending E

[quiet swift]