gk99 @ gk99 @beehaw.org

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Old videogames are a lot less likely to get you in legal trouble outside of Nintendo, Rockstar, and a few other examples.

I've just been buying banned stuff that conservatives don't want people reading.

For most people, they already have these account services and won't really care about this.

For everyone else, they should probably already have an alternate instance anyway.

I keep fucking trying but the "BUY NOW" button won't work for me. Ugh.

This is still the case as of the 2016 reboot and Eternal, as well. It's pretty much just "small brain UAC give demon big gun and fail to control it."

Don't forget the games that were already pulled. This includes every Valve game that isn't Portal: Still Alive (which is arguably a better version of the game than the version that came with the now-delisted Orange Box but whatever) and Portal 2, as well as other major titles like Skate 2 and Jet Set Radio.

Microsoft has the money to figure this out, they just don't actually care enough to. I mean for fuck's sake, they own Bethesda and we still can't even play Quake 4 on modern Xboxes. What's the excuse there, Phil?

After years of dealing with his PR statements one after another, I just switched back to PlayStation for the first time since around 2015 since they don't yank my chain about features. I still think they've put less effort and freedom into their platform, but they never say something positive like this and then just forget about it.

I still go for a Monster every now and then when I'm feeling spicy, but I cut back on my energy drinks when I was trying to write something at work and was struggling because I was shaking from a Rockstar Energy drink. That shit tastes like poison and the only reason I had so many that I was drinking them regularly was Halo Infinite cosmetics.

They're a fun "sip this to keep from passing out once in a while" sort of drink but energy drinks are absolutely terrible.

Sounds like good moderation to me. Terrible title that implies an opinion is wrong and that OP was never interested in discussion at all. Talking at people isn't talking to people.

Some definitely do have DRM. I explicitly ended up buying Devil May Cry on Steam despite getting it with Prime because it opened the Twitch launcher every time I tried to play, which messed up Steam Input or whatever I was trying to use at the time.

Amazon is a storefront, not the subscription. They actually do give out free stuff once in a blue moon, so just saying [Amazon] is not clarification enough. On reddit, subs like this would say "complimentary with Prime" or something like that.

Paper straws and bicycles won't solve the climate crisis. What my lib friends and I are doing doesn't really matter when just a handful of entities make up so much more of the environmental impact.

We could stop those entities...if it weren't for the cons constantly blocking any attempt to help the greater good.

A little bit south and I'd just say something about abortion and Trump.

Recently, the shows have felt way better than the movies. I don't know why, but I was way more invested in Loki and Wandavision and even She-Hulk than the latest Marvel movies I've watched.

In the U.S. circa 2016, so many kids were just finding pirate streaming sites for movies and such during class on school computers. I imagine it's similar elsewhere for students who've finished their work and are bored, but boy, now they have the knowledge of how to get countless other types of media for free.

Piracy is a service problem. The goal shouldn't be to indoctrinate our youth to avoid it, it should be to stop releasing subpar, overpriced products.

Is this why IKEA isn't that popular here? Because I can get IKEA quality at Wal-Mart?

No, but shooting people for being happy is certainly one of the worst things we're known for.

Gears of War 1 in online co-op. If you take the tutorial path instead of the right-into-the-game path, you can end up softlocked because it expects you to throw grenades at one point but doesn't explain it.

I'm pretty sure Dark Souls is intentionally obtuse, that's like a core part of the game's philosophy. It doesn't explain them because it wants you to try and figure it out on your own or discuss with others.

Here's hoping Treyarch can carry the torch without him. They've always been fantastic game devs and have been the best CoD studio for years.

Wonder what he's doing now.

This is the U.S., we quite literally can't uphold values to save our lives. Hollywood studios aren't going to pause shit.