Unfortunately I think it’s one of those places where the MCU just kind of leans on the established comic canons (since y’know there’s more than one) and expects you to accept they’re a couple because they are in the comics. Like not being surprised at Peter dating MJ, or Jean Grey and Cyclops. Only Scarlet Witch and…

She didn’t kill anyone in Wandavision from what I remember. Yeah what she did was pretty awful and the show did a reasonable job of not handwaving that away I thought. Monica’s line is a little sketchy but she definitely doesn’t walk away looking great. And while it’s not forgivable the grief stricken madness from the…

Yeah I’d mostly agree. I think it was still great but it definitely stumbled here and there. For a while it was definitely the cream of the crop but Loki season 1 definitely outstripped it.

But it’s not the *legal* nature of game ownership, nor has it been. And it’s important to understand that if we’re to push for any positive change. Trying to argue there was a time where that was different doesn't achieve anything because the reason it's different is due to changes in technology and we aren't going to…

Thing is if you wait a year or two the price of a new copy is often slashed by just as much. I stopped buying second hand games when I was consistently finding a brand new copy on Amazon for roughly the same price or even less than what these stores were charging for used copies.

The downfall of retail stores is more to do with the rise of e-commerce than it is a decline in physical media. Sure you might struggle in a mall to find what you want but it’s trivial to order a DVD/CD/Blu-ray online. And honestly it’s not a great comparison to the situation in gaming. Physical media for music and…

Except that isn’t ‘factual'. Game ownership has always (at least going back to the times when people think it was different) been a license. The nature of ownership hasn’t changed, what has changed is that our ability to utilise that license isn’t as self-contained as it once was. This might seem like semantic…

Because Family Guy isn’t that funny anymore so let’s just dismiss everything else he’s done I guess? I’m not sure where the hate is coming from either. Sure he’s not funny all the time but few people are. And last I checked he hasn’t done anything that would warrant disliking him on a personal level.

No. But if they "hack" it back to 6v6, "hack" the UI back to the clean and functional state it used to be in, and "hack" out all the bullshit monetisation I might be interested. Overwatch is dead to me until they inevitably give up and release OW classic.

What’s worrying about AI is there are plenty of use cases for it. At least with NFTs the problem was always going to solve itself once everyone realised how worthless they actually are. AI is a lot more scary because that isn’t going to happen here.

All code has been collectively written by stack overflow for years as it is.

Oh please. You going to pretend that you only buy the finest quality handmade and ethically sourced goods? Your whole life is full of mass manufactured junk that a lot of the time you bought because it was the cheapest thing on offer. Yes you might be discerning in some areas but I find it extremely unlikely you apply…

It’s utterly baffling how people keep trying to equate the two just because some of the idiots that were high on NFTs are now high on AI. The most dangerous assumption is just dismissing anything said about AI because it was also said about NFTs. We underestimate it at our peril.

I haven’t got around to watching the HBO show but unless some of the tweaks they did were to make the Fireflies 100x more competent and sympathetic then directly adapting TLoU2s stories will directly adapt the biggest problems with the story there. Time for them to waste half the time on an unsympathetic protagonist…

Well first of all I think you’re fundamentally misunderstanding what I mean by respecting your time and secondly I don’t think saying MMOs are a commitment contradicts that. When I talk about a lack of respect for my time I’m talking about stuff in the game that’s specifically designed to either slow you down or waste…

This is the first I'm learning that Blitzball is divisive. I thought most people agreed it was one of the best parts of the game and it's criminal that it's never gotten a spinoff or a revisit.

I want an MMO that has some respect for my time, which a lot of pre-WoW MMOs didn’t. Heck even looking back at WoW now vanilla was kind of bad for this (one reason why I’ve never had interest in WoW classic) but at the time it was a big step forward and definitely started a new trend in MMOs in that regard. And it did…

And you could just let people reminisce about it instead of being an ass. It's a decade old video game, there's really no need to get so triggered because someone is saying something mildly negative about it.

Yeah hence why I got bored before long. And after that WoW came along and that was kinda that. I went back to it a few times but the core gameplay loop just couldn’t keep me invested for very long and all my friends played WoW.

That was my experience when it was actually alive too. Had a ton of fun making cool heroes, got bored of the actual game pretty quickly. Same story when City of Villains rolled around. One of the cooler things was the movement, especially flight since that was still novel in an MMO at the time since CoH was pre-TBC…