On the Vietnamese Crystal thing - such ROMs weren’t at all rare back in the early 2000's when Pokémon GS had released in Japan but nowhere else. I recall several pokémon fansites offering roms of G/S that were “translated at 30%” or so, where the percentage was basically the amount of text that was readable, the rest…

I dropped WoW mid through the Warlords expansion due to that shit (well, that and WoD just being a shit expansion in general.) I had left the game and come back many times before, then after that experience I just quit and haven’t even considered returning since.

I was basically raiding with a “serious” guild where the…

I’m gonna go off on a tangent here — have you had your kid reassessed by other professionals?

Thing is, the whole ADD + sensory processing issues + gifted sounds to me a lot like what Asperger’s Syndrome can entail, as somebody who has AS himself. And far too many doctors sadly throw ADD around everytime they can as a…

Actually, he is fat in the book. He grows thinner as he starts spending more and more time online thanks to a workout regime or something but for the first third of the book at least he is overweight. He mentions it being one of his insecurities about his body.

There’s after all a window of non detection for “the big one”.

It was changed in July or so. Nowadays you only get repeats if you already have all items of whatever rarity your loot box rolled.

I’m aware it will affect all lootboxes.

But guess what, it’s either the government steps in or the likes of EA keep exploiting their users and trying to find ever more predatory methods of making money.

I’ll take the government, thankyouverymuch. The gaming industry made their bed, now they’ll have to lie in it.

Oh, I know. I play some of those (Overwatch and HotS,) but I can proudly say I’ve never bought a single lootbox. In Overwatch I haven’t spent money at all beyond the box price (which I got for $25,) and with HotS when I spent money it was on heroes or stimpacks (or before 2.0, the occasional skin). No boxes, because…

Actually, I’d trace the beginnings back to Valve and TF2/Counter Strike. They started giving random loot boxes you had to buy the key to open, though I get your point.

Remind me to write another thank-you note to Overwatch.

I feel you, I have a box of Magic cards most of which have never seen play. I was more into collecting, and to be honest I could start collecting again tomorrow... if I had the disposable income I did back then.

I guess I’d also need to have more money than common sense again to do that, but common sense can go away…

Goddamit, Jason! This again? When will you stop?

You jest, but a 5-IV HA Dratini on a blockchained Pokémon game, where dupes and cheats would be impossible, would probably be worth a lot :P

Almost nobody takes the kanken, it’s basically only important if you plan on working as a translator or very closely with the language. It’s rarely ever recommended for a foreigner to take it unless they want to show off their knowledge, since it includes things like stroke order that aren’t at all important for 99%…

B or gtfo. Tho they’d probably change the name for something more marketable, as they did with C.

Well, of course she is just fine and everyone understands what she’s trying to say. I mean, she edited the article to remove the misused expression ;)

Been trying to spend less money on gaming since I have a huge backlog of shame. Lately, my strategy has been knowing ahead of big sales (ie, Steam summer and winter sales) what games I know I’ll get based on how much I want them and the prices they’re likely to hit, and then getting only those - that way I keep myself…

While languages evolve and change, under that same logic doing things like exchanging “your” and “you’re,” or saying “I could care less” would be allowed. They’re not, because they’re gross misuses of the language.

Many modern English speakers use beg the question to mean “bear the question”, “suggest the question,” “raise the question”, “invite the question”, “evade the question”, or even “ignore the question”, and follow that phrase with the question, for example: “I weigh 120 kg and have severely clogged arteries, which begs…

This begs the question: how do we preserve experiences tied to online features?