You can hate the wait all you want, but considering the dev was basically living paycheck-to-paycheck working on a cinema with support from his girlfriend while he coded this, I’m not sure he could have just delayed the release two more years to code multiplayer. Multiplayer exists as a direct result of the game’s…

This can’t possibly be true, as Blue has Meowth, the cat pokémon, and cats make everything worth more.

I’ll be starting an internet petition to request your removal from the Kotaku staff for this obvious display of ignorance, sir.

All those questions re:power of love are easily answered when you notice Harry is basically a gender-switched mary-sue in the middle of a “Chosen One” narrative.

It’s a very fun mary-sue to read about, even nowadays, but one has to admit the character has very little depth and is basically an author stand-in who rarely…

Well, lovable asshole doesn’t reinforce a stereotype. So I’d go for that one.

I’m keeping like five threads at the time, and one including somebody stating Nintendo could (and had) bricked hacked 3DSs. It apparently wasn’t this one. Oops.

However, Switch hacks are quite likely to follow the same pattern, as the nature of “unpatchable” hacks usually means they’re so low-level you just can’t…

Reminds me of a woman I played with. Sometimes her husband was the GM, other times it was another player.

1) Nintendo doesn’t have to test their OS update on “all firmwares,” as there’s pretty much a single CFW out there the vast majority of hacked 3DSs run.

2) The whole thing with CFW is that it’s located in a part of the console the 3DS updater can’t touch. It’s housed in the bootloader, which means it’s loaded and ran…

Not if the update software specifically looks for the modifications, and then proceeds to outright damage the hardware because of them. That would count as ill intent.

Then the blame is with the author of the article, who wrote:

I have a hacked 3DS, have had a hacked 3DS since late 2016 and I can assure you never has a console been bricked by Nintendo.

Only cases where consoles have been bricked have been by either people using very old homebrew/hacking methods that are known to cause bricks on update. Even using flashcarts the only thing I’ve…

It could be, but you can neither willingly trade items for coins nor force duplicates in any way. You only ever start getting duplicates in OW once you have ALL items of a rarity, and by when that happens for any rarity chances are you already have pretty much anything else you might want, as more common rarity also…

It wouldn’t be P2W, at least not in Overwatch. All items in OW are cosmetic, no exceptions. Same with Heroes of the Storm which, I assume, is also implicitly included here since it uses the exact same lootbox system as OW (with the difference that you can buy specific items with money in HotS, so perhaps that’s the…

Neither Overwatch, nor any Blizzard games, allow for items from lootboxes to be traded among users or cashed out in any way. Even if you wanted to get in-game currency to buy specific items, Overwatch will only trade repeat drops for said coins, and you only get repeats once you own all items of a rarity.

So it’s not…

A class action lawsuit would still ensue. And if they end up fixing the bricked consoles free of charge, wouldn’t they end up losing both money AND customer loyalty on this? What would they stand to gain?

Not everyone who hacks their console is a pirate or a cheater.

Blocking sales of boxes in Belgium will likely be the immediate result, as not selling the game would be absurd.

The real issue for Blizzard here is, it’s quite likely other countries will follow. You can live without one, but once others join the fray it’ll get hairy - particularly when the areas pushing for…

Nintendo’s online infrastructure is indeed shitty and stuck in the 90s, but I’d give them a pass on the “secure hardware” thing considering the recent scandal over vulnerabilities on flagship processors from both Intel and AMD. There’s no such thing as a 100% secure system, neither on software nor hardware ends. Get…

... which would be a massive PR disaster for Nintendo and likely challenged in court to the point where it wouldn’t be worth the effort. Not to mention that false positives happen (thus having innocent customers losing their consoles, yikes) and even if they didn’t it would give hackers reasons to cry wolf and warn…

Nowhere near that simple. How would games detect that a boot-level exploit is running? By calling a library? If at all possible, hackers can patch that so that the exploit masks itself. Once you have boot access you have access to every single process in the console, as everything runs on top of the bootROM.

And even…

Daamn, and I was just thinking on getting back into this game.

Guess I’ll wait for this, since one of my main pet peeves of Cities: Skylines is not being able to place a park surrounded by paths only in the middle of a residential area.

She’s got better vocal prowess than a lot of rock singers