Yeah, I walked right into that one, didn’t I?

A roootkit from a Tencent owned company, what could go wrong

When I get a new program, the first thing I do is either change the settings so that it doesn’t run on startup, or uninstall. No exceptions. 

Now you don’t even sound fun.

Attempts to Jedi mind trick you into thinking I didn’t forget Bastion.

There is no difference, people fail to see that gforce now is a computer rental with specialized machines running in the cloud. Not a gaming service that takes a cut like steam or the competition. Legally I am unsure if they are actually allowed to stop you from doing this as you are allowed to rent a physical machine…

If my friend was Dell? 2K can decide Dell made money on selling me a laptop so 2K can ban me from playing the game they sold to me, because it’s on a Dell?

Ignite in Chicago is wonderful. Every time I travel there for work, I go there every night of my stay. I think it is priced well enough (like less than $4 an hour if you buy 8 hours at a time, with left over time being stored on your account) and the food is perfect for the place (the chicken tendies are pretty legit).…

The issue with this is commercial licensing for games. In order to have a game available for anyone to play the cafe has to get a special license (normal license only covers personal home use). Something that normally sells on Steam for $5 may have a $30 monthly cost instead as a commercial title. You multiply that…

The DLC “Centrist Simulator” comes out later where the mechanics are to *say* you want the end-goals of Democratic Socialism, but every time it’s offered to you or a party member brings it up, you have to stomp it out as viciously as possible on your own or siding with your opposition party.

That’s like you saying we should ignore what gamers do during things like AGDQ because a very, very small minority is toxic and swatters.

I used to think that way... when I was about 13. Then I grew up, got a job, and realised the real fools are the kids that spend all day whining about the nice things they can't afford. 

The first sale doctrine indicates that they can buy a console and do whatever they want with it including take it apart and resell it.

I know the artifact placement had some influence, but it seemed minor and/or convoluted. Unless you wanted the secret quests or whatever it was, there was really no incentive to care.

Crafting systems in general attach to me, more or less, whether I like it or not. If it weren’t for Vagrant Story demanding so much of my time, I think I would have delved deeper into Legend of Mana’s crafting system.

That is one of the biggest reasons the game was not received well back in the day, the lack of explaining the game’s systems. It sold well, but even as a teenager, it was annoying as shit.

What a world we live in where a <insert you> man child can claim to work when all you do is <insert overly simplified and derisive version of what you do for work>.

You're a real WildCat

Keef has my favorite take on the subject:

Postmortem, probably.