There is no way to restrict these games to just your friends - you are always vulnerable to invasion the moment you open yourself up to connections -its designed that way to balance risk/rewards. The game can be played single-player, no doubt, but in order to play with your friends, you necessarily are playing with…

And if you stay offline, thats all good and no-one cares. Except the developer still owns the game. You own the media. If they push a patch that removes a glitch you were using to cheat ‘on your terms’ but fixes something game-breaking elsewhere that you need to progress - sucks to be you.

So the blood starved beast stole 6-12 minutes of your life with a black screen - thats okay??

“I don’t even play this game, but thanks for your idiotic speculation anyway.”
Then why are you commenting on something you know nothing about. Duplication glitches in souls games lead to new players getting pk’ed by people who are level 10 but packing level 999 equipment.

If you are just cheating in your private game,…

I think its actually the developer’s terms, who graciously allows you to rent the experience he created, but thanks for playing.

Yeah, I’m sure you’re right, and that makes me incredibly cynical about those enterprises. If Riot wants me to be incredibly cynical about their “professional” games too, congratulations, they’ve succeeded.

Can’t say as I care one way or the other, but that just means the person doing the perma-banning has lost all credibility with their threats of ‘lifetime bans’ its now ‘probation and community service’ and if the consequences of a ban of a person who was caught outright cheating “precludes them from maintaining a…

Yeah, move to the side. Seriously.

D’awww, look at the asshole child who thinks he can say words that mean things.

Actually he sounds nothing like that. The worst, most strident, misandrist feminists have nothing on the vile garbage that spewed forth in the name of gamergate because WE CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT A REPUTABLE SOURCE OF VIDEO GAME REVIEWS and we’ll destroy whoever we have to to get it.

Cry me a river. There are real problems…

2/3rds of the country needs psychiatric care. 1/3rd would benefit from *in-patient* psychiatric care. Online behavior is a symptom. Push for state-funded psychological screening and counseling, mental hygiene education from preschool on up, single-payer healthcare that covers mental health issues so everyone has…

Its not necessary to cheese the werewolves; just pull one with a rock and get behind it. You can just keep whacking them from behind - their reaction speed is very slow and they are easy to dodge if they look like they are about to lunge at you. There are more of them later that are out in the open so you'll need to…

Yes, everything, even a discussion of magic as portrayed in modern fiction, is a subtle attempt to prevent an ideologically pure conservative state from ever being created.

Thats okay, we don't have time to read that stuff you don't have the ability to explain.

Do you want a good bureaucrat who can organize people and lead a diverse hierarchical organization or an atomic physicist with a second Ph.D. in molecular biophysics?

I think it corresponds with the belief in magic among the general public fading. Magic / mysticism used to be much more commonplace, and people were willing to attribute anything unexplained to a mystical cause, so the idea that anyone could cast a spell / invoke mystical powers is not completely outlandish (ie., a…

No no no... you can apparently get more by running chalice dungeons.

Well, clearly if you're playing souls you're supposed to be hardcore to go to NG+++++++++++++ in order to collect all the maxed out weapons.

Um, its entirely possible to have self esteem, say based on things like say being a good person, provider, benefactor, etc... , and also proud of getting the high score on Missile Command. They are not mutually exclusive.

Until you run into a level 10 invader that is decked out in +10 weapons.