Exactly.

Elden Ring, Elden Ring, Elden Ring and ... Elden Ring.

How do you know that the level of piracy we have doesn’t ultimately increase sales?

The latter, sales have actually gone up as well.

Piracy damages are non material. They work on the dishonest and fraudulent assertion that each infringement instance constitutes a lost sale. That has been flat out debunked far too much and yet its the excuse always used to keep extending copyright terms and creating ever more draconian rights over IP.

So have sales fallen, or is the increased ”financial damage” simply conjecture based on increased traffic to pirate sites?

One of the problems I’ve always had with “piracy damages” as a concept is it’s completely theoretical and almost always based on the false assumption that the same people pirating something would be legitimately paying customers if piracy wasn’t an option, which is nearly never true.

Nice. I was in the Navy too when it came out on the USS Truman and we had a xbox setup in the CAG seat shop and would play it for hours a day. Great time waster while deployed.  

That’s a Venn diagram with a lot of overlap.

Maybe he bought broken GBC’s for this? That would make sense since they would be cheaper.
That would also mean that he actually made them into something useful instead of just throwing them on a landfill like most people would have.

I think we can all agree that Logan Paul is a non-cool dude, but this is absurdly…

I can’t stand this ass, but that table is pretty cool. This is stuff that other random youtubers might do and I wouldn’t shit on them for it. There is more than enough reasons not to like Logan and his brother without this being part of the equation.

That’s on you for constantly demanding a specific outcome and not rolling with what your own choices give you. Metagaming it isn’t immersing yourself in your decisions at all

FINALLY someone put Psychonauts 2 on their list. I was starting to doubt my taste in games cause honestly, aside from Disco Elysium : Director’s Cut, this one is my absolute favorite of the year. They took the good bits from the first game, reworked the shoddy platforming and the whole story being about mental trauma…

If Void really gave half a shit about “authenticity and realism” about being a cop in America, they’d put in a level where you kill a 14 year old girl shopping for her quinceanera dress because you started firing wildly in a packed mall a few days before Christmas. Or a level where you kettled protesters into a dead…

Plainly put, they will never be able to do it in a non-offensive way, because they’re trying to make the murder of children into entertainment.

Knowing Tatsuki Fujimoto’s work, I’m willing to wait

Just started reading Chainsaw Man this weekend and I just finished the Bomb Demon arc and goddamn it’s so good.

still another 6 months+ for new manga chapters?

I’m actually surprised it was that much of an issue, EU generally is more forgiving for stuff like that compared to violence. Basically just swap sex and violence here and it would be about the same.

I don’t know if it actually affects its ranking, but...