>>Its very important that the game not become “you just have to do X specific thing over and over again and any other way to level/find items/etc. is way less efficient and therefore wrong”.<<

There is no doubt it’s a losing battle if you only fight it that way, but they can absolutely mitigate the damage significantly by going after the most widely used avenues of distribution (Nexus, loverslab, Bethesda’s mod service). It’s likely a much faster battle to win, while they (hopefully) wage the larger war on…

I feel like Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is missing here. It may not be AAA, and it may not be an explicit tear-down of current systems, but I feel like it has something to say about the emotional heart of America; about the type of stories and societal events that helped form facets of the identity that exists…

Even for a teaser that trailer was bottom tier. The camera angle was the most interesting thing about it.

From the gif there’s even a doge in there.

I was going to buy both anyway, but I’m super excited I get to play it a bunch before Starfield releases! I feel like this was the right call if they’re confident in the state of the game.

My thoughts exactly.

Yes, but if you only give a shit about Times Square and you only have so much time for the trip, the rest is just a waste.

Yeah. It IS worth mentioning though, that while my current PC was bought prebuilt in 2014, I do upgrade it myself, so it’s kind of a Ship of Theseus at this point. The only thing remaining of that original build is the case, some wiring, and the OS SSD.
The next one will be prebuilt again though.

Kinda depends on the age of the gamer. In my experience many gamers stop building as they mature, and these days you can get great deals on custom or semi-custom prebuilt PC’s from gamer-specific builders, so it’s often not even really much cheaper (if at all) to do it yourself. At some point you’ve just had your fill…

I hate that this meme has probably boosted sales of that shake immensely.

TL;DR “Even though the game features a completely different type, style and flow of gameplay to previous mainline entries, it’s still exactly the same experience. Gameplay doesn’t matter at all to the experience of playing games, and anyone happy to play solitaire should be just as happy to play an RTS, Soulslike or a…

Fair point with regards to the card being stolen, but it could still be chargeback if the troll/abuser called his bank and asked them to do it on his own card, and/or if he had multiple cards on the account. Depends on which bank but it did happen suspiciously fast though.

Absolutely not. Humans enjoy specific protections and rights under law, that machines, systems and other non-human entities *do not have*. This is a philosophical position which has been enshrined in law for ages, and has a trainload of presendence. That alone presents a huge barrier to the dystopia you envision.
To…

Not if the card used is stolen and the real owner issues a chargeback to Twitch, who then rescinds the bit donation. This is the most likely scenario here, and who would pay the streamer in this case?

You can pussy-foot around it all you like, with words about “feel”, “story beats”, “style”, individual characters, or what the GAMES “mean” to people, but when a 3½ decades old GAME series decides to change GAME genre completely, discarding most of the GAMEPLAY people who PLAYED the series loved, you’re going to…

Sooo I have one recommendation which is not for everyone: Scarlet Maiden.

As I understand it “fair use” is almost always contested. There isn’t a lot of situations where you can just say that something is definitely fair use, it almost always has to go through court to be tested. That’s why people generally avoid trying to use it as a legal defence when they can; it’ll be expensive if the…

Every google hit I find says $5000, and he never cashed the cheque. Eventually he sent it back to Darabont.
It’s a fun story either way, and King absolutely loved the movie - and it did end up being a massive boon to Darabonts career.

Too many Diablo 4 devs thought they were developing an MMORPG, so it’s perhaps not that weird that some people thought it was that, too.