I am about to turn 39 and am fully in the I am not learning new shit just so I can use a new piece of technology, I’m too fucking busy phase of my life.

Also that is a terrible name for general populace international mass marketing. It should’ve been short, simple and fun like, I don’t know, Facebook.

Facebook is going to fill (or compete with) the same niche as Fox News. It’s already happening. I doubt anyone under 30 is signing up for a Facebook account. I (early 30s) keep mine for work purposes and because I haven’t loaded everyone’s birthdays into my phone yet.

This is also the first I have heard the Horizon Worlds name. I can’t scroll for 30 seconds on Facebook without seeing an ad and half of them are for scam products. They aren’t even advertising their own stuff yet have room for all this garbage on there.

This is the first time I’ve even heard that it’s called Horizon Worlds. That’s how little exposure I’ve gotten from it. Is Facebook really banking on this thing? Maybe I’m just too old.

This is doomed to fail because Meta has no idea who the hell they’re targeting with this product. The majority of active Facebook users seem to be the older generation, who for the most part are entering into their “I don’t like change/new technology” phase of life (if they’re not already there). Meanwhile, the…

Way I see it, it’s not really piracy if the publisher isn’t interested in selling you stuff to begin with.

Legit why I buy as many games as I can from GOG even though Steam is more convenient. The DRM free releases GOG puts out of classic games is a level of art preservation we hardly see anymore.

You're equating videogames with toys. Ernekid is equating  videogames with art - as they should be. Hence, preservation. And no, they aren't overreacting. Not in the slightest! 

While I don’t necessarily support “piracy”, I also agree that it’s a two way street.

This. In 2016 I jailbroke my 2ds and it took roughly 2 hours, most of it was checking the integrity of my SD card though. It was still a relatively involved process.

In 2020 I bought a 2DS XL and it took 15 minutes. So glad I did too because Nintendo’s attitude of “Fuck you” when it comes to classic games is…

Yes it is. I used to hack my PSPs years ago the same way. Going to physical shops for vintage games is also a fun  time.

3DS hardware is now crazy expensive, it was already getting driven up in price because of the homebrew scene but with all tech stuff skyrocketing it’s just ridiculous now.

Yep I just did it a few weeks back for my youngest son because I couldn’t get a physical copy of Luigi’s mansion 2 and the digital copy still cost $50 on the Store because Nintendo sucks 

Well lucky for us, the 3DS can be easily cracked with just software and then you can download and play whatever you want. Ethics are a two way street and if Nintendo isn’t going to act ethically about older hardware, we don’t have to either

Piracy is now the only realistic way to maintain video game archival preservation because it is obvious that the Video Games publishers couldn’t give a shit about it.

Nintendo purposely ended Virtual Console so that your purchases do not transfer over. They locked everything behind a sub to Switch Online, where you can’t buy/download any of the games, just rent.

Apropos of nothing, jailbreaking a 3DS has become really easy and requires minimal investment

Sony simply doesn’t have the resources to buy a publisher as large as Activision Blizzard.

Size-wise, Microsoft had more cash-on-hand than Sony’s entire market-cap (roughly $130bn). Market-cap wise, Microsoft is roughly 25x the size of Sony, which is why Activision-Blizzard was only in play for a company as large and…

Hardly young and sexy. You act like they’ve thrown her into skimpy clothing.