Is this real? Do you actually think that nobody has expressed their dislike of this business model, or similarly predatory practices (lootboxes, gacha rolls, etc) and decried them as exploitative before Diablo Immortal? Super weird argument.

likely be around a few hundred million dollars of revenue [...] over the next 5-10 years.

I’ll never pass up an opportunity to watch Sanford Kelly lose and throw a tantrum.

I think the experience with GameFly varied a lot by location. I was used to Netflix’s mail service by the time they came out, which was incredibly smooth by comparison because they had such stronger infrastructure. Netflix would receive a DVD back the day after it was picked up from my mailbox, and I’d get a new DVD…

Depends on the library. I rented N64 games from mine when they were current. And that was in Alabama, so I have to imagine that places with better funding and less pressure from conservative parents’ groups would also have been doing it.

As a player you don’t get to just hold out because you don’t like a decision that wasn’t yours to make to begin with.

“Oh, him? He’s asleep. See, when criminals fight me, they become exhausted and have to nap afterwards, because I’m so good at fighting.”

Looks fun, cool write-up, thanks.

Seriously, what the hell is going on in these replies? I’m not gonna answer every person in the greys showing me some racist tweet or Youtuber and being like “AND WHAT ABOUT THIS, HMMMMM?” Don’t be racist, racism is bad, ban racists.

Does the hateful shit that same woman made towards Speed, that “only white players can heal in this game, black man” count?

“this makes me feel icky”

In my tournaments here in nor-cal, effective immediately, I’m implementing a professional rule, which states in short, I have the right to DQ you if it’s clear that you are not keeping up with your hygiene.

You can find gross people who play other games, but Smash event organizers have to straight-up beg attendees to wash themselves and their clothes at a level that you don’t see in other events.

I decided to give it a whirl last night, despite having an extremely washed-up CPU (4th-gen i7), and it’s actually running quite well for me. I adjusted a few things based on the top couple of Steam reviews/comments before I started (disabled motion blur, low DoF, medium grass, volumetric, and global light, pretty…

Yeah, that’s gotta be it. Nobody on the internet is genuinely disagreeing with you, we’re all just being a bunch of degenerate trolls by choosing not to do homework assignments to help educate you.

I played some of this version of IV and was impressed. Took about a minute to mod the font, then I stopped thinking about it. I had really low expectations; since I’ve got old systems and a CRT I assumed these would be pointless for me. But they look good, and the soundtrack kicked ass. I would have been very happy…

We’re not having a debate, and you’re not anyone’s professor.

No, the onus is not on anyone else to help you unburden yourself of your ignorance. You can do your own homework, or you can continue sounding stupid on the internet. No skin off anyone else’s ass.

Music has the same problem, where things routinely dissolve into a pit of confusing and heated genre arguments, and labels that seem more and more disconnected over time as everything drifts and contexts change.

Maybe substitute the phrase “used to sell people the game” instead of “promised,” which I think is what people are usually getting at anyway. Because while I agree that “promised” sounds kind of emotionally loaded, I think it’s fair to be frustrated by how deliberately misleading CDPR was in selling this game to…