Same here, admittedly. But I suspect we come from broadly similar walks of life - likely we’re both residents of the USA, and both enjoy some measure of middle-class lifestyle. And the same is true of the majority of people we encounter. But it’s always worth remembering that there are plenty of people who live very…

You may be right. I think a non-trivial number of them do it for some variation of ideological reason, though - i.e. they’re “making a statement” about DRM, or the like. Then there are those that are pirating because it’s hard or impossible to buy legally where they are - a lot of games have a significant delay on…

I’d be interested to see some statistical work done to see what kind of effect this really has on sales. The publishers have been very fond of behaving like every illegal download is a lost sale, while the pirates like to claim that practically everybody that steals software is just using it like a demo, and either…

Not knowing the details of how Denuvo works we can’t say for sure, but it’s possible that, when you do that, you might have to re-download and re-install those games that have Denuvo on them.

Now, don’t oversimplify. People will download pirated software for a lot of reasons, including the ones Ziql mentioned. Yes, some people do it just to get free stuff (weirdly, there are some that just “collect” cracked games and never even play most of them), but that’s not what motivates every person that does it. It…

While you’ve got a point, I also think it remains a valid storytelling tool. Losing loved ones to violence is, after all, a thing that happens to people sometimes. More importantly, it’s something most everyone fears, and wonders how they’ll respond to it if it does happen. Which is exactly the sort of thing that…

I dunno, I thought it was a decent way to conclude Peter’s arc within that universe, if nothing else. And I think it served to push Mayday into full adulthood in a way few other things could. Peter didn’t die for no reason after all - he died to give May time to get MJ and Benjy away from the bad guy (who was…

Sadly, Mayday herself can no longer make that claim, since her version of Peter died in the Spiderverse event.

Well, it is...relatively. But when you’re talking about a character that’s been in essentially continuous publication for more than 80 years, 15-20 years ago IS “relatively recent.”;-)

Apologies, then, for presuming you were a filthy American like myself, and knowing nothing. ;-)

There’ve been white guys in Canada for a lot longer than a century. European colonists started showing up in North America in the early 1500s - in the north where Canada is now, they were mostly French fur trappers at first. And Vikings were in parts of eastern Canada at least intermittently a lot earlier than that -…

I liked Origins as a story, but I was disappointed that Logan was actually born as recently as the late 1800s - making him barely over a century seems to me to be a real missed opportunity - if they’d had him born earlier they could have given him that much more deep backstory to mine once they finally let him…

I think it’s important to remember that Star Wars is really just an unusually popular form of retro-future - a projection of what technology could achieve based on assumptions that are now ~50 years out of date. Admittedly, the creation of the prequels, 20 years later on in real-time, yet pretending to take place…

I think this is why Oculus agreed to the Facebook buyout - they want to make the best VR headset that technology allows, and they knew that would mean a steep price tag for the consumer when they finally reached the market. They knew therefore that this wasn’t going to be a device that took the world by storm…

On the one hand, that’s a pretty good price. On the other hand, It’s Christmas-time, and I’ve been spending money on presents for other people (plus expensive stuff for my kids like new car seats, and am about to shell out a few hundred dollars for a furnace repair at the end of the month).

On the one hand, that’s a pretty good price. On the other hand, It’s Christmas-time, and I’ve been spending money on…

Yeah, definitely a mistake. Though if I’d known about that, maybe I’d have tried rushing through the story until getting to that point. But my natural inclination in a game like this is to do a lot of exploring and completing side quests, which means a lot of random fighting, and it just got so irritating that I…

I don’t think I really got far enough along in the game for the collecting and evolving pets thing to really matter that much - I think my main character only had 2 or 3 of them, and the girl 1 or 2, when I dropped it. but I could see how that side of things might have gotten annoying as well, over time, depending how…

I’m ambivalent on that count. On the one hand, I get what you’re saying, but on the other, I actually kind of liked being able to build a team entirely based on the characters I liked having around the most, rather than having to compromise based on tactical considerations. but then, I tend to favor adaptive systems,…

Well, that’s disappointing news.

I liked them in 1998. They were already getting tiresome by the time FFVIII came out, and I liked FFIX despite them, not because of them. By X, I was sick of them and it contributed to my never actually finishing that game. I was not sorry to see the changes made in XII to the now-tired formula (though I didn’t finish…