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And yet their “unfunny lame attempt at a joke” got 90+ upvotes, so clearly some people thought it was funny.

Xbox fucked itself when it released the 360. It’s a cool name and all, but where do you go from there? They can’t back out and name the next one the Xbox 3 because that’s just a downgrade to 360 both audibly and visually. The Xbox 720 like plenty of people thought? That one’s honestly not bad, but at this point you’ve only kicked the can down the road. Because the Xbox 1080 or 1440 doesn’t sound nearly as good.

I can’t tell if they were just scared to have the “Xbox 2” compete with the “PlayStation 3”, or if it was just MS not knowing how to name a damn product.

Asking the police officers to work for no pay for 6 months would eventually pit them against others

More likely would eventually cause them all to quit and look for new jobs. I’m no cop sympathizer, but they don’t get paid enough to survive 2 months without pay, let alone 6. The people who actually wanted to help others would quit too.

It can cause issues with default settings on the occasional site.

Maybe, but if you want Librewolf but less extreme, that’s what Waterfox is for. May as well just install that and avoid the 5 minute search. And this is coming from a long time Librewolf user.

I didn’t care for Rivals too much because none of the characters really clicked with me, the shark’s ult was total bullshit imo, and there were far too many characters that spent the entire game just flying in the air.

Overwatch has a few characters I really enjoy playing in each role, doesn’t really have any crazy ults like Rivals, and only one character (the newly added cat) spends the entire game in the air.

Overwatch is probably in the best state it’s been in since launch, but only if you’re not susceptible to FOMO. Because holy hell do they abuse FOMO at every opportunity with absurdly expensive character skins, that shit’s their bread and butter. Like, don’t want to buy the $10 battlepass? Oh well, that’s one more mythic skin (the game’s highest quality, customizable skins) you’ll never get. Want to get one of those skins at a later point? That’ll cost you 80 fucking dollars. 100+ if you want any of the fancy colors. Should have bought the battlepass.

But yeah, monetization and FOMO aside, Overwatch is pretty fun right now.

Truly, when I went into that argument, I wasn’t expecting so much nuance, subtleties, and unique perspectives. They really showed me. I’m a changed man, from this point forward I will never buy games I’ve pirated because Rhoeri says I don’t do that!

You know, I had a bunch of screenshots ready of me talking to a friend about pirating the game on discord, talking about my thoughts on the game after doing so, and then screenshots of me getting the game on steam the very next day. But this is already way too much effort put into a discussion with somebody as unserious as you. So I’m going to respect my own privacy and just not do that. Have fun living your life without nuance I guess.

Thank you for completely ignoring what I said and just repeating your rhetoric for the third time. Very constructive. Much discussion. Wow!

You think game developers don’t deserve to be paid for their work.

I literally do not think that though. This is that nuance I was talking about that you’re afraid to engage with. Not everybody pirates games and then never buys them.

I’m very tight on money and cannot buy every game I’m interested in. So I pirate games and treat them as demos. If I dislike the game, I stop playing it, and no harm is done since I would have either never bought it or refunded it regardless. If I like the game, I’ll buy it at the first opportunity.

Esoteric Ebb is the most recent example of that, I played it for a few hours and it immediately jumped to the #2 spot on my wishlist. I haven’t bought it yet, but I plan to soon. It’s also recently happened with Schedule I, and this one I actually got. Me pirating the game has literally earned them a sale they otherwise would not have gotten.

Shame. It’s a more nuanced discussion than you seem to believe.

Denvuo can cause issues for Linux users trying to switch proton versions. Denuvo is also terrible for game preservation. It’s not just pirates that are affected negatively.

Looking up old legacy edition screenshots, it looks like it did. Super weird that I don’t remember that at all, I played the hell out of MC on the 360 as a kid lol. I guess that kinda thing just didn’t bother me back then.

You… either completely missed or completely ignored the point. The point being that, in order to attack the pirates who wouldn’t have bought the game anyway, regular paying users are getting screwed over by a significant performance hit.

Why is pirating inherently dishonest in your opinion?

Was the hotbar always that high up in legacy console edition? I started playing around like TU3 or something (it was before creative came out is all I remember), but I don’t remember that at all. It has been a long time though.

People might have simply not liked what they saw.

Problem is more that nobody saw it in the first place. Despite being a YouTube channel with 1.25 million subs, the 2 hour long stream got a grand total of 1,600 views. For $600, that’s less than 3 views per dollar. And that’s assuming these people got far enough into the stream to see this particular trailer. Honestly I’m impressed they even got 65 new wishlists with numbers like that.

For Emerald specifically, I learned shiny starter hunting is actually especially difficult. For other pokemon games, your seed is randomly generated when reloading the game, so you have a random 1/8192 chance to get a shiny starter every time you select it. But for whatever reason in Emerald, your seed stays the same from the moment you start a new game. So the RNG is completely fixed. What this means is you can’t really soft-reset for the shiny right in front of the bag as easily as you can in other games, because if you pick the pokemon at, say, the 100th frame, then you’ll always see that exact version of the pokemon at the 100th frame. So in between each soft-reset you need to wait longer and longer each time so you don’t risk grabbing it on the same frame as before.

Eventually you’ll be waiting 20+ seconds between each reset, and rather than continue to soft-reset, it will be faster to just start a new save entirely, which properly resets the seed. Which you’ll then need to do again and again until you eventually get the shiny. Now I was perfectly ready for a regular shiny starter hunt, but this? No, this was some crap I wasn’t willing to put up with. So I instead went down a whole rabbit hole of learning how to RNG manipulate using a hex reader. Still took me multiple days on and off, but it was an interesting learning experience. I could technically use this to guarantee any pokemon is shiny by waiting for the correct frame (the one upside to static RNG) since I now know my secret ID (the hard part), but that wont do me much good in a mudkip-only run lol.

I like achievements. I don’t compare them to anybody else, they just give me a goal and personal sense of accomplishment. The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth would have been a lot less satisfying to complete if I didn’t get to see 641/641 achievements on my profile.

In 99% of games I’ve played that disable achievements with mods, there’s a way around that on PC. In the aforementioned The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, as long as you beat the first “final” boss a single time, you can use mods freely. In Fallout 4 as you’ve mentioned… there’s a mod that re-enables achievements. So this is an irrelevant issue to me.

As far as your other question goes, I’d be more than happy to see achievements be opt-out. On Steam you can always hide your library or use SAM to get rid of them all when you’re done playing, but that’s obviously not ideal.

A shiny dex sounds like it’s own layer of hell. In my mudkip-only game, I decided I may as well get a shiny mudkip if I’m stuck with it for the entire game, and that took me way, way too long even with fast forward. Admittedly a shiny starter is quite a bit different than a random shiny, but still!