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There is so much joy missing from your life.
Do you have recordings of this?
full disclosure: everyone in that picture is a friend of mine
other people were laughing though, I swear!
(I am super glad my friends found it funny enough to tell their friends it was good instead of fake "HAHAHAHA OH MAN THAT WAS OH LOOK AT THE TIME")
what has that got to do with f2p?
It's all grindy shit to make money though. There is no reason for PvE in EVE unless you want to make money.
I've traded it for sneers and inflated self worth, don't worry
I still bought it even though it took place in an alternate universe with no duct tape.
So I have little sympathy for entitled gamers of my generation.
Well that's something at least.
choking is hundred bucks extra
as a new hobby I'm giving a go
done it like, 7 times now over the last two months?
I have a recording but it is of my first time and pretty cringy so I'm just keeping it as something to look back on fondly
Actual Play: Mage: the Awakening - At the Edge of All Things
It's stuff like that which makes intelligently written spy stuff so good.
All that "they know but how how do they know, and do they know that we know that they know?" kind of thing.
Cryptonomicon has a couple of cool sub plots relating to a WW2 Special Operations team whose whole purpose is to provide plausible reasons for the Allies to have certain intelligence so that they can act on it without revealing that communications codes have been broken. Like, establishing a fake observation post near a place that's going to be bombed and making it look like it's been there for months.
i totally agree that this is a problem, and i've not gotten far enough into neverwinter to run into this as a problem (though i absolutely believe you that it is).
there are bad ftp systems that are based upon confusing the consumer.
but i this is absolutely not what informed couscous's complaint that he couldn't finish all the game content without having to pay
he just didn't want to pay for game content
and this is generally the central complaint i hear
I can't decide on whether I should send you Delta Farce or Witless Protection for Secret Santa, Will.
Actually if CCP implemented this, they would probably fuck it up.
Anyway, I had these little bastards running the backyard all morning and they collapsed on top of each other.
People do want to make money though.
o i already have them on blu-ray
wouldn't mind getting them for a 3d 4k tv setup tho
git er dun right up in my face in my living room
Oh, no question. It's just that the piracy thing became a massive problem before any of the media industries began to even think about responding intelligently to it.
I'm thinking specifically of that generation of people that were kids with no money or students or whatever about ten years ago when you literally could trivially pirate pretty much anything on a whim at considerably greater convenience than acquiring it legally.
Eh, I got ice cream out of it.
are they scotland terriers lud?
i didn't know you had dogs
...
those are your dogs, right?
They definitely have to put up with a lot of shit, though. I think the one thing that I will never understand is why nerds get so, incredibly angry about games. It just doesn't make any sense. Like even if you're disappointed with a game or you don't like it or had a bad time why would you be so livid about it? People can just be total douches about the games they play. Sometimes it's just like "Good god man, chill. Video games are like literally the least important thing in your life. Go hug your family or something."
But, yeah, so I bought the Planetside 2 devs a beer basket and had it shipped to their studio.
wait, for real
This is still the case.
my piracy heydays were in the late 80s / early 90s when it meant zipspanning a game across a few floppy disks at a friends house then copying some stuff out of the manual by hand. Or downloading a game off a bbs (often paying long distance phone charges) at 1200 baud.
It's kind of weird to think of the 2000s as a time of rampant piracy.
Gonna bake blueberry muffins while the dough rises. Saturday baking is fucking awesome. Why didn't I do this before?!?
The "convenience gap" has been narrowed, though, with steam and suchlike.
But you can still trivially pirate pretty much anything on a whim.
*i spent money on blc to reward them for making a good game tho. THEN IT ALL WENT TO SHIT. NEVER AGAIN
He is straight up heroic, but he also falls squarely into like all of the harmless black stereotypes, and the media really doesn't know what to do with him.
Like, whenever he talked about sharing watermelon and ribs at the BBQ with the suspect not knowing anything was wrong, or how he knew something was wrong when a cute white girl ran into his black arms "cause that just doesn't happen" -- everyone gets nervous and it's hilarious.
All said, that guy is a champion. He refused any rewards for helping them and said anything they would reward him to give it to the girls instead because they need it more. He is a total class act.