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  1. Comment on BlizzCon Discussion Thread in ~games

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    lmfao, Blizzard will do everything except give Alliance players high elves

    lmfao, Blizzard will do everything except give Alliance players high elves

  2. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    That's really funny! Yeah, I find space inherently so fundamentally interesting, so someone being that disconnected from that is incomprehensible to me 🤣

    That's really funny! Yeah, I find space inherently so fundamentally interesting, so someone being that disconnected from that is incomprehensible to me 🤣

    3 votes

  3. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    I think I helped myself a little in that there was a practice fight in the first stage, in the ship, before the attack. And I kinda... grinded the shit out of that fight for like five levels. I...

    I think I helped myself a little in that there was a practice fight in the first stage, in the ship, before the attack. And I kinda... grinded the shit out of that fight for like five levels. I honestly think it's helped a ton. My guys are now at level 20, and so far, I haven't had to consult a guide very much. Of course that could change immediately.

    So far, I really really like it. But I'm also from that era, so I dunno how someone not almost 40 like I am would receive the game.

    I think the problem I'm having with Allen is that, at the very beginning, he's not actually that bad. He's terrified, but he even picks up a gun and starts shooting Gnosis alongside Sergeant Deadguy to try to hold them back before Kosmos arrives. He's extremely brave. My problem is that the safer we seem to be, the more whiny he's getting. Which, honestly, probably tracks. If I was placed into a situation where I needed to shoot some invulnerable monsters and suck it up, I'd absolutely be a whiny baby the second I'm somewhere else.

    1 vote

  4. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    You're gonna think I'm dumb, but I know what you're talking about. But because I wasn't using the mechs, I didn't realise they would also fix them! Well, that's good to know for later. My logic...

    You're gonna think I'm dumb, but I know what you're talking about. But because I wasn't using the mechs, I didn't realise they would also fix them! Well, that's good to know for later.

    My logic was, aside from not being able to heal easily, that I want to save my money for equipment, and wasn't sure if buying equipment both for mechs and characters was going to drain me dry. So far money doesn't seem to be an issue, though.

    2 votes

  5. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    I'm going to be straight with you, I've barely been using the mechs (AWGS?). I don't know how to heal them aside from mech repair items, which I didn't have a lot of, so I stopped using them. And...

    I'm going to be straight with you, I've barely been using the mechs (AWGS?). I don't know how to heal them aside from mech repair items, which I didn't have a lot of, so I stopped using them. And given that I put a bunch of points into stats, the mechs honestly don't seem to deal that much more damage that characters. At the very least Shion and KOSMOS, who seem to got like trucks.

    Have I screwed myself over by not paying attention to that part of the game?

    2 votes

  6. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    Would you recommend Destiny 2 to a newcomer?

    Would you recommend Destiny 2 to a newcomer?

    1 vote

  7. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    Did you explain that the Sun was a star and the Moon is... a moon? I'm not trying to be a dick, it's just that she sounds pre Copernican!

    Did you explain that the Sun was a star and the Moon is... a moon? I'm not trying to be a dick, it's just that she sounds pre Copernican!

    4 votes

  8. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    Still on that Xenosaga Episode I train. Just reached the... Encelephalon stage, is that what it's called? Boy howdy, I don't know how you guys played this game without speedup, those animations...

    Still on that Xenosaga Episode I train. Just reached the... Encelephalon stage, is that what it's called? Boy howdy, I don't know how you guys played this game without speedup, those animations are loooooong. Also without save states. Haven't had to save scum yet, but you can spend quite a lot kf time between save spots.

    I'm not sure if I'm building my guys right. A lot of them have unlocked AOE skills, and I'm saving up to make those fast and lower their wait. But maybe they get even better skills later? I don't know, I'm having a hoarding problem with tech and ether points.

    Story's real fun though! Except for Allen. He was actually alright in the beginning of the game, but my God, he hasn't stopped whining.

    3 votes

  9. Comment on Adulting -- what advice or encouragement did you receive / wish you had received when you were just starting out moving out? in ~life

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    Can't emphasise this enough. You will very rarely regret trying to do something embarassing and failing. Most of your regrets will be of things you didn't try. Moreover, most of your cool stories...

    Can't emphasise this enough. You will very rarely regret trying to do something embarassing and failing. Most of your regrets will be of things you didn't try.

    Moreover, most of your cool stories will involve embarassing failures.

    3 votes

  10. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    No promises, I give up on games all the time! I've just passed Jr's introduction, and have reached the scene where the commander murders three thugs and gets the Zohar symbol on his forehead,...

    No promises, I give up on games all the time! I've just passed Jr's introduction, and have reached the scene where the commander murders three thugs and gets the Zohar symbol on his forehead, ominously.

    For what it's worth I am an old soul, just not one that played this game! But it was always in the back of my head as a game I should play. What happened was that I was looking through new translations and saw that Xenosaga I and II for the DS had been partially translated. So I played the first 3 chapters, then switched over to the PS2 version since I didn't really want to wait a few years to finish the story.

    So far the fights aren't too bad, but with these old rpgs, I worry about building characters wrong. There seems to be a lot of contradictory info out there. My default right now has been invest into techs speed and wait, and then rest of the points of vit and edef, and then whatever stats I want. I dunno if this is "meta", but working out so far.

    1 vote

  11. Comment on Ahead of an all-digital future for PlayStation, Sony needs to prove in courts that players know they don't own digitally purchased games in ~games

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    I think everything you're on point with everything you're saying. Certainly I'm still surprised when friends from my generations don't really understand something like file types. I do think one...

    I think everything you're on point with everything you're saying. Certainly I'm still surprised when friends from my generations don't really understand something like file types.

    I do think one difference might be that I myself don't work in a tech field. I work in legal compliance, which mainly involved writing and talking to people. So I look forward to spending an hour figuring out how to get the Sega Saturn emulator to switch from disc 1 to disc 2 in Sakura Wars.

    6 votes

  12. Comment on Ahead of an all-digital future for PlayStation, Sony needs to prove in courts that players know they don't own digitally purchased games in ~games

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    With Nintendo, there's a huge difference between just general Nintendo (Game Boy through Wii U) and the Switch specifically. Emulating GB to the Wii is pretty easy, both in Windows and Android....

    With Nintendo, there's a huge difference between just general Nintendo (Game Boy through Wii U) and the Switch specifically.

    Emulating GB to the Wii is pretty easy, both in Windows and Android. The Wii U starts getting a tiny more complicated, because then you might want to deal with th Wii U downloader. The Switch is easy again, but because development is ongoing and because that development stops and starts, not every game is compatible out of the box. The difficulty of the Switch is getting the roms (games). Basic roms sites that carry every other platform won't carry Switch roms, you generally have to go to specialised sites for that. On Android, this is when you have to start trying out different drivers too. You also need to get firmware and keys.

    I'm happy to discuss with you, but probably over PM.

    3 votes

  13. Comment on Ahead of an all-digital future for PlayStation, Sony needs to prove in courts that players know they don't own digitally purchased games in ~games

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    That's the thing with me too! After university, I had gone fully legitimate. Steam, Origin, physical stores, the whole nine yards. I kept a small collection of emulated GBA titles so I never lost...

    That's the thing with me too! After university, I had gone fully legitimate. Steam, Origin, physical stores, the whole nine yards. I kept a small collection of emulated GBA titles so I never lost touch, but I had legitimately forgotten how to be a pirate for nearly two decades. Then the companies pushed and pushed and pushed, and then I needed to relearn PS2 emulation, after I bought a PS2 port on my PS4 that kept having bugs the original didn't have. And then why not figure out GameCube? Hey, why not jaikbreak my 3DS, since the eshop went down and I can't legally get the Fire Emblem Awakening DLC anymore, ever? And dust off the Vita, jailbreak that too.

    Wait, why am I wasting my time like this? Why not just get a Retroid Pocket 5 and just have all the emulators there? And hey, my Switch is acting weird, replacing it is expansive, and the Switch 2 prices in my country are insane. So why not try to emulate the Switch? Hey, it works! How many titles can I download?

    And once you figure all of this out, it's harder to go back, because it's just as easy (or easier) to get a Switch game, but instead of 70 American dollars, it's free, and you can go to gamebanana and get mods, turn on or off updates and DLC, do whatever.

    4 votes

  14. Comment on Ahead of an all-digital future for PlayStation, Sony needs to prove in courts that players know they don't own digitally purchased games in ~games

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    I think it's a psychological thing, and it either affects you or it doesn't. I think I mod the majority of my games there days, if there's something good. Before I start a game, I'll look up if...

    I think it's a psychological thing, and it either affects you or it doesn't.

    I think I mod the majority of my games there days, if there's something good. Before I start a game, I'll look up if there's mods and romhacks, particularly if it's a retro game. A lot of time, it's the definitive version of the game.

    And yeah, similar. While I'll pirate anything from a big corp, I don't really like doing it for indies. So I'll usually buy it, but then pirate it anyway in whatever format I wanted to have it depending on where I want to play it (my retro console or my computer). I had bought One Way Heroics on Steam, but decided I wanted to play it on my retroid pocket, so first tried using GameNative to run in. That was a bit of a faff, so then I just downloaded the Switch version, which works great.

    Piracy is part of it, but a really huge thing for me (especially as a dad) is save states. Particularly with these old RPGs I like to play, I almost always prefer emulate solely because of save states, and the above lity to save scum through bullshit mechanics, or just leave when I need to leave.

    3 votes

  15. Comment on Ahead of an all-digital future for PlayStation, Sony needs to prove in courts that players know they don't own digitally purchased games in ~games

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    For some games, for sure. But you won't find something like Tears of the Kingdom on GOG.

    For some games, for sure. But you won't find something like Tears of the Kingdom on GOG.

    2 votes

  16. Comment on Ahead of an all-digital future for PlayStation, Sony needs to prove in courts that players know they don't own digitally purchased games in ~games

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    Re BOTW, there are exactly two camps on this, and you belong to the lucky one! You're playing the game as it was designed, and that's probably for the best. For me, I hate hate hate my weapons...

    Re BOTW, there are exactly two camps on this, and you belong to the lucky one! You're playing the game as it was designed, and that's probably for the best. For me, I hate hate hate my weapons breaking. I don't play Zelda to be careful with my weapons! Yes, logically, I will find better weapons. But when I find a cool weapon in BotW, it's not exciting if it's going to last 7 hits. It's like finding ammo.

    Modding that away messes with the game balance, but also makes the game fun for me, because I get to use whatever cool weapons I want whenever I want. Without that, I legitimately wouldn't be able to play the game at all.

    7 votes

  17. Comment on Ahead of an all-digital future for PlayStation, Sony needs to prove in courts that players know they don't own digitally purchased games in ~games

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    We just had a moment like that for Netflix. My daughter really wanted to watch the next episode of a cartoon she liked, and whoops, it's not on Netflix anymore as of that day! Absolutely none of...

    We just had a moment like that for Netflix. My daughter really wanted to watch the next episode of a cartoon she liked, and whoops, it's not on Netflix anymore as of that day!

    Absolutely none of that. Go to one of my torrent sites, download the season, cast it to the TV, done, took five minutes. And I realise Netflix is operating under specific licensing agreements, but as a customer, piracy provided a better option than the streaming company, and didn't cost me 15 bucks a month.

    And yeah, I suspect piracy is a fallback for a lot of people. If/when one of these big companies goes under and invalidates a bunch of people's user libraries, I suspect you'll get an explosion of piracy.

    10 votes

  18. Comment on Ahead of an all-digital future for PlayStation, Sony needs to prove in courts that players know they don't own digitally purchased games in ~games

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    That makes sense. I think a large part of it is also the enjoyment of the process, which you like say might've ended with this generation. I bought a Retroid Pocket, but half of the fun is setting...

    That makes sense. I think a large part of it is also the enjoyment of the process, which you like say might've ended with this generation. I bought a Retroid Pocket, but half of the fun is setting it up and tinkering with it. But like you mention, that means already being familiar with cemu and dolphin and duckstation. I don't think you need a lot of knowledge. I'm not a programmer or coder or engineer or anything. A lot of this feels like basic millenial knowledge anyone with a computer growing up in the 00s would've naturally accrued. But I'm probably wrong about this, I don't know.

    I suppose that explains the changes to an extent. Piracy has always been a moderating influence on anti consumer behaviour. As pirates become rarer, moves like this will become more common, since there's less people that know they can easily get around it.

    That said, anecdotally, it feels like there's been an explosion of piracy and emulation in the community. More and more recomps/decomps, retro consoles, unofficial ports, etc.

    5 votes

  19. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    I'm mildly aware of some things, like KOS-MOS, Rubedo and characters. I know it references Abrahamic mythology. But don't know a lot beyond that! Any tips you might have for a first playthrough?

    I'm mildly aware of some things, like KOS-MOS, Rubedo and characters. I know it references Abrahamic mythology. But don't know a lot beyond that!

    Any tips you might have for a first playthrough?

    1 vote

  20. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    Finished my Personal 4 spinoff journey by finally beating Persona 4 Dancing All Night. Surprisingly fun! The story wasn't Persona tier, but much better than I was expecting. And that final dance...

    Finished my Personal 4 spinoff journey by finally beating Persona 4 Dancing All Night. Surprisingly fun! The story wasn't Persona tier, but much better than I was expecting. And that final dance sequence was amazing. I got giddy when it started just with Naoto and Kanji, because I knew it meant it was goung to involve everyone.

    Trying to finish Act 5 of Rogue Trader. I like the game, but I'm a bit burnt out, so just want to drag myself to the finish. There's a lot more combat and a lot less dialogue so far, which is the opposite of what I want. It's probably my favourite portrayal of the 40k world, and I still can't believe they let you romance an Eldar!

    Have also started Xenosaga. I know I'm signing up for 3 games of massive cutscenes and talking, but it's a game I've always thought about but never played. I grew up in the PS2 era, so the graphics seem fine to me. Hoping the gameplay is fun.

    1 vote