Unfortunately that’s a very subjective and naive point of view

Library of Alexandria burning down for the modern era

That requires the valuation to drop. A ton of people just go with what they know and are only fuelling it, creatures of habit and convenience and whatnot.

Hell you can even just change desktop environments to shake things up as well.

At that point why not run a WDS

Which is one of the only good reasons to still go to the site

Metal Gear Solid 4 is the big one for me

Let’s call Live Service what it really is, company hosted anti-piracy because they don’t want to pay/implement Denuvo

Most games aren’t fully baked at release anymore. You’re not getting the full experience unless you play it down the line, sometimes years after release.

On top of that, you have to play games on someone else’s time, that is, their license agreement.

If I run out of steam in the middle of persona 3 reloaded, and need to take a break before I revisit it, I don’t want to have to buy it on the subscription platform again to recover my save, or have to keep the foresight that I might not beat it before it disappears.

It’s games. It’s a distraction, a joy. I shouldn’t have to manage anything else or have to pay anything I don’t want to.

“Bots!” Musk yelled, as if conjuring them up.

A war against them he declared, but really, he was just building his own army it seems.

The best part was not feeling like I should be doing something else.

I felt like sitting my lazy ass on the couch watching movies and eating popcorn was exactly where I was supposed to be for once.

I wish we could choose a version to go back and install after it’s all said and done.

I loved Minecraft back in beta, and what it is now is completely unrecognizable. Would be nice to tag a version and install it, a la docker.

Awww some of those bugs were really endearing.

Won’t miss having to re-assign a pal to the boink task every time I revisit the base though. I DONT CARE HOW UGLY SHE IS HENRY MAKE ME AN EGG

There’s no way they’re this stupid, right?

You can piss off the rich folks, but most regular people won’t care most of the time, especially since people don’t give a flying fuck about their data privacy anyway, but this is the point where you really put a target on your back.

Stick to casinos, finance and market makers, the general public won’t bat an eye. Go after kids at a non profit? Well good luck, no one is even pretending to be on your side anymore.

I know I moved off the Xbox version because it was so far behind. Heard how difficult Microsoft makes it to upload and push updates too.

Guess you just have to be an incredible success of a video game to actually get attention from them to work with you.

How? Human error.

Why? Microsoft is just that kind of company and always has been. Their t’s aren’t crossed and i’s aren’t dotted, and people buy their shit because they’re used to it.

Hard disagree.

With Windows you’re paying Microsoft for the privilege of them turning on a vacuum for all your private data AND showing you ads as well.

If anything Windows is worse than MacOS from that standpoint at this point, and both companies need a huge about face for anti-competitive behaviour.

The only thing these companies care about is money. These fines need to have teeth to actually make them change.

Not to mention that we’ve been living in a business and economic environment where Fortune 500 companies have been getting it easy both ways. They’re able to work with impunity AND they lobby the hell out of governments to leave them alone.

This money could actually start to swing stuff towards the consumer again, rather than this new world where regular people seem to be fighting against the rich, corporations, and governments all at the same time. Although it could be said that those three entities are one and the same.

Fuck everyone else, you got yours, right?

FOH

Can it be played mostly single player?