because although life is a festering pile of shit, there are things i still need to accomplish that cannot be accomplished if i'm dead

RIP

berserk was edgelord trash anyway, but dying in your 50s is a pretty raw deal

Also, post nut clarity is just that, clarity. What you two are describing is post nut depression

there is LITERALLY no difference (if you're an intelligent person)

jesus, sorry to hear that

i'm doing okay—i'm getting my degree by the end of this year, so i'm currently in the middle of planning where i'm gonna go from there

Quote from: Verbatim on April 13, 2021, 10:08:37 AM

i just don't know why you would do this, unless you suffer from "PC master race" brainrot to such a degree that the mere thought of playing a game on its intended console makes you want to vomit, or something

best justification i can think of would be a speedrunner who wants to use emulator tools for the sake of practice

You forgot that consoles break and they are expensive, right?

no console old enough to break down can't be found for a reasonable price somewhere—i collect retro games as a hobby, so i should know

granted, i don't know how true this is outside of the US, so you might be at a disadvantage

at the same time, nobody said that any of this was good or fair—if i can't play a game because it's unavailable to me for bullshit reasons, that fucking sucks, but i personally find it very easy to suck it up

You see, you are working with the predicate that all laws concerning this issue are perfect.

i'm working with the predicate that the law is the law, regardless of whether it's perfect and regardless of whether you like it or not

The law actually states that it is completely legal to get the ROM from your purchased copy of any game.  It's also legal to modify it from there.  What's illegal is distributing it.

choosing to play a game on an inferior machine that the game was never intended to be played on in the first place doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me, but okay i guess

If you're against buying games second-hand that's fine, it just limits your options.

the post you're quoting literally said that i want flea markets to receive financial support because they deserve it, so idk how you took this position away from it—flea markets are generally the way to go these days when it comes to retro games in particular, and it's not illegal to sell pre-owned video games, so it wouldn't make sense for me to be against buying games second-hand

Downloading the game online is literally no different than buying a game secondhand, or borrowing it from a friend, or being given it by a friend.

this argument kind of works if you're talking about torrents or parsec or something along those lines, but not if you're making new copies—the main difference being, when you borrow a physical copy of a game from a friend, you're not producing another physical copy of it, which is what makes it okay

even then, the idea that a seeder is your "friend" is also fairly disingenuous, because they are most certainly not your friend—you're anonymous strangers collaborating on the circumvention of having to pay for something

when a friend lets you borrow something, it's not because they want you to avoid having to pay for something—it's mainly because they're your friend. if i cared about people having to pay for shit, i wouldn't be so exclusive about who i allow to borrow my shit, so it's really just not the same thing

bottom line is, if i were to drop my principles right now, and say that all of this is okay, i'm basically never going to spend a dollar on a video game ever again, because i'm going to find ways to download absolutely everything—even if they actually made games cheaper and more accessible, nothing beats getting it for free, so why pay any money at all

it's a very black and white subject for me—you're either always okay with being a thief, or you're never okay with it

to be sometimes okay with being a thief doesn't make any sense to me as a moral position, because any line you draw in the sand between what's okay or not okay to steal is going to be totally arbitrary. and will most likely boil down to "it's okay, because i want it, and i don't want to pay money for it" or "it's okay because big corporation bad"

how about "it's never okay"? what's so bad about that? oh yeah, you don't get free shit

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Quote from: Verbatim on April 11, 2021, 04:16:13 PM

and play what games

All

cool, where can majora's mask be legally purchased on my PC and when did nintendo greenlight this

As soon as they stopped selling it themselves, that's the green light.

I'm not sure if its available digitally through their store though.

yes it is, but that's not how it works at all—that's just how you internally justify it

Join the PC Mustard Race my friend, never look back.

and play what games

Pardon my killing time for a bit. Surprised you never changed your stance on mods Verb(minus the half hearted jest here).

Popped into my head recently while idlely thinking how many ways you can technically poke holes in the mods r bad motto you carry via asking questions.

when it comes to mods, i've changed my stance insofar as i care significantly less when other people do it—so long as they're not trying to tell ME to do it, because that would be obnoxious

the least offensive mods to me are those that fix game-breaking bugs, and add functionalities like netplay to games that didn't previously have them (such as Super Smash Bros. Melee), or anything installed after you've already beaten the vanilla game at least once

but even with the former category, that's getting into a sketchy territory on the basis that it shouldn't be up to the players, on principle, to fix your broken-ass game for you—and don't get me started on "lore-friendly" mods, which are, more often than not, far from it

anything that defies developer intentions is an obvious no-go, but even things outside of that still rub me the wrong way, just because i've always valued having an authentic experience with a game

i'm not out here, like most people, playing games strictly for entertainment purposes—i'm out here to figure out what the best games ever made are, because i actually think of games as works of art worthy of critical evaluation, and part of a good critical evaluation is coming to the understanding that a game's flaws make up an important aspect of what that game is at its core, in the same way that a movie's flaws are an important aspect of what makes the movie what it is—and yet, we don't really see people modifying movies very often (although i'm sure there's some weirdos who do that—solonoid just posted an edit of GvK, but stuff like that is pretty outside of the norm)

being able to face up to those flaws, rather than trying to sweep them under the rug with a mod, will allow you to have a stronger grasp of what your tastes are, what the best games for you are, and what kinds of flaws and issues you're willing to put up with in order to play an otherwise fun game—and then, rather than modding those problems out, the best solution is to find a similar game that doesn't have that flaw, and then you won't have to mod anything (because you shouldn't have to—games should just be good out of the box)

now, granted, i do understand now more than ever that 99% of gamers just don't give a fuck about anything to do with what i just said, and just wanna have their dumb fun doing all kinds of stupid shit in their video games, because video games are strictly an entertainment medium for them—and i'm able to concede, at this point in my life, that that's probably fine

i still have a different perspective, though, and i think my way of thinking tends to lead to more fulfilling gameplay experiences—my vanilla skyrim may not be as fun to play as your ultra-modified version of it, but for me, part of a game's fun factor is having the opportunity to experience, discuss, and criticize its imperfections, which you'll miss out on entirely if you decide to mod those imperfections out (whether you care or not)

i don't think any of these thoughts should be controversial or unreasonable—i'm not saying anyone needs to agree with me by any means, but in order to understand where i'm coming from even more, think back to how george lucas likes to keep editing the original star wars movies

regardless of how strongly you feel about the edited star wars films, there's a good chance that you probably disagree with lucas's decision to make these alterations—but why?

probably for the same exact reasons that i don't like modifying games

The newly wanted Pioneer Port Campbell soup room, doctors are also more future group, the Pioneer Port character and fashion are focused on Eva Haru. I'll use Aster Formal, so if the ketchup goes out, the z sauce instead of g market drink pressure per week and wanted channel Banggye-ri 5g squishy Liberation Lyon here and there night 4 Simon's.

Is it worth watching the rebuilds?

My answer would be yes, but with a couple asterisks. It really kinda depends on what you liked about Evangelion. What did you like about Evangelion?

Regardless of my personal (and mostly negative) feelings, the Rebuilds are major cultural touchstones that are worth experiencing regardless of their quality, imo—which is to say that I would only check them out for the sake of giving yourself the opportunity to partake in modern discussions about Eva. They are definitely polarizing movies, but they're polarizing in the same way that the Disney Star Wars films are polarizing. As such, it's not really feasible to ask people if they're worth watching, because you're not going to get many unbiased responses (case in point: see above). It's a prime example of a "decide for yourself" kind of situation.

In general, if you find it fun or exciting to be part of burgeoning discourses about pre-eminent media, then there's virtually no sense missing out.

How much have you spent on this collection

over the course of ten years, probably at least $2000, with about half of that being spent over the last couple

if you think that's irresponsible, you should see CIB collectors

world tour 2.0 let's go. Hope nintendo doesn't catch wind of this one

any reason to think they won't?

so i got the guy who got blown up on twitter for making an "exaggerated jiggle physics" mod to give me a tutorial on how to reduce the jiggle physics to 0

hey guys, i changed my mind—mods are pretty cool after all

Quote from: Verbatim on February 13, 2021, 03:03:07 AM

Kinda wanted to take one last look at my first profile before the nuke, but I never got around to it. Too bad.

You're just the master of procrastination aren't you. Memory's dim on that one, but how the hell'd you get into Halo in the first place? Or did you just stumble onto the bungie forums and just make a home there?

More of the latter, yeah. Never cared for Halo, but I had a few friends who did. One of them told me all about B.net—how cool the community was, despite being a Halo forum, and how the Flood was the most popular board anyway, so if I were to join, I would never actually have to talk about Halo.

Much like a hipster atheist choosing to wear a cross necklace "because it's ironic," I signed up because the idea of posting on a website centered around something that I don't like was incredibly amusing to me—and as my friend indicated, the off-topic board was where most of the activity was anyway, so I spent most of my time there (until I found private groups).

My one regret—just kidding, I have a lot—but a smaller one that I've never really disclosed before, is that I never really had a turnaround on Halo. It'll never not be that one stupid shooter series that my dumb friends forced me to play with them as a kid, after they "grew out of" playing Nintendo games (even though they were still only 12).

I've since played through Halo: CE's campaign on my own in the interest of having a more adult perspective on it, and I wasn't terribly impressed. The music was good, and it felt great to play and shoot stuff, but the guns themselves were hella boring, and the combat was repetitive and monotonous—I also didn't find myself particularly invested in the story, either. It's just one of those games that doesn't really do a whole lot for me, which is a shame, given how special and resonant the series was to pretty much everybody here.

Then again, even if I did turn around on it, it would be difficult to dissociate it from those bad childhood memories. That built up a lot of resentment within me, not only for Halo, but for the FPS genre itself—though at the very least, that sweeping hatred has pretty much fallen by the wayside at this point. I've had a lot of time to try out a lot of different shooters since then, and while it's still not my favorite genre, I'm at least capable of naming a decent number of shooters that I've enjoyed quite thoroughly, such as Half-Life and Borderlands.

That said, I guess I would have to concede that Halo probably opened the floodgates in terms of how modern shooters are designed (for better or for worse), so I guess you could say that I have an appreciation for it on that angle.