Played a bit of ME:A from redbox and figured I'd rather buy it on PC because of the awful console performance. I know it used to be pretty easy to transfer save data over but I can't figure it out presently. Anyone know how?

It's a tricky one, but with rentals I think the difference is that the game has been licensed by the retailer to rent out

They don't though. There's no license to rent games.

I'm looking forward to the Nerd Crew episode on it

X WINGS

I KNOW WHAT THOSE ARE

It's super weird seeing you laud Breath of the Wild while simultaneously saying Ghibli movies are "too safe". BotW is one of the most heavily anime-influenced games in the series, with the characterization and storytelling elements feeling ripped directly from a typical shonen, right down to the character archetypes. As for Ghibli films being safe, Miyazaki himself admits that all of his films are made for kids, with the exception of The Wind Rises (one of my favorite films) -- though creatively, they've all pushed boundaries. Grave of the Fireflies really is fantastic, though.

this is the first i've heard of it

is this some new facebook trend?

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You probably want to seriously consider offing yourself if you use this term.

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Quote from: Naru on April 11, 2017, 03:46:50 PM

the fact that airlines can overbook planes on purpose sickens me. the employees can go fuck themselves, they can catch the next flight, those people paid and should be expected to go to their destinations without any repercussions. in this case, no one should be kicked off just because of an error in booking.

Okay
picture the scenario

Do we inconvenience four people here on this one flight because we fucked up, or do we inconvenience an entire flight elsewhere because four pilots that need transferred to Louisville are stuck in Chicago?

the airliner shouldnt be overbooking in the first place

It's a statistically sound practise and pretty much never backfires like this, though.

OT: a dude with a gun hands me $800 and tells me to catch the next flight? You got it bro.

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Quote from: Epsira Idari on April 09, 2017, 07:21:09 PM

I completely forgot about it and haven't even seen it yet.
What is the most interesting thing about the movie? Least?

How did you come up with your score?

Most: animation style
Least: the use of particular anime storytelling tropes that I won't get into for spoiler reasons
Score: It's mostly arbitrary. I start at a 5/10 and try to add or subtract based on what I liked or didn't like. It was a beautifully animated movie, had a compelling story and characters, and despite having a fairly run of the mill body-swapping concept, it executed it in a unique and interesting way. Cons are that the music was generic anime fare, and the ending was stretched quite a bit, which is common in Mokoto Shinkai's movies, apparently.

What might convince me to see this movie before Garden of Words? Do you have a preference between the two?
I haven't seen either of them yet.

Haven't seen that, but my wife recommends it. The biggest reason to see it now is because you'll get to see it in theaters and support the studio via ticket sales.

Quote from: Doctor Doom on April 09, 2017, 07:08:34 PM

Watching a walkthrough makes playing Undertale redundant, yes. Since you've only seen the important bits it might still be worth your while to play it, since there's loads of little amusing side bits, jokes and references.

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Quote from: Epsira Idari on April 09, 2017, 06:26:33 PM

I fail to see how your response addresses the thread topic

I may not have understood what the topic is, then. You asked, "If you know Undertale's story, is it worth playing?", and I said "yes" and explained why. What else should I have said?

I think this is relevant to both of your responses:

I'm not asking whether or not watching the walkthrough obviates playing through a loss of novelty (although it's an interesting point I've considered), I'm asking whether the very notion of story as a selling point justifies investment in a medium distinguished by play, or if that even really matters in the context of gaming and why it does/doesn't.

There are a lot of optional experiences in the game. You may sort of know the characters or the story, but you haven't experienced a narrative of your own. Even if someone made the same broad choices as I did, I wouldn't consider them identical playthroughs. Video games as a medium provide a personal context for the story that is absent from other narrative mediums. And the gameplay itself is fun enough to ignore the abstract storytelling the game utilizes.

I fail to see how your response addresses the thread topic

I may not have understood what the topic is, then. You asked, "If you know Undertale's story, is it worth playing?", and I said "yes" and explained why. What else should I have said?

Crafting is actually good.

It can be. Recently it's become filler for a lot of games. It's particularly dull in ME:A.

Businesses that rent out games probably have a license or something so they're authorised to be providing that kind of service, renting from said business is therefore no problem.

Nope, no license is needed to rent or trade games, and publishers never see a dime from any licensing. As far as I know it's just an accepted gray area that nobody has tried to pursue.

Like I said before--I'm okay if the pub and devs don't make a profit as long as someone's palms are crossed with silver for the one copy, legally. The original copy was already paid for, just as Psy said, and now it's just trading hands, which is perfectly fine. Producing multiple copies without permit is probably the bigger issue.

On the other hand, an incorporated business isn't a requirement to sell or trade things; Craigslist and eBay are two examples of private selling mediums that are perfectly legal. And if, as I asked in the OP, pirates paid some sort of nominal fee (or maybe not even nominal; what if alternatives to Steam sold cracked game keys for competitive prices, like $30 for new games), would that justify it? Is the simple act of a transaction enough to eliminate the moral issues?

I think the bigger issue here is that used sales and rentals involve a single copy trading hands (and a rental is more or less like a repeated used sale), rather than a pirated version being highly distributed. But there's just something off about retailers making money off the sale of used or rented games. Surely anyone that copied or distributed any other form of IP for profit would be smacked with a lawsuit.

If you rent a game, you paid to play it for a short time.
If you buy a used game, you still paid to play it but someone else paid to play it first.

But you don't pay to play it; the publishers (and developers) get nothing from rentals or used sales. If you feel this way, how would you respond to my question about paying a nominal fee for a pirated copy? And at that point, how are rentals and used sales not worse than pirating, since those retailers get profit from selling the game, whereas people that upload copies of games make no money at all?

To be clear, I agree pretty much entirely with you; I'm trying to work this out in my own head, too.

All of them provide one common service: providing me with a valuable product, and that to me is worth money.

Same question.