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what are you copping?

>>112488
Nice Fuhrer dubs

I don't know, I haven't really looked into it too much yet heh. I feel like I spent enough time and money on games so far this year but I'm sure I'll see something I can't live without (despite playing much later).

btw play Look Outside lol

How exactly would your life change if you dropped vidya entirely? What difference would it make for you? What, precisely, would you be losing?

>>112529
<just stare at a wall bro
<anything beyond staring at a wall and begging for a handful of rice each day is unnecessary
Imagine being given the blessing and curse of life, then just squandering it. I suppose that's better than using it to do evil like most humans. No action is superior to wrong action

>>112533
I won't chastise video games entirely, but I also won't downplay that there's an element of addiction and that it becomes a bad habit for a lot of people in general.

Might get rid of Rainworld, I think I mistook it for Animal Well which is still more money than I'm looking to spend rn. LOL

I'll be keeping an eye on the sale until the last day to see if anything else catches my eye, of course.

My home IP is ranged from 4duck and I just want to discuss pogeymanz mobile games. FUCK! FUCK!!!
>>112488
Barony is cheap as all sin ATM. Stupid old fucking shit almost never goes on sale for a fair price. Bought some copies for friends and myself.

>>112543
why would you play mobile games in your home when you have a big screen, speakers and a comfortable gamepad or mouse & kb

>>112552
Where did you plant the wire, fed boy?

Been playing the Halo Combat Evolved/Master Chief Collection (MCC) on my Steam Deck. I never beat the original Halo trilogy because I didn't have an Xbox back in the day so despite its reputation I never ended up going through the whole thing so I'm trying to give it a go now. I really like that you can revert back to the original game's graphics so easily; it looks a bit primitive but I've found I sometimes prefer the visual clarity and the lighting choices of the original game to the 2014 remaster. As many people have criticized the new look of the Halo itself I will say that yes it loses something with the "RGB" trim in the MCC Remaster and naturally the newer as of yet unreleased cross console Remaster version doubles down and makes it look even worse.

>>112567
The contrast from the blinding white snow is too harsh on the eyes. The indoor metallic reflections and some particle effects should've been toned down to improve visual clarity. There's a platinum blue filter over everything.

If you plan to hunt down a flying reptilian jackdaw from Ice and Fire: Dragons before you're kitted out enough to go toe-to-toe with a warden, DO NOT lazily drop a bed out in the open while planning to plink it with basic arrows, as even 500 blocks away is not far enough away for it to uno reverso hunt you down and camp your ass until one of its several dozen meteoric snotballs bombs your bed and you're sent several thousand blocks back to world spawn. That is, unless you remember modded Minecraft is still Minecraft and thus pretty much everyone is hard-countered by the power of water bukket.

>>112537
Didn't think anyone here or u (not really) liked arpgs, or at least the Diablo clone type rather than e.g. the Elder Scrolls type. Not intending to be gloomy but I didn't find much replay value or desire to keep going with the main campaign things in Grim Dawn. Not I terested in PoE 2?

>>112590
I enjoyed what I played of PoE 1 years ago. It felt like what Diablo 3 should have been, not that I've ever played D3

I think this is going to have to be it for me heh
(I had to $20 gift cards I'd left sitting around for a while too so that helped)

>>112597
I'm guessing
<over 90% of your playtime is on less than 10 games
<65% of your library has a playtime of less than 1 hour

>>112601
>tfw anon has psychic powers
First one maybe (multiplayer games are liable to be overrepresented here as they don't "end" as such), second one definitely

i have forgotten where ive posted and what Ive posted in or who has even responded to me. help. i cant find my old posts to respond to people who probably didnt respond but i still wanna check.

>>112610
idk search for it dum bass

https://www.thedreamcastjunkyard.co.uk/2017/01/dreamcast-fishing-games-ultimate-guide.html

>>112611
i cant find it. no idea where it is. no idea what i posted or said. i only saw this because its the first thing i see.

>Sony takes away access to 500 or so digital movies their customers had erstwhile paid for
>two days later they announce that they are shutting down the digital stores for the PS3 and PSVita
>announce that they are ceasing physical media production entirely in 2028

They think that because they're going to get away with selling tens of millions of digital lease copies of the long time recidivist-favorite GTA that they'll be able to do the same with everything else too. I doubt it! I guess they've opted for suicide instead of a slow decline, huh?

What happens when you throw in several Minecraft mods full of overpowered mobs like Ice & Fire: Dragons and Born In Chaos, then decide to wander the world in your unenchanted diamond duds thinking "oh, it's diamond, I'll be fine"? You're decidedly NOT fine if some of these mobs across different mods work astoundingly well together. For example: a few sirens (evil mermaids whose song makes you lose control of your movement and you're dragged towards them until you're close enough to get ganked) pulled me off my amphithere (flying mount, looks like an Aztec inspired snake-bird) and the moment I dropped into the water a nightmare stalker shredded me while unable to get away from the siren's song. Nightmare stalkers live up to their name in several ways. One thing they have is a 2sp00ky variant of frost walker so no, you can't just leap into a river or throw down a water bucket for easy cheesing, and if you're underwater and don't have the usual enchantments aquatic you're just going to drown because it will NOT let you reach the surface. It auto-blinds you the moment it gets in your face and you stay blind until you kill it or dig straight down and tunnel rat, because you are NOT going to run from something just as fast as you if you could sprint (the blind effect from vanilla also disables sprinting as well as critical hits, if you didn't know) and yes, I've tried going full coward but they're relentless and WILL leap down caves and cliffs to get you. And this thing is invisible except for a pair of white eyes (IYKYK) and its every footfall is an intimidating stomp, so if you don't see tiny glowing eyes in the dark you have maybe 1.5 seconds from hearing that first distant heavy thump to going blind and getting ripped apart by a monster way more scary than any of that cave dweller slop. I hate nightmare stalkers BECAUSE they're such a well-designed and deadly horror mod, and I've probably died to them almost as much as I've died to a dragon suddenly leaping out from behind a bush and turning me into KFC. I need to start min-maxing enchantments before I go do ANYTHING, even build a starter home with all these bad boys roaming my world!

>>112628
https://odysee.com/@YoungRippa59:a/they-play-to-win.-you-just-play-to:4

Even niggers understand what you cumskins can't.

> I want to talk about something that I think is one of the most important dynamics in entertainment right now, and almost nobody frames it correctly. This isn't a rant. It's a structural observation about how two groups of people behave differently and what it means for the market.

> Non-leftists will support projects made by leftists if they enjoy the work. This happens constantly and nobody bats an eye at it. Conservative, libertarian, apolitical — whatever label you want to use — these consumers watch movies from directors who openly campaign for causes they disagree with. They play games from studios whose leadership posts things they find ridiculous. They read books by authors whose personal politics are the opposite of their own. If it's fun, if it's well made, if it entertains them, they buy it. The creator's politics are secondary if they're a consideration at all.

> That same courtesy does not flow in the other direction. Not at any meaningful scale. The moment a creator is identified as anything other than left-leaning, a segment of the market activates to delegitimize their work. It doesn't matter if the product is completely apolitical. It doesn't matter if the work contains zero political messaging. The mere association is enough. If the wrong people like it, if the wrong audience supports it, if the creator is suspected of holding unapproved views, the work gets reclassified as right-wing, problematic, something that supporting says something about you.

> And it goes beyond boycotting. Boycotting is a consumer choice and everybody has that right. This is active campaigns to deplatform. Pressuring retailers and distributors. Lobbying other creators to distance themselves. Building a social cost around engaging with the work so that even people who might enjoy it think twice because they don't want the headache.

> This asymmetry is how they win — and I don't mean that with admiration. I mean it as a structural observation. If one side consumes good work regardless of who made it, and the other side actively sabotages work based on who made it, the side doing the sabotaging has outsized influence on what gets made, what gets platformed, and what gets supported. Creators and companies start factoring that in. They stop asking "is this good" and start asking "will this attract the wrong attention." That calculation, over time, shapes what gets greenlit, who gets hired, and what stories get told.

> One side is playing as a customer. The other side is playing to get over. And that gives them more structural power even with fewer numbers because they're willing to use tactics the other side won't. The best thing any creator can do is what we've done at the Rippaverse — build directly to your audience, don't depend on them for validation, and make the work undeniable. The asymmetry is real. Pretending it's equal on both sides is either naive or dishonest.

>>112642
>racial division
>right-left division
>other threads currently posting male female division
You're really just slinging shit at a wall to see what sticks on this dead website, huh

>>112656
It's not that deep, bro.

Heh, looks cool.

Bruh I played like 3 maps of Reforged, Humans campaign, forgot how slow it is, didn't have the attention span to wait like 45 secs as the units move from one side if the map to the other lol. But I might reinstall because I feel an affinity for Illidan

>>112656
>bitches about dead site
>then bitches when the site isn't dead
This is your brain on autism.
<HURR DURR CURRENT YEAR BURR GURR

>>112665
Just DL the original WC3

>>112665
Did they hand Reforged out for free at some point? I had WC3 on my account, but don't recall buying Reforged and saw it on my client recently.

Just beat Halo 1. Very good game overall, especially for its time. The escape scene was cool, but I think the final battle was pretty lackluster and clumsy, it relied on platforming to some extent whereas it could hardly be considered remotely present through the rest of the game (the jumping is floaty and gay so with good reason, I'd say). I'll be playing the next one fairly soon. The good thing about games like this is they're maybe a dozen hours long so it's not some huge commitment.

This world is not yours to craft.

Getting towards the end of Halo 2 and...I don't know. The two main playable characters having a discussion with a god-like being manifested in the form of the plant from the Little Shop of Horrors is kind of silly. Top tier game still but even with the very strong design of this frightening character it ends up being a little much. I feel like there must have been a better way to coerce the two playable characters to work together or otherwise in concert while still showing the player this creature's unambiguous self interest in their so doing.

>>112805
Halo 2 is the weakest of the trilogy. It was an extremely rushed product

Maybe I should have also found a mod to up the build height limit before adding Tectonic, what with it making mountains way more mountainous.

My wife opened my phone once and this thread was the first thing she saw. She got mad at me because of the OP video, when ironically I've harshly critiqued the foids in that video multiple times ITT >>110482 >>112073 >>112150

The boomers into Final Fantasy must be blinded by nostalgia

>>112830
>that pic
Oh hey, that one e-thot with a vtuber of a very booba Azura.

>>112830
One thing you're missing is that these characters are appealing well beyond their physical characteristics. Tifa, being the more voluptuous of the pair, is nonetheless the sympathetic childhood friend. Aerith, despite her more understated figure, is an attractive, tomboyish sort. They are archetypal feminine perfection and rightly elicit deep feelings in young men through more than just their appearance, though they are exceptionally attractive and visually appealing. While I agree with you that one will often encounter beauty in unexpected places, that you would claim that these characters are unremarkable in that regard while living in a country with such a high obesity rate is dubious. You and I both are just habituated to being surrounded by subhumans and don't even really acknowledge them as such. So for example in your case you will see the cute gas station girl as being something common despite having passed thousands of misbegotten creatures to reach her. Gnomesaiyan?

>>112830
Final Fantasy died with X-2.

>>112844
XI is my favorite MMO and XII is good though. I didn't like XII at first either, but it grew on me.

>>112844
Last one I played was IX and it was merely okay. My bro held the line longer and said XIII was the first one he didn't like and didn't last much longer than that.

>>112840
>Aerith
>Tomboy
>Literally meant to be a Mary Magdalene like figure (devout, feminine, sweet) but without the adultery who is killed by Satan

Were we playing the same games?

Didn't hate XI and XIV was hot garbage on launch before going full WoW clone. They need to stop pushing MMORPGs as mainline entries.

stumped on this IQ test

get snes9x and download game
https://cdromance.org/snes-rom/little-magic-japan/

Beat Halo 2 a few days ago. Now onto Halo 3. As I was playing the remastered versions I do find it a bit amusing that Halo 3 seems to be a visual a downgrade from the first two; I assume they never bothered to update it like they did the others. It appears to be the case, anyway.

>>112950
Ever try Adventures of Lolo? l-...lol!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/367270/Angels_Fall_First/

Looks pretty good imho