Morbius 2 is going to recontextualize what "Morbin" is fr

Chinese piracy is ...odd. But generally speaking, yes they love to pirate shit. Most disc movies over there are counterfeits, not official. So most home media purchases are pirated.

People are able to get past the firewall pretty easily, the same information needed for P2P is needed to get past the great firewall. So if you're able to get past the firewall, you're probably able to download games without being caught. Separate from the great fire wall, Android is by far the most used operating system in Asia as a continent. There is a constant flow of apps like 4Shared and Zedge that provide access to pirated content with pretty much no barriers and they succeed quite well in China.

Piracy over there is pretty much a norm, whether you're knowingly pirating or not. Linus Tech Tip's Chinese channel is ran by Chinese pirates that the company hired eventually. But the Chinese front for that channel is literally just some random guys that started downloading the videos, translating them and posting them for the ad revenue. Sure the viewers may not have known it was pirated, but the viewers were still technically pirating 🤷‍♀️

The return of the king 😎

Fuck iLok. Shit made me regret buying plugins, should have stuck with piracy.

I use swipe typing, so yes.

Are we finally going to see the death of 2b2t? Thought it'd be around forever

Yeah, no posting yet. That's my big issue with Sync on Lemmy so far. Monetization was implemented and there were multiple price increases all before some of the most basic features of Lemmy are even on the app. When everything else is already fully functional and free, it just becomes a harder sell than it was on Reddit.

One change I'd recommend is some sort of "Pay what you want" option for a subscription. If he did a minimum of $2 a month, it would be about the same cost but would make users feel like they have more agency over how much they pay. While I'm sure many people would just pay the minimum, giving users more choice will just lead to people who want to chip in more. We've all paid $5 for a humble bundle, but I'm sure a few of us have also chipped in $100 if it was the right charity or cause.

Such a great way to implement gameplay into the emotions of a game. It was like after someone died in real life, you keep thinking about messaging them all the cool things you find that they'd like only to realize they're not there. You just sent a meme to a phone number that hasn't been paid for in months. Maybe you even start paying the phone bill so you can keep hearing their voicemail. Continuing to reach for half of the controller that can't do anything now is just amazing.

Thank you for that tidbit! My Grandpa worked over in China and would always bring movies back over. Got Ice Age 2 months early! I always wondered why the Chinese movies looked so much choppier, a different format makes a lot of sense.

Yeah, I'd imagine that you guys could have bought 20 pirate DVDs for the price of like 1 legit one. Plus, could be wrong, but my Grandpa said the pirated movies were usually the US releases so they were the uncensored versions of the movie. A better product for a better price, there's no reason to buy the originals.

I think it's targeting people who get their lets plays on actually (shitty) streaming services.

Nier had some pretty amazing endings, although I don't know the one you're responding to specifically. The one where other people sacrifice their save files to help you at the end gets me. I doubt the game actually takes other people's save files for that ending, but the idea that someone else would give a random person 100+ hours of effort to help another person by deleting their save is very beautiful to me. The fact that most users decide to delete their saves for that ending is such a huge statement on humanity as a whole.

PS1 emulation is a breeze, but with current hardware in the PS5, I think a PS2 emulator on the platform wouldn't be too insane. But yeah, PS3 emulation? Not happening.

I think you're wrong on the disc not working thing though. The original Xbox was only half supported for a long time.

Yeah, I overall liked the movie but there were a lot of questionable moments in it. The point where they recognize that using Margot Robbie for some of their points kinda undercuts the points was odd to me. I also didn't like the child of the movie, I didn't feel like she was really a character.

I really like the fun energy of the movie, it feels like a giant music video and I love that. But the social commentary moments are just so on the nose it just feels weird that it's coming from a movie about Barbie. It feels like it can't decide whether the audience is supposed to be children or nostalgic adults.

Mass Effect as a series had so many heartbreaking moments. I'll never forget the horror of finishing 2 without doing enough loyalty quests and seeing that final mission play out. For me, it was Legion and Tali that got me. I always sided with the quarians over the geth, but Legion's death was always just so hard

Smoking is still going down. The disposable vapes right now are so strong that they make cigarettes pointless. Can't even feel a smoke after I've had one of those cheap 50mg vapes for a few days.

I loved my Logitech G602 back in the day if you can find them. Good grip, 6 side macros and DPI macros. Also wireless.

Yeah, that plant wasn't even a crime until like 100 years ago. Our anti drug attitudes are fairly new, and banning the plants is just stupid. You know why fent and methadone exist? Because they're synthetic opiates that can be made without poppies. America has been hit the hardest by the fent epidemic because we still have a ton of opiate addicts, but it's impossible to find anything clean because it's even more illegal.

Every other nation is doing fine on fent compared to America. Find it funny that the nation that burnt thousands of other nation's plants en mass is now getting dicked far harder because they burnt those plants and people just found worse sources. If poppies weren't illegal, fent wouldn't be what it is today.

MyHouse.wad is definitely one of the better gaming moments from recent years. It reminded me a lot of imscared, and I'd consider that game to be secured in the top 100 games of all time. The environmental storytelling is top tier, and the natural unsettling nature is just great.

Life is Strange is also a great one. My little sister loves the series far more than me, but I also played Fahrenheit and The Walking Dead early in life, so I'd say I had high standards for those games. Would you say True Colors is worth checking out to someone that was lukewarm on the original? I love the style of game, but I'm not invested in the characters so it'd practically be my first introduction to the universe yk?

Art is just so cathartic for some reason. I think it's just easier for us to think about another fictional person's emotions than our own.

This is probably my favorite answer so far. One thing I love about Nintendo is that it's made for kids, they can't do THAT much to shock you. They can only tell what I'd call human stories, stories that anybody on the globe will be able to understand. N64 Zelda is fairly simple as far as writing goes, but it does the simplicity extremely well. It reminds me of Greek tragedies more than anything else, where the tragedy, the main situations can be understood even without dialogue.

I'm 22. I grew up playing my PS1 on with an upscaler on the 55 inch Vizio in the front room. I like the PS1 art style quite a bit and think that a good upscale and maybe a filter is all you need to make things look how I want.

Idk, I think it would make a difference in the Microsoft v Sony sales. Nintendo doing the N64 and NES eShop have been massively successful. Xbox doesn't really have any killer apps, they've really just had Sony beaten on software features the past two generations. Sony implementing the software features that Nintendo and Microsoft offer would make a decent difference.

Plus, imagine how well a "play your childhood discs on your xplaytendo switchtion" would work in an ad campaign. Getting people to pull out their childhood game collection would make for a great viral campaign for gamers as well.

Idk, the thing about the internet that I don't think older people have realized is that it creates an even larger freeze in culture than ever before. If you started gaming in the 90s, you likely heard about older games via word of mouth and got your games at a physical store. There were no minor celebrities that would turn a cult classic into an actual classic. Nowadays? Old media is fully capable of wiping out new media in the right circumstances. Songs like "Dreams" by Fleetwood Mac and some Pink Floyd (if I remember correctly) have taken #1 Billboard spots in the past 2-3 years. LSD Dream Emulator went from a game nobody played to a PlayStation classic because of some YouTube videos. We're in an age where there is an extremely high demand for old media and no way to access most of it without piracy. There is a TON of money to be made by charging money for emulation and moving things to new consoles.

Mark my words, Skyrim will come out on the next generation Xbox, because Bethesda understands that accessibility is good enough to charge for.

I want a pack of these extremely bad, those look hard af

Not one I've played, but I looked it up and I really want to play it now.

Well that's the great thing about kids forgetting the fun they had, there's nothing stopping you guys from playing the same games over and over again with her. She'll remember everything as she gets older though. Loved playing Halo co-op with my Dad when I was a kid, it was so fucking cool.

Evie launcher. It's dead now, but I love it

Yeah the teenage drama was what took me out of it. I don't need super good puzzles, The Walking Dead season 1 had the most ass puzzles I've ever played but it's still one of the greatest stories I've ever played. Even with the objectively shitty gameplay of TWD, I got so fucking invested in those characters. I felt Clementine's pain during the ending of season 1 and 2, that was close to being my pick. Thank you for the recommendation!

I wonder if they contacted GameHut about it.

Think history here. Think about the crazy, depraved shit western leaders would do over tobacco in the past. Like American colonization was propped up quite hard by tobacco addiction. Tobacco is pretty much soft cocaine, many of the same irritable and addicted side effects. Personally most people I know say cigs are harder to quit than coke.

Banning tobacco would pretty much create a new problem drug out of nowhere. It would be like if we banned coffee. Historically speaking, humans have been very okay with killing each other over coffee. Numerous countries have had their entire histories change around coffee. Sure coffee does have some health issues, especially with American excess and people drinking full drip pots at home. But coffee isn't truly an issue until people don't have it, yk?

Yep, in my highschool/college depression days, making YouTube videos on music production helped me keep my head up.

Yes ofc!

Putting cool looking text on cigarettes is never going to work as an anti smoking aid.