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Woah! Someone who liked the ending! You’re too wholesome for a gaming community lol.
I read one meta take on the ending that both sounded interesting and like cope. The end of Part II makes you feel exactly like Ellie feels. You push through because you want a conclusion to the story, just like Ellie. The end might be terrible, but it is an ending. In a meta way, you could get a better “ending” by stoping when Ellie and Dina are together at the farmhouse. You can stop playing, just like Ellie could stop obsessing over Abby, but how many people did that? Who would stop when the story isn’t done?
Personally, I think the writers made a bet that they could stretch “an eye for an eye leaves the world blind” into a novel.
That’s 99% of saints. If someone prays to a random dead person to pull a favour with God and cure someone, and that someone does get cured, the person they prayed to can become a saint. Half as Interesting has a video on how it works.
There are several exposé videos on cheating in Rocket League. Here’s one by Sunless Khan on “Jimmy” who was on trick shot team but he was actually editing the data of replay files to produce his clips.
Another one by Wayton Pilkin on account boosting, DDoSing servers to cause legit players to have their connection dropped allowing the cheater to win by forfeit, and cheaters using invisible cars.
If the end goal is that games remain in a playable state regardless of publisher involvement, there are three possible paths.
The Hard Way - World governments, under pressure from their populace, modify international treaties to change the rules around licensing intellectual property rights. Almost certainly a pipe dream since this doesn’t just effect video games but every industry.
The Easy Way - Game companies, under pressure from consumers, relax their hard stance when it comes to revoking game licenses. This can range from promises to keep games in a functional state, to allowing private servers, to allowing self-regulation (similar to ESRB game ratings) which are done by third-parties on behalf of consumers to keep them happy and to stop governments from forcing regulation through law changes.
The Pivot - Push the Hard Way as far as possible until the game industry offers a deal to consumers to prevent any kind of government action, resulting in achieving the Easy Way.
The Non-existent way - Get a country to create legislation to stop killing games or a court to agree revoking access to games isn’t allowed. International treaties regarding IP licensing supersede any laws a country passes. The ability for companies to revoke your game licence comes from an international treaty (the TRIPS Agreement), so no single country can pass a law to change how it works. The video cites all the relevant laws and legal cases surrounding this and how the games industry has carefully crafted all their sales so they would be considered licensing under this international agreement. There is absolutely no way anyone can legally argue they “own” a game. Either international IP laws change or industry practices change.
The lawyer suggests the SKG movement isn’t clear on which of the three actual ways it wants to pursue and needs to fix that ASAP. Even the petition given to the EU flips back and forth between games being things you licence and things you own. This mismatched messaging is a legal weakness that would be exploited by any legal grad let alone multi-million dollar industry law firms.
For odds of success the video suggests that if the movement goes with The Easy Way, they will likely get token gestures like promises or allowing private servers for older games but not future ones. If they go with The Hard Way, they will be ripped to shreds by industry lawyers and lobbyists and the EU will handwave away the petition with vague platitudes and wrist slaps. However, there is a teeny-tiny chance the EU might actually seem like they’d be willing to reconsider international IP laws, in which case, the movement could time their Pivot and negotiate significant concessions with the games industry in exchange for telling the EU the issue has been settled and the petition withdrawn.
I’ve been working through my endless backlog.
I finished Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. It is a masterpiece.
I bought the Sniper Elite Humble Bundle that came with games 1 through 5. I have played through 1 to 4 already. It makes me miss games that can be finished in 20 hours instead of the endless grinds every game expects now. I also miss when Nazis were the evil bad guys.
I’m also playing through Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth. This one is set in Hawaii which is a coincidence since I’ve also just finished Kitchen Sync: Aloha!, a cooking game set in Hawaii.
The tomatoes growing in that apartment is great level design. I had the same reaction of “how could these plants survive without people?” and then you get jumped and it’s like “oh, should have known.” The apartment also has a door you can’t open that’s opened after you get jumped which explains where the people came from. I remember appreciating the details (after struggling to not die).
My friends and I played the Sunderfolk demo. The phone thing feels like a gimmick and doesn’t add anything.
We play Jackbox games and those make use of the phone. You vote on trivia answers, you draw something, everyone writes an answer and then you guess who wrote what. In Sunderfolk, you use your phone to move your character. They could have just made it a normal game like Baldur’s Gate.
The reason why they didn’t is probably because the lore and gameplay are ridiculously simple. It seems like it’s meant to be a party game anyone can play, but it’s also something you’d play over multiple sessions. It’s like they wanted both casual and table top audiences and got neither instead.
The headline doesn’t seem to match the article.
one of PayPal’s acquiring banks decided to stop processing any Steam transactions, which cut off PayPal on Steam for a number of currencies
As of early July, the currencies that can still use PayPal on Steam include EUR, CAD, GBP, JPY, AUD and USD.
It seems like a bank that processes PayPal payments in minor currencies has stopped processing transactions for Steam because of the content it hosts. Shouldn’t people be mad at this bank, not Steam?
Are you telling me the channel cannot afford a fancy new Samsung NVME 5.0 drive to install just Bazzite on for benchmarking/funsies???
That part confuses me too. Does this tech YouTuber only have one computer? He couldn’t do a clean install on computer for testing purposes? Isn’t that what these channels normally do?
Pretty much. There’s lots of adolescent humour and innuendo as well. I enjoyed them. I also liked Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE+ made by the same studio, though some people thought it wasn’t as good as the Danganronpa games.
They also have the Zero Escape series, which is an awesome visual novel but not like Phoenix Wright, and AI: The Somnium Files which is to the Zero Escape series as Rain Code is to the Danganronpa series.