Still anxious
Pokémon Emerald Rogue - Turns Pokémon into a roguelike. If you’ve played lots of Pokémon over the years and want a version that mixes things up, I cant recommend it enough.
Baldurs Gate 3 - Still making my way through, just finished the goblin camp.
World of Warcraft - Currently logging in once a day to give an item to a ghost horse so that in a week I can unlock the ghost horse as a mount.
Going up to $70 after 15+ years of $60? Fine, whatever, annoying because imo the economics of the video game industry mean games should cost less money in absolute terms but it’s fine. I’m not gonna whine about it.
$80 less than 5 years after that? Ridiculous. $90 after less than 5 years like Nintendo is trying to do is fucking insanity.
Okay I need to see the tier list because that’s fucking insane, and that’s the main thing on here I can’t find
I think if you hit the right dialogues talking with them it doesn’t get mad?
Most of the times it’s happened to me I can definitely see how they’re defining it as breaking the “Oath of Devotion” but the way I interpreted my characters actions and how the game interpreted them don’t line up.
I would say attacking the incredibly obvious hag who already killed those nice young lads I met earlier and has a distressed girl at her table lined up with my oath. But no I guess unless she transforms in front of me and says “I’m going to eat you” before I hit her I’m just attacking a defenseless old woman
Tbf sometimes your oath will break for completely indecipherable reasons. Like attacking those fake paladins that were hunting Karlach — I had to have Astarion start the fight with my character conveniently out of view.
Or if you attack the obvious hag after she makes people vanish into thin air and she does in fact turn out to be a hag. Unless you hit a couple specific dialogue flags the game is like “How dare you attack this innocent old woman!”
I would be okay with this if it defined each of those angles. And then if you do a slightly different angle you’re in the clear.
Otherwise that’s ridiculous
Patents have really gotten out of fucking hand
You can’t be patenting “the concept of throwing a spherical object to capture a creature” that’s fucking insane
Haven’t paid attention to it at all, but I’ll probably play it when it comes out. GTA V was a lot of fun, I played it when it came out and was just replaying it a few months ago and it holds up really well.
Bugsnax is great, you catch food creatures like Pokémon. The characters are all amazing and it touches on some serious topics.
I’ve had to hard-force myself to focus on it, I’ll play it for a couple hours after my spouse falls asleep, headphones in with my phone across the room so nothing will distract me
I’m around the same point in BG3 right now and was feeling the exact same way about Gale and most of the companions. Most of them are awful and I don’t understand the hate Gale gets!
We have fascist frog, christofascist, fascist with goblin characteristics, and the creep who assaults you in your sleep, and the most hated one is the guy that thinks you’re pretty cool?
I still haven’t met Halsin, Jaheira, or Minsc but so far my list of “not-shitty-companions” is Karlach, Wyll, Gale, [Large gap], Astarion, Shadowheart, Minthara, Laezel.
If Lae’zel has haters I’m among them, if she has one hater it’s me, if she has no haters I’m dead.
Maybe my confusion about that lies in the fact that I’ve only ever used homebrew for piracy?
Like okay you managed to do all this without using a single line of Nintendo’s code, now I can play this completely illegitimate copy of Mario Kart without breaking Nintendo’s copyright.
The only reason to not use Nintendo’s code is to avoid getting caught, and seeing as this news is only coming out almost 20 years after the Wii when the homebrew scene has mostly moved on anyway means that wasn’t too big of a concern as long as no one say, in charge of the Wii homebrew software throws a temper tantrum about it.
Yeah see that’s where it really loses me, like I’ll be honest I just don’t think plagiarism is that big of a deal. It’s bad sure. But like, it’s not theft, it’s just a dick move. This seems like such an overreaction.
Marvel Rivals - Started playing with some of my wow guild mates, v fun. I don’t get super into hero shooters but it’s a fun thing to do with friends.
Dredge - Finally got around to pirating it, nice game to play while my spouse and I listen to a podcast
Baldur’s Gate 3 - Slow progress, don’t have that much time I can really sit down with headphones on and focus on something but it’s so good.
Ah okay yes that’s the part I misunderstood, that is fucked. When it’s not costing you anything or limiting you just attribute credit ffs
So not even shut down by Nintendo, shut down by someone who went “waaah waaah this is copyright infringement”?
Yeah man you’re making the “Pirate Games” machine of course there’s copyright infringement involved I’m shocked you ever thought there wasn’t
“Program on Wii uses Wii code” no shit? Of course it would. It’s a program on the Wii!
Am I missing something here?
Patents should be so specific that it’s basically a joke how easy it is to get around them. Like, anything past building the exact same product to the exact specifications listed shouldn’t be patent infringement.
I should be able to build an iPhone 15 but all the components are 5% bigger so they don’t match the patent filing and it’s not infringement. For digital things, unless I straight up stole your code and assets, absolutely not.
Also patents should expire after like, 5 years, 10 at the most. Not just because I hate capitalism. Even using the explicit logic behind why patents exist, longer patent terms are harmful. You allow people to patent things to “encourage innovation” by ensuring people have the right to profit off their inventions. But after a few years that’s done, and longer terms prevent people from building on the work of people that came before.
She made a racist comment to my tiefling as soon as she was released from her cage and I was like “alright that’s enough out of you”
I took a level in Bard solely to get the Talk to Animals spell which I use immediately every morning