Dizzy Devil Ducky

MPA wouldn’t have anywhere near as big of a piracy problem if all the large streaming platforms worked together to create a singular service at a good price that has everything you want. Now it’s easier and cheaper than ever to buy a few external and VPN service and download/torrent your favorite shows over paying for over 5 streaming services (at least in the US) and having nothing to watch because all your favorite shows got removed half way through you watching the first season (and only season if it’s a new series).

That, and there are a few shows I have to watch through piracy because they aren’t even available anywhere in America.

Then they need to innovate and create something outstanding…

There’s the snag. Anything they innovate or create that’s outstanding will 100% be anti-consumer. That, or their version of innovation will be forcing an update to your system that pretty much brick it to ensure you buy a newer model (at least for countries that don’t have strong pro-consumer laws). I can count the number of companies on a single hand that I would trust not to do that.

I bricked a save on pre-release 3 of Pokemon Vanguard earlier, so I gotta move my save to my desktop and boot up the game in RPG Maker XP to fix my mistake of using a glitch I didn’t think could screw me over.

Besides that, probably gonna continue my New Vegas melee weapon only build that I finally ended up transferring the save for it to my deck. That, or finally get around to starting the new Ratchet and Clank after looking at ProtonDB to see what issues people have and what they do to fix them.

Just started the 3rd public release of Pokemon Vanguard. The almost all the regionals in the game look absolutely fantastic. Doesn’t follow the standard 8 gyms, fight evil team, defeat them, elite 4 pattern from most official and fan games I’ve played. In this one you end up going to some trainer school (vanguard academy), becoming a legal pokemon trainer in the region, and do assignments. So far I’ve only done one and it’s a pretty fun game.

It has 3 difficulty options, options for turning every battle to be a double battle (I assume this doesn’t work on wild pokemon but I have no clue), doing a monorun of every type that won’t let you catch anything other than the type you’re using, and a streamer mode that replaces music that could get you copyrighted. All before you begin the game. Also, I think you can find just about every starter from any of the games, with most of them being regionals with new types, like poison fire chimchar. Even has gen 9 pokemon, which I’m glad is becoming more common.

Pretty much ever since getting mine a few weeks back, I’ve been absolutely loving it and using it fairly often when I can. So far the only problem I have with it isn’t even an issue on Valve’s end. It’s literally just that the BeeMod for Portal 2 doesn’t have a Linux port and I’m too lazy to set it up on my deck.

Otherwise, definitely a purchase I don’t regret. Especially since it’s gotten me to continue my melee only save in New Vegas that I’ve been meaning to get back to.

Good thing I quit multiplayer games that aren’t just against friends a long time ago.

I personally like playing the bird and robot the most.

That’s usually what I do every once in a while whenever I decide to play. The amount of cool strategies you can do is fun. Especially if you aren’t like me and refuse to learn how to play toad mage or animal companion person.

It’s such a fun game, but I kinda dropped it after I accidentally glitched my game and got my story mode save wiped in an old update.

Warning! First three games feature anthro animals!

• Corn Kidz 64: if you like games that play like they were made for older consoles (n64 in this case) and directly ported to modern PC (requires controller and has no mouse and keyboard support). Currently $6.99USD on Steam. Long enough to leave me satisfied but short enough to make me want more.

• Brok the InvestiGator: describes itself as the very first punch and click, having a point and click mode and a character control mode. Has multiple endings depending on how you play and what you do. Currently $19.99USD on Steam and has for $4.99 and $3.99 respectively a soundtrack and artbook DLC. Base game includes unlockable fan art and official character sheets. Also has a demo that contains all of chapter 1 of the full game, so you can see if it’s a game for you.

• Amorous: NSFW furry dating sim visual novel game. Free to play. Can’t get a real date? Have fun trying to get into the pants of virtual people instead! Warning! Contains nudity and visible genitals! Currently $0.00USD on Steam. Must be logged in to look at Steam page, but no such requirement for the itchio page.

• Ardor: free to play deck builder. Hasn’t been updated much since launch, I’m pretty sure. Play as a hexagon fighting other hexagons on a board of hexagons. Last I checked it currently has attack cards, movement cards, and cards that allow you to infect enemies. After each round you get to use the in game currency to upgrade things like how far an attack can reach, damage, how far you can move, etcetera. All numbers can go up for the right price. Currently $0.00USD on Steam. Has a $5.99USD support the developer DLC that, as far as I’m aware, doesn’t actually do anything.

I have played all these games, so I can vouch for them in various ways. I also tried not going over $25USD before tax to be a little more accessible to people who don’t have a lot of extra funds for games and tried not to go super well known and popular (even though I’m pretty sure Markiplier did a video on Amorous if I remember correctly)

I can absolutely see why people go without it. Hell, my brother’s friend had their family home lost in a fire. They had a ton of old ttrpg type books and games. Insurance was apparently doing whatever they could to pay as little as possible or nothing. Home insurance has become a scam because most companies will charge you an arm and a leg and then when you finally need to use it they’ll automatically deny all claims and then act like they’re the victims.

I left after the Java chat/sign/whatever filtering controversy. Never got into bedrock edition, so I never had to worry about it. Don’t know if they backed down on it, though.

And the microtransactions are also absolutely abhorrent as well. Never felt with them, but I don’t know a single sane person who actually like them.

If there is no law preventing a publisher from rendering older games unplayable, then surely there’s no law against fans making them playable again, right? (Besides the obvious copyright bullshit most every developed nation has in place and stuff like that, obviously)

Fair enough.

For a moment, I was swapping 4X and RTS in my head, making me absolutely agree that it’ll never be mainstream.

Yeah, I don’t know enough about RTS games to make a claim, but I’d like to think games like Civilization are well known enough to make them mainstream.

Well, I think I might start an Amorous playthrough. Maybe this time I won’t accidentally say the wrong thing to the wrong person and not have a backup save . Otherwise, I’ll probably continue slogging through Baba Is You.

That, or try out one of the games in my library I’ve yet to touch despite having them for months.

Sounds like a game I gotta try.

One of my biggest complaints with the switch is definitely how my hands are too big for me to be truly comfortable with holding them when they’re disconnected from the console. Either one in each hand or one for both hands. That, and I think the batteries in my joycons are a little screwed, so I just said fuck it and got a controller because the last few times I used my switch was connected to a TV.

Definitely gonna have to install NV on my deck that finally arrived yesterday and see how good it is on deck… even though I am still nowhere near done with my melee build on my desktop and will need to copy all my bug fixing mods and settings from there as well.

Maybe I’ll do an unarmed build where I side with Yes Man while taking out as many factions as possible.

I was gonna say something about needing powerful hardware before I realized the game I was gonna reference as an example was nothing but rushed out code held together by dollar store glue.