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Thanks! We’ll probably put on more spoopy stuff in the coming days. I’d love to see Alien: Romulus, but I’m not paying $20 to rent it. I’ve tried to torrent things, but either I’m doing something wrong, or the vpn I use is useless because my isp always sees what I’m downloading. Like, the c&d emails they send cite exactly what I download every time no matter what I do, so I’ve given up.

We got a new TV last week so we had to test it out with:

A New Hope

Dune (pt 1 & 2)

Rocky Horror Picture Show

Samsung can eat my dirty asshole.

The one “generational leap” I want, and have wanted for decades, is the ability to upgrade hardware, like modular laptops can. It’s great that they aren’t doing little incremental upgrades, but between generations, games come out that would work but need a little more RAM or something, and instead of having to wait another 2 years and spending $1000 on a new console when it comes out, you could just shove more RAM in it in the meantime.

I’ll have to take a look!

I absolutely love a good fountain pen. My everyday carry is a LAMY Safari. I prefer a matte dark black ink such as Platinum Chou Kuro, but it’s quite expensive. I stick with Monteverde cartridges for my Safari for ease of use since I take it everywhere. They’re black enough to suit me and it dries rather quickly for less smear. Someday when I get something really fancy that stays at home, I’ll probably use Platinum Carbon Black, as it’s half the price of Chou Kuro, though I may just pony up for it.

MD and WV are below the Mason-Dixon Line. They are the South. I think they just fucked up with DE because the Eastern Shore of MD is over there, so they may have just got extra excited with their coloring.

It certainly is, and it goes all the way back to at least the late 90s. I lived there from 00-03 and I saw so. many. games. do this. Granted, I was console only back then, and in Japan the number of new and used game stores is mind-blowing, so it’s not like you couldn’t trade in the old version and get at least SOME money back. Can’t do that on PC.

They don’t always do definitive editions, so should I just wait forever and never get it? Also, waiting and getting the definitive edition still tells them it sells. They don’t see why, they just see it selling. And if everyone just waits for the definitive edition, not buying the OG, they just view that as people not being interested in the game at all, so they quit making anything.

Edit: And I specifically mentioned pre-ordering because your thought process is the same as when it comes to pre-orders: if you don’t pre-order they’ll stop releasing unfinished garbage. That does not work here.

This has nothing to do with pre-ordering. I don’t pre-order and I usually can’t afford to get things right when they come out, unless they release on sale. They keep doing this because: 1. Dumb fucks buying it when they already have the og edition because of FOMO on the few things that were added. 2. People that hadn’t bought the game yet so they buy the newer “definitive” edition.

Most other games that end up with a GOTY edition usually include all the content that was originally dlc, and can be “upgraded” to, usually for less than all of it did originally. And you don’t have to redo achievements.

The thing with DQ is that there is no dlc. They just add some collectible or a couple of quests to flesh out where a character disappeared to or something. It’s not enough content to even qualify as possible dlc. And there’s no “upgrade” pricing.

So the only way to “stop this” is to do what I’ve already been doing— not buying it twice. But that doesn’t actually stop them.

I’m an idiot— even though I know my Roman Numerals, I wrote IX when I meant XI (Echos of an Elusive Age). I don’t know what the “definitive” edition looks like, as I already own the OG and refuse to pay for another copy and have to get all the achievements all over again. The OG looks great to me, and I can’t even use max graphic settings. I can only imagine how good it looks on max. If I’m understanding you correctly, the “definitive” edition looks worse? They can seriously go fuck a cactus. It’s already not worth paying full price twice just to get some tidbits that aren’t even tied to achievements. Japan puts out some amazing games. Classics. Industry changing innovations. But their decisions to do shit like that, as well as how they abandon their games after only a few bug fixes (that still don’t fix many of the major bugs) has all but turned me off of games from the country that’s known for video games.

Great! Now can we finally get bug fixes and optimization? Maybe some dlc now that Shadow of the Erdtree is well settled? Oh that’s right…Japanese game companies don’t support their games once they’ve decided it’s “released”. (See: Bandai-Namco, Capcom, Konami, et al.)

Edit: You bitches wanna downvote me for telling the truth? Japan doesn’t fucking support their games after a few patches. Don’t believe me? The boost gauge bug still exists for a lot players. You want others? Go look at reviews for the Mega Man collections and how they are broken. Oh, and there’s the fact that the bug reporting on Bandi-Namco’s on site doesn’t even fucking work.

I thought XI did the silent protagonist really well, and it’s my all-time favorite in the series. What I really want is for them to stop releasing the game and then 6 months to a year later re-releasing a “definitive edition” with a few extras, a full-price pice tag, and no way to “upgrade”. Fuck you. I bought the game once. I’m not shelling out full price for a couple of extra tidbits. Either release the full game the first time or eat shit.

There is no such thing as an illegal protest. That is a concept made up by the people being protested against so that they can squash it. Protests are not supposed to be “convenient”. They are not supposed to be comfortable or nice or pretty. They are supposed to force people to face the issue and band together to bring about real change.

Protestation IS democracy you fucking fascists.

The animated video makes it even better.

https://youtu.be/6ywXBNpc-To?si=RcAMoLBv6sFcWgIc

This games title and logo make me think it’s about taking a nap. I think I’ll sleep on this one.

zZz…

Come on, man. I’m already not gonna make it through tomorrow. I’ve been brushing up so I can git gud again, but the wait is killing me.

Yeah, it’s all just a little bit of history repeating, ya know?

ME TOO! (Although mine was actually Wipeout 64) Holy shit this takes me back. Now I wanna listen to some Propellerheads. Sad they only released one album, but every track is a fuckin choon.