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- Comment on Day 618 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 days ago:
Just wanted to say I really like that first screenshot. Something about the angle, the colors, and even the poses, it looks very cool.
- Comment on Borderlands 4′s New $30 Expansion Pack Isn’t Winning Over Fans 3 days ago:
I’m more of a “grab everything and get rid of the stuff I don’t like next time I play” kind of person. There’s just too much DLC to look through for me to really find what I like, figure out how their systems work with each other and actually feel to play, etc.. Though I will say that if I like a DLC enough and it doesn’t cost too much, I’ll buy it. I think I’ve done that with Nemesis and Utopia so far.
- Comment on Borderlands 4′s New $30 Expansion Pack Isn’t Winning Over Fans 3 days ago:
Fair enough, that is an option. I meant if you specifically want the whole package. Nothing turns me off of a game quite like going to the store page and seeing $300 worth of DLC to go through.
- Comment on Borderlands 4′s New $30 Expansion Pack Isn’t Winning Over Fans 3 days ago:
That’s why I just pirated all of the DLC for Stellaris. You can either pay a 10$/m subscription to access all of the DLC, or you can pay $290 to get all of the DLC at its absolute cheapest in a -27% off bundle. Fuck that noise, I don’t like any game enough to spend $300 on it.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Truly, when I went into that argument, I wasn’t expecting so much nuance, subtleties, and unique perspectives. They really showed me. I’m a changed man, from this point forward I will never buy games I’ve pirated because Rhoeri says I don’t do that!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
You know, I had a bunch of screenshots ready of me talking to a friend about pirating the game on discord, talking about my thoughts on the game after doing so, and then screenshots of me getting the game on steam the very next day. But this is already way too much effort put into a discussion with somebody as unserious as you. So I’m going to respect my own privacy and just not do that. Have fun living your life without nuance I guess.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Thank you for completely ignoring what I said and just repeating your rhetoric for the third time. Very constitutive. Much discussion. Wow!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
You think game developers don’t deserve to be paid for their work.
I literally do not think that though. This is that nuance I was talking about that you’re afraid to engage with. Not everybody pirates games and then never buys them.
I’m very tight on money and cannot buy every game I’m interested in. So I pirate games and treat them as demos. If I dislike the game, I stop playing it, and no harm is done since I would have either never bought it or refunded it regardless. If I like the game, I’ll buy it at the first opportunity.
Esoteric Ebb is the most recent example of that, I played it for a few hours and it immediately jumped to the #2 spot on my wishlist. I haven’t bought it yet, but I plan to soon. It’s also recently happened with Schedule I, and this one I actually got. Me pirating the game has literally earned them a sale they otherwise would not have gotten.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Shame. It’s a more nuanced discussion than you seem to believe.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Denvuo can cause issues for Linux users trying to switch proton versions. Denuvo is also terrible for game preservation. It’s not just pirates that are affected negatively.
- Comment on Day 604 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
Looking up old legacy edition screenshots, it looks like it did. Super weird that I don’t remember that at all, I played the hell out of MC on the 360 as a kid lol. I guess that kinda thing just didn’t bother me back then.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
You… either completely missed or completely ignored the point. The point being that, in order to attack the pirates who wouldn’t have bought the game anyway, regular paying users are getting screwed over by a significant performance hit.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Why is pirating inherently dishonest in your opinion?
- Comment on Day 604 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
Was the hotbar always that high up in legacy console edition? I started playing around like TU3 or something (it was before creative came out is all I remember), but I don’t remember that at all. It has been a long time though.
- Comment on Day 601 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
Mine’s actually a shiny female!
For Emerald specifically, I learned shiny starter hunting is actually especially difficult. For other pokemon games, your seed is randomly generated when reloading the game, so you have a random change to get a shiny starter every time you select it. But for whatever reason in Emerald, your seed stays the same from the moment you start a new game. So the RNG is completely fixed. What this means is you can’t really soft-reset for the shiny right in front of the bag as easily as you can in other games, because if you pick the pokemon at, say, the 100th frame, then you’ll always see that exact version of the pokemon at the 100th frame. So in between each soft-reset you need to wait longer and longer each time so you don’t risk grabbing it on the same frame as before.
Eventually you’ll be waiting 20+ seconds between each reset, and rather than continue to soft-reset, it will be faster to just start a new save entirely, which properly resets the seed. Which you’ll then need to do again and again until you eventually get the shiny. Now I was perfectly ready for a regular shiny starter hunt, but this? No, this was some crap I wasn’t willing to put up with. So I instead went down a whole rabbit hole of learning how to RNG manipulate using a hex reader. Still took me multiple days on and off, but it was an interesting learning experience. I could technically use this to guarantee any pokemon is shiny by waiting for the correct frame (the one upside to static RNG) since I now know my secret ID (the hard part), but that wont do me much good in a mudkip-only run lol.
- Comment on Are achievements still relevant in 2026—especially when mods disable them? 3 weeks ago:
I like achievements. I don’t compare them to anybody else, they just give me a goal and personal sense of accomplishment. The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth would have been a lot less satisfying to complete if I didn’t get to see 641/641 achievements on my profile.
In 99% of games I’ve played that disable achievements with mods, there’s a way around that on PC. In the aforementioned The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, as long as you beat the first “final” boss a single time, you can use mods freely. In Fallout 4 as you’ve mentioned… there’s a mod that re-enables achievements. So this is an irrelevant issue to me.
As far as your other question goes, I’d be more than happy to see achievements be opt-out. On Steam you can always hide your library or use SAM to get rid of them all when you’re done playing, but that’s obviously not ideal.
- Comment on Day 601 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
A shiny dex sounds like it’s own layer of hell. In my mudkip-only game, I decided I may as well get a shiny mudkip if I’m stuck with it for the entire game, and that took me way, way too long even with fast forward.
- Comment on Day 599 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
By catching double, do you mean you have one of each final evolution, or that you have one of the entire evolution line? So for example, do you own a Beautifly and Dustox, or do you own a Wurmple, Silcoon, Cascoon, Beautifly, and Dustox? I’ve heard of people doing a latter, but that sounds like a pain in the ass even for me lol.
- Comment on I want to replay Skyrim but 3 weeks ago:
Nexus now supports collections too. Check out their collections page if you want to browse some curated mod collections.
- Comment on Day 595 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 weeks ago:
I see you chose Torchic as well. Gen 3 has such a good selection of starters. Most games there’s a clear loser for me that I’m never very interested in picking, but all of Gen 3 are great. I named mine Torchwick based on the character from the show RWBY.
- Comment on Day 595 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 weeks ago:
Haha, same here. And here I thought I was being creative.
- Comment on Day 595 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 weeks ago:
I initially chose “ADULT TOYS” and felt bad when the small child mentioned they collect all kinds of “Official ADULT TOYS”.
- Comment on Day 594 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 weeks ago:
Even though Black and White were newly out by the time I got into Pokemon, the only one I had growing up was my older brother’s Blue. So I’ve always been a fan of the originals even if they’re missing a LOT of polish, though the gen 3 remakes like Leaf Green are much better in about every way. I mostly just did Gen 1 and 2 for the nostalgia and RA achievements.
I just pirated the ROMs and played them on RetroArch. I’ve owned the physical games before, and, personally, I’ll never feel bad pirating from Nintendo regardless.
The mudkip vs the world challenge is pretty fun (I got to the 5th gym before deciding to pause it), but from what I saw in the discussions board, a certain post-game(?) section is absolutely brutal to an unfair degree and is like 99% of the challenge’s difficulty. I saw people recommending keeping mudkip leveled as low as possible since trainers there scale with you, and to stock up on tons of the PP-restoring berry. So I look forward to whatever the hell is up with that whenever I continue.
- Comment on Day 594 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 weeks ago:
I’m currently playing through Emerald with RA enabled as well! I’ve completed the pokedex in Red and Crystal, but I’ve never played far into anything past gen 2 (despite mudkip being one of my all-time favorite starters), so I’m looking to work my way up and 100% at least one game in every gen and their pokedex. Eventually. My motivation to catch them all wanes somewhat once I start actually doing it.
I had also temporarily started a mudkip-only (plus castform who’s forced on you) run prior to this, but decided to put it on hold so it wasn’t my first experience of Emerald lol.
- Comment on LumenTale, the one monster collector that delivers what matters most: strong monster design 4 weeks ago:
Cassette Beasts is my personal favorite creature collector. I’m excited to try this one out when it eventually comes out.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Good point, I completely forgot it wasn’t bipedal. A second quadruped since gen 5 would still be appreciated though.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Oh right, I completely forgot about Skeledirge becoming a quadruped. I stand corrected then, we did get one quadruped starter in the last 15 years.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I really hope at least one of these stays quadrupedal. Basically every single starter has turned bipedal since, what, Samurott in gen 5? Ignoring Primarina because no legs.
- Comment on Games you fell out of love with. 1 month ago:
They added a temporary mode called Classic Overwatch that was basically just launch OW1. Then later on they added a permanent 6v6 open-queue (2 tanks max though) gamemode. Funny enough, my friends tell me they even removed the “2” from the game again and restarted back at “season 1” as of a few days ago. I guess it’s no longer a sequel anymore somehow.
- Comment on Games you fell out of love with. 1 month ago:
Haha, that’s funny, I was also a Zarya player on the off chance I did play tank. Bubbling others was always fun.
