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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Meaningless hair splitting. I still have my entire collection of SNES cartridges. They’re still playable, and no one can take them short of robbing me. If my ownership of those games was limited to a license that could be revoked, that might not be the case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That is absolutely untrue. Games used to be sold as a physical object containing the game files. No serial numbers to redeem, no servers, no downloads or updates. Sometimes you’d get a booklet with the game that had some codes in it that the game would ask for on startup to make making copies a little more difficult, but that was it.

  You’d literally have everything you need just on the CD, disk, or cartridge. We 100% owned the game and the system it was played on, and the only way to revoke that would have been to physically break into your house and steal it.

  This whole games as services thing is about 20 years old tops, and it wasn’t even remotely approaching the standard for quite a while after that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not Commenting Is Commenting [Aftermath]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The fact that a term that just means “paying enough attention to be aware of the world around you” is used derisively is incredibly indicative of how much of a braindead mess a lot of the population has become.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fallout 4: Anniversary Edition - Reveal Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I won’t give them a dime until it’s for Elder Scrolls 6 or Fallout 5.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MOUSE: P.I. For Hire | Official Release Date Trailer [March 19, 2026]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly the mix of 2d and 3d makes me want to play it. It’s giving Roger Rabbit vibes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘I’ve never used it and probably never will’: Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu says he won’t use AI to make music [VGC]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would anyone who knows how to play music at any level use an AI to do it, let alone a significant composer?

  Just pick up an instrument and fool around with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft support for Windows 10 officially ends today, but a third of Steam players still use it | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve also mentioned elsewhere that they’ll continue support as long as there’s enough of a subscriber base to justify it. If enough people are using it, that 5 years could be much longer. They offer security patches for Windows 7 too.

  I’m not really sure what their process is. I’m just glad to be able to keep my current work flow without having to worry about fully losing security updates.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft support for Windows 10 officially ends today, but a third of Steam players still use it | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you want to keep using Windows 10, check out 0patch! They’re supporting security updates past EOL. It’s like €24/year and you can get a 1 month trial for free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man, seems like Jim Cummings is to classic CRPGs as Jeffrey Combs is to Star Trek.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s set in the 1490s because that’s the current era in Forgotten Realms, just like the first games were set in the 1360s because that was the era that was current at the time. It’s not like they actively chose that specific time period for any of the three games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You Turn! - an app that gives you a co-op experience with a friend while emulating (my article)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is cool, but I’m still waiting on a way to play Secret of Mana online that’s actually viable.