yep, all of the mythos about having to baby delicate cast iron basically came from the era of lye soap. . soap isnt caustic anymore, so as long as you dry it when its done (or throw it in a warm oven to dry off) you’ll be fine.

I’m getting Desura flashbacks. Lucky I downloaded everything I had when I felt the signs of it going down, but I know others weren’t as lucky. Silver lining is they’re still playable, DRM-free is nice, but like I established we’ve already moved on from that into bigger fish like “the credits reference a consulting company I don’t like.”

with direct2drive it didnt matter if you downloaded the files, cause the installers still did a call home to direct2drive to decrypt, and that call home server died with the rest of d2d.

I warned from the moment that steam became a market place that the end of the road was us not having physical games anymore, and not owning our games anymore, and not being able to play our games should steam ever go under.

and my god the insults I received over the years about it.

Then other DD platforms popped up, and people bought games there (myself included, fuck you direct2drive), and lost all the games and all the money when the platform died.

“but steam lets you back up your games!” the inevitable response was.

Okay.

But steam backups still require steam to unpack and run. So that does fuckall.

and with how old steam is, and with how many people use things like humble monthly and shit, who the hell can afford to store local copies of 1500-3500 games? especially when a lot of modern games are 50-150gb in size each.

Also, at least on PC, we can relatively easily acquire our games via alternative methods. Which I have had to do a few times, for games that I owned and paid for, because of stupid bullshit DRM.

You aint doing that on modern consoles. If you wanted to play console games via alternative means you either have to 1)Luckout on a jailbreak and have the right firmware for a jailbreak or 2) wait years for an Emulator and a PC that can run it.

I’m so sick of this cyberpunk hellscape bullshit where you pay everything and own nothing.

All spots have particularly awful cops.

the only difference is some places have better PR/Coverup than others.

because they HAVE to have the latest shiny, because their self worth is so low and non existent the only measure of worth they have is owning the next shiny.

book in your car without having the cops hassle you.

is this a reference to that video of the guy waiting out the rain in a gas station parking lot by reading a book in his car and getting absolutely harassed by the cops who very obviously wanted to provoke a larger issue?

or is this a more common genre than i realize.

Looks like a Flintstones vitamin.

Which I wager trump has been in more childrens mouths than those vitamins ever were.

because their fanbase are brainless cattle.

because gamers are brainless myopic cattle.

gamers on the whole moan and groan and whine and bitch about every misdead, but the second the new shiny comes out they are out there en-masse rewarding these companies with billions and billions and billions of dollars (a great example will be GTA6, which I almost guarantee will bring in at least 2 billion dollars within its first week)

and as long as the idiot masses keep doing that, we have no recourse and no hope.

in the short term? It doesnt benefit them at all. it may actually hurt them.

in the long term? Bandwidth is cheap. especially at the scale that companies like Sony, Steam, Microsoft, etc, use it. So sell 6 million copies of a game, 10 extra bucks of profit thanks to no physical media/boxes/shipping/etc, per game… Thats 60 million dollars in free money.

Plus, because you no longer own anything, they no longer have to invest in storage to keep old games up and running. So as new games release, they delete old games from their servers and from your accounts, So thats less investment they have to make in infrastructure, which is again more free money for them.

I wager Sony would love the day when people pay 100 dollars for a game that gets deleted in 6 months, that they have to rebuy again at full price to play again.

Cause remember, with no physical media, you have nothing but sony’s closed garden marketplace to buy games… Which means no competition for sony, which means no incentive for sales, no lower prices (not that 70+ dollars is a low price for a game 🙄 ), no nothing but take what sony offers you, and liking it.

Or, you know, in the linen closet outside the bathroom door, if you’re not a smart arsed twat.

who keeps towels and toothbrushes in the shit room to begin with.

thats already gross.

Scaphism

waste of foodstuffs.

just remake the Brazen Bull, free admittance for those worth over a billion dollars.

Just what a system administrator would say.

I stopped drinking against my will, and every day I open the news I wish to god I could pick it back up.

So wait.

You get charged a cleaning fee if you puke in someones car… but uber wont give the cleaning fee to the driver, you know…the person who has to have their car cleaned?

I’m sorry that you are only now just learning that government can be stupid and myopic

Thats on the base assumption that your local municipality wants a healthy nightlife.

Which is a brave assumption to make.

assuming you have a public transit system that operates at night, and is worth a damn.

I know there are places where buses stop running long before the bars close.

all this does is make me wonder why game rental stores are illegal in japan when movie rental is, from what i’ve seen in the past, perfectly legal

EDIT

Cause rental stores made bootleg copies to rent out, and often sold the software/hardware to copy the games as well… which irked the game companies which made the government crack down

a king sized snickers costs 3 bucks.

this candy bar is a deal compared to that, lol.

edit: I’m wrong, that says 2 Bars on the edge, not 2 pounds (why is lbs short for pounds anyway?!)