I feel like the Fanatics’ Tower needed to be a bit more obvious…or at least give you a save point near the end.

End-game stuff should be about having mastered the mechanics, imo. Not about knowing a specific type of cheese for an optional boss, haha

There’s almost no reason to ever use Rasp (you could generally go through the game thinking enemies have infinite MP) or Re-Raise (the game isn’t that hard, and this boss doesn’t really indicate that the attack it uses is a death attack).

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Not everybody follows that same diagram.

On one end of things, many people don’t care at all if a game has Denuvo.

On the other end, many pirates won’t buy a game they pirated even if they liked playing it.

If Denuvo being cracked leads to a measurable and meaningful decrease in revenue, that suggests that enough people would be willing to buy the game even with Denuvo.

When people start speaking with their wallets and stop buying games with Denuvo DRM, then it’d make sense to not have Denuvo. If it’s making a company more money to include it, I can’t blame them for including it during their launch window.

I seldom buy games that were released within the last 12 weeks, so if they removed Denuvo DRM by then, I can’t really complain (at least on my own behalf).

I love GOG for its DRM-free games. But still, keeping Denuvo for 12 weeks feels like a great compromise.

I don’t think this chart applies to cats

Interesting. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a cat do that. Usually their back legs are tucked away

Ah, I see. Yeah, I had no idea that that’s what they were getting at because if something bigger came along, we could just call it “The Greater” X, lol

As I recall, the comment you replied to said that we shouldn’t label broad segments of the population in a certain way. Then you said we shouldn’t label broad segments of the population in a different way.

As I mentioned, homophobia, misogyny, and ableism are all well-documented phenomenon. The original comment suggested those things are bad. Since they involve labeling broad strokes of the population as bad (specifically, gay people, women, and people with disabilities), I take it you’re opposed to those things?

Ok, but your original comment was pretty much a non-sequitor.

Saying that it’s bad to say that those groups of people are bad doesn’t mean that anyone is saying that those groups of people are good as a simple answer. But frankly, saying those groups are good is probably a better answer than saying they’re bad.

We have homophobes, misogynists, and ableists, so there are definitely people who explicitly think those groups are bad.

Meanwhile, the people advocating for the rights of those groups are not saying that all people in those groups are virtuous and can do no wrong… they’re advocating for equal rights and opportunities.

Besides. I’m fine with “women are good” being the starting point rather than “women are bad”…lol

The spittle can contain things that cause the spread of disease, which (as you said) masks help with. And masks with higher specs block smaller particles. So if everyone’s wearing properly-fitted good quality masks in a room, there’s far fewer particles being ejected into the air of that room than if nobody were wearing any masks.

Regarding vaccines, the definitions of things change all the time as technology progresses, so even if it were true that the definition changed, it doesn’t concern me. mRNA vaccines were being researched well before the covid vaccines, but there wasn’t a big push until the pandemic. Without the big push, it can be hard to get funding and such…which can be common in science.

Why is it wrong to say women, gay people, and people with disabilities are good?

In media, there are villains who are women, gay, or who have disabilities, so it’s not like they’re exclusively “good guys”…

On the one hand, having representation limited to villainous roles is bad. (See early depictions of black people and think about “Cowboys vs. Indians”)

On the other hand…there are plenty of women in villainous roles. I can also think of a few notable gay and disables villains.

Hell, Breaking Bad is a great example of having all of them, and even though it aired before “woke” became a bad word to some people, nobody ever complained about it being too progressive or anything.

It’s more that those answers don’t make sense to conspiracy theorists

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What is easier than just trusting the official information?

It’s easier to say “This doesn’t make sense, so it must be wrong” than it is to say “This doesn’t make sense, so I must learn more to figure out how it could make sense.”

It’s easier to say “I know more than everyone else because I am critical thinker watch YouTube videos that express views that go against mainstream knowledge” than it is to actually have the skills to engage in critical thinking, and to have the knowledge to be able to determine a good source of information from a bad one.

I thought everyone knew that limited plexiglass barriers and stickers on the floor did nothing.

I do remember arguing with people on the internet that most of the studies about masks were flawed because they tended to include people who didn’t wear them properly in the “mask-wearing” category. Personally, I went with higher-spec masks like KF94, and they’re likely to be something I use regularly during flu season commutes.

The outrage about the vaccines were fascinating though. The goalposts kept getting moved when the conspiracy theories were wrong. I remember people saying that after a year, everyone who took the vaccines will have dropped dead…lmao

Flash carts? Or, for disc-based consoles, any of the ways of loading games onto those consoles. (ODEs, hard drives, expansion ports, memory card slots…)

Lots of exciting things in the emulation scene these days!

One who wants original hardware could also get a flash cart.

Get two of you want to simulate switching cartridges! Lol

I bought an N64 and some games for $25 like 15 years ago, and that was an insane deal back then too

This is bad for reconciliation, but isn’t this good for South Korea? The North would have an easier time invading with transportation infrastructure in place.

I think you’re having a Principal Skinner meme moment here…

Could it be me who wrote a comment that was slightly unclear?

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No, it’s couple dozen or so other commenters who are wrong.