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Reblogged sarahstanky
we are sorry to report that joe biden starved to death this morning because they forgot to refill his trough
also like while I say all of this yeah idrgaf about privacy. if your options are "don't buy it and don't play it" or "play it but didn't buy it".....well, that just makes sense. when you raise the price, you are pricing some consumers out, and that's a natural consequence of that. it has to be weighed in, a game company can't just expect everyone to be really cool and not do that. it's not lost money or income, either, because someone usually only uses piracy when. they're not gonna buy it. if they were gonna buy it they would have. lol . you have to make your games incredibly accessible if you do not want piracy to be commonplace, and most big game companies refuse to do so (it still happens, but it's uncommon for most indie titles, because they are relatively cheap and you can buy them on a few platforms most of the time at any given time). it's not a moral thing it's just cause and effect it's what's gonna happen. I thought business types loved that but when it comes to piracy you hurt their feelings.
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old games really were the wild west. of course criticize current games for releasing as a fucking mess- with big studios, you're still paying a lot for that game, and if it sucks, it sucks.
but it wasn't better back then. it was, in fact, usually worse. I have played and owned many old games, and while many hold up, many of their issues were not due to age. theyre just Like That Sometimes. people were still figuring out the very systems themselves and what can really 'be' a game On Top Of execs pushing them to make it as fast as possible. so big problems could and did happen, sometimes frequently, and it was not possible to patch it over wifi, so....
we all remember the Really Good Games because they're the ones people still talk about and play. shit games have always been there, too, they're just usually lost in the public consciousness unless especially infamous (and even those are usually regarded as outliers, not representative of any trends in the industry at that time). don't worry. they've been making bad, broken games as long as you could make games. it's just hard to remember
old games really were the wild west. of course criticize current games for releasing as a fucking mess- with big studios, you're still paying a lot for that game, and if it sucks, it sucks.
but it wasn't better back then. it was, in fact, usually worse. I have played and owned many old games, and while many hold up, many of their issues were not due to age. theyre just Like That Sometimes. people were still figuring out the very systems themselves and what can really 'be' a game On Top Of execs pushing them to make it as fast as possible. so big problems could and did happen, sometimes frequently, and it was not possible to patch it over wifi, so....
Whenever someone complains about the $80 USD sticker price on new games, some folks like to bring up the fact that many Super Nintendo cartridges were retailing for the same price way back in the 90s.
The subtext of these observations is usually that AAA game prices have been effectively static for thirty years, so really, once you take inflation into account, AAA games are cheaper than ever.
A more pointed observation would be that, in spite of those thirty years of inflation, that $80 price tag has managed to become less affordable to the average gamer in 2025 than it was in 1995, which is an indictment that reaches much further than the AAA gaming industry.
Also you used to get a finished product. Of good quality.
Not really, no. Many games of the cartridge era – even AAA titles – were buggy, unfinished trash, and there was typically no recourse beyond buying a later cartridge revision at full price, if one existed at all. Final Fantasy VI (III US) is one of those games that had a sticker price of $80 USD in 1995, and its 1.0 release had terrible QA.
#yuuupp. and honestly. i wouldnt really be that mad if the game devs. actually got paid a decent cut and not constantly fired and tossed#around like nothing. in either case indies are usually better for everything. you just have to like actually research and find many of the#things best suited to your tastes.#also worth considering is vintage games had very different production practices with carts.#and digital versions are FAR cheaper to distribute.#the price hikes are still ultimately greedy imo because the money still usually is mostly going to execs & the real reason for them is#usually Number Go Up not 'production is this expensive' or 'we need to scrape together money to stay in business at all'#we really do NOT have it worse than older gamers in most ways either way though. a lot of shit sucked. The biggest difference is again there#is less money to spend on fun things than the eighties for most families. rent and housing is fucking crazy#there is just so much less financial wiggle room so to speak for most families over those thirty years.
Reblogged thecube1969
oh yeah I love evil doppelgangers I say with a maria icon . who would've guessed. existing as only a mirror image of the idea of someone else and existing only for the purpose of hurting them and eventually you must either be left or replaced but you have nothing else at all. you never had a place to exist, you're taking up someone else's spot to even be here, and you're missing something fundamental (but indescribable) that your predecessor had- you can try to be what someone else wants, but you'll never be the person someone else chooses; you'll never be important, or really, truly loved, especially not on your own terms. you're barely even a person at all.
Reblogged discotechnician
Being an evil doppelganger has to be so fucked up like imagine meeting a better version of yourself. Some chain of events going differently that led to "you" being a better person in a way you can never achieve. Personally I'd have no other option but to try and kill them
It's always "oh no my evil clone or twin or whatever is trying to kill me" and never How is my evil clone? Says a lot about society
Me, crashing the fuck out: you think you're better than me? You think you're fucking better than me???
My good clone, dodging a glass: I mean like objectively yeah
Reblogged babycupart
The Silent Voice {1898} ~ Gerald Moira
Reblogged dinosaurbitingyoubitingyou
beyond parody
Reblogged livepoultryfreshkilled
Can artists STOP dressing up like religious figures just to be provocative? They are disrespecting all christians and yes, I am referring to Chappell Roan singing dressed up as a nun or Joan of Arc.
Stop it. Nuns and Joan d'Arc aren't your LGBT+ icons. They are religious women the first and a beloved saint the second.
fuck you somebody draw Joan d'Arc fucking and sucking a nun with a small cock
Well one of these people has to be right
Reblogged livepoultryfreshkilled
It's easy to call Grimes stupid. But if I were Grimes I would also make every single choice she made in the order she made it in because I would be Grimes and I would experience Grimes's life in the order it occurred. In this way we are all trapped inside of ourselves, and none of us know just how stupid we fucking are.
#irs funny but also even if someone fucking sucks i dont think it means they deserve to have an abusive partner. its still bad.#and the legal implications are also bad if someone with that much privilege is unable to do anything about said spouse running away with#a young child. you know? thats also bad. Its not really about personal sympathy. its still all bad
Reblogged sarahstanky
okay it’s come to my attention that absolutely NONE OF YOU know ANYTHING about how cutie marks work. let me say this simply. a cutie mark isn’t a job being assigned, it’s a special TALENT OR SKILL that the pony enjoys. Most of the time it has a directly transferable job for that skill, like if you enjoy baking and are super good at it WOW! baker. If you are really good at writing and telling stories, author. However, there are some cutie marks that could go multiple ways.
twilight sparkle has exceptional magic ability, so she became a scholar, but she could really do anything that required a good magic skill. same with rainbow dash, her weather controlling job isn’t directly linked to her cutie mark, but it does fit the bill for the job.
i was posed the question of what would a murderer pony’s cutie mark be and wouldn’t everyone know. NO. if somehow murder were to be a special skill, the cutie mark might be something like a knife or a shovel. other ponies might just assume you’re good at cooking or gardening. now with cutie marks like apple jacks, their family has a ‘green thumb’ kind of deal so obviously the cutie mark would be hereditary.
so, the reason i made this post. walter white pony’s cutie mark would NOT be blue crystals. it would be a CHEMISTRY FLASK.