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Reminds me of Happy Tree Friends... google at your own risk, lol.

Was actually going to post the same to stay ontopic but @Withywarlock beat me to it. This thread has run it's course i guess, unless somebody who is a parent with kids old enough to play videogames here wants to chim in and share their own experiences? I'd love to hear them if you are willing to post them as maybe we could learn a thing or two along the way.

Please stay on topic, folks. The question is "how old to start gaming?" I welcome new threads being made on other subjects, or them being taken to private messages, but we're not derailing this.

I've written 2 full length novels, several short stories, and a hell of a lot of unconventional poetry. That said, I can offer some advice. I assume you're writing fiction? The first sentence of every story is always the hardest. After that let the story write itself. Never force it. You have to have that itch to get back to writing it. But before you get too far you need to think about a few things. 1) Is it a narrative? 2) Are the characters relatable? 3) What kind of conflict will they be dealing with? 4) Is it told through eyes of a certain character? 5) Have you written a description of all the characters yet? 6) Do you know where you want to go with the story? Have you thought about the beginning, middle, and end separately so you know what you want to tell the reader? 7) Is it engaging enough to keep a person reading? 8.) Can you describe what your story is about to someone who asks? 9) Are you writing just as a hobby, or are you thinking about publishing? 10) Can YOU relate to your characters? For example in my first book, the main character was based off of me. We share a lot of the same attitude and view of the world. The only difference is that my character in that story is male, and I'm female. If you need more just ask and I'll help as much as I can. As a note to what @Withywarlock said, one of my books is currently on its 8th draft ans the other is on its 7th. More drafts will follow. Until it's perfect in my eyes, it will keep getting edits and rewrites. So don't get discouraged if you go to 7, 8, or 100 drafts. If you don't like it where it is, no one else will either.

Loving your own profile that much? That's pretty narcissistic. That was always there. Ever since I signed up almost 4 years ago. It's on every Invision board.

This song hits home hard for me, having had an abusive drunk for a "father". The only difference is that the man in the video wants help. My drunk only wanted help finding his next drink.

Which company or companies do you use for emails? I use Gmail for some purposes and Outlook 365 for some purposes. I like Gmail for my personal life but I like Outlook 365 for its Office products integration - it's great for business.

This means DRM style safeguards for your games. Honestly I don't see an issue with this when it comes to digital games. I also have no issue with it if it's to stop people from using fake game carts or stolen ones. I just hope this doesn't result in games becoming one time use. I don't think that would be the case. I think with this it makes sense for the Switch, because it's not like they are looking for people who sell their games. I think they genuinely want to stop people from illegally duplicating the game or finding ways of sharing it. You can read more on this news here: https://www.ign.com/articles/anti-piracy-software-denuvo-announced-for-switch

Guys I just found this on the British Comedy Channel Guide. It's nearly here!

There are a million things to scare us. Out of these 5, which would scare you the most?

Yes, generally the game is good. There's no doubt about it. It's only on the part of its time travel mechanics that it didn't live up to expectations. I believe that they can do better in the next release if they are planning on one.

My PC is super good. I do more than just watch YouTube videos on mine. It's a very pretty cool set up for my games especially my flight simulation games. I do some off game's work on it too.

oh, thanks for the reminder @Withywarlock, I'll keep that in mind... I usually google stuff 99% of the time, but I sort of wanted a personal context this time... hehe. 😅 also, looks like this kind of thing would float my boat, I'll check it out... 😉 LOL, happy tree friends, a part of my younger years. 🤣🤩 my favorite character is the moose and the PTSD SGT. somehow.... 😅 Reminds me somewhat of "Dumb ways to die" too now that you mentioned it. Google it for more context and/or if you want to play the games based on the viral original video. 😋

Thanks for sharing this one, Techno. This'll be something else for my partner and I to collectively cack our khakis to, hopefully with laughter rather than terror. Don't Hug Me, I'm Scared is a comedy horror series on YouTube. It's meant to be like children's television shows with puppets, but it's juxtaposed by the horror elements such as disturbing imagery, discordant music and creepy writing. While I do appreciate you asking for context, I recommend you use Google first to find things out and then make a post. This isn't a telling off, just advice for all users so we don't clog up the pages. ^^

There is a concerning rate of human pig hybrid birthrates in Texas with genetic swaps due to living in very similar habitats. They actually have cross bred with pigs and now are able to carry the DNA successfully into their own offspring. There is a new heart transplant that has taken place by using the heart of a human/pig hybrid and replacing that into a human. The procedure was a success and now scientists are looking more closely into the Texas communities that are predominantly these human pigs. This is quite fascinating because while the human species has devolved in intelligent capacity, the pig DNA has evolved into more intelligent pigs. Together, they aren't quite as intelligent as the homo sapiens, but with this research we can learn much more about pig mentality and how they communicate. Here are a few photos of the human/pig hybrids. As you can see, the birth rate has increased with more to a litter.

Try to give a bad description of your favorite game. For example : Yelling hoarder terrorizes medieval country and kills local lizards (Skyrim) 😆

All of these choices could be quite scary, though I picked the one that would be quite hard for me... I just picked #1, it sounds like the walking dead or something like outlast, oh well. But one thing's for sure, no matter which situation I might end up in, I'll do my darndest to survive! 🪓😅

Bus 236 from somewhere. 😂 On a slightly related note... this is sorta related to another post I made in this thread about puns about a bus. 🚌👇

Where are you working? At a bar that serves cyanide and a complimentary noose for each customer?

The fact that you support one openly bias news source over another, be it left or right, and refuse to even here the other side is the real problem.

Anything in a hospital scares me. And I don't even need the dead, mutilated bodies around me. More like a doctor heading my way...to do just about anything. 😳 My biggest fear is anesthesia. P.S. Disturbing choices ^^ you've got up there! 😬😂

Looks like the weekend is over and a brand new week is upon us. I hope you all have a great week! 🙂

Yeah I'd let my dad know first. But even so, having one my own wouldn't be bad either. I'm not that big into racing, but I gotta imagine it's a lot more fun to play via a racing wheel. And cool, if you ever make a racing setup, you should share your setup on the forum. 🙂

Does anyone live in or near Boston? I'm going to SatanCon next year, and having a bitch of a time finding a hotel that I can afford that isn't 45 minutes away.

It'll probably go off voice prompts. So saying shoot to shoot your gun, reload to reload, run to run. General things like that. Saying turn left to turn left. It'll be used in combination with the controller I imagine for some. That would be my guess anyway. I imagine it works off of certain prompts and phrases.

Oh for fucks sake! Denuvo is useless! Customers (especially on PC) know it's useless, developers know it's useless, even publishers know it's useless. the only reason anybody uses it is so say they can claim that they are doing something about the money their not loosing to piracy. Denuvo is usually cracked within 24 hours and even if it isn't, the customer base that do have a legit copy that they paid for have to suffer. This is without considering the hypothesis that piracy doesn't actually loose these companies any profit. Think about it, if you would rather go through the hassle of downloading a cracked version of a game that probably has tonnes of adware bollocks then you obviously weren't willing to buy the game in the first place! For game publishers piracy is an enemy that doesn't exist.

Denuvo is the worst thing you can have with your games. Not only it not do what it's suppose to do as it's get's cracked every time, it can and has caused massive performance issues, sometimes costing 20fps. By using such infamous and hated third party DRM it paints a bullseye on your games, thus actually making your games more vulnerable to being hacked and pirated, so it makes it worse for everyone. On PC it's bad for performance, but on what's already an underpowered console is recipe for disaster.

Denuvo and other DRM has been known to cause performance issues such as frame-rate drops and loading time problems, however negligable. These issues are mostly experienced on PC especially with older hardware, and while I give more credit to the Switch than others regarding its hardware capabilities, it still needs all the resources it can get. It doesn't need to be bogged down further by DRM. It offers no benefit to the customer and at worst it means the pirates get the better experience because the game's performance isn't compromised. It's highly unlikely that it will: see this exhaustive list of cracked games from four years ago. There's been a lot more games with Denuvo since, and a lot more cracks since then. The hardest games to break open are those with additional DRM, such as VM Protect & Uplay, which Ubisoft employs... meaning Denuvo on its own doesn't work. For physical games, I'm not so sure, but I imagine those who want in will find a way in and then share it online. Regarding carts being stolen I'd love it if Denuvo had a way of returning carts to their rightful owners. It's a shame it doesn't, and this is Nintendo's first step to harming the idea of swapping games or selling them used. I get the appeal of cracking down on emulators for the current console, I find the practice abhorrent when Switches are available, affordable for what they are, and there's plenty of copies of games new and used. The developers and publishers can still make money on them, unlike say a Nintendo 64. Shigeru Miyamoto isn't getting a penny for a copy of Super Mario 64 sold on eBay, but he could for Super Mario Odyssey bought new from GAME (well, that's not entirely how it works but the sentiment is the same.) I wish I had your optimism. Very rarely is DRM removed for the legitimate purchasers once it's demonstrated the anti-piracy measures to have failed, meaning we can have goodbye to many games that end their publishing agreements and licenses. The road to Hell is paved with good intentions. I agree with you entirely but I want to highlight this particular line. Discourse on piracy, especially from developers and publishers, is rarely truthful let alone useful. According to sexual harrassment apologist and Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemont, PC has a 93-95% piracy rate... which means their DRM is effective 5-7% of the time. Whatever the real figures are (which they can't know anyway), they haven't really lost a sale because it's unlikely that many pirates are the 'ethical' kind who use it as a demo first. I hope Nintendo have been paying attention but again I have not one iota of faith.

The songs beats is so cool 😎. I love it and thanks for uploading that. What's your car's plate number? 👇👇👇

I know about it and I have used the site but not that often, Just to check the stats about games and whatnot more then profiles as some of the readings are not on the point and true anyway.

They're raising the price because things aren't working out as they planned. Sony is beginning to slip in the overall scheme of things because they're realizing they can't compete with Microsoft in the long run. This is a second bad but necessary move within the last month in a probable succession of moves we will see ongoing.

Voted. I see @Kane99 winning this one, he's been doing great ever since he returned to being an active poster here on VGR.

Wow! That's just amazing... Tinybuild has come a long way, I still remember playing their flash game, "No time to explain" many years back. 😁 Man, I feel old. 😆 That's the guy in their logo, from their first game. Now I'm reading the wikipedia article lols because of nostalgia, and I want to see an overview of what they've been doing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TinyBuild

They say they're sticking with cross gen(so not built for the ground up on PS5) games until 2024/2025 and now this. Sony have gotten WAY too complacent and someone needs to humble them. Ditto goes for Nintendo too.

interesting development in tech, I liked the previous dead island games, let's see how useful this function will be. or will it just be an ignored "doohicky" 😁

Oops I became a supervillain on accident xD

Not gonna lie this does not look good at all and the fact resident evil 4, 5 and 6 are listed as influences does not give me high hopes either

This is hilarious Well been a while I played 'womb raider' 🥴

He checks his potions and weapon wheel only to find it empty so he conjures his old friend who owns the sky. While waiting, he notices the body has claw marks and a shriveled body. That points to none other than the marrow suckers. He notices big yellow eyes everywhere staring at him in the trees. Everything else is covered by leaves and branches. The whole forest has these creatures waiting in the trees. Off in the distance, that looks to be a dragon dashing through the clouds.

You guys do realize this all made up right ?....

That was almost perfect, it should have been;

You know what, I think we've listed literally all of them at this point. I think we should keep this topic going, but maybe switch to a different letter?

I’ve got 30 years experience with daemonology. I know how to handle that side as well. It’s actually quite easy if you stand firm.

2:58 hits me so hard.

Fartcry and Unfarted series tried to come out at the same time, but the latter had to wait a year to be released. It proved to be a big hit, and worth the wait.

Weed of the Wild

It's time to sit down for the Call of Bootie and play to the God of Whore