Reality vs Adventure

I’m hardcore into cyberpunk. Well what the fuck is that? It’s games like Deus Ex, Cyberpunk 2077, Watch Dogs Legion, main ones I know of. Not many I know cause it’s a new genre. Or is it? I believe we need to make a new Cyberpunk genre.

@The Blackangel Play AC Odyssey and stop flirting with Assassins Creed. Play what you love in Greek life and afterlife. Please. Stop beating around the bush. Play Odyssey. I’m thinking you might be afraid of living in that world, the world where maybe you find strong associations with.

Well, I recently got done playing FF15 and got its hooks in me. I’m not so sure whatever loss they had was anything more than bad management. I’m skeptical and don’t think it’s their games. I’m currently playing Deus Ex Mankind Divided and as Square Enix as one of the developers, I see them pretty much knowing their shit!!! As far as games go. They’re fucking brilliant as far as I’m concerned. Make another Deus Ex, keep Final Fantasy rolling in open world, and gain back what you lost. Deus Ex is before it’s time. Now, make this your time and control the future with many sequels of Deus Ex and Final Fantasy. Fire your money humpers and—get—back—to—making—bad—ass—games!!!

I'm hooked on Deus Ex Mankind Divided. Everything about it is brilliant!

I don't play on PC but I did enjoy that game on ps4. The setting is late 1800's London and I thought everything looked pretty damn good. You can switch between the male and female protagonists, brother and sister. I would not miss out on this game being free if anyone is a PC gamer. That's a nice gift!

Civilians are not your enemy. Nazis are!!! Maybe you should play games that kill nazis. That would be better therapy. Because it is them that want to take your rights away, and even genocide the LGBTQ community. Stop looking at civilians as expendable. And start looking for an actual face of your hatred.

I'm playing Control right now and it's sci fi at maximum. Definitely an under the radar game. Wow, can't imagine the objects of power they will bring next! your remote control???

I don't think we should be making an assumption that games rated pg13 or any other rated game is bad for that age group. This type of generalization that ratings are not relevant for an age group makes people want to start controlling other people's kids. I believe parental rights gets taken out of context very often. When a generalization is made that something is bad for all, then parental rights get trampled on. Then people want government to start forcing things on others. Parental rights doesn't mean that what is considered bad for their kid is also considered bad for everyone else's kids. Parental rights means that parents have the freedom to decide what is good or bad for their own kids, not someone else's. We need to get rid of that generalization and that mentality of trying to control other parents and their kids. If a parent doesn't like their kids exposed to something, well, they have no right to tell any other parent something who trusts their own children or their own parenting.

We are witnessing fascism at work. Musk sympathizes with neo nazis and since he bought Twitter there has been an increase of hate speech, including from Musk himself. This isn't the first time this is happening. The Center for Countering Digital Hate released research showing that there was an increase in hate speech on Twitter. Musk then went and sued CCDH as well. Not only that, but republican Jim Jordan in the House of Representatives has abused his power to subpoena CCDH for it. That is the government, led by a republican, trying to censure free speech rights from independent research. Research is free speech BTW. Jim Jordan is the guy who was nominated for House Speaker after McCarthy was ousted by republicans. Jordan and Fox News threatened the House republicans to vote for Jordan. They used an authoritarian tactic by making public those congress member's private information to intimidate and threaten them to gain their vote. What ended up happening was that those congress member's lives and their family's lives were threatened by MAGA extremists. Jordan ended up losing his votes for Speaker. That all just recently happened a month ago. So you can see how Jordan leans towards fascist authoritarian views. And he is protecting Musk and his social media. Jordan also subpoenaed Mark Zuckerberg when he launched a new social media site called Threads. Jordan is trying to eliminate X's competitors and have only one neo nzi state run social media. Jim Jordan is the guy who has also been trying to obstruct Trump's investigations by going after his prosecutors and trying to criminally charge them, expel them, or defund them. So now Media Matters is another group that has released research showing that business ads are next to pro Hitler propaganda, which sparked those companies to stop their ads on X. Musk is now suing them too. And once again, a republican is abusing their power to try and silence free speech rights from Media Matters. Ken Paxton BTW, is the republican investigating Media Matters in Texas. 1st, why the fuck would an attorney general in Texas get involved? That's abuse of power, plain and simple. Paxton is a fascist who also wants a state run neo nzi social media as the only media to be available for the public, that's why. Paxton was under investigation for many years for his corruption. And finally Texas republicans have formed a committee to vote on whether Paxton should be expelled due to his corruption. Turns out Paxton's own wife was one of the republicans voting to keep Paxton as Attorney General. The republicans ended up voting to keep him in office lolol. All that just recently happened as well a couple months ago. Republican corruption runs deep in Texas, and elsewhere, everywhere now actually. There is more. Republicans across the board have been getting rid of tenure for professors in universities and dismantling, defunding, investigating any and all university research that has been researching hate speech, domestic threats, hate groups etc. The significance of getting rid of their tenure is that they can now be fired for any controversial research, which is censorship. Freedom of research is free speech rights. Tenure was supposed to protect professors for this very reason because tenure means a lifetime position at your job as a professor where you can't be fired for what you research. The irony and projection from Musk runs deep. Musk was accusing of several news media outlets of being state run. So those media outlets have stopped using X. Turns out though that Musk was projecting because his fascist friends in congress and an attorney general in Texas is abusing their power to protect Musk's X platform by trying to silence any independent research that shows a rise neo nazi hate speech on X. That is what state run actually is. Republicans want X to be their nazi state run social media and eliminate all others. This was the whole idea why Musk bought Twitter or X in the first place. It was a guy named Dinesh DeSouza who gave Musk the idea. DeSouza went to prison and was pardoned by Trump. DeSouza then created the film 2000 Mules, which was a bunch of election lies to help Trump. DeSouza then tweeted to Musk telling him to buy a major social media platform in order to censure liberals. And Musk replied to DeSouza 'great idea' on Twitter. Shortly after, Musk bought Twitter. And look where we are now. That was the whole idea, make X a nazi playground. Just look at Musk's symbol 'X'. No doubt over time he's gonna bend the edges of the letter X and make it look more and more like a swastika. That's who he is now. Even Musk himself doesn't have a good track record in morality. Just recently he was using shareholder money from Tesla to buy himself a glass house. While Musk is CEO, Tesla is being investigated for widespread racial discrimination. Musk has tortured monkeys in his Neuralink experiments and he even tried to obstruct the investigation. His own family hates him. He's addicted to Ketamine and probably has narcissism. Top that off with Asperger's syndrome, no offense to that mental disorder. But add Ketamine, narcissism, then no wonder he has this eratic vindictive behavior. Musk has sabotaged Ukraine's war efforts. He is kissing up to Russia so he can buy rockets from them. He is meddling in other country's domestic issues trying to radicalize the far right types against their government by claiming immigrants are invading you. He said that to Germany and other countries as well as the USA. He's seriously trying to stir the pot and radicalize people. These are dangerous times and I hope those companies continue to leave their ads off of X. Musk doesn't give a shit about free speech. It's all just a victimhood ploy while he and his friends in government are using their power to silence others. It goes to show that free speech absolutism has consequences and companies have their own rights to not post ads next to hate speech.

Before going into Mafia 3 evolution, I’ll mention flaws from Mafia 1 first. I played the Mafia 1 remake and wasn’t too impressed by it because it was fast paced, mission to mission with little chance of exploration. Why put that much work into creating a city and not have much of a chance to explore it? Waste of work. Mafia 3 definitely changed that major flaw. It still holds its fast paced story oriented gaming, but I see it as coming close to crime games like GTA. Mafia 3 has added things on the map where you can go inside buildings more, explore more and find different sorts of loot. If they keep the series progressing as they are, I see Mafia 4 rising into the competition with GTA and Watch Dogs. Don’t get me wrong, there needs to be much more to improve on with the Mafia series to compete with a sort of new style genre. I’m pleasantly impressed though with Mafia 3. It flows really well so far. The driving mechanics I can tell they put a lot of effort into it. And the camera while driving and maneuvering is pretty damn good. Change the setting and I might not be able to tell the difference between GTA 5 and Mafia 3. Story is excellent so far. I didn’t expect much after Mafia 1 remake, so I skipped Mafia 2 and went straight to 3. It caught me by surprise actually. The setting, the heartfelt story, it’s lookin good so far. What are your thoughts about the Mafia series evolving into a more exploration environment? I want to add as an edit: Mafia needs to also keep its niche, which is fast paced story telling, point A to B. I’m loving it now how they are balancing story and exploration opportunities.

Last night I started playing Deus Ex Mankind Divided. It's blown my mind so far. Completely brilliant. Now I'm stuck wondering if I should stop where I'm at and play Human Revolution first cause I feel I would enjoy the story even more if I did. But I don't want to stop playing it now.

I'm confused here about who all are involved. Isn't Bloober Team the developer making a silent hill game? Isn't Konami a developer? I thought they lost their marbles or something. So is this two different developers working together on one game?

I think this is so cool that there will be a new Zelda movie by Nintendo as well as Sony working together on this. And I know there are some fans on this forum for Zelda, so I'm sure this is going to be exciting the more we start hearing about it. It was just announced so there isn't a trailer yet. Something to keep your eye on for sure! I was looking for a good youtube video to display, but I'll leave that up to those more in tuned to good gaming announcements so I don't post one that's lame. lol But this is a big deal no doubt so I started a thread as soon as I saw the movie was in the making.

I personally don't like the deal. It's just natural for me to be against large corporations buying things up and reducing competition. But I trust CMA in UK and the FTC in USA made the purchase fair. I think the FTC has appealed the decision, but I don't think that's gonna go anywhere now once the deal gets under way. Bobby Kotick will stay at Activision till end of 2023, so maybe they can revamp the bad working conditions at Activision. I find it interesting that part of the deal to allow Microsoft's purchase go through was to allow Ubisoft access to cloud gaming for all Activision/Blizzard games plus any new games made for the next 15 years. That's a pretty big deal for Ubisoft. I guess I should say congrats to Ubisoft as a big winner in this. Microsoft also made a deal with Sony, which allows them to access all Call of Duty games only, for 10 years.

That sucks. Hope you feel better soon. My sister just got it too for her birthday. We had to cancel plans because of it. Be careful everyone! Covid is out there again.

It never really works out for me to play a scary game on Halloween. I have Outlast 2 I've been meaning to play. I know it's gonna be sick and probably get chased by a luny. I'm just not hyped about games where I am chased, like Resident Evil games. Oh, but RE 7 is an exception. Chase me mother fucker. lol. Anyways. But I have to be really into it now to play that style horror. I prefer trippy stuff like Evil Within. I like having moments to absorb, soak in the horror at my own pace, room to room, scene to scene. Bodies laid out before you, beautiful horror you can stare at instead of getting rushed. I want to stare at the dead corpse. Don't rush me away. Seduce me with scenes of death. Don't make me run away from the beauty. The art of limbs hanging, blood dripping, your own face in the mirror. Grinning. Raising a human arm to eat.While you stare at yourself in the mirror. Eating it raw. Blood all over your mouth. Your friend calls. All you can muster to say is, meat me at 666 street. I don't really have a game in mind this Halloween. Outlast 2 would probably be the scariest game I have. But I also have Oculus and Exorcist is so scary to me. Actually, that is what I will play for Halloween.

I will also say that fishing isn’t a sport either. How would you like aliens to drop a line from outer space with chocolate so they can hook your mouth then freeze you alive for a filet.

It currently looks like republicans are still trying this CPAC 7 point plan to re-instate Trump as president because republicans just ousted their own Speaker of the House and now are calling for Trump to be Speaker. On top of that, republicans have had impeachment hearings for Biden. It's funny that they are still trying this plot. This coup d'etat. Let me explain what is going on now. America has been paying attention to the fiasco of the republicans in the House of Representatives and trying to pass a budget deal so our government doesn't shut down. Luckily, this past Friday at the last minute, a deal was signed. But it left off aid to Ukraine because republicans are protecting Russia. And republicans have lied to democrats and backstabbed Ukraine after saying they wouldn't block aid. But the republicans are in such disarray right now and are having a sort of civil war against each other. There are probably around 10 republicans in the House who are the extreme extreme MAGA worshippers creating all this chaos. Well it took republicans around 15 votes to finally elect a Speaker of the House and nearly got into a fist fight. All this happened a few months ago. Kevin McCarthy was voted in as Speaker. Those MAGA extremists in the House wanted the government to shut down. Trump has been telling republicans to shut the government down. Marjorie Greene has been secretly meeting with Trump on how to impeach Biden and who knows what else. I mean, Trump is already running the House. They do as he says. Because Speaker McCarthy passed a budget deal, and Senate democrats agreed and signed off, the MAGA republicans in the House are now saying McCarthy is a traitor who secretly works for democrats. So they ousted McCarthy today, which hasn't been done in like a century. So now, this goes back to the CPAC 7 point plan because republicans in the House now want Trump to be Speaker. What does this do exactly? The plan is to impeach Biden, then impeach the next in line who is the vice president Kamala Harris. Then next in line to become president is the Speaker of the House. That is why they want Trump as Speaker. Because they are trying to impeach Biden already. Thing is, it won't work because democrats control the Senate and they aren't gonna boot Biden for a witch-hunt. And that is exactly what it is. Republicans have called witnesses at Biden's impeachment hearing and even the witnesses said there is no evidence of Biden's wrong doing. But republicans don't care. This is their plan. Would Trump even consider being Speaker? I doubt it because he would have to drop out of the presidential race. This all sounds ridiculous, I know. It's all a long shot that won't happen. But republicans are trying to make it happen. That's the thing. I'm personally not even worried about it. I just thought this was quite interesting actually, to say the least, that those extremists are still obsessing about this plan to reinstate Trump. When congress prevented a government shutdown this past Friday, it is only good for 45 days. So some time in November we will be having this fiasco again while republicans have no Speaker, which means it is very likely our government will shut down over the holidays and ruin a bunch of federal employees Christmas because they won't get paid. Republicans don't give a shit about Americans and continue to hold the country hostage if they don't get their demands. And they are willing to do all this in order to block Ukraine aid and protect Putin and sacrifice the economy in the USA. All because republicans are a bunch of crying spoiled fascist brats who hates this country. And they are becoming more and more open about their support for Russia. To be continued... More to come, for sure!!!

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I don't believe hunting is a sport because the victim isn't playing.

That's a lot of employees, but at least they will get a severance package. I'm not really understanding though how they are spending so much money and investing in things that has caused them to lay off 16% of their company. Some bad decisions were made.

Of course, that is what he does--deny, blame, and threaten. In this case he actually already admitted to his wrong doing. He posted in all caps on social media that what he did was a good thing because he paid his loans back and the banks got paid, which is ironic because he's filed for bankruptcy like 6 times. The thing is, over inflating his net worth to get better loans with lower interest is against the law. It's cheating the system. It allows the rich privileged to get way better rates than others. And no doubt he under reports his worth on his taxes. Trump Organization has already been found guilty of tax fraud. But you are right, his people don't care. They don't care about a thing he does. They are a morally broken society who honors corruption. This is such a huge blow to the Trump family. And it's such a big relief for New York to get rid of all that toxic orange waste out of their city and state. I wonder if his Mar a Lago resort is legit in Florida. Trump's sons are already reacting pretty paranoid about it.

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Sept 26, Trump and his two sons was found guilty of fraud due to him over valuing his businesses to banks and insurers in New York. The judge has ordered Trump Organization to be dismantled and Trump can no longer set up business in New York. His business license has been revoked. There will be a third party who was appointed by the judge to dismantle Trump Org. Trump Organization was just recently also found guilty of tax fraud. Plus, yesterday's verdict isn't completely over yet. Trump has to go back to court and find out how much money he will have to pay New York. The NY attorney general sued Trump for $250 million big ones. This is a pretty huge deal and it's a beautiful sledge hammer to the orange traitor turd. Trump is a crook through and through. Republicans don't even give a fuck about his criminality. They love this stuff. It's who they are. Bunch of crooks. Meanwhile, the republican second debate is tonight and once again Trump refuses to debate. All but one republican presidential candidate has sworn allegiance to Trump now even if he was a convicted felon. What's that tell ya!!! Like I said, they're a bunch of crooks who loves criminality!!!

Woke is basically coined to represent being aware of inequality. That's where it originated. Republicans have taken that term and coined it to represent everything they hate, no matter what it is. The anti woke scare of the 2020's is the same thing as the Red Scare of the 1950's where they accused everyone of being communists. They even went so far as to imprison teachers back then and that is what they are wanting to do now. Teachers can now go to jail for having a book that they banned. They proposed a bill to jail librarians in public libraries. Calling everything woke is all just a ploy to justify them taking rights away. No doubt republicans believe our civil rights in the constitution is woke. Republicans in congress eliminated the civil rights committee. You can easily see the parallels of republicans today and nazi Germany. They must have a guidebook or something because they are following step by step. Even now republicans are now attacking our military. That is one of the steps needed for a dictatorship, to gain control of the military, politicize it, divide it. Republicans are calling the military woke, threatening the life of our top general now and calling him woke. Tuberville is blocking over 300 military nominations of officers all the while calling the military woke. They call history woke and so they ban discussion of it. They call colleges woke and they call diversity woke, so now they are banning diversity and inclusivity in colleges. They call businesses woke and so they ban diversity and inclusivity in businesses. Even affirmative action has been banned. They ban whatever book they can, calling it woke. They are banning tens of thousands of digital books in public libraries so even adults can't read them. They call LGBTQ as woke and ban everything everywhere they can to suppress that community. They go after movies and songs and shows and food and calls it all woke if there is any diversity, inclusivity. They call protecting the environment is woke. They call the damage done by natural disasters is woke, saying the forest floor should be swept to prevent fires in California. The fires in Hawaii were woke. Even now the religious fanatics are calling scriptures from Jesus in the bible is woke. I mean, if you think about it, Jesus was woke. The true definition of woke where he wanted equality and non violence and to help others. Republicans attack every minority group and calls them woke like blacks and brown, Jews, women, LGBTQ. These republicans are genocidal and would probably place woke labels on people's arms and send them off to their camps like how Hitler placed color coded bands on the people they sent off to camps. Republicans call fighting a pandemic is woke. Vaccines are woke, wearing a face mask is woke, health research and doctors are woke. They call our government agencies woke. Prosecutors are woke, judges are woke, laws are woke. Juneteenth holiday is woke, the holiday where blacks finally gained freedom. That is the republican culture war, attacking everything and calling everything different from their shallow mentality is woke. It is meant to demonize everyone and take their rights away. To force control over elections, education, businesses, justice system, entertainment, and military. Republicans attack everything now because they want a dictatorship. They want to oppress Americans and abuse them. Even genocide them. That is what all this is. The GOP is the New Nazi Party.