Reality vs Adventure

“You must purchase the game. You must play at least 2 hours. So, it's a bit complicated for pure speculators to go there and invest and inflate the markets” I don’t see how getting the game and playing for 2 hours is going to deter those that will inflate the market. So they just openly admitted that inflation of the market is a risk and they say having to buy the game will stop them. They also say that Quartz is optional; but we will see just how ‘optional’ it is going forward. “Our main concern is to make sure that even on a secondary market, prices do not go too high, so that it's still accessible to regular players.” How exactly will they prevent that? Sounds like they know the threat, but have no real concern or power to stop it. They also mentioned the concern about the environment and energy consumption from blockchain. I haven’t heard anything about that. How does blockchain impact the environment? “I don't want to go into numbers, but owning a percentage of a huge ecosystem might be even more interesting than just owning a game today.” That to me looks like the purest answer we will get. Gaming will be treated as an investment using worthless NFT. Real investments you can cash out from. You can’t take an NFT to the bank when you need help with mortgage.

What if the roles were reversed with males and females in the game? Would we still be having this discussion?

GTA 5 is a pedestal. GTA 10 would have to be VR on an acid trip.

In the case of Hitler, we can only wonder what the Jews and everyone else that was a victim of what their answer would be. And would someone else have taken his place? Really think hard about the ethics involved. You have to compare the amount of suffering. One man, or millions tortured and killed, and millions more died in war and others PTSD, others POW's. One soul, or millions. His victims hold a lot more weight. At what point would he not be innocent? Is he still innocent when people are taken to the camps w/o killing any yet? Is he still innocent signing bills into law that outlaws entire ethnic groups or political groups? Where exactly would his innocence end?

I think I remember you had a difficult time using the bow. 😄 Wax on wax off Daniel Son

It doesn't look like the date will change this time. Maybe they finally got it all together. But with the so-called 500 hours, I fear the game will be bug ridden. I hate to jump to that conclusion and cast a shadow over their hard work, but I just have the feeling. I think this game release will speak volumes of what to expect for the year. Broken games, or a turn to optimism.

Only one side keeps breaking their oath on a regular basis, so that's like comparing rabbit pellet shit to E. coli worm infested diarrhea from a diseased ridden feral monster.

Without being remastered? Dead Space for sure.

That got me wondering what GTA 10 would look like. They can't keep making games from the same American cities. The series had a little niche to work with in previous games, but now options become limited if they don't branch out to other cities of the world. But if they want to keep comedy and stereotypes, America is fertile land of the making fun of and all the idiotisms.

I wouldn't mind at all reading the book. Got to look for a copy.

That was a bad ass game. Have you played The Following DLC? Takes place in the countryside and you get a little buggy to drive. It's a pretty big map too.

Update: The vaccine mandate was killed by the republican controlled supreme court, so there is no longer any protection for American workers. I wonder, will they ban all vaccine requirements in the country? Also, Kansas politicians are trying to pass a bill to allow doctors to prescribe Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine for Covid, which has not been approved by the FDA; and the bill will grant immunity to doctors that prescribe it so they won't have any liability. This is what it looks like when politics reign over healthcare.

We do have to admit that games usually give us the green light to kill whatever animal you can. It's just a game so I'm not going to be wacky about it and protest, but with the annihilation of the wolf population recently put into law and then playing AC Valhalla where you brutally kill wolves with what seems to be very angry, kind of rubs me wrong. But it's just a game and I expect brutality in a game like that. It would be nice to come across a game where they respected animals more. You know, like how a Native American is usually shown to honor any animal they kill for food. I don't know enough about PETA to make much of an opinion about them. It seems they aren't looked at too kindly with the public. And I have no doubts that opponents like that in the meat industry have smeared their names and sabotaged them, cause that's exactly what always happens. And I also have no doubts that their tactics are extreme. But if they are the only people out there shining the light on the evils of the meat and dairy industry, then we need them. Cause I don't know about any other group that gives a damn.

🤷‍♂️ Option C

That's comparing biodegradable trash to radiation sludge. 😆

For me it’s the bat mobile cause I just downloaded Batman to give it a go again. But if games can incorporate specialized vehicles you can upgrade then hell fire fuck yeah. Like Ghost Rider motorcycle and the whole shabang. Let’s 007 it. Go all the way. Mad Max it. Our vehicles are our souls. Do you want to drive a weak soul? Ahhh hahaha

I'm not a big fan of flashback stories. TLOU2 was an exception. I'd prefer they start at the early stuff and then progress in a linear format. That to me brings greater immersion when you know you are playing in present time. Because if playing in a flashback, well, you already know you will survive whatever happens so it takes away from the moment.

Intelligence should have never gone beyond that of a monkey’s.

I'm with you on that; I started playing the first RDR too. I'm somewhere around the early parts of the game.

Oh wow, I might try that game.

I’m gonna have to check out Just Cause, one of the newer ones. I played a ps2 version. To me it seems more similar to Far Cry rather than GTA. But now I’m curious about Just Cause 3 or 4

I had to look that up because I know nothing about the history, but it amazes me how time again when governments get a usurpation of power, they commit genocide. I wonder how many genocides have actually happened that I don't know about. But even though a tragedy, I think it could make an interesting game and we could even learn from it.