Akun
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The implementation would certainly deprive control from gamers, as @Ajibusu has said above. On paper, the concept sounds appealing to me, someone who has never liked challenging games and gets all emotional when I hit roadblocks in obstacle games. But in execution, that means I wouldn't be able to adjust the difficulty even if I'm feeling salty about sucking as Mario. It's just all kinds of problematic.
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The Witcher games, perhaps. Its consistency in quality is why people propped CD Project Rekt as their god... much to their later dismay.
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Definitely not a mobile gamer. Most mobile games bore me because they're low-budget and lack any innovative gameplay (or even a decent story). If a mobile game has an amazing story at least, I wouldn't have minded playing it, but no decent writer is going to work on a mobile game.
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I enjoy horror movies, but as I grew older, I found most of the older ones boring, especially those without a unique story that has a deeper meaning to it. It's why I enjoy the "elevated horror" we've got today like Hereditary and The Babadook. It's not that I love horror stories, and more that I enjoy depressing stories that explore the inner demons and the dark side of human nature. As someone with all kinds of demons inside me I'm still dealing with, these stories make me feel less alone about my issues and remind me just how flawed people really are.
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I have an addiction to pornography, I won't lie. It's certainly not the healthiest "hobby" to get into, but I was hooked from young, so it's a hard habit to kick, especially if you're single.
I've heard that certain people tend to get more addicted easily depending on their genes, and whether their parents had an addiction problem or not. My dad was a heavy smoker for a long time before he eventually quit, so I don't know if that counts. I heard people with anxiety or OCD issues tend to get hooked more easily too because of their lack of impulse control, and I certain have my share of anxiety disorder.
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I bought a ton of Switch games on physical just around a month ago. I love the idea of ownership in a physical way, especially with franchises I want to support (one of those games I bought was actually Digimon Survive, and I'm a big Digimon fan). Yes, I could just be lazy and buy it off the Nintendo eshop, but there's just a 'cheap' feeling to buying games digitally that I'm not used to. There's just this insincere feeling to the transaction, because when I don't own the Nintendo cartridge in my hand, there's just a feeling that I don't really own the game. And the reality is, you don't. You own access to playing the game, not the game itself. It's a nuanced difference that doesn't have any major consequences for the gaming world - yet - but the difference exists.
I buy most of my PC games digitally though because buying games off Steam is just so much more convenient than turning on my Switch and loading the eshop (which can take a few seconds to 20 seconds, instead of being able to load the store page immediately like with Steam on my PC), and most of the games I've bought on Steam, I didn't care enough about them to support the physical version.
It is convenient, and I get it. But like I said, it's more about the feeling of ownership, being able to proudly display your favorite games on your shelf. I've even spent hundreds of dollars buying 3DS SMT games off Amazon instead of buying them cheap from the eshop, the eshop that's going to be closed down on the 3DS soon. I want to own the game physically and support Atlus.
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10 hours ago, Heatman said:
I believe that's the same consideration most people are having as when it comes to making the it decisions on whether to play the game or pass on it. Since it's free, they would just have to worry about microtransactions in it and likely loothboxes.
I think if it's free-to-play, I'd be less inclined to play it, because I know it would probably be low-budget, or it would have a decent budget but with paywalls everywhere.
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On 8/21/2022 at 3:46 AM, Kane99 said:
After Netflix's Resident evil show, I've kinda lost hope for other video game themed movies/shows. I would like to see a bioshock movie do good, but idk.
After Rings of Power as well. I heard Amazon Prime was making a Mass Effect TV show, but after Rings of Power, I don't have faith in any IP being done justice, by Netflix, by Amazon Prime, by anyone. I loved the first BioShock game, but with how studios are writing their movies/TV shows today, I just don't see how any show could be done well anymore.
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I don't watch TV anymore, and it doesn't help that Singapore's local channels suck. I might click on a YouTube video showing footage from a film I've greatly enjoyed though, but even that is rare and dependent on my mood.
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Normally, I would say it is in good sport and winning all the way hardly matters when you have fun. Unfortunately, gambling addiction is a thing, and just like pornography, it's an appalling industry feeding off people's addiction. But that's the point of capitalism, I guess. When there's money to be made, people will make them, no matter who gets squashed along the way.
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It's hard to even trust normal news from mainstream media these days. Why would I go out of my way to buy a piece of paper that might be filled with the tiresome political bickering I have enough of on Twitter?
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1 minute ago, Heatman said:
There's a guy that does that here in my neighbourhood with his iPhone. Once a new model gets launched, he would return the older model and pay extra cash and upgrade to the new one. He doesn't use any iPhone more than 1 year.
I don't see the point of trend-chasing unless you have friends which you could show off your phones to... which doesn't speak much about one's self-esteem anyway when someone does that.
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59 minutes ago, Heatman said:
I completely agree with you on this one. What makes this very good is that it's going to give each gamer a different and unique story to play through and not make it the same thing for all gamers. That's why too boring!!
It also means creating multiple games for different choices. No game studio would ever greenlight that, unfortunately, because that costs unreasonable amount of time and budget. You might get lucky to get a really dedicated studio that devotes 10-20 years of its time creating multiple games for the choices of ONE single game, but I haven't seen such a game yet.
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I spend my money rather recklessly, so I tend to not care about the price if I need a phone, and it's the latest model. I don't know. I'm materialistic like that, but not materialistic enough that I would buy a new iPhone everytime a new model is announced.
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Never seen Everybody Loves Raymond, so I'd go with Friends. That show didn't age well at all, but I still found most of its clips funny, especially the ones with Chandler. Chandler basically carried the show for me. lol Could he BE any more important?
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I think I've only ever done it in Stardew Valley, when I had to plan out the layout for my farm. That game utilizes min/max strategies in its gameplay quite significantly.
Sometimes I do open up my notepad app on my PC to write down codes puzzle games want me to remember though, but that's about it.
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Not really, but I do watch YouTube videos while doing boring grinding on Devil Survivor: Overclocked, or playing music while I'm gaming in certain simulation games like Farming Simulator. I would fall asleep if I devote my entire attention to those games all day. Their grinding and simulation can get boring after a while.
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I could relate to this so much because I have a hard time in the real world, with my social awkwardness and anxiety. I would take fictional characters over real people most of the time because they can't hurt me. I know that's pathetic, but that's just how it is. I can't help my insecurities. Been trying to fix it with therapy for years, but it never helped.
Anyway, with the Metaverse coming, I might just be able to escape real life for good and hop onto a completely virtual world where I could have a fresh start in life, like I usually do with anonymous monikers on the Internet. Akun is obviously not my real name. And with VR, I feel like the immersion would greatly make you feel even more like you're transported to a safe space, particularly if it's a private therapy room or something. I could only imagine how much the therapist could do with a virtual therapy room, the kind of psychotherapy they could perform that they couldn't in real life.
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The running is the worst. I always came last during running sessions, and the PE teacher wouldn't care that I almost threw my lungs out from exhaustion. He f***ing sucked as a teacher and human being. It's as if he's one of those stereotypical cartoon PE teachers.
Soccer wasn't too bad though. It was probably the only fun time I had during PE.
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Mostly songs I have little interest in, like rap or reggae. I don't mind bubblegum pop songs because I grew up with them, but many of the so-called "pop songs" today feel so generic and stale. Where's the energy in them? Where's the adrenaline that makes me want to dance? They're certainly no MJ or Britney.
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I used to pay quite a hefty sum for mobile games like FarmVille and other niched management games. They're so predatory, especially the latter, because their only "management" is to click a button and earn money in the game that way.
The only PC games where I got myself willingly engaging in microtransactions would be the dead game, Marvel Heroes 2016, but the microtransaction for that wasn't as bad as other games that use lootboxes, because I only paid for aesthetic items like Spider-Man's alternate costumes, where were a lot of fun because they came with different voice actors you might recognize from your childhood cartoons, like Christopher Daniel Barnes voicing the symbiote Spider-Man. That game was pretty decent, so it's too bad it died.
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5 hours ago, Heatman said:
Haha, that's hilarious. If I were you, I would most certainly try selling it off if I wasn't feeling the vibe of playing with it.
I probably wouldn't sell it off, seeing as the Switch is still a relatively new console that Nintendo wouldn't replace for a while. There might be other third-party IPs that might pique @Empire Of Sight's interest in the future released on the Switch.
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Well, I wouldn't say daily, but pretty often, the urge to just rub one out just comes and before I know it, I'm surfing porn again. There's definitely an addiction factor at play there because I couldn't get enough of the high that comes from masturbating to porn. It's not a daily addiction, thankfully, but it comes and goes.