Shagger

I have observed bots logged in on the forum before without interacting with anything or posting anything. I suppose this is at least what some of them were doing. If they don't post anything, they know we'll likely do nothing about them. Clever, but since no living person seems to paying this forum any mind, It hasn't really helped them much. What waste of time. Us going to the forum to see all this today is probably the most traffic they've ever had. You may as well etch your company logo onto a dog turd for the worth thier ad-space is worth, what's the point in any of this?

Technically, that doesn't count. Both the video games and the TV show are based on the same series of books. Some of the aesthetic interpretations from the game inspired the look of the show, but that's about as far as it goes.

It's not dumb at all On the contrary, it takes a keen eye to acknowledge just how important that is. To me, that makes a game's environment feel more real, lived in, rather than just part of the background. It adds flesh to the skeleton and is essential in a game like LiS to help immerse you in the story. The connection between the player and the environment needs to be done differently in a game LiS as the environment in itself is more inert than in an action game. This something that every LiS game has done exceptionally well.

This has been a long time coming. Game publishers, especially the major ones and console manufactures, with good reason see more befit into just doing thier own announcements and streaming events. It's better for us as well I'd say. Publishers building thier development schedules and announcement time frames around ES is archaic these days and only causes problems.

Thanks for the information. I'll try to get in touch with that website's editor and let him/her know what's going on.

If all that they are doing is plagiarizing the forum as I suspect, then I don't believe there is much to say legally. Plagiarizing VGR's articles and journalism would be very different matter. Like I said in the other thread, I suspect that there are just trying to make thier forum look active when it isn't. It's pathetic, really, but given that almost none of thier threads have any replies, it obviously isn't working.

It is hysterical. I would consider contacting the website itself, but it's pretty clear to me they know exactly what they are doing. It appears they are at least not plagiarizing the journalism side (articles) of VGR as far as I can tell, but I suggest that @DC have look himself just in case, it is just the forum they're tipping off.

If people do want to discuss this plagiarism further, start a tread to do so, but on this thread it's time to get back on topic.

I've looked into this forum. This plagiarism has clearly been going for quite some time. here are some of the examples I've found, including one from a moderator at this forum that copied ME two years ago. For a start, this very thread on VGR has been staight up copied on iGamingNews https://www.igamesnews.com/forum/threads/boss-fights-that-are-more-like-puzzles.64149/ iGamingnews https://www.igamesnews.com/forum/threads/generic-vs-name-brand-food-drink-products.63692/ On VGR https://www.vgr.com/forum/topic/14029-generic-vs-name-brand-fooddrink-products Somebody even copied the member of "VGR Member of the Month" thread without removing the VGR reference. On iGamingnews https://www.igamesnews.com/forum/threads/vgr-member-of-the-month-march-2022.64182/#post-64443 And here's the thread going way back that I wrote, so I know the VGR thread is the original. Not how only the text was copied, not the hyperlinks nor the videos, so this was copied and pasted to iGamingNews, not the other way round, otherwise the post on iGamingnews wouldn't look like this. This from a moderator as well, as aforementioned. On iGamingNews https://www.igamesnews.com/forum/threads/angry-joe-vargas-accused-of-sexual-harassment.7934/ On VGR https://www.vgr.com/forum/topic/7612-angry-joe-vargas-accused-of-sexual-harassment/ These are but a few examples of hundreds, maybe thousands posts come from serval different members and it's clear posts have been getting copied from us for quite some time. Maybe this is just how this "forum" operates, but copying our threads to make thier forum look more active than it really is. I even found one thread that was a copy of the thread title, but then the topic itself was just a link to the thread copied on VGR. https://www.igamesnews.com/forum/threads/the-legend-of-karen-chapter-4.64025/ So yeah, this is pathetic.

You are wrong. No human being is born hating other people just because of the colour of their skin or ethnic origins. Racism stems from a lack of good education, intolerance, cultural ignorance and manipulation. It can totally be avoided.

I didn't even know GTAIV had an online multiplayer. Well, you learn something new everyday. I guess Rockstar didn't push it as hard as they did with GTAV, none of those juicy microtransactions to use to exploit people with. Back to the topic, I can't actually think of any game I bought new but couldn't play right away with the expectation of No Man's Sky. I'd like to think that's the case because such things are so rare, but honestly I think I just got really lucky.

Back in the 90's, Tournament Fighters existed that took refence from all sorts of things. There were the same, really, just clones of Street Fighter 2 Turbo with the skins of other licenced characters, but that also made a lot of them half decent. Now that I think of it, it's kind of a shame that doesn't really happen anymore.

All kinds of want. That's all I have to say.

Honestly, you are not one of the people that come to mind. No reason to be so hard on yourself.

Do you know how many posts you have made on this thread? Well, I'll show you. That's 43, in case you lost count. You felt compelled to tell the VGR forum that played FIFA on no less than 11 occasions, for example. And to cap it all off, what did you post just today? Good to know! You're playing FIFA22! Because there's no way we could have realized that. Needles to say, this is ridiculous. If anyone needs a better example of what I'm on about in this thread here when I talk about posting anything just to post something, then this is it. @Head_Hunter, you clearly could not care less about what you post, just so long it's something. It's a post. It counts. Well, good for you, but this in not what being active on VGR means. It's not just you of course, there are others who treat these these like a text chain for themselves and thier friends I personally will not allow this madness to continue any longer. This thread is locked.

This is another example posting in a blitz. Not only is the post itself grammatically all over the place and clearly not typed with much care, it's not actually got anything to with the topic at hand. I'm glad you decided to not get into P2E games, but posts this off wouldn't happen if somebody was interested in saying something valuable rather than saying anything at all. Stop, take moment, and think.

And the same thing to everyone else. If @Jayson brings up something provocative, but has nothing to do with the topic at hand, it is an attempt to distract you and derail a thread because he hasn't got the balls to actually face other people's points head on. It's cowardly and trolling. If he does that again in this, or any other thread, ignore him, repot him and, like I said @Jayson... I. PROMICE. TROUBLE. Is everyone clear?

This is just another example of you ducking and diving to avoid the good points others have made so can pretend they aren't there. I am not going to waste any more of my time explaining to you why I'm not prepared to put with this anymore. Instead, I am going to make this very simple. Stay on topic, or I promise trouble. Is that clear enough?

Personally, I don't see a difference, If a story has an emotional impact then it has an emotional impact. It doesn't matter what medium they use to tell it, be it game, movie, TV show or book.

The invite system on Discord is just so you can invite people to join that sever, it's nothing to do with creating an account. I suspect the reason you had so much trouble is because you didn't have an account. Still, I'm surprised to find you had so much trouble, Discord has always been pretty pain free for me.

The only person in this thread that has presented any kind of scientific evidence on this to his high credit is @Crazycrab and based on what he's posted, @Jayson can't simply say it's wrong with a single sentence not referencing anything. Not to mention that he has been one of the most poisonous, insulting deflecting and arrogant individuals when it comes to debate this this that we have ever had. When somebody makes a point he can't challenge, he ignores then opens a new thread on the same thing and makes the same points again hoping that nobody will remember what asked before. But of course, everybody does because we're not stupid. So no, he cannot post a single, dismissive, arrogant sentence in the face of somebody like @Crazycrab who obviously spent a considerable amount of time researching and developing his point of view and expect to be treated the same, that just isn't how this works. He can't do what always does and just ignore and disrespect others views and keep ducking everyone like he's the only that can be right. At least you have the common curiously to acknowledge that you don't know everything you need to understand full how transitioning works, but at least you clearly know something about the actual subject matter, and I commend you for that. Even as a mod, it's part of my job to defend his right to express himself, but he has showed that to precisely nobody unless they agree with him without question. It is also my right to allow everyone around him the same right to express themselves, so I hop you can imagine just how badly this guy has damaged my patience. An overdose was cited as probable cause, but never fully proven. What is known is that it wasn't steroids, it was prescription drugs.

The PS4 does have it was well, as do a lot of PC launchers and other consoles. It's actually quite common. Don't get me wrong, I do like it. There's something very satisfying about knowing how much of a game you've completed.

I don't want to be rude, but I don't think there is a nice way to ask this. As one of the worst offenders who thinks that's the answer, why don't you use the general discussion sub-forum like that?

I understand that. Sadly there has been so much of that going that most of the long running threads have been affected, mostly down to same group of people using the fourm like a text chain. I don't know if you are aware, but we are looking into a solution. Check out this thread for the most up to date information, but the answer is not to just lock all these threads and replace, not until we have an actual answer to the problem because it will likely just happen again.

@kingpotato I've merged the threads and edited the title of the original post to show a more "up-to-date" title. I also copied what was the opening post of the thread into it so that all the information is available on the opening post. Let me know if you're happy with the changes and inform me of any amendments you wish to make. @Heatman is is necessary to change the thread title and anyone who does an internet search for forum thread detailing "Plus Essential", for example, will be directed to the correct thread. A thread title also forum the thread's URL, so it has to be accurate. Good advice for everyone, put thought into the title of any threads you start.