Game Companies are Morons.

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Idiots.

http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/video-game-industry-dying-1755
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E3 is usually the videogame industry's big party of the year — a chance to celebrate its strengths and showcase the titles it expects to drive sales forward for the rest of the year.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3But as the game makers gather for this year's event, a cloud hangs over the soiree. Retail sales are down 27 percent compared to this time in 2011. Mobile devices are stealing the spotlight from traditional consoles. And naysayers are openly questioning the long-term viability of the console industry.

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Or, yanno, the problem *COULD* be something else...

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Microsoft will showcase "Halo 4" at this year's show — the beginning of a new trilogy for its most popular franchise — while Sony will showcase "PlayStation All-Stars: Battle Royale," a "Super Smash Bros"-like game featuring some of the best-known characters exclusive to the platform.

Third-party publishers are also hoping to take advantage of the large installed base of systems to showcase some of their biggest franchises. Ubisoft will center its focus on action games "Assassin's Creed III" and "Far Cry 3." Electronic Arts will showcase a new "Medal of Honor" game and graphical wunderkind "Crysis 3."

Most investors will be focused on Activision Blizzard, though. The company will give its first in-depth look at "Call of Duty: Black Ops II" at the show (likely at the start of Microsoft's press conference), which has already exceeded the early pre-order levels of its predecessors, thanks in part to its near-future setting.

Activision will also show off the next installment in its "Skylanders" series, which combines real-world toys with a videogame and was one of the 2011 holiday period's biggest surprise hits. (Collectors are paying up to $1,200 for rare figurines from the game on eBay.)

The biggest title on tap for next year, however, won't be at this year's E3 — and its publisher likely won't discuss it. "Grand Theft Auto V" is the game that could end "Call of Duty's" reign as the industry's top seller, but developer Rockstar Games traditionally shuns E3.

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http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Sequelitis
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Shovelware

Maybe, just maybe, a little innovation is in order, instead of milking to complete and total destruction whilst death-marching programmers, a'la Electronic Arts, hmmm?

-Frem

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I used to play Final Fantasy games, but after FFX became so linear (though it DID have a good story), and they came out with an MMORPG, I kind of stopped.

However, I'm often guilty of buying derivative games just for the nostalgia factor (see Zelda and Diablo). And I'm not fully immune to MMORPGs, though I knew from the beginning that they were a bad idea.

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Originally posted by FREMDFIRMA:

Or, yanno, the problem *COULD* be something else...

Maybe, just maybe, a little innovation is in order, instead of milking to complete and total destruction whilst death-marching programmers, a'la Electronic Arts, hmmm?

-Frem

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I see this complaint from people related to movies, as well. Problem is - there's not much logic to it. People, when it comes to entertainment, don't tend to want to try the new. There are non-sequel games all the time, same as movies. Some are even rather innovative. And they almost always flop - because the consumers don't want to risk their money on something untried - and so they buy what is familliar. And that being the case, it leaves the companies with little incentive to be original.

Don't get me wrong - Im not saying its okay for them to be derivitive over and over - just that the customers (as a group) are just as guilty, if not moreso. You can complain about Halo 4 - but Id bet you almost anything that it sells several magnitudes more than any original property released next year (and very likely more than several of them combined).

"Goram it kid, let's frak this thing and go home! Engage!"

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South Park: The Stick of Truth got some coverage at E3 along with all the sequel games. Not gonna lie, I'm pretty stoked for that.


What reason had proved best ceased to look absurd to the eye, which shows how idle it is to think anything ridiculous except what is wrong.

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I see this complaint from people related to movies, as well. Problem is - there's not much logic to it. People, when it comes to entertainment, don't tend to want to try the new.

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Why not ?

Okay, think what one will, but since I buy a lot of games and anime from second-third line retailers and they often offer bundle deals, many times to fill out an order I will take a chance on some unknown show or game, throw it in to bulk out the order and snag the extra discount...
And you know what ?
While the occasional shelf-filler does slip through, and most fall into the passable category, cause Sturgeons Law really does apply to prettymuch everything....

A very disproprtionate number of those give-it-a-shot games and shows ARE THE BEST ONES I OWN.
That's actually how I find a lot of these rare, underappreciated gems.
Of course, sure I see your point about the average consumer gobbling up the shovelware just cause the name on it, the same way you could stamp a brand name on a pile of dried cow poop and get money for it, but that only works for so long before even the dumbest customer base starts catching wise.
And it has the potentional to really massively offend your customer base too - I note how the article seems to work its way AROUND mentioning that Electronic Arts is the most hated company in america, as if they had no impact on their game sales, eh ?

Anyhows, there's folks who makes games to make money, which is where shovelware comes from, and there's folks who make GAMES - Rockstar is kinda okay about this, although on the decline, Blue-Byte (now ubi-soft) used to be, but fell to the mythical siren song of game breaking DRM and greed, and Interplay even on their worst day was a cut above because of it, hell so was Activision WAY back when.
And wow, wouldn't ya know it, those who made GAMES out of love for the notion, the medium, often made more money than those with explicit profit margins, funny how that works, innit ?
Maybe, just maybe, cause they understand what gamers WANT, hmm ?

Mind, I am not really disagreein with you, just pointing out that there's always a market for the innovative, for the awesome, even if it's not just-stamp-the-logo-on-it safe margin shovelware.
HEY GAME COMPANIES - HERE I AM, FISTFULL OF MONEY IN HAND, AND NOTHING TO SPEND IT ON!
There's a very exploitable market (albiet a niche, though a well-payin one) which most companies have blinded themselves to by getting so distant from their market mentally - Wargaming.net has made some good chunk of cash off me with World of Tanks because it totally appeals to me, whereas other MMO/FPS games have not.

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South Park: The Stick of Truth got some coverage at E3 along with all the sequel games. Not gonna lie, I'm pretty stoked for that.

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I'd be a little more stoked about the chair leg of truth, myself.



Man, a Transmetropolitan tie-in game would just be so damn awesome, and the modern GTA engine could so do it, I think...

-Frem

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From mid-2002 to late 2007(?), I probably spent half my waking time
in EverQuest. If other games were better, I did not care, 'cause of the
huge learning curve. I stuck with what I knew.

Last March, I went back to EQ. End of April, Sony Online Entertainment
got hacked, compromising players' private info & credit cards. We
couldn't play while Sony "investigated" this. The News was unflattering
to Sony management, hinting that they never even tried to protect our
data.
In any case, I decided to not trust Sony evermore.

Later, I spent several days checking out EVE. Hated it.

Last night, I looked quite a while for What to play now, focused on
play at home alone stuff. Player recommended are Dragon Age Origins
& Baldur's Gate 2. Both of those are tooo grim for me now, and all
the screen shots are Dark! I like to go to the deserts, grasslands,
scattered forests, and play in the Sunlight!!

I've gotten soft and should play something suitable for kids under 13.

So ... back to shopping the MMPOGs. WoW is the one most often recom-
mended by other players.

Help Me, Please!!

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Hello,

You might like Wow. It is bright and mostly light-hearted and easy to learn.

I am a sucker for character customization and the game didn't allow the sort of customization I enjoy.

I played Champions online, which is now free I believe. I found the customization much better there, but I don't know if you like superhero games.

I am looking forward to The Secret World to be released in July. But it will likely be too dark and adult themed for your enjoyment.

Frem and I played World of Tanks, but I suspect you want to do more than hunt and kill tanks.

--Anthony



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Raptor - women who want to control their reproductive processes are sluts.
Wulf - Niki is a stupid fucking bitch who should hurry up and die.
Never forget what these men are.
“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.” -Thomas Szasz

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Yeah, I've mentioned WoW to Oonj. It's REALLY bright and colourful, and the controls are easy to pick up. I'm not sure she'd like some of the recent changes to the world though, and Battle.net isn't as trustworthy as it used to be.

If she were more into the dark and horror themed RPGs I'd suggest Diablo 3, since it's free to play and she wouldn't have to enter a credit card on Battle.net for that, so her credit card information would be safe. But, Diablo 3 is kind of gruesome.

I did mention Lord of the Rings Online, I played that for about a month while they still charged a subscription, and now that they don't it would probably be a good option.

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LOTRO. I'm reading a review; I prefer its artwork to most I've seen.
Since I am set to try it soon as I can get setup there, question:
Can I (as free player) learn trade skills?

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Looks to me like you can, yeah. The only thing I can see that costs anything is there's a store for in-game items, but any money you want to put into the game is optional. Apparently the store is also balanced fairly well, since I'm not seeing people complaining about using the store making players overpowered.

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I was actually really excited reading about LOTRO that apparently characters can learn to play musical instruments and compose melodies in game? The only other game that I'd seen do something like that was Mabinogi, which is another game I'd like to get back into, but it has a pretty complicated leveling and gameplay system and not something I'd recommend for someone who doesn't want a steep learning curve.

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Hey Frem,

I don't think the big game console releases are going by the wayside anytime soon, but unfortunately with all the mergers of companies and Publishers like EA taking away a lot of the creativity from the artists, I think we will continue to see a shrinking base of 60-70 dollar games and most of them will be sequels or spin-offs of well known games. When there are so many other options for cheaper games out there, many people aren't willing to take the risk that their hard earned dollars might buy an untried POS, especially in this economy.

It worked for Madden and every other sports franchise they re-release every year since back in the Genesis/SNES days... why not do it for other genres as well? Particularly when you've got budgets in the 10's of millions of dollars.

If you want innovation today, you have to look to the Indie market. At the very least, you have to look at places like the XBox Arcade marketplace. That's just the way the market is going today. There's no way that a company is going to spend 40 million dollars on an untested idea. There's too much risk involved and they'd be ripe for a hostile takeover when that game only made 5 million dollars on the back end.

3 of my favorite games I've played in the last few years were all XBox Arcade releases and only cost 10 to 15 bucks a piece. Castle Crashers, Torchlight and Shadow Complex. Sure, none of these three games were exactly "new" experiences at the core, but the abilities the XBox 360's hardware offered the developers allowed them to do some really awesome things with the games.



Castle Crashers....

The comedy and overall weirdness of this game just makes it compelling. You haven't lived until you've witnessed a doe-eyed deer propel himself across the screen like a rocket by shitting himself when the Big Bad Cat Monster is thumping around in the forest.

You can play with 4 people at home, or join up with other people online to fight bad guys.

Highly Recommended For: People who enjoyed games like Final Fight on the Arcade, or River City Ransom on the NES. The experience progression and the seemingly endless unlockables will keep you playing for a long time. I play this one through about once a year and I'm still unlocking new characters and items.



Torchlight....

No comedy here, I'm afraid. Just a no-nonsense level-grinding dungeon crawler with some of the best graphics I've ever seen in the genre. Beautiful music and special effects surround the experience.

Beating the game on "Easy" mode straight through will only take you about 4-5 hours probably, but unlocking all of the best things can easily take up to 300 hours or more. I couldn't even tell you how many hours I've dumped into this game and I don't have close to everything yet. When you beat the actual game, you can further explore the never-ending "Shadow-Tower" which pits enemies at your exact level on each floor you progress down. If you want to find the most impressive gear, this is how you go about it.

I have one character at level 100, and the experience points show that you can just continue right on to level 101 if you wanted to. I've never seen that in a game before. I actually have no idea how high you can max out your character.

But if you want to "retire" a character, you can put all the good gear and items in the "shared" chest for a new character and just keep one great item in their inventory. When you retire a character, you can never play it again, but it will remain in your character selection screen as an unplayable "ghost-trophy". More importantly, not only will the new character you create right after retiring a character start with some cool items and better baseline stats, but the "heirloom item" you selected will be available to your new player with increased a

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I've heard people say Skyrim is beautiful, but I've been getting the impression it'll doesn't hold the interest for long.

But then I'm still playing swtor, even though beyond the bioware dialogue trees it's probably not that worth it. so I guess I shouldn't talk.

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Quote 6ix: "I can't EVER play an MMO because I'd do nothing else after I picked it up."

Isn't that kinda the point? To go Live in a different world for a (very long) while?
I seek nothing less than Total Immersion!

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Quote 6ix: "I can't EVER play an MMO because I'd do nothing else after I picked it up."

Isn't that kinda the point? To go Live in a different world for a (very long) while?
I seek nothing less than Total Immersion!

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Dude... I'm totally sure that IS the point..!!!!!!

That's why I can have no part of it. Might as well stick an IV in me and plug me into the Matrix if I started that shit.

I'm just saying to you that if you're looking for that kind of thing, I'd be very surprised if the Elder Scrolls world disappointing, let alone single-handedly thrown Blizzards WoW's severed head in the bed of the sleeping WoW's creator's bed, a'la The Godfather, when it invites those MMO "old schooler's" to paddle their way out of the kiddie pool and join the Next Generation.

Oblivion ate up hundreds of hours of my time, and could have easily eaten up more had my "Box" not stopped reading DVDs. I won't even play Skyrim because I hear that it has so much content you might as well be playing a never-ending MMO.

Put the two, and all of the previous lore of the Elder Scrolls series into a MMO and I'd be lost for life.

Ben Stein didn't call it "Evercrack" for no reason when his dick for brains kid spent 24/7 on it.

I'm only happy today to realize that I became an adult before MMO's were "the rage" with kids.

Had I been "Super Mario Bros. 3" age today, I'd die alone... renting a shitty studio apartment, plugged into the fantasy world as many hours as my paycheck would allow.



"Death to the Demoness Allegrah Gellar!!!!!!"

I knew what I was doing at my job, and I got Six-Sigma'd....

There are over 10 million idiots working Government jobs who I could run circles around.

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let alone single-handedly thrown Blizzards WoW's severed head in the bed of the sleeping WoW's creator's bed

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Every new MMO tries to say this, and it never happens... I dunno, Jack, I wouldn't hold your breath. an MMORPG is like black hole. As more get sucked in, the gravity becomes stronger. If anyone escapes, they gravitate back because all their friends are still there. And when one controls most of the market, it snowballs. Seen it again and again.

At this point the only thing that could stop WoW is if they had some kind of serious disruption of service.

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Eventually somebody has to dethrone WoW. Since I've never played it before, I can't say for sure, but just by looking at stills the graphics have never really improved at all with the expansions.

Consider "Tera Online" just recently released...

This looks WAY more impressive to me than WoW does today. I even looked up the requirements to play it and the minimum PC requirements pretty much blow away my most advanced PC which has a motherboard that's about 3 years old.

I'd think that Elder Scrolls Online would be foolish to launch a new MMO that wasn't at least as graphically impressive as Tera Online.

Both the fantasy worlds of Elder Scrolls and Warcraft found their origin in 1994 on the PC, so the history of both franchises hold no draw over the other one. The single player Warcraft games, though they were some of my favorite games to play on the PC when I was young come nowhere near the mind numbingly immerse worlds that the Elder Scrolls world had created in Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim.

In the end, it all comes down to how well they deliver on their promises, but it sounds to me that MANY of the elements of the single-player world will transition well to an MMO environment (though there are some elements that needed to be curbed or completely abandoned because they would not work on such a different platform), and that many of these elements will revolutionize how people view MMOs in the future. The really cool thing is that they seem to be putting all of the different lands of that world together on the map, tying in all of the past console games together.



There's a lot to say about loyalty to a product and the ease of staying where all of your friends are.... but just ask MySpace about how they're doing now that almost everyone I know besides me has a FaceBook account.

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let alone single-handedly thrown Blizzards WoW's severed head in the bed of the sleeping WoW's creator's bed

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Every new MMO tries to say this, and it never happens... I dunno, Jack, I wouldn't hold your breath. an MMORPG is like black hole. As more get sucked in, the gravity becomes stronger. If anyone escapes, they gravitate back because all their friends are still there. And when one controls most of the market, it snowballs. Seen it again and again.

At this point the only thing that could stop WoW is if they had some kind of serious disruption of service.

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Jack: You realize that WOW keeps it's system requirements low so more people can play it? They're not TRYING to push the graphics edge.

There were three WoW topplers that were released this year, none of them did it. Every year there's a whole bunch that say they're going to, and they never do.

The gambler's fallacy is to expect a different outcome when the opposite outcome has happened repeatedly in the past and expecting that the NEXT game is BOUND to change the fortunes. No, what you have here is historical precedence.

So far the reasons you've listed that this game will topple WoW is that 1) it has better graphics (which isn't the point), and 2) the main draw is important to specific group of fans, not the mainstream.

Not to say don't play, you should, and I hope you enjoy it. You probably won't be disappointed. But toppling WoW? It's extremely unlikely.

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Hello,

With all respect to Wow, history also shows us that nothing lasts forever. Someday, inevitably, Wow will shrink to nothing and something else will rise to prominence.

--Anthony




Note to Self:
Raptor - women who want to control their reproductive processes are sluts.
Wulf - Niki is a stupid fucking bitch who should hurry up and die.
Never forget what these men are.
“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.” -Thomas Szasz

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True, WOW will eventually peter out as Blizzard starts getting tired of providing the servers and making expansions for it. And if they screw up the service in some way, people will cancel or leave.

But so far as I can see no one is going to be able to kill WoW except for Blizzard itself.

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But so far as I can see no one is going to be able to kill WoW except for Blizzard itself.

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Hello,

Most giants kill themselves, true. I remember many financial giants who dominated an industry- and secure in that dominance- allowed it to fade away, only noticing once it was too late.

--Anthony




Note to Self:
Raptor - women who want to control their reproductive processes are sluts.
Wulf - Niki is a stupid fucking bitch who should hurry up and die.
Never forget what these men are.
“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.” -Thomas Szasz

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Hehe....

You misunderstand.... I don't play WoW, I won't play Tera, and I SURELY will never play Elder Scrolls.

Any one of those three activities could consume my life. Don't even get me started on how much time and energy I can spend playing Yahoo Spades when I'm playing with 3 people who know WTF they're doing.....

All I'm saying is WoW was born from a children's bedtime story, while Elder Scrolls is born of a legacy of history that would be worthy of being crowned the equivilant of "The Harry Potter" of RPG's. If they could somehow make that translate to MMO, WoW will be MySpace in 2 years and Elder Scrolls will be the new FaceBook.

I've been known to be wrong before though. I really thought that Spike TV was on to something when they ressurected Ren and Stimpy and made a new Basketball game that involved Trampolines back in 2003-2004....

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Jack: You realize that WOW keeps it's system requirements low so more people can play it? They're not TRYING to push the graphics edge.

There were three WoW topplers that were released this year, none of them did it. Every year there's a whole bunch that say they're going to, and they never do.

The gambler's fallacy is to expect a different outcome when the opposite outcome has happened repeatedly in the past and expecting that the NEXT game is BOUND to change the fortunes. No, what you have here is historical precedence.

So far the reasons you've listed that this game will topple WoW is that 1) it has better graphics (which isn't the point), and 2) the main draw is important to specific group of fans, not the mainstream.

Not to say don't play, you should, and I hope you enjoy it. You probably won't be disappointed. But toppling WoW? It's extremely unlikely.

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All I'm saying is WoW was born from a children's bedtime story, while Elder Scrolls is born of a legacy of history that would be worthy of being crowned the equivilant of "The Harry Potter" of RPG's. If they could somehow make that translate to MMO, WoW will be MySpace in 2 years and Elder Scrolls will be the new FaceBook.

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That's subjective and speculative though. It's not a guarantee even if what you say about the quality of Elder Scrolls is a widely agreed upon fact.

If something IS going to be a WOW killer, we won't know until it kills it. And Blizzard is probably the most likely candidate. That's all I'm saying here.

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TRUE

True....

I'll give you that Byte... My argument, even with videos was only a conclusory argument, and not a conclusive argument.

At this point, before the game comes out, that's the best that anybody could ever hope to throw at you from either side.


BTW.... Had I thrown a conclusory argument on my behalf to lower my taxes, they would have turned around and shoved it right up my ass. That didn't happen. As it was, things went rather splendidly today.

I have no stock in WoW or the competition, nor will I EVER engage in that sort of game.

There's just something about me that constantly roots for the underdog....

WoW had its place and time....

It's over....

If Elder Scrolls Online doesn't dethrone it, maybe Tera will surprise me....?

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All I'm saying is WoW was born from a children's bedtime story, while Elder Scrolls is born of a legacy of history that would be worthy of being crowned the equivilant of "The Harry Potter" of RPG's. If they could somehow make that translate to MMO, WoW will be MySpace in 2 years and Elder Scrolls will be the new FaceBook.

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That's subjective and speculative though. It's not a guarantee even if what you say about the quality of Elder Scrolls is a widely agreed upon fact.

If something IS going to be a WOW killer, we won't know until it kills it. And Blizzard is probably the most likely candidate. That's all I'm saying here.

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WoW had its place and time....

It's over....

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See, on one hand, yes, it's a shambling zombie. The attempts to make the world darker and edgier in the previous expansion made it somewhat less appealing due to 1) destruction of environs and 2) the efforts of the player character never actually make the world better in the long term.

But 11 million people would disagree with that. It's not over until it's dead.

However, I understand your rooting for the underdog now, and in the spirit of that understanding, I will let that stand.

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Oonj stopped by to say, "Hi!"
*Oonj flings open the door, runs across the room waving at FFF.nuts
who are too preoccupied to know she is there, and out the other door
thinking, "Thank heaven my mandatory 15 minute break per day is almost
over!" Her mouse hovers over the Game icon!*


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I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. ~Charles R Swindoll

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So Oonj, what did you decide to start playing? Why did you decide to finish with Everquest?

I can't really play things like that, its probably a good thing because if I could I would and it would eat a _lot of my time, so its probably better that I can't. Because they do look fun.

I assume you're my pal until you let me know otherwise.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya.

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I stopped EverQuest, because its owner, Sony Online Entertainment
could not protect my personal data.

I'm now trying out Lord of the Rings Online. It's a bit too structured
for me - as with a text adventure. May review it if I have time.

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Structured? Oh. Hmm. You're probably not going to like most of the MMORPGs out there then.

In that case, if you decide to not play LOTRO further, I might recommend some kind of open sandbox game, like minecraft.

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Quote 6ix: "I can't EVER play an MMO because I'd do nothing else after I picked it up."

Isn't that kinda the point? To go Live in a different world for a (very long) while?
I seek nothing less than Total Immersion!

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Have you guys read, "Ready Player One"? It is a futuristic sci fi novel featuring a total immersion virtual world, tons of 80's geek references and 2 solid Firefly references.

Six, thanks for the game recommendations. I will have to look into Torch.

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I looked at Skyrim on YouTube. It has the best artwork
I've seen in an RPG.

Truthfully, I find myself getting slow and rather soft
for the dark grimness of D&D games (Warning! Violence,
Blood, Gore!), but not quite ready for G rating.

Still, I must know: Does Skyrim hold one's interest?



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An Old Bat's gotta know her limitations. ~Oonj

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I can't say enuf good stuff about LotRO.
Graphics: awesome.
Huge world: Low-slow me, I don't expect to ever see a third of it.
A wide variety of things to do both in the game & right next door to it.
Only 4 races to choose, but a fair range of classes.
I lied. They added a 5th race Beorning a couple years ago.
I ignore it as being unattractive & pointless.

Still, I took a couple of months off it to check out Blizzard's WoW.
Half of it; I only did the southern part. Cartoonish compared to LotRO,
& it never quite held my interest. But the worst of it was: Had to
stay in town or find lowland, watery green areas to play. Most of
the other landscape had enough red hues to give me a headache.
If you like grotesque, WoW has a fair share of it: One of the races
you can play is Zombie. ... The Panda is very nice, tho.

Lotro Lately: Problem: who the heck is running it now & supposed
to get paid? Turbine or Daybreak? I resent double billing.

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The meaning of life. Now all I want is the funnest game.
Bein' olde & retired, play til my eyeballs glaze over.

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I'm glad one of them worked out for you. I thought LOTRO might suit you since it sounded like you enjoyed Everquest. I liked it too, though I made the mistake of trying to play the high level PvP area as a warg when I started out since I like wolves... And I'm bad at PvP. But it was still fun while I was into it.

Too bad about the double billing though. Not really sure what some good options for you might be now. I've been playing Guild Wars 2, no subscription cost there I think, and I really like how it progresses both a world story and a personal story. Maybe that might be a good option? Although that one is getting older now too, there might be newer ones.

Everquest next was canceled unfortunately. Elder Scrolls Online is still around as far as I know, that might be another high fantasy option. I've heard some things about Ark: Survival of the Fittest, it's almost like minecraft but with a lot of people interacting with each other and trying to tame dinosaurs. I hear wild stories about the server wide battles and communities from Eve Online, though that's more Sci-Fi. There's also always Skyrim. And Runescape is still around, that's another long runner but I guess they've found ways to keep it from getting stale even if the graphics are outdated.

Final Fantasy 14 Reborn is also a newer one I've played, very pretty, but I found aspects of it frustrating. It locks you into the starter areas and you can't really leave them until you're level twenty, and each area only has a few classes that start there. Aside from how the starting areas look (also very pretty), they're also almost carbon copies of each other story wise. And once you hit Level 20, the game forces you into Pick Up Groups to do anything, which I found awful. I just want to play the game, I don't want other people yelling at me about my DPS or heals because I'm new at it, or dropping me because they find out I'm new. I also don't really like the skimpy outfits, but at least they're skimpy on both genders, and I can see how that would appeal to some people.

And yeah, WoW's cartoony graphics. Back at the time we were discussing this they were still all right, but now they really have dated. And oh man, the storytelling is just bad. Really just awful, it's like an eleven year old writing fanfic. Suddenly villains, incredibly short sighted decisions just for the sake of keeping a weak factional conflict going, killing off or replacing the horde warchief every couple years for no particular reason.

Still play it though because I know friends on there, so I think my predictions in this thread bore out pretty well. Next expansion I think WoW will shut down though. They don't really have anywhere else to go, they've used up just about all the villains, and now Blizzard has Overwatch as their replacement money maker, they're going to want to focus on that and milk it dry while they get their next blockbuster in line.

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Byte, you're the one who convinced me to try LotRO.
And I've been meaning to thank you for it.
A high quality game.

All the RPGs I've tried have a grind to them: If you want
to level up, you will grind mobs; you will grind quests.

The game has to be great enuf that the grind doesn't get you down.

But it's MMO, right? You can talk to other players, join a
Kinship ... make friends. So, I do that, & I like it.

But I don't join groups to raid dungeons or any other challenge.
Why not? My connection's too slow; I'm olde & slow to the point
of clumsy. ... So I just solo along, do my grinds and chat a bit.

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The meaning of life: Have some work you like & have some fun you like.
Make friends, too.

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I'm glad you're enjoying it O. I have made it a point to stay far, far away from MMO's myself. The idea of a game that never ends is not a good idea at all for me. I remember hearing an interview of Ben Stein back in the day calling EverQuest "EverCrack" and said that it was destroying his son's life. A bit melodramatic, maybe, but I could see me losing myself in an online world like that.

I don't play any games online besides the occasional match of Spades. If I want to play a two player shooter or something I meet up with my brother on occasion and play some good old Goldeneye. Sure, it's about 20 years old now, but there's something pretty awesome about playing it split screen on his 70" TV.

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Yesss.

Guessing, it may have been 2005 when I started in on EverQuest ...
It was the baddest, funnest game I'd ever tried. EverCrack was a
good nickname.

Prior to that, I'd spent some time playing The Realm online, which
may still be going... but very plain & simply done compared to EQ.
It was also tiny; you could explore the whole map in less than a week.
And before the Realm, several, stand alone, play at home, box games:
Wizardry I, Ultima I, A Bard's Tale, etc. I was hooked early on RPGs.

I gave EQ another go for a couple of months last winter. It was dated,
faded; sadly, the thrill was all gone.

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I've given up looking for the meaning of life. Now all I want is a cookie.

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The olde, original, earthly regions of EQ ... nice to visit,
but too slow to play there. To play now, I'd have to base my
Toons on the moon, & explore all new territories. I guess.
  EQ is owned by Sony Online Entertainment. I'm not sure
who's managing the subscriptions now.

Lord of the Rings online. Best game I ever saw; absolutely
amazing in its quality!! That's where I'd like to be. Created
by Turbine.
  Managing the subscriptions now: Standing Stone Games.
Price went from $29/quarter to $15/month. Plus they always
double-billed me. Cheaters!

I think now I want no MMO. RPG, stand alone, play at home. I've
been reading reviews, & intend to see them on YouTube. My
new game will have to be an olde one, since my OS is now obsolete.

  Simulations, by their nature, are stand alone at home ... mostly.

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My kid doesn't care much for video games, like me...but she loves to play Slime Rancher which is on Steam.


It sounded stupid to me and I blew it off for a couple months, but it's really relaxing and fun. There are people on there that recommended it to other people with depression, and I'd have to agree. One of the few just enjoyable games I've ever seen. No stress, just collecting and exploring, and finding hidden treasures. No killing, no timers.

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My 1st MO-RPG (Multi-player Online Role Playing Game) was the Realm. 1997,
Sierra Entertainment ... guess I found it in 1999. Small, primitive. It's primarily
a chat room.

My next game was EverQuest, then Lord of the Rings online; somewhen along
the line, I played Worlds of WarCraft.

Pretty often, I saw a notice that my game was On Steam. I never knew what
that meant; so I visited the Steam site just now ... I still don't know what it
means. Except it looks like you can play just about any online game there.

It is a subscription site, yes?

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It is a subscription site, yes?

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We downloaded Steam when Firefly Online was going to be produced and then they had legal problems.

You just sign up for an account, and then if you want to purchase a game you can feed it a credit card or you can buy Steam gift cards and input code, and then just buy and download. Slime Rancher was $20 when we bought it. We also bought and played ABZU in about a day (controls are somewhat difficult to master, but the storyline was fun and the graphics were pretty good). And we have the game of Life from there too.

There are also free games to play.

Kiddo plays School of Dragons MMORPG (free, and you earn gems just for logging on every day) where you can farm animals and produce, buy dragon eggs and hatch, raise, pick names, change colors, and fly them. They have battles every even hour (and then when the time changes it's every odd hour) where you go and attack an invading ship and win prizes.

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Got the news yesterday that Ace Combat Infinity will be shutting its servers March 31, 2018. This is really the only online game I've ever played, and I've played it near-daily for almost four years now. I have several maxed-out aircraft, lots of top 20 tournament finishes, and have made a whole community of friends, even doing admin duty on the largest Ace Combat Infinity group on facebook, as well as coordinating online matches and setting up "rental" or "loaner" accounts for noobs so they can try out top-level superplanes in matches.

I'll be sorry to see it go, but I've been expecting it for some time. Last year I had a choice of Xmas present from my wife: a new PS4, or a new camera. I went with the camera, a Nikon P900 with 83X optical zoom, and have been very happy with that decision. I spend much more time out in the world now, and the camera gives me a chance to be out among people without being *WITH* people, which plays perfectly with my Asperger's and my social anxiety. It's also given me several opportunities to embrace my love of photography and art and science. I scheduled a day off for the eclipse in August, and spent the day taking pictures of the Sun through a solar filter. My best shots include visible sunspots and sharp edges of the mountains on the Moon silhouetted against the disk of the Sun. I took over 1400 pictures that day alone. I've been playing with astrophotography, Moon shots, airshows, races, concerts, distant planets, downtown nightlife, protests, local scenery, pets, nature, and more. A few of my shots hang in local galleries, and I'm having quite a bit of fun.

This year, my wife offered me the same deal: PS4 or new camera. I'm going with the camera again, opting this time for a full-frame Nikon D600 that I picked up for a song. It should really open up the skies for me, especially when mounted to a nice telescope.

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Angry Kitty and collector of Fiestaware?? Is that you??

Wowza, good to see ya

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  Faith and begorrah!!
  Merry Christmas, Kwicko!!
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Ho Ho Ho.
Nice to see you again, Kwicko.
Got too much on my plate, plus ever growing health issues to hang round here much anymore, alas.

For mine own I've mostly gone back to retro-gaming, cause that always-connected and having to have someone elses permission to play yer own damn single player game was the last damn straw for me, eff em, cause you KNOW that is eventually gonna get used to hold peoples paid for content hostage for more money, fuck that noise.

-Frem
I do not serve The Blind God.

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Aww, everybody dropping by for the holidays? Where's Chrisisall??

Google those health problems, man. Don't wait for the docs, you'll be long gone by the time they figure anything out. Reading comments in forums has taught me more about my issues than the medical crimeunity.

Good to see you though. Always happy to hear you are still kicking!



6ix says he's sober and has a job, btw. He's still desperately trying to find a clue though

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Angry Kitty and collector of Fiestaware?? Is that you??

Wowza, good to see ya

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Indeed it is. A couple years into a new gig, running a warehouse for General Mills (I'm in the all-natural Annie's division, where we're trying to change the corporate culture from the bottom-up, inside-out), shaming people less than half my age with my work ethic, and generally kicking ass and doing what they say can't be done, on the regular. It's how I roll. :)

I grew up around photography, and used to develop my own 35mm black and white pics, and took some photography courses in college, but that was back in the 80s. Nowadays, I still have a few film cameras, but film and processing are so expensive any more that I really never use them. I'm a pure digital boy now. I love that I can go out, shoot literally hundreds to thousands of shots in a day, download them all to my laptop, save the raw files to an external hard drive, wipe the SD card and reformat it, and I'm ready to go for the next assignment.

And now instead of working in a darkroom, I work (or play, rather) in Lightroom and Photoshop, digitally manipulating the images to maximize the good and minimize the bad. Before, my pictures tended to look a lot like snapshots; now they look like *photographs*.

It's a lifelong passion, rediscovered.

Here's a shot of the Moon. Bear in mind, this is not maximum zoom. :O



A bluejay in my back yard:



One of the first pics I took when I got the camera. The Stevie Ray Vaughan statue in Austin, with the full moon acting as a halo behind Stevie's head.



Just a little taste of what I've been up to.

Happy Holidays to all!

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Ho Ho Ho.
Nice to see you again, Kwicko.
Got too much on my plate, plus ever growing health issues to hang round here much anymore, alas.

For mine own I've mostly gone back to retro-gaming, cause that always-connected and having to have someone elses permission to play yer own damn single player game was the last damn straw for me, eff em, cause you KNOW that is eventually gonna get used to hold peoples paid for content hostage for more money, fuck that noise.

-Frem
I do not serve The Blind God.

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I am surprised & glad to see you, Frem.

Like you, I'm going back to stand-alone-at-home olde games.
I don't think my Windows7 can keep up with the new stuff anyways.

I'll try out Dragon Age Origins.

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Like you, I'm going back to stand-alone-at-home olde games.
I don't think my Windows7 can keep up with the new stuff anyways.

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I'm using 8.1, I didn't go to 10 either. I tried once and when my computer still was off and not doing anything 8 hours later I said hell with it...

If they dissolve the net neutrality thing I may be giving up internet anyway.

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Net Neutrality?

Never heard of it :(

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Am I glad I stopped in here!

Wow, KWICKO and FREM in one thread??? How did we get so lucky???

I like the photographs, KWICKO. I'm using my phone to take "snapshots" now, definitely not a good photographer but I appreciate good ones when I see them! Are/were you in Texas?

****

Heya, FREM, good to see you! Sorry to hear about the health issues ... anything we can do?

****

Now all we need is CHRISISALL and ANTHONY, and it will be like old times.



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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

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Signym: "Now all we need is CHRISISALL and ANTHONY, and it will be like old times."

Just what I was thinking ... & Penguin & Joni. I miss Niki2.

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Net Neutrality?

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It just refers to how data is handled by your internet provider. The neutrality part means that all data must be handled the same way without interference or slow down throttling (which hasn't ever really been a problem, but now they want to take it away and they can do whatever they want, as long as they tell the FCC about it, but not the consumers ). It benefits all the little guys in business so the big guys can't put their content ahead of others.

If they repeal net neutrality, it means you will be paying for the internet bits you want, a lot like choosing sports, cooking, arts on cable channels...except you will be choosing social media, business, entertainment (think Netflix or youtube). I don't know if it will be on top of your normal internet bill or instead of, but I can GUARANTEE they will make sure it will not be cheaper, and will just complicate everything horribly. To have to pay extra for internet is ridiculous when you consider we are about 20th on the list for speeds and pricing. We invented it and we suck at it STILL. Are we great again??

You WANT your ISP being neutral with your content, really really...

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On the matter of game companies ...
  I don't have anything good to play at home alone.
    ... except my olde Sherlock puzzle.
I want to stay clear of the MMO (massively multiplayer online) part.
I prefer RPGs (role playing games), & want to download 1 or 2 published
before 2010. i.e., Pretty much obsolete.

I found what looks like a great download site for over 100 olde games.
But whenever I click the DownLoad button, my security software freaks out.

Where can I safely download olde games?

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On the matter of game companies ...
  I don't have anything good to play at home alone.
    ... except my olde Sherlock puzzle.
I want to stay clear of the MMO (massively multiplayer online) part.
I prefer RPGs (role playing games), & want to download 1 or 2 published
before 2010. i.e., Pretty much obsolete.

I found what looks like a great download site for over 100 olde games.
But whenever I click the DownLoad button, my security software freaks out.

Where can I safely download olde games?

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That's kind of a loaded question. :)

If you "truly" want to be safe, you'll have to pay... no way around it. If you don't mind doing that, there is a site called gog.com that has re-published a TON of old computer games. If you have an account there, I hear that they even offer some old titles for free now and then to members (I don't believe you need a paid membership for them either).

I know plenty of ways to get them otherwise, but probably none that wouldn't set your alerts off. There are a lot of false positives when it comes to your antivirus software, but I wouldn't want to tell you to just ignore them because I don't know what sites you're using.

Actually, now that I think about it, you might want to try Archive.org. They actually have very large collections of old games on there.

If you don't mind torrenting, send me a PM and I'll give you the address of a great tracker that wouldn't have any viruses. They don't have anything that isn't at least 10 years old though.



Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Right here.
https://www.gog.com/

Also there is abandonware - one game I highly suggest is Betrayal at Krondor, which carries out much like a novel and will run on anything back to 386.

-Frem
I do not serve The Blind God.

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Another one I kinda recommend, that is both awesome, and horrible at the same time (bring some kleenex) is This War of Mine.

It is loosely based on the siege of Kosovo, which a friend of mine was directly invested in due to being in the peacekeeping force, and I was shipping him extra assistance in food and medical supplies.

While gut-wrenching to play, it will bring you a better understanding of the end results of nation building and regime change, and what that means for the ordinary folks under the hammer when we do that.

-Frem
I do not serve The Blind God

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Thank you, 6.
Thank you, Frem.

  I will check them out. :)

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Wishimay: "Aww, everybody dropping by for the holidays? Where's Chrisisall??"

OK, I went looking for Chris today (I believe he's still out there).

When he left here, he was getting way into his model making.
Chrisisall is a member on HobbyTalk (forum).

I couldn't figure out how to slide in there & drop him a line, so I didn't.

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Thank you, 6.
Thank you, Frem.

  I will check them out. :)


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No problem. I see Frem said gog.com too.

There's only two problems with that site for old games, IMO. They don't always configure them correctly, at least right away (there is a fan community there that is really loud about such things and eventually they fix it). Also, if there were copy protection, rarely is it disabled. You are usually still forced to look up key words in the manuals, which they give you in a PDF format. Aside from a very few games that I couldn't figure out how to crack, I have most of the old school classics cracked now.

gog.com pretty much would be the way for you to do it though, because of compatibility issues. None of those old games will work on new operating systems without using a program called DosBox. It's not impossible to figure out, especially if you remember any DOS stuff from back in the day, but for most people it's just way easier to use something from GOG. They've done a pretty fine job integrating the games into DosBox for you so all you have to do is double click a link and it should run.

I hope some of the original writers and programmers are seeing a slice of that pie, but I think it's probably just a cash-grab by whoever owns the rights to these titles all these years later, sadly. :(

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Tonight is cloudy, so I'm an indoor sniper kitty, which gives me a sad. I was looking forward to tonight's Geminid meteor peak.

But last night was crisp, cold, and clear, which made for great viewing.

I have been chasing after the Horsehead Nebula for a bit, and I finally caught it last night.

The Horsehead Nebula lies in the Sword of Orion (the three vertical stars in a line that form the "sword" beneath the belt of Orion the Hunter).




That middle blurry pair is where the nebula resides; you can see it near the bottom of this image (you can also see where it gets its name - it looks like a horse's head in profile):



Here it is zoomed in a bit more:




And even more:



I only got off one shot at maximum zoom, but a shaky tripod and the Earth's rotation conspired to blur the photo.




Believe it or not, the hardest part of these kinds of shots is figuring out where the subject is going to be when the shutter opens. At these kind of zoom levels (4000mm), you can actually watch the stars and the Moon move, and it's motion enough to present framing problems if you have a two-second delay on your shutter to allow for the tripod to stabilize after you push the shutter release. An infrared remote is in the offing. :)

That said, it is both daunting and peaceful to zoom in on the full moon and watch it move across the screen.

I was chasing Jupiter during the summer months, and Saturn, but I have since refined my settings, and look forward to much better shots of those gas giants when they come back into view. In the meantime, I have the nebula to work with, and I am now chasing Andromeda. I am fairly confident that I will be able to get pix of it that will allow the viewer to see that it's a spiral galaxy.

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DOS-Box, you say?

My 1st computer was an Apple/// (3), 1980. Thankfully, it was free.
My baby brother worked for Apple for several years & they gave him a new computer
every year. So the 2nd year, when he got a new Apple II, he gave his old one to sis
Lyn; she was quite computer literate as much of her work had been in computer
programming on Mainframes. She had a gift for it. ... the next year, bro was given
an Apple ///, which was taking gas in the market place. It was meant to be a small
business computer; thus it was the forerunner of the Mac. Sis didn't want it & told
him to give it to me. I often fed it an instruction to emulate the Apple II, tho it could
only do 8 kilobytes of that. But it was enough for the Apple II games at that time.
My bro never switched; he's still using Mac's as does my baby sister.
I switched. I don't recall why. It took a while, but I finally got an IBM.
In those days, they were progressing so fast, most of us got a new
computer every 2-3 years.

Not old games -- but Olde games. SSI's 1993 Stronghold.
Minimum system requirements: 2 MB RAM, VGA graphics, MS-Dos 5 or 6,
Microsoft compatible mouse, color monitor, hard drive.

I've still got a Stronghold game going on this computer. There's a desktop
icon of 2 gears: Dos-Box? When I click it, it takes me back down into DOS &
opens my olde game. To make the icon go all the way into the game, I had to
relearn a bit of DOS ... which I then forget instantly.

... oooOO}{OOooo ...

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Hehehe, I still play Stronghold - primarily the economics campaign.
Damn those bunnies!!

-Frem
I do not serve The Blind God

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DOS-Box, you say?

My 1st computer was an Apple/// (3), 1980. Thankfully, it was free.
My baby brother worked for Apple for several years & they gave him a new computer
every year. So the 2nd year, when he got a new Apple II, he gave his old one to sis
Lyn; she was quite computer literate as much of her work had been in computer
programming on Mainframes. She had a gift for it. ... the next year, bro was given
an Apple ///, which was taking gas in the market place. It was meant to be a small
business computer; thus it was the forerunner of the Mac. Sis didn't want it & told
him to give it to me. I often fed it an instruction to emulate the Apple II, tho it could
only do 8 kilobytes of that. But it was enough for the Apple II games at that time.
My bro never switched; he's still using Mac's as does my baby sister.
I switched. I don't recall why. It took a while, but I finally got an IBM.
In those days, they were progressing so fast, most of us got a new
computer every 2-3 years.

Not old games -- but Olde games. SSI's 1993 Stronghold.
Minimum system requirements: 2 MB RAM, VGA graphics, MS-Dos 5 or 6,
Microsoft compatible mouse, color monitor, hard drive.

I've still got a Stronghold game going on this computer. There's a desktop
icon of 2 gears: Dos-Box? When I click it, it takes me back down into DOS &
opens my olde game. To make the icon go all the way into the game, I had to
relearn a bit of DOS ... which I then forget instantly.

... oooOO}{OOooo ...

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Yeah... Not sure what the icon with the two gears are. It's probably some other DOS emulator. I'm sure there is more than one. It could also be a front-end for DOSBox, which makes it a lot easier to use. I personally use the d-Fend Reloaded front-end with it. Whatever it's doing, it has to be emulating DOS though since DOS hasn't been a part of Windows since '98. (You could do some DOS-like commands in Windows from then on in the CMD prompt, but it was no longer an actual DOS.

I actually wrote some batch programs that will automatically carry over old save games and characters from the old SSI Gold Box games after you beat them (like the Savage Frontier and Pools of Radiance games).


You can emulate the Apple III with MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator), although I've never done it before. I have used an emulator called Kegs to emulate an Apple IIgs on the XBox to some limited success, but I've never really messed much with it since the only Apple I ever used as a kid was the Apple IIe and only a few times.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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MAME is pretty awesome, I run it for arcade machine emulation, and some of those ROMs I actually scored myself by tracking down machines in the junkyard.
I have over 667 ROMs for the damn thing, all the classics and some real rarities as well.
If you need a particular ROM, just give a shout, and its likely I have it around.

-Frem
I do not serve The Blind God

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MAME is pretty awesome, I run it for arcade machine emulation, and some of those ROMs I actually scored myself by tracking down machines in the junkyard.
I have over 667 ROMs for the damn thing, all the classics and some real rarities as well.
If you need a particular ROM, just give a shout, and its likely I have it around.

-Frem
I do not serve The Blind God

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Wow... you've actually dumped some roms yourself? That's sweet. You don't have any that aren't in 0.192, do you? You might have your hands on something that the community has been looking for or isn't even aware exists.

Polybius, maybe?

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Awesome shot Kwicko - did the hair on your neck stand up when you saw the moon "so close?" Be honest, did you look extra hard to see if anything was moving on the surface?

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Nah - the first thing that occurred to me was "Holy crap! I need a tripod!" :D

I was reading an article on why we can't see the flag on the Moon, or the landers, or rovers, or any of that stuff. Seems even our best telescopes can only resolve things about about 43 feet in size (this includes Hubble, by the way) at that distance. I thought, "Hell, why not point a Keyhole spy satellite that direction? They resolve stuff the size of a man, at least!" - and then I realized that that resolution was on the surface of the Earth, from low Earth orbit...


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Yes, digital is amazing. While I fully embraced the cameras from early on (still have an old Agfa in a box somewhere) it basically ended my printing - shame.

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Funny - my first film camera was a 1950s-era Agfa Super Silette. Funnier still - I still have it!

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"Earth rotating" - I would never have thought that would ever be a problem! I imagine you have already thought about any observatories in your neighborhood and getting some 'sky time' with them. Good luck with your shooting!

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Yeah, of all the things I thought I'd have to deal with in taking night sky pictures, the planet's rotation was definitely not high on the list. I'll be looking into an equatorial mount soon to deal with the motion and track the stars in their nightly procession across the sky.

I'll leave the serious observatory 'scope time to the professionals (or at least the grad students); I'm having too much fun with what I've got, although I confess I have been shopping a nice 8" or larger telescope. I want pictures of Jupiter and its red spot; I want pictures of the ice caps on Mars. :)

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Hell yes, in order to get UN Squadron I hadda drive all the way up north to Copper Lake, but in a stroke of luck there was a busted Gun Dealer machine next to it so I got a twofer on that one.
Basically ANY old arcade classic I am pretty much guaranteed to have, and even newer ones like Roadblasters or Toobin.

And it would probably amuse you all the more that in order to get to those two ROMs in Copper Lake, I hadda use a reciprocal saw to cut those bastards open so I could get to em.

-Frem
I do not serve The Blind God

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Wow... you've actually dumped some roms yourself?

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Hell yes, in order to get UN Squadron I hadda drive all the way up north to Copper Lake, but in a stroke of luck there was a busted Gun Dealer machine next to it so I got a twofer on that one.
Basically ANY old arcade classic I am pretty much guaranteed to have, and even newer ones like Roadblasters or Toobin.

And it would probably amuse you all the more that in order to get to those two ROMs in Copper Lake, I hadda use a reciprocal saw to cut those bastards open so I could get to em.

-Frem
I do not serve The Blind God

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Hah! Reciprocal saws are one of the best inventions ever made. I didn't know how to edge my curbs even if I could get extension cords out that far, but my old man told me that he had just visited my brother in Baltimore and he used a cordless Ryobi to get the job done. Works a charm.

I've never acutally dumped any roms myself, but over the years I've done extensive testing of them on the XBox and now on the Raspberry Pi as well.

The XBox is GREAT at emulating almost every arcade up to the year 2000. Between MAME and FBL, it plays over 2,000 arcade games (no clones). If you're ever interested in learning how to mod one (assuming you haven't already), let me know.

Eventually I want to build an arcade machine from scratch and put one in there, although I'm thinking that with the power of the Raspberry Pi 3 and its built-in wireless capabilities, I'm probably going to use that instead, although it takes a ton more setup than the XBox did on the software end. Plus, I'll eventually have to re-build an entire MAME set and re-test it since they use different MAME versions.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Eventually I want to build an arcade machine from scratch and put one in there, although I'm thinking that with the power of the Raspberry Pi 3 and its built-in wireless capabilities, I'm probably going to use that instead, although it takes a ton more setup than the XBox did on the software end. Plus, I'll eventually have to re-build an entire MAME set and re-test it since they use different MAME versions.
Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Yeah, the Pi is definately the way to go with that - building the casing ain't so hard neither, the tricky part will be the control setup, I would reccommend finding an old SNES Advantage and stripping that for the necessary parts, as it has enough buttons for the purpose.
http://nintendo.wikia.com/wiki/Super_Advantage
If you need a software go-between for that, the CH products drivers should do well enough, they had enough versitility to handle just about anything.

-Frem
I do not serve The Blind God

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Yeah. We had video previews as well as a lot of other things for a ton of games spanning over a dozen consoles and handhelds on the XBox, but getting that all to work on the Pi is no easy feat. I'm working with a "Linux guy" on a script that should automate that for me, but it's been months in the making so far.

It's really cool what they've done, but it's just a shame that we can't "port" the XBox setup to the Raspberry Pi instead of the Libretro/EmulationStation setup that is used now. (It couldn't be too hard since XBMC was the pre-cursor to Kodi). For consoles and handhelds that pre-date the N64/PSX generation, the emulators that XBox uses are far better for the most part than on the Pi. The Pi wins those and more advanced arcade games by default because of the sheer power thrown at them though.


I think I'll have to go with the Pi 3 or whatever new version comes out just because of that.


Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Nintendo suing Switch hacker Gary Bowser

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-04-17-nintendo-suing-switch-ha
cker-gary-bowser?via=indexdotco


Sony backtracks over controversial PlayStation 3 and Vita store decision

https://www.digitalspy.com/tech/a36216848/sony-backtracks-playstation-
3-vita-store/

Conservative Dan Gainor attempts to document bias and censorship online

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/conservative-dan-gainor-docume
nt-bias-censorship-online

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Go Team Xecuter!

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Imagine the hypocrisy of a government who will allow businesses to card people to get a job or buy groceries, but won't card people to vote in elections and gives millions of non-citizens free money from taxpayers.

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Epic's Fortnite Ban And Apple/Google Legal Battle, Explained
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/epics-fortnite-ban-and-apple-google-
legal-battle-explained/1100-6480913/

The 5 Best And 5 Worst Video Game Movies Of All Time
https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2021/04/best-worst-video-game-movies/


and what else? Fraud?? Money Laundering, Gambling
can pull in over $4 million annually in tournament winnings. Yen, Dollars, Pounds, Euro ¥ $ $ £ $$ € $ $ ... Brazil coins BRL R$ South Korean WonCurrency, Russian ruble or rouble, Mexican peso, Swiss franc, Indian rupee Bitcoins... Video games ...its all the same corruption
Gamer cheating is now under FBI investigation under suspicion of 'Match Fixing'

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PlayStation temporarily suspended God of War creator David Jaffe for “hate speech”
https://reclaimthenet.org/playstation-david-jaffe-hate-speech/
Blocked from online multiplayer over jokes.



Satirical Article Taking Jab At Mainstream Video Games Press Causes Legitimate Outrage Among Mainstream Video Games Journalists
https://boundingintocomics.com/2021/05/31/__trashed-2/


Orcs, Goblins Problematics Racialism?
https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/dungeons-and-dragons-orcs-racist/

Canada Plan?
Trudeau gov't spends $184,000 telling gamers to wear masks, stay home, socially distance
https://www.rebelnews.com/trudeau_govt_spends_184000_telling_gamers_to
_wear_masks_stay_home_socially_distance

DC Comics is posting like they're a 15-year-old girl's Tumblr account...and they wonder why Japanese comics are way ahead (
https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/12j0VySY4m/dc-comics-is-posting-like-the
yre/c/

Marvel’s Voices: Pride One-Shot Sees Elektra Lectured On Trans Womanhood Mid-Battle By Transgender Immortal Hulk Character Dr. Charlene McGowan
https://boundingintocomics.com/2021/06/25/marvels-voices-pride-one-sho
t-sees-elektra-lectured-on-trans-womanhood-mid-battle-by-transgender-immortal-hulk-character-dr-charlene-mcgowan/

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Don't forget the guy who made the Five Nights at Freddy's series has called it quits.

He wasn't cancelled, per-se, since the series he created left him with fuck you money, but the creepy Twitter weirdos doxxed him and were threatening his family so he's just done with it all.

These Leftists are insane and need to start facing repercussions for their actions.

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And he who is not sufficiently courageous to defend his soul — don’t let him be proud of his ‘progressive’ views, and don’t let him boast that he is an academician or a people’s artist, a distinguished figure or a general. Let him say to himself: I am a part of the herd and a coward. It’s all the same to me as long as I’m fed and kept warm.

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So scandals happening or not?


Dead people?

Alec Holowka commits suicide after allegations
https://crappygames.miraheze.org/wiki/Alec_Holowka_commits_suicide_aft
er_allegations


Zoë Quinn, creator of the game Depression Quest, accused Alec of sexual assault and abuse on Twitter and led to claims all over social media of supposed assault. This led to condemnation and even shortly after without any evidence and just allegations, leading to the creators of Night in the Woods cutting ties with the person.

This pushed Alec over the edge and on August 31, his sister, Eileen Holowka, had announced her brother had taken his own life. She explained that while he was indeed mentally ill, he had been getting treatment and was about to get his life back on track and even claimed he wished the best for Zoë. After the news broke that Holowka had committed suicide, Quinn, along with Scott Benson and Bethany Hockenberry (Alec's former colleagues and coworkers for NITW) had all nuked their Twitter accounts; it is highly likely they did so as a cowardly measure to negate any incoming backlash they could've inevitably received. Zoë Quinn reactivated their account five days later, citing mental health reasons for the account deactivation and insulted her critics calling them "opportunist creeps" as well as refusing to take responsibility for Alec's death.
As for Night in the Woods by other team members, they have continued to remain in hiding and no one has heard a peep out of them since the allegations surfaced.


Along with his partner and Weather Factory co-founder Lottie Bevan, the Cultist Simulator creator Alexis Kennedy discusses his side of the story and talks about life after being cancelled from the indie dev scene
https://diabolical.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-alexis-kennedy
Following an anonymous Twitter account’s claims that Kennedy was a sexual predator, game writer and narrative designer Meg Jayanth posted accusations on the social media site claiming that Kennedy was a “well-known predator in the games industry” and that the only reason we hadn’t heard of it before now was because he “has retaliated against people who have spoken out against him in the past.”
Kennedy denied Jayanth’s accusations, calling them “malicious misrepresentation” in response.
Jayanth’s accusations were numerous but vague. She accused Kennedy of befriending young women entering the industry and exploiting them but didn’t post details. She accused Kennedy of targeting vulnerable people and “particularly young women” but didn’t post specifics. Nobody was named and nobody came forward.

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I didn't know a Firefly actor was involved?

In 2013, Chelsea Van Valkenburg or better known as Zoe Quinn, made a game called Depression Quest in which the player role-plays the life of an individual suffering from depression, and eventually got it green-lit on Steam. Meanwhile, her ex-boyfriend published a WordPress blog called The Zoe Post showing evidence of infidelity, using sex with game journalists and developers as a means to gain favorable coverage for herself and her game amongst mainstream sites. In addition to sites like 4chan, Reddit, and Tumblr (all which are also drastically different politically and culturally, calls from individuals such as Firefly actor Adam Baldwin and even people of diverse backgrounds and members in the LGBT community had rose to support change and unite under umbrella movements
such as # gamergate and # NotYourShield





Zoë Quinn Unhappy With Brianna Wu’s Plans For Gamergate TV Series: “If I Had Been Asked, I Wouldn’t Have Been Ok With It”
https://boundingintocomics.com/2021/10/06/zoe-quinn-unhappy-with-brian
na-wus-plans-for-gamergate-tv-series-if-i-had-been-asked-i-wouldnt-have-been-ok-with-it/

The Virtual Empire?
https://pjmedia.com/spengler/2021/10/15/how-virtual-empire-corrupted-a
merica-my-january-2000-warning-n1524134

“Superman: Son of Kal-El Colorist Gabe Eltaeb To Exit DC Comics Over Superman Motto Change: “I’m Tired Of Them Ruining These Characters””
https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/13zgbidmpn/superman-son-of-kalel-coloris
t-g/c/

Indie Sci-Fi Authors Are Upending Publishing, And It's Turned Into A War
http://thefederalist.com/2019/03/04/indie-sci-fi-authors-upending-trad
itional-publishing-turned-war/

Paizo: Abuse of Female Whistleblower by Wizards of the Coast Author Jessica Price
https://kotakuinaction.win/p/13zN6IzX3w/paizo-abuse-of-female-whistleb
lo/c/


Lawsuits and Changing Video Gamers and Comic Culture?
http://file770.com/worldcon-76-settles-with-jon-del-arroz-issues-apolo
gy-will-pay-compensation/

Chuck Dixon - Why DC And Marvel Comic Books Suck
https://boundingintocomics.com/2021/10/14/chuck-dixon-diagnoses-why-dc
-and-marvel-comic-books-suck/


Superman Video Games Will Now Be Gay?

DC Comics Drops "The American Way" from Superman's Motto After 83 Years for More Globalist View
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/10/dc-comics-drops-american-way-
supermans-motto-83-years-globalist-view/

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I never thought we'd be talking about Gamergate on Fireflyfans.

I never thought a Firefly cast member would have gotten themselves involved either. I don't really feel like looking into it, but could you share with the class what Baldwin's involvement was?

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Superman Video Games Will Now Be Gay?

DC Comics Drops "The American Way" from Superman's Motto After 83 Years for More Globalist View

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"More Globalist View" Translation = Anti-American View.

Yeah. I posted about both of these things in the "Wokeness is meant to suck" thread in the Cinema board.

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Arizona State Senator Furious with Superman Being Bisexual, Insists He 'Loves Louis Lane'
https://www.newsweek.com/arizona-state-senator-furious-superman-bisexu
al-loves-louis-lane-1637897

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I never thought a Firefly cast member would have gotten themselves involved either. I don't really feel like looking into it, but could you share with the class what Baldwin's involvement was?

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I don't know, I remember back in the day Adam was a terrible Bush-Lick, kissed his ass while he bombed Iraq and he often rubbed people the wrong way

A quick serach finds this one -

4,000 demand Adam Baldwin ban from comic convention after Gamergate scandal
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/4000-demand-adam-baldwin-banned-comic-convent
ion-supporting-gamergate-1484991
'The petition claims that the hashtag allegedly initiated by Baldwin led to "numerous instances of harassment and abuse towards women" in the past six months.
Baldwin, they say, "claims to be acting for 'journalistic integrity' but targets women, people of colour and the LGBTI+ community inside the gaming industry".
Baldwin denies the accusations, and in a tweet alleged that the accusations are defamatory.'



'The GamerGate campaign began after female games designer Zoe Quinn was falsely accused of sleeping with a male journalist in return for positive reviews.'

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Don't know where you got that quote, but Zoey Quinn wasn't falsely accused of anything. She absolutely was sleeping with people for the reviews.

Years later, she also deleted a tweet where she falsely accused fellow game designer Alec Holowka of abuse after it ruined his career and he killed himself.

Zoey Quinn is a bigger piece of shit than the Roomba, Second and Nilbog combined ever could hope to be.

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Battlefield 2042 introduces a Shemale Dyke Tranny non-binary specialist. Because Transexual Baphomet Weirdo pronouns are important when fighting for survival.

https://twitter.com/PartWelsh/status/1451294861898964995



Who Does Disney Own Anyway?
https://www.piratesandprincesses.net/who-does-disney-own-anyway/

Videogame Publisher Rockstar Games Removes Confederate Flag From Character's T-Shirt
https://screenrant.com/gta-trilogy-confederate-flag-shirt-phil-cassidy/

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Yeah. I posted about both of these things in the "Wokeness is meant to suck" thread in the Cinema board.

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So it can not be escaped, its infecting everywhere now

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So it can not be escaped, its infecting everywhere now

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It has been for decades.

They're just not being subtle about any of it anymore.

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Those Resident Evil 4 VR Censorship Rumors Are Now Confirmed

https://wegotthiscovered.com/gaming/those-resident-evil-4-vr-censorshi
p-rumors-are-now-confirmed/

Call of Duty: Vanguard Might Have an Option to Censor Swastikas

https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/call-of-duty-vanguard-option-censor-
swastikas-iron-cross-sledgehammer-games/

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It has been for decades.

They're just not being subtle about any of it anymore.

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It's a religion thing? a social leftwing moral thing or maybe the West is trying to out do China in censorship?

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Those Resident Evil 4 VR Censorship Rumors Are Now Confirmed

https://wegotthiscovered.com/gaming/those-resident-evil-4-vr-censorshi
p-rumors-are-now-confirmed/

Call of Duty: Vanguard Might Have an Option to Censor Swastikas

https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/call-of-duty-vanguard-option-censor-
swastikas-iron-cross-sledgehammer-games/

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It has been for decades.

They're just not being subtle about any of it anymore.

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It's a religion thing? a social leftwing moral thing or maybe the West is trying to out do China in censorship?

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It's akin to religion. Yes.

The behavior of the Leftists today is not all that different from the Religious Right of the 80's well into the 90's.

Democrats aren't the party of freedom anymore. They're the nanny state party of thought police and censorship.

I don't think that they're trying to outdo China. I think they're doing China's bidding.



ETA: As for "having the option to censor swastikas, I'm actually all for that. More power to them.

Games and the technology that have run them have come so far you can pretty much do whatever you want with them now. Having Nazis as cannon fodder in your game with and without swastikas is just a matter of putting a different "skin" over the 3D model coded beneath.

Stuff like this is, after all, a large part of how many Pay to Play games make their money off of micro=transactions. If you want the cool new outfit for your characters that all your friends have, you need to get Mom's credit card and pay $3.99 for it. (It isn't actually worth anything since it's not real clothes, and the amount of money they end up making off of these cosmetic changes are many thousands of times the money that went into creating them).

Options are fine with me. On everything. Even the option to censor or water-down your own experiences.

If some soccer mom Karen or some pink haired weirdo man hating lesbian doesn't want her avatar kicking ass with her tig old bittys bouncing all around and 20 lbs of ass with a thong bikini up the crack, but some 40 year old dude living in mom's basement does, let them all have the option to do whatever they want to do.

You could even transition these filters very easily into online gaming so the person who doesn't want to see swastikas won't see any of them on any of the remote players, but the one who does will see them on all of the remote players who are the Nazis.

Stop censoring shit.

Let people play the game they want to. Not the game YOU want them to play.

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honestly I missed Gamergate that's why sometimes I try and catch up with this 'culture', I've been out of the gaming thing for years but I do pop in once in a while to see what is going on.


This whole Gamergate thing seems to have many people in the game community harshly divided...I played video games once but don't anymore, there are a bunch of online peole guys and girls I know, a bunch of engineering arty both single married divorced dude that meet up for 'cards' or gaming or whatever that I can meet up with but I don't, one group booze a lot, one group are stoners. I perhaps see it as a waste of time now, I don't know why I quit gaming it just got too intense, takes over peoples minds with the online thing and addiction element, once it went online and took credit cards I stopped playing. If I ever do play any racing, puzzling, fighting, strategy thing or shooter thing people are often shocked at how good I am at 'gaming' but the thing is once your learn some gaming it hasn't changed much in years, the pads and joysticks they are all the same its just each game and each software has it own unique gameplay or quriks or guns or interaction, once in a while I might play an old game or an emulator with retro or something but personally I avoid the games. If I'm bored and have free time I might paint or play guitar or read a book or watch someone do a game walk-through or speed run of some big hit but I've mostly been out of the Loop for years.


It seems to have little Middle Group, its a forced narrative, an extreme Team A vs another Team B debate, one side says yes she did sleep with people and even a guys dies suiciding with the whole thing
Another side says its a bunch of online losers, they are like incel extremists and harass some nice Feminist lady because of what some jilted ex says.
Now we hear our loudmouth firefly actor Adam Baldwin aeven got into an online flame war with the Leftwing LGBT community during the whole Chelsea Van Valkenburg or better known as Zoe Quinn, Anita Sarkeesian she doesnt seem to be like the type of person who even played video games.



I'm not sure how their brains work but it seems
https://www.geeksandgamers.com/gamergate-series-in-development/
They are re-writing history and blaming 'Gamergate' for that Aussie who went to NZ and did those mass shootings?

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'The Christchurch mosque shooting, by the way, resulted in 51 deaths and 40 more injuries. The January 6th Capitol Hill riot resulted in one person dying on the premises, Ashli Babbitt, who was shot by Capitol Hill police officer Lt. Michael Byrd under dubious circumstances. Gamergate resulted in a bunch of creeps getting their feelings hurt and video games sucking for the foreseeable future. Really strong corollaries being drawn. Best of luck on the impending flop!'

But the party line on this horrific tragedy is much different. According to Deadline: “The 2014 Gamergate online campaign ignited a firestorm for its targeting of women in the gaming industry which laid the foundation for current issues of disinformation and hate. Before QAnon [lol], Covid-19 conspiracists [double lol] and the January 6th insurrection [omega lol], there was Gamergate. Wu was among the target women, which also included Zoë Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian.”


i dunno its like they are now claiming they are getting holocausted by Online gaming Christchurch shooters or some shit?

...I guess at times its all part of the Larger SJW Cancel culture movement not full Sharia but full retarded at times, Comicsgate, moviegate, cancell magazines and tv shows censorship everywhere now.
https://reason.com/archives/2019/02/28/he-was-part-of-a-twitter-mob-th
at-attack/
He Was Part of a Twitter Mob That Attacked Young Adult Novelists. Then It Turned on Him. Now His Book Is Canceled.

DC comicbooks sales flop? DC Comics Touts “Unprecedented Orders” For Bisexual Superman, Looks Like Worst Superman Sales In Over A Decade
https://boundingintocomics.co

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It's akin to religion. Yes.

The behavior of the Leftists today is not all that different from the Religious Right of the 80's well into the 90's.

Democrats aren't the party of freedom anymore. They're the nanny state party of thought police and censorship.

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I'm pretty sure the Left were fucked in the head during the 90s, maybe some of us were too young to see it, they were already expanding the Government above the local communities, the license id spying Big Federal State stuff, the Bill Clinton Admin Statements about video games or music causing Shootings etc

So why did so few speak up....maybe because the new religioon was more hip and cool and if you spoke about a big Globalist Expansionist Technocracy government back then everyone thought you a crackpot?

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I was probably too young. When Clinton became President, I wasn't even in Jr. High yet. Afterward, I was an edgy teen and everything I liked was constantly trying to be shut down and censored by the Religious Right and the Satanic Panic.

Then, as I reached adulthood in the late 90's, the economy was great and I ended up dropping out of college the first time to work full time without distraction making over $55,000/yr. back when gas prices were under a buck more often than not.

Not being politically minded at all, I was probably pretty pro Democrat back in those early days. How much of that was media manipulation is impossible to say, although I'd say that it's much less than any kids going through school today are getting.

Of course, I didn't realize they how's and why's of the economy doing so good then and how it was unsustainable and built off of the strengthening of China that it has wrought today.

Politics didn't interest me in the slightest until I was in my mid-to-late 20's. I didn't even get registered to vote until 2004 to vote Not-Bush.

Now, in my 40's, I don't even think voting for President really matters. It's all of the offices below the President that really matter, stolen elections aside.

I'm one of less than 1,000 people who voted in an off-year local election that got the right people in to get the ball rolling on reducing our property taxes, and one of less than 200 people who voted in the referendum a few years later that resulted in a decrease over 2 years of about $300 per year on what were already far more reasonable property taxes than you'd find 30 miles west in Illinois.

That's the only two elections I ever voted in that I feel made any impact on my life. Both of them were off-year elections that almost nobody voted for. It's funny when you walk into the polling place during those times and you are immediately checked into the booth because there are more people working at the polling place than there are people voting.

Both parties are cancer. Democrats now are a Stage 4 brain tumor that needs to be removed.

And once the pendulum starts swinging back the other way, I don't suppose it will be too long before I'm saying the same thing about Republicans again.

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Now, in my 40's, I don't even think voting for President really matters. It's all of the offices below the President that really matter, stolen elections aside.

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CASE IN POINT: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/10/26/watch_minnesota_sch
ool_board_member_demands_public_commenters_reveal_address.html

Jodi Sapp would be out on her ass next election. I'd be looking into anybody else who is a sympathizer to her cause as well.

It wouldn't take many votes to have them removed and replaced. Even easier than a primary, in fact.

Anybody who has their children enrolled in these poisonous school systems and prides themselves as being a good parent should be telling everyone they know about these people and riling them up to get to the polls on off-years and force an enema through their school systems at the polling booths.

Bring your family. Bring your friends. Get grandma out of the house. Make it an event and go out to dinner after you leave the polling place. It will only take a minute to do on off-year elections. You'll be in and out and eating good food with people you love in no time.



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always buy a video game physical when you can?

12 Xbox One games delisted from Microsoft Store, cannot be redownloaded
https://www.trueachievements.com/n47559/microsoft-store-delisting-xbox
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That's not new, and that goes with any media.

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DC's Wonder Woman video games and comicbooks is going to become Dick-Girl?

Wonder Woman's Sisters Bring First Tranny Shemale Transgender Amazon To DC Comics?
https://screenrant.com/wonder-woman-transgender-amazon-bia-nubia-dc-co
mics/

15 Disappointing Video Games From The Last 15 Years
https://gamingbolt.com/15-disappointing-video-games-from-the-last-15-y
ears

Sony buys US game studio to bolster PlayStation consoles
https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2021/10/01/sony-buys-us-game
-studio-to-bolster-playstation-consoles

Irony in Canada: Pro-censorship lawmakers complain when outlet they support gets censored
https://reclaimthenet.org/canada-pro-censorship-lawmakers-complain-whe
n-outlet-they-support-gets-censored/

The 10 Most Expensive Games That Flopped Badly
https://www.oneangrygamer.net/2021/08/most-expensive-games/

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That's not new, and that goes with any media.

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So E-books and MP3 are also politically doomed?

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That's not new, and that goes with any media.

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So E-books and MP3 are also politically doomed?

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Sure.

As far as I know, "Let's Go Brandon" hasn't been taken off the iTunes store yet, but it was removed from YouTube.

We've already seen "Gone With The Wind" pulled from major streaming services this year. I see no reason why there aren't going to be songs you grew up with removed because some pink haired Twitter weirdos cancel them.

We already have digital book burning. Amazon is already doing it.

https://theboar.org/2021/03/why-amazons-new-book-policy-should-worry-u
s-all/

The one the internet recently always want to site is a Transgender book, which is, quite honestly, very surprising.

Even though I don't agree with them or their movement, I am 100% against banning any book. Who the fuck is Amazon to make that decision for me or you?

Fuck Jeff Bezos. Fuck censorship. Fuck book burning.

Put that transgender book back up along with every other book you banned, you worms.

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Gamer Companies will Fire Multiple people Following President Biden’s Vaccine Mandates?

Back in 2019 China Banned Blood And The Word “Kill” From Video Games

Censorship Latest news
https://www.gamepressure.com/newsroom/tags/censorship/ze3ef



GTA Vice City: Confederate Flag Removal Leaves Some Gamers Worried About Censorship
https://www.denofgeek.com/games/gta-vice-city-remaster-confederate-fla
g-change-censorship-debate-remaster/

Comicbooks go Union? Image Comics’ Workers Unionize and form Comic Book Workers United
https://graphicpolicy.com/2021/11/01/image-comics-workers-unionize-and
-form-comic-book-workers-united

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Call Of Duty: Vanguard removes pages of the Quran from the game after critics call it disrespectful

https://www.erienewsnow.com/story/45191862/call-of-duty-vanguard-remov
es-pages-of-the-quran-from-the-game-after-critics-call-it-disrespectful


Writers blocked: Even fantasy fiction is now offensive
Persecution is endemic in the vicious world of Young Adult publishing

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/05/writers-blocked-even-fantasy-ficti
on-is-now-offensive/

Resurgence Of Fascism Forces Warhammer To Remind Fans Imperium Are Villains

https://kotaku.com/resurgence-of-facism-forces-warhammer-to-remind-fan
s-im-1848089843

Japan censored games because of Mohammedan Sharia Law?

https://littlebigplanet.fandom.com/wiki/Tapha_Niang

In LittleBigPlanet, Tapha Niang was originally the full song. However, the lyrics had to be removed when it was discovered that the lyrics contained text from the Qu'ran. The release of LittleBigPlanet was delayed because of this and the song was edited to be an instrumental in the game. However, it has been revealed that artist Diabate is Muslim himself, which causes a debate as to whether the lyrics of the song were to be removed.

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The best video game documentaries to watch in 2021
https://www.cnet.com/news/the-best-video-game-documentaries-to-watch-i
n-2021/

Ex-composer asks to “destroy” illegal copies of game music
https://www.wireservice.ca/ex-composer-asks-to-destroy-illegal-copies-
of-game-music-nerd4-life/

China’s video gaming control to get as strict as censorship of films and TV shows, game publisher founder says
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3157253/chinas-video-gam
ing-control-get-strict-censorship-films-and-tv

Do Violent Video Games Cause Behaviour Problems?
https://www.techshout.com/do-violent-video-games-cause-behaviour-probl
ems/

Trudeau minister says internet regulation bill has “nothing to do with free speech”
https://tnc.news/2021/11/24/heritage-minister-says-internet-regulate-b
ill-has-nothing-to-do-with-free-speech/

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10 DUMBEST Video Game Controversies That Went Too Far
https://whatculture.com/gaming/10-dumbest-video-game-controversies-tha
t-went-too-far?page=3

PS4 Firmware 9.0 Cracked; PS5's Security May be Compromised
https://www.gamepressure.com/newsroom/ps4-cracked-8-years-after-launch
-ps5s-security-may-be-compromised/z03df3

Gaming is culture
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2021/dec/14/pushing-buttons-video-ga
me-newsletter

Brianna Wu
https://encyclopediadramatica.online/Brianna_Wu

WTF

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John Walker Flynt, Brianna Flynt Woo , Brianna Wu, Wu-Man, or commonly known as Literally Wu? is a "videogame developer" and former racist gay basher who underwent surgery to become "female" in order to gain success in the video game industry and lurk in girls' bathrooms.

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Twitch Bans Hasan Piker & Vaush, Kicking Off "CrackerGate"
https://www.themarysue.com/hasan-piker-twitch-ban-crackergate/

Hasan's crackergate?
http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=48300.0

PlayStation 4's Playroom first game banned from Twitch streaming
https://www.engadget.com/2013-11-27-the-playroom-playstation-4-twitch.
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There is an EXTREMELY high rate of autistic people in the gaming scene. Particularly in the speedrunning community, and among games where "farming" is required. Farming is a game mechanic where somebody needs to perform a task over and over and over again for sometimes hours, days, weeks or even months in order to obtain Superior Loot or unlock achievements.

There also seems to be an EXTREMELY high concentration of transgenders in both of these segments of the gaming community as well.

I wonder if the two are somehow linked?




In some cases, the transgenders are put front-in-center during GDQ (Games Done Quick) fundraisers that didn't earn their spot there. When they're not very good, they're allowed to show up to speedrun crappy games that nobody bothers speedrunning, as to not set off a lot of legitimate gripes, but at the same time the same ones show up for every event because they're favored because of their status.

But in other cases these transgendered people are actually very good at the games and do deserve a spot there.




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“Martha is Dead” and big Corporate Game Festivals coming to towns
New 3-D virtual worlds and fake reality addicts inside their own matrix room
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 ... a new media item called Heart of Chernobyl Devs Cancel NFT Content Just 24 Hours After Announcement

Invested in the new meta verse mania addictions?

... it also seems games can 'Flop' juts like expensive tv shows and movies

https://boundingintocomics.com/2021/12/20/s-t-a-l-k-e-r-2-heart-of-che
rnobyl-devs-cancel-nft-content-just-24-hours-after-announcement-following-fan-backlash/

https://www.oneangrygamer.net/2021/08/most-expensive-games/

http://thegg.net/press-releases/the-dark-psychological-thriller-martha
-is-dead-has-just-released-its-crafting-a-masterpiece-video/

https://www.thestreet.com/investing/nasdaq-19000-apple-and-microsoft-a
t-3-trillion-and-metaverse-mania-dan-ives

https://morethandigital.info/en/the-metaverse-why-it-is-more-than-hype/

https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/is-metaverse-the-future-o
r-just-a-bubble-waiting-to-explode

https://techaeris.com/2021/12/20/ces-2022-lg-has-announced-its-first-u
ltragear-gaming-laptop/

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I wonder if the two are somehow linked?

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maybe, did see the autist and tranny type into gaming,
but I never seen the 'Feminist Movement' take over gaming in my time, maybe I've been out of the gamer loop for a while.

I'm not totally out of the loop, I do sometimes watch a gaming nintendo xbox playstation vid, maybe watch CGI cuts of games or trailers or watch other people speed run through games

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'Zoe Quinn and Fattrick Tomlinson's Book Sales!?'

https://new.onaforums.net/threads/zoe-quinn-and-fattrick-tomlinsons-bo
ok-sales.7962/

PS4 sales crash as Sony doubles-down on PS5 production

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/82444/ps4-sales-crash-as-sony-doubles-d
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Microsoft Reportedly Already Working on a More Potent Xbox Series X

https://www.eteknix.com/microsoft-working-on-more-potent-xbox-series-x/

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'Zoe Quinn and Fattrick Tomlinson's Book Sales!?'

https://new.onaforums.net/threads/zoe-quinn-and-fattrick-tomlinsons-bo
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You'd better download that video if you felt the topic was postworthy. It's a youtube video.

Zoe's a piece of shit.

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I did search around... didnt find him anywhere else

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