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or you could read a book or something because the answer is extremely simple
Plus, you try to make it sound like "personal choice" is something intrinsically good, which it is not. Or that "things you enjoy" are something intrinsically good, which they also aren't (you can enjoy meth once..)
rip
No way twin drive got shutdown wtf.
I'm seriously going to start archiving people's songs.
I'm saying that there is nothing wrong with doing things you enjoy, especially if it is an informed decision.
Like I said earlier, arguing about smoking is pointless.
Really though, good job on being retarded.
he is not that wrong
but you beat me to it with that last sentence, i personally think anyone who smokes, do drugs and heavily addicted to alcohol are pure retard
but of course they can call me a retard as well for not doing their shit
(on a side-note, peer pressure IS a major reason why people start smoking, which has been repeatedly confirmed by psychological studies and meta-studies.)
There can be many things wrong with things you enjoy, I don't see how thats not obvious.
Examples:
ultra hot gay feral pokemon avatars i have never seen you the same
I watched this entire video.
Jesus Christ lmfao this is gold.
5 thousand man i would never eat again after that
Why are we still here
also yes. rules were broken.
It's absolute hell over here. California needs water, not hypothermia
next time you complain about mods being unfair, just remember that you put yourself in the situation you're in. stop blaming people for the mess you got yourself in.
I think you need to find something else to do with your time.
People still buy the (digital) game for the same price as the actual CD, what's in it for the companies to waste $$$ on making discs when they can just get people to purchase a digital copy of it. More $$$ in their pocket. But a plus side to (digital) games is that you can always have that copy (as long as you have the credentials to whatever you downloaded it off of) forever, and it won't get dusty, broken, stolen, snapped or lazer burned.
Seems like a nice trade-off, provided that you don't work in retail.
Modern AAA games tend to require 30GB+ space, and shipping that on DVDs would give people flashbacks to installing Windows 95 using floppy disks.
Of course you could put the game on a single bluray instead, but then there's the problem that bluray drives never really got into the mainstream PC market. Bluray drives themselves came around at a time when optical drives were already being phased out of the PC world and now there are more PCs without an optical drive than there are PCs with one.
Not to mention the issue of the price of a Bluray drive compared to a DVD drive, even now Bluray is still expensive in comparison with the cheapest Bluray drive available being almost 5 times more expensive than the cheapest DVD drive. And it's the same story with the disks, while a pack of 100 empty DVDs can be bought for 25 USD*, a pack of 25 Bluray disks costs upwards of 100 USD*.
Of course since these prices come from consumer stores, they are probably lower for a corporation looking to slap the same data on a few hundred thousand disks. They should still represent the difference, though.
All in all, releasing games on Bluray disks is expensive and, for PC games, caters to an extremely small market. You might say that games could be released on USB drives instead, which I totally agree would be cool, but while those could be used by everyone with a PC, publishers would once again run into the price issue. USB drives are even more expensive compared to DVDs than Blurays are, and including one big enough to fit a modern AAA game with each "physical" copy of the game would be ridiculous from that perspective. And releasing games on DVDs is silly because then you'd have to include like 10 or more disks.
*Danish prices converted to USD, your prices may vary.
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Dammit Stefan, that thread had so much edgy shitposting potential
gg no re
this entire thread if you think about is just one giant good-quality shitpost fest
this entire thread if you think about is just one giant good-quality shitpost fest
lol jk dng, I was having a hangover when I said that
Pass the alcohol slugs lmfao
And yea as someone who's smoked actively, I quit cold turkey and it's been 4 months since I've last smoked! Vamping is a good alternative..
Pass the alcohol slugs lmfao
And yea as someone who's smoked actively, I quit cold turkey and it's been 4 months since I've last smoked! Vamping is a good alternative..
Shohei Ohtani
Fuck me. Vaping*
maybe you should try them and see for yourselfGranger wrote:
As someone who does not smoke, drugs or drink, why would you?
or you could read a book or something because the answer is extremely simple
What, the fact that you're so weak that you have to give in to the temptations of smoking like the filthy mongrel you are? :p
Tried most shit that I could ever try and none of it was able to stick with me, so it's not your primal instincts forcing you to do it - it's your shitty routine system, and don't tell me you can't quit whenever you want. I know what addiction is and I was definitely getting addicted to cigars when I first tried them for fun, but never once have I had a problem quitting when I wanted to.
That being said, some forms of alcohol can be both healthy and beneficial when you drink moderately, but no kind of smoking can ever be good for you. Quit that shit or throw days and months (or even years) of your life away for no reason at all.
Tried most shit that I could ever try and none of it was able to stick with me, so it's not your primal instincts forcing you to do it - it's your shitty routine system, and don't tell me you can't quit whenever you want. I know what addiction is and I was definitely getting addicted to cigars when I first tried them for fun, but never once have I had a problem quitting when I wanted to.
That being said, some forms of alcohol can be both healthy and beneficial when you drink moderately, but no kind of smoking can ever be good for you. Quit that shit or throw days and months (or even years) of your life away for no reason at all.
Giving in to peer pressure is a valuable strategy if you want to impress people that also gave in to peer pressure
Read the post again: it wasn't only about smoking (which isn't worth arguing about). Besides, your perception of weakness is skewed. If you think that somebody making a personal choice to indulge in something they like is weakness then I don't know what to say. I suppose you could go listen to some Minor Threat, because being straight edge is TOTALLY COOL and against the grain, man! Druggies are just weak hedonists, amirite? (*types this while wearing clothes sewed by Vietnamese slaves making pennies on the hour*)
My post, nor the person I replied to, said anything about addiction...
edit: the point is that I can make ridiculous posts too
My post, nor the person I replied to, said anything about addiction...
edit: the point is that I can make ridiculous posts too
Thats not what he said. He said that shortening your own lifespan significantly for the sake of fitting in a group that no reasonable person cares about, is weakness. Or doing that because it fits our cultural stereotype of coolness. Or for the many other stupid reasons there are for it.Sync wrote:
If you think that somebody making a personal choice to indulge in something they like is weakness then I don't know what to say.
Plus, you try to make it sound like "personal choice" is something intrinsically good, which it is not. Or that "things you enjoy" are something intrinsically good, which they also aren't (you can enjoy meth once..)
Sylt_old
Glad you actually understood my post, mate.Railey2 wrote:
Thats not what he said. He said that shortening your own lifespan significantly for the sake of fitting in a group that no reasonable person cares about, is weakness. Or doing that because it fits our cultural stereotype of coolness. Or for the many other stupid reasons there are for it.Sync wrote:
If you think that somebody making a personal choice to indulge in something they like is weakness then I don't know what to say.
Plus, you try to make it sound like "personal choice" is something intrinsically good, which it is not. Or that "things you enjoy" are something intrinsically good, which they also aren't (you can enjoy meth once..)
Belisaria Yagami / Twin Drive's channel got closed on youtube. I think a little part of me died today.
Damn I was subbed to that channelJordan wrote:
Belisaria Yagami / Twin Drive's channel got closed on youtube. I think a little part of me died today.
rip
Jordan wrote:
Belisaria Yagami / Twin Drive's channel got closed on youtube. I think a little part of me died today.
No way twin drive got shutdown wtf.
I'm seriously going to start archiving people's songs.
Because everybody smokes to fit in. Right. Wow, so the post was more retarded than I originally thought. Well done.Railey2 wrote:
Thats not what he said. He said that shortening your own lifespan significantly for the sake of fitting in a group that no reasonable person cares about, is weakness. Or doing that because it fits our cultural stereotype of coolness. Or for the many other stupid reasons there are for it.Sync wrote:
If you think that somebody making a personal choice to indulge in something they like is weakness then I don't know what to say.
Plus, you try to make it sound like "personal choice" is something intrinsically good, which it is not. Or that "things you enjoy" are something intrinsically good, which they also aren't (you can enjoy meth once..)
I'm saying that there is nothing wrong with doing things you enjoy, especially if it is an informed decision.
Like I said earlier, arguing about smoking is pointless.
Really though, good job on being retarded.
Plus, you try to make it sound like "personal choice" is something intrinsically good, which it is not. Or that "things you enjoy" are something intrinsically good, which they also aren'tI won't get into this because it's a philosophical question and I have no interest in discussing it with this group of people
"Or for the many other stupid reasons there are for it."Sync wrote:
Because everybody smokes to fit in. Right. Wow, so the post was more retarded than I originally thought. Well done.
I'm saying that there is nothing wrong with doing things you enjoy, especially if it is an informed decision.
Like I said earlier, arguing about smoking is pointless.
Really though, good job on being retarded.
I won't get into this because it's a philosophical question and I have no interest in discussing it with this group of people
he is not that wrong
but you beat me to it with that last sentence, i personally think anyone who smokes, do drugs and heavily addicted to alcohol are pure retard
but of course they can call me a retard as well for not doing their shit
I didn't say that peer-pressure was the only reason. I just said that its one of the many reasons that don't justify throwing years of your life away for them, which makes them stupid reasons. Stop twisting my words.Sync wrote:
Because everybody smokes to fit in. Right. Wow, so the post was more retarded than I originally thought. Well done.
I'm saying that there is nothing wrong with doing things you enjoy, especially if it is an informed decision.
Like I said earlier, arguing about smoking is pointless.
Really though, good job on being retarded.Plus, you try to make it sound like "personal choice" is something intrinsically good, which it is not. Or that "things you enjoy" are something intrinsically good, which they also aren'tI won't get into this because it's a philosophical question and I have no interest in discussing it with this group of people
(on a side-note, peer pressure IS a major reason why people start smoking, which has been repeatedly confirmed by psychological studies and meta-studies.)
There can be many things wrong with things you enjoy, I don't see how thats not obvious.
Examples:
- Enjoy getting drunk and enjoy to drive home as opposed to getting a taxi or walking, because that would be boring or expensive. Also, driving faster is way more fun in that state.
- Enjoy being a pro osu player with no consideration for your health, ignoring the stinging pain in your left wrist that becomes increasingly extreme, but still playing up to 10k games a month for a year, thereby effectively crippling your hand for the rest of your life.
- Enjoy crack
- Enjoy killing people
touché
i haven't been in OT for a while, and decided to check the last 3 pages of threads
was I really that much immature back then or has the quality actually decreased that much? I know it wasn't good to begin with but at least I don't remember those "This Is My FanClub Thread!! Post Here if U Like Anime ^^ " threads
was I really that much immature back then or has the quality actually decreased that much? I know it wasn't good to begin with but at least I don't remember those "This Is My FanClub Thread!! Post Here if U Like Anime ^^ " threads
Well I was never there for the "old" OT but yes quality will have decreased massively recently since most of the regulars have migrated to tuuba
Come join us maybe or something idk
Come join us maybe or something idk
ever since you stopped using croppedBlue Dragon wrote:
i haven't been in OT for a while, and decided to check the last 3 pages of threads
was I really that much immature back then or has the quality actually decreased that much? I know it wasn't good to begin with but at least I don't remember those "This Is My FanClub Thread!! Post Here if U Like Anime ^^ " threads
DooM wrote:
I watched this entire video.
Jesus Christ lmfao this is gold.
A Medic wrote:
DooM wrote:
I watched this entire video.
Jesus Christ lmfao this is gold.
5 thousand man i would never eat again after that
I didn't stop, I'm just supporting my OWC team, I'll come back to them laterxxjesus1412fanx wrote:
ever since you stopped using croppedBlue Dragon wrote:
i haven't been in OT for a while, and decided to check the last 3 pages of threads
was I really that much immature back then or has the quality actually decreased that much? I know it wasn't good to begin with but at least I don't remember those "This Is My FanClub Thread!! Post Here if U Like Anime ^^ " threadsultra hotgay feral pokemon avatars i have never seen you the same
I want to know the mod that silenced me. Or at least which mod has such a limited mental capacity that they silence without even considering whether any rules were broken. It could be pretty convenient.
IppE
Fat chance. Moderation transparency is not a thing in the peppy wonderland.Green Platinum wrote:
I want to know the mod that silenced me. Or at least which mod has such a limited mental capacity that they silence without even considering whether any rules were broken. It could be pretty convenient.
Today it is 2 years ago that Devalix died.
May he rest in peace.
May he rest in peace.
Mahogany wrote:
Well I was never there for the "old" OT but yes quality will have decreased massively recently since most of the regulars have migrated to tuuba
Come join us maybe or something idk
Why are we still here
Quality hasn't dropped here, it is just less people shit posting.
Green Platinum wrote:
Quality hasn't dropped here, it is just less people shit posting.
I tried to make some quality threads with interesting topics a while ago that could have sparked quite a bit of discussion, but interest in them was generally low if I hadn't bothered to keep them alive. It seemed like most people didn't even take their time to read it.
So please stop complaining about low quality if you aren't willing to change it yourself. If you dare to complain about the forums as a whole, then remember: You are a part of it.
Shitposting is popular because it is easier than putting actual thought into something for the sake of producing something worthwhile. That was the case back then and it is the case now. Your complaints aren't changing anything. Instead: Make an effort, hopefully others will pull with you. Otherwise, wait a week and then try again.
So please stop complaining about low quality if you aren't willing to change it yourself. If you dare to complain about the forums as a whole, then remember: You are a part of it.
Shitposting is popular because it is easier than putting actual thought into something for the sake of producing something worthwhile. That was the case back then and it is the case now. Your complaints aren't changing anything. Instead: Make an effort, hopefully others will pull with you. Otherwise, wait a week and then try again.
Because I have a lot of time to waste.Khelly wrote:
Mahogany wrote:
Well I was never there for the "old" OT but yes quality will have decreased massively recently since most of the regulars have migrated to tuuba
Come join us maybe or something idk
Why are we still here
chill dude I wasn't even hereRailey2 wrote:
I tried to make some quality threads with interesting topics a while ago that could have sparked quite a bit of discussion, but interest in them was generally low if I hadn't bothered to keep them alive. It seemed like most people didn't even take their time to read it.
So please stop complaining about low quality if you aren't willing to change it yourself. If you dare to complain about the forums as a whole, then remember: You are a part of it.
Shitposting is popular because it is easier than putting actual thought into something for the sake of producing something worthwhile. That was the case back then and it is the case now. Your complaints aren't changing anything. Instead: Make an effort, hopefully others will pull with you. Otherwise, wait a week and then try again.
I wasn't specifically talking to you tbh, I know you weren't here. Just a rant of sorts.
pro trip. drop the language. it might help >_>Green Platinum wrote:
I want to know the mod that silenced me. Or at least which mod has such a limited mental capacity that they silence without even considering whether any rules were broken. It could be pretty convenient.
also yes. rules were broken.
hi dadbeat o/
You should perm ban me then for calling crap for what it is then.
Son, we live in a forum that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it?
You? You, Green?
I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for the banned, and you curse the Moderation Team.
You have that luxury.
You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That everyone's silences, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall.
We use words like quality, fun, and respect. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent moderating something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way.
Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a topic, and post some quality. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to.
You? You, Green?
I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for the banned, and you curse the Moderation Team.
You have that luxury.
You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That everyone's silences, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall.
We use words like quality, fun, and respect. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent moderating something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way.
Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a topic, and post some quality. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to.
That's what I did in OC shame no one there actually watches anime.
Brian OA wrote:
Son, we live in a forum that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it?
You? You, Green?
I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for the banned, and you curse the Moderation Team.
You have that luxury.
You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That everyone's silences, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall.
We use words like quality, fun, and respect. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent moderating something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way.
Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a topic, and post some quality. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to.
TL:DR; it was probably Blazevoir
I bet it's because a good majority of people are dying from the transition into the winter solsticeMomiji wrote:
wow a full day without posts in this thread has happened recently
It's absolute hell over here. California needs water, not hypothermia
i'm going to make this clear right here right now. calling something crap isn't the issue. what is the issue is your cancerous attitude to anything you don't like. you abuse whoever and then blow up the mods when you get silenced for your horrible behaviour, then act like you've done nothing wrong. i've seen what you've been silenced for, and you if honestly believe you've done nothing to earn those silences, then you need to grow the hell up. you shit on mods for not helping explain silences, so i give you advice and you get snide and shitty about it. tell me, why should we bother helping you when you need our help when you're just going to treat us like shit anyway.Green Platinum wrote:
You should perm ban me then for calling crap for what it is then.
next time you complain about mods being unfair, just remember that you put yourself in the situation you're in. stop blaming people for the mess you got yourself in.
I give people the respect I think they deserve. If they post in a "Your reaction to" thread and cry when they don't get the happy response they wanted my opinion of them diminishes quickly and this part of me wont change with silences.
But why would you waste your time doing that? You're literally arguing with 14 year-old kids.Green Platinum wrote:
I give people the respect I think they deserve. If they post in a "Your reaction to" thread and cry when they don't get the happy response they wanted my opinion of them diminishes quickly and this part of me wont change with silences.
I don't even know why I bothered with my userpage at this point.
France needs cold mid-November not fucking AUGUST weatherkirueggy wrote:
It's absolute hell over here. California needs water, not hypothermia
We've been having a bit of trouble with weather as well. I live in a rather ok climate-wise place, 20-27C here lately, but Rio has consistently gone over 40C and even southern cities are reaching that point. More expected here since summer is coming, but...
Shohei Ohtani
I've been gone and already there hasn't been any activity in the BN for this month. No new BNs, I don't know about BN removals, no activity in the forum, literally nothing.
It's frustrating that I literally have to baby the staff into doing shit correctly. I'd hope that the people with time to dedicate to this game would be actually doing so. If I had the choice, I'd drop all of this bullshit schooling to make sure everything was running as actively as possible. But nowadays I don't even have time to think about this game because I'm either busy with school or wishing I was dead.
It's like a living hell
I have no mouth but I must scream
It's frustrating that I literally have to baby the staff into doing shit correctly. I'd hope that the people with time to dedicate to this game would be actually doing so. If I had the choice, I'd drop all of this bullshit schooling to make sure everything was running as actively as possible. But nowadays I don't even have time to think about this game because I'm either busy with school or wishing I was dead.
It's like a living hell
I have no mouth but I must scream
I don't know either.Green Platinum wrote:
I don't even know why I bothered with my userpage at this point.
I think you need to find something else to do with your time.
Are my french people ok. You guys had such a situation yesterday.
is that a dog that looks like cat or
a cat that looks like dog
a cat that looks like dog
it's definitely a cat
possibly a mane coon, respectable pedigree
possibly a mane coon, respectable pedigree
FUCK ISIS
Yo if you guys don't mind checking out my bud's blog @ http://grindlaygrump.blogspot.com/ then that would be superb.
I assure you it's not me, I don't have the time to do this shit on a regular basis lmao
Yo if you guys don't mind checking out my bud's blog @ http://grindlaygrump.blogspot.com/ then that would be superb.
I assure you it's not me, I don't have the time to do this shit on a regular basis lmao
Close, but no. That is a Norwegian forest cat.xxjesus1412fanx wrote:
it's definitely a cat
possibly a mane coon, respectable pedigree
for some reason, this angers me greatly
Well, yeah. Anyone would be angry if they bought that expecting a physical copy of the game, only to find that it's not there.
As much as I despise physical media and refuse to use it, it's incredibly shitty that you can't actually get the game data on a disc anymore.
Kinda defeats the point of physical media.
Kinda defeats the point of physical media.
i really want to get it, but i really don't like EA
Please don't.
Just play Battlefront 2 instead. Now that game is a classic~
Just play Battlefront 2 instead. Now that game is a classic~
Mahogany wrote:
As much as I despise physical media and refuse to use it, it's incredibly shitty that you can't actually get the game data on a disc anymore.
Kinda defeats the point of physical media.
People still buy the (digital) game for the same price as the actual CD, what's in it for the companies to waste $$$ on making discs when they can just get people to purchase a digital copy of it. More $$$ in their pocket. But a plus side to (digital) games is that you can always have that copy (as long as you have the credentials to whatever you downloaded it off of) forever, and it won't get dusty, broken, stolen, snapped or lazer burned.
why bother sell the game in retail stores then? just skip the middle man and continue making people to use origins like they're already trying to do
To be honest I have absolutely no idea since I hear that after all expenses are incurred the publisher only gets like $14 out of the sale of a $60 retail game compared to a split that must be massive for a digital sale.
There's absolutely no point to buy physical for PC anymore unless you like boxes.
There's absolutely no point to buy physical for PC anymore unless you like boxes.
-> more money for the publishers and a couple jobs lost in retail. Also a lot more friendly for the environment, because you skip production of the CD, the box it would come in, and emissions from the transport of the boxes (to get them to the retailers).deadbeat wrote:
why bother sell the game in retail stores then? just skip the middle man and continue making people to use origins like they're already trying to do
Seems like a nice trade-off, provided that you don't work in retail.
only reason i can think of is heavy internet caps. i had to be rather selective of what games i downloaded/updated when i was only getting 50GB a monthMahogany wrote:
There's absolutely no point to buy physical for PC anymore unless you like boxes.
Well yeah, that's a good reason to buy physical, but as we can see, there are a lot of games nowadays where the physical box doesn't contain anything other than a download code and a steam installer...
It depends on the game store and I doubt gamestop and the likes need to be supported and I don't think a store that's small enough to deserve your support would stock PC games tbh ._.
It kind of makes sense, thoughMahogany wrote:
As much as I despise physical media and refuse to use it, it's incredibly shitty that you can't actually get the game data on a disc anymore.
Kinda defeats the point of physical media.
Modern AAA games tend to require 30GB+ space, and shipping that on DVDs would give people flashbacks to installing Windows 95 using floppy disks.
Of course you could put the game on a single bluray instead, but then there's the problem that bluray drives never really got into the mainstream PC market. Bluray drives themselves came around at a time when optical drives were already being phased out of the PC world and now there are more PCs without an optical drive than there are PCs with one.
Not to mention the issue of the price of a Bluray drive compared to a DVD drive, even now Bluray is still expensive in comparison with the cheapest Bluray drive available being almost 5 times more expensive than the cheapest DVD drive. And it's the same story with the disks, while a pack of 100 empty DVDs can be bought for 25 USD*, a pack of 25 Bluray disks costs upwards of 100 USD*.
Of course since these prices come from consumer stores, they are probably lower for a corporation looking to slap the same data on a few hundred thousand disks. They should still represent the difference, though.
All in all, releasing games on Bluray disks is expensive and, for PC games, caters to an extremely small market. You might say that games could be released on USB drives instead, which I totally agree would be cool, but while those could be used by everyone with a PC, publishers would once again run into the price issue. USB drives are even more expensive compared to DVDs than Blurays are, and including one big enough to fit a modern AAA game with each "physical" copy of the game would be ridiculous from that perspective. And releasing games on DVDs is silly because then you'd have to include like 10 or more disks.
*Danish prices converted to USD, your prices may vary.
the last game I bought physically, came with 5 DVDs. No more of that, no thank you.
giving everyone a 30 GB SSD with their game is not even close to cost effective. Everyone would end up with a USB RAID array eventually.
Honestly physical media is just dead when it comes to video games, and I'm fine with it.
But here's an idea, have a station in stores where you plug in your flash drive and the game is put on your device after buying.. It's not without its downsides but it would work better than having to use 50 dvd's, optical storage is fucking dead and we should move on. It's not going to stick around like magnetic storage anyway because unlike magnetic tape or disks it is completely inflexible. You have fixed sizes with fixed data limits. Bad news, we still use fucking magnetic tape nowadays for corporate purposes because you can make that strip of tape as long as you want and it's cost effective.
i understand optical disks have evolved, weve gone from CD's with their paltry 700 mb, dvd's with their 4-8, and now blu-ray, but everytime there's a 'leap', there requires an entirely new type of drive to be engineered and bought, imagine if you needed a different motherboard every time they came out with larger hard disks/SSD's or even flash drives? Utter fucking insanity, this is 1 reason why blu-ray never caught on for pc's because the whole thing is based on bullshit.
Equal in stupidity is consoles costing 400$ that can play games at 1080i which is basically 720p at the same quality settings a PC built for the same price can run at 1080p and would certainly outperform it at console resolution and also has all the functionality you get from having a pc instead which is too massive to try and list.
why would you pay 400$ for a weaker, locked down less-functional PC? All the components are repurposed PC parts now because AAA developers cannot be bothered to develop games for 2 different platforms, best to make consoles and computers basically the same but one ends up way worse as a result.
a pro of that is console porting isn't even a thing anymore console games will always run on pc unless there's bs DRM to crack, Console and PC both have x86 architecture now.
a con is that shitty console 1 can't be upgraded to be more powerful by individual component until shitty console 2 comes out and you have to scrap the entire old box and overpay once again for a computer that can't do computer things and runs games worse than a same price computer.
For god's sake. even Nintendo who were basically the last bastion of original hardware, true exclusives and interesting ideas are going to cave in and utilize a PC architecture AMD cpu into their next box.
It feels like the only reason AMD hasn't gone under when you consider how even the best AMD chip being worse performance-wise than over a hundred current nameable Intel ones, is poor people and lazy console R&D, oh and the fact that Intel hasn't managed to corner the market on budget chips, they only look forward.
The fact that for the price you just can't do better than an AMD chip is really keeping them from sinking. But it's also not giving them enough R&D money of their own to actually ever catch up. The fact is: CPU's are an investment, they last a freaking LONG time, essentially forever in my experiences, before burning out whether it's AMD or Intel. the vast majority of people, even those who would be fine with an AMD, save up a little more to get that delicious Intel performance that will mean more if they still are using it 5 or 10 years from now.
I'm using and AMD Phenom II x4 965, a left-over from the final time that AMD released a chip meant to compete with the very best intel chips in terms of price and performance. A bygone era it has become, but I still hold onto it because it's still pretty damn good and I love the spirit of competition it represents.
anyway enough autism from me, this has gone way off-topic.
Honestly physical media is just dead when it comes to video games, and I'm fine with it.
But here's an idea, have a station in stores where you plug in your flash drive and the game is put on your device after buying.. It's not without its downsides but it would work better than having to use 50 dvd's, optical storage is fucking dead and we should move on. It's not going to stick around like magnetic storage anyway because unlike magnetic tape or disks it is completely inflexible. You have fixed sizes with fixed data limits. Bad news, we still use fucking magnetic tape nowadays for corporate purposes because you can make that strip of tape as long as you want and it's cost effective.
i understand optical disks have evolved, weve gone from CD's with their paltry 700 mb, dvd's with their 4-8, and now blu-ray, but everytime there's a 'leap', there requires an entirely new type of drive to be engineered and bought, imagine if you needed a different motherboard every time they came out with larger hard disks/SSD's or even flash drives? Utter fucking insanity, this is 1 reason why blu-ray never caught on for pc's because the whole thing is based on bullshit.
Equal in stupidity is consoles costing 400$ that can play games at 1080i which is basically 720p at the same quality settings a PC built for the same price can run at 1080p and would certainly outperform it at console resolution and also has all the functionality you get from having a pc instead which is too massive to try and list.
why would you pay 400$ for a weaker, locked down less-functional PC? All the components are repurposed PC parts now because AAA developers cannot be bothered to develop games for 2 different platforms, best to make consoles and computers basically the same but one ends up way worse as a result.
a pro of that is console porting isn't even a thing anymore console games will always run on pc unless there's bs DRM to crack, Console and PC both have x86 architecture now.
a con is that shitty console 1 can't be upgraded to be more powerful by individual component until shitty console 2 comes out and you have to scrap the entire old box and overpay once again for a computer that can't do computer things and runs games worse than a same price computer.
For god's sake. even Nintendo who were basically the last bastion of original hardware, true exclusives and interesting ideas are going to cave in and utilize a PC architecture AMD cpu into their next box.
It feels like the only reason AMD hasn't gone under when you consider how even the best AMD chip being worse performance-wise than over a hundred current nameable Intel ones, is poor people and lazy console R&D, oh and the fact that Intel hasn't managed to corner the market on budget chips, they only look forward.
The fact that for the price you just can't do better than an AMD chip is really keeping them from sinking. But it's also not giving them enough R&D money of their own to actually ever catch up. The fact is: CPU's are an investment, they last a freaking LONG time, essentially forever in my experiences, before burning out whether it's AMD or Intel. the vast majority of people, even those who would be fine with an AMD, save up a little more to get that delicious Intel performance that will mean more if they still are using it 5 or 10 years from now.
I'm using and AMD Phenom II x4 965, a left-over from the final time that AMD released a chip meant to compete with the very best intel chips in terms of price and performance. A bygone era it has become, but I still hold onto it because it's still pretty damn good and I love the spirit of competition it represents.
anyway enough autism from me, this has gone way off-topic.
Mercurial
So it seems that I can't change my avatar because of an "account verification" issue.
And I can't do shit since the mail I used to register in here doesn't exist anymore (Yeah, blame Hotmail/Microsoft for that).
So, yay! I'll be stuck with this avatar until ppy gets to help me (or someone else capable to do so).
And I can't do shit since the mail I used to register in here doesn't exist anymore (Yeah, blame Hotmail/Microsoft for that).
So, yay! I'll be stuck with this avatar until ppy gets to help me (or someone else capable to do so).
You do realise you can just.......... message the support team, right?
I mean it doesn't take a bloody Tesla to figure it out.
I mean it doesn't take a bloody Tesla to figure it out.
I think you don't need to change your avatar. Its perfect
Mercurial
I did it, and I'm waiting for an answer.Aurani wrote:
You do realise you can just.......... message the support team, right?
I mean it doesn't take a bloody Tesla to figure it out.
Sorry, but the shit taste you have is totally unmatchable. Gratz bro!Reditum wrote:
yeah should have thought about that before choosing a shit avatar
Nah Mercurial has a point Reditum's avatar is shit.
medic medic oktoberfessttttt
you slept with his pillow?Reditum wrote:
yeah that's not what your wife said last night you fucking cunt
DOUBLE EDGY
genuinely madReditum wrote:
yeah that's not what your wife said last night you fucking cunt