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#1  Edited By dstopia

I don't mind microtransactions that are cosmetic, but I don't like the trend of pushing the F2P treadmill of giving you a currency to spend which drops in minuscule amounts and "dailies" to pursue. I don't like feeling in a Skinner box.

I can usually brush it aside, but come on. I paid 60 dollars for this game, I can afford to just see a dollar amount on the things you want to sell me. Trying to entice me by giving me breadcrumbs is kinda sad and smells a little desperate. There's a reason why it was developed in F2P games.

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Hey there.

I sent a tweet to Jeff about this, since he's the person most interested in game preservation of the site, but I thought I'd also post it here.

The developer behind higan (formerly bsnes), the most accurate SNES emulator out there, and a host of other emulators, is heading a game preservation project geared towards accurately dumping the entire SNES library, not only for preservation purposes, but also to aid in getting higan to be perfectly accurate. Recently, he got lended a batch of 100 SNES PAL games from someone in Germany, which he would dump and give back. However, apparently USPS has misplaced the package, whose contents are worth upwards of 10 000 USD.

Does anyone know anyone working in the USPS that could help him?

Here's the blog post he made about it:

https://byuu.org/emulation/preservation/lost-package/

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Valkyria Profile is fun, but the fact that navigating the myriad of endings it has more or less requires a step-by-step guide and several playthroughs makes it very annoying to play.

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Nosedive is bad, very bad. I didn't like Playtest either, and Men Against Fire was meh. The rest are pretty good, though I'd say Hated in the Nation was expanded to fit 90 minutes solely because it's the season finale, and it actually did not have enough content to make it justifiable.

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I wish he had been a little more prone to taking action with regards to shitty shovelware and asset flips plaguing the Steam store, instead of just "we'll build better filters". Some stuff should not be sitting next to actual quality products with time and effort put into them.

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I was a teen and didn't have internet at home, so I did a couple of all nighters at ill-reputed LAN cafes grinding Ragnarok Online and playing the early chaotic multiple versions of Dota-like maps for WC3. You would pay pennies to stay all night there, and it was always a terrible decision. I'm not happy I did that, but I was a dumb teen.

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I think it's great, but it lacks a feature I use a lot: I can't scroll backwards. If I come late to a stream I sometimes scroll to the beginning and watch from there instead of waiting for the archive, so that makes it more inconvenient than Youtube.

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At some point it becomes a matter of trust. Do you trust Jeff and company to bring you new content in the future or not? If not, then you should probably cancel your subscription.

As for me, it's probably the only media outlet I care about on the internet. It probably comprises over 70% of my monthly bandwith consumption. I think I'm okay with trusting these guys.

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@gerrid said:

There seems to be a LOT of buzz about Nier (from the demo I guess), even though hardly anyone seemed to play the original? It was one of my favourite games from the last generation but it's a bit strange to see the sequel suddenly getting all this hype.

It's made by Platinum so it plays nothing like the original. The hype is mostly Platinum-based, it's not really about the original IP.

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#10  Edited By dstopia

27 now, edging on 28.

- Dropped out of high school with very little to finish

- Worked part time for my grandpa's tailor shop

- Worked as an SMS tarot reader and love coach for two months

- Met a lot of people, smoked pot

- Got fired from the job

- Got into Linux, got a job as a trainee in a shitty consulting company

- Met a lot of boring people and 9-6 slowly took a toll on me and made stop seeing the new people I had met

- Moved out to a studio apartment, which triggered depression

- Visited Japan twice

- Moved to a much better place

- Met my current girlfriend while she was vacationing here and started a long distance relationship

- Changed jobs to a slightly less crappy one

- Started having more confidence in my programming skills

- Discovered that homesteading and gardening is my real passion

- Traveled to Canada to see my girlfriend

- Went back and finished high school (A couple months ago!)

- Grandpa passed away.

- Gonna go back and live with her in 7 months time.

That's about it. It's been a weird time, trying to turn into an adult. I did a lot of things too fast and didn't really savor it through. It's tough! Severe depression struck as soon as I moved out on my own while trying to hold a shitty 9-6 job. I guess it was to be expected.