Yeah I know, I did the same thing when you first replied to me too.

Yes you are talking about game design.

You just said developers check if the player cheats or makes something “strange” then react to it. By game design, they don’t want you cheating in their game.

So you either deal with it or don’t.

I know there’s very few, be it rare, games where developers seemingly hate those who play it.

But you’re not understanding that maybe that there are some games that aren’t for you. It sometimes is a sucky feeling, when games seemingly look like you’d have a blast playing them, until you try them and feel the opposite. I wouldn’t really say any of the struggles I’ve had in games I played in this example, that I felt like the developers were intentionally punishing me. More like my expectations, standards and idea of fun collides with what that game already established in its own values.

Like I hate games where anything kills you in one hit, that is bullshit, give me a health bar or multiple chances of being hit. I prefer more games that have at least healthbars.

I advise against Amazon Machine Turk.

It’s basically a digital sweatshop. Doing all of these menial, logically mundane and borderline crazy tasks. Just to earn a literal nickel.

Yeah, okay, China.

How about produce the thing and don’t pull any marketing tricks, hm? We’ll find out one way or another whether these are the real deals.

DDR4 is serviceable to me.

Here’s some actual advice for PC builders - what do you actually want from your system? Nothing you say can be vague, you have to set up goals. That’s the entire important note of PC building is what you’re building it for and how long you want it to last for as in, how long until you’re wanting to build another?

There’s too much of that going on.

It isn’t because we don’t care about Taiwan, Ukraine, Gaza, Palestine, Hong Kong .etc when we say we can’t do much for them. It is because we physically can’t, because we’re not in positions of power that would help make that change. All we are, are just voices and there is only so much voices could do and those voices ended up getting silenced because of people in positions of power.

That’s because it’s their project. Not yours.

So the only win here is that you got to extend your time on Windows 10 for one year. That isn’t saying much because you’re just going to confront the same issues again, a year later. Again, do yourself a favor and grab the Windows 10 version that guarantees you til 2032. By then, you could skip Windows 11 entirely and see what else is on the horizon.

Good, because fuck that platform and its parasitic hold on society.

That art style makes it look like a very uninspired, cookie-cutout of a generic RPG you’d find on mobile.

I suspect you are gaslighting or something here.

But this is pretty dumb logic you’re presenting. Okay then, by your logic, Hitler didn’t kill the jews during WW2. He just simply said he wanted them not to be in his country or anything. But he didn’t kill them, he just sent them away and had other people do the killing for him.

You know better.

I guess the sales are what you make of it. I mean, it’s easy for me to say that the sales suck because I and probably others, have been spoiled filthily with great sales of the past. Like 2010 - 2018 was the greatest time for video game sales with staggering discounts that have given the Steam Sale its reputation.

Nowadays you have to really spread yourself out. IsThereAnyDeal shows me that GameBillet appears to have better sales than Steam’s in comparison.

They aren’t.

You’ll maybe see a handful of games convince you that the prices are low because a select few of them have deep discounts. But I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen games retain their price point regardless of what event it is.

Mario uses Chrome and that’s why Browser hates him.

People make this more complicated than is needed. We already know who these people are. We already know what kind of wealth they’re wielding. Why do we pretend as if we don’t and we need to re-assess this?

Stardew Valley and Terraria are the only games I know of where their developers are keeping them alive.

Yeah but, how likely is it that they’ll ever see such a fate?

Next to zero. This is all just fantasizing.

Oh my god, I’m actually stoked.

If these roms cover some of the menu splash screens for the months when it was available, I’d love it even more. Because there was a project or a DIY thing out there where you can build RetroArch to emulate a Sega Channel system that functions. If you had the ROMs of the games and everything. This would bolster that.

I also hope that there’s the BreakThru game for the Sega Genesis. Because I remembered way back in the day that game was on the Sega Channel, but never got a console release? It was on the SNES but for some reason Sega or the developer or publisher never made an official release.

Not if you’re used to the idea of having so many abandoned instances to where people could start reporting them as being abandoned.