treos said:
yep, steam is some pretty nice DRM. sounds like a "it'd be an awful shame if something were to happen to your account" situation. basically holding the games ransom without charging money past the initial purchase prices.

servers go down...you lose or forget your login info... there's a lot of things that could happen and cause you to lose all those games you spent money on. and it's all thanks to the wonders of DRM.

Which is why all the games on my phone are offline friendly. They have online features but I can play them offline without much hassle (and dodge most of the ads, too. :P). I really don't like needing an internet connection to play a game without a good reason (eg. multiplayer) since I don't always have access to a decent wi-fi hotspot which unfortunately means I can't play many good games (Fire Emblem Heroes, Tales of the Rays, etc.) due of the online requirement. I actually have a list on my computer of games that I've installed, played once, then uninstalled because I later found out they don't work offline.

BlueDingo said:
That's what I thought, but didn't know for sure since I don't have a Steam account. It would really suck if you wanted to play a Steam game but couldn't because their servers were down. At least offline games won't cut you off when someone else's connection dies.

If that's the case then how is someone without a functioning internet connection meant to save their progress? Unless an internet connection isn't required for setting up PSN/XBLA accounts, I don't know.

I can create a local account on my PS4 which will allow saving but can't go online unless I register it for PSN and pay for PSPlus, although you may want to connect online for some games to download patches that majorly fix the game if you have a chance. I wish I could say the same as the Xbox One though, since it literally was built around always being online. How do you even downgrade a 2013 console in such a way that the 2005 console that was very prone to overheating and the Red Ring of Death? this is the worst 7th gen to 8th gen "upgrade" I have ever heard of...

treos said:
yep, steam is some pretty nice DRM. sounds like a "it'd be an awful shame if something were to happen to your account" situation. basically holding the games ransom without charging money past the initial purchase prices.

servers go down...you lose or forget your login info... there's a lot of things that could happen and cause you to lose all those games you spent money on. and it's all thanks to the wonders of DRM.

When I go on Steam either during a maintenance period or when my internet connection is down, the most steam does is warn me if I play certain games that have cloud saves that what I play won't match my cloud save so I might have to choose whether to revert to my cloud save or to overwrite it with my current play data when I can connect to servers again.

it takes something special to earn my ire. i almost never feel anger whatsoever, only something as extreme as a video of a murder can cause my brain to form that emotion.

today i found out about the poster campaign around one college telling young "faggots" to kill themselves, with a caricature of a hanging man as the center piece. i wasn't angered by the act itself, but at my own helplessness.

biology conflicts itself for a mutual purpose. for our species we are both to destroy that which threatens a perception of family and preserve our general species. i was angered not by the fact that there are edgy, mentally-ill lunatics about, but by the fact that our culture and myself face this conflict which resolves itself in a feeling of helpless inaction.

it would be wrong to harm those freaks, and yet it would be wrong not to reenact "three guys, one hammer" with them in the chair. the sane among us are helpless but to allow both a perceptible wrong and right, spurning both our desire to protect the good among our species and our moral stagnation. when faced with these events that incur wrath, there is no solution but waiting for the bitterness to subside

child abuse: GET. THAT. BACK. PACK.

and you can clearly see that woman was using a belt at the 3:21 mark. a belt, multiple hits even after the kid started screaming in pain/fear. over a fucking backpack! my guess is he didn't want to go to school or something.

i wonder what kind of lasting effect that will have on this kid as the years go by. nothing positive i bet.

When I'm playing Skyrim, sometimes when I fast travel to or wait in a town, there's a chance that I may get attacked by a random event, wether it be vampires or a dragon or whatnot.

Why this makes me angry is because attacking any townmember will make the entire town hostile to me, meaning I can't really fight the threat without running the risk of accidentally hitting a civilian and pissing the whole town off. Basically, I have no choice but to let the townsfolk fight the threat, and that itself is risky because some of the townsfolk can actually die.

That, and the fact that certain enemy NPCs can use the killcam attack themselves, making a lot of fights unfair because I known that an enemy has the chance of instakilling me from near full health.

Chameloshi said:
When I'm playing Skyrim, sometimes when I fast travel to or wait in a town, there's a chance that I may get attacked by a random event, wether it be vampires or a dragon or whatnot.

Why this makes me angry is because attacking any townmember will make the entire town hostile to me, meaning I can't really fight the threat without running the risk of accidentally hitting a civilian and pissing the whole town off. Basically, I have no choice but to let the townsfolk fight the threat, and that itself is risky because some of the townsfolk can actually die.

That, and the fact that certain enemy NPCs can use the killcam attack themselves, making a lot of fights unfair because I known that an enemy has the chance of instakilling me from near full health.

If you're playing on a platform that allows mods you can actually make those events more bearable. When vampires attack and Run for your lives makes all NPCs that aren't guards run for safety when vampires and respective dragons attack. This drastically improves the chances that all NPCs actually survive, except for the random unnamed guards. Kill cams can be disabled as well with a mod like No Killmoves, the mod disables them for both the player and all NPCs, ensuring you can't be one-hit killed anymore.

NotMeNotYou said:
If you're playing on a platform that allows mods you can actually make those events more bearable. When vampires attack and Run for your lives makes all NPCs that aren't guards run for safety when vampires and respective dragons attack. This drastically improves the chances that all NPCs actually survive, except for the random unnamed guards. Kill cams can be disabled as well with a mod like No Killmoves, the mod disables them for both the player and all NPCs, ensuring you can't be one-hit killed anymore.

I do play in the PS4, but I just don't like using mods in general since they seem to take away from the experience for me.

And I can't really get mods anyway since the PS4 doesn't have access to Wi-Fi.

Chameloshi said:
I do play in the PS4, but I just don't like using mods in general since they seem to take away from the experience for me.

And I can't really get mods anyway since the PS4 doesn't have access to Wi-Fi.

That's why I heavily curate my mods and only use them to change things that negatively affect my experience, like for example dying NPCs because they think punching a high-level vampire is a smart idea.

NotMeNotYou said:
That's why I heavily curate my mods and only use them to change things that negatively affect my experience, like for example dying NPCs because they think punching a high-level vampire is a smart idea.

It may have been a smart idea, if they were monks...

Chameloshi said:
When I'm playing Skyrim, sometimes when I fast travel to or wait in a town, there's a chance that I may get attacked by a random event, wether it be vampires or a dragon or whatnot.

Why this makes me angry is because attacking any townmember will make the entire town hostile to me, meaning I can't really fight the threat without running the risk of accidentally hitting a civilian and pissing the whole town off. Basically, I have no choice but to let the townsfolk fight the threat, and that itself is risky because some of the townsfolk can actually die.

That, and the fact that certain enemy NPCs can use the killcam attack themselves, making a lot of fights unfair because I known that an enemy has the chance of instakilling me from near full health.

I'm on my third run of skyrim, a legendary run on lvl 76. I wasn't bugged by that at all, but god damn was it annoying when a random NPC died and I had to reload a save just to get attacked again and try to safeguard them.

Some boy at the whiterun stables didn't get that luxury as my last save was over an hour ago and that was probably the only time I'll ever find myself at the whiterun stables lol. Rip in a dead vampire doggo random stable person

treos said:
child abuse: GET. THAT. BACK. PACK.

and you can clearly see that woman was using a belt at the 3:21 mark. a belt, multiple hits even after the kid started screaming in pain/fear. over a fucking backpack! my guess is he didn't want to go to school or something.

i wonder what kind of lasting effect that will have on this kid as the years go by. nothing positive i bet.

As someone who has many times been on the receiving end of worse, I can tell you that amount of striking is definitely not discipline. That's abuse.

BlueDingo said:
As someone who has many times been on the receiving end of worse, I can tell you that amount of striking is definitely not discipline. That's abuse.

that much is clear when she continued after the child started screaming and crying. might leave a comment about it on Tommy Sotomayor's channel sometime since he deals with that sort of thing a lot.

edit: Halloween Costumes Are Not Cultural Appropriation

yep, it's october again.

people, PLEASE do not listen to SJWs like these 2 girls...EVER!

Libtards Want These Halloween Costumes Banned!

sorry, kids, but it's halloween again and that means it's time for people to try and ban some of your halloween costumes and kill any fun you might otherwise have had.

Pretty sure I didn't stutter.