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ahornsirup, do gaming w I'm fine.
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Myron basically admits he’s full of shit in 2. Jet (perhaps not under that name) is a pre-war drug. It’s a complete nonissue.

pokemaster787,

I think there is merit to the “Myron is full of shit” theory for sure, but isn’t one of the primary ingredients in Jet Brahmin feces?

Can’t exactly imagine that existed pre-war

Kalothar,

Manure? Why does it have to be a two headed mutated cow instead of a regular cow

ahornsirup,
@ahornsirup@sopuli.xyz avatar

Also, just because the active ingredient semi-naturally occurs in brahmin dung (only if they’re fed a specific pre-war feed) doesn’t mean that that’s the only place where it can be found or that a cow/cow adjacent digestive tract is the only place where the requisite reactions can occur. Jet is basically inhaled meth, there’s no reason to assume that it can’t be mass manufactured.

Kalothar,

Is the reason the drugs names are fake because of censorship? Like they didn’t want a higher rating or something

dexa_scantron, do gaming w Man, gaming ads in the 90s were something else.
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It goes pretty hard, but it’s no “John Romero’s about to make you his bitch.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daikatana#/media/File:Daikatana_infamous_advertisement.jpg

GBU_28, do gaming w It's wild that they get away with charging for it

Just stop paying for it. After just a few weeks you’ll realize it was a silly addiction. There’s lots of great games that don’t require a subscription.

Krackalot,

Some people have friends they wanna play with. Or so I hear.

Swedneck,
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PC, steam deck

Nacktmull, do gaming w It's wild that they get away with charging for it

Laughs in PC gaming

c0mbatbag3l, do gaming w It's wild that they get away with charging for it
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“Imagine paying for the internet twice.” -PC Gamers

BiggestBulb, do gaming w It's wild that they get away with charging for it
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I'ma be the devil's advocate - even if they were free, eventually someone would have made it a subscription-based model since PSN servers cost money. Sure, it's not a lot of money, but it's money.

Cethin,

I’m not so sure. Steam servers also cost money. They make way more money from their cut of sales. On console the same thing happens. If not requiring the subscription gets more users, then you make more money by not having it.

They aren’t charging because it costs money to run. They’re charging because it’s more profitable.

PugJesus, do gaming w In this next game, you're a downtrodden anti-hero trying to survive in a dystopian world...
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Stealth games in 1981: "You have to escape from the literal fucking Nazis, who are seeking to genocide most of Europe."

Stealth games in 2019: "You are a goose"

Godric,

I just got that game a few weeks ago after having somehow completely missed it. I’ve never laughed harder being an absolute cunt to the whole town.

melisdrawing,

I love how much I relate to this comment. That game is so silly and delightful.

OmnislashIsACloudApp,

what game is it?

Godric,

Untitled Goose Game, currently half off on steam.

“It’s a lovely morning in the village and you are a horrible goose.”

capt_wolf,
@capt_wolf@lemmy.world avatar

Castle Wolfenstein was such a fun game! Not just one of the first stealth games, but one of the first procedurally generated games too! Most people think that it was Elite. Haven’t played or thought about it in a few years… Maybe I’ll fire it up tonight.

MudMan, do gaming w In this next game, you're a downtrodden anti-hero trying to survive in a dystopian world...
@MudMan@kbin.social avatar

Alternately, videogames now: I have a farm and it's the nicest farm of them all, and all the chickens have names and are demonstrably happy. Also I moonlight as an interior decorator for all my friends with whom I have deep personal relationships.

Just saying, we may be playing different types of games here.

Atomic, do gaming w It's wild that they get away with charging for it

I love paying for nintendo online so I can play splatoon 3 which runs on fucking p2p

TheMusicalFruit, do gaming w In this next game, you're a downtrodden anti-hero trying to survive in a dystopian world...

Nintendo is still making run, jump, eat this flower, collect the coins games and they’re still excellent.

Microplasticbrain, do gaming w It's wild that they get away with charging for it

Remember when sony had a few database hacks and all the bootlickers were like “see paid services are better!” Fuckin idiots

MajorHavoc, do gaming w It's wild that they get away with charging for it

There’s a lot of gamers in this thread too young to remember how overloaded and miserable the free console game servers were.

Microsoft was like “chuck us like ~$5 per month and we will put up enough servers so the games are actually playable”. At the time, it was the best deal available for console gaming.

Honestly an argument could be made it was the most economical way to play online, in general, at the time. The console cost was subsidized, and the online servers were arguably at-cost, and you really only needed to buy one copy of Halo to join the fun.

4grams, do gaming w It's wild that they get away with charging for it
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It’s why I went back to PC gaming. As an aging man with children, I am no longer interested in having a bleeding edge gaming machine so I went to consoles for a while. It was too painful keeping a subscription on something I don’t often play so I didn’t bother with a PS5 and got a steamdeck instead.

Tier1BuildABear, do gaming w I'm also looking forward to passing down my hoard of cartridges one day.
@Tier1BuildABear@lemmy.world avatar

My kid is going to end up with one of my hundred retro handhelds. “What games do you have Dad?” “Yes.”

The_Picard_Maneuver,
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Hundreds?! Like those old tiger electronics handhelds?

BruceTwarzen,

I loved and hated these shitty ass things

Tier1BuildABear,
@Tier1BuildABear@lemmy.world avatar

Hundreds is an exaggeration, I’ll admit lol. But I’ve probably got around 20 or so from retroid, anbernic, and miyoo, and each one has an SD card with pretty much every retro game on it up through PS1 :)

LinkOpensChest_wav, do gaming w I'm also looking forward to passing down my hoard of cartridges one day.
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I gave my nephew: My NES, N64, PS2, Gamecube, and Gameboy Advance, with all the games I had. He played the hell out of them! In many cases, he unlocked things I never had, and he’d always talk about them and his progress.

I’ll be honest – I miss those things a lot – but it was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made, seeing someone get to experience all those games for the first time, just like I had.

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