They named their startup “Joi”.

It has to be a joke.

A couple weeks ago I posted about being careful driving down a certain major street in the city because there were some very reckless drivers going up and down it. Doing shit like swerving between traffic through the smallest possible gaps, riding bumper to bumper, illegal u-turns (I actually witnessed them come to a red light, turn right onto the cross street, immediately pull a u-turn, then turn right again back onto the street we were originally on) and going like 60 in a 40 zone. I even called the cops because it was absolutely ridiculous.

On the discord people either ignored it, or were completely dismissive of it saying things like “well don’t drive there if people are going to be idiots.”

It just gives me the ick when a self-proclaimed furry/fedora wearer is constantly talking to teenagers on a message board about how their day was at school.

Because that’s literally what the conversations are. I’m sure it’s not as bad as it is in my head, but don’t go around literally calling yourself a furry and fedora guy, then talk to minors as if they’re equal peers that understand how the world works.

I never knew of anyone who didn’t use their school-issued devices for anything other than browser games most of the time. They literally used it for games rather than school work.

You can’t hand them the reins and then complain that they’re even worse now. Schools are partially to blame for all this electronics bullshit kids are into these days. A lot of middle and high schools almost require students to have a fucking iPad these days.

There’s a local discord server for my city that was set up by users/mods of the subreddit for my city, and I joined a few years ago before I quit reddit.

It fucking sucks. Everyone just going on about random bullshit that doesn’t even matter, but anytime I try to say something and bring attention to a local issue, I get fucking ignored or downright disagreed with like there really are no problems around here.

Also, it’s a very mixed group of ages. You have adults in their 40s-60s messaging with literal teenagers who are still in high school, and actively messaging in the discord while they’re at school most days. So you have adults talking with teens as if their equal peers on issues that adults should no longer concern themselves with; but I shouldn’t be surprised when the Midwest produces exclusively “adult children” who still think the world works like social circles work in high school.

One of the men on the server, who’s discord bio personally claims he’s a furry and says he’s in his late 30s-early 40s, is constantly talking to the younger users and it just gives me a bad feeling each time I see it. But I can’t call them on it, because it’s one big clique, and it fucking sucks.

And the purchase I made for the game was basically rendered pointless when they went F2P, there was no thought or talk of that license having an expiration date until the “content vault” happened.

And then the “vault” itself being an entire legal loophole just so they could delete the entire game people paid money for. People say the data still exists somewhere and it would be too much work to update it all to the new engine, but that’s just cope. It doesn’t exist anymore; they had to use third-party evidence, which is inadmissible, in their big court case, which tells me that it doesn’t exist anymore.

What a goddamn shitshow.

Edit: all that said, if I bought the physical copy of the game, I should still be able to access and play the removed content, because my “license” didn’t change or technically expire.

Apparently even if you have a physical copy of a game, you’re SoL. Even the physical disc is only just a “license” to play the game. You don’t actually have rights with it apparently.

Which is fucking bullshit. Almost nothing else in the world works like that. Once you own something, it’s yours and you can do whatever the fuck you want with it, except video games.

Hell yes another Session player. OP if you like skate games or the Skate series at all, give this one a try. It’s like EA Skate, but even more a PITA because of how realistic it is. I say PITA but I honestly love it. There are tons of settings to tweak the entire experience however you like it, customization and a bit of a story to follow but it’s really just there to teach you how to play.

I haven’t finished Signalis or probably even got that far, but it is very cool and very creepy.

I don’t care, they should still put all the content people fucking paid for back into the game, as well as all the other shit they deleted from it in the name “gAmE hEaLtH” (still an absolute dogshit “reason” to delete all the content your fans actually paid for).

For one, it would mean damn near everyone would jump back on to play again, and two it would be a massive olive basket from the devs who are still left working there.

The biggest thing is people paid for that content and with almost zero warning it got fucking deleted with no real way of bringing it back. What a stupid fucking decision. They killed their own game.

I’ve heard the same things, that it’s payable and still with 90% of the content made for it. I bought the “gold edition” years ago when Destiny 2 first released (yes I also bought D2) so I do have access to all the expansions.

I’m gonna have to go dig my disc out of storage.

All you have to do is watch broadcast television to see the myriad ads, apps and companies that all want your money and time.

Honestly they probably could’ve used a current picture of him and gotten the same result. He’s a good-looking guy.

I’m just giving a reason why people might like it so much. Rhythm games, especially interactive ones, are pretty popular.

Why do you think they made so many Guitar Hero and Rockband games?

What other game could I actually go into anyone’s home and see exactly how they live? What other game could I play that lets me pick up and look at, in detail, anything that isn’t nailed down (forks, pieces of paper, charcoal, etc)? What other games create a living breathing world where characters have full schedules and lives programmed into them (more games are coming out with these types of features though)?

People just like being able to exist in a detailed world like that, and almost no other game comes close to that level of immersion imo.

Idk, it’s just a more interactive Guitar Hero imo.

I have not played it myself.

Imo it helps if you play on creative or something, so there’s no real worry and you can explore how you want.

Doordash delivers for Papa John’s, Little Caesar’s, and just about any other pizza place that aren’t just local places.

I’m feeding the troll one last time:

We’re upset with this person in particular because they’re a goddamn hypocrite, who would absolutely immediately use the same tools their bosses use to spy on them if the tables were turned.

Now I don’t want to see or hear anything else from you. We’re done. You have your answer, you’ve gotten your answer with almost every single reply to each of your comments in this thread.

Go away.

You’re the one who’s deleting comments and leaving new ones, just so I keep getting notifications, thereby harassing me.

Just stop.