Thread:Velt211/@comment-2003:D6:4722:2E2A:DD17:3F8A:F36C:2C58-20190924042015/@comment-2003:D6:4713:5CCC:B81B:F31D:F917:B43C-20191002211455

You mean the Virtua Fighter ones in particular? Hehe, well, it is/was THE 3D series, so it likely sold a decent amount in Japan. I know I would have bought it if I was a fan of the series (playing it). Yeah, it was old Sony, they would have found a way for sure. The start might have been more difficult or delayed.....well, that would have maybe helped Sega out to be honest. Oh well. Haven't heard of that one before. At least cigarettes ads got curtailed a bit, so something like that likely wouldn't be allowed these days either. MAME? Isn't that the emulator for arcade stuff though? I've found some scanned (Japanese) magazines on archive.org...not the ones or the kind I was looking for though. Well, the Wii version wasn't even Mario Kart only. It included bikes which were meh. So clearly false advertisment which makes the game worse :P To be fair, one can't really measure their intelligence if they basically never use it. Then again, I wouldn't really put "dumb" together with intelligent. You can be intelligent but dumb at the same time. You can even be "learned" and dumb at the same time, in my opinion. "Dumb", I think, is more a general thing: How you assess situations, how you react, what you think is reasonable. Well, hard to argue about something like this, I prefer to stick with the German language in that regard as words often have a more specific meaning (or connotation) in each language and can't be translated that easily.

"All the name"? I really shouldn't be typing when I'm tired, clearly. In general, haven't slept a full 8 hours in weeks which doesn't seem to have good effects -.- Possibly. There are so many things which will just suck on your battery. For instance, in phones, when it's constantly searching for W-LAN connections. The PS2 also got tons of VNs or anime games. I don't think the XBOX had any. Then again, why buy those on a console when they are also available on the PC, uncensored even. So like 90% of those VNs likely weren't worth getting. The anime games still count though. Japan also produced some detective games which I'm generally a fan of (as a German, no surprise here). XBOX lacked those. But, as you say, a far larger library also means a lot more mediocre games. I'm generally fine with those. As long as they aren't bad games, it's ok. And even the bad games aren't that bad if you don't buy and play them, hehe. Hm, tough to say. The EU is really hit & miss in my opinion. The hits feel like it's genuine and the misses are what happens when lobbying plays too major a role...or you have some particular people that don't know what they are talking about. Technology is always something some older people struggle with for instance.

Yep, I do know how the publishers would argue. They have good reasons not to publish physical at all: They have more control (pricing, patching, pulling it off a platform etc), they don't have production costs, they aren't left with any games if they can't sell them all and so on. They might miss out on sales but considering that these days, publishers are milking less people than they chould potentially reach for more, in the end, it doesn't matter to them. If some people are willing to pay more, despite worse condition, then screw the others that abstain due to the publisher's policies. But yeah, I still think doing limited run releases on a central website would work, even for them. After all, those happen some time after the game was already released. No idea to be honest. I'm not really into porn. Some guy had to tell me about the largest "publishers"(?) once but I already forgot about it. I think Bangbros(?) was one of those. Basically yeah. I think the prostitution industry would survive though. Lots of people would still prefer the "natural" way. I know I wouldn't want genetic engineering if I had a child for example. There are some lines, when it comes to technology, that some people aren't really willing to cross. That might be one of those. The human <-> machine relation is certainly an interesting one. How many people would want implants and the like? Well, at least we don't have to worry too much about that. It's too early for the technology and we will likely be dead by then when it becomes really relevant. Can't really comment on that since I don't watch TV (I don't really count anime being that, even though most shows were aired on the TV back in the day) and as such have no such box. I also don't know anyone that does. In the end, it's a volatile field and it will be interesting to see where it goes next. One thing I can say though: Screw Disney. I hope their service fails (although I'm rather certain that it won't). Well, "weren't". The project is dead basically. I did read about the reasons for that a decently long time ago, so I already basically forgot about it again. But the reasons for stopping were varied. Some were due to internal Google stuff but some were obviously also due to the opposition they faced from the old and fat ISPs who screw over customers and country alike and continue to amass money.

Is it? I have no natural inclination towards picking a side. I automatically look at pros and cons and that's it. Of course, there are enough issues where I say: "Nope". Like, I wouldn't buy anything from some super awful company like EA, Disney etc. So I'm heavily on one site but those are pretty unimportant things. I don't know, people aren't black and white. It's a spectrum and I am, with my opinion (if I even have one) somewhere on that. Let's say you are neutral towards your parents and they are fighting. Would you pick a side, even though you say it's natural? I certainly wouldn't. Things are rarely as simple as they seem. Maybe if four boys pick on some smaller one, then it's somewhat obvious but those are rare cases, in my opinion. Hm? I would prefer if those games would be allowed, no issues, and the brutal games would be censored, like how it was before. I generally prefered our system of sex and nudity = yes, blood and gore = meh over the American one where it's the other way around. I would say that sex and nudity are more natural things than blood and gore...well, at least these days...hopefully. Back in the days of Rome, a lot of people had mental issues because they witnessed murder, slaughter etc as a child (or even when they were older). So while that has always accompanied people, it's not really a natural thing, I would argue, despite something like bloodlust existing. Sex and nudity is basically always fine, unless there is some abuse going on. Ah, and on some cases of censorship, people never really cared: Like the humans in C&C being robots.

I guess that has something to do with it. If you are a reasonable human being, you likely watch more...mature (if you want to call it like that) streamers. There are enough that you immediately recognize as being awful that do those kind of things. However, children aren't really good at seeing those people for what they are, so they fall right into the whole mess. It also reminded me of that whole CS:GO gambling website issue with Trevor Martin and some other guy. Children were likely the largest group that watched these people. Hehe, most likely. The EU is fine, although they have changed some things to make it more "secure" which is pretty garbage. You need two out of three security things now.

“Knowledge” (something only the payer knows): e.g. password or PIN “Possession” (something only the payer possesses): e.g. token or smartphone “Inherence” (something that identifies the payer): e.g. fingerprints, facial marks or voice.

So yeah, pretty awful since I will certainly not give them my phone number or install some shitty app. Also, no biometrics bs either. At least Paypal isn't affected but buying via a card (CC) is for example Well, it's in Japan. They often really suck at basic IT things. At least that's the most likely option, can't even think of alternatives since the website becomes less relevant by day and the publishers also get more annoyed by the website.

NoScript is really good though. Wouldn't want to live without it. Adblock Plus has become pretty meh. I started using it as soon as I got DSL back in 2005 and switch several years ago since they sold out and had other issues. I'm not sure several layers of adblocking work that well. At least the IT crowd said it's not really good. Well, it can just be hell if you are a night person like me. At least I work decently fine with just 4 hours of sleep...at least until noon.

Was pretty annoyed yesterday. Got two games from different shops. Both had those awful barcodes on them which the shop didn't bother to remove and which were planted right on the shrinkwrap (smarter shops don't do that). So I tried to remove them (one game even had two of those >_<) and both times the shrinkwrap tore. Now I can buy those games again...and since it came via a forwarding service, no refunds possible. Being a collector sucks...and it's expensive.