recurring cost to rent a multiplayer server though, maybe that was it

due to the way causality works it would be pretty difficult to tell a story in any genre where someone's opportunities in life are not strongly correlated to circumstances from their past that are outside of their control (like their birth)

And he's right! It might not be as good as the games that came before it or after it but that bar is so high that it can still be a great game despite it

yeah this is exactly how it works for "self-driving" cars: https://gmauthority.com/blog/2023/11/cruise-av-operations-require-1-5-remote-employees-per-vehicle-report-claims/

I bought a PS5 so I could play PS4 games without having a jet engine in my living room and it's absolutely fantastic for that. Also Demon's Souls was very pretty and faithful to the original, very fun to get the platinum. Returnal was ok too.

Been like a decade since I touched usenet but I do recall that requests were pretty common. Especially since the content expires. With a 5 year old torrent there's a decent chance you'll find a couple of seeders even on a public tracker and get it eventually, but with usenet that stuff does eventually rot away and you'll have to request a reup.

Yeah no, applications need to be secure by default. Blaming the user does nothing to actually improve the security posture anywhere. The security posture of the app needs to be specifically designed with the least-skilled users in mind because they are also the most vulnerable to this type of problem. Google meanwhile is full of talented engineers who are experts at identifying and combatting this type of malware scam.

To look at it another way, what google is actually doing here is intentionally exposing their users to malware in order to take a cut in the form of advertising revenue.

EVE online, the game of undiagnosed autists calling each other autists

There are periods in the game's history where various formats were well designed and balanced and thus had a wide degree of viable decks, making the game generally enjoyable to actually play at both a casual and serious level.

Unfortunately practically nobody can agree on when those times actually are.

Draft and seald formats have also been consistenly popular and they completely exclude the collection aspect.

Same and I'm only 35 years old

started hitting goblins with my axe, one, two skip a few, 19 levels later, here I am, hitting an otherwordly nightmare with my axe

Using a commercial VPN does not "hide" your data, it makes it available to a different party. Sometimes this is still useful, like when your ISP has a monoply and is overtly hostile to what you're doing with your internet connection, or you just want a simple bypass for region blocking. But for a lot of people it's lateral move or maybe even a downgrade considering the added latency and that many VPN services are also quite shady.