If it was completely fake, then yeah I guess it would be vegan. But that doesn’t mean a vegan would still want a fake “real” steak. Not all vegans want that taste and also in this hypothetical may also not want to be reminded of the shit that had to go down for real steaks.

Also vegan and I use arch, btw.

Streaming for discovery and daily ease of use. Bandcamp to buy FLACs of my favourites. That’s what I do.

I’ve been using Qobuz for like a year now, highly recommend

I love all of the soundtracks mind but everything since 2 has just been iterations of what we got in 2 (and i don’t mean that in a bad way), but they’ve never revisited the style of 1 and I’d love to hear elements of that brought back into the soundtrack of a future installment.

Since writing my comment, I’ve watched a video on paralives which coincidentally comes out in a few days and that is looking to be shaping up to be a spiritual successor to my theoretical Sims 3.5. So I’m excited to play that now haha. Hope their soundtrack is on point.

I enjoyed it for a time as a second screen game. Was great when not a lot was happening at work during covid.

Yeah as a fan of the series it’s annoying because there is no “best game”.

Sims 2 has loads of content, but sims only age if they’re in the current household so you end up with children that have moved out of their parents end up being the same age or older than their parents.

Sims 3 was arguably the best, even though it missed some of that “extra detail charm” that 2 had. But it had that awesome “open world” feel and all sims aged appropriately.

Then Sims 4 came around with the best Build Mode and Mood system out of the series that it now makes 2 and 3 feel not as good anymore. But then you lose all of the REALLY cool stuff 3 added to the series. 4 kind of feels like it pretended 3 never happened.

The best Sims would be a theoretical 3.5 combining the best out of 3 and 4. And then to go the extra mile they could add all of the extra detail flourish 2 has. (And personally also if they bring back the piano jazz of 1).

Even when two sides are bad, one is always worse than the other

Almost like a Super-LTS version of the kernel?

But at the time when they were trying to go independent it would’ve seemed a more accurate estimation of worth, it’s just weird that they kept that valuation and most likely added onto it by the time Sony was interested. But also Jim Ryan was obviously enamoured with the idea of live service games and Bungie already had a successful one running.

Linus always praises email. He does no social media and most of his internet usage is just email is what I gather from his conversations and interviews.

Hot Pursuit is the last Burnout game in my opinion. I love the handling in that game. MW is my fave but I definitely play Hot Pursuit more nowadays due to its pick up and play nature.

This is my favourite NFS and possibly overall racing game

Hard disagree, if you play 2, then go back to the first, they play so differently. Each iteration has movement getting even more fun than the last.

With halo and the staff that made it, you could argue they’d be worth that much but they didn’t.

Am i having deja vu? I think I’ve seen not only this post but also a lot of the comments

You’re doing a lot of speaking for me there, and putting words in my mouth I’ve not said. Never once did I say I’m pro DRM. Would I prefer if they didn’t do this at all? Obviously. You’re arguing with me for something I’m not fighting. I was not defending Sony, only disputing your claim that it’s made things noticeably worse for the general majority and my first comment was just explaining what the issue you barely described in your first comment even was.

Because of how locked down consoles are in their normal use anyway, this issue will barely, if at all affect anyone, who is using their console as intended. It’s obviously a completely different story for those that will eventually tinker and use it way beyond it’s eventual sunsetting. The console itself is technically already riddled with DRM anyway, even if they didn’t add this new countermeasure.

Once again, not advocating for DRM. I would rather the concept not exist at all. But this most recent drama has not changed a thing when it comes to your standard use of the console. There was already DRM involved beforehand.

In the end, I agree with you on your points on DRM itself.

But in reality it barely affects anyone who uses their PS5s normally though. It would only affect you if for whatever reason your internet is down for more than 14 days or you buy a game 13 days before they shut down services (at which I imagine they’d remove both this and the ability to refund during that period).

Like I said before it’s shitty they did this without explanation but also saying that this is negatively affecting everyone else just to stop a minority is just straight up false. Heck it had been in place for a while and nobody noticed a thing. It was a modder specifically trying to find exploits that blew the whistle on it and even then it was just that he saw a timer counting down in the same way PS+ games do.

Just so you’re aware the DRM issue was just that they now have an expiry during the return window because they had people buying a game, downloading it, taking their console off the network, refunding on the website, finishing the game in their own time and then reconnecting to the internet when they no longer want it which then locks you out of the game. The licence is perpetual once it’s past the return window. I don’t quite know what a better option in solving this other than the fact they should’ve just been up front with the changes to begin with.

Always push first if it doesn’t open you just bounce back and pull

Pee is stored in the balls