Hey man, you know I'm really okay.
XP was plagued by viruses, I don't know how anyone can long for it besides nostalgia
Skyward Sword was the breaking point for me. I was INCREDIBLY hyped for the game pre-release, but it ended up being one of the biggest turds in the Zelda franchise.
You can tolerate being let down that much only once.
Mostly this.
except Star Wars. Broke my heart one too many times
It's also because it costs money to print them out, while a digital ad costs nearly nothing.
because we now live in a world where people want that escape, and the better alternatives are dwindling.
I miss when the ads were also the coupon...
Most of my playtime over the past five years has been indie PC games with graphics that cover the whole spectrum of stylized to intentionally retro looking. Because at the end of the day it's a game and it should be fun to play.
As sad as this might sound, being hyped for stuff can sometimes keep people alive.
You always need something to look forward to. A reason to keep going.
Even if it's as petty as some form of entertainment, that's still something.
I remember when I was younger, sometimes just the release date of a video game, a book, or a movie, was enough to make me yearn for the future.
Marking my calendar. Dreaming about it. Imagining how I hoped it would turn out. Coming up with my own ideas around it. Just sparking my imagination and giving me joy.
If you have gotten to a point in your life where you arent hyped for anything...I'd be a little concerned.
Where were you earlier? I've already had a bad day.
Actually it wasn't a super terrible day, just a fairly typical Monday at work.
I think it's fine advice to allow yourself to not know about every bad thing going on, but it's not gonna make most people's struggles go away. If you have a shitty job that doesn't pay enough to live on, or you live somewhere that makes it difficult to make friends, or countless other problems, those won't be fixed so easily
Me? You'd be correct. I hate twitch. Is Pepe the twitch mascot or something?
Cartoon frog for incels who think they're cute.
The only sport I follow is Strongman which is always a free for all format and generally speaking every participant is happy to see everyone else perform well and most of the fans enjoy it regardless of who wins. Any trash talking by fans on behalf of a particular athlete is almost always shot down by both other fans and the athletes themselves.
if anything I think AI is a conspiracy to create power hogs to justify the expansion of power companies to offset losses from new green technology
I get what you're saying but I simply don't have the privilege or options to do everything you probably think I should be doing. I'm fucking trying, okay?
Ok so you'd rather be ignorant and ignore a link that proves you wrong. Reading is not hard.
God damn, you're older than I thought. Millennials may indeed be the first to take mental health more seriously and be open about it, but I'm guessing you just think that makes us snowflakes.
*shrug*
Read the link. They wouldn't have had any income in the first place.
You don't take anything if you download a game, you copy it.
You will own nothing and be happy, you will eat the bugs, you will live in a pod.
If you don't have enough faith in your product to produce a hard copy, I won't have any faith in it either.
or... "digital has no value to me"
Copyright infringement is not theft. Going into a store and taking something is.
Since you don't own the games, you can't steal them.
Piracy isn't stealing.
My house in the GC game felt like a home, but my house in NH was just a part of my island that gave me a little bit of extra ability to micromanage. A "home" in a game should feel like a a place of stability and control that you can come back to when you take a break from the rest of the game world, but when I control the entire world like I do in NH, "home" doesn't really matter anymore.
Since you don't own the games, you can't steal them.
Piracy isn't stealing.
Also I will say, while Gen Z is pretty awful, at least theyre not making iPad kids. Thats entirely millennials doing.
what about the people who only played it because it was free?