Ruby crystals and ruby gemstoes are wholly different things. While the original stone is large, you don’t need to be a gemologist to know the rubies that go for $30 mil (the ones the South African Chinese oil traffickers like to buy) don’t look like dyed marble. They look like a clear cut piece of coloured glass.
This is “the world’s biggest ruby” the same way I’m the world’s biggest marxist (by volume and nothing else).
which one is keemstar
one of the reason that cloning happens is because china has very strict laws on what can be depicted in games, no nudity, blood, death, etc. so a lot of these chinese-local games are simply filling in the gaps of western games that will never release there to begin with
no, not the toilet dimension
moar liek dr kid inspect
OOOHHH, nvm, sorry, i was out of the loop on this one, flew right over my head
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there are dozens of us, dozens
that’s funny because most people that either play shooters don’t know how good gyro aiming is, and refuse to use it, so even if they did add it, it would probably not matter at all
Schrodinger’s wokery makes a game woke only if it sold poorly, if it sold well, then there’s nothing to see here, please move on. I remember chuds lambasting BG3 while it was in early access, but when it launched and it became popular, they all shut up and moved on to the next target.
Whatever petty rights you retain over physical media is only because publishers didn’t find a good way to take them away for now.
To use a very very stupid example (it’s late give me some slack) you can buy a tomato and eat it, but if you plant the seeds of the tomato, you might get blackbagged by monsanto or whoever, because you only got a licence to eat the tomato, not to plant it. And it doesn’t get more “physical” than shit you buy to eat. Digitalisation is coming for everything.
As for physical game libraries, I don’t think they are piracy, no. As for game emulation, it could be piracy because most games are encrypted on disk and only the publisher’s $300 machine is allowed to decrypt it without falling foul of the DMCA.
I think people should be making the moral and ethical case for game ownership (and game piracy). My point is more, I don’t want to need a bachelor’s in law or ethics to justify piracy because i think piracy in and of itself is value neutral.
Nowhere, you don’t own jack shit.
I also dislike the growing conflation between video game preservation and video game access. Preservation means the video game museum has a copy of every Atari game ever made and visiting scholars can consult their library. It doesn’t mean you, Joe Schmo, have access to them, and you won’t. The games are perfectly preserved either way.
This reached its peak when i was browsing the web page for one of the Yuzu knockoffs (that got taken down by nintendo shortly thereafter) that had a tagline like “we care about video game preservation” written above screenshots from Super Mario Odyssey and Breath of the Wild. Brother, those games sold millions of copies, we are never, ever, in a million years, going to “lose” them.
We already have a word for you being able to access a video game in a way that that game’s original publisher did not intend: piracy.
Everyone wants to pretend they have some sort of moral or legal case as to why they can access those games in different ways and they don’t. But they have to justify this because they’re weak cowards that are afraid of being associated with piracy (which, for the record, i think piracy owns, lmao).
This went back to the Yuzu devs. Couldn’t have happened to a better band of clowns. They actively sabotaged and pissed on projects that made Switch piracy easier because they’re the ones that are doing it the right and legal way. So when the news broke, I was doing whippets over it.
Moral of the story, don’t be a coward, pirate games. And don’t try to pass it off as something else, you’ll only be hurting your own case.
the crossbow was reintroduced in europe around the year 1000, i don’t know what they’re smoking
(looked into it, it was removed for gameplay balance purposes, lmao)
imagine typing this much when you could just post the nword with the same effect
The fallout was that the Chinese government bought the bottom and all the wall street dipshits than invested in the stock lost their money. The Chinese government has always posited that speculating on the price of housing is a social ill and they’ve always pulled stunts like this to curb companies that try to start this hype cycle. This time western investors lost money so that’s why we heard so much about it.
tl;dr it’s in state custody now
Hypocrisy is like a power button you can press to get anyone who wanted an “out” to disagree with someone to go “that’s enough for me, owned, lmao” and then never think about it again, no matter how stupid the framing is. Argue with people you think are more likely to change their mind. If the point is to argue at the audience and not the person themselves, then the conversation changes.
rules based order!
nobody, it’s a display piece in an art museum somewhere, it’s not for sale