@TopBep you forget the people will defend even the most broken products, like 2077. there are countless videos about how so-and-so product is "underrated" or not as bad as it was considered in the past. we live in a world judged by those with no standards and no knowledge of the past, so they will blindly accept every new thing until the end of time.
@Meemoo@Giganova8 well yes, but i mean that will grow to some extent should real pirating alternatives go south. the actual margin may vary, but with demand will certainly come dedicated newblood.
i'm curious what the future of DRM will be. we're in an age of over-positivity, so gamers might just get used to it and even defend it; but there is a chance the backlash will stand and something will happen. on the plus side, it does make for an efficient filter: i'll just play MMBN on an emulator or on a DS
this is why i think the solution is increasingly inner exclusive circles. a preferable future is one where pirating games and software is a skill to be taken up, and when you want a game you just ask someone in your circle who knows how to do it. however, i think it's also highly likely that all the games worth pirating have probably already been made, so most people will simply not try the game at all if they can't pirate.
gaming will begin to divide into sectors, one for the mainstream and another for genuine gamers. we see this already with the indie genre. if the trend of AAA games continues, we may see an even wider chasm grow, and maybe a third option of full-featured open-source games. and obviously that won't count chaps like me who'll keep playing old, already-pirated games.
@MoeBritannica he's talking like this is a problem now and not just the way it's been since the inception of games. don't pretend things have suddenly gotten like this.
there have been recent changes to Discord's ToS regarding privacy. as if they weren't monitoring stuff before, they have given themselves even more room to snoop. i think most people here know discord is enemy territory, but i urge everyone to consider alternatives.
In kanji, pain and happiness are only separated by a single stroke. That piece of wordplay is the lynchpin of Shin Kamen Rider, Hideaki Anno's latest reimagining of a tokusatsu classic. I have not watched the 1971 series, but I have watched a solid amount of Kamen Rider Black, and many of the same themes apply. Pursuing happiness, dealing with loneliness, one man against the world; given his work with Evangelion, Anno was definitely suited for the job of portraying the feelings of all the characters. Both heroes and villains received solid characterizations and motivations, even if some were short-lived, and fed into the symbolism of their animal-themed suits and powers. The action was perfect, a mix of classic choreography and camera work combined with cgi used in a manner evocative of films like Sam Raimi's Spider-Man (albeit with more violent impacts). It only failed in one sequence, where perhaps it was a stylistic choice, poor lighting, or just poor theater screening, but it was far too dark to make out moves until an explosion lit up the night at the conclusion; besides that, it was solid.
I love this film a great deal. My friend is a complete normie, his only experience with foreign films being Parasite, yet he enjoyed and understood the movie and we talked a great deal afterwards about it. If Shin Kamen Rider is (still) playing in your area, go watch it.
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