Blueberrydreamer @ Blueberrydreamer @lemmynsfw.com

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It can, but definitely doesn't in this case. The systems in question in DD2 are identical to the first game. There's nothing in the game at all that encourages you to spend money or alerts you that you can. Frankly I wouldn't have even known these micro transactions existed if there wasn't so much online drama about it.

So what games have you played in the last decade? This is the industry, you might as well complain about predatory concession prices at movie theaters. Is it shitty? Sure. But it's a trap for the ignorant, and frankly I can only go so far to try to protect people from throwing away their money on stupid things.

So who are you voting for then? You continue to avoid the real question.

I mean, I certainly haven't noticed that. Even if you don't like your character, you can still easily buy the item in game. I've only been playing about 5 hours and can easily afford to change my character appearance 5 times over.

That ship sailed over a decade ago. You can look at the current gaming landscape and pretend this isn't already normalized. Compared to most AAA game releases, this is a step in the right direction.

There are no power ups in DD2, just mostly minor conveniences.

Nothing against the mod creator, this just seems kinda pointless? Like, everything is already available in game. Unless you just want to remake your character a dozen times I can't see any reason to take the time to download it.

Why? Like, I generally draw a pretty hard line with predatory games, but this just seems pointless. There's nothing you can get from the MTX that you can't easily get through normal gameplay. It's admittedly a trap for the ignorant, but a pretty pointless one.

'Not supporting a genocide' is not a candidate running for election.

Nobody here wants to support genocide. It's not brave statement, it's fucking common sense. But the options are 'a guy who's weakly attempting to deescalate things' and 'hurry up and finish your genocide already'. If you truly don't want to support genocide, there's a clear pick.

How do you have so much time to spend on this website trying to convince people not to vote? How does someone so passionately stand for absolutely nothing? I've seen these same posts from you over and over and over again, yet you never actually have anything to say besides 'both sides bad, don't vote.'

If you have a better option, I'd love to hear it. But if not, maybe shut the fuck up and quit turfing for Trump.

They completely cut off their society from the rest of the world, it's not like any African gets a pass in, they don't allow anyone that isn't Wakandan. It was like, a pretty significant plot point.

"Attachment" is not the same as connection. The concept the Jedi are talking about is the Buddhist idea of attachment. It's possessiveness, codependency, fear of loss. One cannot be fully connected to anything they're attached to.

You've been misled by the Sith propaganda my friend.

The weed is far better at that. Still, at least I have enough sense to know what an opinion is.

Not an opinion, just an ignorant statement of fact.

Obviously, most of Mega's traffic is piracy, they have no interest in doing that. The point is it's an actual comparison instead of the nonsense you brought up.

Of course no individual site is going to singlehandedly stop criminal acts. Glad you agree it would be exactly as effective as I suggested.

I mean, I know Google has been shitty lately, but Wikipedia isn't hard to find: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterrence_(penology)

I'd wager Nintendo has put some fear into a few folks considering developing emulators, but that's the only comparison to be made here. The lack of any real consequences for individuals downloading roms is why so many are happy to publicly proclaim their piracy.

Now, I bet if megaupload added an AI that checked users uploads for copyrighted titles and gave everyone trying to upload them a warning about possible jail time, we'd see a hell of a lot less roms and movies on mega.

But having that tracking shown to you has a very powerful psychological effect.

It's pretty well established that increasing penalties for crimes does next to nothing to prevent those crimes. But what does reduce crime rates is showing how people were caught for crimes, making people believe that they are less likely to 'get away with it'.

Being confronted with your own searches is an immediate reminder that the searcher is doing something illegal, and that they are not doing so unnoticed. That's wildly different than abstractly knowing that you're probably being tracked somewhere by somebody among billions of other people.

Do you have any examples of that? I'm certainly no expert in this subject, so I'd love to know more.

I absolutely agree. But it's up to Congress to actually do that. That's the branch of government that has failed here.

That's a problem with Congress. That doesn't change the fact that we should not give Republicans a new route to undermine the voting process.