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  • If I have legally purchased content or an application, and that content or application is no longer available for some reason, then I feel justified pirating.

    A game that requires an online connection but the company took down the servers and won't release the code for example.

    There is no legitimate way for me to use the thing I already bought.

    Other than that, I'm just too lazy to do it any more.

    When I was young and poor, there was various software I did pirate, but now days there is nothing I need that the company won't pay for.

  • Yeah, I went console when I realised I wanted to spend time actually playing the game.

    Sure I'm missing out on the absolute highest settings, mods, etc.

    However, I spend 55 minutes out of an hour actually playing the game.

  • By lumping them all into the same category, it gives credibility to "religion".

    When you have a panel where "A priest, a rabbi, and a mullah discus spirituality", it's a level playing field, everyone is just there to compare notes on their LARPing rules.

    If an atheist or a scientist join the panel, you now have an emperors new clothes situation, "Yeah, I don't have all the answers, but more importantly, neither do they, and I'm not claiming to. Here are the facts and evidence as it is currently understood, and what that might mean".

    When you call atheism or science or woke a religion, they are trying to trap you by saying "ha! Your belief is just as meaningless as I mine is! We're all equal and subjective rules apply".

  • My playstation 4, I've had it who knows how many years. Not only do I have countless hours of gaming, but it's also my primary media device.

    Have an original N64 from like 98, no idea how many hours of enjoyment I've gotten out of that.

    Ceramic skateboard bearings I bought in 2001, as well as a pair of grind king trucks from maybe 97 that I still ride.

  • I bought demons souls, could hardly pass the first level, and put it down.

    I bought dark souls when it came out, and again, played a bit, didn't get it, and put it on the shelf.

    Dark souls 2, bloodborne, and darks souls 3, all the same story. I knew they were amazing games, I just didn't get it.

    Then on some reddit post someone talked about summoning a player to help, and the summon charged into the boss fight naked with only a katana like a freaking jedi.

    Every time I had played the games, I was slow, with heavy armour, hiding behind a shield.

    I put in dark souls 3, and went super light weight with a fast sword, and something just clicked.

    Dark souls 2, it was the twin blade, dark souls one, a katana.

    While I haven't platinumed them all like my girlfriend has, I have beaten all the main souls games except bloodborn and Sekiro with a variety of builds.

    Elden Ring was the first one we both got to play new together, and our first play through was one of the best gaming experiences I've ever had.

    I highly suggest going back to dark souls one and trying out the different styles. Magic, pyromancy, heavy weapons, fast and light, etc.

    There is a really good chance one style will click, and the whole series of amazing games will open up for you.

  • She didn't say anything really, just smiled and thanked the doctor.

    While I was too young to fully understand it at the time, it still had a big impact on me, and looking back on it now I tear up a bit.

    That day is the reason, years later when joining the military, I took an MOS fixing medical equipment. I'm no health care worker, but I'm damned good w tech, and fixing the machines that help fix people always meant a lot to me.

    I don't know what happened with either her or her child, but I suspect the doctor knew because he said it with such confidence, I doubt he would have given her false hope.

  • Was born premature, and required open heart surgery when I was only a few days old.

    When I was around 17 I had the chance to visit the hospital and tour the children's ICU I had been in. A children's ICU is not the happiest place in the world, and there were strange looks from both staff and parents as we walked around, feeling very awkward.

    Then a short man with a thick accent burst through the door and hugged me. Turned out, the doctor who had performed my surgery was there and insisted on showing me around personally.

    He walked me over to a woman who was about the saddest person I have ever seen, sitting next to an incubator. "This is what your son will look like in 18 years" he told her.

    They took my picture, and hung it on the board for the kids who had "graduated", and I have to believe it was the first time in a long time that room had joy and happiness in it.

    If someone had told me that that doctor wasn't welcome because he had a husband I think I would have wanted to become violent.

    This law means that those families now have 1/3 fewer people to give a chance for thier kids, and the odds for me hadn't been that great to begin with.

  • Well, I already have it, Quake 2. I haven't played yet cause I'm trying to get a couple friends to coop our first go.

    Was in the military when Quake came out, so it's one if the few true classics I get to play now for the first time.