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Do not ask those farmers follow-up questions.

Dreamcast port when?

But the instance dedicated to a death-grip on this one stock said it was the future!

Oh fuck off. Launch a second game. Quit erasing what people already love so you can force popularity on some new bullshit.

That's not what "spliced" and "manipulation" mean. A spliced run could play each floor a dozen times and continue from the best outcome. This video jump-cuts to a completely different dungeon. Luck manipulation means doing weird shit so you can predict a random number. This video straight-up cheats for numbers the game would never roll.

They did quietly remove a few of Tommy Tallarico's records, halfway through that Hbomberguy video.

That's just *loot.* You don't like lootboxes - you like when games function as games. The part they're bringing back is charging five actual dollars for gambling on bullshit that should just happen through gameplay.

Project any harder and we could have this conversation on the face of the full moon. This shit is like gambling - where it's not literally just gambling. 'It can't be wrong if it makes money!' is amoral libertarian crap. People had this foisted upon them, until the widespread demand to stop fucking doing it could be dulled to background noise. You're lying about yourself. I *know* you don't like paying for this shit, because *you told me.* So don't fucking roll your eyes and insist someone somewhere must love it. They all know it's a shit deal, as surely as you know it's a shit deal. You're just bargaining around it and refusing to acknowledge that any amount of this is too much.

It's objectively abusive. Games convince you to value arbitrary worthless rewards - that is what makes them games. Attaching a price tag exploits how humans are bad at distinguishing forms of value. There's no conversion ratio between soccer goals and hamburgers, no matter how badly you want a few of each.

Ban the entire business model. It's an abuse. There's no form of it that is separable from deceit. Bickering about numbers means nothing. But here you are bullshitting me about how *these* lootboxes won't cost money, when *that's what lootboxes are,* and I gotta get raked over these specific coals before I'm allowed an opinion about raking anyone over coals. Fuck off. You can't sneer your way out of denying the blindingly obvious. Fuck any game where you can spend money. It's a scam. What I *like* has nothing to do with it. It's exploitation that's ruining the entire industry.

[Lie better.](https://overwatch.fandom.com/wiki/Loot_Box#Prices)

You'll pay to pay to pay to pay. At some point a game might occur. Nothing inside a video game should cost real money.

If we allow this to continue there will be nothing else. Only legislation will fix this.

[Launch him into space.](https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2021/12/03/bobby)

They plainly fucking can.

Fuck software patents.

> you’re saying monopolies are terrible *Where?* What negative effect have I suggested? Be specific. Look for it, clearly. People get so fucking weird about this. You're having an entire other conversation, inside your heads.

You're not listening. This is not about "blame." It's barely about change. It is about the plain meaning of a common word, and how people will point fingers and clutch pearls to avoid acknowledging a simple fact. Steam *is* a monopoly. No matter what I say, and no matter what you say. For whatever reason: they have a supermajority market share, on PC. People glibly treat major desired games like they don't exist unless they're on this one store.

Why doesn't matter. The fact is - there's one store anyone cares about. We have a word for that.

It took so long because Steam is a monopoly. That's what it means, when half the comments lament how the game isn't on Steam. People will say there's only one store that matters, and then insist there's plenty of meaningful competition, and utterly refuse to understand their own words. Epic is an eight-ton gorilla. Half the industry licenses their engine. They made four billion dollars a year off *one* game. They offer lower prices, they give things away, they create exclusivity, and they offer a better revenue cut for developers. And they still can't move the needle. Blaming a janky storefront is grasping for any excuse.