Well, at first I was begrudgingly trying to find SOME way to not use it. I don’t want it, I don’t need it, and the game most definitely does not need it.

Then, after an hour of trying to find that avenue, I said, “Okay. I have a PSN account from way back on the PS3, so I’ll just fucking use that I guess.”

Cue to me finding my login stuff, trying to log in, getting a password reset prompt, click the reset password link, and wait for the email to arrive.

Dear reader, the email NEVER arrived, and then they would say that I had sent a request already and then I said fuck this, fuck Sony, I’ll just pirate the game.

Then, I was able to play the fucking game.

This is a good point, and I understand it, but I too have financial burdens (doing every single thing by myself with absolutely no help from anyone because I have no family or friends) but even then, selling myself out will not ever be an option to me.

I do things I like because they bring me peace. Doing it for monetary gain puts even more pressure on you, and then your few outlets of peace get caught up in the scheme, therefore you no longer have a healthy outlet.

It’s sad to see either way. Money is just a made up concept at this time, just like time is. It’s imaginary.

Life is too short. Just do what you can, and enjoy what little you can.

Thank you!

I’ve played through them before way back on the Xbox 360, but Steam had a sale for them a couple of years ago for like $20, so I couldn’t resist getting them for a superior platform.

The EA app is by and large the only thing that truly sucks about these games. I already beat Mass Effect 1 again, and damn is that game boring at times. The story is still great of course, but it definitely shows it’s age! Mods have alleviated most of what I hated (looking at you MAKO…) and now I am about 75% through Mass Effect 2. I’ve beat ME3 before, but it has been so long that I’m hoping it isn’t as bad as I remember.

I played Mass Effect 2 first at the time, because I was renting games from a local video rental place. Loved it to bits. It’s crazy being able to play it with Alec Ryder’s armor from Andromeda. Fits Shep to a T!

See, I hate money. I know it’s important in the societies we have, but I would rather do something for myself or for someone because I could/wanted.

The other day, I fixed a computer owned by a nice lady I work with. She offered to pay me and everything. I just told I like doing this stuff for the funsies.

Selling yourself in this day and age has got to stop. You are more than an imaginary made up figure of commerce.

They were.

I bought God of War Ragnarok through Steam, and had a hell of a time trying to get past the PlayStation account. I spent an hour or two trying to do this, gave up, refunded the game, and immediately pirated the game.

No PlayStation login, and the game worked fine with whatever updates I could find.

Fuck that, and fuck Sony. You will not do that to me again. I can’t speak for others though. I’m sure they will eventually pull this scummy shit again, and we’ll be talking about it. Again.

Hey there! I’m also going through Mass Effect right now. The EA app is literally the only thing I HATE about trying to play through those games!

I’ve… never really understood why people always have to monetize themselves and their passions. It’s very weird in my view.

Dragon Age Veilguard was a bastardization of Dragon Age. Of course it was going to fail. You failed your core audience, you idiots.

If you wanted to make a Marvel version of a dark fantasy game, you could’ve made a new IP, instead of leeching off the brand.

Arasaka Cyberarms

Body mod

The body mod isn’t exactly the one I used, but to give you an idea of the mods I liked using at least.

There was also a garage mod that allowed you to tune the vehicles in the game, and a mod that makes the legendary ping hack back to its superior form from the original release before they started changing things.

Nexus Mods hosts a bunch of horny mods, and there is a toggle for it to help get the clutter out of the way. I keep it on because I think some NSFW is gore related, and I might be interested in those if they are decent enough.

Mark Suckerburg tells congress TikTok is a threat

Multiple data leaks have came about because of Facebook yet you don’t see anyone here saying anything about being happy to ban it. It’s so weird to see the disconnect. The true answer is for ALL of us to have actual data privacy laws enacted by our dinosaurs in government.

Are you somehow not aware that Google/Facebook/Twitter literally do the same thing? Wouldn’t it make more sense to create a data privacy law so that everyone benefits? I don’t understand why that’s so hard to grasp for some of these folks.

The data is stored on US soil, so whatever they are able to gather, the US government is allowing it. Which means… all social media. So, ban all social media then if it’s such a risk, right? Or… I don’t know… maybe make an actual data privacy law so no one can steal and hoover up your precious data?

I’m… pretty sure people can like both open source and closed source things… “manipulating” yes. I’ve been so manipulated. I’ve been so manipulated that I think there should be actual data privacy laws. They got me.

See, to me, it’s not irrelevant. Either make a blanket data privacy law, or shut the fuck up.

I’m pretty sure most people who are doing this are trying, in their own way, to make a point.

It wasn’t about “national security”. It was about a large digital meeting place where ideas could be shared, or feelings and frustrations at their government could be seen and felt by others who felt the same. Big Brother doesn’t like that, unless it is on US Corporate Approved Social Media, where they can promptly shut you down, or get their algorithm to put post with specific keywords out of the eyes of as many as possible.

So, instead of creating actual data privacy laws, as they should have, they decided to attack TikTok, because Mark Zuckerburg got in front of congress during whatever case it was that brought his lizard ass in the room (maybe the Cambridge Analytica scandal?) and said that TikTok was more dangerous than his own platform.

There you go. It was never about “national security”, as there were much better ways to handle that than banning one single app.

This, and the image accompanied by it, were one of the things that broke me when I was younger.

I legit cried because it was so beautifully put together.

My primary directive is failing, Captain…

Atticus, I highly recommend getting the PC port of this game. Choose the Render96 option, and relive what the game probably looked like to all those kids back in the day. It also has some extra neat things like bringing in some of the move set of Odyssey, a mode that allows you to collect all the stars in the level in one go, and much much more. :)

Just observing the major differences in attitude here. I’m agreeing with you, and wondering why the vitriol all being placed on Harris and her campaign, instead of on the voters who actively wanted and then voted for a felon.