TwilightVulpine

Oh damn, I thought knowing Vampire the Masquerade was a given in TTRPG circles. I’m getting old.

I’d love to read it! Sometimes I wish to do it but I don’t think I could do it justice. I’m but a fledgeling bi occultist.

Given HP Lovecraft’s known status as a paranoid raging bigot, I wonder if there’s some game where the elder gods are cool actually, the “cultists” are just people broadening their horizons into cosmic queer transhumanism, and the investigators are just close-minded people wishing to restore their own sense of normalcy. Which, true to form, about half the time awaken into these horizons anyway.

Truly an eldritch horror for Cthulhu to inflict over a cis man

Big beefy warrior with a heart of gold and a peanut brain that could crush anyone easily but she would rather be friends with everyone and have everyone play along. It’s a heartbreaking character to play in games that just assume all you’re gonna be doing is killing, but it could be pretty cute as the muscle of more diplomatic sorts of campigns.

Wouldn’t be the first time awful people tried to take over and twist well-meaning jargon from black people.

Hasbro fired my bro

They are arguing that the sticking point is that it subverts the copyright protection measures.

But it still relies on users providing their own keys so that doesn’t make much sense either.

Nah. I’m listening, I just don’t agree that you get to decide when the discussion gets to end. You are just repeating yourself at this point, but folks aren’t satisfied simply with responses of why someone ought to buy it when they want to comment on the limitations and missed opportunity.

Additional costs and risk aren’t even a reason not to do it, they are merely a consideration to have. Companies choose to take these risks all the time. The PS5 has a whole new VR2 headset even though the market for that is even riskier than a portable device. Yes, it would cost more, and they could have done it anyway.

Besides, a cloud gaming feature wouldn’t even raise costs all that much, and it might even lower the risk as an additional selling point.

If you want to tell me that Sony didn’t do it because Sony didn’t do it and some people bought it because some people bought it, that’s not much of an answer.

But you also glossed over the detail that if what people want is to stream their games to a device that’s like a cheap tablet with a split controller… they can just use a tablet with a split controller, spending less while also not having weird restrictions such as needing to buy a separate headset for it. Most people who can afford a PS5 already have phones that would do this perfectly well without spending whole $200 on an extra dumb screen.

Here’s the thing. Of course sales matter. Sony is not only a for profit company but one that is not particularly inclined to play around just to be different (like Nintendo). Saying sales don’t matter just does not make sense.

Besides, people are not just lamenting that it isn’t a full-blown portable console, but it’s also not integrated with the Playstation Now cloud gaming service, so the use case is so limited as to be baffling. It shouldn’t have been much more costly to make it capable of playing cloud games.

You are asking people “so what”, and they are telling you what. Good for you if this is good enough for you. It doesn’t mean everyone else gotta just agree or say nothing. This is a discussion thread. The most that one might say is that the discussion has strayed away from emulation, but then again I don’t think arguing what it’s originally intended for contributes much to that either.

I don’t think developing and selling a whole hardware device is quite so trivial, but I also doubt that it would mean they don’t mind taking losses on it. This is not a new market that would be worth risking a loss to get a headstart, people could even get the same experience with… a tablet and a split controller, which has a lot more functionality.

I don’t know what’s your point with “they don’t care if you buy it”. Of course they don’t have a department keeping track of one single guy. Sounds like you are taking criticism of this device personally.

Boring AND conceited. I always roll my eyes at this trope of “unlike all these different fantasy beings that are good are specific things, we can be good at everything”. Seems like imagination falling short, that other beings would not have their own breadth of possibilities, and humans wouldn’t have their own unique advantages that are particular just to them.

If I had to pick one thing, it would probably be something teamwork related. Humans are very social beings compared to other animals.

Only in fantasy humans get to not be genocided by humans

I’d think companies like Sony do care if people buy or not

Nah, it’s good that it’s hard. People who want to use with heavy themes, they gotta earn it.

Folks could get away with so much edgy bulshit back then…

This is why, as much as I respect people’s support for physical copies, I remind them that it’s still not as good as a properly backed up DRM-free digital copy.

Of course. But at the same time alignment is under the domain of gods and it’s part of the cosmological structure itself. I wouldn’t think one can simply declare to be outside the purview of morality.

As adults, probably. As kids they likely just saw cool heroes saving the day but didn’t know enough of the world they live in to apply that to it. Some might even have agreed with those heroes until they were taught they were not supposed to.

They just miss the days they were too young to realize what it all meant.