This is how I feel about ads. If I request an article or video from a website and they send it to me alongside an ad, shouldn’t I just be able to say “no thank you” to the ad and not accept it\block it. The content I asked for was willingly sent to me so it seems hard to claim that it was stolen or pirated.

I think there is a difference between what the developers expect and what characters expect. In Fallout3 a settlement builds their town around a deactivated nuclear bomb. There is an opportunity very early in the game to detonate it, which most characters understandably react poorly to. But I wouldn’t rate the game poorly because the surviving NPCs of that settlement become hostile to the player afterwards. The developers don’t really expect anything from the players as there is the choice to do either thing. I thought Dishonored did that as well. NPCs who cause havoc to the city by killing people and spreading disease will hear complaints from the surviving citizens. Also the story of the game sets up the player to be framed for murdering the empress so most NPCs by default already hate the player character. I liked that the game gave players the choice to remain noble and try to actively prevent further chaos or say fuck it and slaughter everyone who stands against you even if you are technically in the right.

Appreciate the response. I feel that I’m in the minority when it comes to caring much about good or bad endings. Usually if a game has several endings I’ll replay it to get the other endings. I’ve never really felt that a “bad ending” was a punishment though. Even if I get immersed in the character I’m playing, I never felt as though I experienced the negative outcomes. I was playing Baldur’s Gate 3 with a friend and he was getting mad at me because I wasn’t playing lawfully good lol. That game was designed to keep progressing no matter what choices you make. You can kill the most important characters but the game keeps going. Yet he felt as though we would have to reload a previous save if I did something too “wrong”. Anyway, I just find the difference of opinion on the topic interesting lol sorry for the wall of text.

That’s true, it is a game where each choice has a direct consequence. Going along that train of thought, do you see the “star system” in GTA as the game scolding you for your choices? If you’ve never played it, in GTA you are a criminal and as you commit crimes you get a star rating. The more stars means the more law enforcement that attempts to subdue or kill you. There really isn’t a way to complete the game in a non-violent manner though.

In what way do you think the game scolded you for killing enemies?

Can you explain why you think the game punishes the player for engaging in combat and killing enemies? I get that the events in the game may change but I’m not getting how that’s a punishment to the player.

I pirated the RDR remaster and felt very entitled to because I bought it way back on xbox360 with the Undead Nightmare mode, but that whole DLC is broken even though they still sold it to me on the Xbox store. So I pirated to new remaster and when I went to play Undead Nightmare, it’s still broken lol

I wouldn’t say Trump knowing first is because he had him killed. I’m sure the president has the resources to get the news as quickly as possible. The interesting thing about Trump announcing it first is that it is considered bad taste to announce someone’s death in social media. Kirk may have had family that found out of his death from Trump’s post to the world.

That’s Charlie Kirk’s entire thing. Look him up on YouTube, before today’s news it would be hard not to find a video of him debating college students.

More likely this one

https://nypost.com/2025/09/05/us-news/top-secret-seal-team-6-killed-north-korean-civilians-during-failed-covert-mission-in-2019-report/

For your music!

As far as a moral compass goes, I wouldn’t give any money to SoundCloud. Much like YouTube, anyone can create an account and upload music. Obviously if you upload popular copyrighted music, it will likely get taken down quickly. But the less popular it is, the more likely it’ll go under the radar if someone uploads music that isn’t theirs. If you don’t pay for premium, then that music will have ads playing between tracks. The creator of the music won’t see any money from it, I doubt the uploader would either. As it currently stands, SoundCloud profits from stolen music. Personally I feel better pirating music than I would paying for a SoundCloud premium. I honestly don’t understand how GrooveShark got shut down back in the day, yet SoundCloud got to keep running. They are damn near the same exact service.

Personally I don’t feel that goals and milestones are the same thing.

I vaguely remember about a year or two ago she posted a selfie from a family reunion in which many of her family members sported MAGA hats, which got a bunch of attention from the media. I guess this shouldn’t be unexpected.

Also has a great deDRM tool I used to remove kobo DRM!

I thought BioShock Infinite felt like something new compared to the first two.

Encouraging people to be safe and care about their privacy on the internet is not victim blaming.

I’m sure their privacy policy gave the standard promises about storing their private data in a secure way, which _they did not do. _

This is what people want to warn others of. The developers of Tea are hardly the only offenders. Definitely not an example of victim blaming.

Its very fun but I can’t think of a game I suck at more.

A group of people with the intention of privately sharing details of people in order to track their behavior is definitely going to lead to doxxing. Maybe I’m getting the wrong idea, but it sounds like they are sharing the names of people they went on dates with. I assume that would include the city or town the date occurred which would infer where abouts they live. Given enough “reviews” of a single person I’m sure there would be sufficient info to call it doxxing.

Thanks I fixed it