Booty and gold, of course

$100 could be a week of grocery money too. $50 for a frugal individual, even.

Ok, then Nintendo benefitted financially from piracy and made no efforts to hide the fact that they obtained games through the exact same methods that pirates use.

It’s probably almost nearly 100% of emulator users who pirate games.

Even Nintendo pirated their own games before releasing them on the Wii’s Virtual Console.

100% agree. Also 99% emulator users pirate games or do you dispute this part too?

Do you mean pirating games that are still for sale? Because plenty of emulator users only pirate old stuff that isn’t currently for sale.

Even people who had great childhoods often spend “the other 8 hours” trying to be kids again.

You either gotta do it like the rest of us and find time for enjoyment between work and errand, or find a way to make money off your “adult childhood”. Neither is easy, but you’ve been through a lot, so you’re obviously capable of doing difficult things.

It might help if you schedule time for it. That way, you can say, “On Tuesday, I’m going to do these things I missed out on as a kid from 7 to 9pm”. And then you play. Or whatever.

You need this, and everyone needs it, so don’t feel bad about scheduling it. You’re helping yourself heal.

I don’t drive. Where I live, you can really only “not drive” in cities. And even then, it can be hard at times.

At the same time, I live within reasonable commuting distance of multiple friends and family members. I can walk to a few of them. I don’t need to be closer to my community.

I might want to retire someplace quieter, but I like being able to hop on a train or a bus to get to somewhere fun, or to be able to walk across the street to a store if I need something. Heck, I can even easily get takeout if I don’t feel like cooking – I don’t even need delivery.

Yeah, and bathroom suggests that there are baths or places for bathing.

Water closet really is the right thing to call it!

Yup. I use whatever feels best, which is usually American words, British spelling (except for the -ze instead of -se for words that end in a “z” sound).

Also, there are our own Canadianisms, like “washroom”.

200,000,000 KRW is something like $200,000, to give some context to others.

This isn’t using the meme effectively.

“Nobody wants to work anymore for you” would’ve been closer

MMOs are probably a good indication.

I think researchers (or just casual investigators) studied MMOs to see how people might react in a plague situation (I want to say WoW, but it might’ve been EverQuest).

They ended up discarding/writing off their findings because they figures that there wouldn’t ACTUALLY be trolls who’d go around spreading the virus on purpose, and also that because the virus only had negative effects, no one would be doing actions that would nearly guarantee infection.

Of course, 2020 showed us that we really should’ve been looking at what people do in MMOs…

Not necessarily. If someone is genuinely socially liberal, they won’t like politicians that dehumanize minority groups. They won’t necessarily want to pay to protect them, but they’d generally be in favour of laws to protect them, etc.

I am not fiscally conservative, but I’ve met people like this. Pro-gay marriage, pro-abortion, probably even pro-churches-paying-taxes.

But cutting funding to education to lower taxes? Sure. Anti-public transit (unless they’re smart and know that public transit can be more efficient). Anti-international spending. Stuff like that.

But I live in Canada, where we actually do have a “Centre-ish” party that’s generally fiscally conservative to an extent, but socially liberal. And our right-wing party isn’t quite as big on the dehumanizing aspect. Banning abortion isn’t really on the table, and banning gay marriage is generally an unpopular opinion for even the right-wing political leaders.

Depending on the age, they do it on purpose. Sometimes it’s because they are just figuring out social situations – doing X to person Y results in action Z.

You can find videos of babies pretending to be stuck and crying to get attention. When “unstuck” and not given attention, they stop crying, get themselves fake-stuck again and start crying again. They want the attention and coddling that they got the last time they were legitimately stuck.

I’m sure some babies know they’re faking it.

When you have maybe 40 exclusive games after close to 5 years, then of course you want to see what third parties have to offer! Lol

What do you mean by “trolling”? It’s not like that’s a word that has a consistently agreed-upon definition.

I don’t like paying taxes to fund public services, but I don’t care what consenting adults do in their own bedrooms

The PS2’s memory cards really felt like the future to me because they had SO MUCH space.

Of course, on-console storage was the ACTUAL future, which proves yet again that the 3DO was ahead of its time. But anyway…

The PS2 memory cards had so much space that I think I only ever needed two for me and my brother. Probably didn’t even need to delete any saves. We had tons of PS1 and DC memory cards, because they’d get full so quickly

Hmm…if it’s close, I’d just use my keyboard. If it’s far, I’d probably want the precision of the cursor anyway.

On the phone? Because otherwise, why not cut and paste?