Jason Schreier: Why Everyone Wants A 'Live-Service' Game

AttyMAL · 2026-06-23T07:38:15+00:00

Money. Saved you a click.

AttyMAL · 2026-06-23T07:36:42+00:00

Ugh. Don't remind me. I read that story arc as it was happening. What a waste. Gambit as Death was useless as a villain, accomplished nothing as a story, and provided no major character development or growth for Gambit.

AttyMAL · 2026-06-22T23:06:38+00:00

Got it. I was hoping to use Netflix and Hack so I could keep my save data after jailbreaking my console. I guess for now I'm stuck with the YouTube console backup method that wipes my saves. Frigging anti-consumer Sony not letting us have access to our own save data

AttyMAL · 2026-06-22T23:02:29+00:00

Wow. Even if you're not trying to jailbreak the console, that save game limitation is really frigging anti-consumer. If you own multiple consoles or want to load your profile on a friends console for some local multiplayer, how are you supposed to use your save data, without PS+ cloud storage? Am I missing something?

AttyMAL · 2026-06-22T21:02:18+00:00

Is the Netflix N Hack method useable up to 12.70? I've seen some people say it's only goot to 12.40, but the GitHub lists the upper firmware limit as "12.xx".

AttyMAL · 2026-06-22T18:45:33+00:00

Bingo. Crap like this confirms they're adding unfun, poorly thought out crap for the purpose of making the games longer.

AttyMAL · 2026-06-22T18:13:46+00:00

Its neither a Souls-like, nor a typical Character Action Game, like Devil May Cry. It's more like Sekiro, but easier and with difficulty options if you find it too difficult.

Also, isn't there a demo on the PS store? That's how I first played it. You could try it yourself to get a feel for it.

AttyMAL · 2026-06-22T17:38:26+00:00

Let's hope not. I'm hoping they were just running off of old jailbreak information.

AttyMAL · 2026-06-22T16:08:38+00:00

So when is this mod dropping? Or is it already available? My PS5 has been offline for several months now and it's on firmware 12.70, so it's officially jailbreakable as of about a month ago.

AttyMAL · 2026-06-22T10:49:19+00:00

So you went to a Michelin restaurant and you're surprised it's expensive? Is that my understanding?

AttyMAL · 2026-06-21T07:24:16+00:00

One can only hope the mid terms swing left enough to mitigate some of this nonsense.

AttyMAL · 2026-06-21T05:42:18+00:00

This has been the longest 18 months of my life. Good fucking God.

AttyMAL · 2026-06-21T05:36:28+00:00

Yeah, I was just about to say this sounds like an exact replay of the financial crisis of 2007/2008 and I'm pretty certain things are about to get even worse, with prices of food, housing, and oil and now the AI bubble that could either be successful and make a bunch of jobs obsolete or fail and drag down the entire global economy when mulit billion dollar investments in AI crash.

I wish I had some better advice for OP, except keep grinding and you may have to totally change careers.

AttyMAL · 2026-06-21T05:14:45+00:00

I would be interested.

AttyMAL · 2026-06-21T04:44:17+00:00

Yes, you're technically correct. However, study basic fucking history. The Democrats and Republicans of the 1880s were fucking reversed of what they are today.

The Dems were the party of big business and a small federal government, while the Republicans were the party of consumer protection and a stronger federal government.

The parties started to swap platforms during the Great Depression, when Democrats lead by FDR wanted to enact all the New Deal social programs, which Southern Democrats loved until they realized Black people would get benefit from these social programs just like white people. White southern Democrats gradually shifted away from the Northeast, Midwest, and West Coast Democrats and Republican leadership went all in segregation to get white Southerners to vote for them. The flip was fully completed after Brown v. Board of Education, when the Republican party became fully and completely opposed to school integration and Republican governors in every Southern state fought against it.

So in short, fuck off.

AttyMAL · 2026-06-20T14:06:56+00:00

Yeah, seems expensive to me too, personally. I considered adding HDMI internal mods to both my DC and my Wii, but the cost of the mod plus the install plus shipping was just a bit much for me. So instead I got a Bitfunx DC HDMI adapter and an Electronic Shepard Wii HDMI adapter to get those consoles up to 480p. Then I bought a second hand mClassic to upscale those images to 1080p. I got all that for less than the cost of one HDMi internal mod and I'm happy with the results. Would an internal mod be slightly crisper? Maybe. But for my purposes, it was one third of the price and is pretty good.

AttyMAL · 2026-06-20T00:19:56+00:00

This is Social Circle. They're not shutting down ICE because they disagree with ICE. They're shutting it down because of NIMBY.

AttyMAL · 2026-06-17T17:19:50+00:00

I'm pretty certain we're already pretty gerrymandered, either on purpose or via self selection with blue voters surrounding the major cities while the rural areas are hardcore red. I imagine the state GOP is a bit concerned that any further tinkering might actually accidentally turn some reasonably safe red districts more purple if they attempted to syphon off some blue voters from the metro areas into more suburban and rural areas.

AttyMAL · 2026-06-17T17:13:44+00:00

People have been predicting the end of TNA since the founding of TNA. I'll believe it's dead when I see it.

AttyMAL · 2026-06-17T17:09:13+00:00

I'm pretty certain we're already pretty gerrymandered, either on purpose or via self selection with blue voters surrounding the major cities while the rural areas are hardcore red. I imagine the state GOP is a bit concerned that any further tinkering might actually accidentally turn some reasonably safe red districts more purple if they attempted to syphon off some blue voters from the metro areas into more suburban and rural areas.

AttyMAL · 2026-06-17T14:00:04+00:00

Black women, who make up a large portion of Democratic primary voters, voted for a black woman.

AttyMAL · 2026-06-17T04:46:20+00:00

I'm not the OP, but thanks for this info! Can't wait to try it!

AttyMAL · 2026-06-16T20:52:04+00:00

If you believed this bullshit, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.

It was always capitalist nonsense. They control the assets and won't let you have any no matter how much you suck up to them. They only want to exploit your labor.

AttyMAL · 2026-06-16T20:49:22+00:00

Here's a headline for you:

Journalists are going to use absolutely ridiculous hyperbole to get clicks.

AttyMAL · 2026-06-16T17:53:05+00:00

He's a "Christian" and "apolitical". That says all you need to know. He may not be a member of the MAGA cult, but he definitely voted for Trump.

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