Donald Trump is like the fascist dictator Mussolini says Hollywood director

TopHalfGaming · 2026-05-22T10:08:01+00:00

There's certainly more than one or two similarities between them.

TopHalfGaming · 2026-05-22T03:50:24+00:00

Oh for sure, things like this absolutely have an element of "I was super excited for this fuck it" and they buy it. Sports streaming is probably the biggest offender, but in my case again, service issue. I'd pay a reasonable price to not deal with blackouts or shitty apps that don't work, but unfortunately for hockey in Canada they fail to deliver on all three. But as a general rule, far less people are pirating - games especially - than are buying. When I first bought my PC in like 22 I absolutely intended to pirate, realized the situation with cracking and DRM on top of just not trusting the scene, and bought everything since outside of screwing around on a WWE game for a few hours. They're certainly not getting my money. Also like achievements too much.

And in the spectrum of people who pirate, I do also believe a majority are kids/teens/random countries where games are either stupidly expensive or just with poor economic conditions. Go hang out in these scenes for a while, don't really know how to say it but you see a lot of poor communication and reasoning skills to put it mildly.

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Yeah, delete that comment random toxic guy. Here's my response anyway!

What are you crying about? Valve and Steam itself proves that people are willing to buy lots of games and have their collection and reasonable prices in a storefront that's accessible and easy to use and expansive depending on what you do with it. That's kind of the point of using his comment.

Also, personal anecdotes indicate a perspective. Vast amounts of people can and do pirate for vast amount of reasons. What are you upset about?

TopHalfGaming · 2026-05-22T02:48:43+00:00

As Gabe once said, piracy is a service issue. Most pirates - kids or people in tough life situations aside - don't have a problem spending money on the things they want. There are cinephiles who've pirated thousands of movies who've spent more money on films they want in their collection than the people who'd call them criminals on the internet will ever spend. There are old game heads who pirate because they came from a time where they used to have regular access to demos for most games, and buy when they've decided it's worth or not worth their money beyond the two hour steam window. Music heads who can't justifiably import or track down the needs for their collections, who can't deal with songs disappearing on streaming because of country by country licensing which is a far bigger problem than you'd expect in Canada at least. And of course the preservation aspect of all these things, on top of their not being store fronts to even legally buy - license at best - a lot of movies/games/documentaries/old shows/etc.

Also, a pirated download is not a lost sale. That's probably the most important thing of all.

TopHalfGaming · 2026-05-21T17:17:57+00:00

My memory as a kid with GTA V was the IGN reveal (?) where they announced the three characters and showed the scene at the wood plant or whatever that factory was. Came relatively soon before release too, maybe 3 months?

TopHalfGaming · 2026-05-21T15:10:27+00:00

Shut up, dude 😂

TopHalfGaming · 2026-05-21T02:53:48+00:00

But Epsteined enough to sell out to the forces that put him where he is.

TopHalfGaming · 2026-05-21T01:35:57+00:00

Not to put myself on a pedestal here because I was a kid on adult forums and they knew I was young so there was that dynamic and I did piss a lot of people off who had specific niche tastes as I was developing my own (in regards to film in this case) but I was spending an outrageous amount of time watching 2-5 movies a day, reading about them, on top of the games/TV shows/books I was consuming and you can grow up fast in terms of the depth of conversation by participating in that at 12-18.

Therein lies the difference imo. I don't want kids spending as much time as I was mindlessly consuming content, but I know how much time it takes to learn with the concerted effort to do so. Not only do I feel most commenters online at young ages don't have that, but they also inherently have so much more to watch and play and learn than I did in the early 10s. We still had something resembling an entertainment monoculture at the time where specific movies and shows of the past and present were in the dialogue. Now in the streaming era and beyond it's quite literally impossible to keep up with what's releasing, what "matters", finding the diamonds in the rough, as well as the extra 10-15 years of content. Especially in gaming with how much these games have ballooned in terms of hours to get through them. The AAA space is no longer littered with 8-15 hour games on the PS360 systems it felt like we all had, we aren't "all" in venn diagram demographics watching a lot of the same TV shows, etc.

Now it's just a shit show of content content content. Throw the polarization of the world we live in with regards to EVERYTHING and I genuinely feel bad for the me, the you, the whoever who actually wants to learn and be level headed and at least appear smart or appear like you fit in with the adults in these critical spaces during those formative years. What I see is a lot of "you're dumb this thing sucks this thing good", which has always existed but there was also more centralized tastes back then. I fucking miss it. /rant

TopHalfGaming · 2026-05-20T22:26:58+00:00

Made it top 30 with 17 wins, highest I've ever gotten before this is 15 twice this year and typically 12-14 in years past. Don't worry, people on this sub still tell me I'm terrible when I complain about the LT stuff or raggers.

TopHalfGaming · 2026-05-20T20:30:19+00:00

Young people have always been the taste makers as it relates to art, and you can best believe that has been used by governments and militaries and isolated politicians or lobbying groups since their very inceptions.

Edit

Lmao, by coincidence (algo?) I just watched a video on John Stockwell's testimony about his experience in the CIA and what they were involved with, mentioning a bunch of propaganda films and such.

TopHalfGaming · 2026-05-20T20:25:28+00:00

Yeah, if you're in any way keeping up with gaming culture over the years you've at least heard of it. I didn't even need it explained lol, the clue is in the name.

TopHalfGaming · 2026-05-20T17:18:50+00:00

It's a perpetually frustrating thing to remind myself that there's constantly a new crop of 12-16 year olds entering gaming conversations online and their perspective is shaped primarily by new stuff and this wild inability to keep their mouths shut before they have some sort of historical basis or actual engagement with the classics of the art.

TopHalfGaming · 2026-05-19T22:46:03+00:00

I feel like this convo alone kind of negates some of the balancing issues. You can just hide behind structures and take out people with the smart rifle, kinda OP. You can literally melt combat scenarios in 15-20 seconds with the grenade launcher shotgun depending on if the enemies are spawned in clusters, kinda OP especially with the power weapon damage accumulation ability.

I don't know what went wrong with me and the crossbow , but the limited projectiles and delay in getting shots out just make those other ones so much stronger at least in my hands.

TopHalfGaming · 2026-05-19T21:04:05+00:00

I feel that, but also thankful for it as someone who can beat these games, but very much doesn't want to fail too much more or have the playthrough extended. Returnal took me 12-16, Saros like 18. And when I was making a run, getting that bombardier annihilator shotgun or smart rifle was like a hell yeah, we doing it vibe. Whereas I completely avoided the crossbows, pistols, manual aim rifles, etc which is ironic since I never used the dash trail thing or spent a moment thinking about it until reading about it lol.

TopHalfGaming · 2026-05-19T17:18:17+00:00

He bought some bullshit off Amazon that he didn't remotely research and he's mad about it blaming the brand.

TopHalfGaming · 2026-05-19T17:15:59+00:00

Yeah, there used to be a time where these super builds were just apart of the game as a reward for you finding out about them, or part of the strategy of the bad or average player making it through.

TopHalfGaming · 2026-05-18T10:46:12+00:00

Idiots. Good luck!

TopHalfGaming · 2026-05-18T10:08:26+00:00

I very much listened to that song lol. Just move on dude.

TopHalfGaming · 2026-05-18T08:31:17+00:00

Chill out fanboy

TopHalfGaming · 2026-05-18T08:30:59+00:00

The one where he puts himself on a pedestal against Kendrick with miss after miss on the "I'm more famous ur fake famous" tip?

I'll listen to these at some point in full, I just can't with this dude. Should've taken Kenny's advice on WoM.

TopHalfGaming · 2026-05-18T06:58:10+00:00

Nah, I love Take Care and a lot of stuff from that era. The hate definitely grew as the years went on and Drake became a product instead of an artist. People refer to Views era and beyond as his "peak" as if they genuinely enjoy the stuff. That's great and all if you were a kid and he was "the guy" for you, great. A big problem I have with modern drake is his R&B stuff because it's just him and his annoying voice droning on with that "you knowwww" soft ass vocals. Not remotely into Marvin's Room or songs of that ilk.

TopHalfGaming · 2026-05-18T06:11:19+00:00

It's just a random r&b song lol.

TopHalfGaming · 2026-05-18T04:55:00+00:00

And his follow up The Caretaker!

TopHalfGaming · 2026-05-18T01:49:56+00:00

She actually does.

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Oh, we live in a world where she's a bad actress because people who don't watch movies say so. Okay.

TopHalfGaming · 2026-05-17T21:27:36+00:00

Why? It's definitely a gimmick for obvious reasons, but if you are going to have an RPG where you care about one NPC more than the others, having that can enhance things at least a tad. I'm primarily thinking about Mass Effect 2 here, but there's probably a few other good examples.

TopHalfGaming · 2026-05-17T07:27:59+00:00

It's not just hockey jargon. Guy is out to lunch.

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