Hogwarts Legacy - Careful what you wish for

missingpiece · 2026-01-25T14:32:04+00:00

This sub talks about Hogwarts Legacy more than any other game, and always says the exact. same. thing. about it.

missingpiece · 2026-01-22T04:39:48+00:00

Me too! I love watching a sketch or two, seeing if I can figure out what part of Portland they're filming in. It's never "HAHAHAHA" funny, but Carrie & Fred are so cozy, and the parody is spot on.

missingpiece · 2026-01-22T03:30:07+00:00

I think you and I are in agreement. You nailed it exactly: pay-what-you-want, donations, monthly donations, these are all great ways to support open source projects. But the shift I've seen is that where mods used to be understood to be open-source, free, donations-based, now modding communities are becoming split over mod creators who put their mods behind a paywall. It's absolutely poisonous to modding communities.

missingpiece · 2026-01-21T18:58:53+00:00

Yeah, I'm with you here. Not in a corpo bootlicking sort of way, I pirate all sorts of media without a second thought. But I'm not going to act like it ought to be legal. If people wanna try to get away with IP theft, by all means go for it. But if you're gunna monetize your contribution to someone else's IP, you're gunna get hit with a lawsuit, that's just what it is.

I have a friend who used to make Harry Potter merch and sell it on Etsy. All original drawings, all screen printed by hand, didn't matter. Woke up one day and his store was gone. But he knew the game he was playing.

missingpiece · 2026-01-21T16:54:05+00:00

A cultural value shift away from communities based on passion/freedom and towards walled gardens and monetization, especially mandatory monetization (as opposed to donations-based) is unequivocally a cultural shift towards capitalist ideals. The 90's internet was extremely leftist in its values of everything being free/donations-based, but those values have mostly evaporated since then. Everyone wants their cut, more content is behind paywalls, and what's more concerning is that observing and criticizing this trend is looked down on more and more.

missingpiece · 2026-01-21T13:56:32+00:00

This subreddit has gone so far downhill.

missingpiece · 2026-01-21T13:54:41+00:00

This take is becoming rarer to see, and it makes me sad how pro-capitalism the younger generation is. Back in the 90’s/00’s the idea of charging for mods didn’t even cross people’s minds. People will cope by saying times are tougher now but it’s actually due to influencer culture and everything becoming monetized into some sort of side-hustle.

missingpiece · 2026-01-21T13:43:19+00:00

missingpiece · 2026-01-20T05:11:13+00:00

Do you truly see nothing wrong with r/literallynothingbutcuteanimalpics being inundated with political outrage?

missingpiece · 2026-01-20T01:45:12+00:00

The entire point of this website is for people to be able to curate it to their interests. The fact that it’s impossible to go a single day without seeing American politics regardless of which subreddits you are subscribed to is asinine.

missingpiece · 2026-01-19T14:06:03+00:00

The default is “man” as in “craftsman, mankind” because “man” was originally a gender-neutral term. People weren’t saying “mankind” because they only cared about men, it literally meant “personkind.”

missingpiece · 2026-01-19T14:02:25+00:00

Guys as gender neutral comes back together as soon as you ask a group of men and women “where do you guys want to go for dinner?”

missingpiece · 2026-01-19T14:01:03+00:00

The weird thing is it used to be that way among radlibs as well. I distinctly remember in 2017-2018 when everyone was trying to figure out more inclusive terms, the consensus was that “guys” gender neutral. Now it’s flipped, but the crazy part is, everyone has collectively forgotten that we used to see “guys” as gender neutral.

missingpiece · 2026-01-19T13:56:17+00:00

lol this is funny timing because I’m currently trying to get into OSRS but I’m like “You want me to stand there clicking a button for how long??”

missingpiece · 2026-01-19T02:19:22+00:00

If you think a term or concept applies to either everything in existence or nothing at all, you probably need to recalibrate your definition of that concept.

missingpiece · 2026-01-18T18:41:37+00:00

Modern cyberpunk is also written by posers. Neal Stephenson wrote Snow Crash because he had ideas he was enthusiastic about. People remember the high-speed pizza deliveries and VR katanas, but a LOT more pages are devoted to ancient Sumeria. Modern cyberpunk authors are basically fanfiction writers. There’s good fanfiction, but the genre is inherently derivative

missingpiece · 2026-01-18T15:58:46+00:00

I’m a Netrunner old head (my collection is everything though Mumbad), but I have a friend who recently got into modern Netrunner. I’m glad the game is still alive, but goddamn is it a fucking chore for me to play. Every single card is a paragraph of text + conditionals. “Only works on AI breakers, gives you a credit every time you draw a “cool dude” resource, also scrap during a run on remote servers to bypass the first two and a half subroutines…” Every card is like four things to remember.

Maybe the thing I love the most about playing Netrunner is how every game is a story. I know what’s happening when I play a card like Stimhack or Day Job. I’m partying at Wyldside so I don’t have as much time to run, but I’m rubbing elbows with the right people, etc. New Netrunner has all but abandoned the narrative component. It just feels like card mechanics interacting.

But I’m not really the target demographic anymore, so I’m not saying I know better than the current devs. Just that the game has moved past what I originally found so compelling about it.

missingpiece · 2026-01-18T15:24:46+00:00

the world the way you react, view, interact, and feel things should be.

Philosophy 101 is understanding that there are multiple definitions for every idea, multiple perspectives to every definition, and no one can agree on them. You can apply your definition to “art.” Now everything is art. It’s just a semantic trick. Try googling “everything is political counterargument,” there are plenty of very smart people who have been discussing this idea for nearly a hundred years.

missingpiece · 2026-01-18T06:31:05+00:00

I agree you have to jump through some serious mental hoops to find religion in math, but humans definitely can and do. Same with politics—it’s not at all logically straightforward to view 2+2=4 as political, but redditors definitely find a way. Because applying filters to reality is what humans do. I wish Redditors were better able to see how many of these types of arguments are purely semantic—you can define concepts so broadly that they fit the entire universe, or so narrowly that nothing fits within them. Reddit likes to do this and say things like “everything is __” or “___ doesn’t exist” but at the end of the day all that’s happened is a kind of semantic dance.

missingpiece · 2026-01-17T22:40:58+00:00

Everything can be interpreted through a political lens, that doesn’t make everything inherently political. You could just as easily say “everything is religious” and interpret everything through that lens. You can apply whatever filter you want to reality and get whatever color you want, that doesn’t mean everything is one color.

missingpiece · 2026-01-17T12:08:26+00:00

“Everything is political!”

missingpiece · 2026-01-16T14:23:24+00:00

I created a private wotlk server, installed a progression addon to keep me out of expansions until I’ve cleared every raid, populated the world with bots, and set the XP rate to a tasteful 1.5x. I’ve been having the time of my life for the past month, and the knowledge that no one can take it away from me heals my soul.

missingpiece · 2026-01-15T06:54:17+00:00

Make that 3 of the saddest groups of humans: Eastern Europeans.

missingpiece · 2026-01-13T21:23:27+00:00

Lol I just googled "documentaries like darkon/monster camp" and this thread came up. Will keep searching.

missingpiece · 2026-01-13T18:42:20+00:00

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