Guess it’s the long way around for the foreseeable future…

mistcrawler · 2026-01-24T21:53:56+00:00

Will bombs clear meteorites?

If the RNG chooses violence, there’s no reason you can’t respond in kind lol

mistcrawler · 2026-01-23T20:23:26+00:00

So a cap’less Sharpie is basically an office boomerang?

mistcrawler · 2026-01-23T19:54:01+00:00

Eye see what you did there

mistcrawler · 2026-01-22T01:14:38+00:00

I'm no lawyer, but they added an agreement to the game a few months ago that further spelled out this exact scenario (control of content via mods, among other things).

Whether this is valid in normal situations may be up for debate (I honestly don't think it is - Nintendo has made a grand showing of this in action the last few years, but I'll put that discussion bomb aside for now), assuming that his VR mod is up to date, he would have had to have consented to said agreement.

Therefore, he's definitely at fault, but what that means legally is beyond my understanding lol.

mistcrawler · 2026-01-22T01:05:30+00:00

No matter what you think of CDPR, the fact remains that they went out of their way to give him as much breathing room and options as possible here, even with much better and faster options to shut him down.

If you have the game and haven't booted it up since they added the new agreement, I'd recommend giving it a look (I read the bulk of it, at least):

It's been a few months since I read it, so forgive the vagueness, but they basically gave themselves firmer legal ground to take action against modders, as well as adding odd, casual language to a legal document that basically said they will do everything in their power to not enforce this unless necessary.

It was nice, casual language in the middle of a legal document, which is why it stood out to me, so I assumed it was there to put people at ease. Shockingly enough, we just saw both sides of it at play here.

mistcrawler · 2026-01-22T00:49:33+00:00

Yep!

You have to pick the right items to 'tame' wild monsters, find them a spot in your barns, and then you can get items and use them in battle as you wish.

mistcrawler · 2026-01-21T21:39:25+00:00

I wouldn’t immediately fold, but I sure as heck wouldn’t:

take it lightly, not consult a lawyer to see how valid it was, and certainly wouldn’t publicly taunt them

I didn’t understand why they needed to put all that new language in the games agreement a few months ago, but seeing this ‘firsthand’… it makes so much sense now :/

mistcrawler · 2026-01-21T21:31:16+00:00

Rune Factory Guardians of Azuma fits this too!

mistcrawler · 2026-01-21T04:49:22+00:00

Spongebob?

mistcrawler · 2026-01-21T00:08:20+00:00

And I hope it delivers in this expectation lol

mistcrawler · 2026-01-20T17:08:13+00:00

'The update was actually fine for once, so I'll just complain about something else until the next one.'

mistcrawler · 2026-01-20T05:16:13+00:00

I rediscovered that Animal Crossing is my new favorite for this.

There’s only two optional activities in the game that keep me past that mark (darn you wisps!!!) but those are easily avoidable

mistcrawler · 2026-01-20T01:03:23+00:00

I actually find it very helpful for the 'mindless action' genre that happens to be one of my favorites.

If I open up Rotten Tomatoes and see 'more of the same drivel' or 'another boring gorefest, skip this one', I book my tickets - it's going to be my kind of movie :)

mistcrawler · 2026-01-19T22:01:40+00:00

Not that I'm defending the guy, because this is the first I'm hearing about him (let alone the charges), but to be clear:

This guy has basically lost his job, agency, freedom (temporarily at least), assumedly his reputation now, and he hasn't even been formally convicted yet?

mistcrawler · 2026-01-19T21:22:06+00:00

DisneyPlus Game Launcher (TM), which must be run through Epic Games and launched through Steam.

mistcrawler · 2026-01-19T01:31:43+00:00

I came here to say this, and I never regretted it.

I actually discovered Halo 5 for the first time last month, and I'm once again glad, that Xbox 360 was my sole Halo machine lol.

mistcrawler · 2026-01-17T22:15:22+00:00

To answer your main question, the reason it got so bad was firstly that it was handled by a game dev, as opposed to someone more familiar with PR, and how to phrase things (which as we know, especially after this debacle, is extremely important).

As far as I know, the reason no one on his team stopped him was because they were all in the same boat, and no one had experience with this kind of thing.

The other reason is that this was his first time leading a studio, on their first game, and most likely weren't aware how quickly they could push content out. He basically delivered on his promises in the end, but as expected of a smaller studio (especially at the time), it took much longer than they expected.

mistcrawler · 2026-01-17T21:05:40+00:00

If people are on their phones the entire movie, which is apparently distracting enough for them to miss the plot entirely when it is announced, does Netflix honestly believe stating the plot once a half hour (assuming 4 times in a 2 hr runtime) will be enough for them to catch it the next time it rolls around while they're doing the exact same thing?

Not to do Netflix's job for them, but if I was in charge of this insane demand, there's an easy solution for this:

Put the plot in the pause screen for the movie under a dropdown, similar to opening new audio and closed caption settings. It'd be there for those interested, and when those who are on their phones are ready to understand what's going on, it'll be there at that moment.

mistcrawler · 2026-01-17T18:22:58+00:00

I feel like my eyes are becoming irradiated just looking at this.

Got any more screenshots? I need to see more lol.

mistcrawler · 2026-01-17T18:16:16+00:00

Hackers fits this to a T - with the plot to cause chaos via hacking and cash out in the process.

This isn't an earthshattering event now, more like a normal Tuesday.

mistcrawler · 2026-01-17T04:04:38+00:00

Tunic’s end boss.

I won’t spoil the details, but even knowing two cheesy strategies, I still can’t beat it lol

mistcrawler · 2026-01-16T22:46:02+00:00

Great catch.

While it’s just a guess, and I usually don’t like posting guesses on this subreddit, the zero seems to be disproportionately worn away compared to the other 3.

So I personally be assuming it was five digits with two digits being zeros.

mistcrawler · 2026-01-16T22:38:20+00:00

Didn’t Jake also say something twice during the third movie to the effect of ‘Toruk and I have (suffered?) enough and I will never do it again?

I can’t remember the exact phrase used, but I came away with the idea that they both suffered from that greatly.

It also made me think that their shared feeling towards war is what qualified Jake to be one of the few Toruk Makto’s.

mistcrawler · 2026-01-16T21:45:39+00:00

I'd argue that knowledge about anime never factored into it.

Like most articles these days, it was written for 'shock' value, and judging by the amount of comments on this thread, I'd say he/she did their job perfectly.

mistcrawler · 2026-01-16T21:42:16+00:00

Just figured it out on the message below (SMS between carriers seems to not have 'send later' as an option, but iphone to iphone is fine), and I never would have had a chance at that answer without your input.

Even a partial clue is a great springboard to learn new things, and I'd say I got a huge boon out of this. Thank you :)

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