youtu.be/L6A1Lt0kvMA?si=Cuhyl_9I_7AIu8bu is probably still valid today. Destin is pretty calm compared to people like Brady about it, but still, “exposure” and free clicks aren’t as useful, and technically giants often steal with their own players before actually linking.
I wouldn’t call myself a Trekkie, but I love Risa or RISA, or however the properly capitalized way it is. I’m not not a fan of Star Trek, I’ve just watched far too little to call myself a Trekkie. Excluding movies, I’ve probably seen something like 30-60 episodes of TNG and DS9. A few of Voyager I guess. Mostly what I caught on TV whole younger, and my memory of them in general is enjoyment. I’ve also read a book or two, but I was also reading SW books and definitely read more of those.
Some of us buy those ironically though. I had a shirt that said (and I unfortunately cannot put it in kana/Kanji atm) something very close to, in full kana and kanji: “I am a stupid American. I’ll buy anything.”
I knee fully what it meant because the sentence was pretty easy, but I still wanted to travel to Japan wearing it.
It’s more along the aliens, dimensions, and Alex Jones side of conspiracies. Especially in the Alien side, stuff like clones replacing real people, sometimes for weird alien super soldier stuff, but more often stuff like Biden is actually a clone and real Biden is dead/senile.
Or Alex talking about human-animal hybrids and using clones as a sorta false temptation where they say you’ll live forever, but they just replace you with a clone and/or upload you to the singularity except it isn’t you, they just killed you. Because they hate humanity. Inane grunts and yelling, quality depending on how drunk/under the influence he is.
I too used mine as a backup. I don’t have a working one atm, but technically my steamdeck works for most of the games I’d want to keep up with, if a bit harder to use. I can even do ffxiv, though definitely less skilled using the steamdeck. I might try with a dock and my 8bitdo controller and see how that feels (already have both, but haven’t really tested it since I use that controller for switch instead).
Perhaps they simply mean they don’t want it internet connected at all. If it needs updates, have it be a device, USB or OBD or something, that would be the only vector for updates/direct OS control. Sure, allow internet for some features maybe, but isolate updates and the anything serious from remote tampering.
I know these are just copypasta, but it’s always alarming seeing people act like sex is a violent act from the man onto the woman, but praising it. High HP? Armor? Shouldn’t sex feel good for both parties involved?
I’m into anime and manga. This trope is overdone there, generally in harem stuff. In the US, maybe Betty and Veronica? I’ve never actually read or followed one, but that was my impression from Tvtropes.
I forgot I was paying for game pass, so that’s why I’m playing it now. I’m having some fun, but the revisit when mods finish feels pretty true. I only have one loaded atm, but definitely considering some others.
I’d say the first things I’ve seen with the concept were probably stuff like Neverending Story, Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, and possibly random cartoons long before that.
For Anime, Fushigi Yugi and Escaflowne I both saw before SAO. Maybe Dual! Parallel Trouble too.
I tend to count stuff like .Hack and SAO as VR not isekai myself, as your body doesn’t really get stronger in the real world, and usually your life in the real world isn’t as affected either. For the ones who have that pining for a real adventure, I prefer permanent changes to “it was all a dream or might as well have been because their are no material changes.”
Huh. Turns out I use most of my games as toys, not games. I rarely finish games, usually getting a lot of stuff done, high leveled, etc, then just enjoying it until I decide ro start over. I also regularly go back to games like Ark, 7 days, City Skylines, Civ VI(but often strip out ein conditions so I can keep playing), FFXIV, etc.
Sure I make short term goals that I complete, but usually not done everything and complete story to win unless doing so gives me something else to do, like New Game+.