I can’t help but pronounce this as “Bollocks Pit”

1. Give all players a pause limit. A certain number of minutes per game and per pause, and a number of pauses. Players can’t pause anymore after going over their time limit or pause count limit. The game resumes after a pause’s time limit is reached.
2. Pausing should happen after a delay of a certain number of seconds. So a player hits pause, countdown starts before actually pausing.
3. Resuming from a pause also has a timer.
4. Players’ pause stats are retained. People who take more pauses or spend more time pausing the game get matched with each other.

No wonder the last guy thought we got disconnected 30s in after I told him I was unplugging my router.

“Sir? Are you still there?”

“Oh, yes. I was just waiting with the router unplugged.”

“Oh. Well… it’s probably fine now.”

“But it’s only been like 30 seconds.”

"Oh, has it? Well…uh, ok I guess.

There was probably some peak, but I don’t think games as a whole every “just worked”.

If it wasn’t a problem with the game, it was a problem with your hardware.

Yeah, that was a bad description on my part.

Compared to digital transactions of traditional currencies though, my understanding is that traditional currencies are easier to trace

As others have described, people can steal money digitally the same way. Yes, real money is infinitely more trackable.

That doesn’t mean crypto is a scam. It just means it’s not (as) trackable as traditional currencies.

And I’m not a cryptobro or anything. I just don’t think cryptocurrencies are inherently “a scam”.

I don’t know what Jerboa is or why you commented about it under this post…lol

This isn’t a problem of crypto being a scam. The scam was a video game in this case.

If someone hides $30k in cash in their home, gets robbed, then the robber spends it all and dies penniless? The victim won’t get their money back. Same as this victim.

That’d make cash just as much of a scam as crypto in these two scenarios.

Notice I wrote in present tense

Immediately after saying “some history is in order”.

Square Enix didn’t give us the original Final Fantasy nor the original Dragon Quest. They give us those games now. But writing as if they were always one company feels like rewriting history.

This is the first time in my life that I’ve seen video game console prices go up. Might even be the first time in history.

Some history is in order. The two most influential JRPG developers are Square Enix and Nihon Falcom. Square Enix gave us Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy.

Uhh… credibility lost. They’re saying history is in order and they immediately begin by rewriting history.

Squaresoft and Enix were two different companies for decades, particularly when they were giving us Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest.

Your title says “What are in you are top 3 favourite games of all time”.

You were thinking of “your”, which is possessive. “You’re” is a contraction of “you” and “are”; the apostrophe is a hint there.

Lol, you’re right! My bad

I think you missed. You’re replying to the post about Road Rash saying the game didn’t hold your attention as long as Road Rash.

You probably meant to reply to a comment, haha

Honestly, yes. If they’re having to guess what is or isn’t allowed, it’s only a matter of time until it actually happens.

And sure, having a Visa influences my stance on what Valve should do! Haha

MasterCard probably makes too much money from Steam to permanently ban them.

Probably a Mystery Dungeon game. I’d go with Gen 5, having not played it on ages, for a mainline game.

Scarlet/Violet was surprisingly decent, at least in the end-game.

Not every single piece of art goes into a museum

Haha, it wasn’t the end of the sentence, but I don’t think the rest of the original sentence meaningfully changed that particular clause!

I agree with what you’ve said, but their (stated) mission is about fighting sexual violence against women.

Regardless of what any religious text says, that sounds like a good thing to fight against. In practice, I think things have gotten a bit out of hand here.

Rape and incest ain’t for me but I take serious offense when they get banned

phrasing

It wasn’t the payment processors that got Andrew Tate off of Spotify, it was the actions of the activist group

They got Andrew Tate off of Spotify, which is a win though…

I can understand if they’re fighting human trafficking and such. But going after porn video games, which generally don’t feature real people or generally glorify human trafficking etc., I’m not sure why this is part of their scope.

I could also see this group being against Donald “Grab 'em by the pussy” Trump.

I haven’t seen the games that are getting targetted. I’ve heard it isn’t all porn games. What’s the criteria for removal?

Your username has a typo

The GC didn’t have a keyboard, so it was useful for MMORPGs. Not sure if I should be pluralizing that, though. It might’ve only been PSO.

I got the base game for free a few years ago.

I played and enjoyed it so much I bought the Platinum edition…on Steam, because it was cheaper there. (And other reasons, but this was the biggest one)

One of the few games I actually went out and bought thanks to Epic. I feel slightly bad for not buying from them, lol

the network that allows bank transfers to happen nigh instantaneously.

Ah, so I guess Canada doesn’t use them! Haha

Definitely needed the /s there. I’m sure you saw the 3 or so other comments who were explaining why Valve are good guys, lol

“impacts” has been in my vocabulary for as long as I remember, and it’s common to use it that way. The dictionaries even have that definition.

I’m not afraid of language evolving.

If media can say “slammed” to mean “said something about”, I can use “impacted” to mean “affected”. Especially when we have the word “impactful”.

Why are Valve the good guys?

Harvest Moon is Temu Stardew Valley. I know Harvest Moon came first. Stardew Valley does literally everything better than Harvest Moon

If an ordered item arrives broken once, it’s a shitty delivery company. 1-star probably isn’t warranted unless the company is shitty about replacing it.

If an ordered item arrives broken regularly, it’s a problem that the company should’ve fixed.

If a game doesn’t work on one person’s machine, maybe they’ve got a bunch of malware installed or something.

If it doesn’t work on many people’s machines that meet the recommended specs, the company is at fault and deserves bad reviews.

If it runs poorly on the recommended specs, bad reviews are warranted.

I was referring to where they said

Bro, it’s a YOSHI game

Going based on the expectations set by Yoshi’s Island, one wouldn’t be off to expect challenge in Yoshi’s Story, its follow-up.

I dunno, Yoshi’s Island can get pretty hard…

Going forward? RetroAchievements, Steam, GOG, and LaunchBox to tie it all together. PSN trophy integration to LaunchBox would be cool too, because PS3 stuff is never coming to any of those platforms and I have history there, too.

For historical stuff, that’s in my memory exclusively.

You may have seen reports of leaks of older text messages that had previously been sent to Steam customers. We have examined the leak sample and have determined this was NOT a breach of Steam systems.

Should’ve been “Until the tariffs are gone, right?”

“Mom! I want to read articles on Polygon!”

We have Polygon at home.

The Polygon at home:

Polgyon