You don’t have to “bypass it.” When you install the game, during the settings process it asks if you would like to create a PS account and you just click no, or skip IDR what the word on the button was. Then it never asks you to do it again, but you can still link it in the options menu if you wanted to later on.
Then its gonna go right back to getting review bombed lol
Zotac? Did they do something about the like 100 brand new factory sealed RTX 5090 GPUs that had 3 backpacks instead of the card yet?
Nintendo made a very smart business move that is extremely anti-consumer:
They removed themselves from competing with Sony and Microsoft.
People don’t think “Should I buy Xbox, Nintendo, or PlayStation?” They think “Should I buy Xbox or PlayStation, in addition to Nintendo?”
Great business move, because consumers are buying Nintendo up more than before. Extremely bad for consumers because now we are seeing how Sony acts when they have only one real competitor: keeping console exclusives, raising prices, and enforcing PS Accounts for offlline singleplayer games.
If Microsoft drops Xbox hardware, PlayStation will have zero competition and gain a monopoly on the console hardware market. Then they can raise the prices to be whatever they want. What are you gonna do, buy an Xbox that doesn’t exist?
I actually got Conan for my dad, he enjoyed playing it, but now he is into Helldivers 2.
It was an okay game, but not my cup of tea personally.
Okay, maybe I am interested a little bit. Private servers are always a welcome addition to a game, especially online only games. At least if official servers shut down, I can run my own server and keep playing.
Out of curiosity, did you not like the images before you read that they used AI? Its pretty obvious that it was used as a tool by human artists from the write-up, in the same way that a human artist would use Photoshop.
Maybe. Maybe publishers will finally move on from the Extraction Shooter fad. Its a dead genre, the peak concurrent player count of the top 10 Extraction Shooters (including the Arc Raiders Beta, there are that few lol) on Steam combined is within about 10k players of just Helldivers 2 alone. Purely PvEvP Extraction Shooters equal money loss for publishers.
I think this is partially discounting the people that do genuinely try their best to keep Wikipedia factual. There are certainly many people that contribute to Wikipedia and do an excellent job trying to maintain factually correct articles all across the site. AFAIK, they are not paid for this. In particular, math related pages tend to be the most pure pages since there is little room for opinion in such a topic.
The problem is that even just 1 user abusing their “control” over a Wikipedia page will throw the entire site’s credibility into question. People like that, unfortunately, are often ones that seek out places where they can have “power.” Controlling information, or globally accessible pages that document events in history, no matter how small, is incredibly alluring for this kind of person.
It is an issue inherent to the Open-Source style approach of Wikipedia. Anyone can make an edit, but any edit can also be reverted. For topics where opinion is introduced, this often leads to Edit Wars, fighting in Talks, and the eventual locking of the page so no further edits can be made.
I felt bad for him because how do you make a good follow up to something that left you no questions to answer? No matter what he wrote, it was not going to be good. Nothing could have been written that would have been a home run.
JJ didn’t ruin the Sequels. 7 was a decent start, if overly safe with some minor problems. Rian ruined the Sequels with 8. 9 was a foregone conclusion. Everyone going into that theatre expected a movie they weren’t going to like because of 8. Its evident by their appeal to a younger audience by shoving part of the story into Fortnite. The older audience wasn’t very interested in seeing 9 after they saw 8, so Disney needed the disillusioned fan’s kids to get them to bring them to see what they saw in Fortnite.
Wikipedia is not a reliable source, especially when it comes to general public opinion. It has the habit of magnifying minority/fringe opinions, or making tiny issues seem like they were a huge deal.
According to the edit history of that page, that section did not exist on the page until 2023. Coincidentally, one of the 3 sources cited in that section was published in 2023. They also decided to add two Opinion Editorial articles, one from 2015, and the other from, take a guess, 2023. OpEds have no requirement to be factually correct, and therefore are in general, an awful source of actual information. Including these kinds of articles does not present an extension of good faith, and makes it look like the person adding them is doing it only to present a source, regardless of its credibility, so they can include whatever they are trying to add. All of those edits, including adding that section, were from the same person. That user never made an edit to that page until 2023. And they never made an edit to that page since.
Since 2023, there have been 3 edits. One of them was apparently yesterday, which was instantly reverted. The second edit is interesting because it says “[…]presenting the controversy as being bigger than in reality would lend undue weight to fringe opinions.” This edit was, of course, instantly reverted by the same person as before, but they are different from the person that added the Backlash section who was never seen again on this page since 2023.
Looking at this new user’s edit history on this page, they started editing the page in 2021 with only a single edit, 3 edits in both 2022 and 2023, and 2 edits in 2025. What is interesting about this user is that they only ever reverted changes to the page; they made no other edits except for reverting edits from other users.
The point being, some users on Wikipedia will decide that they want a specific thing in a Wikipedia page, and will disregard any changes made to them in order to force what they want to be on that page. Sometimes this is warranted because of vandalism (which did not occur, from what I can tell, until yesterday), but most of the time it is because of personal bias from people who have more “trusted” Wikipedia accounts. Wikipedia listing opinions is of course, incredibly dangerous, as it can lead to the general public (who doesn’t actually research something or check sources) believing whatever is on the page when they read it. This is why Wikipedia has a policy that doesnt allow individual/personal reviews of movies to be included in articles, for example. This is what makes Wikipedia such an unreliable source, and anyone quoting it should thoroughly review not only the sources cited but also the edit history of the page they are citing.
As an avid pre-Disney SW fan myself, fans weren’t that pissed at 7. Outside of it being ANH again very safe and Rey being too good at everything from the get-go with absolutely no character development to support that, 7 was met with mostly lukewarm reception. Not awful, but not great either. It played it safe and everyone could tell.
Then Rian entered the picture. The individual that is documented on video saying he wanted to make a movie that at least half of viewers hated. Well, mission accomplished, buddy.
Tied up every loose end from 7 and tied up its own loose ends leaving absolutely no meaningful questions for 9. Not to mention half the movie could have been deleted with no consequence (seriously, what on earth was going on with the Canto arc?), multiple character assassinations, killed off a character with lots of potential to be a decent BBEG in the most unceremonious way ever, and introduced a major canon-breaking scene.
I feel bad for JJ on 9 honestly. How do you even follow up on 8? 7 was such a soft-ball lay-up for anyone to write a sequel to, and Disney thought the best guy for the job was Mr. I Want To Make A Movie That Passionate Fans Hate? Its almost like Rian was spiteful and wrote 8 to be bad on purpose because he didn’t like that Abrams had written 7. Why they did not have JJ just write the whole trilogy is beyond me. Would definitely have been better than what we got, at least it would have been more coherent. At the very least, mid is better than awful. Maybe Rose Tico could have been a real character with actual development and purpose instead of a useless character with an entirely unnecessary death.
The prequels are only viewed better now because 7, 8, and 9 proved something could be worse. As Qui-Gon Jinn said, “There is always a bigger fish.”
This kind of mentality is how most modern sequels of old properties have failed, BTW.
Majority of the audience are the people that would say “The G Man wouldn’t do that in my day.” That kind of thinking helps continuity as well.
Otherwise you end up with spectacular failures like Star Wars Episodes 8 and 9.
Sounds like literally every other mobile game when they reach End of Service to me. No time given on when servers will shut down until a month in advance, no refunds, etc.
I also have an old account with ~$6,000 USD on it. I don’t worry about it so much. Also, I don’t think it includes when a game was purchased on sale, because on my account I have one of the Star Wars mega bundles that came with like 20 classic Star Wars games, but it says it was like $220 or something. I absolutely bought it when it was on sale, and not when it was full priced, because that money would fund Disney and I don’t want to fund Disney any more than I feel is absolutely necessary. So some of the prices may not be reliable with what was actually spent. (After manually adding up the purchase, I only spent ~$59 USD on the bundle which I bought in 2018).
By comparison, I have put ~$10,000 USD into my car, with $7,000 on the engine alone. So seeing the $6,000 might have been scary initially, but given the value of the dollar, I am kinda surprised the number wasn’t bigger.
Also, my account is old enough that it doesn’t include anything from before 2016? or some year like that.
Wait, you don’t know about Mario’s other brother, MAIIIO?
Nintendo has been called “Big N” for a very long time, so I wouldn’t attribute that to this.
Does anyone even still play Overwatch 2 anymore? I never see any news about it for eSports like I used to with Overwatch.
*Vexatious Litigant Law Firm
At this point, their Legal team is bigger than their Games Development side-hustle.
I really liked the art style, but for some reason a lot of recent games with that cell shaded style seem to think that they need to set the contrast to be negative and washout all the colors, which is almost the entire appeal of the art style. Zelda did it too, and I disliked it in that game too.
Shame it was called Marathon though. Game had absolutely nothing to do with Marathon, and didn’t even feature the Phor. Also shame it was a dead genre that the only people that like that genre play Tarkov and literally nothing else.