Something I find often on Steam I LOATHE and find utterly detestable is finding games that are obviously left to rot by developers who could at least ensure it will function on modern PCs when bought.
Two games in particular this is odious on are Fallout 3 and Deus Ex: Invisible War
The first one admits it's not gonna run well on anything newer than Windows 7 and requires several fan patches to fix issues that the official developers could have taken twenty minutes out of their lives to do themselves. Considering one usually has to still buy Fallout 3 and use it as one half of the Tales of Two Wastelands Mod just to run it on the Fallout New Vegas engine (which is modern computer friendly), and considering they still expect people to pay money for it and it has a very active modding community even now, you'd THINK Bethesda could be bothered to care.
Nope. They are too busy running customer goodwill into the ground with that trashfire called Fallout 76.
As for Deus Ex:Invisible War, granted, it's not all that great a game, but it's still a Deus Ex game, and when you consider the amount of work that went into all the other games in that series, keeping that running on modern computers would not be that hard, given it runs on Unreal Engine 2 and fans already made a patch to make it stable enough to run well to do just that.
But again, the official developers just could not be bothered to try.
In Bethesda's defense, they did at least have the decency to warn people about the issues on the store page, but there is no similar caveat emptor for Invisible War, which is REALLY could use given that without a fan patch it runs like crap and can crash every 10-15 minutes.
Another reason I despise this is because Good Old Games averts this practice, as they try to bundle everything they sell with whatever it needed to make sure it can be run or decently emulated before it's sold, even if that means they must resort to bundling fan patches, because they don't want you to be disappointed what you bought is dead on the table when you try to play it.
However, to devil's advocate for a moment, I supposed one could say Steam is under no obligation to FORCE developers to care so long as their games at least turn on when purchased, that is up to Steam's discretion.
Then again, I'm sure most players want to play what they bought, not just load the executable.
Saturday, October 26, 2019
Because I want to laugh at my A-Logs (AKA those Mad At The Internet At Me)
I recently have gotten insulting comments from people who are trying to go out of their way to piss me off and all they doing is amusing me.
For the benefit of the confused, they are one of two:
1. One is some assblasted manchild who constantly sends occasional messages I need to be lynched or that I should kill myself either via my DeviantArt account page or this very blog. I rarely visit the former these days, and the latter I HAVE COMMENT MODERATION ON YOU IDIOT, YOUR COMMENTS NEVER SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY AND I DELETE WITHOUT GIVING THEM A SECOND GLANCE.
They appear to be someone very mad I got rid of examples for the Complete Monster trope on All The Tropes (one or both of the branches of it), and they think wishing very hard I should die is gonna fix things.
Honestly, I pity someone that petty, they can always find something better and less pathetic to do with their time.
2. My other a-logs are the same assholes I quit regularly posting on the Kiwi Farms to get away from because they made it clear they wanted me off their little hugbox, so I obliged them, only posting a few times in the TV Tropes thread recently to clear up some drama they were unclear on, but aside from that I have other things in life I'm more concerned about.
However, it seems they took the time to post some shit talk in response to my blog post a few posts back about why I don't regularly post on the Kiwi Farms, obviously gloating their bullshit got me to quit posting there regularly, and calling it, and I quote, "karma".
These comments will never see the public eye, they obviously know my blog has comment moderation, so this was done in the hopes of making me mad hoping I'll read it and get angry.
If anything, this just proves my point why I left, and if anything I'm facepalming someone from there is still so obsessed with me they have to post anonymous mocking comments like a coward (that only I will see) instead of having the spine and balls to post a link to my post in their Kiwi Farms Reviews thread and make public their disdain.
I posted in public too, fair is fair, I can take that like an adult.
I'm sure they didn't because the post they sent me anonymous comments on also mentions, the shitheels I left over aside, I still love the place and consider it doing the internet a valuable service, and I still contend, a few shitstains aside, most of it's members are fine people who I wish nothing but the best, and I even now still defend the shitstains in question's right to shit on me. I just wish those eunuchs could do so publicly and quit trying to troll people like the very site rules say they shouldn't.
Besides, if I actually do something that would earn me a thread, fine, I'll take my medicine, but so far, until that happens, I'd like to advise the idiots doing this I'm not going to bother dignifying your bullshit with further responses, you're sad attention whores who could learn a trade, get a hobby, do something more useful with your lives instead of trying to mildly annoy someone who has willingly decided to NOT do the same because I'm not a petty douchebag, and I lament that not everyone is that mature.
That in mind, I'm just going to pray God gives me the strength to never become these people, hate is an ugly thing that is making the products of their lives an ugly thing to witness, and I can only hope for His intercession in their lives before it destroys them as people.
For the benefit of the confused, they are one of two:
1. One is some assblasted manchild who constantly sends occasional messages I need to be lynched or that I should kill myself either via my DeviantArt account page or this very blog. I rarely visit the former these days, and the latter I HAVE COMMENT MODERATION ON YOU IDIOT, YOUR COMMENTS NEVER SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY AND I DELETE WITHOUT GIVING THEM A SECOND GLANCE.
They appear to be someone very mad I got rid of examples for the Complete Monster trope on All The Tropes (one or both of the branches of it), and they think wishing very hard I should die is gonna fix things.
Honestly, I pity someone that petty, they can always find something better and less pathetic to do with their time.
2. My other a-logs are the same assholes I quit regularly posting on the Kiwi Farms to get away from because they made it clear they wanted me off their little hugbox, so I obliged them, only posting a few times in the TV Tropes thread recently to clear up some drama they were unclear on, but aside from that I have other things in life I'm more concerned about.
However, it seems they took the time to post some shit talk in response to my blog post a few posts back about why I don't regularly post on the Kiwi Farms, obviously gloating their bullshit got me to quit posting there regularly, and calling it, and I quote, "karma".
These comments will never see the public eye, they obviously know my blog has comment moderation, so this was done in the hopes of making me mad hoping I'll read it and get angry.
If anything, this just proves my point why I left, and if anything I'm facepalming someone from there is still so obsessed with me they have to post anonymous mocking comments like a coward (that only I will see) instead of having the spine and balls to post a link to my post in their Kiwi Farms Reviews thread and make public their disdain.
I posted in public too, fair is fair, I can take that like an adult.
I'm sure they didn't because the post they sent me anonymous comments on also mentions, the shitheels I left over aside, I still love the place and consider it doing the internet a valuable service, and I still contend, a few shitstains aside, most of it's members are fine people who I wish nothing but the best, and I even now still defend the shitstains in question's right to shit on me. I just wish those eunuchs could do so publicly and quit trying to troll people like the very site rules say they shouldn't.
Besides, if I actually do something that would earn me a thread, fine, I'll take my medicine, but so far, until that happens, I'd like to advise the idiots doing this I'm not going to bother dignifying your bullshit with further responses, you're sad attention whores who could learn a trade, get a hobby, do something more useful with your lives instead of trying to mildly annoy someone who has willingly decided to NOT do the same because I'm not a petty douchebag, and I lament that not everyone is that mature.
That in mind, I'm just going to pray God gives me the strength to never become these people, hate is an ugly thing that is making the products of their lives an ugly thing to witness, and I can only hope for His intercession in their lives before it destroys them as people.
Thursday, October 17, 2019
Being Like God or Like a Devil, A Choice Every Christian Faces
It's said godly truths can come from the most unlikely sources, and since I'm a robot anime fan, I believe the anime franchise Mazinger Z has a moral Christians should do well to consider.
Mazinger Z was created by Go Nagai as a kids show like series where the hero Koji Kabuto (his name is a pun, his last means helmet, he pilots the machine from the head region via a device called a Pilder) pilots the title robot against the mad scientist Dr. Hell (the most obviously evil name you could ever have, as if the fact he looks like Santa Claus's evil purple skinned twin wasn't obvious enough) and his mechanical armies.
The conflict is over Dr. Hell wanting to seize the title robot and it's power source, Photon Power, for his own ends of world domination, and the implications of the show have a nice moral tale to them.
The title machine comes from the Japanese words "Ma" meaning "demon" and "Jin" meaning "God", and the dual titling is not accidental, as the series has a moral that is fairly consistent across most adaptations:
"You can be like a god or a devil, it's all up to you".
For Christians, this could not be more true. The light of the divine exists in all of us, as we were created in God's image and our souls are supposed to be reflection of His divine glory, but they are also corroded with the taint of sin, and if we listen to temptation, we can fall away from that divinity we should desire to emulate and become demonic in our depravity.
In the show, Mazinger is portrayed as a overall neutral element, it's power being able to bent towards good or evil depending on the will of the pilot, and that too applies to Christians. Our bodies and souls have us in the driver seat, and that potential to be glorified or debased is all up to our own will, and how we choose to act is, as the series moral puts it, is definitely up to us.
Further, in all the Mazinger adaptations, Mazinger is controlled via a secondary unit called a Pilder that is attached to the head and allows control of Mazinger's body.
We are that Pilder. Our actions are a result of our free will and conscious actions, and our potential for good and evil is just the same.
Granted, not all aspects of the plot make for a great example of Christian morality tale, it has it's own morally questionable elements like all other anime, but it's basic moral theme is quite adaptable to the Christian experience and is a good guideline for our potential.
That said, you can either put that soul and body you were given to work bringing to glory to yourself and thus to God, or you can do the exact opposite and become no better than a Devil.
And that decision is up to all of us to make.
Mazinger Z was created by Go Nagai as a kids show like series where the hero Koji Kabuto (his name is a pun, his last means helmet, he pilots the machine from the head region via a device called a Pilder) pilots the title robot against the mad scientist Dr. Hell (the most obviously evil name you could ever have, as if the fact he looks like Santa Claus's evil purple skinned twin wasn't obvious enough) and his mechanical armies.
The conflict is over Dr. Hell wanting to seize the title robot and it's power source, Photon Power, for his own ends of world domination, and the implications of the show have a nice moral tale to them.
The title machine comes from the Japanese words "Ma" meaning "demon" and "Jin" meaning "God", and the dual titling is not accidental, as the series has a moral that is fairly consistent across most adaptations:
"You can be like a god or a devil, it's all up to you".
For Christians, this could not be more true. The light of the divine exists in all of us, as we were created in God's image and our souls are supposed to be reflection of His divine glory, but they are also corroded with the taint of sin, and if we listen to temptation, we can fall away from that divinity we should desire to emulate and become demonic in our depravity.
In the show, Mazinger is portrayed as a overall neutral element, it's power being able to bent towards good or evil depending on the will of the pilot, and that too applies to Christians. Our bodies and souls have us in the driver seat, and that potential to be glorified or debased is all up to our own will, and how we choose to act is, as the series moral puts it, is definitely up to us.
Further, in all the Mazinger adaptations, Mazinger is controlled via a secondary unit called a Pilder that is attached to the head and allows control of Mazinger's body.
We are that Pilder. Our actions are a result of our free will and conscious actions, and our potential for good and evil is just the same.
Granted, not all aspects of the plot make for a great example of Christian morality tale, it has it's own morally questionable elements like all other anime, but it's basic moral theme is quite adaptable to the Christian experience and is a good guideline for our potential.
That said, you can either put that soul and body you were given to work bringing to glory to yourself and thus to God, or you can do the exact opposite and become no better than a Devil.
And that decision is up to all of us to make.
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