Those cars cause a lot of shit apparently. Worst of all they are a liability around emergency vehicles. If this is a way of protesting that, I get it.

It'd look better. Even with the struts out.

Even if a game is protected against piracy on its PC version, the version released on Nintendo Switch can be emulated from day one and played on PC, therefore bypassing the strong protections offered on the PC version,”

Are there that many multi-platform games that have denuvo and a switch version too?

I'd think most games "big enough" for denuvo wouldn't have a switch port anyway.

I don't think anybody seriously used twitter as storage.

Rather the point is that, similarly to every time a blogging platform or another online service with user content shuts down, a bit of internet history disappears with it. Links are broken, traces of opinions or bits of knowledge from another time are not available anymore...

It's not the end of the world, and at that point I wouldn't really care if twitter disappeared completely overnight, but still, some stuff will be lost.

Somehow Windows has always been and is still crap at managing archives. Ultra-slow, has trouble opening or extracting individual files inside the archive, etc.

However, 7-zip has been doing all that perfectly forever now. Not sure why anyone would use WinRAR, paid for or not.

I suspect the guys blocking the road could have prevented it by staying there, but assumed it wasn't really their problem after all and kinda wanted to see this shit happen.

And I wouldn't blame them.

There only needs to be a couple people knowing how to get a rip for it to end up everywhere.

If physical releases start disappearing everywhere, I can see piracy getting a significant boost. It will be the only way to "own" a movie and be sure you can still watch it whenever you want. Disney has been removing content from its service already, even some recent stuff.

I know Gabe Newell's old quote is being parroted a lot but it's relevant : "Piracy is not a pricing issue, it's a service issue". Steam may be a digital market, but it doesn't require a continued paid subscription to access stuff you've paid for, and it doesn't delist games whenever it feels like it.

Funny that of all countries they could have used to launch that, 3 out of 4 are in the European Union.

They couldn't choose a better place if they wanted privacy protection regulations to kick in and start asking embarrassing questions to them.

Oh, it's that guy. The "Semple vs Kapoor" stuff was funny.

Before I recognized who was doing "abode" I was going to say that name was just asking for trouble, but yeah, he knew what he was doing.

Are you sure they're not just decent dubs? Non English-speaking countries have been used to synced dubs forever.

This is why adapting (well) for dubs is way more complicated than just translating dialogues. You have to find an equivalent line that matches visible mouth movements.

It is.

Sarah Z made a video where she gets into some of the darker parts of Replika's concept and evolution. It's a fairly stinky business model.

https://youtu.be/3WSKKolgL2U

If you want a game that uses movie clips and proceeds to butcher the original movie plot and atmosphere, try the old Fifth Element game. It's amazing, they took bits of the movie and used them to make a weird new cut that completely changes character motivations, adds huge plot holes and mess with the order of events.

For example : the game starts as Korben (at that point just a taxi driver) saves the lab where Leeloo is being revived (also random mutants freeing themselves from capsules).

In turn, Leeloo then saves Korben that's been arrested by the police (you know that "meat popsicle" bit? They've recut it so it looks like Korben got arrested).

Leeloo then spends about half the game in her strap suit from the lab, instead of like 3 minutes. Just because they took the iconic plunge into Korben's taxi scene to use it way later, in a random subplot they added, and she needed to be dressed like that because that's how she is in the movie clip.

Which also means that in the game's plot, her falling right on Korben's taxi was somehow intended, and not how they met.

Many other examples of scenes that were reinterpreted like that to create new subplots, like that one time Zorg blows up a phone booth to kill an incompetent henchman becomes a terrorist attack on the spaceport with a dozen of exploding booths.