I have it on my PS TV, which I’ve been using to play some of my classics on my TV that doesn’t have room for big consoles.

I’m so much more competent as an adult. So I’m enjoying some games a lot more as an adult. I also have less time. So some grindier games I am not enjoying as much.

Yes, I meant obtaining a copy and emulating it. If you can’t show damages (it’s not costing them sales) then it shouldn’t be punishable.

That’s what I’ve been saying for awhile. If it’s not readily available after a certain amount of time, for a certain amount of time, emulation should be 100% legal. Sell it to me or fuck off.

I didn’t think Moon Knight was particularly good. Just an interesting premise with some flashy imagery. WV was good in the middle, but it was slow to start and disappointing to end.

Loki was phenomenal for the first season, disappointing for the second.

I’ll agree with you about Falcon not really being interesting himself, more interesting than the Flagsmashers though. I thought the societal stuff was handled well enough.

But the guest characters and their contrast with him was fantastic. John Walker in particular is an extremely interesting character. And I was surprised (and glad) that they left his character without condemnation from a narrative standpoint. Sam and Bucky is always fun. Zemo was a real treat. Sam learning to use the shield without enhancements was interesting.

I’ve seen complaints about his speech at the end and I don’t get it. He’s not there to tell them how to figure out the mess, there’s multiple ways available. He’s just there to provide a moral compass. It’s not easy to come up with a resolution that works for everyone. But they should at least work towards a solution that’s not cutthroat.

I’m not defending the show. FatWS was not good.

I fucking loved that show. And it’s weird that people have to get defensive about saying anything positive. I think it’s legitimately a great show.

Not Spidey, just Peter Parker. They even confirmed Happy remembers Spider-Man.

Part of my point was that Thor 4 was successful by the metrics. But in reality it was hated, to the point where I think it damaged both Taika Waititi’s reputation and the Thor brand.

However, you can look at the box office for some more insight. Because while it did well because of the hype, it’s success was short lived.

Domestic box office total Thor 1-4; DS2

$181M $206M $315M $343M $411M

2nd Weekend Drop Thor 1-4; DS2

47.2% 57.3% 53.5% 67.7% 67.0%

I added Doctor Strange 2 as well for reference. I think Thor 4 mostly benefited from Thor 3’s success in the same way Thor 2 benefited from Loki in the Avengers. And both fell off faster after the initial weekend than their predecessors because word of mouth sucked.

Thor 5 would not do as well, and could quite possibly bomb.

Thor 4 has 76% audience score and did $760M and everyone hated it.

I hope you’re right though. I loved a lot about Doctor Strange MoM. The music battle in particular I thought was genius, but I’ve heard from a lot of people that hated it.

I’m really worried about this one. The second movie was exactly as weird as I would expect a Doctor Strange movie to be. But it had very mixed receptions. A lot of people hated how crazy it got and expected something more standard like the first. And an MCU budget needs to have mainstream appeal.

I don’t think it even makes sense financially. There’s not really a first part for people to get excited about compared to Midgar in 7. 9 is more of a full package game.

I think it made sense for 7. Midgar was the most interesting set piece and a ton of stuff happens there. But it’s only like 10% of the game.

Then you collect side characters like infinity stones and to through a bunch of their individual stories.

Then the actual story happens.

Also, 7 is popular enough to support the split up.

This doesn’t make sense for 9. Also, isn’t it supposed to be a 1 for 1 remake?

17 U.S. Code § 1201 - Circumvention of copyright protection systems

Well that’s interesting. It does say the law won’t override fair use. But I assume it blocks it regardless.

So you’re saying, because it would rip straight to another cartridge, it could be argued it’s streamlining distribution?

I would hope that a court would see through that argument. There’s a pretty good track record of allowing personal use of personal property. But I wouldn’t be surprised either if they convinced a court that this was explicitly for distribution purposes.

Is it illegal to rip a game that you own onto a device that you own? My understanding is that’s 100% legal, not gray area at all. The only issue would be if you distributed it.

If we don’t include backwards compatibility, PS1 easily. So many iconic and underrated RPGs from that time. If we do count BC, it would either be PS2 or PS3 by technicality.

Do you have a lot of UMD games? I got a PSTV (the Vita console), hacked it to use expanded memory (just follow the steps you can find online), and repurchased most of my physical catalog digitally. I think a lot of those games are locked at $10 since the store can no longer receive updates.

I still have my 1000 for physical. But even then, Vita incompatible games like Crisis Core and Spyro (for some reason the PS1 game isn’t compatible with Vita) are available on my PS5.

I wonder if it has to do with General Ross, who the team is named after.

She’s probably my least favorite of the bunch. But I’m glad that she’s there since people like her.

I want that controller. Also, a faceplate for my (original version) PS5 would be cool.