like, just off the top of my head there's that whole "spy balloon" thing.
just get a shitty computer tbh, worse graphics is fine actually.
like i usually hate the whole, "buy a 2tb ssd, its only like $60" line. like to a lot of people that isn't something you can just drop casually for a video game (especially on top of the price of the game itself!) but I don't really think thats the perspective this writer is coming from.
like, the game industry is incredibly exploitative, even if piracy does causes direct harm to it, thats honestly a good thing, it is set up to benefit publishers and share-holders over anyone else, especially the people actually making the games. supporting the end of that isn't "hippy-dippy"
whether or not games were ever like that isn't actually relevent to the point they made, also tons of unfinished games are basically already sold as complete.
its def not stupid, legit sources are super inconvenient, like i forget account passwords all the time, and steam makes sharing yr games for multiplayer really hard. way easier to just go download a cracked copy
bots are kinda boring
omg i had pretty much the same experience with TotK, not only were the maps huge but the animations and cutscenes took waaaaay too long.
is there any indication that microsoft intends to clean house?
"Because if you made it, it is yours and you get to decide how other people use it." why shouldn't people be allowed to use software how they want?
try a randomizer mod! or like, play morrowind
"This is WELL beyond anything that Israel has done in the last few decades. Civilians killed during military actions in Gaza are not even remotely similar to this" why? they're still dead.