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I don't care if it's on a 84% off sale and only costs $7.99 USD (though also with $44.41 of DLC [and that's with the DLC itself at 50% off]), I'm still not buying that shit if it has Denuvo in it, which it still does.
Nov. 19th, 2020
Meh. I went ahead and bought it on Steam, despite all the bullshit headache it had caused me in the past.
It's available right now at a 66% off sale for $22.09 USD (if you want the "digital deluxe" version, that is, aka the full, un-chopped-up-into-DLC game). Since $22.09 is less than the roughly $30 or whatever that I'd paid on the Kickstarter that I got refunded, I just said meh fuck it, and bought it (after checking to make sure it didn't have Denuvo, of course, and given that it's also available on GOG [with the same 66% off discounts, currently], I didn't think it would, and it didn't, so at least they are that smart, if nothing else).
Given that I already bought Shenmue I & II a while back, as well, I may just do a Shenmue playthrough at some point soon. Even if they didn't bother to implement a save import feature from the previous games in Shenmue 3.
The "normal" price for the "digital deluxe" version is $64.99, though, and if I'd checked Steam (or GOG) and saw it at that price, rather than the $22.09 it is right now, well, they couldn't have kissed my ass and died fast enough to suit me. As it is now, basically, I got Shenmue 3 for less than I would have if I'd just stuck with the Kickstarter bullshit, and that's just fine with me. I mean, sure, I could have and probably should have waited for an even steeper discount, like 75%-plus or some shit, but meh, whatever.
(EDIT) Oh, and apparently the Steam key that Kickstarter backers got is just for the "standard" edition, not the "digital deluxe" edition. I.e. if I'd stuck with the Kickstarter shit, I'd have had to buy the DLC in addition to the $29 I'd already paid into the Kickstarter, assuming I wanted the full game. So... really, I got the game for way cheaper this way, i.e. having refunded the Kickstarter shit and just buying it on sale for $22.09, than I otherwise would have if I hadn't refunded the Kickstarter horseshit, which would have been $29 plus $7.17 for the DLC (at the 60% off sale price, or $17.97 at non-sale prices). Kickstarter backers got fucked six ways to Sunday. (/EDIT)
It's available right now at a 66% off sale for $22.09 USD (if you want the "digital deluxe" version, that is, aka the full, un-chopped-up-into-DLC game). Since $22.09 is less than the roughly $30 or whatever that I'd paid on the Kickstarter that I got refunded, I just said meh fuck it, and bought it (after checking to make sure it didn't have Denuvo, of course, and given that it's also available on GOG [with the same 66% off discounts, currently], I didn't think it would, and it didn't, so at least they are that smart, if nothing else).
Given that I already bought Shenmue I & II a while back, as well, I may just do a Shenmue playthrough at some point soon. Even if they didn't bother to implement a save import feature from the previous games in Shenmue 3.
The "normal" price for the "digital deluxe" version is $64.99, though, and if I'd checked Steam (or GOG) and saw it at that price, rather than the $22.09 it is right now, well, they couldn't have kissed my ass and died fast enough to suit me. As it is now, basically, I got Shenmue 3 for less than I would have if I'd just stuck with the Kickstarter bullshit, and that's just fine with me. I mean, sure, I could have and probably should have waited for an even steeper discount, like 75%-plus or some shit, but meh, whatever.
(EDIT) Oh, and apparently the Steam key that Kickstarter backers got is just for the "standard" edition, not the "digital deluxe" edition. I.e. if I'd stuck with the Kickstarter shit, I'd have had to buy the DLC in addition to the $29 I'd already paid into the Kickstarter, assuming I wanted the full game. So... really, I got the game for way cheaper this way, i.e. having refunded the Kickstarter shit and just buying it on sale for $22.09, than I otherwise would have if I hadn't refunded the Kickstarter horseshit, which would have been $29 plus $7.17 for the DLC (at the 60% off sale price, or $17.97 at non-sale prices). Kickstarter backers got fucked six ways to Sunday. (/EDIT)
Ugh, Christmas music...
Nov. 19th, 2020 05:35 pmSo, apparently, two of the six radio stations that I keep in the memory on the car radio seem to have decided that they're going to play nothing but Christmas music, as of about two weeks ago (i.e. probably since the day after Halloween), likely all the way through Christmas, which is, obviously, still over a month away. It's not even fucking Thanksgiving yet. Which means, essentially, that I now only have four radio stations that I regularly listen to (three, really, since one of the six I hardly ever listen to anymore, regardless).
It seems like more and more, every year, I'm becoming increasingly antipathetic about Christmas.
It seems like more and more, every year, I'm becoming increasingly antipathetic about Christmas.
I mean, yeah.
I think most (sane) people know that, while he's certainly going to try his absolute damnedest to remain POTUS even though he decisively lost both the electoral and popular votes, Trump and his lickspittles are far too incompetent to actually pull anything off. I mean, Trump lost despite all the blatant horseshit they already tried to pull (voter suppression, trying to fuck up the Post Office, etc.), so it's unlikely that anything new they try to scramble and pull in these last couple of months is going to be any more effective.
I haven't watched the video embedded in that post (or the Van Jones thing being referred to by it), and I'm not sure I'm going to. After typing that sentence, but before actually posting this, I did watch the T. Greg Doucette video, which I will embed below. I still have not watched and won't be watching the Van Jones thing or anything else, though.
I think most (sane) people know that, while he's certainly going to try his absolute damnedest to remain POTUS even though he decisively lost both the electoral and popular votes, Trump and his lickspittles are far too incompetent to actually pull anything off. I mean, Trump lost despite all the blatant horseshit they already tried to pull (voter suppression, trying to fuck up the Post Office, etc.), so it's unlikely that anything new they try to scramble and pull in these last couple of months is going to be any more effective.