As expected, it looks like I won't be buying or playing Dragon's Dogma 2 on PC.

(EDIT) Or anywhere else, for that matter, since I'm not buying a console just for Dragon's Dogma 2. Not that being on a console would stop it from potentially being infested with Denuvo, anyway. (/EDIT)

Incorporates 3rd-party DRM: Denuvo Anti-tamper
5 different PC within a day machine activation limit

Fuck off, forever, Capcom. Or, at least, remove this shitty taint from your game, and then, maybe, I'll consider buying it at some point several years from now, if I ever see it on sale for 75% off or something.

"Every time a new shooter launches, I start a countdown until it becomes a clown show of brands and

Full subject line: "Every time a new shooter launches, I start a countdown until it becomes a clown show of brands and hideous skins"

It's not just shooters, of course. Between crossover skins like TMNT and butt-fugly shit like this in Street Fighter and then Mortal Kombat with all the non-MK DLC characters and the farting and other such inane crap, it's infecting fighting games, too (and those are just the two games that I even remotely know/care about).

Meanwhile, over in open world exploration game land, they have shit like this. I mean, in that last case, at least he still kind of looks like Spider-Man, and not like SpongeBob or something, but still.

Most (not all, but most) of this shit is just a subclass of fatuous DLC/microtransactions, of course.

"Wannabe supervillain pulls AI 'heist' to steal competitor traffic, but really just shows how unchec

I'm starting to wonder if it's Dreamwidth (subject field too short) or PC Gamer (way too long headlines) that is the real problem here: "Wannabe supervillain pulls AI 'heist' to steal competitor traffic, but really just shows how unchecked AI is going to ruin the internet"

Anyway, it's kind of cute how the article is trying to pretend like the Internet isn't already ruined, but yeah, flagrant dogshit like that certainly isn't helping matters.

"There Are So Many Better Reasons to Despise Tim Allen Than the One Twitter’s Using"

Yeah, Tim Allen is already a dickwhistle, so there's no reason to make up shit to make him look even worse.

Stuff like this is why I never liked it when people made up all those funny/fake things about Donald Trump. It's like A) Trump is already a vaguely human-shaped upright puddle of diarrhea, so nothing one can make up about him is going to make him worse than he is in real life, and B) someone creating lies about him just feeds his otherwise idiotic Lügenpresse campaign, even if it's clearly labeled as satire. Like people who keep "quoting" that non-existent 1998 People magazine article in which Trump "said" "If I were to run, I’d run as a Republican. They’re the dumbest group of voters in the country. They believe anything on Fox News. I could lie and they’d still eat it up. I bet my numbers would be terrific." Sure, that sounds like something that Trump could have said back then, but he didn't actually say it. (That said, it is an objectively true statement, vis-a-vis Trump, whether Trump himself said it or not, but that's beside the point.)

"What Is 'Indie' Anyway? | Castle Super Beast 245 Clips"

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Yeah, I've already said everything I feel the need to say (for now) about the "What is 'Indie' Anyway?" topic. Also, on that other topic that came up. And I'm fairly sure I've written something about all the dumbasses who have been crashing the stages at gaming things, but I wasn't able to find it during the pittance of time I allotted to myself for finding it, so meh.