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Hey so I don't know if anyone cares but I have a Resident Evil 4 code someone can have for free just hit me up, the steam version is pretty sweet compared to the DVD release. Its in HD, I don't mind giving the code away but I don't want to socialize. I want to be completely alone. I will stop posting here soon enough.

You learn useful things in isolation, you should try it. I am as unlimited as my imagination and people make me lose focus of that.

The mod needs to think it out a bit harder.

Something like, say, info on an upcoming Pokemon game, has nothing to do with something like, oh, industry sales data, for instance. Smashing the two together is, frankly, all sorts of bloody stupid.

I mean, we may as well just smash EVERY PS4-related topic together as well, right? Any game that's connected to it, better smash it into one topic because that's such a great organizational idea.

By the logic the mod is using, we should have exactly FOUR topics in here: one for PS4, Xbox, Nintendo, and PC, and that's IT.

No, I get the feeling they're just giving in a bit too easily, which is the core complaint I've heard about these forums from those that just plain decided to leave out of frustration. Well, the core complaint aside from the Cloudflare Plague...

On that note of topic count though, I see three Nintendo-related topics started, in fact, by Earthbound. And then a couple of others from him. What a surprise...

The only reason there appear to be alot of topics by you is, again, that this forum is so absurdly slow that hardly anyone even posts new topics. And I have a feeling that alot of people THINK about posting a new one, but then decide "Well hardly anyone would respond, so I may as well not bother". I can think of tons of things I'd have brought up as topics, but ended up declaring to be not worth the effort.

And really, if the mods are doing their jobs here overall, and there was, in fact, rule breaking, they would have already done something by now. They wouldnt wait till one random person with an unnecessary and extremely obvious grudge decides to complain.

Bah, idiotic. Honestly at this point I'm really starting to hate this blasted place. Every time I think it cant sink to deeper levels of irritating, someone throws it a nuclear jackhammer, and down it goes...

^Well, I like it here, so I'll make it up for the both of us. *big smile*

Hell yeah, Misery, f**k authority, lets over throw the federal government next.

Moderators, communist, hell not much difference.

* I am being sarcastic

Currently waiting for the new Doom to become available. I will let people know my opinions once I've played it. I've also been playing Bloodborne and finally beat both the dlc and main scenarios and am now going through new game plus. I plan to play Dark Souls 3 at some point, just not sure when.

Ah, good, I'll be interested to hear what others think about it.

As for me, I've been advising anyone interested in Doom to A: not pre-order, and B: wait until they've seen some real footage from the game, NOT official footage, before buying it.

Bethesda went and COMPLETELY denied ANYONE review copies of the game (nearly unheard of, because most publishers want to throw the game out there ASAP, particularly when it's a major AAA game). This, to me, is a pretty shady move more worthy of EA or Activision. But even they dont really pull that one. I mean, it's one thing to hold back info for a long time, like is the case with No Man's Sky; I understand the reasoning for that and have had the chance to actually witness the reasons for such things myself first hand from a development point of view. But to COMPLETELY hold back even review copies? Particularly for a AAA game? What? That just... no.

What I, personally, have seen and experienced of the game so far is not at all bad. I quite enjoyed the multiplayer beta. But as I've said in the past, it's very possible that the singleplayer stuff wont be up to par. And the fact that they're refusing to show it before release outside of their own obviously-controlled videos at least SEEMS suspicious, even if the game actually is really good. It's a pretty nasty move to make though. It says "we're not so sure of this after all... but we are doing EVERYTHING to make sure players arent discouraged from buying the game NOW, before it's released and before they get real reviews of it, because there might be trouble AFTER release".

But we'll know soon enough I suppose. The game is out in.... *checks Steam* ....2 hours? What? Really? I just... what?

I could have sworn the release date was later this month. Ugh, my memory is so bad. Well, no complaint there. I'd rather play it ASAP then have to WAIT for it.


I'll probably post a long, rambly first impressions sort of thing about the game after I've had some good time with it. I'll mostly be talking about the singleplayer and map editor, I already did a ranty post about what I thought about the multiplayer.

Actually given the massive butthurt that the whiny twits playing the multiplayer beta spewed out I wouldn't want to give out review copies either. There's also the whole Dark Souls 3 fiasco to consider where you had a bunch of Youtubers spoiling the story early. Considering that the single player is the crux of Doom you don't want that happening as part of the fun of the game is being surprised by what you'll experience next.

In all honesty though, it's Doom; the story has never been it's strong point. The earlier games boiled down to: Failed experiments on Phobos and Deimos have opened portals that literally lead to Hell, and demons are overrunning the facility and threaten to do worse. You're a super-buffed space marine and somehow the demons also killed your pet bunny (no, seriously). Time to make them pay, with gigantic guns and lots of explosions. And then nothing is mentioned at all until you've beaten the game at which point you get a quick page that explains the takeover of Earth.

Besides, it's not that it's about Youtubers here; it's that they went so far that even professional reviewers dont get copies, or Youtubers that are also professionals (such as TotalBiscuit) and who wouldnt even THINK about spoiling story stuff and whatnot. Normal Youtubers dont typically do "reviews" as such, they just do pre-release mini LPs (and if people go into THOSE not being ready for spoilers, that's their own damn fault). Actual professional reviews though being denied... THAT is unusual.

Either way though, just a couple of irritating hours left. I may as well fire up some game here to keep me from getting too impatient.

@Misery

Bethesda purposely is withholding review copies of Doom to avoid negative press they received with Fall Out 4 and Skyrim.

The joke goes all Bethesda games are broken at launch.

Which is for the most part true.

Every game they've released over the past decade or so has been riddled with huge bugs to the point of near game breaking.


This time around word won't get out until after launch.


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As for issues with staff, this isn't the first time I've had issues with them.

A few months ago I was given a warning from a different mod for posting new threads with too long of topic posts.

I was warned and told that new threads topic posts should be no longer that 2-3 sentences and a link.
I was warned that I would lose my right to creating new threads if I violated the warning.

I was also warned by a different mod last year not to make any posts that could lead to users being "disturbed". Even if said post was factual and true.

I and others have had posts censored or deleted because it went against the narrative that staff wanted.

I hear Staff is censoring pro Hillary posts...

Tomorrow I will make the mega thread as ordered and have staff hide or delete my other threads.

Anyone know the best Staff member to contact?

xenocity I think this whole topic violates the rules but I believe you need to get off your high horse and look at things through their prospective. Moderation is not easy and I imagine being autistic doesn't help that. The moderators do the best they can, its not all about you. The general population gets offended for any reason now days, even if your right.

Just state your opinion and move along, thats what I do. Nothing is worth getting into an argument over.

There's a difference though between moderating out of necessity, and moderating because you feel like it.

I've been on forums for pretty much as long as there's been an internet.

I've modded plenty, admined at times. Some of the stuff I hear about with this forum's moderators would have just outright gotten those mods BOOTED from.... pretty much every site I've done those things on (and thus, every site where I've needed to know the moderation rules).

As I've said often (really often now), this site has ALOT of problems. It practically IS just one giant problem at this point. I've found myself actively warning some people away from it, or at least telling them to treat it with suspicion. I dont WANT to have to do that but when a site gets so very low in my opinion, I must. There's the whole Cloudflare fiasco, but then other nonsensical issues that can pop up and cause extreme frustration and waste of time. And with the rampaging bots, well... yeah, that bit comments on itself.

But let's focus on a couple of things here:








What. In the many hells. I just. What.

See what I mean? THAT is a big pile of crap right there.

IF those are even real rules, they're just enforced whenever the mods FEEL like it (aka, the absolute and complete wrong way to enforce rules).

Whenever *I* make a topic, the post is usually really.... really.... really.... really.... long. 2-3 sentences? Hah! I think not. 2-3 PAGES maybe.

As for post content? Whatever the damn hell I think is relevant. I know some things can be hard for some people to hear, but dammit, if those things are true, or even just my own personal opinion, I'm bloody well going to post them anyway. By now, anyone that's aware of my existence on here probably knows this. And I'm a VERY negative individual. I cant imagine that I havent posted "disturbing" things simply by being angry and agitated half the time.

But nobody has given me any trouble. I suspect the ONLY reason this hasnt happened is because I simply havent managed to anger the specific type of people that instantly run to mods whenever they're bothered. Because those two bloody rules sure as hell aint enforced otherwise!

And that LAST one... that's just... I... you know what, most other forums, that'd be an instant KICK over the damn goalpost for any moderator that attempted to pull that crap. And nobody would miss them.


I'm sure there's mods on here that dont do these things. But at this point I'm also bloody certain (I mean, it's kinda obvious here) that there are those that absolutely will. And no admins actually DO anything about this, provided they even A: care or B: notice.


Like I said, I've done moderation before (and am currently doing it at a different site, not one related to autism). I know how it works. And having autism is no excuse to abuse power; if anything, it's the opposite, as many autistics are absolute sticklers for REALLY following the rules (as in, it wouldnt occur to many to abuse power at all, because that's not the rules).


As for arguements, there's no real arguement happening here. Xenocity explained some stuff. And I ranted not at him but at this issue in general (I have no reason to be angry at any specific person). So dont get the wrong idea there.

And there, now I'm done here for the time being. Just... ugh. All that irritates me. Granted I'm usually irritated, but still... That's enough of that for now though, I've made my points and gotten that out of my system.

But right now, time to play Doom.

LET ME REPHRASE THAT.

It's time to play Doom.... later.

This game is 50 FREAKING GIGABYTES IN SIZE.

I... just... how... it... what... huh?

I.... I guess I best find something else to do, that'll take awhile even on my lightning-fast connection.

Let me know how it is and buy me a copy later

I am poor though I was tempted to buy it out of savings, I need the money for school though.

I have no desire to play multiplayer so I won't lie, I have thought about pirating it and installing it in its own virtual machine. Virus can't do anything then but still I'll wait for the first sell.

50GB?

Good grief!

Hope it's worth it at that size!

Yes, it's more than a little absurd. It seems to have FINALLY finished downloading. Seriously, I cant remember the last time something took that long. Probably the last time was back when we had early Comcast cable connections (when they hit this area for the first time) or even 56k before that. Ever since, nothing has ever really taken longer than probably 25 minutes at max, with server freakouts being exceptions of course.

But then nothing's ever been this bloody huge.

It'll be interesting to see just how much content is in here. But it at least does hold promise for a lot of replay value, which is a great thing in my book.

I don't think I own anything that I could install it on.
I know there are custom builds of Android that will run on PCs, but that seems like a lot of work (and apparently it's not 100% yet).



I agree with you, it's not a great name. Though if she's ever selectable as the main character, you'll be able to name her whatever you want.



I can't remember which game it was, but Bethesda has done that before, or something very similar.
Now that I think about it, maybe it was that they weren't allowing anyone to release negative reviews.



As far as I know, DOOM 4 is still an id Software game (what's left of it), Bethesda are only the publishers.



Holy geeze...Carmack leaves and apparently nobody else left at id knows how to optimize a game >_<
There is absolutely no reason for that, unless they are intentionally making it as huge as possible, to elicit a similar reaction to yours (huge size, must be a great game with lots of content!).