M A R T I A N

A visual Haiku, where the monkey represents my entire life with astounding accuracy. Truly, such a qaint and surreal capturing of life should be hung in a museum.

Damn. Wish I could play earlier in the day. It'd be fun to test it out with ya'll. The night shift stays ass.

What CPU do you use?

"Online locals"

Wait, they patched the netcode again? I was wondering why there was a small update for it yesterday.

Yes, I understand how wiretapping laws work. I'm asking what about that statement explicitly proves that they are doing something illegal. Companies use ambiguous or bad wording all the time. Maybe they left it a little open ended on purpose, maybe not, but from what I'm reading there it sounds like they're just saying to keep in mind that you are always possibly being recorded by someone. Sony or otherwise. I mean, when you sign up for a PSN account they literally make you hit "yes" on an agreement that states you consent to the possibility of being recorded in voice chat. I can only assume that's to avoid getting in any messes with idiots saying dumb shit in-game and then suing (or at least trying to) when they find their bullshit on YouTube or something. I can only assume Sony wants to step over any possible lawsuits like any other company, so why exactly would they put out a statement that basically says "were spying on your voice chats"? That's not what I really got from the statement at all. And again, I never said it wasn't illegal to record people without their consent or knowledge. I said I don't think that's what Sony intends by that statement. First of all, just stop. The problem isn't the hate mail I sent back, the problem is that I got sent hate mail with no provocation and only I got banned for defending myself. Period, end of story. Secondly, why we assuming all these people are kids or teenagers? It's an M rated game. The hate mail/shit talking is one of the best parts about online gaming. I don't want every online game to become some boring sterile experience like the way Nintendo handles it. Switch doesn't let you even message people, add friends, or find people from recent games period. It's so stupid. Sony either needs to moderate better, or moderate even less and let people squabble within personal messages. Fuck that shit. They banned me and they were wrong for it.

What exactly is illegal about it? That picture you posted doesn't even say Sony would be recording you. It just said to consider the possibility that you might be recorded if you use their service. That goes for literally any service that offers voice chat. I'm not saying companies should be monitoring us as closely as they like, but I also like to pick my battles. People are willing to give up all kinds of personal information on a daily basis when they willingly use Google or Facebook, sign huge documents without reading them, click "Agree" on huge walls of text, ect. Even if Sony was directly recording every single dude in voice chat at all times, it really isn't that different from all these things we use on a daily basis.

They've done it to me multiple times already. All for the same game actually. I play a lot of Dead By Daylight, which is a game where 4 human survivors have to fight against 1 over powered serial killer. Naturally, this type of game leads to the killer getting hate mail all the time. Sony has banned me twice, not for SENDING hate mail, but RESPONDING to hate mail. They don't consider context, who sent the message first, who the defender is or anything. People can just report you and if they find any language they don't like in your response, they'll ban you and not the other guy. 🤣 The first time I was only banned a week. Then the second time some salty ass dude reported me, it was a whole month. Aaaannnnnddd that's the reason I still don't have my PS4 5 months later. When you're banned, you can't sign into the online. When I can't sign in, I can't play ANY of my digital games because I Game Share. I couldn't even turn off the game share either because you have to sign in. So I let my buddy borrow the system to play FFVII and just haven't bothered to pick it back up. 😂 Sorry, a bit of a tangent, but basically what I'm saying is maybe Sony will actually have some quality control now when it comes to their customer service. Cause they certainly don't now.

They gonna get sued because they're openly telling you that other players can take your recordings and share them with Customer Support? Eh, I doubt it. When I use voice chat on literally any device with a motherboard these days, I assume I'm being recorded/monitored. You have much less headache and paranoia to deal with that way. I'm not sure I see the problem. Now I can actually take that recording of some 12 year old white kid calling me a nigger in COD and Sony will actually maybe give them a time out. Works for me. 🤷🏾‍♂️

Then it begins....

Thought about it for half a minute and changed your mind lmao Yeah I haven't really even messed with 1 frame links. I'm not doing optimal combos but you can certainly get far with easier options.

Sick, that's more than good enough sir. Thanks for listening. 👍 I have another suggestion: When the actual notification message appears at the bottom of the screen and you click it, it doesn't clear that notification from your unread list so it leaves the little green icon there even though you already viewed what it was. So you gotta scroll up, click it and click the notification again to get rid of it. It's a small annoyance but, is there anything you can do there?

The Resident Evil movies def made bank. If I'm not mistaken every single one was pretty damn successful, especially the first three. As someone who gets some ironic level of enjoyment out of them, I can also tell you that the movies tend to be PACKED on release day. 🤣

Do any of y'all still dabble in SFIV? Coming back to it every now and then has been a lot of fun. The game is colorful, exciting, and the roster is so insane. It's very nice to see a lot of legacy characters I enjoy with their same exact movesets, like Ibuki, Akuma, oh and FUCKIN MAKOTO. I enjoy playing Seth, but he seems hard. Definitely have to mess around with the roster more. It's kinda funny, this year I'm realizing just how little I actually played IV and V. Third Strike kinda just remained the SF game I always fell back on, and I'm STILL booty at it. 🤣 Apparently the game is going through a bit of a revival as well, so it's actually been pretty easy finding games. There's even a Discord specifically dedicated to popularizing the game again. If any of y'all ever wanna do some Ultra matches, just let me know. I'm tryna learn. 👌

Sure!

If ya'll are still playing by 10PM Mountain Time I'd love to hop in.

We make plenty of good blockbusters. Watch more movies. @VhoziteI picked up Titanfall 2. Lemme know if you wanna squad up.

Yo @misterBee. One of the more convinient aspects of navigating the site is being able to scroll up and click the big ass logo to go straight back to the home page, where the 5 most recent threads will pop up. Have you considered letting users click a button to extend the list another 5 threads? And then another 5 with another click, so on and so forth? It'd be a fantastic way to easily keep up with a handful of recent topics. Just a thought I had

Ayo @Bulldancer, sick threads

No protection.

Let's try for tommorow. I'm gonna be testing out my new CPU all night tonight.

Yeah, I've said this before but, I'm in no rush to push my games past 60FPS/1080p anytime soon. I've gotten the chance to play a lot of stuff on more powerful hardware, and while the difference in responsiveness is undeniable it's still not enough that I need to be aiming for it to enjoy any of the games I play. But hey, I was also able to fully enjoy a bunch of games that released this year locked at 30 FPS. Maybe most peeps think that's weird now. 🤷🏾‍♂️

Makes sense since all they're really doing is applying clever lighting and shading tricks on blank 3D models to create the appearance of hand drawn sprites. It's very cheap on memory/computing resources. All those games seem hella optimized in my expirience.

I dunno, possibly, but from what I can tell Xrd, DBFZ and Granblue aren't very GPU/CPU intensive. I feel like the PS4 could probably handle it, considersing it (kinda) handles 6 players all at once in DBFZ. That game has a ton of models on screen at the same time constantly .

Dear God, I hope they don't implement the multiplayer tag in Strive like they did it in DBFZ. That shit is maximum ass cancer. It lags literally 10+ frames every single match, and you don't even have the option of doing it offline. Shit is beyond whack.