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You misspelled "capitalism"

Woohoo Dreamcast all over again.

Yeah it's usualy how they work. At some point you could do it with a modified custom map for Smash Bros. IIRC before that another hack used that Tales of Symphonia Wii sequel everyone has forgotten ever existed.

On Wii U, they found a way to execute code from a vulnerability in the web browser, so that's convenient. Just go to the right website and you can launch your homebrew installer that will replace the useless "Health and Safety" app.

There was a time you needed to sacrifice a legitimately acquired DS game on the Wii U (Brain Training DS was a popular choice, because it was free at one point. And most people don't care about being able to play that, especially on a home console).

The PS2 also had an aftermarket disc you could buy that crashed the system as necessary to run copied games!

Then I think at that specific time I had an aftermarket flip-top as well so I didn’t have to use the eject button.

Then I got something to override the eject button so I didn’t need the flip-top! I didn’t want to do a lot of soldering to play international games.

Also splinter cell. I still have my modded controller that I added a USB port to for moving saved games via flash drive.

I’ve started full-on blocking domains on my pihole for websites that have started to host their own intrusive/tracking ads, break due to other ad domains being blocked, have non-bypassable adblock blocker, or whatever other anti-choice nonsense. Like IMDb won’t load content with the ad elements blocked, so IMDb is just blocked as a whole. Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me!

Hasn’t been a substantial degradation in experience, if I’m being honest. Barely even notice it outside of one-off searches and stuff, and having to find a new source of info about what I’m watching (if anyone has recommendations, I’d love them!!)

Pop up won’t close on Firefox Mobile.

Of course I have adblock you moron.

God bless Limited Run Games and their bizarre, seemingly-nonsensical business model. They made a physical release of Doom with a deluxe edition where the box the game came in could play Doom. They're modern-day Willie Wonkas.

That's one complaint I tend to ignore when seen mentioned, since the problem for me isn't that the stealth is forced. It's fine to have a stealth mission if the stealth mechanics work. The problem tends to be that it's not just forced upon you, but also sucks shit making it more frustrating than it would be if the stealth mechanics were good. When shitty stealth is optional, nobody complains. When good stealth is forced, nobody complains.