Eskating cyclist, gamer and enjoyer of anime. Probably an artist. Also I code sometimes, pretty much just to mod titanfall 2 tho.

Introverted, yet I enjoy discussion to a fault.

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  • You might just need to reduce choice anxiety.

    Once my library got really big, I would find time to game, but then waste it on figuring how exactly I want to spend the time. End up on youtube or something and not actually get into a game at all.

    The solution was to keep just a few games favorited, and forget the rest existed.

    When I’m done with a game, it gets unfavorited. When I buy a new game it gets favorited.

    If the list gets too short, I might do some spelunking in my library to favorite something from my backlog.

    This way, each time I sit down to game, I have a very short list of stuff to start or continue that I might actually manage to pick from.


  • What the others said.

    Maybe you need to take a break from games and indulge in some other, or new, hobby.

    I like audiobooks, electric skateboards, cycling, manga… And more.

    You could also expand the kinds of games you play. I keep trying new genres and if one gets boring I try something else.

    Don’t force yourself if you aren’t having fun. That’s a quick way to really ruin something you like.

    I’ve gone through several episodes of feeling like there’s nothing I want to play… But, if I keep giving things a chance, and make sure not to burn myself out by trying to find something too hard, or forcing myself to play something because it “supposed” to be fun, even when right then it isnt, something eventually gets me hooked right back in.

    Most recently that has been Deadlock. I can’t get enough of it and the feeling is the best.







  • Yeah, things aren’t clear-cut. There are several matters in which Japan is painfully behind, and being such a populus country you can find people with views across the board.

    But a lax justice system isn’t one of them. In fact Japan almost certainly has a huge problem with ostracising and convicting the innocent. You might hear about people losing their jobs just for getting arrested, even if found innocent.

    And while laws also definitely need improving, it’s happening.

    The main problem with stuff like age of consent, is going to be communities and groups of people who are behind on these things, and thereby shielding individuals from justice by keeping the bad things happening out of earshot of society at large. Their justice system might be brutally ruthless, but that doesn’t help if it never finds out about the crime in the first place.










  • It’s unclear.

    Considering it was the first project from Kojima Productions (the independent studio he started after Konami) it’s actually probable that they didn’t own the IP.

    They would have needed someone like Sony and 505 to foot the bill of developing their first project, with no incoming cashflow, and those deals usually leave the publisher holding the IP.

    Whats really confusing me, is that it wasn’t Sony holding the IP rights, it was 505.

    It looks like maybe 505 was holding it all, giving Sony a cut of the pie for the timed console exclusive, and now sold it all back to Kojima, allowing them to do the Xbox release.

    I for one am really happy that studios are wising up and buying the rights to their own stuff when its successful enough to enable them to do that, instead of letting their IP be owned by the publishers in exchange for having them bankroll development.

    Studios like Kojimas and Remedy have been shopping around with multiple publishers, and owning their own IP, means they can now even more easily drop a publisher for another, if they try to sacrifice quality.