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Are videogames for children?


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I'm making a broader point - nearly any PVP game requires significant time investment, or you're just going to get your ass kicked a lot. Most people don't want to "practice" video games. I'm in that group now. No rant about my need to "git gud" will change the fact that practicing pre-aiming, training apm, or anything else like that is deeply unappealing to me these days.
I'd rather play a support and get no kills but enable comforts to my team. Look at BF6: You're useless if not killing. Supports can be top on the scoreboard from kills just fine. Reviving is near-useless and something CoD kiddies can do on the side. There is no straight up benefit to focusing on support. Same with hunting horn in Monster Hunter: It ends up being a dps weapon all the same, focusing not on healing or supporting because that's a loss of dps.

And yet again why TF2 reigns supreme.
 
for a while tarkov was actually in a neat little middle ground where knowledge was good enough to make up for a lack of technical skill but they basically rebalanced the game so that kind of power imbalance isn't really something players can purposefully leverage to their benefit anymore
 
I'd rather play a support and get no kills but enable comforts to my team. Look at BF6: You're useless if not killing. Supports can be top on the scoreboard from kills just fine. Reviving is near-useless and something CoD kiddies can do on the side. There is no straight up benefit to focusing on support. Same with hunting horn in Monster Hunter: It ends up being a dps weapon all the same, focusing not on healing or supporting because that's a loss of dps.

And yet again why TF2 reigns supreme.
This was what I loved about Final Fantasy XI. The support classes were literally just there to help their party and almost couldn't do any real damage or healing. Playing as a Bard or Dancer meant your time was gonna be spent running from one side of a fight to the other casting different songs over and over but also meant you were a rockstar on your server, everyone wanted you around to the point that even the Japanese players with "{NA}{No Thanks}" in their party listings would still pick you up.

Final Fantasy XIV turning those classes into DPS with like 2 cooldowns each that give a 30 second party buff was such a letdown for me.
 
It has a free demo you loose nothing by trying it. (i played demo long ago and it was ok idk how it is now)
I downloaded it but guys on the Steam forums are saying the game has greatly improved with patches and free DLC and the demo isn't really representative of the current state of the game.
 
I downloaded it but guys on the Steam forums are saying the game has greatly improved with patches and free DLC and the demo isn't really representative of the current state of the game.
A i LOVE it when that happens well i guess you could pirate it since devs dont care enough to update the demo and check it out that way.
 
Is there actually a half decent video game review / news site that isn't a complete leftist shithole nowadays?
Maybe rpghq.org ? Despite the name they also seem to discuss other games too. (i dont use it i only know it because it hosts some controversial mods (racist kind not porn)) They also review section too.
 
I'd rather play a support and get no kills but enable comforts to my team. Look at BF6: You're useless if not killing. Supports can be top on the scoreboard from kills just fine. Reviving is near-useless and something CoD kiddies can do on the side. There is no straight up benefit to focusing on support. Same with hunting horn in Monster Hunter: It ends up being a dps weapon all the same, focusing not on healing or supporting because that's a loss of dps.

And yet again why TF2 reigns supreme.
About the only support class that did much in Battlefield was engineer. At least in BF3, it could make helos and tanks near-invincible, since it could repair them faster than any shoulder-fired weapon could reload.
 
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Maybe rpghq.org ? Despite the name they also seem to discuss other games too. (i dont use it i only know it because it hosts some controversial mods (racist kind not porn)) They also review section too.
Coming from someone who does use the site, its reviews are too few and far between to be relied on as a review outlet. I wouldn't say their reviews are necessarily better written than the ones from the 'Dex or NMA but the site aligns with this forum more than the other two. Honestly, some of @Scream Aim Fire's effortposts are on par.
 
There isn't really such a thing as an unbiased gaming website anymore. You need to go on Youtube and find a channel you share tastes/opinions on games with and use them as a guide on what's good or not now.
gematsu, literally posts press releases
 
So apparently the guy that ran the Censored Gaming YouTube channel blew his brains out months ago and nobody noticed.
I sure as hell didn't. Any source on it? Not seeing anything through Patreon/Twitter/Youtube but he hasn't uploaded in like a year.
 
I sure as hell didn't. Any source on it? Not seeing anything through Patreon/Twitter/Youtube but he hasn't uploaded in like a year.
Some guy on his community post posted this (https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxSr4AAcY2aexxRvrCzbB7WuhZHm9zHh48)
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And googling that shit a reddit thread came up talking about it.
 
So apparently the guy that ran the Censored Gaming YouTube channel blew his brains out months ago and nobody noticed.
Fuck.
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I helped him out once or twice with a few bucks and he was begging for help for a long time afterwards.

This is the last email he sent to a group of people that had sent him help, right after midnight on Apr 9, 2025:

Hello,

I have a very serious update to share, as well as an urgent request for your help.

First, thank you again for all your previous support and understanding. It truly means everything during times like these. Please read the message carefully, as it contains some extremely important updates about my current situation.

It's now April 8, and I have not sent another email. As I mentioned in March's email: "Instead of trying to deal with all of this, today, I was going to send you an important email that I've been trying to write for a while. It is about some very serious things that have happened, but this has made things even worse."

I have been caught in a hurricane of bad events, though. I have also recognized how I am normally a bearer of negative news. I hate that. If possible, I wanted at least something possible to say.

However, I am now facing some of the biggest challenges since this began. I need your assistance and the assistance of my fans.

What I alluded to in my previous email was randomly being given one month's notice to leave. (This notice period is something we previously agreed on.)

I have likely mentioned that she did raise the price not long ago, and when doing this, she sent me a message to act as a contract saying that I could stay for as long as I needed and that there would be no more price increases for 18 months. I tried to talk to her about this, and she just exploded with anger and, as well as saying many terrible things, insisted that "well, things are different now" and "I had no rights."

She didn't know she was being recorded during this, but it really is some very messed up stuff to listen to. And I said that I have no choice but to accept and that I will continue to be quiet and keep to myself in the meantime.

I had put up with physical and mental hell - and right when I was at the point where I was feeling more like myself and like I could overcome it, this happens. Needless to say, I was literally just about to make my first video in a long time when she texted me the info. (The channel has been on pause for a long time now. This is due to not wanting to start and stop... Due to not wanting to get people's hopes up... Due to wanting more stability first.)

It could also be seen as surprising that she did this - as she didn't have to do practically anything, and I was pleasant while also trying to keep to myself. I suspect that a new boyfriend of hers may have something to do with it.

There were all kinds of other bad things going on at the time, though, too.

To just give one of many examples - I recently had a family member pass away who was one of the few I can't say a bad thing about. I have not been able to get in touch with them, though, due to my mother and sister refusing to give me their contact details. They aren't very nice people, which is something my audience already knows. My sister has been refusing to give me their contact details, the reason being "that I might pressure them to help you" and that I should not have help. As for my mother, she is currently refusing to speak to me, following a period of pretending to try to help me.

I have also never experienced losing a family member before. This is something that the host laughed at. She also said that she wouldn't care if I died in her room.

Then, in the middle of the month, she decides that I actually have no rights and that she can kick me out whenever she wants. She phoned multiple adult males to come over, which they did. All of this was being recorded with the same mic I use for YouTube – which is something she didn't realize.

Of course, I "do" have rights and refused to suddenly leave. To make matters worse, this was during the night while she was both drunk and on drugs. She is an alcoholic and drug addict – so, no surprises there. And the same was true for the men that came over (that they were intoxicated):

After repeatedly refusing, she told the men to quote: "Smash my face in."

It was at this point that I quickly phoned the police – who, thankfully, came over and eventually sorted the situation out. However, while I was on the phone, she decided to start time to start throwing my things outside. I am missing some things now because of this.

The police told me that she would be arrested but gave me the option to decide what to do. I asked for them to record all information in their system but not to press charges to try to keep the peace (I mean, at some point, she would return, and I would still have to live with her.)

The police also basically told her to leave me alone and told me if I had any other issues to just give them a call, and they'd be straight over.

And so, that is what happened. We didn't speak following the incident.

Interestingly, the police sent me a letter about what happened. In it, it says, to quote:

"I am writing about the crime you reported to us on 10/03/2025.
The details of this offence have been recorded under the classification of Assault without Injury – Common assault and battery on Crime Reference Number [Redacted].
We understand the impact that crime can have and we want to reassure you that the information that you have provided to us is important. It can help us build up intelligence that has a positive impact on detecting and preventing crime. It affects how we deploy our police officers and informs local policing.
This crime has been allocated for further investigation. An officer will contact you and will aim to keep you informed in line with your entitlements under the Victims Code Of Practice."
I have not heard anything else from them, though. I also don't know if I want to take things further - and, if so, how and when. I think I should, at least, do what I can to prevent her from harming more people. However, right now, I have too much other stuff to deal with, and I'm also not sure how exactly I will go about doing that (I know that I should be able to, though).

Quite bizarrely, she decided to do exactly the same thing on my last day there. I was awoken by her demanding the keys back and to get out. But I had paid for that day and to stay the night there.

Thankfully, I had already planned on leaving then, though, so I didn't think too much of it.

I am now in a budget chain hotel (Travelodge) and looking for a new place to stay.

It is only a budget hotel, and so it's not going to be perfect or anything. However, after everything I've been through, it is like comparing heaven and hell. I am also now very used to dealing with a lot of disruption and everything else that I had to suffer with at the Airbnb.

I still have that fire inside of me that wants to relaunch the channel and be like go, go, go.

But even budget hotels are expensive, and, of course, I need to find somewhere to live.

With the help of a friend, I have managed to make it this far. However, I now truly need as much help as possible.

Once again, I am now facing some of the biggest challenges since this began. The situation is now code red, level critical.

However, if I manage to stay afloat, this is also an opportunity to finally fix things, find somewhere normal to live, and have things go back to normal.

I will do everything that I possibly can and have, of course, also learned a lot when it comes to things to watch out for.

However, I financially need as much help as possible to stay at a hotel and so that I have as many options as possible when it comes to moving.

If you can please help me, please do. I really do need as much help as possible. Here is the link to my PayPal again: https://www.paypal.me/censoredgaming

I will also be keeping people updated on my Patreon pages, where I will set the posts to public so everyone can see them. Here is the main Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/CensoredGaming But there is also the “per creation” page that I plan to take very seriously, too: https://www.patreon.com/CensoredGamingCreation

I will also be active again in Censored Gaming's Discord server: [REDACTED] (Note: The Discord is experimental and a work in progress)

If I am able to keep my head above the water and stay at the hotel, looking for somewhere to stay, of course, needs to be priority number 1.

I am trying to avoid making a video asking for help. Instead, I am praying that I will soon be making one saying that everything is over and back to normal.

If, through people's generosity, I am able to stay at the hotel, and the more secure I feel that I'm not going to find myself on the streets, the bigger the chance that I can bring Censored Gaming back but at a reduced capacity.

Furthermore, for all of this time, all I have ever needed was to be able to focus on my work for 2-3 months. Then, I would be completely self-sustainable and have all kinds of new options open up for me.

If you can help or have others you can ask who may be able, please do. Nothing will be taken for granted. I will never forget it – nor will I ever forget the generosity that has helped me along the way so far.

It would be eternally appreciated, and every single penny will be going towards hotel costs and looking for somewhere to move while I maintain a low-cost state of living.

I have been thinking it over and considering the potential outcomes. And I have decided that anyone who would be able to help me look for somewhere to move, please donate at least 10 GBP and let me know.

If there are people who can do this, I will open a Discord server that is exclusively for looking for places. (But it wouldn’t be mandatory if you didn’t want to. It would help keep things organized, however.)

I think I pretty much have two options. 1: I can move anywhere in the UK and handle the viewing aspect like it was Covid again and have 'virtual viewings' or 2: I keep things more local and visit in person.

I don't drive, which complicates matters. However, I will do everything that I can to try to get out of this mess and fix things.

If somewhere was found that seemed right enough but was far away, I could still visit it.

Complicating matters, of course, are people wanting work/landlord references. You would have likely heard me talk about this in the past, and I'd normally be expected to pay for a number of months upfront. And so, yet again, I really do need as much help as possible.

I have many videos, audio recordings, photos, and so forth of the things described in this message. However, for now, I think I will just leave it with attaching a photo of the letter the police sent me, as well as some photos of the hotel room that were taken yesterday.

Once again, thank you so much for your continued support, understanding, and compassion. Please, if you can help, this is the most critical time to do so.

I'll update you again soon, and I remain incredibly grateful for everything.

My utmost thanks and best regards,
Dan

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I wish I had reached out. Poor bastard. I'm guessing what happened is he was left homeless after the hotel month ran out and ended it.
 
Bless free PS5 upgrades. I have the RE4 remake for the PS4 and I already notice the difference in load times with the upgrade. I think Leon's hair is nicer too? LOL. I'm just wondering WTF I was doing with the weapons in my inventory now that I'm replaying it. I feel kind of retarded with the choices I made. It also looks like I apparently ran out of money at the end for upgrades.

I should see if Soul Hackers 2 had a free upgrade as well. That was the game that had me thinking maybe it was about time to get a PS5 because games were starting to struggle a bit on the PS4. I didn't buy the DLC initially either, because Atlus pisses me off nowadays, so it might be worth replaying to experience that as well.
 
Arkham Knight, whatever issues you may have with it, is honestly one of the most advanced games of the PS4. It looks incredible, the animations are seamless, the ragdolls are pretty awesome, and the destruction physics are surprisingly abundant for a PS4 game. In my opinion, I think it has the best gameplay loop of the franchise
 
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