Can you imagine how retarded of an idea it would be these days,

>>378850943

Orange Box was fucking insane back in the day

>>378850943
I like how the website hasn't changed at all since 2006: http://orange.half-life2.com/

>>378851208
I know, it fucking made me cum my pants
Now, if I saw something like this, I'd think "What kind of faggot is trying to sell three of their games and calling it the orange box? Just call it the Half Life 2+TF2+Portal pack.
But that was before game packs were a big trend. Now you can download a pack off steam from basically any company. But they're not going to call it an "orange box," and they're definitely not going to sell it on a fucking DVD

>>378850943
>The best deal in video game history.
To be honest that's correct, 5 games for the price of one. Is there anything that comes close?

>>378851415
In English, doc

>>378851330
Holy fuck
>>378851440
I had some friends who bought the Orange box when it FIRST came out.
It actually had Counter Strike: Source instead of Portal.
Which the version I wish I had. Fuck portal.
I mean, portal is cool, but compared to counter strike source? CS:S any day

>>378850943
>3 good games + 2 expansions
>good color choice
>catchy name
i like it. The Orange Box 2: Box Again when?

>>378851579
I like it, too, but it would be the worlds most retarded business decision because you could increase your sales if you just gave it boring ass name, and just sold it on steam.

>>378850943
>>378851415
>>378851672
what the fuck are you rambling on about?
calling it "The Orange Box" is a large aspect to why it worked - as giving it a catchy name like that (which is still recognisable to this day) is what helped it stand out from just a regular game bundle, it was excellent branding and it could be done again from a nostalgic angle (since it's been a decade now since The Orange Box originally released).

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>>378851440

>>378852457
I dare you to make a bunch of video games and then make a game bundle
I bet you'll pussy out and call it something simple, unless you're retarded

>>378852516
I stand corrected

>>378852553
what a fucking retarded thing to post

>>378852596
Thank you, I lost all of $0.00 on this post

It wouldn't be retarded, they'd just have to increase the cost.

I think people forget that Half-Life 2 was three years old by the time The Orange Box came out. You were essentially paying 50 dollars for TF2, the new HL2 episode, and a short two hour game with a novel idea.

Also I guess you're right in that traditional DVD packs are dead, but that's mostly been replaced by Steam packs.

>>378852882
yes

>faggot kids saying they wouldn't buy the orange box because it has a dumb name

Just shut the fuck up, oh my god, you have no idea how amazing it was to get such a release back in the day. Go play some esports and castrate yourself.

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>>378850943
>have this
>tfw don't have Half-Life one so I don't wanna play HL2

>>378853014
I did buy the orange box, and I loved it
I am laughing because of the faggot who wouldn't buy it nowadays
Unless you actually read the entire post before sperging out

I loved the reference they made in L4D1 that i think they removed (the dead airs' terminal panic event)

i miss what valve used to be, what they are now isnt even 15% as good

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>>378852516

Man, I remember seeing the commercials for the Orange Box on TV.

I can't believe that was already a decade ago.

>>378853224
Well I still think they're just as good, it's not like history gets erased simply because a company stops making stuff. That's just a fun point in time that we'll just have to look back on
>>378853254
Those were dope

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>When TF2 went F2P

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>>378853231
>The first decade
>series is dead by the second

fuck EA

>>378853458
I stopped caring about it around that time, but I fully got uninvested in TF2 when Man Vs. Machine came out.
I don't feel like the game was shitty all of the sudden, i just blame it on my own natural progression of my interests being changed over time. But, I did enjoy TF2 for quite a few years.
Or, it's possible that TF2 actually did become shitty, as many /v/uckers seem to obsess over

>>378851440
Humble bundle had some better deals in the past. Like the WB bundle, EA bundle, THQ bunde and shit like that.

>>378850943
>Can you imagine how retarded of an idea it would be these days, if a game company tried selling something like the "Orange Box"
That's wrong though.

If anything, collections and bundle deals are more common today than they were back then.

>>378853773
Not on DVD's without fucknormous ad-campaigns on TV, named after a secondary color

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>>378853254
It harkens back to a time in my life where I was just happy.

>Hanging out with my friends in high School
>Playing TF2 everyday
>Listening to my ipod on the bus
>Discovering /co/
Fuck man, I wanna go back....

>>378851330
you think that's crazy, the website for space jam still remains online and unchanged.

https://www.warnerbros.com/archive/spacejam/movie/jam.htm

>>378851556
Orange Box always had Portal, never CS Source.

>>378853053
Get on that shit, son. Half-Life 1 is a fantastic game.

>>378854613
I guess my memory is off

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>>378850943
>but big game DVD packs are dead

>publishers start killing off physical media on PC
>proceed to stop compressing their shit, and now we have games that are fucking 50GB minimum, with some even going up to 100GB after just a few updates

My PC died last year and this is one of the things that's seriously making me reconsider building a new one. This is unquestionably the most retarded shit, especially when the U.S. has dogshit internet speeds for a "first-world country" combined with near monopolies across the nation.

And I see people online defending all this too. I swear they're fucking shills.

>>378854935
That sucks

>>378854613
It came with HL2 Silver/Gold IIRC.

>>378855987
Maybe that's what I meant

>>378854935
>proceed to stop compressing their shit, and now we have games that are fucking 50GB minimum, with some even going up to 100GB after just a few updates
This is because of tech illiteracy among consumers. People that understand why a 50GB game is retarded are a minority within the minority of people that understand what 50GB even means in the first place. The rest think that a larger filesize means a longer game with more content.
Back in 2011, when Sonic Generations had just come out and Skyrim's release was a week away, there were a lot of people on /v/ who thought that Skyrim was going to be a shorter game than Sonic Generations because it was one or two GBs smaller.

>>378854935
Same problem on consoles with huge day-1 patches and physical copies having multiple 50GB updates before you can play it. It's a lose-lose situation no matter what system you choose.

>>378856176
>>378856112
>>378854935
You know, a Terabyte internal HDD costs less than some games... I don't think big game files ever really bothered me

>>378856112

Actually, the technically illiterate people are the ones who don't know much of anything about digital compression, don't know that image compression is pretty much tapped out and it's not going to get much better, don't know that doubling the size of a texture requires roughly four times the memory and think the reason why games have gotten so large in the "HD era" is because "devs can't into compression".

>>378856452
>ignoring the fact you have to download all of that
also, like >>378856112 said, there's no justifiable reason for a game in this day an age to be as large as 50GB.

>>378856487
I wish you were right but the fact is you aren't, people have dug into the files are the biggest culprits for poorly compressed games and found that no attempt was made whatsoever to compress files. You're right that compression is less effective for games with extremely high texture quality, but not to the extent you think.

>>378853231
Pre-ordered that and don't regret it
plus the box is nice

>>378856638
>justifiable reason for a game in this day an age to be as large as 50GB.
Well, imagine working for a game company and feeling the pressure to save money from the higher ups. I guess I would choose to piss off the small minority of my consumers (who are going to buy it anyway) who like small game files due to their slavic internet connection and 20 year old 200 GB IBM harddrives

>>378856765

The only really egregious thing I've ever seen done is the bundling of multiple languages together and you don't really see much of that anymore with digital distribution.

I know people like to complain about light compression done on pre-rendered video clips and audio but that's not like that just to spite you, it's like that for the people out there who have the equipment that can actually take advantage of the extra quality.

>>378850943
I remember getting this around 20 bucks, best deal indeed.

>>378857160
that's a really poor excuse, we're not talking about a few megabytes difference from this decision, we're talking about 50+ gigabytes, even if you have a terabyte HDD (which is the standard currently), that'll fill up fast if every fucking game is higher than 50gigs just because they couldn't be arsed to compress a few files.
>>378857236
then they should separate the uncompressed audio/video for those that specifically want that, or at least have a version to download without that for those with slower internet speeds and/or less available storage.

>>378850943
what?

why?

that was, no joke because it says it on the box, "the best deal in videogame history"

when was the last time you bought 1 good game and 1 expansion pack with another brand new expansion pack and 2 BRAND NEW, LONG AWAITED GAMES!?

>>378857513
upboated

>>378852457
also the fact that the OG half life box was orange too

thats why it was the orange box, because all that shit spawned from the HL2 engine

>>378850943
>DVD
lmao, that's so 2006

>>378857160
> 20 year old 200 GB IBM harddrives
How the fuck do you have 200GB HDDs in 1997?
Were you even born back then?

>>378852882
yeah, but portal was talked about QUITE A FUCKING BIT because it was doing something interesting.

same with TF2, it was a sequel that was in dev since 2000-01. i remember waiting, chomping at the bit to play TF2 so much that i just bought TF2 solo at launch (yeah, they sold TF2 and portal separate on PC)

>>378857665
Are you serious?

>>378853053
Come on anon. Just download half life 1 from anywhere. It is like, 200 mb.

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Pic related was even better. I think it came out before steam, because I remember playing counter strike as a standalone client.

>>378857912
I'm pretty sure steam sells it for less than a dollar during sales
You could buy half life after returning some bottles to the bottle deposit at your local super market

>>378853053
what the fuck anon
if you really dont want to spend 10$ to play one of the best single player FPS games, its going to be like ~2$ in the summer sale
if you dont like the graphics, the updated graphics version called Black Mesa is out on Steam too and you can even download the incomplete legacy version for fucking free https://www.blackmesasource.com/

>>378853014
There is literally nothing wrong with Real E-Sports (Brood War, Quake 3, Dota Two).

Notice the difference beween Fake E-Sports: StarCrap 2, Overwatch, League of Legends, every AAA normie overmarketed flawor of the month console shooter, etc.

>>378857982
Of course it did. It came with CS 1.0.

The first CS that came with the mandatory cancer that was Steam was 1.6.

People played CS 1.5 for years after in protest.

tf2 is free anyway

>>378858190
>replying to someone who misread the OP and got angry at their own misreading
are you expecting an intelligent response from that poster?

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>>378851330
>The Trilogy Continues

GAAAAAAAAAAABE

>>378854440
Upvoted

>is the second in the trilogy

>>378857665
>>378857160
>>378857764
Windows 95 still used FAT16 and could use partitions of 32GB
PATA-6 came out in 2002
Before that the theoretical addressing limit was 128GiB (137GB) or something per platter

Something like 16GB was fucking huge in '97
I think that I used to have something around 1.2gb drive around then

>>378858216
>There was a time when steam was the most obtrusive pc DRM out there
>Only a few years later did cd checks and securom become so horrible that steam was preferable

>>378858668
thank you, mr "I know how to google the history of hard drives and then post it in a thread"
It was a figure of speech. Although I am aware that things like hyperbolic speech are confusing to people suffering from autism.

>>378858835
I know. I just like feeding my autism and making your reply to it

>>378858873
XD

It only makes sense for a single series of game. Like Ass Creed's Ezio collection. Bundling all these random games, especially one that required regular updates, was a stupid idea.

>>378858767
It wasn't as much the DRM as it was a huge resource hog, unstable and slow as shit.

For literally no gain compared to the WON-versions.

>>378859089
I don't think it was stupid at the time because the dev's of Team Fortress 2 really played it by ear (I doubt they planned on where it is today back in '06)
But nowadays, yeah probably very stupid

>>378859207
Let's not forget that while TF2 was highly anticipated, people were wary of the very pixar artstyle it had adopted compared to classic, including certain changes like the removal of grenades. Attaching it to a bundle with another highly anticipated game like Episode 2 gave you a very good reason to pick it up if you were still unsure.

Portal was always the real winner of the pack though. Despite being a small game created by a team of uni students Valve hired it ended up dominating critic reviews and game awards.

>>378859734
I never thought portal was that cool
I loved it, but not enough to buy portal 2. Never gave that much of a shit, honestly

>>378856112
This is a sound answer.

>>378856176
I considered that, but at least on consoles the majority of games still come out with physical copies in the first place to offset the download size. But yeah, you're right that there's still fucking 50GB+ of updates for games now, especially since the industry is on this "games as a service" bullshit.

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>>378856452
Storage isn't the problem, HDD's are cheap as fuck nowadays. It's the downloading process that's a huge issue, the majority of people can't afford to download 80GB games with 50GB patches when internet infrastructure in places like the U.S. is ridiculously behind places like Korea and Eastern Europe.

It hinders speeds, and between that and data caps now being a thing it's extremely stupid and not to mention greedy as fuck not to print fucking discs which costs as little as 10 cents. The publishers are already still putting out physical copies on consoles, there's no reason not to do so for PC.

>>378857236
>it's like that for the people out there who have the equipment that can actually take advantage of the extra quality.

Even among the PC userbase, that's a minority of people who utilize higher audio and visual fidelity. The majority of the audience doesn't use that stuff, so there's no reason whatsoever not to make it available as a separate download option besides laziness.

>>378861278
>so there's no reason whatsoever not to make it available as a separate download option besides laziness

It's always laziness for you people, isn't it? When you grow up and get a job you'll discover there's a lot of cost-benefit analysis involved in everything you do. Everything that takes time inherently costs money.

>>378861673
that's what I've been saying the whole time.
I swear to god, some of the people on /v/ would probably be unironically ok with slavery if it was legal. So much entitlement.

>>378861826
many of the greatest civilizations in history were based on slavery

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>>378861673
>>378861826
>When you grow up and get a job
>So much entitlement.

I see the shills have arrived.

>>378861881

HAD slavery, not based on. And many of the worst civilizations in history also had slavery so what exactly is your point? Slavery certainly didn't help the Africans out of their mud huts.

>>378861881
>when you're unemployed and white, never had to work yet
man, life is going to chew you up a new asshole

>>378862364
>i'm entitled just because I don't automatically hate everything in the past

>>378862436
slavery isn't a thing of the past you actual retard.

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>>378862436
>slavery is a thing of the past

>>378862261
>HAD slavery, not based on
the greeks were pretty fucking based on slavery

>>378856112
While it certainly reuses the same assets a lot, did Skyrim actually have some competent compression or something?

>>378862761
>shit-tier textures out of the box
>"""""""CREATION ENGINE"""""" Gamebryo

That combined with the heavy use of re-using assets would explain it.

Thank you for staying on topic, anon.

Uh what's the big deal? It's like if Nintendo bundled Mario Maker, 1-2 Switch, and Mario Kingdom Battle together and called it the Red Box.

What's worth writing home about that?

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>>378862436
>the past

>>378863041
Or Yellow Box, since Red is taken.

>>378862261
All Chinese and Japanese empires were based on slavery
All meso American empires were based on slavery
All African kingdoms were based on slavery
All middle Eastern empires and kingdoms were based on slavery
Greek civilization was based on slavery
Europe was based on the enslavement of the lower class until colonies became a thing
Rome was based on keeping the plebians in their place until they won through democracy and then Rome went to shit

Byzantium, The USSR, and 20th century Western nation's are some of the only in history not based exclusively on the forced subjagation of another class or race and they're all small time failures

>>378863260
Right, by Sony

>>378863392
the USSR was also basically slaves to the party

>>378863392
Literally everything you just spouted is incorrect. Must be a boring sheltered life being a self-affirming historical revisionist.

>>378863392
>ussr
>no slavery
are you huffing glue again, anon?

>>378850943
This was a life-changing purchase.

>>378863627
He's currently working on his 200 page PhD of /pol/ essay paper.

>>378863627
>greeks weren't based on slavery
you're so fucking retarded that your tutors should be dragged out into the streets and torn to bits by wild dogs

>>378862991
Well, fair enough. Come to think of it Oblivion also had textures of a similar size, Skyrim's official HD texture packs for the base game were about an extra ~3 GB, and both the full house and SE ended up being 12.7 GB, being more than double of the original release.

>>378863810
I bet your mother is a huge stupid whore, and she let you shit talk her your whole life

>>378864086
yeah but at least she doesn't think that greek civilization could have been made possible without slavery

>>378864042
>Come to think of it Oblivion also had textures of a similar size

That's because the bottleneck was the 512MB limit of the consoles. Between the release of Oblivion and Skyrim the 360 and PS3 didn't magically get more memory, the texture budget was still the same.

>>378864229
because she is a greek cock slave lmao

>>378864364
stay mad kid

>>378864409
*teleports behind you*

>>378852572
No, you don't. MGS collection doesn't have any new games. Orange Box had THREE(3) BRAND NEW GAMES and 2 games that came out 1-2 years prior.

>>378864548
*teleports inside you*

>>378850943
WhAtS iNsIdE tHe OrAngE bOx

Now available, rated tee to emm

>>378863627
I have a BA in history. Bite me.

>>378852516
That's old games

>>378863549
But if everyone is a slave then no one is, if you get my meaning. Having one central upper class exploiting the work of a lower class through organized and legal force.

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>>378864653
V I D E O G A M E S

>>378864906
>liberals teach that every successful civilization is the result of people not having free will
Who woulda thunk it?

>>378865045
I'd like to see you point to one that isn't that way.

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>>378864906
>I have a BA in history.

>>378864906
>i have a bachelor in fuck all

ftfy

>>378865132
>>378865160
It means I know more history than you do is all

>>378865045
>believing in "free" will

>>378858216
>"why are you fags playing 1.5 still everyones on 1.6":
>"because fuck steam, WON for life :^)"

>>378853231

I own this.

I got it for 2 dollars at Goodwill in v good condition

>>378865192
no it actually doesn't, because you can google all this shit.
Good luck trying to get ANY job other than teaching
honestly I'd rather be slave than a fucking loser, faggot teacher.

>>378865453
>because you can google all this shit.
sure you can anon

>>378854935

This is one reason I am not against piracy. I can get a game with compressed video files, everything else is the same, and I save 30-40 gigabytes of space.

I mean, go look at the Vanquish PC port.

>Amusingly, the it’s the cut-scenes that make up the vast majority of the game’s install size. Out of the total 18.6GB size, only 2.5GB represent actual game files, with the rest all taken up by pre-rendered videos.

This is crazy. It's a fucking port of a PS3 game.

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>>378865453
>honestly I'd rather be slave than a fucking loser, faggot teacher.

Why did I laugh so hard at this?

>>378865505
>There is a tool to readily access information
>>No there isn't
>Google/Wiki
>>It's wrong. And instead of using my knowledge of what is right to improve the tools of information access I'm going to be a jackass about it

This is why anyone who is sane avoids 'academics'.

>>378865505
what, are you implying that college teaches things about history that you're not allowed to leak on the internet? Did you enter secret roman catacombs that nobody has ever seen before, or (are I say) somebody with an internet connection?
Are you saying that you're accredited to win an argument on 4chan?
Man, go back to college, study science, get a good job, and save your life before you fucking regret it. At least a science degree lets you make money, so you don't live like some cock sucker.

>>378865968
* or (dare I say)

>>378865632
>Out of the total 18.6GB size, only 2.5GB represent actual game files
>18.6GB

I mean that's not so bad anymore compared to the other modern shit we have to put up with, and 18gigs is no deal breaker for me, but that's still crazy.

I agree with you on the piracy thing. That and it's the only way to actually own your games anymore, I buy my stuff and pirate as well for back up and a sense of ownership if that makes sense.

>>378850943
>3 games for the price of one
>retarded idea

>>378865712
>triviabrowsing to justify whatever retardation you decided to post on 4chan is the same as coherent understanding of your chosen subject
you can google physics equations too, why even go to uni at all?
>>378865968
i'm not the history dude, I'm in STEM, but you're just trying to justify being uneducated

I mean, go ahead and explain how any of his civilizations weren't slave dependent, it's not some boolean value you can just fucking google in a minute

>>378857593
A lot of shop websites and stuff actually have it listed as "half life 2: orange box". Like valve call it that internally or something.

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>>378865453
>tfw I want to teach purely because of all the shit teachers I had growing up and realized the few good teachers I had actually left an impact on me

Feels weird.
Sure I mean the salary sucks and you have to work your way up, but that doesn't mean you can't work on other stuff

>"I just want it for portal"

I swear I heard so many people say this back in the day.

>>378865712
>why would you study engineering when you can just GOOGLE stuff?
that logic applies to everything but people with diplomas are the only ones getting hired for the job their diploma says they're qualified for

>>378866502
>i'm not the history dude, I'm in STEM, but you're just trying to justify being uneducated
hahaha no I'm not. I am studying to be an engineer .
My point is, that if you're going to spend your life in college, don't make yourself regret it
>>378866643
teaching is not a career. teaching should be for people working to get their masters or working towards their PhD's and need cash or experience on the side.
Anyone who thinks teaching is a goal is making a mistake

>>378866747
>hahaha no I'm not. I am studying to be an engineer . My point is, that if you're going to spend your life in college, don't make yourself regret it
sure, but while his history degree might be economic suicide it probably elevates him to the top tier of butanese finger puppet forum discussions about the things he knows about

>>378866703
Yeah that's the problem, nigger.
What the FUCK does does an accredited history degree qualify you for, besides teaching and making $2 an hour?

>dude nobody should do things that doesn't earn money
anglos should be killed

>>378866747
Yeah that's how I feel about teaching too.
The teachers that were doing it as a side project compared to as a main source of income had vastly different methods of teaching that were actually good.

Same goes for college, because professors with Tenure are usually dicks or massive bitches

>>378866947
move out of the third world and then come back and talk kiddo

>>378867152
Do you know how it feels to make no money?
Do you know how it feels to make a lot of money?
You think anglos should be killed because they aren't stupid, and don't want to be jaded fuck faces who have no life or money?

>>378866747

My favorite teacher in all of my education history was a guy who became a teacher because he wanted to be a good teacher.

He was a farmer who got bored when he was in his late 40s, went and got some degrees and became an English teacher. We probably spent 10 percent of his class doing English stuff, the other 90 was talking about life and current events. He gifted me a copy of Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut, which is a very good book by a very good author, and really opened a whole literary world I didn't really know about prior to his 10th grade English class.

Thanks, Mr. Ames. You were the shit.

>>378866216
5games you retard cunt you cant read?

>>378867365
I live in the US
>>378867462
Funny, farmers are also huge, complaining faggots who deserve all the pain in their life.

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>>378867407

>defends the lust for wealth by being a caricature of the ignorance being mocked in the original statement

Whew

>>378867550

He didn't complain at all. He was an old school beatnik liberal, but he wasn't pushy or annoying about it. He was genuinely just a super great guy who asked thought provoking questions and admired how we as his students reached different conclusions.

>>378867407
>Leisure and Idleness. There is something of the American Indian, something of the ferocity peculiar to Indian blood, in the American lust for gold - and the breathless haste with which they work - the distinctive vice of the New World - is already beginning to infect Old Europe with its ferocity and is spreading a lack of spirituality like a blanket. Even now one is ashamed of resting and prolonged reflection almost gives people a bad conscience. One thinks with a watch in one’s hand even as one eats one’s lunch whilst reading the latest news of the stock market, one lives as one might always "miss out on something". "Rather do anything rather than nothing" : this principle too is just a noose to throttle all culture and good taste. Just as all forms are visibly perishing by the haste of the workers, the feeling for form itself, the ear and eye for the melody of movements are also perishing. The proof of this may be found in the universal demand for gross obviousness in all those situations in which human beings wish to be honest with one another for once - in their associations with friends, women, relatives, children, teachers, pupils, leaders and Princes : One no longer has time or energy for ceremonies, for being obliging in an indirect way, for esprit in conversation, and for otium at all. Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion in continual pretence and overreaching and anticipating others. Virtue has come to consist in doing something in a shorter time than another person. And so there are only rare hours of sincere intercourse permitted: in them, however, people are tired, and would not only like "to let themselves go," but to stretch their legs out wide in awkward style.

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>>378867618
>lust for wealth
No, it's actually about avoiding mistakes and stupidity, and wanting a stable life. Having back up money to help your family in hard times or being able to travel the world and meet people across the planet is actually amazing, you cock.

>>378867407
>>378867792
>The way people write their letters nowadays is quite in keeping with the age; their style and spirit will always be the true "sign of the times." If there be still enjoyment in society and in art, it is enjoyment such as over worked slaves provide for themselves. Oh, this moderation in "joy" of our cultured and uncultured classes! Oh, this increasing suspiciousness of all enjoyment! Work is winning over more and more the good conscience to its side: the desire for enjoyment already calls itself "need of recreation," and even begins to be ashamed of itself. "One owes it to one's health," people say, when they are caught at a picnic. Indeed, it might soon go so far that one could not yield to the desire for the vita contemplative, (that is to say, excursions with thoughts and friends), without self contempt and a bad conscience. Well! Formerly it was the very reverse: it was "action" that suffered from a bad conscience. A man of good family concealed his work when need compelled him to labour. The slave laboured under the weight of the feeling that he did something contemptible: the "doing" itself was something contemptible. "Only in otium and bellum is there nobility and honour:" so rang the voice of ancient prejudice!
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>>378867792
>>378867835
i didn't read any of that

>>378867914
of course, americans don't read

>>378868049
look at this from my perspective
Somebody is trying to defend studying history at a college, and they just wrote a novella and expect me to read it

>>378868126
why aren't you earning money right now?

>>378868158
You might be retarded

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>>378867792
>>378867835
>>378867914
>>378867794
>>378867365
>>378868049
>>378868126
>>378868158
Jesus fuck, all of you faggots fuck off with this shit. Take it to /pol/, /his/, /b/, I don't give a shit. This ain't video games, this is borderline shitposting.

>>378850943
>At the time it was cool, but big game DVD packs are dead
Nope. I still refuse to buy digitally.
Only game I will be buying in the foreseeable future is Cyberpunk 2077 since CDPR releases their games physically and DRM free.
When you buy digitally you are getting literally NOTHING in return.

>>378851556
CS:source came with HL2 if I don't recall wrong.

>>378868520
>. I still refuse to buy digitally.
that's bizarre

>>378866703
>>378866502
Do you people not see how we are at the cusp of a utopian society. We are not quite there because of shit stains like yourself.

>>378868719
okay googleboy, google me how to not be a subhuman whoops you can't

>>378868784
actually yes you can. you'd learn that all humans are mitochondrially, 100% human, and there's no races or sub races.

>>378868710
Not really, I'm not going to be corporate cocksucker that gives money to devs for literally nothing. They can either release physically or I can continue to pirate.
I'm not complaining though, I have saved myself thousands of dollars not paying for digital games.

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>>378868520
>Nope. I still refuse to buy digitally.

That's kinda hard to do nowadays, at least in the states.

You could just
>buy game on steam/origin/whateverthefuck
>then pirate the game as soon as it's cracked to actually own a copy
>or just wait till the game's cracked and then buy it and pirate a copy

Either way, Blu-Rays should have taken off on PC, but we can thank Microsoft for that.

>>378868890
I only buy/play games from devs/publishers worth playing/buying from anyway. I refuse to buy EA/Ubisoft/Activision shit.

>>378868784
>implying I give a fuck if you use google or not

Fucking Ask Jeeves or Yahoo your shit or whatever fucking tool you use I don't care. The bottom line really does not move at all.

>>378869121
>buy game on steam/origin/whateverthefuck
>then pirate the game as soon as it's cracked to actually own a copy
>or just wait till the game's cracked and then buy it and pirate a copy
Why would I give money to developers that won't release their game physically? I don't give a shit about "supporting the industry" if they are extremely anti-consumer by not releasing their games physically.

>>378869270
the point broke the speed of light when flying above your head and is somewhere in the oort cloud by now

>>378850943
>it's an orange box

what did they mean by zis

>>378869450
>Why would I give money to developers that won't release their game physically?

You have a point here and I even agree with it, but I make an exception to things like Japanese publishers putting out a good PC port, indie games, and generally smaller games.

Western AAA-stuff I don't take that shit from.

>>378869516
Moving the goalposts are we? I bet you enjoy Sony products too.

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>>378867550
>I live in the US
that was my point