Zorvala

Zorvala

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I finish games properly.

6d ago

How many old video games can you still buy?

A 2023 study pulled fifteen hundred American games released before 2010 and checked every one. Eighty-seven percent were out of print. Where they went, who keeps the rest, and why they aren't lost, only locked.
Nov 2

Building an emulator is legal. So why does Nintendo keep winning?

On the seventeenth of August, seven legal notices took 401 copies of Nintendo Switch emulators off a website that hosts computer code, in a single day. 311 of them belonged to one project its developers had stopped working on about eighteen months earlier. Back in February, the same company had asked that site to remove every Switch emulator on it, and the notices kept coming almost every month, right up to October. Building an emulator is lawful, and that isn't my opinion, because a court decided it. So how does the company keep winning? A letter is enough, and nobody even gets as far as a courtroom. Everything I state as a fact in this film is something you can check yourself, and everything else I'll tell you plainly is my opinion. I've been calling this company Lawyertendo in my own head for a while now, and I've decided to say it out loud. You can send all the letters you want. I'll keep playing your games my way. 00:00 Hello, Nintendo 00:18 401 copies in a single day 01:30 A program that pretends to be a machine 03:06 Yuzu, over within a week 04:45 The pattern 07:07 Not just emulators 08:27 What all of this is protecting 09:31 That game is gone 10:29 A letter is enough 11:25 Send all the letters you want #nintendo #emulation #gamepreservation
Oct 23

Sony says no reasonable consumer thinks they own a digital game

Since 2025, a store in California that says "buy" on a digital game has to tell you that you're getting a license. In June, four buyers took Sony to court under that law, and in August Sony's lawyers answered that no reasonable consumer would believe a digital game was theirs to own. What the law does, what it doesn't do, and the one kind of copy it leaves alone.
Oct 23

I deleted my PlayStation account anyway, 631 platinums and all

I deleted my PlayStation account. Not deactivated, not signed out. Deleted. 631 platinum trophies, fifteen years of them, and every game I ever bought on it. Right now a PC is not cheaper, and I spend a good part of this film arguing against myself with the numbers. I did it anyway. In July, Sony announced that from January 2028 new PlayStation games will only be sold digitally, and the disc was the last physical proof that you bought something. This August, its lawyers argued in court that no reasonable customer would think buying a digital game on its store meant owning it. The cheapest way to buy a PlayStation game has been the disc, and the disc is what's being removed. This is about what the price of a digital game actually buys. 0:00 Deleted 0:22 What was on the account 1:26 Why now: the 2028 announcement 2:53 The part where I argue against myself 4:30 The thing you don't own 5:52 The price of a closed shop 8:03 Paying to play online 8:58 What I actually lost 11:21 Why I did it anyway #playstation #physicalmedia #pcgaming #digitalownership #trophyhunting #ps5
Oct 23

Why your nose looks bigger in selfies

Your selfies make your nose look bigger than it is. It's not your imagination, and it's not your nose: it's the distance. Step back to a metre and a half, five feet, then zoom in to fill the frame, and your face settles back to its real shape.
Oct 14

I'm Zorvala, and I walked away from all of it to play video games

I have been making things on the internet for over twenty years, and you have never seen a single one of them. Not because they were bad, and not because nobody watched. Because I deleted them, all of them, every time. My name is Zorvala, and this time I'm not disappearing. When I imagined my last day, I got one answer: finish as many games as I possibly can, at the highest quality possible. Every room, every file, every line of dialogue, in true 4K at maximum settings, as far as the hardware allows. The rest is who I am: the platinum that cured me of trophies, the reflection that made me build a PC, the week I spent deciding where the camera sits, and four rules I'm asking you to hold me to. Consciousness to consciousness. 00:00 Deleted, every time 00:42 This time I'm not disappearing 01:33 Walking away, and the last day 02:32 One item 03:14 Doom and the machines 04:13 I finish them 05:42 The treadmill and the reflections 06:36 The standard and the camera week 07:19 The four rules 08:22 What the day looks like 09:18 Consciousness to consciousness #gaming #completionist #pcgaming

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I finish games properly.

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Zorvala
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