For people wanting to see how people complained back then, this slashdot article shows how HalfLife fans reacted to Steam activation being a requirement for Half Life 2.

It takes a certain type of person to build and keep a large successful stream audience. Just like major CEOs tend to have certain personality traits in common, popular streamers probably also have a lot of personality overlap.

I’d like to issue a counterpoint, as someone who was basically raised in a bodybuilding gym (my dad was a bodybuilder back in the day, and our garage was converted into a gym and was a local hangout for bodybuilding for those who didn’t feel welcome in a traditional gym in the 80s.) compression tights were not a…

Turns out the campaign to kill all the animals in the irradiated countryside wasn’t done merely to prevent the spread of the contamination, but also as an attempt to find and kill the American spies Moose and Squirrel.

“Toxic bros”? Really? Consider: Maybe Kirsten just kind of sucks and there’s zero appetite out there, among wither men or women, for a Wall St lawyer turned political opportunist. And that maybe she was kneecapping a perceived political rival in Franken rather than making a principled stand. When Republicans are…

In fact, the United States, where I live, was founded after waging a war against a king that the colonists felt was a tyrant.

No this is the new acceptable response by the over-reactionary “I want blood for your sins!” revolution to everything and anything offensive.

it’s crazy how the response to a little bit of horny texting is destroying someone’s marriage and career. i mean, if he wasn’t a journalist working for the seattle times, you would just maybe yell at him a little and block him, no? maybe threaten him a little, chastise him for being a fucking idiot and giving you the…

Console owners absolutely lose their shit about exclusivity and its been a constant wrangling point between the camps every console generation. By this stage we kinda expect it so its loosely tolerated but I have nothing but shade for bought exclusives regardless of platform.

People who are sticking up for Epic like they are some small company sticking up for the lowly game devs by giving them more money (despite that money actually going to the Publishers) confuse me. Like how do they not get that Epic is big and can only afford to do this because they take a cut of nearly every game…

There is zero benefit to the customer when Epic nabs an exclusive for themselves, and several tangible negatives. It’s pretty straightforward to understand, and so thank you for this breakdown.

Customers shouldn’t be expected to wait for a competitor to “get up to speed” as it ignores all the modern advances of existing encumbents. Horrible, horrible “argument”.

but they are not giving that option, they are saying “Here is a fat stack of money to only sell through us.” Hoping that the funneling all users through their store front will make up for the investment.  If you want people to use your store front, build a better store.

Steam, Origin, Uplay, GOG Galaxy, EPIC...sometimes its not about allegiance, its simply about not wanting 9000 different fucking launchers when almost all the games you play are already on just one.

Add an easy mode and he won’t have to settle for watching someone else have fun, friendo. And the good news is that you don’t lose anything in the process either.

How is anyone defending this keep-away bullshit? It’s Smash Bros, not Outlast.  This is why they have things like shot clocks in basketball, so a team doesn't get a lead then dribble in circles for the next 40 minutes.  If you're going to join a competition for a FIGHTING game, then fight you pussy.

Unions ‘might’ work. Have you never been in a union where the workers are lazy and demanding because they feel like they can do what they want? It can become a very corrupt and shitty system.

No, that is a bastardized view of Tolkien and his work. Its getting popular these days but Tolkien never once endorsed that view. In fact those that propose this view tend to only look at Lord of the Rings and not his entire work. The Orcs for example weren’t the violent others people keep saying, they were Sauron and…

Sure, the movies were released and funded by a Hollywood company, but Peter Jackson, a New Zealand native, made the films in his home country with his Wellington-based studio. Plus, J. R. R. Tolkien was British. But Miyazaki seems to be grouping all of the Western into a singular Hollywood or, even, “American” lump.

And I’ve grown tired of this attitude that we should just settle for any ole bitch, instead of looking for and working towards, and pushing being better. Perfection doesn’t exist. Every person who’s ever received commendations in their line of work will tell you that but that doesn’t mean they don’t get up and strive…