Clear up a couple things:

While the Secret of Mana remake didn’t look great, the Trials of Mana remake is amazing in 3D (and is much more satisfying to play, despite how good the original was). It just kind of depends on the implementation. 

Why is this such a stickler? Is it just because the games on Steam are synonymous with “Windows”??

Almost every console, aside from the Xbox, is either UNIX or Linux based, as are most of the Game Streaming services (Stadia and Luna I believe require devs to build for Linux and Vulkan. Stadia definitely does.)

It also really depends on the configs. The Torchlight II devs built an “official” Steam Controller config for TLII and it worked really, really well. There is a lot of functionality that many people don’t use with the Steam controller that can be useful for games like this.

Such as turning the left touchpad into haptic…

Because they aren’t targeting PC players that are stuck in their ways of using only a desktop with a high end KB/M for control. Just look at the Steam Hardware survey and you’ll find that most users of Steam are on the mid-to-lower end of the hardware spectrum (There are 3-4 times more 768p users as there are 4K…

I used to hate it for games like FPS and 3rd person games. Been using it a lot for Hellpoint and it works really well. The way the right touchpad works as a cross between a mouse and trackball makes it great for camera movement.

This is why I’ve seen more and more content creators either record ads directly into their videos from sponsors or lock some content behind patreon and other sources of compensation outside of Twitch/YouTube.

If I remember correctly, if you count the waste that comes from Wind and Solar energy as those repairs have to be done, there is less waste in Nuclear Power than any other green energy...... unless there’s a meltdown.

IIRC, total nuclear waste from power plants would have a hard time filling a single football field.…

The inherent issue with population control is that you’d have to force people to either take pills, use condoms, get abortions, or have surgery to force them to not get pregnant. There’s no viable way to force population control. You’d see an uprising before certain groups would subject themselves to any of the above…

To me, that’s not the issue. Apple likes to compare themselves to Google, Samsung, Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, and Steam. In every one of those cases, though, I have a choice as a consumer where to get my software from. I can usually either get it digitally or physically (in the case of Game Systems) or I can get the…

Steam is currently a monopoly because they have done the best (Quick reminder that, in the US anyway, being a monopoly is not illegal, just using that power to prevent competition is what’s illegal).

I’m watching this keyboard with great interest:

I’m watching this keyboard with great interest:

What confuses me about it is how Apple is trying to play this. With Steam, developers AND players have the choice as to which platform(s) they buy/sell their games on. The main issue with the Apple Store (and Google Play to some extent) is how restrictions are placed on sellers. Specifically, that you don’t have the…

different classic builds (tank/wizard/stealth like in Skyrim), I wish more JRPGs would learn that lesson.

Oh I feel that as well, but I also work in tech and know that it’s not as simple as putting the other games on a switch cart and shipping it.

The WiiU ran on a PowerPC-based Multi-chip Module custom CPU and the Switch runs on a fairly standardized ARM-based chip. The game code would have to be ported to the new CPU…

The internet likes to rail on Skyward Sword, but a LOT of people I know liked it.... and the year isn’t over. The Mario Anniversary stuff didn’t come until the end of 2020 (ignoring pandemic impacts), so there’s that.

From my (limited) understanding of LOTR’s world, up until the 4th age, even men lived a long, long time. Like Aragorn lived 250+ I think.

Not to mention a timed exclusive for a bunch of games that are mostly 2 or more years old doesn’t make sense to me.

I get the desire to maintain the feeling of the original Eden Prime. If this were a Fantasy RPG, then I think it’d make sense, but I don’t recall anything in the lore that has Reapers manipulating a planet’s weather, so I’ll take the more realistic look over the artificial, but appropriately moody, look.

You’re never going to wipe hate speech off the face of the Earth, as much as anyone wants to. There’s a reason Parler got pulled from platforms and AWS, but Twitter doesn’t.
Parler refused to do any sort of actual moderation while Twitter actively does what it can to keep on top of issues.

If you take down…