Video game cabinets and Pinball machines are licensed in an entirely different manner than PC games, as the implicit assumption when you buy such a cabinet is that you are purchasing it for the purposes of having other people be able to play it.

Actually it’s extremely clear. Almost all video game licenses are written to be single owner licenses.

You are speaking of compulsory licenses and those have to be enacted at a national level, and if you thought you’ve seen wailing and gnashing of teeth before, try getting legislation passed that would provide such licenses for video games - the industry of DRM, hatred of used game stores, and continual reissuing of…

I was listening to the Spoiler Warning Show crew’s podcast on Youtube this morning and they brought up that sort of point - and the answer that I had for them (silently - it was a pre-recorded show) is the same I have here. There are plenty of _good_ people out there who stream either on Twitch or Youtube, that most…

So I might be ‘spoilt’ in that the folk that I tend to follow on Twitch are actually well mannered human beings who actually KNOW how to act like well mannered human beings - that being mostly the Loading Ready Run crew and their cloud of friends - but it seems to me if you are too fucking stupid to realize that your…

Me: This has happened before, often, and the people in question aren’t not just gunned down on principle but come out 100% alive. The primary common denominator among them is that their skin was lightly colored. Here’s some proof.

This happened just last month:

I’m curious as to where you purchased such rose tinted view of the policial past of our nation. There has never been a point in the history of the US where yellow journalism hasn’t been part of the political process.  The primary difference between today and yesteryear is that there is actually a movement to…

Art is like money, it’s art as long as you can find someone willing to call it art and it’s worth exactly however much you can convince someone it is worth.

No, because in order to be able to post here you had to create an account and part of that process almost certainly included agreeing to indefinite royalty free licensing to Takeout or it’s parent companies to publish and display your comment. So you wouldn’t be able to say that they owed you anything.

If you literally can not stop shooting yourself in the foot by encouraging bad actors to continue behaving poorly by rewarding them each time they do it, then the word is in fact NEED, not want.

Nah, just because one group wins because of factor A doesn’t mean that having factor A lets you win or even that you have to have factor A to win.

The idea was they would replace the console, or at least bring PC gaming into the console arena, and that their modularity would eventually allow them to be infinately upgradeable Ship of Theseus style.

The day Bethesda releases an Elder Scrolls game that isn’t modable (and isn’t an MMORPG) will be the day I lose my faith in them.

Poor impulse control. FOMO, privledge, whatever you want to blame your poor decision making on, that is what you’ve just exhibited.

If even half the billions made in the video game industry went to the people who were responsible for that ‘hard work’, your first line of bullshit would make more sense. As it is, no one on this side of the equation is responsible for rewarding ‘hard work’. If you as a someone in the industry are not being…

They said that when companies started taking the free bonus items they used to put up on their sites as a ‘thank you for supporting us’ and turned them into paid DLC. And it sustained.

They’ll get my money when it’s sub $10 range, and it’ll tell them exactly what I want to tell them, that I consider it a sub-$10 game. WB is going to be WB regardless, they didn’t need my money to make this mistake in the first place and they ignored all the clamoring when they made it up till now anyway.

Seeing Sam Lake’s grimace for the Remedy Games video just reminds me of the true April Fool’s joke, that we’ll never have a true Max Payne 3.

Sometimes, things come as a surprise and people go “Man, that came out of left field”.