Just the fact that they need to partner with NetEase (or some other local company in the future) will take a big chunk out of the revenue. They perform services that Blizzard would struggle to build out for themselves or perhaps be completely unable to, such as liaising with the Chinese government (who have become…

Okay, guys from America or any other country. I hope you understand that this matter is purely a commercial dispute and has nothing to do with politics and conspiracy theories. The impact of this event is not just that players can’t play games. In China, there are a large number of game media, youtube, professional…

Unfortunately, anti-trust laws are only applicable to companies that hold the dominant market share. MS doesn’t hold the dominant share of the gaming market so nothing they do in that market can be legally considered anti-competitive even when it logically is. See Epic’s logically anti-competitive tactics with EGS.

I’m 6' and I don’t have any problem with her being fired. I can’t pretend to comprehend the cultural implications of the slang she used, but you can say “I prefer tall men” without saying “Short men aren’t humans and should have surgery to fix their defect”. Replace tall/short with any other immutable identifier about…

Would you react the same way if she’d said “fat people have no rights, they should all get bariatric surgery”?

Did you know SCP agents used to be incredibly easy to spot? They always blink one eye, then the other, never both at the same time. Then the sons of b***es started wearing sunglasses.

This persisted well through the 90s. In my hometown suburban sprawl “city”, in the later half of the 90s a person wanted to open up an arcade in a smaller footprint building that had been without any occupant for a year or two.

My understanding is it's been less "milking the same cow" and more "our KS campaign was successful beyond our wildest dreams so we added a bunch of stretch goals that unexpectedly took years to work through".

I don’t know about that, but in the US, in the early 1980s they certainly did have a problem with that line of thinking. I was 20 in 1982, and many towns were...less than receptive to any new arcade establishment, because of the perception that they were delinquency magnets.

Japanese Arcades are open late and allow for smoking and drinking, at least before the pandemic. If you’re in Akihabara walking around at 11PM, you might run into an unsavory character or two near the arcades.

Don’t let Sony off the hook here. They want the exact same thing, and while Microsoft gets all the heat from gamers over what they almost did with the XB1, the far more spectacular failure to exert control was what Sony did with the PS3.

PSA for anyone confused by Nerf Now: he’s in the middle of doing a Binding of Issac miniseries.

Shut the fuck up.

Houndoom’s Pokedex entry above implies the following-

Gunpla building is an important activity to start your day with. Also, Chef Boyardee’s expiration date is a misnomer. You can eat that shit years after the date.

I heard Bubbles was back in town and looking for Jimmy 

Yes. Still having a ton of fun with it, though!

Autocorrect refuses to add “anime,” “hell,” and “Gundam” to my dictionary, but it will add “wpuldnt,” “wherr,” and “Gubdam” every single time.

Awkward Zombie hits at so many of my gaming memories that it hurts.

Yeah, was coming to post the same. Sure, it *could* be a coincidence, but the last couple years have me rethinking the validity of Hanlon’s razor. A very vocal minority of the US wants to take their ball and go home by any possible means.