Actually Steam did sell movies for a while a few years back. Had it’s own dedicated category and everything. But apparently there was so few takers that they shut it down in 2019. I wonder if it would have more success now, maybe even used for marketing the Steam Deck, but I kind of doubt it.

Thankfully I hear there’s a social media site that lets you upload entire films with no moderation.

I generally think of it as voices. Every artist has a voice, even in taking inspiration from others their own voice will inevitably be dominant throughout the piece because what and how they take inspiration from others is still reflective of their voice. The more experienced they become the stronger it is. This is…

But by this logic theft of trade secrets, which is a prosecutable crime, is not theft because you’re stealing knowledge which inherently means you can’t remove anything.

To claim that in this context copying is not theft runs against the very notion of copyright does it not? Or at best is playing semantics. Theft of an object and theft of work are different but still theft.

Snapchat really? Update your moral panics buddy you’re like 200 NYTs behind.

I remember a long time ago there was a post that would go around on social media of someone relating how they asked a guy they were trying to get to know what kind of video games they liked. They answered Crusader Kings II, and when the storyteller asked what else they responded that no it was just that one.

Where would we be without Dutch guys with incredibly intimate knowledge of video game minutiae bringing them to their absolute limit?

It is very weird how much Batman has featured in the marketing. I get it, it’s the big hook, but even the poster makes it seem like this is a Batman movie, but also Flash is here.

Still seems weird to me honestly. Marvel started out without their two most well known (outside of comic fans) properties and basically had to introduce mainstream audiences to who these people even are, turning them into household names.

Part of the issue is also that Marvel took their time at the start to build up to their big crossovers and DC wanted to catch up immediately. Everything since BvS  feels like they keep trying to have their Avengers moment without letting anyone grow attached to these versions of the characters in the first place.

Considering his career is doing big publicity stunts: it either should have been a red flag that even he said nah, or it’s evidence he’s lying because there’s no way he wouldn’t have done it.

See the thing is, Splatoon has always had a perfectly even count of masculine or feminine hairstyles every time they add any. There aren’t very many in total but the selection list is ordered in such a way that it just alternates femme and masc. Plus, there is no such thing as gender locking in Splatoon so either body…

Yes, what every advertiser loves to see is the word unmoderated.

Dota has (from my understanding, never played myself) plenty of other microtransactions for cosmetics that you can buy directly. Players can also sell cosmetics they own to each other for real money on the Steam Market, from which Valve takes a cut.

Intriguing since I’m coming at it from the other direction; loved NITW, never played Disco Elysium. Would never have guessed they shared much just from superficial vibes.

How dare people think there’s a high probability of bugs in a *checks notes* Bethesda game.

Exactly. I think from a profit perspective Nintendo is more than willing to sell you ToTK for a bit cheaper if it means you’re pre-committing to buying a lot more of their first-party titles.

Yeah that’s exactly it. People would still be disappointed but I don’t think the reaction would be as severe if OW1 was still up and running as it’s own thing.

The talk about this stemming from Project Titan and operating with that as the end goal actually makes a lot of sense as someone who played OW1 a ton from launch.