Also, an example of mRNA vaccine operation, as illustrated by XKCD:

It’s the Google way. If something isn’t an immediate, smash hit, they don’t pursue it. It’s part of the culture there, and it’s why they have people pursue passion projects a certain number of hours on company time, hoping to find the next big thing. When it’s not, they move on to the next.

Yeah, I get this is done at least partially to allow growth, but like... what if companies were just content with the service they provided, without always worrying about being bigger and more expensive. 

It was only a matter of time once IGN bought them.

I just wish more successful businesses could recognize that they’ve got a good, sustainable, humane model and just stick with that. But this kind of shit is just inevitable now. Any successful business model is going to get bought out, flipped, repurposed for maximum profit, and pimped out as much as humanly possible.

When digital-only consoles started being sold to the market I shook my head. Things were being said like “digital is the way of the future”, and for some consumers that sounded like a good idea. Digital-only gamers could have their entire library at their fingertips and not have to take up any physical shelf space at…

was really hoping this pandemic would break us out of the current insane trajectory our country and global society was on. all that’s gone. i really see no hope for addressing climate change, no hope in addressing income inequality, no hope in addressing political corruption. it’s done. i feel jaded and hopeless about…

Hasn’t the golden rule in gaming for over over a decade now been: DON’T EVER PRE-ORDER

I do not condone hacking any hardware that’s currently being supported, but when hardware is discontinued and the storefronts are shut down, when you cannot legally buy the things in a way that supports the people who created them, as far as I’m concerned it’s open season on modding.

I’ve always firmly believed that if your faith is easily threatened by a moment in pop culture, then your faith was never a strong faith to begin with. 

I mean, you’re not alone - lots of people have been voicing your exact concern since the earliest days of F2P mechanics.

“If you ignore the bad stuff, there’s good stuff” is the sort of appraisal that can apply to basically anything that isn’t 100% garbage.

Because the industry doesn’t treat games as art to be preserved but products to sell and later drop in the shitter when they stop doing that.

If a citizen engages in journalistic behavior, they ought to be held to the same standards of a journalist.

Because Trackmania is a game about pure racing. Everyone uses the same car and the tracks are abstract rather than realistic, meant to challenge the player’s ability to find new routes and control their car as optimally as possible to get the lowest possible time. Car collisions has never been a thing in any…

Canada went from $50 games in the late 360 era (2011) to $90 games by 2014. For a lot of gamers in Canada, Oceania, and other nominally developed countries, gaming is more expensive now than ever.

Those both look like perfectly fine video games.

Agreed, so hard. So many “hey let’s see if people like this” kinda games, and the industry has been piggy backing off of that ingenuity ever since.

Katamari Damacy is still very, very fun to this very day. We went from top down to true 3d with MGS. The over-the-shoulder 3rd person view in RE4. For sony gamers it was…

The frustrating reality of this 4k obsession is also that almost no one actually sets up their living rooms in ways that even matters for the distinction between 1080p and 4k.