….or maybe that’s incentive to make games worth keeping? There are some games I own digitally that I want to keep, basically forever, because I’ve really enjoyed them and might be interested in another play through.

I’m not an expert on French law, but from what I understand French law is much more permissible than US law on software licensing.  For example, in French software license law you are allowed to reverse engineer software for the purposes of understanding how it works so long as you don’t intend to infringe upon their…

The Nazis were once a fringe political group that could barely fill a beer hall, much less control a nation. Your ideas of fascism are remarkably narrow, the core belief of fascism is a belief that some people are better than other people and that one person should have absolute authority over the government; the…

Your marketing doesn’t necessarily need to be based on algorithms. You can post on Reddit, Twitter and other online sites to get the word out. Hell, if you want to go old school you could hand out flyers in the nearest city center to totally avoid all algorithms as much as possible. You can hire companies to help…

Valve’s 30% cut is a retailer cut, by contract they are not your publisher. If Steam was your publisher, they would pay you money up front to develop a game, market that game and support that game; Valve is not doing any of that. The 30% you pay is simply the retailer’s cut, no different from if you were to sell a…

The Iron Front was only armed themselves because literally every group they were against was already armed; the Nazis, communists and monarchists all had armed guerilla groups. The Iron Front armed themselves out of necessity, most were middle-class workers just trying to preserve the Weimar Republica and democracy.…

They already paid for tickets, everyone sitting in that section has a season ticket. The point of the walkout is to show that if this continues, ECS will leave and the gameday experience will suffer and the Sounders will have a gaping hole in their income.

Bullshit. The violence in Portland was caused by fascists who showed up in a god damn armored bus.

Never rely on an algorithm you don’t control for your business. This applies to YouTube, it applies to Steam, it applies to any sort of system like that.  It’s up to you to market your stuff, to spread the word as best you can.  I’m not saying that the indie devs are wrong here, it’s difficult to know quite frankly,…

I’d argue that Fallout 4 deviated in pretty obvious ways from Fallout 3 and New Vegas. and that’s a lot of why it failed. The story is very similar to 3, true, but the mechanics changed greatly and mostly for the worse. The stats system was hugely simplified and dialogue was simplified to the point that worrying too…

XBox seems to be having issues, but so far it’s been smooth on my PC.

There are some very legitimate improvements though. Melee is so, so much better, character building is much more complex than previous game and using different brands of guns legitimately feels very different now. Beyond all of that, ultimately it is more borderlands rather than the exact same ones you played before;…

I mean, would Lim even know what the fuck the Copa Del Ray is? Would he understand the significance at all? Singapore probably never gets the Copa Del Rey on TV but I bet they get UEFA Champions League and then Lim can brag to his family, minions, bootlickers and rivals that his team is in the Champions League.

Gotta say the Yakuza series never interested me until now, but I’m intrigued by this.  I’ve always heard how over the top (in a good way) the Yakuza series is, but the combat never really held any interest for me.  But over the top JRPG gangster combat sounds pretty fun, especially if you get to use the environmental…

I mean, is it better to live a slave or die free?  Make no mistake, if China gets its way with Hong Kong the people will become as repressed and brainwashed as the people of mainland China.

So...No Man’s Sky but with sexy times?  I’m down.

The NFL is an unending horror of brain damage far scarier than a creepy cosmic spider clown in a small town.

That’s a bicycle kick. -Billy Haisley

You didn’t see it?  The THING in the darkness?  Lurking, hungering waiting?  You had to have seen it!  It waits for us all, at the end, I think.  There in the darkness as the life drains from us, it uses the games as its way of hurrying us all forward.  The snacks, the booze, the anger, it’s all part of its plan! …

The 8th most downvoted is defending Trump, which makes sense.