“But Cyberpunk so far has nothing to say about how humanity made those fever dreams a reality. It can be traced historically through the game’s abundant lore, but the lived experience of it hasn’t felt real to me. The game isn’t some kind of warning about the future; it seems to take as a given that the world will…

I’m sure everyone in that Melee tournament was totally using the ISO they backed up themselves from their own copy of Melee before they applied that mod.

To be fair, do you really expect Nintendo, or any other platform holders to encourage the use of emulator? After someone financially encouraged the Splatoon players to escalate the fights, disrespecting didn’t only came from one side.  

“My V has a vagina and goes by “he,” but the game doesn’t seem to acknowledge that he’s a trans man; characters occasionally make reference to his dick or balls, though this could just as easily be metaphorical.”

No I wouldn’t. I’ve been banging on for YEARS that I’d rather pay $60 for a tight narrative with great gameplay that lasts 15 hours with minimal replay value than $60 for a 100 hour game with 20 hours of good story buried in it. 

“Listen I get it, Apple sucks, their fees are exorbitant, and they’re anti-competition. I’m on your side. Stick it to ‘em.”

Tim Sweeney, who is probably celebrating the small victory of Apple slashing their cut from App Store developers making less than $1million in half, does not know when to shut up.

AOC is a goddamned national treasure. Unabashedly progressive, kicked moderate ass in her elections, calls Republicans on their bullshit, skillfully claps back when they try to attack her, and she somehow successfully managed to merge political awareness with Twitch in a way that didn’t feel forced or scripted? In my…

Beats the hell out of some blood-money-stuffed puppet.

People voted for George W Bush because he seemed like a guy you could have a beer with.

Look...Ian...I mean this in the nicest way possible, and I say this as a fellow progressive who has tried to get people to vote for Bernie twice in a row, and this isn’t directed at you specifically but at the group you are currently representing with this article...but please, shut the fuck up.

You know, I would be a lot more on board with Biden skepticism if it was powered by actual concerns and not baldfaced lies like this:

lol

Honestly, this type of intellectually dishonest bullshit pisses me off as a lawyer (even if I am a totally different kind of lawyer). Every single person involved, not to mention all observers, know exactly what’s going on - Apple has semi-dictatorial control over its platform, Epic wanted more money and to be able to…

If you want to get your bullshit marketing platform (masquerading as a video game)

I mean, no offence, but if that’s what you want, that’s why Android exists.

Then buy Android devices. Samsung makes some quite high-end phones and tablets, from what I hear.

So in other words, Apple is bad, help us so we can become just like Apple.

Tim Sweeney must have fucking brain worms, because this is the most intensely stupid argument I have ever seen. If you want to get your bullshit marketing platform (masquerading as a video game) onto mobile devices, follow the fucking rules or build your own damn phones. No one is going to provide a platform for you…

“Epic wants to utilize its own competing services, for its own apps and for others.”