Perhaps they’re talking about piracy? I imagine there’s only a small number of uncracked games at this point.

I’m trying to imagine what wearing one of those Pikachu suits feels like in the middle of a humid Japanese summer.

I remember getting to a swamp level and just finding it tedious. It’s after that point that it gets better?

I think it’s fair. It reminded me of that game immediately, and I didn’t get on with that one at all, at least the early parts of the game I played.

I’ve tried Code Vein twice now but the aggressively standard anime tropes and boring early level design put me off. Does it unfold into something special later on?

Reminds me of Muramasa the Demon Blade, which i never got around to finishing Kisuke’s story.

how does a company justify the legal spending?

Pretty much.

We used to have articles that long, but we called them “books”.

Twitch says that over half of all Twitch users are 18-34, only 21% lie between 13 to 17, and other demographics fall below that figure

Firstly, thanks for being reasonable here. I don’t have any interest in a shouting match.

This “there was always a sexual component to ASMR” argument of yours is a bit of a red herring, at least from my perspective. I learned about it in the early 00s when I was studying music tech and there was no sexual component there, I can assure you. Sometimes a box of matches being shaken around your head is just a…

Those are your assumptions - nobody who knows is saying either way. They should’ve banned him the second he came out of that bathroom, TBH. We may never know why it took them months more to drop the hammer on him, but it was richly deserved according to their own TOS, he doesn’t need to have streamed somewhere else or …

Y’all will just have to accept that some creators independently make sexual content

Yeah, I can’t really see it drawing anyone in. Still fascinating in motion, though.

I think that’s about right, yeah. It has to be noted that they backed themselves into this corner, and the excuse given, “we decided to finish the PC version and then worry about how to make it run on console”, is not a sensible or professional approach to last-gen console ports for a game on this scale. It’s…

I hear you on the convenience angle - I’m in the same boat, for PS5 at least. As far as I’m aware I’m still signed up for stock notifications with at least half a dozen retailers, and I’ve heard nothing, so I don’t think that those lists are that useful.

Better controls how? The crypto algorithms are specifically coded to fit GPUs. There is no way any open system (like a PC) can be prevented from using a GPU at full performance in any way the owner likes, and that’s the whole deal with GPU mining. Nvidia and AMD can’t do shit about it.

A preorder waiting list has the same problem as just selling the things on your site.

I think the reality is that there’s more money in not cooking up a solution.