What isn’t a thing is insisting that someone is owed “redemption” from the entire world because of one apology, or because the shitty things they did happened more than five minutes ago.

It’s really tricky. It came up again a year or two ago when Polygon wrote a hit piece on Nolan Bushnell, which lead to some award being handed back, which led to a bunch of women who worked under him speaking up about what a great boss he was (also published on Polygon, literally without comment, they should’ve owned…

One of my biggest hopes for this current generation of consoles is the elimination of developing for HDDs.

I’m asking for clarification where you think the actual theft comes in. Nothing is being stolen.

I’m reminded of the truism that ironic shitposting is just shitposting.

Yeah, that’s him, and yeah, it’s fucking weird.

If you’re still undecided, the original DoomRL was distributed for free, so it should still be out there in places that Zenimax’s lawyers can’t bully. I took a crack at it back in the day, it’s a solidly old-school roguelike with a fun, nostalgic theme. It didn’t stay with me in the way that Spelunky did but it’s…

I kind of like the idea that an artist can create a work of art and then profit from each resale too. To me that’s money going to the right person, rather than some investor who doesn’t give a shit about art and just sees those purchases as appreciating assets.

1/ Yes, there are mountains of collectible figures and so on that are issued in genuinely limited numbers that immediately spike in price after the initial sale. If you mean like “limited edition” blurays and comics that are produced in their tens or hundreds of thousands... well, those tend not to appreciate in…

Can you explain why you think that other people spending money on collectibles equates to theft? I think the NFT thing is daft as fuck, but it’s not my money, and I assume they’re all adults. Was it theft when people paid money for Beanie Babies? Or for tulips, if we want to really go back?

that won’t mean that all the mining farms will close, they will just move to a different currency which still uses mining

The point where I realised it had changed was when I was first trying to figure out what the fuck TikTok was. What I saw was a lot of jock-looking young things dancing to anime/videogame music, which still blows my mind, honestly. I grew up in a time when any interest in anime and manga marked you out as a weirdo.

Having not really “got” Minecraft either I have a vague dread that in another ten or twenty years every game will have a base-building flavour, in the same way that every game has RPG mechanics these days.

It’s an interesting point, but I think that that argument doesn’t really have legs. A popular TCG will typically have no issue selling you as many booster packs as you want. I’ll grant you that the mania around Pokemon cards right now has temporarily hindered supply, but it’s not limited typically, nor intentionally.…

Except they are rule-issuing authorities.

Blind bags are a wildly different story you are getting a known item from a list of items in it. You have a tangible reward regardless of the outcome.

I had this on PAL PS2, under the name Zoo Puzzle. It was ok. Didn’t ever think I’d hear of it again!

Yeah, the shape is a giveaway.

Ah, I think I found the blog post you mention... the author didn’t think the figures are accurate, they reckon it’s some limitation of XNA (which was designed as an easy-to-use starting point for game dev, not intended for high-performance games).

The sites where these runs are submitted.