Don’t need a “perfect world”, just tech companies to stop trying to operate without any employees.

The platform now touts 150 million monthly active users spread across millions of separate channels, or servers in Discord parlance.

It’s also on Itch.io. Itch usually takes a smaller cut than Steam, so maybe buy it there?

The joysticks are all made by a company called Alps. Their joystick modules get covered up a bit on some controllers, and the way they connect to the rest of the controller is different. But underneath, they’re all basically the same thing, from the same company. And they all fail in the same way.

Nintendo’s sticks are made by a 3rd party company that owns a number of patents on modern joystick technology. The same company makes the same damned sticks for Sony and MS as well. All three companies are stuck buying from them because they own the patents. The three companies can’t do better quality control or fix…

I’m repeating what the people under discussion (those who criticized the Wholesome games tweets) said. Since the author of this article couldn’t be bothered to either accurately describe the objections, much less question any of them.

Yes. Having life and death political struggles turned into cutsey hygge shit for whites to numb themselves with is annoying.

They weren’t being criticized by “Gamers”. They were being criticized by queer POC who are tired of being subsumed by white people and their aesthetics.

A lot of the invective came from what really had to be a willing misinterpretation of their call for games that represented “thoughtful representation of marginalized groups”.

This ain’t CNN. When Kotaku runs a story about politics, it has a connection to video games. Also, did you not read the story? After the video game stuff, it takes a shot at Biden for the missing checks.

They’re lying. From only sending out PC codes, to ordering takedowns of console footage, to not showing base console footage themselves, it’s clear they knew it was a problem, and they hid it.

Nausicaa has repeatedly been released in Studio Ghibli movie collections, and featured in the Studio Ghibli museum. Whether it’s technically a Studio Ghibli movie or not, it’s treated that way by Studio Ghibli, Miyazaki, and most fans.

When will these downgrades end?

Advertisements aren’t “transparency”.

That is the least credible theory. Mixer’s demise is proof that these guys can’t keep even the most lavishly funded streaming site afloat. The idea that they were gonna start their own brand new service is just utter fanboy fantasy. 

I’m not talking about the wisdom of switching to digital distribution, I’m talking about how ridiculous it looks to open a package and see a dozen DVDs in it. It’s how things looked right before we switched from floppies to CDs, and from CDs to DVDs.

Blueray is becoming less common though, not more. Because everything is switching to digital distribution. Lotta PCs don’t come with any optical drives nowdays, much less with Blueray.

Thumbdrives are cheap compared to a lot of things, but they still cost 20x as much as a blank DVD.

Physical distribution is just gonna look sillier and sillier.

This is the most obvious milkshake duck in the world.