“A lot of it is the lack of understanding about the gamedev process”

I often say most of The Gamers’ (tm) problems could be solved if they just took the time to understand even a fraction of how Game Development actually works but...well...can’t really force their noses into a book, as much as we might wish we could.

When given the choice to be concerned about the profit margins of a multi-millionaire’s investment portfolio and...*checks notes*...people being able to afford shelter. I’m gonna...I’m gonna go with the people needing shelter bit. But hey, you do you.

“and a two-episode narrative diversion that derailed the entire premise of this being a show about Boba Fett”

I heard about this and my immediate thought was “Oh, they Nomura’d it, where if you didn’t engage with this other side thing, then you’d have no idea what was going on in the mainline series at the next…

Imagine playing a game online, 4head.

Less sarcastically though, unless Steam is going to act as DRM, this could be circumvented by just playing offline. And by offline I mean actually offline, like pull-your-ethernet-cable-offline.  I played a good chunk of 360 games this way back in the day when I heard a patch was…

That’s the problem is that there is no line. People wave their hands vaguely in the direction of some ill-defined “standard” that Leftists are restricted to with regards to necessities and get mad when they participate in home ownership or transportation.

So people who believe that workers should be paid more for their surplus value are...not allowed to buy nice things? What’s the price limit on this then? Is there an MPG cap too? What if it’s a cheaper car but incredibly efficient? Is there a year limit? Like “no cars in the last four years but 5 and older is okay?…

So there’s basically no winning move then. It really is “Socialism Is When No House, No Car” because I just explained his leftist beliefs have and still remain consistent in that he wants and advocates for a society where those are the top are taxed far more heavily than those at the bottom. Is he supposed to not…

And when we pass those laws and get that tax bracket I’m confident he will be more than happy to have his money taxed that way.

Yes. If you believe that workers should be receiving proper compensation in accordance to the value that is extracted from them, then you must live in 100 square foot houses and drive nothing newer than a 1984 Ford Fiesta.

In fact, if we were all paid properly for the value we create that our rich overlords steal from us we could all afford Porsches. Socialism is actually *about* the workers getting way more money.

Interesting! He believes in a robust and well-funded public transportation system, and yet he has purchased a personal vehicle to transport himself within a society that has little to no viable alternative.

I have no idea why people treat GTA with this air of mystery that they don’t treat even less popular-but-still-popular series. Like...we KNOW another Assassins Creed is coming without official confirmation. We KNOW CoD is going to roll out without even a single screenshot saying it. Elder Scrolls 6 was always going to…

I recently got a retention bonus at my work due to mass exodus. It’s unglamorous State Gov work, so they don’t hand out bonuses often. However even this bonus couldn’t just be given in good faith because it contained similar “gotcha” clauses in it. In Bungie’s case, they’re withholding the full amount over a period of…

Excuse me, but what about the developer's special, unique artistic vision!?  Just seems like people demanding devs change their games to suit their needs is insulting and missing the point of---wait...hang on this isn't a Soulslike article about difficulty.  Shit, i must have clicked the wrong thing, I applogize.  :(

Very excited to have the “does this make Master Chief a Disney Princess!?” Convo when Disney buys Microapplesonyactisoft and people talk about how it's still nothing to get worried over.

Ah, excellent! I wasn’t sure.  That’s still a good enough ways out I should have finished at least two of those, if not all three.  

Dying Light, Horizon, and Elden Ring should be enough to keep me occupied for most of the year.  Thankfully I don’t think I have anything else I care about with a definitive release date yet (like Forspoken, Little Devil Inside, etc etc)

Accessibility options have been heavily praised in several recent games they’ve been implemented in from Last of Us 2, Ratchet and Clank, Celeste, Gears 5, the list goes on.

And people do have this discussion with other games. The only difference is Souls-games are the only ones treated as though the idea of change is…

mmmm, I dunno. Enemy you can’t see hiding behind a corner you can’t see or prepare for that one-shot knocks you off a ledge is preeettty cheap.  

The boardgame 'Go' has only two rules.  Incredibly easy, yet the actual play is quite diffcult.