Simple.

Physical private property is made up.

Copyright isn’t so storied a concept that doing away with it is wholly unrealistic; it’s been a 300 year experiment, pushed to its absolute limits and breaking point in the last 50 or so, and there’s plenty of ways one could imagine enforcing actual fair use and competition in a way that centered around proving actual…

“but there’s no real-world measurable consequence to the corporation for my actions alone”

Yes, in fact, they do. They make that much despite making *NO* contribution to what the studio produces.

Part of me is thinking ‘so the true villain is once again capitalism but you’re not saying anything constructive’ and the other part of me is thinking ‘the fucking onus is not on Luke Plunkett of Kotaku to prescribe anything to anyone’ so I guess I’m just exasperated. It’s hard to escape the consumer cycle for a lot…

This generation will be the last consoles we buy.

It does not matter. The world’s biggest games are multi-platform. Streaming is the future.

People that don’t care about exclusives are almost always Xbox only players. I mean, be happy with what you have, and I’m not for MORE exclusives, but just saying, you don’t really hear that from Nintendo or PlayStation only players because they have so many great exclusives to play. 

Im going to point out what I always do.  Corporate greed isnt a thing.  Corporations exist on paper.  They have no feelings, wants, desires, or needs.  At all.  Its human greed.  Greed from the top execs, the board, and the major shareholders, some of which are entites like BlackRock.....which you then then have to…

man, its almost like the FCC let ISPs define the term broadband....but that would be silly, like the former chairmen of the FCC being a former lawyer for Verizon and repeatedly ruling in his favor.  Our government is so bought by big business, the dems are bad enough, but we get another GOP administration.....we will…

Forgive me, but I didn’t feel like writing out an entire dissertation on why I dislike a game developer’s works, only to get a really long winded “nuh-uh” response. That was besides the point, and the underlying complaint was “you don’t like the game I like and I take issue with that.”

The Switch is a portable that does a good job of masquerading as a home console when you want it to.

I live in a zip code near a major military installation that has a population of about 45,000 people. Here, there are only two options: Spectrum with Internet up to gigabit in download speed but a maximum of 40 upload (which is a problem if you’re trying to stream)... and Brightspeed, the latest in a conga line of…

You live in California and have ridiculously fast broadband by American standards. The FCC defines broadband as 25Mb/3Mb. Yes, that’s a THREE. The reason the FCC uses these numbers is because it allows them to say 99% of Americans have broadband.

Streaming might be an option in a country with modern infrastructure like Estonia, but not in third world countries like most of the USA.

Lol everybody said the console market was dying at the beginning of last gen as well and Sony cranked out nearly 120 million PS4's. The PS5 is already on pace to surpass that. Nintendo sells Switches hand over fist. Only the Xbox is really seeing struggles in the hardware market, and you have to think that’s largely…

I think at this point given how things have been going with games published by Microsoft that the issue isn’t the developers making the games, it’s Microsoft. It seems like every one of their developers made better games when they weren’t under control of Microsoft.

At $50-100 a pop, 125 applications seems like a huge waste when you know you’re going to get at least a few scholarships to major institutions.