The only real way to prevent this level of toxicity in game environments is to fight against it from the start. Once a culture becomes toxic... it’s really, really hard to pull it back.

Fair enough, and I didn’t mean to disparage the research as unnecessary because the end is nigh it’s just the tone of the reality of the situation and those statements about how it’ll be alright if we all just work together sounds comically optimistic.

Definitely. And I can’t fuckin believe they actually typed this out:

Also, if you look carefully into other fatal things, exposure to solid, liquid, or gaseous Dihydrogen Monoxide, is far more deadlier per year and per capita than Corona could ever dream of and it’s used in many industries and manufacturing as well.

The CDC presentation says that “[g]iven higher transmissibility and current vaccine coverage, universal masking is essential to reduce transmission of the Delta variant.” The CDC chose a less drastic message in their announcement the other day, recommending masks depending on your personal situation and the…

100% of people who respond to the question of their vaccination status with anything other than “Yes” or “No” have been vaccinated.

Nah, not in this case. Nintendo is extremely explicit when you enable MFA to save those codes. I also don’t think they email them to you, they just display them during the MFA registration process.

I think the wildest failure here is that you registered a personal device with a work email address.  MFA recovery is a pain in the ass, but as someone who had their phone just straight up refuse to turn on this year, I had no chance to move or backup any of it.  I had taken all this seriously since blizzard…

a white man whose continued luck at failing upward will soon come crashing down.

Right?  He didn’t even attempt to say “Gundam” the way a person who speaks English natively would say those vowel sounds.  Either someone told him it was a “gandum” or he fucked it up on purpose as some knee jerk reaction to let the viewers know he’s NO FUCKIN NERD.

Ugh. I get it’s tongue and cheek but this is the kinda reactionary bullshit liberals are rightly ridiculed for producing.

I don’t have any particularly interesting stories about other kids getting nice cars and my first car was a real piece of shit 1980 Pontiac 6000 which was born slightly before I was.

Wait, what?  Which one?

And they might do just that, all I can do is take them at their word. But there’s absolutely nothing about the delivery model of these games (or Apple arcade games) that would prevent those games from having additional revenue generating opportunities. The quote makes it sound like, “We’re already charging you for…

A 130 year old heritage oak tree in Austin, TX:

We don’t have to think about ads, we don’t have to think about in-game purchases, or other monetization

Same thing that’s in it for the streamer: something different. There are a lot of games I love, and I watch a lot of twitch, but I don’t generally watch casual playthroughs of games I love, it’s just not that interesting to me. I watch a lot of speedruns because it’s easy to cheer for someone to succeed against easily…

Yes, it is licensing, and of course they need publishers permission to continue selling the games on the Xbox store, what are you smoking? Do you really not know how backwards compatibility actually works?

There’s a real air of intentionally misunderstanding how any of this stuff works in those numbers. With emulation it’s never going to be as simple as just plugging a disc into a new machine and expecting it to work. MS has made an absolutely herculean effort to not only preserve but upgrade a significant portion of…

The controllers don’t appear to be detachable like the Joy-Cons, but maybe that means they won’t have any drift either.