And that is the fundamental problem with trying to unionize the gaming industry. Too many people are willing to do whatever it takes to be inside the industry, and both the studios and workers know it.

The fundamental problem is that the latter seems to inevitably morph into the former judging from every single Communist revolution so far in recorded human history.

We would be in a LOT more trouble if the people trying to overthrow the government were even marginally competent.

 I wonder how many of the viewers right now are dudebros actively watching to “support the boys.”

Gotta also think that by this point, people have gamed out the choices to death. In your very first playthrough, without a walkthrough in front of you, there’s no way of knowing that Wrex won’t be a threat if you spare him. There’s a lot of those “Hindsight is 20/20" sort of things in the Mass Effect series.

This was pretty much the same during the series’s original run, to be honest. Most people played the game the exact same way. Even the moral choices were more “emotional” vs “pragmatic,” and the average human is simply more driven by emotion than pragmatism.

Eh, there are good unions, and there are bad unions (I’ve had experiences with both). You don’t need a GOP narrative for that.

It’s worded that way because that the only real power consumers have.  If our mouths are saying one thing, it doesn’t matter how angrily we say it if our wallets are saying something else; because companies at the end of the day listen to the wallet.

Sounds like the headline should read “This One Brand of High End Graphics Card is Bricking while Playing Amazon’s New MMORPG.”

I’d be wary of attributing anything “good” to Bethesda.  It’s more like chaotic neutral in that they figure they can release any janky mess they want because they have an army of people willing to push out patch fixes for free.

Ya know that saying that an infinite number of monkeys on an infinite number of typewriters would recreate the works of Shakespeare?

I’d say people are aware of it quicker, and can relay that information more rapidly than they ever did before.

It sounds like the overwhelming majority of players use it at least partially handheld.  The dock-only contingent is somewhere around the 5-10% range.

The bank that they have where they could post losses for something like 40 years and still be in the black.

I would say that Sony’s offerings only failed in meeting the expectations they had.  The PSP and Vita sold more than respectably, despite Sony’s bizarre attempts at self-sabotage.  But Sony decided they were failures because they didn’t “win" the sales numbers, and so here we are.

Retro interest and backwards compatibility are routinely overrepresented online. Actual usage of those things by every console maker’s metric is DISMAL.

Their featured articles change hourly automatically, iirc.

Well, to a degree all handheld consoles are going to be uncomfortable; that’s a largely unavoidable trade-off for portability. If you’ve seen the sort of accessories third parties have made to make the Switch more comfortable to use, for example, some of them are so large and cumbersome that the Switch damn near stops…

Eh, if it gets massive support right out of the gate, I suspect Valve will keep producing it.

Another thing to consider about the cost; the Steam Deck requires you to buy the dock separately, which if you’re actually trying to emulate the Switch functionality, will cost you even more (how much more is the question).