ooof yea....that’s a bad image. Glad they’re taking it out. Reminds me of those horrible old WB cartoons.

they have the option via a phone app, which is an effective barrier to stop younger players from accessing public chat. Could the app itself be improved? yea for sure. But adding an extra needed device - one that all adults have, or can get for free, and many kids don’t have - is absolutely an effective barrier. Kids…

Switch has an app you can use on your phone. It is unwieldy and not as easily accessible as the other consoles and PC but i’m arguing that is purposeful because it creates a barrier not easily surmountable by young gamers.

but the question is...why? I’m not saying you’re wrong, or that Nintendo isn’t behind on online features, but you can also ask....why bother making a voice chat app when discord is still basically better than everything else? Why does every console have to have every feature? Why do we need everything to have…

Young people don’t have fully developed brains. They aren’t good at decision making and impulse control. Kids and teens will enter an online game and not mute the chat because it won’t even occur to them. They’ll hear all the fucked up shit people say and it will affect them. That’s what Nintendo is trying to avoid. I…

I think wanting the option speaks to a large cultural thing, in my mind, of how just adding options doesn’t actually mean it’s better. You can just use your phone for the Switch, either using the Switch app or using discord. Having that extra step prevents kids from having easy access to the unsupervised dark world of…

Honestly I think I prefer Nintendo’s version of online to PS and xbox for one simple reason - internet bigots. They’re all over the place, and on the Switch I literally never hear them say or write anything. I played Heroes of the Storm on PC for the first time in several months the other day and within 30 minutes I…

that is awesome - I hope they sue them into the ground. There will always be more video games, but morality and dignity are irreplaceable.

Yea it’s weird how sometimes it’s easy to totally ignore the comments and sometimes it feels completely impossible. I choose to see that as further proof of the complexity of human nature that conservatives refuse to acknowledge :)

I generally agree with what you said. My thoughts on this are it kinda comes down to phrasing...it’s not so much that alt-right groups are recruiting people, it’s that alt-right rhetoric is RAMPANT in virtually all online gaming. But then it’s not really alt-right rhetoric, it’s the same bigotry and ignorance that has…

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Reddit manbabies aren’t “the diablo community” there’s 192k subs on the diablo reddit. Diablo 3 sold 30 million copies. Reddit users are less than 1% of Diablo players. And the number of reddit users actually complaining isn’t even half the people in the sub. Stop acting like you own everything and get the fuck over…

you are everything wrong with the gaming community

It will forever boggle my mind that people will or will not get mad because of a commercial for a video game. It’s extraordinarily unlikely Blizzard will stop making Diablo games. Diablo games make them a lot of money, and Blizzard wants money. Whether they show the words “DIABLO” with a “4" or an “IV” next to it over…

Thanks for all the commentary about RDR2. I simultaneously know I’d love the game and have zero interest in playing it. I’m just so over the whole AAA thing. When I play a game I want to have fun or have good writing, or hopefully both. I care about the art style and how it looks but as long as the game plays well…

jesus christ the whiny manbabies responding to your comment....

that’s fair yea, I mean, it FEELS more an actual part of the game because it’s real content - quests, dungeons, etc. Whereas other big game content might just be collect 50 skeleton bones or find 100 secret coins. I’m about 90 hours into BOTW, I haven’t purposely really meandered, I just do whatever quests I come on,…

I’m kinda over long games....there’s just too many good games to play and these long AAA games with endless repetitive content are just a waste of time. It’s pretty consistent that shorter indie games are the best ones I’ve played and longer ones I get bored with because they just keep rehashing the same stuff in the…

tower defense yo....tower defense

The obvious question here is - will there now be a remastered DOTA? And will amazing weird quirky custom maps be making a comeback?