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When you can make giant mecha, everything gets scaled to giant mecha proportions.

This would only be true if Reddit were asking for a fee within the realm of possibility. The $12,000 for 50 million API calls is over 70x what similar platforms charge. It’s like posting a 2013 Honda Accord on Autotrader for over 1 million dollars.

I have been waiting 10 years for a new Armored Core. I couldn’t be more excited to get my hands on this.

Can’t wait to use my thrusters to dash down memory lane with Armored Core.

This wasn’t about letting 3rd party devs “do whatever they want.” Christian Selig, the dev who created Apollo, admitted that paying for API was something that he knew would eventually have to happen. It was Reddit’s outrageous pricing and accelerated implementation of the charges that wouldn’t allow him to adjust…

If they want to charge for their API, that’s fine. If app developers can’t afford it, that’s just business, I guess. Pricing your product so high that nobody is going to buy it doesn’t sound like a way to generate revenue to me, but then I didn’t go to business school.

Well, they will continue to let 3rd parties access the API and do exactly what they had been doing - just for a much higher price. They are shooting themselves in the foot, just as Twitter has done, not realizing or caring how many of their users prefer using a third-party app.

“When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression”

This take makes no sense. Do you have any idea how much thought and practice has to go into speedrunning? You have to know the game inside an out. You have to spend a lot of time savoring something before you get good enough to be able to speedrun it. Do you think this guy just picked up a Rubik’s Cube and started…

I think speedrunners savor more than anyone, we see the speedrun but not all the times they went through the puzzle or game to be able to speedrun it.

This was my thought reading this well written piece too. I agree that we need more female protagonists in Star Wars games and in general. Having protagonists in fiction and games with different backgrounds and points of view is not just good for a healthy society, but it makes for much more interesting gaming.

Hang on now - are you saying your don’t find Generic Brooding Male Protagonist w/ Short Brown Hair #5721 extremely compelling?!?

Games:

That’s why we didn’t link to them!

The “men” throwing kicking and screaming tantrums over not having 100% of representation are the same ones who insist representation doesn’t matter.

I’d like to live in a world where we ignore misogynists. I can only imagine it is not the majority of gamers that are upset and just a small percentage of basement dwelling cave trolls. We need to stop giving them the attention they so desperately crave 

I know people will make jokes here, but that IS one advantage to having been bought by MS: they can put a lot more QA people on projects. One of the reasons Bethesda games are so buggy at launch is that they’re really a mid-sized developer wearing a large-size developer trench coat. For the size of worlds they were…

We’ve got to set a floor as well as a ceiling and if physical perfection is a 10 then 1 has got to be Elephant Man, The Hills Have Eyes level ugliness. On first sight there should be sincere questions about if a 1 is a human being, cryptid or supernatural entity.

That’s such a weird expectation. If he was super good-looking the smart play (unless he had a serious and compelling reason to keep his identity secret, like a job-related issue or somesuch) would be to play that up. I’m no marketing expert, but it seems like that would get more engagement than the mask gimmick.