I said this elsewhere recently, but vaccine availability outside of North America and Western Europe is really just starting to ramp up now. We are spoiled and already talking about getting a third dose while the rest of the world is still trying to get their first...

Honestly, I’m not trying to get dragged into the debate here (which is entertaining), but it’s kinda nice to hear a perspective from someone who’s actually in China for a change. I’m in Canada and our politicians & media maybe don’t skew things as badly as they do in the US, but we definitely don’t get a clear picture…

Many of us in North America don’t realize how hard it still is for much of the rest of the world to get vaccinated. Pretty much anyone who wants the shot can get it here (don’t get me started on those idiots who don’t want it) and there’s even talk of third doses already. I understand why they want to do it, but I…

Random Kinja question: does anyone know how to get pending replies out of the greys? There used to be an option to show pending replies on a post, but it seems to have disappeared for me...

That’s good to hear. Though I’m not sure how much of my issues were the game vs. my own compulsive “gotta have all the best gear” nature. I guess we may find out...

Goddammit. I’m going to end up playing this stupid game again, aren’t I?

Is this an industry shift to winter releases from fall or is it just covid delaying a specific batch of games to this time of year?

That’s fair, I guess. Personally, I had a bad experience with a third-party N64 controller back in the day (it was crap, but it was cheap and I was broke) and have stayed away from that market ever since.

Oh man, if this were to ever get in front of a judge (highly unlikely; it will almost certainly settle) I don’t think things would go well for A/B. Judges do NOT take kindly to parties destroying evidence...

I have a Scuf PS4 controller that I’ve used a ton and is still going strong, so I guess YMMV. Interesting to hear that you liked the Astro C40, though. I was eyeing that one. Looked really cool and very solid. Hopefully Sony will eventually open it up for them to make a custom DualSense, because playing without those…

I think if you want a non-premium controller, you would just buy the official controller from MS or Sony, wouldn’t you? I don’t know that there would be much room for competitors in that market. There might be cheaper knock-offs, but in my experience those are always of obviously inferior quality and not worth it,…

This is so dumb. We all know he violated Twitch’s TOS on multiple occasions, so Twitch can kick him off if they want. They’re a company, not a government body. If they don’t want him on their platform, they can ban him. Twitch doesn’t owe him shit.

Oh yeah, talk nerdy to me...

Good lord this is horrifying. I thought “oh I’ll just watch a couple minutes of this video to get the idea” and then couldn’t turn it off. Insane. I’d heard that Roblox had a predatory business model, but I didn’t realize it was this bad. Brutal.

Dudes rock

I think money warps people’s views. Like I said, I think they see this as them doing the dev a favor by giving him this opportunity, so he should take all the risk. Whereas most of us look at it and say “this should be more of a partnership” and risk should be shared accordingly. It’s fucked up, but not uncommon at…

I didn’t say I thought it was reasonable, only that I can see their perspective. They see it as “by investing in the publishing/marketing of this game, we are giving the developer the opportunity to make an amount of money he never would if he did it alone. So it’s fair that we recoup our investment first and foremost…

Whoa. That is brutal.

This.

I think the fact that most people learned everything they know about lawyers from American TV shows is a big part of the problem, too. Real lawyers and the practice of law (in Canada at least) is nothing like a TV show. We actually have ethics, for example! Also, much more boring.