A lot more people than we like to admit have gambling addictions, and they will keep opening their gacha games for 10 minutes at a time to get a hit of dopamine even if they realize it’s a manipulative business model that is designed to keep them addicted.

people havent learned to avoid the scam tactics of free to play games? How come? I thought we all went through that phase and came out stronger on the other side. But youre saying 50-75% of people are still caught up in them?

I have good news for you! Nothing better than a controller while sitting on the couch at 3am with a baby that won’t sleep unless it’s lying on top of you.

I get you, but I don’t think the bean counters would have been happy HFW not shipping for PS4, that user base being as massive as it is.

Compared to HoloLens 2 basic model for the same price (it goes up from there), it’s a far better deal and capability

It’s a price for early adopters, but there enough of those (along with enough good will for Apple products) that I suspect this will be successful. There’s no doubt they could build a similar product at a more affordable price point in the future; just look at the iPhone.

$3500.

shit, ill add that!

I’ve explained to you before Nazi/Confederate, I’m not interested in a debate with a loser ideology that does not want to die. I can guarantee that you have a “stars and bars” somewhere in your mom’s trailer park and I can guarantee that I can flag and dismiss you faster than you can peck out your tortured thoughts on…

Your hatred and wilful ignorance are only surpassed by your raw stupidity. You know about The Republican Southern Strategy. You know that LBJ’s support of civil rights alienated the dixiecrats and cynical Republican racists welcomed their votes in to their minority party for the rich and the stupid. You know that evil…

“Withhold of adjudication”, so he can still vote? That sounds about white, err... right.

I’m right there with most of Nintendo’s argument if it were, say, against Yuzu. But Dolphin primarily allows users to play games that Nintendo is no longer making available for sale. Whose creativity are we protecting, exactly, when these artists are no longer able to be paid for these works in any meaningful sense?

There’s ANOTHER twitter controversy over the fact that the New York in Spiderman 2 appears to be the New York from Spiderman 1 (shocker!) And people be getting all mad about “Same map, Lazy Devs” discourse all over again, by posting photos of the same location in both games and getting mad because they...look like the…

My expectation with this game is that much like botw the difficulty will simply plateau about half way in and all the material grinding and money saving is effectively busy work to pad it out.

Does it matter if you “break the economy” of a single player game? Using the term economy usually implies some sort of player driven market in MMOs.

They definitely should. A first-party device too, instead of those silly Steam Machines. SteamOS is a world-class console UI. And the Index and Steam Deck have cemented their status as a hardware developer. They are absolutely poised to break into the console market and I think that prospect should make all of their…

I was just thinking after the update about how much I like it. It's modernized, responsive, looks nice and crisp, and it's easier to access almost everything from the overlay compared to how it used to be.

Valve has just done a tremendous job of maintaining their client over the years. It’s little wonder why people loathed to jump into other publisher’s launchers previously. Now they’re taking lessons learned from the steam deck and bringing it back to PC users.

The future of gaming is in the genes

still less weird than the N64 controllers.