The real answer here is that Niantic doesn’t care about what the players want, and need them out in the real world to help build their location data up for whatever their big project is. That became obvious when Niantic tried to incentivize players to do real-life 3D Scans of Pokestops/Gyms a few years ago. They can’t…

I’m sort of curious about the mentality where you know a payload is contested, and you just stand around instead of going and finding the enemy. TF2 had a class the could become PERMENANTLY INVISIBLE and people still managed to resolve this problem.

They waited 2 seasons before nerfing Surfer, which is arguably more oppressive than Zabu. As someone who works in the _insanely_ data and metric driven world of Games As A Service I can vouch for the reasoning for the delay on nerfing Zabu. Lots of games these days wait for clear data before they make big adjustments.

I dunno, this seems more like Minesweeper to me?

saves me a 50 minute watch..thanks

Wata is inflating prices by several thousands of dollars and are driving up bids for these inflated prices by placing fake bids.

There doesn’t have to be a good guy for someone to be the bad guy.

All those links and not one of them goes directly to a page to buy one.

People largely ignore the facts in any legal move Nintendo makes. Remove the game and let’s do a litmus test....without Smash, would SWT go on (let’s say they played Brawlhalla)? No? Oh, so it means they do need the Nintendo IP and associated visibility? So they are trying to profit from Nintendo’s IP without…

actually that’s pretty debatable. it really comes down to the license agreement in place on the software at purchase and whether those licenses are even valid at this point.

The SWT organizer’s highly unprofessional statements aren’t doing them any favors either. You don’t go out accusing a third party evidence-free of sabotaging your chances if you’re trying to cultivate an image of innocence.

At least this tournament wasn’t shut down due to a massive sex abuse scandal. 

They didn’t ban him for shits and giggles, they got receipts and then some.

The way you injected yourself into a thread that you could have just not clicked on to diminish what this woman is going through is just... *chef’s kiss*

It’s the consistency of application of rules that’s the real issue. YouTube lets tens of thousands of F bombs slide every day, but then randomly decides these ones are beyond the pale. If YouTube consistently age restricted F bombs we wouldn’t be having a discussion at all.

And yet, a few minutes ago I just watched the official gameplay trailer for the Dead Space remake on Youtube without any kind of age / content warning, which holds nothing back in terms of violence, gore, and dismemberment, and quickly reminded me that, holy shit, that game had some messed up shit in it. But that’s…

Maybe they should ask the folks who manage to trick the algorithm into putting their stuff on Youtube Kids where I’ve seen some pretty horrific shit.

The video player on Youtube is insanely better than the Twitch one, and the split is 70/30 for creator, but the issue is that Youtube is not there yet as a streaming platform. Discoverability sucks and chat functionalities are not on par yet (but getting there). Probably some other things too. But yeah, give it like a…

Okay, but the difference is nobody at those stores was expected to be keeping an eye on you and the place your parents actually left you at was an arcade, a place that’s explicitly designed for people to hang out at for more than the duration of a shopping trip.

I’m old enough to remember my parents giving me $5 and a Coke, and leaving me at Aladdin’s Castle while they did their thing at Dillard’s, or whatever. If I ran out of tokens I’d hit KB Toys. Last ditch was the record store or Sears, in case they had a video game demo station set up. They knew where to find me. Of…