Always happy to see another story about a new generation of gamers ascending to the idea that everything they considered “good” about a game was actually everything BUT gameplay. Coming up with classic JRPGs, and wishing they were more action-oriented, it was Ocarina of Time that did it for me; realized just how much…

Big difference in “I am making contextually-appropriate links/citations/etc in my content” and “I consist solely of links to other people’s intellectual property, yet I extract more value out of people trying to find that content than the people who actually make that content.”

Google is the bad guy here based on a very simple equation: they get money for their search results, even if the search is specifically for a news article from a news outlet, and they don’t pay any of that money to the outlet, the author, or anyone else.

Was hoping someone was going to post the early research of Dr. Rick Starkey!

Didn’t you know? Dickless, over here, is the only true Scotsman.

Yeah, going to have to disagree with you. I still have the old Game Informer issue reviewing it. Here’s an excerpt:

lol, right? It was advertised as the culmination of what Final Fantasy had always been leading up to.

I always pretend that they get paid to do it. It makes so much more sense than them being so inconceivably stupid that they can’t understand the complaint, or that they are so pathetically invested that they will waste your time with technicalities about the complaint rather than engage with you head on about the…

Not gonna lie, a weird little toy that could speak with the synthesized voice of, say, Seth Rogan or Charlie Day would be a delightful method to get ChatGPT information from. Especially if it did little “emotes” to emphasize its answers.

We’re done here.

lol. Alright, I gotcha. You don’t understand the market the SteamDeck is in (also don’t have the real sales numbers, apparently).

local man can’t understand latin, lashes out against anything that reminds him how he estranged his own family. more as it develops.

It’s weird how desperate you seem to be to believe that the SteamDeck can’t compete with playstation or xbox, given that Steam has more users than all consoles, combined. The SteamDeck’s issue is notoriety, not performance, value, or form-factor. Every single person I’ve ever talked to about it was excited for it,…

I remember when I found out it would be expiring so soon (5 years ago), I wrote up an outline treatment and satisfied myself with the story beats. It really is just star-crossed lovers, so it’s easy to graft on whatever else you want to explore (a bit like jazz sessions of the great american song book). But, a little…

I swear to god, trying to get people to understand this, in the gaming industry, is impossible. They just can’t fathom that the vast majority of people not only don’t want to play console games, but that they NEVER want to play a console game. I’ve made tens of thousands of dollars on games that “are too simple” or…

Can’t wait until these dumb motherfuckers get the reddit they deserve, with power hungry dipshits running the whole mess right into the ground. “fuck the mods” indeed. Fucking children.

Before Theil/Hogan and Private Equity. I agree, it was nice before billionaires ruined everything. Still not terrible, but a far cry from yesteryear.

lol! cope harder you fucking npc.

If it helps you come to terms with it, you’re continuing ner conflation of the axes of gameplay with the axes of the rendering engine. Link can “jump” into a faked third dimension in the game, but he’s being directly manipulated in a 2D space.

This is a pretty common misconception, but Sonic’s gameplay isn’t “platforming”, it’s “momentum” (and, specifically NOT “speed”). Moving Sonic adeptly is about using the same forces as moving - say - a Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater character proficiently. It’s about recognizing the forces that gain you speed and spill your…