Why does that matter to you? Do you find yourself regularly duped into buying crap on Steam? Who actually suffers from this supposed issue?

I agree completely. And I find the absolute hypocrisy around Kotaku on this particular issue so glaring that it’s hard not to laugh. The take on Steam used to be that it was horrible for small-time devs because it was difficult to get over the hump to publication. That’s what led to Steam Greenlight, which had its own…

And Epic’s policy will very quickly prove not good enough for indie developers looking for a way in. We went through this whole rigmarole already with Steam. And the crazy thing is that Valve caught all sorts of shit around these parts when their barrier to entry was higher. This is why Valve ultimately adopted its…

I guess I just don’t give a shit about the EC, because everyone has always known what it takes to win a presidential election. Nobody has actually been surprised by these results. I also think that, if it were the Democrats who were hanging on by means of the EC, they wouldn’t have anything to say about getting rid of…

Well, and the big thing is that you can demonstrably sell these people bite-sized experiences on their phones. That’s great. But are you going to sell them on games that take dozens of hours to get through a narrative and clear? I’m not sure there’s a ton of room to grow the audience for “traditional” video games (as…

Yeah, I mean, I’m all for paying housekeeping staff more than $10/hr. But they aren’t making a suppressed wage like waitstaff at most restaurants. I don’t get why they deserve a tip. It would be far more productive to just agitate for a $15/hr minimum wage. I’m sick of people acting like being big tippers makes them…

Lots of jobs people do are hard and thankless. The fact is that people tip waitstaff because they (in most cases) make a suppressed hourly wage, which means they need tips in order to make up the difference. This is why I have no problem tipping at least 20% to waitstaff in the US. But I mean, if you’re not making a…

This is patently false, but keep on believing it. We all know you will anyway.

They want Medicare-for-all, a $25 minimum wage, Wall Street reform and free college tuition but they don’t support reparations because it would cost too much.

Running a brand new AAA game at perfectly acceptable speeds on my two year old Chromebook with a ps4 gamepad was kinda incredible.

Oh God, they’re actually rolling out a unique “console”? It would be one thing if it were just PC game streaming, but trying to entice developers into adopting yet another proprietary platform? Give me a break.

We’re doing this again? Why is this a bad idea? What can you possibly have against this?

Can you perhaps shut the fuck up? Nobody cares what you think. Moreover, my entire point is that we should focus on making policy appeals before we ever even consider getting rid of the electoral college. Personally, I think that ending the electoral college is a complete sideshow, and that most of the people who…

Okay, so assuming the pattern holds and we don’t have one party in the White House for more than a couple terms at a time, all the next opposition presidency has to do is push for X more justices to be added to the Supreme Court. They fill X vacancies with people who align with their party ideologically. The number X…

This is a fine idea, but we’re never going to make it happen unless we win with the electoral college in place. So perhaps the first thing to be talking about is how we do that.

So you just turn it into a 21-member court and pack it all over again. That’s what I mean by arms race.

It just seems like they’re choosing the word “pain” in order to maximize the supposed counterintuitive quality of the claim they’re making. I’d argue that it’s more along the lines of people liking to be challenged. After all, it does seem like a uniquely human trait to do shit just to demonstrate that we can, that X i…

I mean, some of them could definitely have afforded the millions. They just did this because whatever. I don’t really buy the argument that we’re seeing some kind of important class distinction at play here.

My best gaming experience of the past couple years goes to the Project 1999 EQ emulation server. I can’t speak for the game EQ is right now, because I haven’t been playing it with all the expansion content and bells & whistles. But my God, classic EQ is the shit. It’s such a breath of fresh air, in particular, to see…

I’m telling you why it’s a bona fide scandal. I can’t convince you to care, nor do I really want to. Like, people did actual illegal shit. That’s basically what it boils down to. Again, it’s not just “underqualified kids got accepted to universities.” There was genuine fraud involved.