Meh. I’m conflicted. On the one hand I sympathise with the idea that we shouldn’t just trust big pharma, and them being handed a free run at rolling out a product with liability waived is a helluva thing. Especially in the light that we did find out they lied about a bunch of stuff involving vax.

On the other hand the…

So not exactly David vs. Goliath

IIRC correctly they kill a fair amount, and then there is like a particular episode where after that without any explanation they just start stunning everyone. 

Although thinking of the first game, I think I would actually enjoy a difficulty level like that. One solid hit kills anyone, but everything that hits you demolishes your health.

This is more or less it. Just that I get people’s wanting to make a stand on issues that are somewhat important to them. Just wish those people could also understand that not everyone will pick the same things to make a stand as they will. It would literally be impossible to live in a capitalist country if the…

Really wish they would release a patch Xbox Series and PS5 that just ups the resolution. Like thats all they need to do.

Thanks. That’s info I wasn’t aware of for Game Pass.

A mostly reasonable comment section on Kotaku full of more nuanced takes tahn hot ones. Never thought I would see the day (I haven’t bothered checking in on the greys).

Yeah but you can only really exploit that once per account, and while its not impossible to have multiple accounts it does get screwy if you also have live on a different account on the same xbox. The other thing is that if the trial thing was being exploited to some detremental level, I actually think we would see…

Solid take. Probably 4 is AAA games that are slowing down on their long tail. Probably in an attempt to remonetise them through DLC people might buy while playing the base on Game Pass.

Disney+ has nothing to do with Netflix though. All streamers have obviously had a post pandemic slump. But Netflix remains profitable into the billions.

How you going to tell someone else they are living in a cave while not knowing what you are talking about. A 12% annual decline after an 85% annual increase is actually not that bad. We’ll have to see how the whole of 2023 goes. But from a business sustainability perspective, they are doing fine. Even if their numbers…

I don’t know about stopped growing, that information also revealed they were at 29 million subs. Which is much bigger than the 20 million reported in October. The thing that seems to speak volumes about Game Pass is how many devs and pubs return to it over and over. I don’t think they would if it wasn’t working for…

Please link, because so far I think we’ve heard from only one dev who said it didn’t work for them, and it more seemed like they were screwed by their publisher (Square) in the deal. But I’ve heard many devs say Game Pass treated them well, and to that end I’ve seen many devs and publishers return to Game Pass with…

I appreciate the additional points you laid out. I’m a few days away from this discussion so forgive me just jumping to another point.

I think there are some places more difficult to decide what to do than others, for example the shelters you mentioned. But there are also a lot of spaces that could quite easily be…

I did no bad thing, so I don’t need anything from you. I definitely won’t look to someone who condones harassment to be any sort of arbtier on what is good or bad.

JKR wants trans people dead. Nonexistent. That’s not a “different view,” that’s genocidal intent.

the pitiful “no ethical capitalism” straw man.

Or that playing said game is actively supporting transphobia in any tangible individual way.

I just want to say that I have been applauding every reply you have made. And will literally donate some money to trans charity when I wake up tomorrow in furrther applause of this reply in particular.