This is a problem facing all sorts of art and media as licensing deals and IP law seem to get more intrusive, but gaming feels like it’s the most affected by a mile. Audio and video formats are so much simpler to archive and convert and accurately preserve. I’m always incredibly grateful to the people who care enough…

Not to mention that we would now have to travel further back in time to see Back to the Future as a new release than Marty had to travel to seduce his mom.

The most troubling thing about this is what all these lengths of time used to feel like. 2000 is a pretty clear year in my memory, and it’s easy to remember how old things from 1985 already seemed to me - Back to the Future, Super Mario Bros, Wrestlemania. My brain won’t stop rejecting ideas like “Resident Evil 4 is…

This asshole: I’m just so used to being bullied and picked on by this community. :’(

“I’ll be immediately launching a thorough investigation of my conduct headed up by my best friend from middle school, which I expect will conclude at the exact moment that people lose interest.”

I mean, viewers leave. It’s not just the same people watching the whole time. Most of them are drifting in and out. And a lot of them have a stream on as background noise while they cook or paint or clean or build model kits or sort their coin collections or whatever else. That’s part of the appeal, watching a stream…

Unrelated, other than showing off what a piece of shit Sharon Osbourne is, here’s a clip of her gleefully telling a super fucked up story about firing a member of her staff who was unhappy about being sent into a house fire (that she and her husband caused) in order to rescue her possessions.

Arcade sticks are usually recognized as controllers, so it’s not like specific support needs to be added. Edit: that said, if there are things like visual button/joystick prompts (like the little pictures of a stick being wiggled or a button being mashed to tell players to mash their way out of certain moves or stun…

I think that for that to ever be effective, catastrophic data losses would have to be way more common then they are. As it is, there aren’t nearly enough stories about it to make an impression on people.

I agree with all this, keeping a game relevant and exposing new audiences to it certainly helps game preservation. But as a big fan/believer of both things, I also wouldn’t say that game preservation is “the whole point” of speedrunning.

For what it’s worth, I just read it over there and scrolled through the whole comment section. I could find exactly one comment saying that it wasn’t a big deal and nobody should care, which had zero +1s, and was torn apart by several very popular replies.

If you want to reply to a comment (which I think you did), you click the little “Reply” under the comment. If you click the bigger blue “reply” button between the article and the top comment, it posts as a general comment, like yours did, that’s targeted at the article’s author and not connected to the thing you're…

It’s a pleasant surprise to see Hungry Goriya written about here, who’s one of the most pleasant and chill people I’ve come across on Twitch. Really excellent mix of relaxing and engaging. Highly recommended.

I saw the link text and was like “Okay, don’t get too excited, it’s probably not [click] OOOOOH, IT IS”

Who’s my new best friend who snuck in a link to that Sophie video? Fess up.

Okay, first of all, that one song is awesome. Secondly...I forget, but I feel like I’ve made my point.

I was thinking about a Motörhead version and just imagining it made my thumbs hurt.

Take heart, champion. They’re probably going to find a way to mess this remaster up anyway.

I think the funny part is that it’s very easy to imagine WB (which obviously cares more about appearances than not working with assholes) basically letting him get away with it. Just giving him a slap on the wrist and doing some public tut-tutting about not being aware of his Youtube channel, “we believe in…