Can’t have Joe Schmo mildly turned off by creative flourishes like interesting HUD art. Some nice unframed numbers and bars will have to do.

Not a knock on you, Zack, but if a game came out today with that kind of busy style they would get destroyed in the reviews for looking outdated including here on kotaku, maybe even by you, after you posted this article.

A New York State executive order states that stores can refuse service to people who refuse to wear a mask, but Eisel says she doesn’t want to kick anybody out.

Precisely. And also: if your lungs are already so bad that wearing a mask is “intolerable” to you, stay the fuck home while a deadly respiratory virus is running rampant through the country.

Also, pretty much no one is “physically unable to tolerate a mask”. With very, very, VERY few exceptions, those people are just being whiny assholes.

She believes the store is large enough—16,000 square feet—to allow for a few exceptions, like customers who claim they’re physically unable to tolerate a mask or workers who need a small break during or six- or eight-hour shifts as long as they keep their distance from other people.

We’re a nation of five-year olds. We deserve Covid. 

You can’t bring that up. It’s entitlement. Because these companies are unable(or unwilling) to allocate budgets properly or have some real focus, that’s your fault and you need to make up the difference.

Why do you think publishers, and game journalists by extension, are always pushing for digital games and the death of Gamestop? They want the death of the physical game (AKA Used/rental/borrowed games) and anyone who claims, after the last few years of digital console storefronts, that we’re going to get Steam Sale…

Reading this gives me the same feeling of looking up old message boards I used to visit and finding them deserted, but the old topics and archives are still there. I guess Mixer isn’t going to have anything of the sort left, but it’s good that the people who used it are commemorating it in their own way.

Seems like a lot of people fundamentally don’t understand how much more money the gaming industry is making now vs even 10 years ago. The inflation argument is completely irrelevant now that digital purchases outsell physical copies by a mile PLUS the insane frequency of micro transactions in AAA titles. It’s just old…

As a result of all this, according to Vice, U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez now plans to file a measure that would entirely prevent the military from spending money to recruit through services like Twitch. Specifically, it would forbid the military from using funds to “maintain a presence on Twitch.com…

I absolutely do not get Disney adults (people with kids, sure, but I know grown-ass people, even retirement age, who just go to Disney all the damn time. wtf) and I don’t get people who *need* to be out in public places getting serviced, whether that be at a restaurant, or or a theme park.

Physical for life! I do buy digital games, but if physical is available, I’ll always buy it that way first. Same with movies, same with music. I hate seeing content disappear, and physical is the only way to capture it. I’m not even talking content being pulled down from a storefront during the console generation.

I absolutely go physical whenever possible.

Yes, and yes. Also, buying physical gives you more value for the money spent (assuming we’re talking base game, selling for the same price). A digital copy is a one-way purchase, the access to which is dependent entirely on numerous factors outside of the consumer’s control.

I swore by physical when PT was scrubbed from existence. You can’t update my disk out of existence.
I have the Scott Pilgrim game on my PS3 and I’m pretty sure it dies when the console does

I’m all for ad-supported content, but I will not put up with obtrusive ads. I have my ad-blocker set pretty light, so I still get ads, but on G/O sites some level of ad blocking is necessary.

I actually miss the days when the most annoying part of a website was an animated banner ad or popup (and to think we used to complain). Now it’s the notification about cookies, a popup asking you if they can send you notifications, asking you if the site can use your location, ads everywhere, an auto-playing video…

every time I attempt to turn off the blockers - I am reminded by the crippling slow pages with video and banners that cover half the page and scroll with you - it’s bonzai buddy levels of stupid these days and just not worth it - I find umatrix to be able to stop 99% of the stuff - and on pages that have the…