Great points.   Just to be clear, I’m not hating on microsoft or their practices - heck, I’m pretty sure I’d do things this way if it were up to me.  It just makes sense.  Just trying to read the tea leaves.

Will these new allies still be here once this leaves the news cycle? Going back to the point that white people don’t think about racism, if egregious examples of blatant racism aren’t shoved in their faces, will they think the work is done?

That’s the one thing I can’t wrap my mind around: How did George Floyd’s murder become the catalyst? For black people, the answer’s simple? We’ve just had enough.

A friend of mine posted about this earlier on Facebook and felt pretty conflicted, so I gave him my opinion:

Thank you. And to anyone asking “what does this have to do with video games?": Fuck you indeed.

Incels: “but muh video games!!!!”

Before anyone screeches out that ALL LIVES MATTER, I’ll simply point out that it’s not about all lives. It’s about Black Lives that have yet to have any degree of equality to white people. When was the last time a white person, pulled over for a routine traffic stop felt that this was the night they might die? Until a…

What Im saying is PSO2 must be a huge game in comparison, clearly its had 8 years to expand and get better, Im just surprised by how much.

I definitely think one of the downsides of so much information sharing around games, is that push for more “optimal” or min-max commentary from people.

There’s so many younger players who just take it all for granted and speed through the game, But I love Shirley’s pure enjoyment of the game. Her innocence and wonder she brings to it. She takes her time and carefully explores the world. She’s very mindful what she grabs and what it’s worth.

Must have stolen a sweetroll to get a sentence like that.

Shitlords gonna shitlord. If you take away voice chat they’ll just tank the game when they feel like you’re “too shit” and you lose anyway. Played Rocket League at all? And I mean, you can get abused through text chat as well. You could say “oh well remove all chat” but even Apex doesn’t have a perfect non-verbal…

I knew something was up the second I saw the standard circus of reactionary youtube gamer chuds all targeting one single person with a laser focus. Like, that’s your immediate clue to know whatever “anger” going on is entirely performative and in bad faith.  

They found their target of the month—and a woman too, how…

My house is SO CLEAN probably because I spend so much time looking at it.

I’ve noticed this particular trend on the internet that people tend to act like they know everything about programming, computer game development, graphics, loading of assets etc when they have 0 knowledge of how a computer actually works or how memory management and these 3d graphics rendering works.

Not too surprising given the last section of the tech demo was walking out of the cave area into a large landscape full of similarly detailed assets falling apart with physics, as the character was moving through them at high speed.

Can’t be fucked to sign up for a Konami account, but will happily give over private data and support scummy-as-hell Tencent and EPIC game store. Full of paradoxes, aren’t ya?

... Do you want a trophy? Praise?

Low wage jobs in japan are also unstable and he would have lost it all the same during the pandemic. Also I suspect you haven’t done your research on how much you actually make from a low wage job there.

I get copies of the fronts of my checks as part of the statement from my local bank. The national bank does not send any copies of my checks.