True, but the F2P model was 99% of why “mobile game” became more or less synonymous with “cash-grab piece of crap you only play when there is literally nothing else available because you’re on the shitter or a bus and you don’t have a Switch.”

Thank you! And yes, that was me, on GameFAQs, waaaaaaaaaaay back in March of 2000.

That sounds...underwhelming.

All true, but everything has potentially unintended consequences.

No surprise nobody talks about it. Where are the games that would generate any media interest?

The city of Seattle already banned oil-based plastic straws, and truthfully, some of the replacement plant-based “bioplastics” are damn near indistinguishable from their petroleum counterparts.

My thoughts exactly. Although hey, credit to Apple for making mobile gaming less of a cesspit.

“And all you hear from BUSINESS MEN is that millennials don’t want to work, or have no loyalty.”

Backlog? The Iberia DLC for Euro Truck Simulator 2 comes out tomorrow. I’ll have to check in-game, but looking at Google Maps, it looks like that puts in play the potential of shattering my previous record for longest delivery (from Istanbul, Turkey to Aberdeen, Scotland after I got the Black Sea DLC in 2019) at 3,666…

It is amazing how utterly fucking brain dead some employers still are, though. Like they’ll hurt their own business just to have a chance to screw a worker over.

And eight turns from having one of the computer players complete the wonder first.

Part of the problem for restaurant (and retail, and any other low-end job in this economy) workers is that a lot of the folks who work those jobs do so because they’re trapped in a loop where they don’t have the time (or the risk tolerance) to make a play for a better job when, y’know, they have to go to work and work…

WYSIWYG. I’m a curious storyteller with a bit of a cranky side when someone pushes my buttons. As true on the internet as in real life.

Y’know what’s coming next?

“What’s your bra size?”

There are so many cooking games out there (and were, even in 2008) that all they had to do was follow the paint-by-numbers formula.

My student loan is a number on a computer screen that looks funny when I think about it for more than a minute and a half. I’m on income-based repayment, which given my status in life as an “office merc”—temp, contract, and freelance—means that actually repaying it in full is more a concept than a fully-realized idea.

“You may have seen advertisements for what we used to call “NINA” home loans.”

Came here looking for this. The Wehrmacht mainly got its ass handed to it by Mosin-Nagant rifles, some of them undoubtedly dating back all the way to the Great War, and the Russkies possibly even had a few Winchester 1895 conversions they got from the Americans back when they needed them to fight the Japanese long…