This says I should play Dark Souls Remastered, which doesn’t take into account how bad I am at video games.

I wasn’t, but it was a paycheck-to-paycheck thing and we’re fine now. Thanks for your concern though, everyone. I didn’t have to sell a whole console or anything, just some of my favorite Wii games.

I literally just saw this happen at a GameStop while I was selling my favorite stuff so we could eat. But it was the mom and the kid who didn’t realize the mode was free and not in the store.

This “they’re a business argument could be used to justify any terrible bullshit as long as it’s profitable. Wanting to play GOOD games that aren’t plagued by gacha bullshit is not even an anti-business argument (and I should know anti-business arguments, look at my screen name and comment history). Yes, there is…

I find the whole difficulty curve that starts with “incredibly dangerous” to be annoying. In the early game, doing anything usually results in a firefight, no matter how much you actually want to be in one. It feels like the mechanics are actually at odds with exploring and enjoying the scenery.

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That’s why the entire industry needs a mass union movement, so that capitalists can’t divide and conquer.

VSauce did the trolley problem live in a video only available to YouTube Red subscribers. Basically, the outcome was about 15% of people (a sample size of only about 8 people) switched the tracks to “kill” the one person, while most were unable to perform under the pressure. The experiment was very carefully…

Saying that Twitch streaming should somehow conform to the standards of an office building is absurd, to say nothing of the fact that dress code in offices often are blatantly sexist.

Then the police would have to admit they’re out here murdering all the time and cannot be trusted with their trigger happy tactics.

This is an arbitrary measure of what makes games fun. For speedrunners, the fun comes from exploring a game’s construction outside the bounds of its “intended” gameplay value. Someone could just as easily say “I don’t understand what makes platformers fun, I’d rather run and jump myself.” Any time you’re making a…

I’ll take “Things You Should Never Ask On the Internet” for $500.

Let me tell you that I’ve complimented many cool shirts and had my own shirts complimented genuinely. Not once did the person I talked to find it creepy because I just genuinely thought it was a cool shirt and I presented it that way. Maybe, just maybe, Chloe’s experience went into very different territory from a…

Why do you immediately doubt the veracity of Chloe’s aside? She provided almost no detail and yet your first response is maybe he was just being friendly. Maybe Chloe is an adult woman who can judge for herself what is boundary crossing for her?

I totally agree that climate change is a pressing issue and the one that needs ameliorated first, but concerns about art and who owns it go to the heart of consumer capitalism. I critique capitalism because I think that its relentless drive for profit is the catalyst for both environmental disaster and underpaying…

Asking customers to act as archivers is just pushing the labor off onto the people who have the fewest resources. The community has been doing this work but it’s largely been illegal because corporations like Sony can only exist to monetize games, never to preserve them as art.

Have to give a shoutout to “Smash Street Fisters,” a great Japanese beat-em-up that suffered unfortunate localization issues.

At Nintendo, wage theft is “Mario time.”

I enjoyed the game immensely, but I would argue that some of the contortions of the plot were obvious.

The “assholes” are asking that the ARTISTS and LABORERS who originally created this game have their intent honored by preserving it faithfully. It is not possible or feasible to find this item “in the wild” and the TheRealPhoenix chose to distribute the game’s code in this way.

Why should the game as art be considered…