way too many angry boys and way too few lesbians

The same applies to capitalist games, though, doesn’t it? Or similar. Instead of straight-up corruption on the same scale, you’d be forced to deal with companies and their owners refusing to behave, refusing to comply with the law, insisting on exporting all their goods outside the country instead of letting you buy…

Meanwhile in America

I’ve never heard a man be told to go back to the kitchen or make them a sandwich

Konami fumbling the PES series into an early grave has to be one of worst own goals in history. They would totally have been swimming in money by now. Probably would have got Silent Hills too, maybe?!

what a weirdly hostile reaction to what sounds like a healthy and respectful dialogue between two creative professionals who have worked together for multiple years

Valve also is one of the only launcher client that promotes mods, they do not freak out and send cease and desists every time a passionate fan steps up to pay homage to valve’s work, they routinely hire or financially back talented modders, they are quick to loan their IPs to other publishers, and they still maintain…

Ya’ll scared of the beyhive? Prince is #1 and it’s not close. 

It does make me wonder, even if she’s already rich, could it be effective to stop supporting work she’s associated with in order to reduce the negative effects.

Flu, schmoo. This is profiteering.

That chat was so toxic spamming “!steamdeck” and “/claim” like they would affect anything.

The new Hellraiser was... fine, I guess? There was a weightlessness and bloodlessness to it that was a weird choice. You want to feel Hellraiser... it needs to be visceral (in all senses of the word). This one was weirdly sanitized. I agree the updated mythos was a great choice, but wish they would have invested in…

If you run a site that allows user-generated content, such as say a Mastodon instance, and you have registered a designated agent to receive DMCA reports, you are immune to liability for any copyright infringement done by users.

I don’t care if Smash Bros. Melee is not “out of copyright.” If it’s not being commercially sold, it should be public domain, period.

(All things should be public domain honestly because copyright should not exist at all, but it especially should not exist for things that aren’t being sold.)

I dont give a shit about the law. We should know better than to let financially large parties abuse their wealth and power to silence information they dont want people to know.... this is basic social good type stuff.

I think our expectations for, and demands of, AAA games has also contributed.

Not as much of an exaggeration as one would think. Miyamoto in particular, when screening prospective hires, tends to like people who have hobbies and experience outside of gaming culture. “Fans” would be too busy iterating on and improving existing things instead of creating something new and innovative, would be the…

Some of that is a result of the AAA devs ignoring Valve’s documentation on what NOT to do for things to work in Proton.....

I.E. Making launchers in .NET Framework 4.x instead of .NET 6.x or Qt (both of which are cross-platform).... or simply NOT making launchers at all.

Several EA games are marked as unsupported or…

It is very, deeply, incredibly weird.

Oh good, he managed to be casually antisemitic while decrying antisemitism.