How does a used-game store hurt developers? I could see if they prioritized selling used copies over new copies, but most don’t do that at all (and the ones that do usually get caught up in a terrific backlash that leads them to change their policies). The developer already got their money for that particular product…

When I saw an anime named “Record of ___ War” I got excited. But then I realized that while it was still developed by the same guy, it’s not directly related to Lodoss, and so I got sad. :(

Unlike most western viewers of anime I actually grew up.

Err, no. Snow Crash was very much VR Chat. Avatars were bizarre (they only had height limitations), the landscape was whatever owners wanted it to be.. Hell, it was more limited because you had to walk/drive/ride the train everywhere.

I visited the IBM campus when it first opened and they were using it for virtual meetings with their worldwide teams. I got a tour. It was interesting. I visited many a university campus there when they were new and staffed. I even made real money working media jobs in SL. It was an interesting platform, but easily…

VR Chat is less Gibson’s Matrix and more Stephenson’s Metaverse.

Except those hardcore players are right.

I really want there to be old Battlefront II star battles where you could fly your ship to the enemy capital ship and (after disabling its shields and stuff) board it and fight your way through it to destroy it from within.

That ‘someone up top’ is the fucking shareholders. Seriously, being publicly traded is the worst thing for *any* business that has to take creative/innovative risks and not just iterative ones. Look at cell phones: Where is the innovation since the launch of the iPhone and the birth of the true smartphone? There is…

Darkest Dungeon gives me anxiety just by existing. I can’t handle the thought of sending my party members away because they’re broken too far to be fixable. It’s like.. holy shit that’s a metaphor for the real world; use you up, break you, then shrug you off to the side when you’re not useful anymore and would cost…

Wait wait, which version of Alpha 3 is it? This is crucially important, because I loved the PS1 version and pretty much hated all the others.

I am so ultimately disappointed in Overwatch. It’s a great game, don’t get me wrong, but they put so much time into building a world that just exists as posters hung in the background. Also, do they ever explain the fiction behind why Overwatch agents are fighting each other and with their enemies? Even FFXIV, when it…

Wiim,

We want to fight light pollution and save energy.

The security and lighting industry wants us to buy more and brighter lights to protect us at night because people don’t commit crimes in bright light apparently.

lol, my ex is named Joi, so I was all ‘huh?’

So why isn’t making AAA games at a smaller budget, à la From Software and Atlus, an option in your scenario?

Third option: Stop spending so much money making AAA games. You’d think the tremendous success of so many SINGLE PLAYER/NO MICROTRANSACTION/BS DLC indie games would showcase the fact that it’s the PUBLISHERS making these things into problems, not consumers.

Also, we already pay $100 or more for new games. We just don’t…

GIGAAAAAA!!!!
DRIIILLLL!!!!
BUSTER!!!!

TIME STONE?!?

“She believes cryptocurrency is the next big fundraising tool.”