I play what I enjoy, different strokes for different folks and all that. I’d rather play 2 hours of mindless Deathmatch than play 2 matches of Competitive. Doubly so now since so few of my irl friends still play. (also, my schedule is crazy yes)

I think whats important is inclusively allowing all players to enjoy the…

Queuing in the Arcade at 4am (or any time after 2am really) usually takes 20 minutes on average.. Granted it won’t be a problem for most people, but why risk it in the first place. Half the time (some) people (me) don’t even realize there’s a hacker in the game in the first place. Not getting any rewards and being…

Bittergourd is literally my favourite vegetable though :( Its not even that strongly flavoured (in the types of dishes I enjoy anyways)

That aside, I like to actually eat the local dishes when I do the tourism.. if I just wanted to eat my normal fair, I’d have stayed home :S

On the one hand, Grady is clearly regretful for exaggerating the crack-down in hindsight.. on the other hand we have Japan launching a manhunt for the guy who ran Manga-Mura so....

That said, kinda fascinating to see so much of the behind the scenes here. Mostly because Grady seems so open about the whole thing (with…

You can’t argue that the term is opaque as all hell. It took me a solid decade of hearing the word before I figured out what it actually meant. (I think I just vaguelly equated it to labryinthian side-scrollers, looking back) All the while following a youtuber who was a sucker for Metroidvanias. It only clicking after…

I haven’t Overwatched in over a year, but it blows the mind that the meta and the conversation surrounding it is exactly the same even after all this time.. especially with all the new heroes, modes, and Blizzard’s purported focus on the esports scene.

I thought we had this conversation at the end of 2017 (but a quick…

While the cynic in me agrees that this is just him doubling down on the PR move and that there’s nothing altruistic about his motives. It doesn’t change the fact that the move itself will be beneficial to the industry either way (which is why its so effective as PR)

Perhaps if Epic was in such a dominant position (as…

Steam doesn’t have an absolute monopoly (for the reasons you noted), it has an ‘effective’ monopoly. It probably has something like 90-95% market share or more of the PC gaming market, ‘effectively’ becoming a monopoly just via sheer size.

In other words, 95%+ of games can’t survive unless they launch through Steam.…

As Steam is pretty much the monopoly in power, any competition is impetus for Steam to further improve their services to retain marketshare. Their reduction of the cut they take for Triple-A games was sadly only aimed at the bigger developers (and not consumers), but was a pretty direct, rebuttal to EGS’s much lower…

I found the end of this article.. weird. Are games only valid if they present a strong enough point (..especially if spoon-fed?)? Is sufficiently enjoyable? And is well put together?

If gun violence in games offends me, is it fair to only invalidate the ones that aren’t well polished and un-fun? Does the inclusion…

The same way you claim copyright to a piece of music. You record it and register it. Except here you call it a choreographic work, and the longer and more specific it is in its moves, the stronger its copyright is.

Copying choreography or music or art or ANYTHING that’s covered by copyright in a TV or Movie without getting the rights for it will probably get you sued actually.. As Epic are being sued now.

You could argue that these dances don’t count as choreography... but that’s precisely why they’re going to court over it.…

idk, it probably beats all the other asinine things that get bought to court. At least its breaking new ground and probably setting precedent for how creative works are treated in new media.

Or someone tone-deaf made her whiter and no-one thought that would be weird or insensitive or anything. With so little diversity in the country let alone the workplace, and serving a mono-cultured market with little exposure to Black culture let along current Western mores.. Well they’d have to go out of their way to i…

The main advantage of breaking a monopoly is that businesses are forced to *gasp* give a shit for their consumers. There’s a bunch of things Steam *could* do to improve their services.. except they’d need to spend money and time for no monetary benefit. So they do it.... slowly....eventually...

The fact that Steam has…

So they’ve got a nsfw filter so bad they got kicked off the iOS app store... and now they’ve decided to use said nsfw filter to clean shop? yeaa.. s’gonna be a niiice clean transition..... Right.

wow at the level of toxicity in the replies here.. 

Haha, you over-estimate my fellow countrymen. Most likely its because they’re both red and evil. ..Or just red.

It’s as rare as anyone saying “ajar” rather than open.

Rowling calling out Dumbledore as gay after the books was a bit weird, but I let it pass as that was how I’d read it as well at the time.

The fact that she’s affirmed that he won’t be ‘explicitly’ gay in the second Fantastic Beasts movie on the other hand (just like he wasn’t ‘explicitly’ gay in the first book, in…