Logically, you’d be near oh, IDK, Blizzard, or Riot, perhaps?

Because it’s not a good argument. What part of being a socialist requires living like an aesthetic monk? What kind of living standards do you think Piker is advocating for others?

He does donate to socialist politicians.

Where did you get the idea that Twitch streamers have to live near game developers in order to make sense? They don’t go to work in game studios, they work from home.

The limitations are largely what define pixel art. It’s having to create art within a specific set of rules that makes it interesting. Which isn’t to say high detail, high fidelity pixel art doesn’t look good, but it’s also very costly so few developers bother with it.

It’s a valid aesthetic. It might just be a game that’s not for you if you can’t play it because of it.

I have a sneaking suspicion that Kinja isn’t being maintained very well and the comment sections are slowly breaking altogether. They still haven’t turned Deadspin’s back on though so maybe the new owners don’t think they’re important. It’s not as if it’s a major reason people come to these sites or anything.

Kinja has been horrible about being able to reply to people stuck in the greys. Pending posts often don’t show in the list and for whatever reason you can’t reply to someone directly from your messages, you have to go through the entire list looking for the reply. Which again, often doesn’t exist in the pending list.

There’s lots of great action rogue-likes out there. Hades is a great example of one but it didn’t invent a genre out of it. The action is pretty comparable to Supergiant’s own Bastion, too, while Neon White is an FPS. The shared Rogue-like aspects weren’t something Hades invented.

Likely mandated on high to drive up clicks. The adults in the room like those kinds of metrics and apparently know best.

but its kind of ironic that the internet still gives it so much attention thus feeding into its popularity

There are some obvious parallels thematically between the two even if they’re a different kind of game.

I get the idea to a degree, that the game was better when it wasn’t datamined to death and you could more easily surprise players. But their Q&A was often shit, with some of the hardest classic encounters being fixed mid-encounter because their own in-house raid team wasn’t quite up to the task of testing it well…

To be fair, sometimes they drop the ball right while we’re all watching, too.

True - she probably planned the entire thing for years.

She’s always struck me as a snake oil salesman, personally. Her playing coy with her own vaccination record speaks to that. I don’t know that I’ve seen anything to suggest she’s sincere about anything she supposedly believes.

Who knew firing a tenth of your workforce regularly just on principle was an unsustainable mess of a policy and totally awful for morale?

Can’t speak for everyone, but it’s still nice to know that a comic carried the Vertigo label. Content-wise they were often different and a lot of them were really great stand alone comics. Just hearing something came out of DC Comics doesn’t tell you that.

who is playing all of those games at one time in a manner that re-downloading or moving them over to the PS5 console (in the case of PS5 games which indeed require using an SSD) isn’t viable?

You can’t really compare a partial disassembly of the PS5 to install your M.2 drive to the PS3 and PS4.