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.

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?

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.

The video card has its own fans and cooling of course, and the CPU has a gigantic heatsink and fan combo applied to it. The SSD gets to sit underneath a hot component with just a heatsink. SSDs are designed to get hot, but the components don’t all equally do well under high heat.

It’s not going to make the proprietary drives Microsoft uses any cheaper either, though.