“You couldn’t make a real Saint’s Row game today” is a weird take.

I feel like sneakerheads have been at the forefront of a lot of this scalping stuff for a while now. If you can recall a triphop group from the 90s called Sneaker Pimps, they got the name from the Beastie Boys, who used it to refer to their shoe guy.

Honestly trying to think of a side scrolling beat ‘em up made better by the move to 3D and not coming up with any. Obviously as a genre it’s heavy into nostalgia playing off the classics, but whenever series went 3D it usually felt more like a cost cutting choice than an improvement on the gameplay.

Turns out capitalism is pretty unavoidable, especially in the media industry. Why shouldn’t he be able to live where he is? Socialism isn’t a vow of poverty or even a vow of “reasonable living conditions as defined by randos on the internet.”

Why are you so convinced you know his needs better than he does? You keep wanting to put him in a very particular box but who are you to tell him what he needs?

and if you must know, as someone who’s seen TYT and generally agree with TYT’s takes, I found this dudes’ choice of place to live in Los Angeles county antithetical to the views/philosophy the channel sells.

What about Socialism precludes you from living in LA?

Being a socialist doesn’t preclude living in a nice home, either.

Where should a rich socialist who makes his money streaming live?

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.