Bioshock would have been a more interesting game if they’d done what Levine wanted to and made doing the morally right thing harder (where you’d be forgoing Adam by saving the little girls rather than harvest them), rather than roughly equivalent. Apparently the publisher didn’t think that players would try to save…

NFTs do not use the same energy-intensive method of minting.

I like how your defense of crypto is a complete assumption on your part that video games are worse.

A lot of that world building was the cartoons that spun off from them more than just the prequels themselves. Stuff like Clone Troopers are a plot device in the movies, they’re actual characters in the cartoons.

I feel a bit strange being blamed over Blue’s Clues sentimentality, as someone born firmly in the millennial generation. I was eighteen when Steve left the show in 2002. If you were six when he left, you’d have been borne the year the show started, in 1996, which is about where millennials end and zoomers begin.

Can only imagine how lucrative the work to payoff ratio must be for online to basically not bother with any single player content at all anymore while also dragging the same game across three generations of consoles.

He’s got a certain kind of earnest and wholesomeness I really appreciate. A lot of the context of his humor though relies a sort of shared memory that if you have to explain to someone it probably isn’t going to be funny.

Clinton wouldn’t have won those voters over even if Sanders had never run. The diehard Clinton supporters never seem to recognize that voters aren’t cows, traded over to the eventual primary winner regardless of how they feel about things.

If Bob Ross was alive today people would try and cancel him because afros are cultural appropriation. Just sayin’

The Valve/Steam relationship has often come across as weird. Like it’s a collection of game developers who happen to control the largest PC storefront in the world. You get the impression that they don’t particularly want to work on Steam a lot of the time, and when they do it’s largely to automate or offload the work…

“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.

Yeah, no shortage of micro-USB cables but USB-C is generally one per device that can use it, for me anyway. Tried stockpiling them when I returned a phone but got to keep the cable only for the cable it came with to break and get stuck using the new one anyway.

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?