eating a hot dog, leftistly

King of the Hill-themed anti-ICE sticker seen in Astoria, Queens.

It’s July 3rd, your fireworks just make it seem like you can’t read a calendar.

Ways numbers get skewed: “Only 12% of PS5 game sales were physical this past year” Cool and there’s more people than ever before buying and playing games, so 12% is probably more than whole past console generations. 12% is significant. You don’t just kill that off.

We really need the physical media & ownership topic to be a real, ongoing discussion and movement and not just another passing social media reaction to a news headline kind of thing

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I think you deserve malware if ur still using twitter tbh

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Every day I'm alive, I crave a Banjo-Kazooie revival.

I think the big lesson from this is that we saw what is happening and just assumed the situation to be absolutely plausible without question. Essentially going “well that tracks.” Which is also a huge Xbox issue when it comes to the brand as a whole.

fuck Asha Sharma. Hope her AI-birther slips on a banana peel.

I'm gonna shoot John Microsoft in the fuckin face

lol

"digital games always become lost media" is not true. you may think it's true but i promise you if you archive (link) and then use passcode "frAQBc8Wsa1xVPfvJcrgRYwTiizs2trQ" you can in fact preserve a digital only game. not that i would encourage *redistributing* copyrighted content, of course...

video game company sony has announced they are discontinuing their popular product, the video game

I just like inserting games into drives. I like clicking a cartridge into place or using a little switch to turn on the machine. It makes it feel connected to me and part of a ritual. It's FUN. I like it because it's FUN.

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If the video game industry needs to completely collapse and be built back up by folks who actually care about what's being put out there... fine. While that's happening, there's 40+ years of backlog to go through.

I've seen the digital vs. physical numbers. I'm not ignorant to the reality of how people spend their gamebucks now. I'm just saying, steering into the skid doesn't work if it takes you over a ravine.

"If buying isn't owning, pirating isn't stealing."

can we call this a crash yet or are we still pretending it's not

if you do not think this is a concerted effort to drive out the middle and lower class from this artform then i do not know what to tell you. drives the whole thing upmarket in an effort to lock people deeper and deeper into a walled garden

We shouldn't have stopped throwing tomatoes at people that suck.

Sony at the PS6 launch: "Fortunately, we have a product for people who still want to play games on disc. It's called PS5."

ok

I saw this scrolling on my Instagram feed and was really hoping this was clickbait. This feels like the death of my childhood. The novelty of opening up a case, smelling the paper used in the guide book. Checking the disc for scratches. The art on the box and the disc. Kinda devastated.

In a world where buying digital=no refunds, more people should stop preordering until reviews are out

The absolute state of gaming in the big 2026

The enshittification of really my only hobby is so fucking sad to see man.

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This has such a huge impact on people in rural areas who have to deal with ISP monopolies with unusable speeds. The industry wants to act like the infrastructure is there for this to be the way forward, but big tech is just trying to leave poor people behind.

I think the thing that bugs me about all this is, deep down, that the white whale these companies are trying to slay is “ownership.” They hate that a disc means YOU OWN the media, and they’ve been trying to circumvent it for years. Now, they’re not even trying, they’re just declaring war.

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Glad we're shifting to digital games just as the price of memory has gotten completely out of control.

Sony will stop the production of physical games in 2028. New games for PlayStation consoles will only be sold digitally. blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/p...

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its completely underated how this is the most openly corrupt administrations in the entirety of human history

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I dunno man, I feel like if you're a platform holder that is being criticized for not having very many appealing games to support your platform, closing down studios making interesting games for your platform or cancelling their projects might be a move people won't respond well to.

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Trans rights are human rights and please don't forget that.

I keep seeing people thinking this is a bluesky problem. If you're seeing this it thinks you're in a state or country with age verification laws. This is what every social media site will do if KOSA and the KIDS Act succeeds. Running to another socmed won't fix it, we have to fight the source.

A US bill requiring paid games to be playable after they shut down has failed to pass a Senate vote. Stop Killing Games says it will "come back with an in-person lobbying presence [and] the funding to do this properly". www.videogameschronicle.com/news/us-bill...