I don't know who needs to hear this but "funny" negative Steam reviews hurt developers. "I haven't seen my wife and kids in 6 days after starting to play this game" - Negative review It's not good y'all.

Really wild situation here: a celebrated and well-regarded indie dev and publisher is facing shutdown because Valve banned their game from Steam and won't talk to them about it, at all. www.ign.com/articles/uns...

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

Whenever I say this, people get Really Mad, but it's true. Same of any other art, too. You have to read the book, watch the film, see the painting, listen to the song, whatever. I'm sorry, but watching a video about it on YouTube is not enough. You have not experience the art.

Helldivers 2 (2024)

Uni says hi

Last night I finally rebuilt the egg guardian in Age of Calamity and am now 89% of the way to 100%ing the game which is really cool! I don't often do that in videogames.

Just block people instead of stewing in resentment tolerating them until you have a humiliating meltdown publicly

Imprisonment plays better (combat is improved + 60fps) but the story and content in Calamity is so much better it's not even funny. To the point I think Imprisonment should have just been a sequel to Calamity rather than a prequel to TOTK.

I remember people would call the Twitter acquisition for $40B stupid and then guys would go "well he bought an election 😏😏😏" But it's clear it didn't really play a role at all. Twitter doesn't affect anything. Kamala was just a charisma void.

Elon Musk strikes me as the kind of guy to rank Rogue One as the best Star War.

elon fucking killed a major piece of not only driving game discussion, but also sheer inherent word-of-mouth advertising. it has no doubt kneecapped many small- and mid-sized titles and i can't even tell what big games are popping off right now unless they have a Little Guy people wanna doodle

If you go to this specific part of the Depths in Tears of the Kingdom you'll hear the Hyrule Castle Chasm theme instead of the Depths theme. Likely because you're technically not too far away from it.

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

answer is great but also it's telling that the guy who's been saying this since day 1 has to answer about whether he's an antisemite for 5 min every interview while the same people grin vacantly at the jewish space lasers lady and call her a brave warrior

this is a nice sentiment but i think yoko taro lost his rights to be cute about this when the nier gacha hid its deepest lore behind optional whale challenges

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick. Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

Thinking about Andrew Cuomo’s big gambit that only he could stand up to Trump, fuckin LOL that he wound up getting Trump’s endorsement (aka the Kiss of Death) and then Mamdani kinda dogwalked the President yesterday, way to go centrist libs!

One of my best friends from high school recently shared he's having a kid soon, and he talked about how he was gonna try get them to play literally any game besides Roblox. He will not allow Roblox in their house.

A lot of my favorite shows of the time loved to lay it on thick. It made them resonate a lot more growing up. Static did it semi-regularly.

A huge emotional beat in Monster Hunter Rise Sunbreak's final update is understandable only if you followed the Monster Hunter social media pages.

I really thought to myself "how bad could it be"

He’s surrounded by such wormy little losers at the White House that I think he was like wow a cool guy

Hey. Kindly reminder. Content creators are not your friends just because you like their work. You do not know who we are. This goes double for anyone under 18; be very careful about interacting with adults. If any adult makes you feel uncomfortable, DO NOT ENGAGE THEM. RUN.

The opposite of the Moms for Liberty wave should get more attention

Insane how I get more clicks from Discord than Twitter, what a worthless site.

Baby Uni “Free me!”

If you're trying to convince your friends to spend time on Bluesky rather than X, maybe show them this. X is not "the public town square" or about "free speech." It's "just what Elon Musk wants you to see." If you see stuff he doesn't like he'll step in to make sure you don't see it for long.

Reminder that Lina Khan was right about every single thing that Microsoft would end up doing after buying Activision.

Because it's completely meaningless to the thousands of innocent people they're bombing, rainbow or not the result is the same. But everyone living outside of the USA is not a real human so I get why you don't see it.

Thing is if the publisher/developer of "Bandit Trap" can afford a cartridge then I don't believe the cartridge transfer speed is the only excuse for big publishers.

i think it's important to note that bill maher doesn't like mamdani because he's muslim. that's the whole reason

This does massively help but the file size increases by 40gb. Seems like they were using console-specific decompression tech on PS5/Xbox but here DirectStorage simply wasn't up to the task. Shame. Either way it shows there is a ton Capcom could do to fix Wilds. Imo the RE engine isn't at fault.

The online narrative around Iwata is still one of the craziest history rewritings that I’ve witnessed

Uni looks normal whenever his eyes are closed. But when they're open it's like his nose becomes invisible.

Lowkey I think MHWilds PC should have been delayed just like World was. Could have avoided such a disaster.

A one year old!!

Another VGAs, another year Microsoft has no goty nominee

Stuff like this is so funny like they know ai is a pr nightmare but they want so badly to be able to use it and ruin everything to save money

This game has led to the funniest posting ever honestly I can’t even be mad.

Been thinking about this a bit and something that occurred to me is that on some level the developers are aware of this because every main story mission in MHWorld and Wilds does not tell you who you'll be fighting until the story cutscene. So by design you cannot prepare for them at all. Strange.

Expedition 33 slander makes me roll my eyes a bit but I saw someone call it the "Great White Hope of JRPGs" and I fucking lost it

we can all agree that trump had epstein whacked in federal custody now right. that's not a nutty thing to say now right

there's no use case and it makes games both look and feel worse. dumpster. bsky.app/profile/nesb...

ghibli needs to sue basically everyone under the sun

The streets are saying Metroid Prime 4 has quipping NPC comparisons. Doesn't seem like the right game for it??

"Samus, there's something interesting over there. Are you sure we don't need to use that?" I feel my soul leave my body... Metroid Prime 4: Beyond delivers the series' trademark gameplay - but one very annoying addition might derail the whole thing: www.eurogamer.net/metroid-prim...

SLOP! SLOOOOP!!!

petro is so beast