lot of people on this site soaking themselves stupid making posts like "stop saying gross shit is ok" when people are very clearly saying "you are allowed to think something is absolutely vile but trusting the government/companies/paypros w the morality barometer is HISTORICALLY really dumb"

My formative years were the '90s, a decade bookended by the NES and the Dreamcast, bolstered by the technological peak of the arcade, the advent of accelerated PC gfx cards, proliferation of network play, and the rise of 3D consumer graphics. Selling raytracing as a "big thing" is just so pathetic.

i said it about "nfts will let you take your items from game to game!" and it continues to be true: the way tech grifters talk about games shows that they don't undersrand what a game is or why they are played. it handily doubles as proof that games and games design are art, not tech.

Happy MAR10

Yeah I can totally see the people who brought you Google Stadia also thinking that this is worth showcasing.

Got crushed by Cookie's Bustle.

Very unfortunate vocal stim I've developed whenever I do something that hurts

The only "dynamic pricing" I'll accept is buying used. Though I do wonder if this can be a boon for the extremely miserly among us. I buy from Amazon so infrequently that they're always offering me a free month of Prime whenever I do.

"Sending me" might be my single least favorite contemporary figure of speech. At least a lot of the worst memes are cringe on purpose.

Do I run out my current tank hoping that the current madness subsides quickly or do I fill up now because it's only a matter of time before Mad Max fuel hoarding comes to pass?

POV: you are Nagoshi starting your first day working on Like A Dragon 26

I like Kayin's site because it uses the whole screen on desktop and has big text for my failing 41yo eyes.

Part of the joy of obtuse games is seeking out community to overcome them. From Druaga to Zelda to Myst, ostensibly single-player games were elevated by sharing info about secrets, maps, and puzzles. The game outside the game mattered. Mechanically difficult games especially do not get this respect

One big example I can think of in recent years was how a lot of gaming press ran defense for Epic Game Store when they were buying up exclusives left and right. The concerns were always written from the perspective of the publishers, not the users having to pay more for lesser products.

I don't think any big place I've posted on the reg for the past 25 years has competent leadership. Just a fact of interest life.

Renewing the phone plan and am once again just mortified that other people seem to pay monthly what I pay for a whole year. Like does the average household at this point just have their phone and internet rolled into the same plan or something? The numbers never make sense to me otherwise.

I am so beyond sick of seeing deaths expressed in terms of "taxpayer dollars."

I don't blame webhosts for having to take more precautions against scraper bots these days, but the degree to which I have to click and wait through a bunch of hoops to visit every other old forum at this point is irritating to say the least.

what is an extraction shooter anyways

Everyone involved in "prediction markets"--past, present, or future--needs to be imprisoned for life.

"Never forgive them for what they did to the computer." - @edzitron.com

Dems don't want to oppose Trump. They want the same bloodshed in the middle east. It's why all of their complaints are about procedure and paperwork, not the war itself, and why most statements from them have opened with some variant of "the Iranian leader was no angel." Also:

they would hate backloggd reviews for games released before 2004 </3

Sometimes when giving feedback on games, "play more of the type of game you're making/play them more seriously" is honestly the best most sensible advice even if it comes off rude. It's rly obvious when a dev doesn't have that baseline experience that'd make more particular feedback useful

Have they added a way to hide the retweets from people you follow here yet? Doing another round of follow-backs and I hate having to pass on interesting people who would just be cluttering my feed if I had to scroll past all the extra stuff they felt like sharing.

One of the finer joys in life is to shower Ikaruga with praise for being the absolutely perfect video game that it is, kicking back in your chair, and scrolling past the replies from the shmup snobs malding over it.

I feel like streaming Segagaga tonight. It's a cool game and I think it'd be fun to play and talk about it. Will probably go live in about an hour. I also worked on the patch. We can talk about that too if you want.

Whenever you express disgust for these Democrats, you tend to get shouted down with "So you support Republicans???" I'm begging the Team Blue cheer squad to direct that question to the appropriate target. Congressional Dems love and support Trump.

Nothing good ever happens. Bring back nothing ever happens.

There's just something kind of darkly funny about the disclaimer coming right after my write-up of how raw and human the work in question is. Gonna sleep on this.

Every single outlet that uncritically recites Israel's self-designation of "preemptive strikes" should be permanently shut down for good. Straight up. Definitionally no such thing as a "preemptive" attack when the country being attacked had no plan nor indication of planning to attack first.

Think about it like this; we’re already a quarter through the century of humiliation.

my galaxy brain theory is that remakes are a cultural coping mechanism so we can pretend games are still progressing, “i mean it must be outdated if its getting a remake,” and so it’s irrelevant what the remake Is so much as what it Represents if i were smarter i could cite baudrillard here

The most effective way I can think of to sell Segagaga to Bluesky is to point out that it gives you the opportunity to develop not one, but TWO versions of The Ooze! I might stream this tomorrow afternoon.

Perhaps a tepid take but Miyazaki saying “No, you’ll remake Bloodborne when *I* say so, the way *I* want” is perfectly reasonable and justified

Biggest reason why I've become vocal about defending weird smut from censorship/debanking is bc the powers that be have become overt in treating anything w/ a hint of sexual nonconformity as "weird smut." You have to view regulations through the lens of "who does this bind and who does it protect?"

Anyone holding this against Fromsoft for not wanting someone else to mess with their work, rather than against Sony for not figuring out how to leverage their talents elsewhere, just frankly does not deserve good things. No other medium has "fans" begging for remakes.

The article briefly mentions it, but personally I don't care what Lud's status was. Every post about his situation has wriggling weirdos underneath asking about it & I reject the xenophobic premise of their question. Immigrants are a positive good and Lud should be celebrated, safe, & protected

They should invent good news. How has no one gotten this yet

it's not the issue of this story, but it is a transparent example of how the "cars are freedom" narrative is a complete farce. when the state controls your movement and can immobilize you on a whim, you are not free. car dependency is an arm of fascism for the car *IS* fascism and must be abolished.

Big reason why I'm sympathetic to old-school devs who hate to add frame data and detailed training features to their games is that it proliferates this idea that it's a requirement to understand all of that. When, you know, you only have to be better than the one other scrub you're playing against.

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it's all just art. "porn" is just art that makes you horny, in precisely the way that "horror" is art that makes you scared and "metroidvania" is art that makes you write video essays

Konami's X-Men is the kind of game that arcade beltscroller haters think the whole genre is like.

I think literally the only thing I've become more "conservative" about with age is gambling. Nuke all of it from orbit. Sick of the economy being entirely scam-powered.

Thin-skinned Sonic fans are so funny, man. You can like Sonic Adventure 1 & 2 without pretending that their rep is the product of devious YouTube assassins. That rep existed before YouTube was even a thing.

If any of you make a single piece of information about The State of the Union known to me in any way you will receive an invoice for $100 per occurrence.