Okay so here me out, we release the shmup for free, but we have a steam IAP for some sort of token that users have to use for each run. It could be really cheap, like $0.25. Maybe we could call it a "quarter."

It's so weird how the legacy of Rogue is now the rogue legacy of Rogue Legacy, and is nominally claimed by anything and everything that's run-based—the way that was basically the default video game structure for many years. "I made a Roguelite shmup" my brother in Christ you have made a Dariuslike.

Strong Bad after December 2010

the crew behind VLC are legit heroes. they've been offered millions (tens of millions?) to sell VLC or incorporate advertising and every time they've said, nah, we like that our video player is free software for everyone on the planet

You have no idea how many times I keep saying this but I hope everyone realizes how horror games are always at risk compared to other media and deserve a proper discussion about this unfairness. Rule of Rose, Vile & even DDLC on Google.. some people don't see horror games as art.

it's been 84 years

granblue fantasy

This isn't a payment processor thing. Valves themselves chose to reject it. Im sick of people laundering good will by scapegoating an important but not always related concern. Remember, Valve tried to reject Chaos;Head Noah, a vn you could buy for the Nintebdo Switch at Walmart.

fun fact you just get some random guy at steam and they go "your logo is too gross" or "your rare trading cards aren't fancy enough". and then you just do that or you get fucked! love a monopolistic rentseeker that takes 30% of every game, driving a good portion of indie devs below sustainability!!!

"[During] the intermission, a talk event will be held featuring Shark Movie Rookie and the representative of The Japan Shark Movie Society’s PR... The two will enlighten fans on 'how to cheer for sharks in Sharknado,' given that disaster films are not exactly a classic choice for cheer screenings."

Youre prithy to the whims of whatever random Valve employee decides to chip away at The List that day. At least one of which hates anime and queer people. Though other employees will happily break all of Valve's own rules when they feel like it. Shafting one publisher over another at a whim.

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

You truly are a genius thought leader to be asking a question so multifaceted and deep. My programming skills aren’t just Ruby and Python, they’re any type of gem — and any type of snake!

i don't think i'll ever feel morally comfortable about steam as a platform as long as they continue to have a hateboner for japanese media (especially while approving Sex With Hitler 3 or whatever on the side) at best they are a necessary evil

Oh hey steam's very selectively enforced prudishness is very predictably being used as a cudgel towards a queer VN. Who could have seen this coming?/s

Get even further away from the router.

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Donkey Kong Country 2's map design is exceptionally elegant in that it uses each of the game's 13 level themes exactly thrice each, without using any of them more than twice in a row. This is accomplished via several clever uses of the environment.

if there's one pet peeve i'll always have, it's when people prioritise / archive / use the creditless versions of anime OPs/EDs over the broadcast ones, especially when the credits are a huge part of the overall visuals

My memory of what it was like to browse the Xbox Live Indie Games store page in 2010

it must be so heart-breaking to make all this cool artwork for a game, and then they slap some dabadee-dabadi mfs on the cover because it's 2005 and the last thing anyone wants to do is look like a japanimation.

I feel I should alert Bluesky to the baby foxes in our yard

lol. lmao even.

From that thread, a playlist of CRT whines! open.spotify.com/playlist/3oU...

Incredible

managed to first try the fifth boss without choking for a change! think I might almost be getting the hang of this game

"I was cancelled by the right" tours should be a thing 🤷‍♀️ It happens far more frequently.

someone posted a page from the kamiina botan scanlation on reddit where the translator had clearly either not understood the 爾汝の交わり part or been unable to think of a way to render it in english and basically just made something up which cascaded into the rest of the conversation

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eating stuff over the sink is so OP

Very illuminating thread. However you feel about the “power of AI coding models” or whatever, I think it’s important to see that across the board there’s a trend of software deteriorating across the board. It’s good to talk about it! It’s not complaining. We are the customer.

(Only snapshotting because I can't QRT) With data centers taking all resources, price hikes, the industry itself currently in the middle of a crash and the economy on the verge of collapse... They're correct that people will literally have to stop playing games... but not in the way they think.

I know someone personally with a million tiktok followers who does that shit full time. I have never met a single person who has heard of him. Additionally, any discourse that you're pissed out about on whichever site? No one cares. I know you saw a lot of posts and videos about it. No one cares.

Japanese adult game dev blocked from receiving Steam proceeds from all-ages version of their game by domestic bank automaton-media.com/en/news/japa...

god i love voir dire. average people will just say wild ass shit to a judge utterly unprompted. it’s so beautiful.

"The oligarchs want a permanent ruling class. The extremists want a permanent underclass to grind a boot into. The deal between them is straightforward enough: the oligarchs get captured courts and permanent tax cuts, the extremists get their hierarchy of human worth written back into the law"

Please remember, the future is not set in stone. We can turn things around, but it takes effort. Contact your reps, get involved in local orgs, do what you can.

Blue Prince (2025)

BURGUM: When the sun goes down, solar produces zero electricity HUFFMAN: I want to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of -- it's a battery

There are so many wonderful jokes, especially standing out for me are “it should have gone to the other boy,” “I should have worked more,” and “No you don’t, Oprah.” But i always come back to this one:

Rewatching 30 Rock and I think this is still possibly one of the best constructed jokes in anything, ever.

lmao ok fuck me, i guess. etsy wanted me to verify my ID and selfie, and their dogshit automated system couldnt tell that im the exact same guy in both pics and suspended my shop???? thousands of 5 star reviews counts for nothin Love to be an artist in 2026 its fucking impossible to make ends meet

anyway i beat the fourth boss in saros on my 3rd try after another full two-hour run. the key was actually remapping the controls, again

what is it with Finnish games making you walk through spooky hotels at sunset

It must be so infuriating for liberals to have spent decades scolding progressives who ask for any improvement in their quality of life with "it simply can't be done" and then a progressive gets elected and he simply Does It

shouri no megami wa hohoenda

This is why text-based social media will never die