times these days got you feelin video games were just an anomalous blip in the history of mankind

i think the only thing better than a procgen loveletter to ff2 is a procgen loveletter to ff2 with low background cpu usage and *vim style controls enabled by default??*

sure, everyone get resentful about software engineering salaries and take cheap shots at "tech bros" when it's my turn to be a swe, thanks I don't have student debt or anything

THE ACKROOMS

sometimes I think omg the world is finally getting more yuriful and then somehow Dmitri wins the three houses marriage bidwar :/ #SGDQ2026

"it's just business they have to make money" yes i'm sure they care about what they want. but i also care about what i want. and they don't want what i want. we are at an impasse

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protip: "operating systems" are actually just barriers of cruft between you and the terminal

nirvana in green yuri is gonna hit the streets of seattle like crack in the 80s

spent years thinking "I should try ligatures" and now that I see them they freak me out

games have been huge success. thats why we're firing every one who makes games. also we are going to make it so players can no longer buy games

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We don't enforce any DRM for games and stuff on @itch.io. Buy, download, and never connect to the internet again for all we care ✌️

If you're curious what a non-preservationist gaming ecosystem looks like, you can look at the mobile stores, where most of the shit you remember does not exist in any form anymore.

Good Evening, “video games” was a 45 year sociological study conducted by hardware development industries. We are now complete with our study. Thank you for your time.

Support all your favourite indies doing physical releases, we don't have much of it left and it means so much for them to have the games they worked on in a tangible form

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

now is a good time to say: * all games on @gog.com are DRM-free. * all games directly on @itch.io are DRM-free. * there exist single player offline video games that are so good you can buy them once and play them for the rest of your life. save your money for people that work with you, not against.

Happy Canada Day @sonyplaystation.bsky.social Rather than our employees and their families enjoying a relaxing and fun Canada Day, they are expressing concerns by messaging VGP management and ownership

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often a game is not a game, but a trojan horse for a particular business practice. think of what business practices are promoted by sales of the next biggest games -- and who truly they benefit.

when the men's world cup tourists hit their second edible

A Statement from VGP Regarding Grand Theft Auto VI As gamers and retailers, we recognize that Grand Theft Auto VI is poised to be one of the biggest entertainment launches in history.

Bane from The Dark Knight Rises is actually a Roger Smith persona

me talking to a neurotypical: so are you alien autistic or robot autistic

me looking at basically any game: this would be cooler if it starred a girl and was turn based

the internet is just cuter in cascadia code

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why does the nintendo switch 2 exist?

anyone else get a feeling that the last 5 days of reveals is at least 40% "live service game, but we don't want to reveal that it's a live service game"

the world would be a much better place if toyota just came out with a $20,000 electric corolla in 2010

Preemptive post:

My take is if your shit has fewer canonically transgender characters than Family Guy you need to go back to the drawing board

mobile game industry is going to have to get it together because I just found open source tetris clone for android. and that, plus nethack? is all games

what's diabolical is en/em dashes used to be *my jam* when I got a mac in college

me when im dr gero

you can tell nintendo has their finger on the pulse because they released a $50 game about owning a home, having kids, and traveling

surely one must understand how people are conflicted given that simultaneously if you ever touch genAI you will face retribution but also linus torvalds is using it

I'm bout to be writing sonnets about the king county 2 line fr

"coding is dead" i say as i turn model temperature to zero and write a large repository of files with instructions in concise, selectively capitalized syntax

everyone's transhumanist until you install a 🐱

after a long day of lavender crushing on the blue guy, amy rose goes home to her girlfriend blaze

Singularity is prosperity gospel for people who thought they were too smart to fall for religion

Kitsune Tails... today is a perfect day to think about it.