literally never i'll take my chance with the viruses thank you

ive been in tears over this since i woke up

Pokémon Red & Green sold poorly in Japan when they launched in 1996, only catching on months later. Apples and oranges, I know, but this is indicative of the shift in how execs at game publishers, streaming services, and Hollywood studios need instant results or they pull the plug. It's unhealthy.

Don't make a live service game. It's that simple. I don't care if something else succeeded at it. Don't do it. If you wanna make a game with a multiplayer mode, that's fine. Don't make it a live service multiplayer game. There's no easier way to all but guarantee it'll die a painful death.

And so, with Game of the Year 2025 finally in the can, it's time to kick back, relax, and start trying to get to everything I want to play this year in time for next Game of the Year.

Aw, hell

CALL TO ACTION #FREELUD: - Lud’s loved ones are urging us to email and/or call Maryland representatives - A provided script for both can be found here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... - Lud’s lawyer is presenting to a judge on THURSDAY MARCH 5. Action on his behalf is critical NOW.

I feel a post in the form of RE Requiem mechanical analysis coming aaaaaa

can confirm

I don't think it needs to be said but as someone for whom art and media preservation is like, a core of my moral and ethical codes, this is pretty devastating. Genuinely hope something can happen or be done over this month to postpone or prevent this shutdown. Spread the word, at least.

The "video game preservation service" Myrient is shutting down in March #Retro #Gaming

world-altering decisions are being made by a cabal of gambling addicts hell bent on self enrichment no matter the cost to humanity, we should look into that.

Same thing as Trump walking up behind your kid & shooting him in the head. Fuck him & fuck you if you justify Trump’s killing spree in Iran in any way. Dems & journalists doing this, have some fucking dignity, you absolute mollusks.

I GUESS IM PICKING A FIRE STARTER FOR ONCE

I bet when the main character of a Resident Evil gets thrown through a building by a creature it feels good as hell

Last week, a video game website gutted its human staff and replaced them with AI content. This week, it posted a Resident Evil Requiem review written by AI that got picked up by Metacritic and impacted the game'... https://kotaku.com/resident-evil-requiem-metacritic-ai-review-videogamer-2000674042

This accurately sums up my feelings. We writers, in our haste to find an intriguing point to thread into our work, sometimes fail to consider the weight of our claims, the importance of substantiating them and more importantly the self-awareness to consider whether it's our place to do so.

donald trump and his cabinet are using the power of the government to cover up allegations he raped a child

hey Kansas, stop being so cringe and weird, try being normal and cool and based

Adobe "83% of artists use AI" Also Adobe "Hey you know that feature we've always had that is incredibly helpful and everyone uses? Yeah, say it's AI now, just slap it right on the name... Oh wow would you look at how many people are using AI now!"

Costco is a really popular subject for business-success case studies but I feel like business guys kinda lose interest when the upshot of the study is like "just operate with scrupulous integrity in all facets and levels of your business for four decades" and not some easy-to-fix gimmick

Resident Evil my beloved. Even when I'm mixed on you I want to rotate you around in my brain and replay you 20 times

We have a cultural problem in the USA that video games and their communities contribute to. Prosecute and abolish ICE. Video link below.

Donald Trump killed two of my constituents. He is a liar and should be ashamed of himself.

Hey, I've finally gotten the green light to make all the past Mental Healthpack Podcast videos public! www.twitch.tv/centeredwell... If you had missed any of them, they're all here

Keep pushing. It matters. There have been consequences for Mandelson, Prince Andrew, Larry Summers, Bill Gates. The shit stinks. Keep it going. Bring them down.🔥🔥🔥

"Letting go of Evo" I wrote about why I'm breaking my Evo attendance streak (every year since 2011; first Evo was 2003). It's sad, but I think this a good opportunity to celebrate the Evo moments that got me here before moving on. pattheflip.medium.com/letting-go-o...

“the president’s speech is going to be over two hours long!” they’re doing kalshi shit guys. they’re leaking a bunch of stuff about a super long speech and he’ll go about 2 minutes short of the supposed mark and everyone in the white house will make $200k on it

really remarkable how trump seems to relish sharing this lurid stories about the terrible pain people have experienced, and he does it exclusively to score some partisan points

The EVO situation is dire.

I've been playing Dragon Quest 3 (HD-Remake) and I came to a point where I needed to make a merchant to send off for the main story and I just kind of made a guy called "Fat Chud" thinking this would be of no consequence. Immediately I'm faced with the consequence of my actions

It's got enough room for me & the whole squad ⚔️

This has been how it is for Formula 1 the past decade. Ever since aramco strongarmed themselves into becoming a big part of the FIA, the calendar events for Formula 1 became unsustainable and iconic tracks were bankrupted by the orgs in order to fit more races around the UAE.

So many people are like, "Oh the prestige, think of the prestige, EVO won't matter anymore," and I really need people to stop thinking about how doing this hurts EVO and start thinking about how doing this is an attempt to hurt everyone else who isn't EVO.

Breaking MS NOW: Agents with the FBI's elite evidence response team were delayed in reaching the scene of a mass shooting at Brown U. in December because there was no FBI plane available. Kash Patel was in south Florida at the time with one of the FBI's two available jets.

I’m not privy to Xbox’s internal corporate hierarchy but I don’t implicitly trust a narrative that lays the blame on one person that just so happens to be leaving and doesn’t interrogate the person coming in. Like if you’re Microsoft that is the preferred framing.

sports journalism readers know a regime change hitpiece when we see one

My new startup, GymBot: you hire one of our state of the art ai robots to go to the gym and work out for you.

logging into social media

Oh no. Oh nooooo. Xbox's new CEO is a natalist/birthrater. How did MS miss this in their opsec? Literal stone's throw away from the likes of Palmer Luckey. "Will my son have classmates in the future? ...the fertility rates are declining." Then she suggests the fix is... AI? Timestamped:

I've always hated the fandom need to find the "true" ending of Silent Hill 2 when the game is pretty clear--James' past is set, but his future depends on his actions. He can drown in his crimes, atone, repeat them. He can go to space and make out with Harry Mason. These are all equally valid.

So it's ok to start a war illegally against a nation of 92 million, for whom you have "no sympathy" as long as the purpose is clear? The Big Dem line that Trump is a demented fascist domestically while simultaneously agreeing his foreign policy decisions just isn't gonna cut it anymore.

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just beat the Hell's Kitchen Video Game for the nintendo DS where 100% of the gameplay takes place on the touch screen and the top screen is just a Gordon Ramsay vtuber with an anger meter that you have to keep down or he will hit his ult and shut down the kitchen

Discord was going to use age verification that literally pipes your information straight to the fascist US government, until hackers exposed it. “The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.” www.therage.co/persona-age-...

I love how regurgitative AI is allegedly going to make us all smarter but its proponents have to say the absolute dumbest fucking shit to justify its existence. He’d have made a smarter point if he defecated in his hand and smeared it on his balls.