It’s so interesting how used games began to especially start phasing out around the time companies starting to *really* push their shittiness. like theyre still around and how I often still get my games, but definitely not as prominent as like pre-2020.

It really sucks that Microsoft sunk its claws into so much of the game industry and is attached to a ton of games I wanna play. What sucks even more is supporting genocide, which is something Microsoft loves doing. I’m very in favor of Microsoft fucking off until it stops loving genocide so much.

Congrats to France for actually kinda nutting up and treating Musk like the pedophile he is very publicly documented to be but let’s be honest if France is doing that first every other country really fucked up here.

I chose my words carefully when I called the executives behind microtransactions child predators. Carefully and incredibly correctly.

People can take their defenses of microtransactions, their corporate apologia, and their excuses for Activision Blizzard and cram them fully inside their assholes.

Not blowing a gasket, feeling vindicated, because what Kotick’s involvement in the Epstein files has done is demonstrate exactly how fucking right I’ve been for ten years. Oh I’m absolutely fucking disgusted, but now it’s unequivocally clear as fucking day. It was always, *always* about predation.

Everybody has it backwards. Billionaires aren’t buying up these institutions to make money. They’re buying them to kill them. Same as the oligarchs destroying government and social programs and things like weather forecasting and regulatory bodies. They’re creating a world they control completely

you don't say? at some point we're going to acknowledge what every study ever on this subject has said, right? right? www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

there have been many, many more egregious and awful bans on this website but this is perhaps the stupidest just from like, a business perspective

Holy shit bsky devs keep getting worse and worse

Big fan of France

Elon was going to bring his wife to Epstein’s Island? Well that settles it then! No famous billionaire's partner was ever involved in anything nefarious on pedo island.

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

Free tip, any candidate who says “The top 50 Epstein affiliates, starting with Trump and Musk, will be imprisoned, and every last penny of their families’ wealth expropriated” will win >40 states in 2028.

The Houser rockstar executive knew about and didn’t do anything about abuse going on underneath him? Not like this is the first time this kinda shit was reported about them so its unsurprising sadly The Minds Eye douche freaking out and sending cease and desists also sounds about right

hey remember when I got shit on for years for trying to warn people that GamerGate was just Nazis and not just about harassing women and not just about some “consumer revolt”

People getting mad at this because “spoilers“ when it’s just normal ass games journalism being done 🤷🏾‍♂️ Like, it reminds me of when borderlands 2 got leaked, and Randy Pitchford called it “shoddy journalism“ because the pre approved company didn’t get to break the story first

Tbf people are still doing that, didn’t the internet just do that for the clown guy in the new Tomodachi game lol?

sometimes i think about that thing a disco elysium dev said in response to someone asking why choosing fascist options lowers your morale. that being a fascist is miserable, since it requires you to believe that you are being dominated by the weak and unworthy in everything you do.

One of my favorite things about everyone lying about how Melania is great and super well received is that no one who is arguing that position has any idea how human beings think, talk, or behave so the stories they concoct are wild.

Oh

Fuck the hell off with that Sony

I sometimes forget some of the game enthusiast personalities on here I follow have incredibly hard leaning Nintendo biases so no shit will take every opportunity to omg hype up Nintendo 🤷🏾‍♂️

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

Wait, can someone please answer this for me: does the PlayStation 5 use GenAI? I was considering getting one, but I’m reading it uses AI

Video game discourse is weird man. Nowadays everyone loves a game and then 3 months later because a sales report says it didn’t sell as much as fucking Mario, everyone starts dragging it to hell 🤷🏾‍♂️

I hate to dwell on the horrors, but more horrors about the links between the transphobic "Gender Critical" movement and Epstein...

I’m sorry but what did libertarians think that the anonymous money laundering racism coin that you could only functionally use for illicit activity was doing other than this, exactly

worlds falling apart but at least my nurse described me as 'scary and mysterious but in a way where i can trust u with my drink' so its not all bad lol

Just to be 100% clear about what Pizzagate/Qanon was, it was nonsense designed to distract from contemporary reporting during the run up to the 2016 election, such as multiple the multiple allegations Donald Trump was facing, and silence those conversations. It was designed to protect a pedophile!

i love trash games. i love seeing the cavalcade of 'mistakes' and 'failures' piling up before me because it feels so alive and human and it makes me better love and appreciate art. but even as someone who adores trash this ai generated video game bs means nothing to me

the fuck was your sales expectations when you very well knew your $70+20 season pass at launch game was gonna be controversial and a hard sell?

The conspiracy theory nuts from way back, seem awfully quiet nowadays despite all this fucking shit coming out

Still waiting for the day, Steph is spitting facts like this, and some smug “developer“, or pundit in the game journalist sphere, QRT’s her, or comments, trying to explain why she’s wrong and the shitty thing is actually good and necessary, and that she “just doesn’t understand how things work“

People were spending months just coming to terms with the fact democrats won’t save them on this shit, but suddenly im seeing everyone hyping up another fucking “blue wave”. Jfc

Anti-woke groups winning over centrist/fence sitting white young men by just going “we just wanna be allowed to say the r slur without being yelled at” has got to be the dumbest fucking thing.

God I still remember how much pushback there was when women were coming forward about Brett fucking Kavanaugh Almost like that whole situation was meant to be a demonstration to send Progressives a message

the Epstein files make it very clear why the MeToo backlash was so extreme and why so much of elite society preferred Donald Trump ruling us like a king to the barest hint of accountability

Gotta get off of social media for the rest of the day before any new Epstein news drops that destroys my soul more.

I’m not allowed to safely use a public bathroom because a literal island of pedophiles said trans people might be sketchy. … and somehow that’s barely a sliver of the things that happened thanks to a literal island of pedophiles making stuff up.

Only a literal island of pedophiles could come up with using a hate campaign as a grooming technique.

Believe Trans People

Suddenly a bunch of clowns in the replies going “well we should be careful, not everyone mentionEd in the files is involved“ of course these fuckers would come out of the woodwork when JKR is brought up

@commandersterling.bsky.social I think we need an updated episode now unfortunately youtu.be/fJQqnu4IX7Y?...

Saw someone seriously try to suggest GG didnt have political origin and lmao oh of course now the right wing dumbasses are its conspiracy theory nonsense to say stuff like that was orchestrated (despite all the evidence, especially now we have, proving that)

Almost had a desire to replay CTRNF, after my decision to delete it after they snuck in MTX, but now? nah, bad taste in my mouth that Activision were messing with a kids game and shoving in MTX into it (at Bobby Koticks request) weeks later after many players, many of which were kids, were sucked in

Some time back I took a firm stance against playing, streaming, recommending, or otherwise promoting games featuring microtransactions/lootboxes, and very deliberately used the term "predatory monetization" to describe these practices, but never imagined I was pushing back on Epstein by doing so.

And one of the first survivors to step forward to try to stop Epstein? A trans woman, who was promptly mocked and villified by the New York Post, New York Magazine, the courts and law enforcement.

Everything @commandersterling.bsky.social was saying about MTX back then, and how predatory they are (fitting term esp now) was true, and the entire gaming community really should apologize for the shit she got when she’d bring up how dangerous that shit was