I did it for fun for a few years, had press credentials for PAX, that was probably the biggest “pay” I got.

Still worth it.

Streaming bootlegged games is a fast track to legal trouble. I don’t blame Nintendo at all here.

Rooby rooby roo!

I found out yesterday that the entire family of one of my good friends has been displaced in Lebanon. They are NOT Hezbollah, they just had the bad luck of “living while Arab in Lebanon”.

Israel can get fucked.

Same for every genre. For every Sonic or Mario there are 1,000 Bubsy’s.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubsy

Origins was such a boring game. Hackneyed, utterly predictible plot, graphics that looked like the previous generation. There wasn’t really much there to like, and then the next games were worse.

Not sure how we even got as far as Veilguard…

L shaped blankets.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ModestyBedsheet

I think there’s not a lot of room for competition, it’s either Gran Turismo on PS5, Forza on Xbox or… um… Mario Kart? On Switch?

You could say the same thing about Football games. There’s Madden and NCAA and that’s pretty much it.

The era of having niche games like Metropolis Street Racer, Project Gotham, Speed Devils, or, heck, go back to the OG Playstation with Wipeout, Jet Moto, Destruction Derby… that’s long over.

Which is a shame because I played the HELL out of MSR/PGR.

Because a) there aren’t that many of them and b) they don’t drive campaign donations.

https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus?ind=Q05

FYI - your mod history of banning people left and right and not being able to take the slightest criticism of the Orange Shit Flinging Gibbon is why you got banned from Politics:

https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&modId=10940202

Destiny is a little different because the vaulting was done by Bungie, not by steam.

So if you’re talking about Mercury, Mars, etc, that was removed from the game ENTIRELY. It’s not a Steam thing.

Maybe that’s their purpose? Human population control? LOL!

Just a guess… they’re probably a food source low in the chain. Disrupt the food chain and we’re screwed.

https://www.britannica.com/story/what-purposes-do-mosquitoes-serve-in-ecosystems

I think smarter people than me will have to figure it out and even then it’s going to be a war of escalation. Ban the bots, build better bots, back and forth back and forth.

Some news sites had an interesting take on comments sections. Before you could comment on an article, you had to correctly answer a 5 question quiz proving you actually read it.

But AI can do that now too.

According to some, we all have innocent blood on our hands just by being American. ;)

Hiding inside an actual target seems like a bad idea…

Hogwarts Legacy if you enjoyed the old Harry Potter games.

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“Well, you see son, the perpetrators of that genocide were the victims of the largest genocide of the 20th Century, so nobody felt comfortable doing or saying anything.”

“Out of the box, the Steam Deck’s screen will default to portrait.”