That’s good to know, I’ve entirely missed the PS2/PS3 gaming era.

Tell me about how you upgrade your console’s hardware to make it last another five years. Tell me about how you installed an open source operating system to do whatever you want with your console.

It takes a while to complete a first run especially if you’re not especially skilled. I’m a forty something that always had shit coordination and I managed to complete runs after a while. My advice would be not to obsess too much on that and enjoy the various side stories unfolding between runs.

Friendly reminder that Google is making moves this year to make installing apps away from their store as painful as possible.

Seven years after its launch, Microsoft engineers would still assert that the Xbox One was “the most secure product Microsoft has ever produced.”

Microsoft always at its peak when working against its users. For a console released in 2013 to be broken into only today is quite the achievement. Imagine what MS could do if their users weren’t their product.

It does not. You need a Switch 2 to play this game. There’s some game share Nintendo feature that allows a Switch 1 to play it if it is being shared locally by a friend with a Switch 2. Some magazines are having fun wording this confusingly and getting people’s hopes up but it’s not happening. Console makers aren’t in the business of extending devices’ lifespan.

I’ve absolutely been attracted to games that were suffering from anti-woke review bombing before. I wouldn’t buy something in a genre I don’t care for just because but being referred as woke, even negatively, is always a plus for me.

That being said I wouldn’t advertise my support of the game specifically as a jab at the anti-woke mob. I’d simply leave a positive review underlining precisely how this game is inclusive and why that’s a good thing.

Fuck growth for its own sake. Let’s stop this cancer cell mentality. Sustainability’s where it’s at.

Hades II: love how everything ties up in 1.0.

Dwarf Fortress: my Fortress is coming together nicely. Food and drinks are plentiful, morale is good. Gotta strengthen my defenses though.

Wait 'til you see it working.

You’re not dumb and we don’t have a flawless experience… but me and my son aren’t nearly having as much trouble as you. Maybe you’re unlucky with hardware support. For some it does “pretty much” works. I’m genuinely glad you’re sticking to it some more and I hope you continue learning and that your experience gets smoother.

Stop Killing Games is about online components, relevant or not to the core gameplay, requiring the presence of a company server and acting as a remote kill switch. It’s not about putting the burden of preservation on the studios, but of reasonable “preservability”.

The argument that actually preserving video games is easy because we have preserved other forms of media does not hold. Digital data is problematic to preserve because most physical supports have ridiculously low shelf life compared to, say, paper. Storing it on computers which age even faster isn’t any better. Furthermore we have lost to time countless works from other media, some critical. Fortunately this all has little to do with what Stop Killing Games is about.

Yakuza: Like a Dragon does this and I’m grateful.

When the game is such a precious labour of love, so obviously cared for, and constantly improved, that there’s no way the dev has any time left for gaming.

Vintage Story looks like a pretty cool survival! Do you have recommendations for games on Luanti?

I’m with you. Very puritan, kinkshaming article. Stellar Blade might not be my thing, but I know not to yuck people’s yum. One could take the opportunity to discuss sexual objectification, but apparently that’s off the table.

If you want to play Hades as a girl, you can play Hades II :D

This is beautiful.

You sure are spending plenty of attention on defending that you don’t have attention to spend on this. We all vote with our wallets. There’s no opting out.

I understand how you’d extend reproach to the employees of a bad business. I don’t feel it personally though. Solidarity for all workforce trumps it in my heart. Maybe it’s my family ties with active union members.

In gamedev particularly, a lot of creators get in there mainly because of their passion for the medium. Then they get chewed up by shit work conditions. Ultimately dream job type positions are especially vulnerable to abusive management.