Simply using “they” is nothing but fear mongering. Be specific and say who “they” are and why “they” matter. Otherwise you’re just telling people to trust you without providing any reason that you are trustworthy and why “they” aren’t.

“Wonderful Christmastime” by Paul McCartney is the worst song of all time and I’m willing to die on this hill

Exactly what I expected to find in the comments

P.E.B.C.A.K. Marking as resolved.

Purely from a game design standpoint and ignoring all corporate and sales considerations, Valve.

Half-Life, Half-Life 2, and Half-Life: Alyx are literally three separate Citizen Kanes of video games. All took immense steps forward in the direction of removing the layers of abstraction between video games and human experience.

From a meta perspective that considers things like the process of game development and the accessibility of video games on PC, also Valve. Steam has done wonders in the way of unifying (to the best of Valve’s ability) the user experience of DRM into a very manageable interface. Proton has taken the barriers to entry into the realm of video games down to the fucking studs. The Steam Deck is laying the foundation for eliminating the dominance of any one video game hardware manufacturer.

I’d be hard-pressed to say any other development studio has been more fundamental to the gaming industry period, let alone PC gaming.

You could just say “no.” I was curious how far your logic would go because you said, and I quote, “it would be forcing people who prefer Ben & Jerry’s to either have vegan ice cream or switch to another brand”

Like, dude, come on. You have to hear how ridiculous that sounds. Nobody is forcing anybody to eat ice cream. And also, though this is just coming from my experience, I’ve never met anyone who exclusively likes Ben & Jerry’s. Bad ice cream is almost always better than no ice cream so I would challenge you to find someone who would be upset about needing to eat ice cream that was created by any brand other than Ben & Jerry’s.

Would it be accurate to rephrase your argument like this?

“Ben & Jerry’s changing all their recipes to use only vegan ingredients would be anti-freedom”

A. Ben & Jerry’s moving to exclusively vegan ice cream is in no way forcing people to live their lives a certain way. Recipes are not protected by copyright law so anyone can make and sell ice cream however they want.

B. The dairy industry wreaks havoc on the planet. It would benefit everyone if the dairy industry disappeared or at least shrank

I kinda got that sense from the moment that “AirBlade” sprayed all my germy hand water up into my face

I think one way you can at least partially answer that is by asking whether college tuition has increased in price equally with how valuable a college tuition is.

The answer is no btw

It’s not F2P, and furthermore it’s not a CoD clone. But you make a good point. They should’ve retasked those employees instead of just sacking them on the spot. Fucking corpo assholes.

I admit my response wasn’t particularly serious. I just meant to point out to that commenter that it’s not difficult to understand what the previous commenter meant.

Come to think of it, why did Sony even bother designing a new controller for the playstation? Atari had that handled back in the 80’s so what good did they think they were doing.

EDIT: Holy hell I just realized how insane it was for Sholes, Soule, and Glidden to develop the QWERTY typewriter. We already had pens! What a waste of time!

The year of the Linux desktop will happen when a large (EDIT: large, CONSUMER-FOCUSED AND CONSUMER-FRIENDLY) company decides to donate a remarkable amount of resources to the development and maintenance of a specific distro to make it user friendly and give it the feeling that someone who actually knows better than most users is taking care of important stuff in the background.

…Valve? 👀

Pretty sure they meant a controller designed for use while not hunching over a desk

Oh thank goodness for the social media users! What would we do without them?!?!?

Hop on a 6 hour flight, or drive for 40 hours from most countries and you’ll likely find yourself in a place that speaks an entirely different language. In America all that gets you is someone who has a different kind of twang in their voice.

Not saying it’s right to make that assumption but it’s definitely understandable why people do.

My dad: “What, you think everyone should just be entitled to food for free even if they don’t have a job?”

Me: “Yes.”

My dad: “… oh”

I’ve spent boatloads more time watching football than playing football, too.

Also, with Rainbow 6: Siege, there’s so many ways to play the game that I love watching videos to get ideas for new strategies to try.

Lastly, contrary to popular belief, a lot of games actually require thinking about what you’re doing. Time spent playing is not really time spent spacing out so I will happily watch videos about a game I like to play when I don’t have the energy to actually focus on playing them.

In other news: ABC news has begun reporting on the status of the drying paint on the wall