Craig Bamford

God the "games should be $100" guys are just extra funny when you see how the $70 price tag wrecked MH Wilds

All it needs is crypto and the circle will be complete

"Fine, I'll tear down the Torment Nexus my own fucking self"

Most people are boring normie Social Liberals, and you likely haven't even heard of that label because it's not any kind of source of clout to be one

Starting to think that Microsoft and Amazon fired some of those load-bearing furries and now the whole Internet is fucked

The paypros also forgot that this is a REGIME, too, there's no single policy focus, just bickering underlings

Vought might give a shit, but Miller and Bennett probably think it's a distraction, and the Tyrant himself wouldn't understand why this is even an issue in the first place

Lmao the paypros want to suck up to the Trump regime but they can't get away with it

Helps explain the weird press silence, though, probably been a lot of quiet conversations with executives and owners

Not good for the brain when you have to go along with pretending that all those hacking coughs around you are "just allergies", and that lack of executive control you're feeling is just a "mindset" issue.

If covid were actually a harmless cold, it wouldn't be so taboo to admit that you have it.

Notice it ain't called Rogers Centre Blue

SkyDome now SkyDome forever

Canada will remember.

A lot of it is randos who want that sense of validation and belonging that comes from the approval of a high quality/quantity of the "right" people in groups you aspire to join

So you jump on whoever THEY are jumping on, even if you're clueless about who this person even is or why they're bad

It's weird how easily virtual mobs get whipped up when there's no actual "mob" whatsoever; you aren't in a physical space with a bunch of people waving pitchforks and torches, you're sitting on your ass looking at a phone

I think it's downstream of people wanting to belong, even to idiot mobs

Occasionally weapons can look cool, like those guns for the current banner in Wuthering Waves

The ones that get me are the light cones in Star Rail, absolutely no visual effect whatsoever, why do those things even exist besides extracting $$

JFC

They were always so twee on social media but I still remember how the candles in that game were one of the worst energy systems I've ever seen in a F2P title

There's also the ones who seem really mad that anybody would use Linux that doesn't roll their own Arch distro, but that's more of a Mastodon stance

The whole UGH LINUX GAMING thing is another manifestation of the "people on this site think it's still 2015" thing

It's hardly perfect, but most of it comes down to "install Proton-GE and maybe use Lutris for weird edge cases", not as easy as a console but roughly comparable to Windows fuckery

One of the big reasons why it's good that Steam held strong, no way that AMAZON requires labeling of AI-generated content

This is the paradox of the whole thing, everybody who churns that shit out known how worthless it is, so they're offended at the idea of paying for it, so you can't cash in

That's why there's so much misrepresentation and fraud, you gotta pass it off as human-made art instead of churned slop

I still like these things, just plugs into the back like a cartridge and you're done

Maybe. The most cutting criticism of this place is still "everybody thinks it's still 2014", and that kind of freakout is very 2014

On the other hand all the outlets that used to cash in on that kind of thing are long dead or totally irrelevant, so it's not exactly as lucrative a freakout as then

I never see antis much but maybe that's just nuclear blocking at work

All of them try to win on exclusives, thinking "well if it works for Nintendo" without considering that You Are Not Nintendo and that will not work for you

Meanwhile "what if we just have a better app that runs better with a nicer store" somehow never crossed their minds

You're Amazon wtf

I'm honestly impressed that pretty much every tech company has tried and failed to unseat Steam

Infinity dollars to overtake an app that looks like it was designed in 2004, because it was

One of those "oh fuck you" moments that are the bedrock foundation of any good friendship

They let the fraud guy go, EVERYTHING™ will go wrong

Looking forward to the triumphant return of all those weird fly by night channels that just show movies and sports, NFL gonna love playing whack-a-mole with football games

Oh so it's the Klarna thing where load-bearing people will be left go for AI, and they'll quietly try to bring them back in six months after The Incident hits

Most of this is just Recettear (RIP SpaceDrake) but she's just picking up the bits on her dungeon runs

Also a LOT of Japanese webnovels have this sort of thing happening with Dungeons. They're living things, they eat people, the treasure is a lure, and "monsters" are basically antibodies.

The original Far Side Cow Tools Cartoon by Gary Larson. A cow stands on its hind legs behind a table, staring blankly at the viewer from behind its heavy brow ridge. On the table are four crudely made tools: a lump, a lump with an offset crooked handle, a long stick with hooked prongs at the end, and a crude handsaw with irregular teeth. In the background a barn sits on a hill. Caption reads, "Cow tools."

43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.

Nevermind the game outlasted the other game

It is also not short, and I'm starting to wonder if there's some weird karmic feedback effect that means that the Jays game doesn't end until this thing does