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Nintendo can justify the exclusives because they have the consistency to back it up. They’re not going to fuck around with trends. Valve doesn’t fuck around with trends.

Sony fucks around with trends and now their output is lower and less ambitious than in the past. Self-inflicted wounds.

They paid in for all these live services and studio acquisitions and figured they needed to more revenue under Laydon.

He was right, there was initial success.

Then Ryan took over, alienated customers and fucked up an entire generation of first party content output, maybe two.

Folks like to point out Sony didn’t like the 30% cut from Steam and others, but…

- They do that on Playstation to everyone, too.
- They alienated PC users with PSN logins and region lockouts
- Launched games poorly optimized
- And charge a premium on a platform reknown for sales.

I finally got around to updating Skyrim for Switch 2, except its a fully separate S2 app that eats up 53GB and doesn’t use the cart at all.

Only MS would take a free Switch 2 upgrade and turn it into a Game Key Card-like farce that disrespects my storage.

Now I’m uninstalling it.

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Animal Well is pretty much that as well.

It’s like they took that section of Super Metroid where Samus learned some moves from the little alien monkeys and ostrich then made it a whole game.

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I still have that as well. Still in decent condition.

Vi-O-La Suit Samus (Metroid Prime 4) 💜sketch!!

Opinion | North Carolina's elections offer more hope that 2026 is the year of the progressive Katelyn Burns: Progressive candidates in the pivotal swing state walloped several centrist incumbents who collaborated with Republicans on culture war issues.

For @ms.now I wrote about how progressive in the NC statehouse primary sent a warning to centrist Dems with a penchant for collaborating with Republicans on culture war issues like ICE and trans issues. www.ms.now/opinion/nort...

Article full of baseless speculation from "Tech4Gamers" Windows 12 Reportedly Set for Release This Year as a Fully Modular, Subscription-Based, AI-Focused OS By Shaheer Zahid

I wanted to come back to the biggest reason this thing is fake that people might not understand: the NPU.

Here's a rough list of those that are actually available, and if you look close you'll notice something: the vast majority are for mobile devices.

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A witch on a wheelchair drinking tea with a ghost cat playing under her chair. She's surrounded by Plants and she's in a café.

Green Tea. 🍵

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He should make himself a latte with raw milk.

A yellow Yorkshire terrier that is also a secretary or administrative assistant reads the town announcements to the player. It also looks like she's drinking some alcoholic beverage.

I'm sorry is Isabelle boozing it up late at night?

#blutoid

Something else to take into account here is that PlayStation's PC push was started under Shawn Layden, it was his initiative and was paying off significantly, PC was a big growth area for them. So there's another thing Jim Ryan fucked up.

I‘m on Win11, but my 4070 laptop was 2023 juuuust before they started making Copilot PCs and doesn’t qualify for most of these genAI updates for Win11 as is. So I’m good for now

As it is, I have offloaded non-gaming stuff to my iPad and MacMini just in case.

The folks behind making it difficult to get GPUs and RAM requiring NPUs for an operating system no one would even need yet (or would even have) does seem pretty implausible.

North Carolina sent a clear message tonight: You cannot betray our community and keep your seat.

Garden Knight - TUNIC

Me to the careers of anti-trans Dems:

a cartoon character with glasses and the words that boy ain 't right Alt: Hank Hill: “That boy ain't right.”

Up to Episode 20 in Nier Automata, so we’re at that part of the game.

#blutoid

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It's certainly part of the problem. You have YouTubers whose entire job is braying for a game's failure like that's normal behavior.

Then you have the execs who believe we'll drop our current multiplayer fix for their shiny new one. And ... no, not everyone has infinite free time and money for that

Image is the flat colored and rendered version of Fiabolic's princess peach art. On the left is the flat version of peach, wearing a pink dress, with her eyes closed and her arms by her face. The right image is the same, flipped, but fully rendered with additional depth and detailed rendering.

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Stop making live-service games.

The market can't sustain their existence and employees don't withstand their failure.

Not every game can be a part-time job for players and most are already entrenched in an old favourite.

ECCC Commission.

Don't let them kill free speech, call your reps ahead of Thursday when bills including KOSA will be discussed again

my brain when someone is explaining mechanics in ffxiv to me

She might never see another Darkstalkers game, but fan art? She gets that like every single day.