cool joystick

But several people also noted that the games industry goes through cycles of mass layoffs, because simply having a stable business isn’t enough for investors. Revenues must grow by a chunky margin: if they don’t, costs must be cut. Embracer’s mishandling of their business might be grotesque, but it’s business as usual nonetheless. “We make a shitload of money, but it doesn’t go back into the games,” one person commented. “It goes into a lot of now very wealthy peoples’ pockets, and the people who actually make the games kind of scrape by, most of the time.”

late stage capitalism

intereresting read, thank you

enlighten us plebs with your wisdom and tell us which conclusion should be drawn then

Archived version

GAU!

us or eu?

US, I guess? I’m from Brazil so all we had was the bootlegged stuff, AFAIK Sony never officially released the PS2 around here

but ya know, music is a personal thing

yes, of course, and I wasn’t trying to tell you otherwise :)

There’s no universe where PS1 and N64 are fifth generation

It seems our current universe disagrees with you

GT1 OST was great but I’d argue that GT2 had a better soundtrack

I develop software for a living and still this looks like deep, black magic to me

Kernel level anti-cheats are a must nowadays to lift the barrier to entry which excludes quite a bunch of cheaters.

$40 ain’t much of a barrier to entry

I’m curious about that too

EDIT: nevermind, another post below has the answer: it’s a programmable wheel

well, it was right there on the article…

In a similar lawsuit against Apple, Epic lost on several claims though the game developer convinced a judge that the phone maker should loosen restrictions on payments through its app store.

His work focuses on obsessives and their obsessions

then he should know better than make the false equivalence that otakus are all incels I guess

Japan’s culture of hermetic male obsessives…sort of an primordial Incel, if you will

yeah, s/he does not seem to have any clue at all

that cake is flipping the bird to us

stay a while and listen

A p2p-share-hosted daily-routine blogging system without any central authority. The unique selling point of Goldkarpfen is its calm way of publishing: nodes will only sync once a day. This is a more human approach to communication and will reduce stress and improve the quality of content.

???

looks kinda pricey for a bunch of WADs

Randomizers are a new breath of life for a lot of old games. One that has a special place in my heart is FF6 Worlds Collide but there are many, many others, there’s a guy who curates this awesome list with hundreds of games :)