Two questions to ask yourself:

1. Does it make you happy?

2. Does it hurt anybody (yourself included) in any way (including financially)?

Say it with me once again:

Fuck Nintendo.

They're the Disney of the video game industry.

Fox News. Televangelists. Trump.

Religion can be a very positive tool to bring communities together and support one another, but capitalism means exploitation, and nothing's easier to exploit than blind faith.

"The issue" that needs addressing is the obsession our governments have with spying on us.

You know who's really mutilating kids' genitals? Any doctor who performs medically unnecessary circumcisions on infants.

Interesting that he got so angry so quickly after the mention of Aryan Nations. Almost like he has a personal stake in them remaining unknown to the general public...

One extremely important factor that this article neglects to address: Valve is a private company - it's not publicly traded in Wall Street. That is the reason Steam has remained the best in the business; it's not beholden to shareholders' short-sighted meddling. It's also the reason Steam is effectively immune to enshittification.

• With the exception of any article that's even slightly political.

The obvious answer is to abandon GaaS as a concept and focus making more great single player games like the ones that put Playstation into a clear lead in this generation of the console wars.

However, we've seen that a massive failure in the space isn't enough to deter the truly greedy coughWBcough, so who knows?

If someone tells you they don't care about pronoun usage, believe them. I'm nonbinary and don't care what pronoun people use for me, because I identify as both male and female. Most people default to "he" for me because of my beard, but others use "they" because of my proclivity for wearing skirts, nail polish, and lipstick. Rarely I'll have someone use "she" (or I'll use it myself), but ultimately, I'm just a person who exists outside of the gender spectrum (or right in the middle), and pronouns are just a grammatical tool to save time, so I prefer that people use whatever comes most naturally to them.

Oh, console/PC without a doubt. Mobile development, at least in my experience, is a constant struggle for relevance and a nonstop sense of urgency. Creativity is only allowed if it answers the question "how can we better trick players into giving us their money?"

Console/PC development, however, is focused on making a good product that will last. Nobody ever asks "how much money will this feature make us?" At worst, the question is "how much will this feature drive engagement?"

I've only worked for major companies, so my experiences don't reflect what it's like at indies.

What a simplistic, destructive take.

Nuance exists in this world. In a free society, a distinction needs to be made between real, credible threats and simple hyperbole.

Also, "hate speech" is a real term, and it doesn't mean 'saying you hate someone.'

Yeah, they should really stop killing their own people. Over 30,000 Palestinians, many of them children, dead at the hands of Hamas!

Good thing Israel's there to stop this horrible genocide and restore order.

/s

The Steam Deck is the best thing to happen to Linux since... Linux. It's the first time average tech illiterate folks have gotten a taste of Linux on their own systems, and it's driven the development of compatibility tools (Proton) to a hitherto-unheard-of degree.

It convinced me to switch to Linux.

Finally, something positive coming out of the Supreme Court!

of Canada

Ooooof course.

Cries in 'Murican

A guy just wants to leave his home country and see the world, but his dad won't let him. Even when he gets past his dad, he still can't quite make it. It's in the blood.

Good stuff. Important for people who want to play the game but don't want to give money to Bethesda and, by extension, their genocide-complicit parent company, Microsoft.

indie

You keep using that word, AAA developer/publisher Square Enix. I don't think it means what you think it means.

"Darryl. Daaaaarryl!"

No, see y'all've got it backwards. It's the Gulf of America, not the Gulf of the United States of America. He's making it more inclusive!

/s