Kernal64

You’re right… How could I be so thoughtless? 😔

Holy shit, stop! These fucking mergers always end up being awful for everyone!

Before Cloud, obviously.

You’re doing better than most of us!

Because I have attempted such and have bled for my transgressions.

This cat hasn’t been done any kind of way. This is standard cat behavior. Those goofballs will sleep on anything, in any position, for hours at a time. If you wake them to shift them to a more comfortable position, you risk the wrath of tooth and claw for your insolence. Ask me how I know. 😅

Hottest year on record so far.

I honestly can’t tell how your comment applies to what I said. Yes, monopolies are bad. That’s why I said that Steam being so much larger than their competitors is a problem. I’m pretty sure we agree on that point, but your comment seems antagonistic and I don’t know why.

Steam being larger than all their PC competitors put together is certainly a problem, but I don’t think it’s a problem that’s affecting the topic the article discusses. That seems to be an entirely different issue.

While I agree with just about all of your points, there’s one thing I’m not clear on. Who’s the monopolist in your scenario? The console space has 3 competitors and on the PC side, you’ve got several more. I don’t see any of the big PC or console companies dictating game development trends. That seems to me to come from the publishers chasing the next big thing, or trying to make their own version of the last big thing. The rest of what you said is spot on, though. We need stronger unions and we need to demystify what developers do. And we absolutely need to tell the tech bro types to fuck off and stop stinking up the place.

Not necessarily. There are a couple of local anchors around here that would probably clean up doing that.

I would not say no! I enjoyed the first two Torchlight games.

They did indeed. That game had its problems, but I liked it. I remember seeing it years later, after the game had been sold to… I wanna say it was a Korean company. They massacred the writing and the game is unrecognizable now, which is sad.

Didn’t they do that years ago when the Diablo 1 and 2 devs formed their own studio and made Torchlight 1 and 2? And then went under because the games didn’t sell enough and the IP got sold to some shady company who made it into a weird, half assed MMO?

I remember seeing some research draw this conclusion as well, but IMO it’s the wrong conclusion since a lot of the data in the studies I saw seemed to indicate the issues stemmed from the actual switch, not whether we did things an hour earlier or later. It’s that transition period that fucks things up. While I’d prefer permanent DST, I don’t care that much. I just want the endless, stupid dance to stop and never switch again.

I don’t want it to ever be -03:00. That shit is confusing as hell.

The reason people are fascinated by this is because many people are deeply stupid, and willingly so. Between lacking education and not wanting to learn anything, you get people who think candles can be magically magnified by pots.

People have forgotten the old ways.

I truly hope that rat is shunned and shamed everywhere they go.

When the McRib is back, you do what you have to do to get one.