Nah, you just need to get a friendly judge to tell whoever decides to dispute your patent that they’re wrong and your patent is totally valid and innovative

Not the first genocide, either

Keep in mind the tweet refers to the group chat as used by the flotilla to communicate with their European supporters, not necessarily for their internal communications.

Final Fantasy Tactics on PS1 alone can carry you back and forth, if you end up liking the game.

Castlevania Symphony of the Night is also one of the best choices for the console.

Maybe in more current MMOs, because back in my WoW days (2013 and earlier), misogyny was rampant

Maybe Dead Cells is too hectic for him? I wonder what your kid would think of the good ol’ Symphony of the Night

Humans have used other things to act as reminders of things and, more importantly, as recorders for numbers, so I really doubt “decline in brain volume” happened because of writing. Not only that, literacy was low throughout most of human history and usually confined to small groups, which rarely included the nobles, by the way - they would just have a servant that could read/write for them.

It’s deliciously ironic that we only know about those ancient greek snobs who despised writing thanks to their words being written.

Does anyone know if it can run CUDA code? Because that’s the silver bullet ensuring Nvidia dominance in the planet-wrecking servers

I had to read the article, since it initially sounded like the groups were doing the vigilantism only within the game. Once things go into real life, it’s a different matter and I fully agree with you there, especially if the groups are looking for views on youtube and social media

Similar to viral pedophile hunting groups, players are attempting to track down and apprehend predators themselves.

Oh, that is a different matter, the vigilantism might be happening IRL

They aren’t, but that they had to form up at all within roblox shows that the company heads don’t give a single flying fuck to their game being a predator haven.

You’re just not vibe coding enough, bro!

Damn, I didn’t even notice that. Guess I’m not going to give this game a go, despite being f2p

Nintendo doesn’t work like your typical western companies where failing to increase profit each quarter = death (investment funds like blackrock play a big part in this, but that’s a different story).

They have a number of mobile games, but they don’t invest heavily on those, despite said games being high earners - Fire Emblem Heroes’ revenue has decreased consistently year by year, but still brought in ~48mil dollars in 2024. If anything, that’s proof that they are not exploiting brand value for short-term profit. Their problem is a brain-damaged overzealous protection of their IP, which isn’t uncommon in Japan: Johnny and Associates controlled with an iron fist all the photos and videos that could or could not be shown of idols under their management

The game to get better at is the game you enjoy most, and what sites depends on the game.

This is spot on, though keep in mind that, depending on the game, you might play it so much you’ll grow to hate it. You’ll also find yourself looking at videos and guides on how to get better, effectively upping you from a casual

Small time or local competitions/tournaments are likely to only have one mr. motherfucker that will utterly destroy you. They tend to show up a lot more in fighting games, though some strategy games, like Starcraft 1/2, also have a significant number of them. If you want to avoid feeling humiliated, racing games (Gran Turismo, Forza, Project CARS) are the ones you’ll want to go for. Sports games (football, 'murican football, basketball) also have really damn good players, though it’s unlikely you’ll get humiliating losses in them after a bit of training.

As someone else mentioned, speedrunning is also an option, though it’s a lot less about direct confrontation and more about grinding the same game over and over. It’s also the easiest one to “get into”, especially if you aim at less known games. Events like AGDQ can hold head-to-head competition of 2 or more runners in the spot.

Keep in mind that some games need teamwork as much as individual skill - Marvel Rivals, Overwatch 2, League of Legends, etc.

Until games decide to fuck people with older drivers (looking at you, No Man’s Sky), people will rightfully keep their cards chugging along

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stormgate/stormgate

(Founder’s pack) Includes one Vanguard Hero, the Vanguard Chapter 1 campaign content, an Army accent cosmetic, and Founder’s Discord role.
(Ultimate pack) Deluxe Founder’s Pack PLUS Vanguard Campaign chapters 2 and 3,

Sounds like they only promised the first 3 levels (chapters) of the Vanguard campaign and nothing else, unless they changed the text and images sometime during or after the KS

No one is paying for anything.

No one in your family, hopefully. But kids will beg and annoy parents for robux, so they can buy skins and clothing items to use in the games.

I can’t imagine anyone playing Roblox solo or putting money into it.

Depends on the roblox game, there are some that have MMORPG style grinding, so you can find people playing solo there. As for money, besides the above, there are casino games where players spend robux, too.

Get in the fucking robot, Shinji Fei

Slaanesh is proud

High Tail Hall?

Gonna list 2 that deserve the “great soundtrack” tag on steam:

• Assault Android Cactus - twin stick shooter/bullet hell with cute android girls blasting robots. Techno stuff, with my 2 favorite tracks being Liquorice (it’s divided in 3 “acts” as it’s a boss music) and Assault
• Cloudbuilt - 3D platformer with focus on speed. I suck at this game, but the tracks are amazing, with my fave being Aurora

Someone else mentioned Unreal 1, but I gotta say, Unreal Tournament 2004 has some absolute bangers, like Morpheus3, Hyperblast Redux, Level11 and Convoy

Are you talking about MMO games, or anything with persistent worlds? Because anything that is match based doesn’t really need those kinds of dedicated servers to be revived.

The thing is that big companies killed P2P, DirectTCP from their games because that allowed pirates to play online, even if limited.

Horizon: Aliexpress West

Nitpick: I’d like to know what part of incest implies violence and abuse.

Btw, does anyone know if Madmind Studios’ games were delisted as well? Agony and Succubus would make the fuckwits of Collective Shout shit themselves

Sounds like you’re spoiling them. I also don’t see what kind of security you can only get in new-ish high end phone that didn’t exist in high end phones of, say, 2018-2021

I suspect they don’t have the means to produce higher volumes, or aren’t willing to take that risk

Never had the chance to play it properly. I had a demo of it in a magazine CD, but could never figure out the controls

Time for Brazil’s PIX to be exported around the world. That’s likely to be hard, as here it is a direct, bank agnostic account-to-account transfer without middlemen and without any tax, so it’d need cooperation between the involved countries.

Annoy them, call their bullshit, but don’t harass or threaten them, those are likely to backfire spectacularly

First, fuck Visa and Mastercard. Second, fuck Collective Shout. Third, I feel for the itch forum mods.

“NUMBER NOT BIG ENOUGH! MAKE NUMBER BIGGER!!!” - some directors and chief executives.

Some of the actual reasons people hate crypto are:

• extreme volatility
• many coins’ value can be easily manipulated by whales
• most stablecoins are probably one step away of crashing down like Terra Luna
• resource intensive - you can shout about proof of stake all you want, there are still gigawatts of energy being burned to “mint” bitcoin
• no protections because “code is law”, even when the code is flawed
• forking risk nearly every year
• the coins that aren’t as resource intensive, have fast transaction times and negligible fees, are unlikely to gain traction or receive widespread adoption
• you still have to go through the hoops of a heavily regulated exchange to get actual money from any crypto you have

Solo Devs are rejected out of hand and that seems incredibly short sighted

Without someone breathing down the neck of the solo dev at least once a week, I can totally see why the govt would rather avoid them altogether.

So, grab some friends, make a shell company, reapply, get money while delivering nothing?

“It sure is fun to see their money coming straight at us!” - Ubisoft representative, Frenchie Fuck

The Stop Killing Games’ end goal is that governments will implement legislation to ensure the following:
Games sold must be left in a functional state
Games sold must require no further connection to the publisher or affiliated parties to function
The above also applies to games that have sold microtransactions to customers
The above cannot be superseded by end user license agreements

It’s asking for games to remain functional, not for source to become available. Even the Video Games Europe reply linked in the article mentions that the main problem, for them, is “keeping servers online indefinitely”:

It appears to be a combination of a requirement to provide online services for as long as a consumer wants them^[1], regardless of price paid, and/or a requirement to provide a very specific form of end-of-life plan where the game is altered to enable private servers to operate^[2]. We do not believe these are proportionate demands.

I wish there was an easy way to quote/reference specific images. Golden Sun literal fire was nice, but those PS2 ads were… What the fuck

Isn’t Gamestop also running HumbleBundle? I kinda expect the final amount the charity gets to be 60% of the auction, tops

Future museum
“And here we have yet another product of double human stupidity: one for stapling an electronic and another for buying the entire thing for over 120k dollars”