Don’t yuck someone’s yum. Thinking something tastes like shit does not mean you are welcome to take a dump in someone else’s porridge.

This week, I’m trying Dune: Imperium.

Why buy a new game when you have no money and your backlog will take years to go through?

• Portal 2
• Persona 4 Golden
• Galaga

Honorable mentions:

• Titanfall 2
• Destiny/Destiny2 (sometimes)
• Baldies Gate 3

Kind of off topic, but this just activated one of my trap card rants,

The United States is a VERY litigious country. The biggest motivator in America is profit, and the possibility of lawsuits is contrary to profit. Fucking over indie devs selling niche games that makes a few bucks on Steam is a lot cheaper than the legal expenses of a lawsuit and the bad press of “Mastercard funds child pornography”.

It isn’t about fairness. It’s about profit.

They are both telling the truth, which is how the best lies work.

Mastercard: “It’s all good as long as it is legal”.

Religious zealots: “Games depict sex with children!!!”

Steam/Itch: “Which games?”

Zealots: “Yes”

Mastercard: “Sex with children is illegal. Get rid of those games.”

Steam/Itch: “Which games???”

Mastercard: “That’s a you problem. Figure it out and get rid of them or lose the ability to process payments.”

Steam/Itch: *pulls most NSFW games while they figure out “which games”

In Lemmy, there are dozens of us, but that doesn’t mean we can’t recruit people we know who are on Facebook, Instagram, Xitter, Bluesky, TikTok, etc.

It’s not difficult to imagine what kind of expression these groups might decide to deem as unacceptable next.

Literally the bottom line. They have found something that works, and they are going to use and abuse it.

You best be glad these sailors are drunk and laying about on their hoard. Before Steam, those sailors were pirates. Do not tempt them to set sail again.

Laying the groundwork for mass layoffs after a successful launch.

I was going to send them a $1 until I saw that the soundtrack is 100% AI generated using Suno.

I just searched for updates on the matter and found a Lemmy post with a youtube video.

https://ttrpg.network/post/20689101

Hopefully they fix Daggerheart’s open-license. Last I looked it was problematic to say the least.

Demo is live

I am loving Cleared Hot. It brings me back to my youth when MicroProse reigned supreme.

I only play AAA games on GeForce Now (cloud). If the game can’t run on my Linux system or on the cloud, I ain’t touching it. Also, there are so many wonderful games that do not require a colonoscopy into your personal data to be played.

I think it’s the right call.

For context:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2025/05/19/its-just-over-for-marathon/

For certain. I hope nobody thinks I’m dismissing this awesome move. I just wanted to know how much each individual got.

I used the numbers from their financial disclosure. I have no idea where the article got its information.

The stat I found was 2950 employees world wide as of June 2024.

I did the math. If headcount didn’t change in the last 12 months then the bonus each employee will receive will be ~$9152.54.

Oooh, Skulls is on. What are some “good enough” Warhammer games I should pick up during the sale?

I genuinely enjoyed that game. So silly.

We upgraded all of our hardware, got spares, and signed up for extended warranty before the tariffs hit. Even is all goes back to normal eventually and we spent capital up front for nothing, businesses like ours need stability. Our day to day is chaotic enough without the added stress of not having functioning equipment because an senile orange buffoon decided to whip out his mushroom peen and proclaim that the world needs to bow down and worship his flaccid ego.

What are they requesting for age verification?

Obligatory

It’s the Toyota Camry of extraction shooters.

Ooof

Sounds like a game destined to be an Epic and/or Prime giveaway less than a year after launch.

I think I am going to try Dave the Diver and/or Songs of Conquest.

Even though I have been gaming since Pong (my first game console), I have never played any Elder Scrolls games. This trailer’s voice over is new to me, and it is so strange and nostalgic to hear Patrick Stewart’s young and vibrant voice on the trailer for a game released this morning.

I “own” it in Multiple platforms already. I might actually own it now.

Make sweaty/stinky LAN parties a thing again! – Me, a former UT99 sweatlord.

Cool, but I am more excited about the French maintaining a fusion reaction for over twenty minutes.

Pixel 7 is more energy efficient.