You believe some forms of art shouldn’t exist at all just because a small percentage of people can’t experience it? Watercolor as an art form should be abolished? Music without strong bass shouldn’t be allowed? All paintings must incorporate strong textures?

Absolutely wild.

You gave lots of examples that accommodate these disabilities, and that’s awesome and obviously I support that!

What you aren’t arguing for anywhere in this comment is that every artist be required to do these things. Somehow game developers are exempt from this grace? You called out watercolor but don’t appear to be angry at watercolor artists like you are at game developers. Why are all games required to accommodate all people, but other art isn’t? Why is that where your line is drawn?

Video games are the only art medium where people find it acceptable to gate-keep the art from the unskilled or the disabled.

Yes, deaf people are famously well-accomodated by music, and paintings are always very accessible to the blind. Games are the first medium to ever be inaccessible to people.

Don’t want the game to be too easy? Don’t fucking turn down the difficulty. Saying “I don’t want the game to be easier” is really just saying “I know I don’t have any self-control, and would inevitably turn down the difficulty when I hit a roadblock.”

You’re complaining about players opinions, but I’m saying the artist is not required to sacrifice their vision for accessibility reasons. Not all art is for everyone, and that’s fine. You don’t have to play every game.

But my artistic integrity and vision!"

No, shut up. Your vision doesn’t mean squat if my experience with the game is annoying to the point where I don’t even care

Nah, miss me with this bullshit. Not every game is for you, and it doesn’t have to be. An artist is not required to water down their vision because you’re picky.

How on Earth did Death Stranding get 7 nominations? Crazy

Most Obscene Yachts don’t come from the US anyway

Ooooo, good to hear! I played something like 15 hours when EA first released before deciding to put it away until full release. It was definitely good then, so I’m excited to see what it has turned into now.

So… literally the same thing they did last time? Wow, so surprising

Also, Android allows real browsers. Firefox and browser extensions.

iOS has allowed non-Safari browsers for close to a decade, now. Otherwise I mostly agree

I’m sure most of them are actually retired, but all? No chance

You heard it here first, folks: other people disagree with you, so you aren’t allowed to complain. Nintendo has been successful despite your complaints, so you’re now required to suck it up and buy it, as society demands.

Eventually these corporations undergo trial by anti trust as their influence becomes increasingly toxic e.g. Google.

lol, feel free to let me know when any actual consequences come from that

The market has also increased 1000-times over, while simultaneously removing physical barriers entirely. The development itself is more expensive, sure, but distribution is way cheaper and the potential gains have increased at a much quicker rate, especially for smaller games.

But even then it’s astronomically unlikely to be retroactively enforced

It’s not unlikely, it’s literally impossible.

That. The content of the screenshot you posted. That is what’s going on.

lol I was gonna say… isn’t this like the third time this has happened?

In the short-term (0-6mo, maybe less): probably nothing really changes. It’s not super likely that anyone would be holding on to a massive flaw, waiting for EOL. Nothing stops Microsoft from patching after EOL for something major, they’ve done it before.

Medium-term (maybe up to a year or two): you’re looking at real potential to get infected with --who-knows-what–. Hard to say how long it would take or how widespread it would be.

Longer term: massive, massive security hole. Microsoft has probably even patched a major thing or two by now (despite EOL), but there will always be more

Honestly didn’t even realize I still had it installed, but it’s gone now.

Halo pistol, easy choice. Two to the body, one to the head

lol fair enough, it’s Bioware, but the point still stands

But… you still don’t own it. You own an Ubi EA-controlled, revocable license to play the game.

an update which was specifically designed to break the mod.

[Citation Needed]

I’m not worried about functionality, I’m worried about ads, AI, and privacy. Win11 is actively hostile on all three points

While under the Acti banner, it released the likes of Blur and James Bond 007: Blood Stone.

I’m not sure I’ve ever heard of either of these games, and those were pretty prime years for gaming for me. Sounds more like Acti fucked the over an acquisition than anything, which wouldn’t be at all surprising

I’m in the minority that doesn’t support fraud 🤷‍♂️ I don’t care how much time and effort they put into the game after stealing millions of dollars

And a willingness to lie out your ass and fraudulently market for years

The worst thing is none of the executives are getting fired (in a proper more manner, no golden parachutes and clawbacks on any stock based compensation).

lol, welcome to the west

If you buy a PS5 just for AstroBoy, same. Its Game of the Year but def not the best ever PS5 game. God of War, Horizon, Ratchet and Clank, Spiderman…

I’ll be honest, I didn’t think they put a whole lot of thought into the series… it’s a solid formula that has changed very little in decades.

…you’re joking, right? Electing the convicted rapist, convicted fraudster, racist, sexist, wannabe dictator that literally tried to lead a coup four years ago didn’t tip you off?

The man also built a company that refused to provide anti-vomit meds to children on chemo. “Think of the children,” they demanded, while thinking of literally no children but their own.

Miss me with this bullshit. Bad people deserve bad endings, and he got what he deserved.

If our laws and justice system ever decide to start working for anyone except the rich, then maybe I’ll start giving a fuck about them. I’m sure Trump and Elon will get right on that.

Turns out that looting millions of people’s healthcare for profit and ruining a large subset of their lives doesn’t garner you any sympathy. Crazy how that works.

Because it’s fucking inane. Yes, it’s only one part of the problem - nothing was ever stated otherwise, he’s simply speaking on the topic at hand.

Do you also say “no, ALL lives matter?”

Ohhhh no, poor Microsoft can’t further their monopoly until they comply with court orders! Poor, poor corporation

I would expect half of the haptics to go away, tbh. They’re much weirder for a handheld because it can affect the screen, which is part of the controller doing haptic things. Add on the extra battery drain and I’ll bet we get the adaptive triggers and maybe some mediocre version of vibration.

I love Balatro, but this is definitely recency bias. It’s going to mostly fade from mainstream popularity and acclaim long before then.

the storylines all culminated to the point where you were the dragonborn, master wizard, super thief and ultimate warrior.

This is true of both Oblivion and Morrowind, isn’t it?

…who would choose to hang out in the DRM community? That’s super weird

It’s still early access… Valve literally invented the hats economy, you’re insane if you think they aren’t going to add microtransactions to the game 🙄