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The soundtrack alone is still a must-play for me.
This one seems like it’s going to have a similarly great soundtrack.
I want to wad you up into my life
And even with alternatives, corporations own all the infrastructure. There is no publicly owned and operated infrastructure anymore.
My data still has to pass through their pipes, and if at some point they decide they don’t like my data, they can just block it from going through their pipes entirely. Coupled with deep consolidation of ISPs, it means effectively being blocked from communications on the internet.
This actually has Cherry 2000 vibes.
Near the end of this campy fucking flick, they are looking for another Cherry 2000 model, and theyre opening a bunch of bags hung from hooks like this, finding various sexbots until they finally find Cherry.
Cherry 2000 is one of those flicks with a good idea but terrible execution.
It’s not even a weird twist it’s just people who understand how capitalism actually functions and realize that investing in their workers means their workers have more disposable time and income to spend buying shit at Costco.
It’s wild to me that we’ve had to go from advocating for leftism/unions to “if we are gonna do capitalism shouldn’t we at least do it in a way that won’t break literally everything?”
Costco is simply a traditional capitalist business that doesn’t want to see the economy completely implode for everyone but the rich. They are simply promoting capitalist economic fundamentals that made the US an economic powerhouse in the world and built a wealthy “middle class.”
Treating your workers well is also an attempt to prevent unionization. Only about 8% of Costco employees are represented by a union.
Anyone who didn’t sell after the idiocy of the NFT market is a fuckin bagholder through and through.
An NFT market was stupid to begin with, because it’s trying to use endless amounts of CPU cycles to enforce an “ownership” system that is genuinely unneeded and only serves to benefit Capital and Capitalists.
Hell yeah let’s burn down the planet for fuckin skins in video games! /s
Later, they would shut down the same market, after barely over a year and a half.
This was and is a company with no concrete plans for the future that was spinning its wheels since its core business was failing and continues to fail.
Diamond hands? More like Sunk Cost Hands.
Despite all the external challenges, Kaleiki still feels “there’s not much we can do there with the budget” and “the most important thing is the game has to be good.” That’s because, according to him, “Valve does a very good job of surfacing games that players like or that players are enjoying” and “the algorithm is almost impenetrable.”
“If you watch some indie dev videos, they’ll often say we tried hacking the algorithm, we tried doing all these goofy things, and there’s not much you can do,” he said. "All you can really do is make a good game, which, in a lot of ways, is good news for us, but also this is really hard because there’s no little hacks you can do to surface your game like you could 20 years ago. "
I mean, he’s got a super valid take here, but also, like… There’s tons of pretty damn good games on Steam, a lot of them very kind of unknown and underrated for how fun they actually are.
Further, you’re not just competing with current “good games” you’re also competing with classic "good games.*
According to certain sources, there’s over 100,000 games in the US Valve game store in 2025.
Over one hundred thousand games.
That’s still a rough number of games to be up against, even if only a quarter of them are “good games.”
Spore was such a disappointment.
EDIT:
Shout out to Sim Copter and Jacques Servin:
The game gained controversy when it was discovered that the homosexual designer Jacques Servin inserted an Easter egg that generated shirtless men in Speedo trunks who hugged and kissed each other and appear in great numbers on certain dates, such as Friday the 13th. The egg was caught shortly after release and removed from future copies of the game. He cited his actions as a response to the intolerable working conditions he allegedly suffered at Maxis, particularly working 60-hour weeks and being denied time off. He also reported that he added the “studs”, as he called them, after a heterosexual programmer programmed “bimbo” female characters into the game, and that he wanted to highlight the “implicit heterosexuality” of many games. Although he had initially planned for the characters to appear only occasionally, the random number generator he had created malfunctioned, leading them to appear frequently. Servin was fired as a result, with Maxis reporting that his dismissal was due only to his addition of unauthorized content. This caused a member of AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP), a gay AIDS organization, to call for a boycott of all of Maxis’ products, a measure which Servin rejected. Some months later, a group named RTMark announced its existence and claimed responsibility for the Easter egg being inserted into the game, along with 16 other acts of “creative subversion.” Servin stated that he had received a money order of $5,000 from RTMark for the prank. It was revealed later on that Servin was a cofounder of RTMark.
Servin would go on to be one of the founders of The Yes Men.
I actually wouldn’t be surprised if Microsoft saying you’ll be able to play Xbox games on the Switch 2, implying that Game Pass is coming to Switch 2, was the thing that finally kicked their asses and gear and made them realize they were being fucking stupid trying to have so much control while Microsoft is out here with even tighter controls and a cheaper model (in a lot of gamers’ eyes at least, those who don’t care about things like longevity of studios or actual ownership of a product as opposed to rental licensing).
Sorry for the run-on sentence I don’t feel like fixing it.
Dude, Migicovsky fucked it up once and already wants back in? He sold the Pebble company and fucked almost all the workers on the way out. They were promised their jobs, that their jobs would be part of the deal. At the last minute they find out, nope, Migicovsky signed off on the deal that left them all without jobs. He walked away with a fat stack of cash.
Then the idiot spun up Beeper and hacked his way into the iMessage system with a workaround which Apple them promptly blocked within a few days. People were paying for this service. What was Migicovsky’s plan? None, he gave up after Apple blocked them once.
Further, Beeper is just a re-skinned Matrix client with the Beeper company hosting the open source bridges between services, which means they have always had some weirdly serious access to the chats they’re helping you compile all in one place. Initially you basically had to give them way too much control over your Apple account to use the iMessage stuff since they had to have a fleet of Macs for each iMessage user they were supporting.
I’m sorry. I don’t care how good it was. Don’t let Migicovsky take your money and mismanage it again.
Why do people keep giving this guy good graces when he fucked over his own devs on the way out and didn’t even have a plan on how to keep his iMessage system working for paying customers?
Please stop letting this guy fuck up and walk away with the money.
Someone has never read a Rolling Stones best of list before.
They were upsetting people over how they ranked music for decades before ChatGPT was available.
Here’s a thread where people are bitching about them in the same year ChatGPT was released. They’re talking about prior lists, so they’re not talking about AI generated ones. This has been an issue with Rolling Stone for literally decades. Everyone hates their best-of lists.
https://old.reddit.com/r/LetsTalkMusic/comments/fol2rk/why_are_rolling_stone_lists_taken_seriously/
I’m gonna get tired real quick of this “everything is AI and you shouldn’t engage with it” take. If you can’t handle it, get off the fucking internet and go touch grass.
EDIT: Further, each section of the article, about 2-3 paragraphs per game has a human author listed.
Let’s just keep pretending that nobody gets paid for this kind of thing and make sure that nobody gets paid by lying and saying it’s all AI anyway, leading it to all eventually become AI anyway because everyone stopped fucking reading.
In all, it is a list put together by somebody young, that really loves Nintendo, l and with limited video game history knowledge
Half the games on this list are from the 90’s and were on Playstation??
They even correctly clocked that Ms. Pac-Man is actually a better game than Pac-Man.
Hell, there are only three Nintendo games in the to 10, as a reminder Tetris isn’t actually a strictly Nintendo property despite being #2 in the list.
There’s six fucking games in the top 10 that were all available on various generations of Playstations.
I think Pixelfed is beating Mastodon at that. The main instance basically had moderation as a late late afterthought and the massive influx of people and lack of moderation has made the main Pixelfed instance kind of horrible, from what I understand. @[email protected] has been discussing it extensively lately.
Also, beyond bots, we have whole ass crpytoscam instances like realbitcoin.cash where suspiciously almost all of the accounts are from that instance, all created their accounts on the same day, and all commented on the same big thread on the same day.
FOSS developers are going to have to start developing roadblocks to this kind of behavior.
It doesn’t really matter if you’re not willing to leave, because it would hurt too much to lose 50,000 followers, or 12,000 likes, or because FOMO has gotten the best of you. Those who have the least to lose will be the first to make the move. But this change will affect you too, slowly. This social mass will, little by little, become influential… and will end up dismembering these social markers that mean so much to you. Accounts with 150,000 followers will notice that part of their audience has left, and that the remaining numbers have become nothing more than indicators of a distant past.
Beautifully stated. Folks like us made the jump because our internet experience was never about “followers.” For one, it always sounded like being fucking stalked, for two I actually like my privacy, and for three, I’m just some random fucking idiot anyway, folks really shouldn’t be listening to every little thing I have to say. Don’t follow me unless you want to be disappointed.
Dorsey is a massive dick but he was absolutely correct that Bluesky isn’t actually very decentralized and was making similar mistakes as Twitter. He and I just massively disagree as to what those “similar mistakes” were. I think the mistakes they are making are about competent moderation, including growing too fast and too large for competent moderation, Dorsey hated that there was moderation at all.
Dude off the top of my head Balatro (won many Game of the Year awards), Vampire Survivors, Terraria, and Minecraft all have Android ports.
I wonder if Valve plans to release an Arm version of SteamOS
The problem here is you’d be relying on a translation layer similar to Proton, but would probably have to be built off of something like Box64 for it to work. There just may not be enough horsepower on these small devices for that to do well.
I’ma be real: It fucking kills me that Steam on Android has been mostly used for 2FA and the idea of it being an alternate game store for Android somehow just… doesn’t exist?
Especially, out of all companies to take the fight about that kind of stuff to Apple and Google, Valve has the punching power, and they’ve literally already had Epic forge a path for them in this regard.
Why is my Android copy of Balatro unable to use the same cloud save system as Steam? Why am I stuck in Google’s fucking lame gaming ecosystem? It just makes me heave and sigh because I’d way rather be purchasing games for Android via Steam on the Steam Android app. It just feels like such a missed opportunity.
Because AAA games cost more to make than blockbuster movies, thus they need profit to match.
They take more art than a blockbuster movie, they take more script than a blockbuster movie, they take more motion capture than a blockbuster movie (except maybe the Avatar series which are basically all-CGI/motion capture), just everything is so much more than what you need in a film plus the need for compelling gameplay with a satisfying ludonarrative.
The massive amounts of capital needed to make one to begin with literally preclude studios that aim for this style of game from doing anything but submitting to large publishers who will finance them. Because the resources required to make that type of game are just that much.
It’s part of why Larian did Early Access for BG3 so they could make money during the development to help lengthen their runway and lower their burn rate. They still had to cut a huge amount and just release as-is. The Upper City got cut entirely as did the return to Avernus and with it Karlach’s actual happy ending, all of her current canon endings are technically fail-states for her storyline.
The worm one was Noby Noby Boy.
I think it’s interesting to note here that he was the Director of the first two Katamaris, Director/Designer of Noby Noby Boy, but from there on out is just a designer. I think it shows that not only does he want to work with other people but that he doesn’t necessarily want full creative control as much as he values the input from others in creative ideas.
Which also makes it a little frustrating that all the games are still marketed as “From the Creator of Katamari Damacy!” while it seems like he’s just another designer on a team and he’s happy with that. More like the businesses use him as a marketing gimmick, maybe?