The used car market imploded when vehicle production dried up after 2008

You will never own an EV for under $80k

“You’ll never own another computer cheaper than $500”

Chinese tech firms produce high end computers for less than $500

“SANCTION! TARIFF! EMBARGO!”

I think there’s a setting that’ll turn that off.

But also… Linux Mint is a pretty easy lift and shift.

Nintendo has the securist market with its portable console.

Cause they actually try to make a console that’s not just “Discount PC With Coupon For Streaming Service”.

Even then, it’s mostly an under-powered PC that makes up the difference with a few gimmicks. Which is fine. But you’re still left asking “Why would I buy a PS6 / X-Box One+One+360^Infinity when I could just get this shit on PC in another six months?” Other than tinkering with controllers, neither have done anything interesting since the Kinect flopped.

XBOX COFOUNDER SAYS MICROSOFT IS QUIETLY SUNSETTING THE PLATFORM

More seriously, the distance between the X-Box OS and the Windows OS was always measured in inches. Maybe they finally decided to give up the ghost and just admit they were selling people mid-range PCs with a console skinned GUI.

I’m assuming you mean Kalshi? Polymarket too, of course.

Games are all rigged, btw. But the spill-over has been eyebrow raising.

Valve wins against the Rothschilds

Okay, tap the breaks. Can you field a link on that one?

lootboxes being available for the past 10 or so years in Counter Strike and Team Fortress 2.

In a lot more games than that. EA, Ubisoft, and Activision/Blizzard have been dolling out lootboxes for at least as long. So targeting Valve exclusively definitely raises some eyebrows.

But I’m curious to know what this has to do with “the Rothschilds” and not an actual financial, business, or government entity.

Not for the House. It’s sort of their bread and butter.

Okay, but who do you want the NY DA’s office to go after? Jamie Dimon? Bill Gates? Steve Bannon? Half of Activision/Blizzard?

Valve was the obvious choice.

car crash noise

If you take away the grunts, you lose half of Barrett’s dialogue! /s

I’ll have to keep an eye out for this in FF7R-3. But I’ll be honest, I barely noticed. Might be cause I’m a bit of a grunter myself, though…

Finish a run, excuse me

One of the nice things about Factorio is that you can finish a level and put it down and come back later. That’s harder to do with an RPG like Expedition 33 or Dragon Age.

Not a ton of plot. It’s mostly just a building sim.

I waited years for the FF7 Remake and then even more years for the FF7 Remake to come to PC and then even more years for the sequel to the FF7 Remake to come to PC and now I’m waiting for the three-quel to release, at which point I will begin waiting for it to come to PC.

You can sell consoles with advertisement and marketing. The product is a secondary concern.

And with AI + bunch of privately owned mass media, you can saturate the brains of the next generation of gamers with endless targeted ads.

Fully expect Discord to begin vomiting ad spam into random chat streams like Reddit channels are getting bombarded with Crypto Casino promotions.

Real “these kids would be very upset if they could read” situation. Who bothers to pick through the whole EULA before submitting?

Like any open source mass contribution project that’s gained too much popularity, you need extra firebreaks in between the Open Submission and Final Product.

That means adding manpower to submission review, QA, etc, which public projects don’t often have.

Sort of the Achilles Heel of the open source community. AI is just making the vulnerability extra glaring.

It has aged worse than many tank control games like Resident Evil

RE has been remastered at least twice by now.

Lots of people just wanted a nice graphical update with some quality of life improvements.

Square loves nothing more than to dust off an old game, tweak it for modern hardware, and then re-release it for $60.

Fortunately, you can pirate these updates for free.

The “can wait 6 years” is the whole point. They aren’t waiting.

You don’t need to wait to play games that came out thirty years ago.

Plenty of young people are into retro gaming.

most youths don’t like drinking wine

Then they can wait six years between sips of AAA piss, I suppose.

My friends with kids don’t seem to have any problem picking up Sonic, Pokemon, or Guantlet. One’s even picked up Eldin Ring.

They don’t have the nostalgia

You don’t need nostalgia to enjoy nice things.

How many people are attached to a franchise if it takes 10 years to get the full story?

You can just play the original, though.

Same with any of these franchises. The newer titles are hit or miss, but the old games have aged like wine.

Federation is easy. BlueSky is federated, ffs. You think Jack Dorsey would be shy about selling his Twitter knock-off a second time?

What is teenager lock?

Discord locks your account to the security level considered appropriate for a teenager.

Or just get bought out. Discord was supposed to be the answer to Twitch getting gobbled up. Then Microsoft gobbled Discord.

Does anyone seriously believe there’s an indie third party social media site immune to a multi-million (possibly even billion) dollar buyout offer? One that won’t go the way of TikTok and be legislatively forced into sale?

I mean, let me know when it does. I’ll hang out with the Teenager Lock enabled and keep my biometrics to myself.

But there’s no point changing social media ecosystems if nobody I know is in the new site.

The $8 tier has been around for a decade, for exactly this reason. MMO subscriptions, bargain games, podcasts, delivery fees. People love charging you $8

The biggest challenge I have with pirated games - especially Nintendo games - is the controller.

Yeah, I can get Metroid Prime or Mario 64 or Super Smash easily enough. But I can’t have that classic experience on a PS knock off controller.

It’s not the end of the world, of course. But I feel it.

You can always do the XKCD trick

But even this seems to have gone stale over time, as retro game prices get sticker (even going up as vintage games come back into fashion).

One thing I don’t see on this list is “piracy”, which is a bit weird if your line is $15. I find a lot of bargain bin games to be as bad or worse than FTP games. $20-30 has historically been my sweet spot

Glances at this guy’s main() function

Instantly dies

Demand for new games will always be up

Sounds heard shortly before an industry crashes.

Art is the medium through which we process and communicate our most complicated emotions.

I know why they aren’t still relevant now

:-/

I’m getting a lot of confused responses in this thread.

so you agree with me 100%

100%

:-/

Amazed you’re into text-heavy games when you’re struggling with basic literacy.

Art is the medium through which we process and communicate our most complicated emotions.

Listen, I’m not saying we don’t need the odd new DeltaRune or Blue Prince. But the sheer volume of new mass market games seems to have eclipsed the real overall demand some time ago.

If you’re constantly obsessed with the New Title, you lose sight of the vintage classics. You never have a chance to pick up an old Atari game from the 70s or try some SNES banger from the 90s or even a PS3 classic from the 10s if you’ve glued yourself to the New Releases queue.

Maybe people have emotions worth communing with that are more than a year old.

The world needs more good games.

Does it? I feel like we’re flush. My Steam queue already has a dozen more games than I’d ever have time to play.

I mean, it’s another FtP PvP base defense shooter. Like we were running short of Team Fortress clones any time in the last ten years.

I do sometimes get the sense that when a marketing team can’t gin up artificial enthusiasm, they settle on “controversy” as an attention grabbing strategy. Getting legions of digital skanks to declare a mid-game The Worst Thing Ever at least keeps the title on the radar, rather than falling into obscurity.

Honestly, I’m not even clear how you can spend nine figures on a game when its a copy of a copy of a copy. “We reskinned Tribes again, then dropped a full scale motion picture’s budget on the fucking trailer” seems to be how AAA titles get sold these days. No wonder everyone in the industry is so excited about AI.

It’s legitimately a gem. On par with 6, 7, and 10 without a doubt

I love how Trump has exactly one note to play and he just wails on it at every opportunity

“We promise not to put turds in your punch bowl.”

“Uh, actually, I prefer to make my own choices. Give me a cup of the Poo-Punch and then I’ll decide if its worth drinking.”