This is the kind of nuance I came back to the comments for, thank you. It’s an interesting question and I would like more details on how various game studios typically treat such material. Is it some stock photo? And if so, are they paying for it?

It might not just be you but there’s still a sizable portion of the player base that disagrees.

I may be somewhere in the middle for that specific example.

Too true. I love making my creative outlet’s equivalent.

I’m speculating based on what companies have been saying recently such as the 2025 Coca-Cola Christmas ad where they uploaded a “behind the scenes” to attempt to show the human aspect.

If you watch that and take it at face value then maybe I’m just the cynical asshole here but I’m not alone.

Edit: and yes, I’m speculating, but so is everyone else talking about this too.

Also, this isn’t about me, and I don’t need to divulge my background to you.

I take it you never made it beyond high school?

Holy shit, I haven’t felt whiplash like that from a comment in years.

I’m not even mad, I feel alive.

But to be serious for moment, in the future when you’re about to make a similar comment out of nowhere, please pause and reflect on why you chose to say such a thing to a stranger on internet in the first place?

Our time to converse genuinely with others online may be finite and coming to an end sooner than any of us expected. Is that how you want to conduct yourself in these fleeting moments?

An equal amount that would have worked on it otherwise? Even so do you think that will continue to be true?

Generative forms as we now know them have been around for 2 years.

“I made a mod that replaces cliffracers with Thomas the Tank Engine,” ‪Trainwiz‬ wrote on the Nexus Mods page for Really Useful Cliffracers. “I am incapable of learning lessons whenever it involves corporations, because I fundamentally do not view toy company CEOs or media CEOs as people.”

Based

But seriously, how will we encrypt?

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It did inspire me to try and think what type of gaming software “You Turn” would describe.

U-Turn?

Sounds cool. There’s a typo in your title howeverm

I may have been a little hyperbolic but it’s still a huge selling point lost for the majority.

It’s so upsetting. Makes me want to start recommending iPhones (only partially out of spite).

Edit: you can downvote, but can you tell me what the difference is at this point?

Gamers really are the most oppressed.

What a good use of resources tracking this down was

As if they need justification.

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The simple answer: No. The game and city are designed to be a living, breathing massively multiplayer skateboarding sandbox that is always online and always evolving. You’ll see bigger things evolve, like changes to the city over time, as well as smaller things, like live events and other in-game activities. In order to deliver on our vision of a skateboarding world, the game will always require a live connection.

But they’re trying apparently.

Really? I have the Wii U ones and they put up with a lot of abuse. The rubber on some sticks have completely deteriorated but they still input accurately.

It’s honestly what’s made me so bitter about the Joy Cons.

I believe that’s correct. And as others have pointed out this is likely an anti-scalping measure which changes my view on it.

I do however hope they will keep a good stock of them. Having to be a subscriber is annoying enough but even when I was one I was never able to be quick enough when N64 ones went back in stock.

Nintendo pulls Switch 2 pre-orders in US over Trump tariffs

Edit: also, these will never be on shelves. They will be a membership exclusive online order regardless, even after the preorder-only window.

That’s been standard for the switch retro controller releases. And yes it’s been bullshit the entire time. I would have liked an N64 one.

Initially. Still annoying but title is misleading.

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It’s easy to understate what an unusual project SteamOS is. It represents over a dozen years of work from some of the industry’s finest, is funded by a private company, yet is open source and free for everyone to use. “I’m pretty happy that we’ve managed to find a balance that’s beneficial to everyone, while still being able to help this PC ecosystem in this way,” says Griffais. “I’m really happy about that.”

I can’t wait to try it

Potentially, but only for a new Smash Bros. (same reason I got the Wii U and Switch)

People liked Blue Shift more? I’m not sure I finished it…

I played it roughly a decade after it released* following playing HL1 for the first time. I enjoyed it.

Go on

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A therapist

Pretty sure we’re in that

If I back up a DRM-free installer what’s the difference?

But it’s only four easy interest-free payments of $12.49!

I just don’t want aliens in the far future watching our shows and thinking “god damn, it was femboy paradies!”

This is so hyperbolic I have to wonder where this thinking comes from?

It’s included in headlines is because it’s a small word. At least historically. Now it’s just a holdover.

1984?

I have never met a trans person

As far as you know

A company that makes some good decisions over a long term stands out in a sea of corps endlessly chasing next quarter