Sinamäe (the person quoted in the article) and Justin Keenan (who’s listed in the credits of DE as an editor, but apparently did a lot of writing) are still at ZA/UM as writers.

Some dev theoretically might not like a mod decision Valve theoretically makes, so the only logical solution is to expect every single dev that publishes on the platform to commit to moderating Valve’s game-specific forums forever.

Yes, good moderation is expensive. Externalising that cost onto devs is, frankly, exploitative. Also, “a few anti-woke weirdos” is a massive understatement. The modern reactionary movement is heavily tied to gaming and Steam plays a major role in that.

So devs not only have to give Steam 30% percent of every sale, but they also have to provide the additional labour of keeping hate speech off the platform in perpetuity.

If Valve doesn’t want to do moderation, they shouldn’t have got into the social media business. It’s their platform and they’re ultimately responsible for it.

If you pump enough money into Linux gaming and do regular sales, a lot can be forgiven apparently. Steam Discussions are one of the most miserable places on the internet I go to semi-regularly and I don’t understand how Steam just gets a pass for the stuff that’s normal there.

LMAO, a and o are on opposite end of the keyboard, how do you even do this?

Chapter one also released in 2018 (7 years ago), so the game doesn’t really feel like it’s from this year.

I can’t count the number of times I’ve tapped the tiny button with three vertical lines right next to the tiny button with three horizontal lines, which can be a problem, because one of them pauses your game and and opens in-game menus, while the other kicks you out to your game library to launch a new game without pausing your game at all. If you press the library button a second time, it doesn’t take you back to your game, so you probably have to long-press the Xbox button to get back to your game, but not the Library button or the Control Center button because those will summon AI assistants instead, and if you understood everything I just wrote and found it reasonable then boy do I have the operating system for you.

Lol, Lmao. Peak Microsoft.

Too bad cryptobros are more interested in using it as a speculative investment/scam machine than an actual currency.

Why is there an Animal Crossing video attached to this? Also, what happened to the original article, did they delete it?

Oh for sure, Fallout 3 Geoguesser would be hard. Idk, I just never had a problem navigating them, even if they were a bit samey.

Fallout 3. The criticism is absolutely fair*, but it was the first RPG I ever played and I’m still very fond of it.

* I never got the ‘metros are hard to navigate’ criticism, I never had that issues. Most of them are pretty linear.

At this point they should just hire the Heroic devs, I doubt anything they could build themselves would compare in terms of quality.

You should be a Luddite because they were right. My point wasn’t that we should embrace AI (trust me, I’m one of its most dedicated haters), but that just because technology produces lower quality goods doesn’t mean it won’t catch on. It’s going to take more than jeering mockery to stop capitalist embracing something that lets them deskill workers.

I’m about half way through Blood in the Machine by Brian Merchant, a book about the Luddites, and one of the things he’s emphasised quite a lot is the complaints of people at the time about the lower quality of automated textiles compared to artisan-made ones.

He bought the company to bolster his lawsuits against Apple and Google, only to fob it off to Songtradr a few years later in the middle of the staff unionising. Songtradr then sacked half the staff (coincidentally all the ones who were part of the union) and still refuse to recognise the union to this day.

He’s 100% right. (Still a douche for what he did to Bandcamp though)

https://fedipact.veganism.social/ has a search feature.

At this rate, the closest thing to a new Disco Elysium we’re getting is the book on all these disputes.

“Dumb moves” seems to be he theme of Microsoft lately.

Can’t believe they didn’t call it Stadium.

> Tango makes a great game
> Put it day one on Game Pass
> Close the studio when it doesn’t meet sale targets

Corp. logic truly is something else.

True. I need to go back and replay NV again, but I do remember Lonesome Road being one of DLCs I enjoyed the least.

I really enjoyed the show, it was good. I just wish it didn’t take place in California. I hate that Bethesda’s idea of Fallout is a wasteland in never-ending strife, one that can never move past the scrappy survivor stage of the post-apocalypse.

I’m not saying that these, or remakes generally, are bad(I’ve even been thinking of picking up the DS remake). I just don’t think they should be contenders for GOTY.

Why are two remakes on this? It’s not like this year has been short on good releases.