Run through Google translate:

"Destiny 2. Anyone up for a team?

Good people of the Fediverse. Anyone up for a game of Destiny 2 (not too addicted) to play a few games and/or create a team?"

I don’t play Destiny 2 anymore, but good luck in your search!

The spinner is pretty vital for a lot of old Atari content. Pong/Breakout/Warlords with a joystick is super hard.

Energy drink isn’t operating in the same tech space though.

“Xbox Prime”

Bullshit. Microsft backed away when challenged over naming a product “SkyDrive”, there’s no way they’d step on Amazon’s dick like this.

https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-skydrive-onedrive/

Might as well say they’re calling it “iGame” or “iBox”.

The Series S is so underpowered it can’t run backwards compatible games enhanced for the Xbox One X, it can only run standard Xbox One/Xbox One S games.

Let that sink in for a minute… the last gen Xbox One X is more capable than the Xbox Series S.

Yes, series X and S games can’t be played from external storage. You have to move them to the SSD.

Where you might be being tricked is that it WILL work for OLDER games, so if you’re using it for backwards compatible versions, it will work fine.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/xbox/forum/all/whats-the-point-of-selling-external-hard-drives/dc0c20dc-0c00-4f32-9aa6-b9b194a3e90c

https://www.seagate.com/support/kb/using-an-external-usb-drive-with-an-xbox-series-x-or-s/

USB drives are good for storage only, you can’t actually play the games from there. You have to move them to the SSD to play them.

Well, not ALL consoles. The PS5 uses a standard SSD slot. Pretty easy to get at too. Easier than the Steam Deck.

https://www.playstation.com/en-us/support/hardware/ps5-install-m2-ssd/

Probably harder making sure you get the “right” ssd than actually installing it.

Sure, you can swap out the internal SSD, it’s a 40 step process to just get to it:

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Xbox+Series+X+SSD+Replacement/141752

Ran Windows on the Steam Deck. Set up an external USB-C SSD.

If you’re sitting at a poker table and you can’t tell who the sucker is, it’s you.

Alternately, if you look at an online service and can’t tell what the product is, It’s you.

Yup. I went from playing daily, a couple hours a day, to 0 overnight. Way to go Bungo!

I went back only twice, first to see what it was like on Steam Deck and second after getting a gaming PC.

Less than an hour each time.

I loved D1 and D2, putting in literally THOUSANDS of hours, and dropped it like it was hot when they cut out 1/2 the content in the game.  Restore the vaulted content and I’ll come back. Without that, it’s clear you don’t value the time and money I invested.

I’m seeing reports of Black Ops 6 being 300?

But seriously, 130GB isn’t awful considering at the time most people had ALREADY downloaded it in smaller pieces.

The “new” enemies were just re-skinned old enemies.

In fairness, they did stop deleting content… but at the same time they stubbornly refuse to restore the content already deleted…

I loved D1 and D2, putting in literally THOUSANDS of hours, and dropped it like it was hot when they cut out 1/2 the content in the game.  Restore the vaulted content and I’ll come back. Without that, it’s clear you don’t value the time and money I invested.

Applies to consoles too I wonder?

“Sega started as a rock’n’roll breath of fresh air in a Nintendo-dominated world…”

Um… no.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periscope_(arcade_game)

https://youtube.com/shorts/x5rpEyA8toQ

Weren’t there trailers for both during the Game Awards? Seems a pretty big confirmation:

https://youtu.be/ZPvrzaC44pc

https://youtu.be/Y5A83J2rBCE

I saw the trailer and was interested and when I found out it was card based went “Nope!”

I just see all card games like this:

It WAS! For like a week! LOL.

Edit for clarity Concord was in stores.

I heard the gameplay wasn’t awful, it just wasn’t stellar either.

I got as far as seeing it on a store shelf, going “Huh, I didn’t hear about this one…” (Googles) “Live Service!” - “Right then, I’m out!”

See, I’m just not a deckbuilder. The last time I tried was on an IP I had otherwise spent hundreds, if not thousands of hours on… and hated every minute of the card system.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantasy_Star_Online_Episode_III:_C.A.R.D._Revolution

If Midnight Suns had been in the style of the old Diablo-ish Marvel games, I would have been there day 1.

I was going to say “Marvel License”.

If it were just 33 generic characters, or 33 comic book characters nobody ever heard of (Astro City anyone? Anyone?) it would have tanked just like Concord.

But, at the same time, it CAN’T JUST be the license. It’s also free to play.

Look at Marvel Midnight Suns, which wasn’t F2P, had the license, from what I’m TOLD was a decent game, but didn’t go anywhere:

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/strategy/the-devs-of-the-underplayed-marvels-midnight-suns-once-more-blame-the-games-commercial-woes-on-the-cards-i-really-dont-think-it-was-the-cards/

Fortunately our laws aren’t about what’s moral or not. You need religious police for that.

The correct process would have been to issue a takedown request, then go after the domain if nothing was done, they just jumped the gun.

Hence the “super shitty way to do it”. ;)

No, it isn’t.

https://copyright.psu.edu/copyright-basics/fair-use/

"In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include—

the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;

the nature of the copyrighted work;

the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and

the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work."

So, me, making a fan page for FunkoPop versions of the Five Nights at Freddies characters and using their images? THAT’S fair use.

Me charging money for a fan game based on the same Funko versions of those characters is NOT fair use.

“Section 107 of the Copyright Act gives examples of purposes that are favored by fair use: “criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, [and] research.””

Well, if you care about an indie gaming site being shut down for copyright violations, yeah, you might want to actually care about copyright infringement.

What they were doing here though was supporting developers profiting off someone elses IP. It would be like, I dunno, I started an independent Superman movie and was fundraising off that. It’s a little different from piracy.

In the case of the Five Nights at Freddies game, the developer is infringing on not one but TWO properties.

It’s not fair use to use images and names you have not licensed.

See this asshat:

https://youtu.be/Nv8llGq9fkY

https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/s/TCK6HUAFm7

I mean, I don’t blame them for protecting their IP, they just picked a super shitty way to do it.

I don’t even think they would have needed an official cease and desist… just a friendly note of “Hey, none of this Funko material is licensed, please remove it.”

At first I was like “WTF does an indie games site have to do with Funko?” then I Googled it…

Looks like they hosted a BUNCH of infringing games, so Funko, instead of doing the righteous thing and sending them a takedown request, just nuked the whole domain…

At first I was like “WTF does an indie games site have to do with Funko?” then I Googled it…

Looks like they hosted a BUNCH of infringing games, so Funko, instead of doing the righteous thing and sending them a takedown request, just nuked the whole domain…

And then there’s…

82% Positive? Are you shitting me?

I find the same thing, but I’m really questioning the taste of others.

Never really did PC gaming, bought a SteamDeck to get into that ecosystem after seeing all the posts about “ZOMG! STEAM SALE!!!”

Are people just… not discerning? Do you just buy ANYTHING because it’s on sale?

The signal to noise ratio on Steam is just nuts to me… Yeah, some game might be $1.99, 90% off, but if it’s not worth the bandwidth to download, why are you bothering? Do you lack the ability to tell good games from bad games?

Steamdecks aren’t dependent on physical stores to sell hardware.

A digital only storefront will be the end of gaming. We already saw it with the Vita.

People go to a store to buy the hardware:

“Wait, why aren’t there any games?”

If it were just the Autumn sale, stuff like Space Marines II would have a steeper discount and frankly that sale is more than a little aenemic.

Because it’s two years old?

Oh, shit, there’s a sale?

https://store.steampowered.com

Hmmm… old games I already own, games I won’t bother downloading…

Epic Mickey Rebrushed for $30 isn’t bad.
Space Marines II for $47.99 needs a bigger discount…