gamestop is developing games now?

that relationship always seemed too close regardless.

Mine broke just by sitting in the couch with it in my pocket. That was a huge lost opportunity.

yeah you should have hurled it at a fascist.

edit: ooh the fascists are sensitive today!

it would be so awesome if we could just ship all the fascists to a prison planet with no oxygen.

yeah it’s really got a bad name in the game dev community. but they don’t give a shit and seem to double down on the troubling aspects of their business model. imho the rest of the community is afraid of the kind of regulation and oversight this bullshit will bring.

it’s a child labor machine

you can see the publishers just going out of business because of all that woke money. oh wait. $184.3 billion. nevermind lol

yeah, you’re right, they’re just a chud.

Your bubble is about to pop, thanks to trump.

I mean, goddamn… chudtastic take

you’re a sad little chud. gonna block you now, have a wretched life.

SteamOS

the way I see it, steam machines led to SteamOS, which will lead to a true steam living room console.

so you can’t tell me when.

because you know, it’s always been that way.

what a fucking sad life that must be to lead, to know, yet deny it with every fiber of your being because you can’t accept.

Keep living in your bubble and being angry at the world, it sounds fun!

lol you’re so isolated from reality you can’t even tell

The rest of us just don’t want it shoved down our throats.

and when you put storytelling of any kind that way, it tells me who you really are.

no one is shoving anything down your throat sweetie, you paid your money for a game before checking it out. that’s your mistake, not the devs.

The mere presence of a POC or trans character isn’t bothersome to most people.

but some people LOSE THEIR ABSOLUTE SHIT over it lol.

fuck em, let them die angry.

before it was filled with activists.

and exactly when was this? lol

when did all the activists take over. Pong?

Colecovision?

All they can do is reply Ok while they downvote your valid opinion, because anything else they say will reveal how much it upsets them that people hate nazis and their supporters.

lolol

how many people have to die from hurricanes and heat waves before these idiots realize they’re celebrating the fucking problem.

and coal rollers, holy shit, these assholes

unreal has, at least since the 2010s, an engine that focuses on AAA looks and advanced features. 5 amped that up with nanite and other gpu stressful tech.

I personally found UE4 to be a bloated dev environment, but ymmv.

lol… do you think that only coders go to gdc?

pfftt…hahahah ah, this is hilarious.

Jeff Bezos is a top paid developer at Amazon

and btw, jeff doesn’t even work at amazon anymore.

other games to take your attention:

https://thrice.geekswhodrink.com/ - trivia!

https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/ geography!

interesting points, especially about the evolution in language / perceptions re: dwarves. I’ve heard dragon age being described as ‘fantasy, but more mature’; I played the first game and it didn’t click.

and hilariously, Nintendo uses emulation themselves.

https://gamerant.com/nintendo-emulating-own-games-museum-windows-pc/

Hypocritical fucks

they’re streaming world data. I shudder to think about the size of the entire dataset.

the tech debt effect is hilarious

Seems like the gamergate chuds are trying to make stories happen in a bunch of places.

my understanding from a tech artist friend was that simple things like adding a new shader would take a day to make it into their continuous integration builds, making it ridiculous compared to unity/unreal/etc. this was 2019-ish

Hardly Microsoft alone. Sony sunk billions into Bungie. Around 20%+ OF THE TOTAL WORKFORCE have been laid off at bungie just in 2024.

there is a girl

?

Kronos’s openXR is looking great on Godot. They’re making good choices and it’s advancing rapidly on the fronts I care about.

I mean, it only took a year…

oof. what the hell man. meanwhile I moved onto Godot and it’s pretty nifty.

troof.

same with Jaimie Lee Curtis but sometimes we need projects like this to teach us humility.

that’s fair. I suspect their relationship with gamestop, which had it’s own mini-e3 for a while, led to a ton of great content discovery that many journalists didn’t get access to back in the day.

the mag has been a loss leader used to drive traffic into the stores for preorders. it was always pretty slanted, I suspect it’s just been too expensive (as have all printed magazines lately) with too few subscribers to justify the outlay.

a reputable name

?

they were wholly owned by gamestop. their magazine was a lever to drive gamestop subscriptions and upsells. y’all worried about kotaku crack me up, if there were real ethics in game journalism a supposedly independent publication reviewing the products wouldn’t be owned by the largest vendor of the products.

Eh… they were beholden to the games industry as much as any publication, and perhaps more due to their ownership.

Hotline Miami

yussss… solid working music too.

yuuuuUUup. both companies had a golden goose, bungie gave it away to pursue the glory that is, uh, destiny… there’s a wizard on the moon lol. ms decided to stick with the IP and start beating that horse to death post haste lol

You seem to thinking I somehow like or whatever Russia?

you asserted complete and utter bullshit that was easily verifiably false. I don’t know what your deal is, but when you walk up and start saying ‘nah the russians ain’t that bad’ you’re fuckin sus in my book hoss.

I am saying this so people remember that most are there for the money, not because someone forces them. Stop letting them off the hook, blaming someone else.

yeah like the migrants the russians kidnap and force to the front, they’re in it for the money?

putin is evil. russia is evil. trying to ascribe rational thoughts to an adversary reduced to throwing meat waves, whos only advances come through absolute destruction of the cities they claim to capture, its a fool’s errand. no troop who walks behind you and shoots the deserters is your friend.

There are no blocking units.

bwhahaha you can’t be that dumb?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67234144

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/27/russian-soldiers-commanders-used-barrier-troops-stop-retreating

https://www.newsweek.com/video-shows-russian-military-shooting-own-retreating-troops-ukraine-media-1806118

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/01/18/theyre-just-choosing-where-to-die-when-russias-poorly-trained-stormtroopers-retreat-russian-barrier-troops-gun-them-down/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxRr9GiHDVk

It’s not ‘one sketchy video’ it’s reality, Vlad.

But hey, I’m sure idiot waves on quads and dirtbikes is superior russian tactical advance, not just because anything larger gets blown to tiny russian meat mist.

yeah russia’s ability to send mid-20th century mbt’s to ukraine for scrapping by drone has been wild.

my fav is the turtle cage, the gigantic boxes of welded metal where the turret can’t move and they don’t even provide the gun with ammo, just use it as some kind of giant shit troop transport.

I know russia uses blocking units to keep their forces from retreating but they also must have some kind of prodding battalions just to get these poor shitbags to the front line in the first place, there’s no fucking way I’d hop on a chinese quad or ride some battery powered scooter into combat but we’re seeing it every fucking day.