'Tis a bit of a thorn in one’s side, aye.

Look to something like wordpress.org or writefreely.org if you want to self host. If you want a free hosting platform, weirdly enough, blogger still exists, or you can use wordpress.com.

Is this something communities could opt out of? Not everyone wants their community flooded with comments from people replying to people who aren’t even community members.

Exactly. Nintendo is not our friend, but it’s also playing by the rules it has available to it. It’s the rulemaker’s fault if the rules are shite.

As a publically traded company in the current system, Nintendo is not in the business of making video games, it’s in the business of making shareholder value. Video games are just a tool for doing that, exactly how a PC is a tool for writing documents or developing software. At the end of the day, companies have more than one tool at their disposal, and are going to use all of them to compete.

It’s on us to take away the tools we don’t think they should have access to, not on them to voluntarily not use the ones that are in play.

If you don’t have a 649.2.2 Atmos setup, that’s your fault. Get hearing loss, scrub!

/s because… sigh…

Regular reminder that prices are not based on what something’s component pieces are worth, but what people are willing to pay.

Nah. This is the sort of thing you get when different features are owned by different dev teams.

Didn’t spend all of their time arguing about idological purity online and actually pushed to achieve their agenda.

It’s patently bizarre how a company whose only purpose is transferring money from account A to B can then arbitrarily decide what people are allowed to buy and sell.

This is the whole point of capitalism. Those who control the systems, control the people, and capital exists to ensure that the people do not control the systems.

Yup. This is purposeful mischaracterization from one of the biggest boosters of games-as-a-streaming-product. Ubisoft doesn’t want you to have the ability to play things at your whim, but exclusively at theirs. They sure as fuck don’t want you spending your time on something they sold you 10 years ago.

Don’t worry, this isn’t something they actually believe. They’re just trying to craft a narrative. I worked there for 5 years, and in that whole time nobody on the publishing end of the company said anything that even hinted at them giving a shit about fun.

they devolved into being part of the establishment.

I like how they think voting for people who most benefit from the system and who the system is made for and modelled after was never the mistake. Those people just weren’t strong enpugh, somehow, to be corrupted by that system.

Quick Time Events; characters that automatically do 60 things just by holding down “forward” on the joystick; the Ubisoft logo.

The Internet is populated by people who think English grammar is cosmic law, so it doesn’t surprise me that they think you should bend over for dogshit urban planning.

Ironically, none of them follow the rule of shutting up if they don’t know shit about shit.

Green spaces: Just for viewing.

What kind of dystopian hellscape do you want the world to be, exactly?

Sure. Neoliberalism won. Anyone not a part of the privaate equity class lost.

As someone who isn’t part of the private equity class, I ain’t fucking celebrating.

Gotta keep going. Not all signatures are going to be legit, so a reasonable buffer needs to be in place.

“What would you rather people who struggle to stack water cases be doing to earn a living? Flying planes? Heart surgery?”

It’s not that hard to throw up a website that allows user uploads. The community can replace iN in a heartbeat. They bought into their brand as the important thing, and not the contributors, and now they’re probably going to slowly waste away.

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