I can’t say Yoko Taro’s work has always landed for me, but I can appreciate the fact that he doesn’t ever half-ass his vision. You can’t really find many other games like Nier and Drakengard out there, so he’s got me interested in whatever he does next.

A lot of people stick with ongoing/live service games as their main mode of play. FFXIV is the majority of my playtime, with Baldur’s Gate 3 really being the only “this year” game I’ve played to a great extent.

Also plugging the Patient Gamers crowd that I find myself aligning more strongly with over time. Waiting to pick up games when they go on sale is not only easier on the wallet, but it is also a better experience overall with way too many developers these days releasing products on a “ship now, fix later” mindset.

It looks like it still tastes amazing, and to me that’s all bread really needs to be. Beauty comes in many forms.

Or it could be said that he found Tesla in the “finders keepers” sense.

It’s also worth noting that Apple was never proven to not be a monopoly, only that Epic couldn’t provide enough evidence to prove that they were. US courts never prove innocence, only guilt.

Google simply could have been worse that Apple at hiding what they were doing, making it easier to find evidence. Or perhaps Epic’s prior failure to provide evidence in the Apple case may have helped prepare them with what to look for this time for the Google one.

Edit: Not to mention that the Google case was decided by a jury, whereas the Apple case was decided through a ruling by a judge, which adds another layer of difference between them.

I am guessing that there will be another small-scale game coming next like the Link’s Awakening remake, but I would absolutely expect the next big budget release to be the third chapter in a BotW/TotK trilogy before they consider taking the series in a new direction.

There is still a bit of a gray area there, though, which is that if you know you are not a subject matter expert, you should try to disclose that.

Hence why “IANAL” is so recurring on any online discussion about legal advice, because you want to offer what insight you can but you definitely don’t want to mislead anyone into believing your potentially dangerous legal advice is authoritative.

It had been mentioned previously. After Sony acquired Bungie, they put them to task on auditing a few other projects to figure out how to optimize the live service models of several upcoming games, with TLoU 2’s multiplayer mode being among them. After Bungie’s assessment was not overly favorable, the project was frozen (in news earlier this year) and now appears to have been officially canceled.

What YouTube sees:

“These videos keep eliciting reactions from users, which means that they prefer to engage with this content. This bodes well for our advertisers.”

It’s probably not legal, but do you have the financial means to take on a large company like Tiktok in a protracted legal battle?

Let’s not pretend this was independently developed. As someone who lived in China, the success of their corporate espionage tactics has become a source of national pride.

By design, the West is completely powerless in China if their tech is stolen and reproduced by Chinese companies. The government encourages this practice and will not participate in any effort to sue or punish the offending company.

Tim Sweeney is a fuckin retard.

Can we please not belittle the mentally disadvantaged by comparing them to Tim Sweeny?

Yeah, I fell into the same situation. I had a YouTube Music family plan that they told me was no longer grandfathered in, so I also switched to Spotify and have been happy with it. In my case, though, I lucked out because I only needed to keep one other person on the plan with me, so I went with the duo plan instead of the family plan and ended up saving money in the end.

If Google wants me back they can offer ad-free YouTube for $2/mo and that’ll be back as it was. That’s really the only thing I still miss, because god knows the music player itself wasn’t great.

Buildings are more than just the bricks they’re made of. They’re symbols which are associated with the regimes and social institutions that made them.

For instance, the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001 was not random choice, it was because the buildings stood for capitalistic greed and the way in which the United States wields capitalism as a weapon to exert dominance against other nations.

I think it’s a waste, this whole war is an atrocity and Israel should have stopped at day 1, but it’s not like the destruction of this building is just a spite move against the common people. It’s a courthouse used to enforce laws from a regime that the invading force is trying to overthrow. It’s like the British burning down the White House in the War of 1812.

I mean, I get it. I don’t support it, but I get it. Hamas is the government of Gaza, and Israel is trying to overthrow Hamas. This is a Hamas building that they use to exert power, which is Israel’s justification for destroying it.

I feel like the notifications section is just superfluous. Why not just display notifications in the chat and server tabs?

The only change I think is really good here is the separation of chat and servers. I’m really indifferent to everything else.

I often find that happens if it notifies a different device first. Discord tries to figure out where you are “active” and notify you only there, so if you do something on a PC with Discord installed, it won’t ping your phone until it assumes you’re not looking at the PC anymore.

On the one hand, I sympathize with anyone losing access to How It’s Made and Mythbusters. But for everything else on that list, that money was already thrown away for no good reason. I’d like to hope the audiences were small or non-existent to begin with.

Sony is doing the world a favor by purging most of that garbage from their service, to be perfectly honest.

I think the main issue with that one is that they’ve become homophones in a lot of regional accents, a secondary part of it is that they are semi-related concepts, and the third part of it is that there are also technically noun and verb versions of each.

X affects Y, X has an effect on Y.

The affected happiness effect effected a positive affect.

Hoping they can get the multiplayer mod fixed after this update. Been playing bit by bit with a friend which has been fun, but it’s a travesty we have to rely on a mod because multiplayer wasn’t supported by default like basically every Tales game to come before.