i know it’s not the important part of your comment, but I must point out that indies will be fine because indies do not have publishing deals. If your studio is beholden to a publisher, then you are by definition not independent.

its only the big publishers that are going to crash, so nothing of value will be lost.

I say “pile” but there’s only two survivors left. imma edit with an image

That reminds me, I should probably move my own pile of clippies from my desk back to the kitchen.

i feel that.

good luck

why not put them all together next to each other, you know, in the bathroom, where you bathe?

yeah, i know. Point is that Nintendo can do whatever they want with the flimsyest excuse.

Nintendo was able to sue palworld using a patent that didn’t exist before palworlds release. It’s not right, but they can do whatever they want regardless of what the law says.

if this happens to me I just won’t watch youtube anymore. It’s mostly garbage content anyway.

pinky swear promise the pardon, get the evidence, then don’t actually pardon.

he can bitch and moan about getting played from prison.

ring doorbells can connect to the Internet through each other. Imagine a fridge made by amazon that uses the same network. Now imagine amazon giving discounts to apartments making it more attractive to cheapskate landlords. I can imagine insurance companies paying amazon surprisingly small sums to make this happen.

different people like different things, sounds like your friends like rougish games.

I enjoyed bastion, it was probably my favorite game of its year. I don’t care enough about hades to even give it the time of day, no matter how hot they made zagreus. With few exceptions, I don’t really like rougish games. The few that I do like I’d rather they be long form rpgs so that I can have a build long enough to enjoy it for a while.

That said, studios should be allowed to make the games they want to make. Forcing them to do art against their will results in bad art.

bleach wouldn’t be allowed today either

it’s not a double negative. it’s repetition for emphasis.

On the one hand, fuck GW, their plastic is too damn expensive for what it is.

On the other hand, respect for paying out profits to the employees. Mad respect, 100%. Wish more companies did that.

Imma try to add something that hasn’t been mentioned in the top comments.

Epic’s refund policy is shit, comparable to nintendo. I buy a game, it doesn’t work, I don’t want to waste my time trying to figure out why, so I ask for refund, Epic said no. I’ve never had this problem at a physical retailer, and I’ve never had this problem with Steam.

Nobody has been able to explain to me how this new game has fucking anything to do with Marathon.

In my opinion, Chasing Shadows was the best tower defense game ever made. It’s a shame that nothing has come around that can compete, even considering how the genre has moved forward since then. Although I say that with some reservations, as even the games that I’ve played that “move the genre forwards” haven’t been very good despite attempting new things.

There’s a new (well relatively) trend of rougish tower defense, one prominent example being Rogue Tower. I’ve played a few of them, they’re all the same. I am very disappointed.

I’m over here wishing for good new tower defense games.

I think I launched my first rocket around 500 hours, but that was long before the 1.0 release and before achievements were added. Played a lot of modded factorio since then, particularly seablock. Not sure how many hours into my current expansion save, but my total is 1440 hours. I still don’t have the “beat the game” cheevo.

I do enjoy seeing the great works that I’ve built, and watching number go up (in this case the tech progress). Quite satisfying, to such a degree that I’ve largely stopped playing incremental games. Watching a new build come to life and begin churning useful product, just, cheffs kiss.

I find it stressful, but I also find it worth it.

I’ve never found anything like it since. Sure, there’s tons of shmups, but none of them blend a zelda-like overworld with dungeons that are shmup levels.