There’s comics about Superman fighting the Klan, where this element of his background is brought up! For a time, the Nazis believe that Superman is “an example of white aryan excellence” before he corrects them.

I think that joke continues with Office Space and The Office, doesn’t it? Always vague comments about paperwork, but no actual direction.

I’ve been seeing clips of it online, and it seems genuinely hard to replicate the kind of confident, bizarro humor applied with so many of its scenes. Especially helps with how many of the “concepts” players can insert to get muddled around in conversation so many ways.

I’m reminded that we often only see “shounen anime” as the main art style of Japan, but they’re very refined at a wide variety of strange, human and less-human appearances.

It’s not that I love my bike. It’s that I love the hundreds of unplayed indie games I bought on Steam more than I would love a car.

Pretty much every song in Elite Beat Agents. Tbf, they get a very interactive emotional buildup to each song. Some examples:

• September
• Canned Heat
• You’re the Inspiration
• The Anthem
• Jumping Jack Flash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxnvGDK0WGM

I mean…I’m not gonna hate them for researching possibilities (there are none). Most of my hate goes to execs that see one (puppeteered) tech demo and resolve to instantly fire all dev teams.

If a company is at least taking a slow, “let’s see what this can do” approach, my bet is they’ll come back in a year saying “…yup, it’s a dumpster fire”.

Last I checked, people with brains have legs. Unless this happens through mass kidnapping, the best way to do this is to have a good place to live.

Brain drain happened during the Nazi uprising, in 2025 after MAGA took over, and it happens at many game companies that treat their employees badly. But it’s generally poor management and a simple external invitation, not a “stealing” effort.

Back around the PS4, I posited theories that we’d hit the “graphical plateau”, and while it was technically possible to make a stronger console, the returns were not great. I was wrong, and we got the PS5, but I don’t think I was wrong by much. It’s nicer to have 60fps and 1080p more reliably, but there’s really nothing urgent going past that - and if I understand right, there’s still a pretty large install base of PS4 users. It even runs some of the latest - did anyone notice games like LEGO Batman: LotDK and Jedi: Survivor somehow run on there?

I think there’s still plenty of ways to pull people’s interests, but it’s not going to be by the same big E3 reveal of some graphical leap. Not like we have E3 anymore anyway.

(I will admit this is a very anti-consumer move, but honestly, the most logical long-term strategy I could see them going for is returning to making large console-exclusive games)

Call it fracturing the resistance if you like, but I avoid streaming services, and I also avoid pirating. I can find enough through library services, PBS subscriptions, and other free, even ad-free offerings.

I don’t like giving media companies the message of “I really am very interested in watching this thing you made! I can’t resist not watching it! I just want to avoid paying for it if I can.”

especially when steam could legit actually tell publishers they can’t kill their games when it’s sold through their platform.

Steam actually does take a hand in this to a degree. For instance, they don’t apply any mechanisms wherein a player who bought a game simply “cannot download it” anymore. They can’t do anything to force online servers to stay up, but for example: You can’t buy the Telltale Law and Order game anymore. I can still download it to my Steam account on any device, because I bought it when it was around.

Steam definitely did not popularize DRM - there’s a reason GabeN is attributed for the “piracy is a service problem” quote. He made Steam because the most common DRM systems of the time were a huge roadblock for gamers. In turn, he created a system that was appealing for both players and publishers; even if it’s not as consumer-open as GOG.

One of the best pieces of legislation in favor of game preservation is Stop Killing Games. Most people you talk with in /Games urgently support it. So far as I have seen, Valve/Steam have not done anything to stand in its way.

Dark Souls players hate this comic

/s

People definitely do defend “lesser evils”.

Like, immigration. A lot of people feel that people should not enter the US undocumented, trending towards high-risk jobs and disengaging from American systems.

But they’d rather have them around, albeit illegally, than hard-push the sociopathic idea we need a Final Solution that uses a masked, domestic terrorist network to collect anyone non-white into concentration camps.

Most sane people focus on solving big-ticket problems in the world, not putting hardline focus on lesser issues. Attacking Steam does not in any significant way resolve wealth disparity across the United States.

I mean, they do that already. You can visibly see how popular PS+ Cloud is. I don’t have exact numbers, but I can see that they don’t do much to advertise it anymore, and that the whole industry saw Stadia and Luna fail.

While I agree with cutting down on “Rtard” as a flippant insult, I haven’t even seen significant uptick on that preference in the left. It’s more likely to me it was seen once, and demonized by the right because it’s easier to hate on some phantom censorship-adjacent concept than it is to have a genuine opinion on something.

The trend of hallucinatory demonization, like “Trans kids are terrorists” or “There’s rampant voter fraud from immigrants” or “You can’t say Christmas anymore” certainly tracks with the rest of the right’s viewpoints.

Okay, so here’s a random joke: A gas station owner asks me whether I’d like leaded or unleaded, and instead of either, I call him a “N%%%ER”, because he’s black, and tell him he should go back to Africa. And say I claim it’s funny, because it’s unexpected and extreme! But also just a joke to be edgy - I’m not “actually racist”!

Would you agree, and find that to be dark humor, or just offensive? Though exaggerated, that’s pretty much what many people deal with in terms of conservative “humor”. Aside from being offensive by any normal view, the secondary crime is they’re not even funny; just baiting for “offense”.

Oh, I can boost this list:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2389830/__ASURA_THE_STRIKER/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2784620/ROGUE_FLIGHT/

Granted some of what we see takes after Space Harrier a bit more. Rogue Flight has some very good VA, at least.

Gaem looks fun! But only one isue. It loks to woke. Also can you add some LGBLT rerpesention? To these bloxk puzzles?

Does this actually relate to indie development? Theres definitely shitty monetization in Asian gacha games, but I don’t think of any of them as indie.

I have actually played crummy games by budding Japanese devs and some of them are true underdog stories with fun gameplay concepts (and often poor translation)