I think there’s a very clear disconnect between players who want a power fantasy, versus players who want a challenging strategy game.

I notice a lot of players fall into the trap of only building for the deck itself, trying to force the kinds of hyperoptimized archetype decks you would see in a constructed TCG. The game allows for a lot of flashy combos that can feel like an unstoppable force, but if their deck only ever does one thing they will encounter some enemy that feels like an immovable object because it counters that one thing.

But then rather than accounting for that enemy’s existence and diversifying their deck to be able to handle it, they rush to the Steam forums to complain that the enemy was unfair. Because the deck was good, it had this cool combo in it, and that combo beat everything else up until this point, so clearly this good deck shouldn’t have lost!

It’s like building a team of all Fire-type Pokemon that only know Fire-type moves, and wondering why you can’t beat the Water gym.

What kind of ‘something’ do you want me to do?

Fatigue. There’s just been so much and it’s kinda fucking draining if you stay plugged in to it all. It’s not like doomscrolling will make the situation any better either.

Also like, that was kind of the point of Don’t Look Up. People do just shut these things out. If you understood the movie you should know the answer to your question.

NateTheHate is claiming it’s Ocarina of Time.

Simple, I can’t play Kirby Air Riders or Splatoon 3 on PC. And while I still prefer the form factor of Nintendo’s old smaller dedicated handhelds, I think the Switch (2) is still at least a little bit better at being a handheld than the much bulkier Steam Deck.

(Don’t say emulation, because even then I still can’t play online on official servers.)

Can BlueSky really be called decentralized when 99% of it is bluesky.social?

First party games do, with the lone exception of Pokopia. Yoshi and the Mysterious Book, the game they’re announcing this new pricing difference for, is a proper cartridge.

I’m not happy about it, but I think it’s kind of inevitable. It’s not a question of if, but when, and it’s not only going to be Nintendo.

Not sure what you’re trying to say. The costs will get passed on to consumers. They already are, but that’d be even moreso.

Making read/writeable cartridges would increase manufacturing costs even more.

I guess it makes sense, digital should be cheaper. But I can’t shake the feeling that this might be the last generation for physical media. They’re obviously aiming to phase it out, and I don’t think it’s a matter of if, but when.

TBH, in a world with DLC and major patches, how much does physical media still matter anymore? My Splatoon 3 cart contains a 1.0 that is very very very different from the current game today, is that really any better than these controversial Game Key Cards?

I say all of this as someone who still buys physical whenever possible, but even I start to wonder if there’s still a point in that or if I’m a dinosaur clinging to what’s already dead.

In theory, if the technology worked very differently from the way it does now, I could envision a world in which AI NPCs could have potential. But knowing how LLMs actually work, knowing that a lot of the hype behind them is smoke and mirrors, I can’t see it being viable. And with the trajectory that the LLM bubble is going, I just don’t think it will ever reach a point where I’d trust it.

They’re gonna tell you this is the only way to be sure that routers don’t contain a backdoor. They’re gonna tell themselves this is the only way to be sure that routers do contain a backdoor.

It is theatrics. They know they’ve already got literally the entire userbase on their server, so none of this actually matters.

When Bluesky inevitably enshittifies, they take the whole network down with them.

BlueSky pays lip service to federation, but they’ve set it up so that they’ve got effective control of 99% of the network. It’s a sham to convince people they’re different from every other corporate-owned social media platform, but it really isn’t.

It feels like activity has dropped off a bit since the last Reddit exodus. And I worry that this platform is never going to see the kind of critical mass I’d want out of it, to be big enough that I can use it to discuss more niche topics and fandoms than what’s currently on offer here. I see communities get made and die off on the regular from people who want to use this platform they way they used Reddit but quickly realize they can’t.

I’m still here because I believe in the ideals of a federated platform, but I just don’t know what the future holds at this rate.

Some instances have this baked in as a way to anonymize downvotes, these accounts are not real accounts but are just federated to other instances so they can’t see what actual account the downvote came from. I believe this is now a standard PieFed feature.

IMO, making downvotes public was kind of a mistake of the protocol. There’s a reason why most software stopped showing them publicly, but the fact that they’re there on the backend means a determined user can peek to find out who to get mad at, and I think that’s a problem.

If we say we don’t like and it looks hideous, what exactly are we wrong about? “Actually you really love it!” Fuck off, you can’t force us to like your slop no matter how much you try to shove it down our throats.

Almost anything you can name, I’ve probably played it.

If I had to pick just one, I think Petal Crash is the best thing that’s happened to the genre in over a decade. Maybe even the only good thing that’s happened to the genre in over a decade…

I’ve tried applying to internships too, but nearly every internship position I see says they are explicitly looking for current students or graduates within the past year. I think my degree is too old to get in now.