Nuclear block plus a culture of not feeding the trolls means the only toxic accounts I’ve run across are just a day or two old. Block and move on. The experience can only be as negative as each user lets it be.

Don’t worry, though. It’s not in development hell, it’s going to be a AAAAA game, and that takes time.

“Two popular games with little else in common can be shoehorned into my pet narrative” is a bad title, though.

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Sony deleting purchased items from a person’s library?

Shocker.

It’s all about publishing something, even if it’s hollow click bait.

If you know the details, put the year in the search. “c.h.u.d. 1984” gets six results.

Internet Archive has tons of relevant magazines. This Old House, ShopNotes, etc.

Pure speculation: of the people who don’t like Epic, maybe 25% are legitimate, principled objections to their business practices. The rest are split evenly between people who just want to manage their entire library on a single platform, and folks just going along for the hate-ride because it seems like the “safe” position to take.

From a technical stance, Steam and GOG are superior platforms (for different reasons). For equal-price purchases, I can’t think of a single reason to choose Epic over other options. But claiming a game for free? That doesn’t make anyone a bad person.

It’s not in any of the articles, but in dropbox forums:

The Third-Party AI features are not available to everyone yet. The features are in alpha and are only available to customers on Dropbox Professional, Essentials, Business, Business Plus, and some customers on Dropbox Standard and Advanced.

If you’re on a Basic, Plus or Family account, or you’re part of one of the other groups that don’t yet have access, the Third-Party AI features won’t be available to you.

VPN to Sweden, update Windows to the EEA version, profit?

I’m not holding my breath, but we can hope.

Right. Here’s how it works: Your game is on Gamepass, and a user installs it. Now instead of Microsoft paying you $0.15, then you paying Unity $0.10, Microsoft will just pay us directly the $0.10, and you still get your $0.05! See, it’s a great deal! Everybody gets their money and you don’t even have to deal with the Unity costs! Please, don’t go!!

The opening credits for Secret Invasion were reportedly done (at least partially) with AI.

Everytown Law is about to get a lesson on how Section 230 works.

Live Service Game, the idea…I find unappealing and just plain skippable. Live Service Game, the phrase…is so much better than “Game as a Service.”

But hey, not every game/genre/delivery method is going to appeal to everybody. The industry is big enough to cater to multiple niches, even if some are much (much, much) bigger than others. I’m happy that people can find whatever game they like, and I can find my favorites as well. That doesn’t make anybody more correct than the other.

Right, much better to trust the luddites to make tech policy. 🙄