Its been like this for much longer too. I'm still mad they closed FASA game studio.

It's worth mentioning this is deliberately worded to sound as bad as possible. Q2 is down from Q1 (it always is), and revenue is down but so are expenses as unprofitable stores are closed (remember when your local mall had two of them?)

The company was profitable in this last quarter, but only barely. There was an operational loss, but interest on the massive $4Bn war chest pushed it over. This isn't great, but marks a real improvement over hemorrhaging money which it was doing before. Its also the first profitable Q2 in years. The year of 2023 turned a narrow profit and 2024 is on track to be a little better.

Hate GameStop all you want (and by all means, frequent your local indie game store). But keep in mind that business wise, someone still feels the need to spend money on 'attack' articles like this one.

Anybody else playing the new satisfactory update?

Discord got big in online gaming because they offered a VOIP and text chat browser cliemt. Just copy or type the short link and you're in in a minute. They also did free hosting which was huge.

Compared to Teamspeak or Ventrilo, literally just eliminating the steps of downloading a client, installing it, and typing in an IP address caused them to explode overnight. Also you could "host" without changing router settings (most kids/students have to ask their parents or jump through hoops for this).

Technically there was stuff like Skype but that never had the convenient team speak style chat rooms to drop in and out of freely.

Within months of suddenly getting popular, discord had a huge userbase that everybody was using already, and that momentum got us to the point where in some aspects its even replacing the role of wiki's and forums even though its terrible at it.

And they killed most of their Jewish population! Wait...

Missed opportunity for vtubers

I am sure your ardent support for thought policing will never backfire!

The FBI and most major media corporations hid the hunter biden laptop scandal from the public during the 2020 elections. CNN, ABC, NPR, twitter, Facebook and more colluded with the FBI to claim the incident was fake, despite eyewitness accounts confirming much of the information. Twitter banned users for spreading "misinformation". The FBI quietly admitted the laptop was real after the election. No apologies were issued, many news networks issued no correction.

Whose side is the media on again?

Don't get me started on how some CNN/NPR listeners I knew thought kyle Rittenhouse shot first at black protestors even up to the the conclusion of the trial...

You're glad your grandparents are dead, are you sure you're not the crazy, untrustworthy one?

Never played a Ys game, but I like falcom for some of Trails games I've played, and Gurumin. Anyone who played these recommend one to start with?

This sounds like subtitles for a DVD commentary track, which were probably supposed to be a separate subtitle track but weren't for some reason (or your player defaulted to them alphabetically).

I'd be angry if you told me 4chan had an "algorithm" too... It had a raw ass bump order and that's it (does that reward rage bait? Kinda yeah but so does any activity metric). Algorithms design to guess what posts you want to see are the worst part of modern social media which refuses to just show you all of a user or group's posts in order.

The cabinet, and the heads of federal agencies who are appointed by the president (everything from the FBI to the EPA), is doing the actual running of the country. In particular Biden just signs off on whatever they tell him to, as an individual, I don't think he has been making any serious foreign policy decisions himself.

If you happen to stumble on the DS version, that is a pretty good port too.

I played without a guide, and I think I got stuck like that in a couple places later on but eventually got through it. Honestly though if you're stuck and no longer having fun figuring it out just use a guide so you can see the rest of the game, nobody said you had to be that kind of patient gamer.

China might have some real scientific progress going on, but the country has also become a notorious diploma mill and peer review mill, publishing absolute trash. https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/scientists-aghast-at-bizarre-ai-rat-with-huge-genitals-in-peer-reviewed-article/

Yes, it's only on the Play Date, which is a $200 console aimed at kids. The gimmick is you can download a bunch of exclusive games for free, but its still a very low power console with one gimmick (the crank) which costs as much as a switch lite.

Yeah, he was just snorting sawdust off that stripper's back.

We have the man who wrote those words expanding upon them to say what he meant, and you're still saying "actually he meant something else."

Good to know they uphold this text by not publicly murdering and raping random civilians in their homes and proudly sharing the video.

"People online are so rude! All I did was ask a few questions, but everybody keeps calling me a faq!"

No

Good to know. I've been going nuts trying to make a community on and off for like a week and it just won't go through when I press the button, I get stuck watching the spinning circle. I tried a couple different devices/browsers too. Hopefully it clears up on its own.

I just want to append that a "rampantly fascist troll farm" would be something like The Stormfront, which hosts literal neo-nazis, or possibly 4chan's /pol/ forum, where Jewish conspiracies are blamed for all the world's ills and... only maybe 1/2 to 2/3 of the users are saying that ironically. These are real websites with real people, and if you are used to Reddit as your main social media, I would urge you to take a look just once and get an example of what actual hate speech looks like. That is, illegal in the UK, or could be used as evidence to increase the sentence in conjunction with a guilty verdict for violent crime in the US. Trumptard/trans-skeptic is no the same as rampantly fascist.

I only ask to reserve the use of the word for two reasons. One, the real thing is out there and we shouldn't forget it. Two, accusing someone of attempting a fascist takeover of the government which would end democracy... is a pretty good excuse to take over the government and end democracy. It's the same sort of thing as saying someone's words are "violent" towards you in an attempt to justify (real) violence towards them.

Is this supposed to be for admin reports only, or mod reports? I'd be nervous about community outsiders doing moderation. If its admin only then theres less wiggle room with rules and it is potentially more appeal-able. I still think the potential for crappy calls is pretty high.

Nay.

Yup. I went to go log in on desktop and I can't do it right now... lol

Could just play the OG version too. PC version needs a couple tweaks to run well, but it will cost you peanuts. Whether it's a better or worse experience than the remake is arguable.

Could just play the OG version too. PC version needs a couple tweaks to run well, but it will cost you peanuts. Whether it's a better or worse experience than the remake is arguable.

I have a better success rate on desktop than on mobile. I have had a lot of posts actually fail to go through, the spinning circle is not merely a UI bug.

Is anyone else having trouble posting? I've had a lot of times when posts/comments fail to go through ("post" button stays as a spinning circle). Sometimes I can get it after a couple times, but I've been stubbornly trying to reply to one comment in c/games all day with no success, despite posting a thread there and making some other posts.

Yeah. I'm not necessarily asking how to do this for myself, but if this would be in-demand as a new feature, because I think i see some problems it could solve. I don't want to return to Reddit's system where the front page is heavily curated by admins but i think this could be less of a culture shock for some people.

If you're interested in the topic, I recommend you give the paper itself a look, it's pretty readable and not too dense.

Wew, I'm glad we didn't lose our chance at another good game out of this. I just hope they've retained their key staff. Sometimes when we see a disaster like this come out of EG Bioware, I think its because the name is the only thing left of the original game dev company.

How would people feel about a feature where instances have a default user block list, or, hide certain communities from the front page unless a user specifically searches them out. Similar to how EG some instances hide NSFW unless you are logged in, it prevents newbies from having their front page show them stuff that's going to get them outraged at the whole site.

That could be a better solution than defederating some instances, like burggit, where users here are just mad about having a few weird porn communities shown to them. Ideally, communities could opt in the this flagging as well if they want to be less discoverable. Booru sites do this with default blacklist tags, for example, and it's been a successful way of having their cake and eating it too with regard to having normies and weirdoes on the same site and avoiding controversy.

Me, personally, I wouldn't mind if ONLY lemmygrad stayed defeated, but there's going to be more issues like this in the future.

Is there a community for older multiplayer games, specifically? What's a blast from the past with a good community, or what's a game with dead multiplayer you wish you could find people to organize a match for? My big one would be a Crimson Skies multiplayer. I never played classic CS multiplayer at all, and High Road to Revenge multiplayer died with original Xbox Live, but you might still be able to get a system link game going if you had enough friends and xboxes.