idk what it is about kids these days that makes them so funny but in any case my friend just told us about how her younger sister babysits for a 7 and 9 yr old and one day they said they wanted to play “bus drivers” and they made wheels and everything but then the game was just being bus drivers at a union meeting discussing their problems
Bethesda dropped the fattest stink bomb the gaming industry has seen in a decade
Blizzard put two shots in the back of Diablo’s head
Sony not doing E3, necking Japanese devs
Microsoft hasn’t been relevant in gaming since the XBone’s subpar release
Meanwhile Nintendo is fucking drowning in Switch success because they actually know how to, y’know, make video games.
Who knew Nintendos strategy of ‘Just, like, make game’ would be the winner?
remember last week when nintendo sued a family for $12million for pirating games that have been out of print for decades
such heroic saviors of videogames
Also “Just, like, make game” was their strategy with the Wii U. Which was a commercial failure. Their strategy with the Switch is “Just, like, re-release game we made and charge 60 dollars for it”
I think their devs put out some great games and they’re the last big bastion of japanese game design but everyone gives them way too much goodwill, some of the shit they pull as a publisher and console maker would not fly anywhere else. And this narrative that they’re always “just making good games!” is inaccurate and contributes to them continuing to do really not at all fair things and not get challenged on them because they have near-infinite goodwill.
nintendo has a lot of really fantastic IPs under its belt, and a lot of classic games with a shit ton of nostalgia and the near-infinite goodwill you’re mentioning stems largely from those factors as well as their general refusal to go the ‘gritty realism sells’ that a lot of mainstream series on ps/xbox go, opting more for their well-known fantasy look & feel
however as it stands even as someone who is incredibly fond of gaming experiences nintendo has brought me, their actual business practices and their often boneheaded release/distribution garbage are both shitty and greedy and should rightly be criticized, on top of the whole emulation fiasco which is just upsetting
this but i’m in no way fond of nintendo and am well aware of them having always been a shitty and predatory force in the global market. there’s a reason nintendo games don’t get much third party releases from developers who had to work with them when they were a monopoly, people.
In 2019 we grow from sex positivity to sex responsibility, meaning we:
call out shitty people who are just abusers and using kink/polyamory to mask it and stop supporting them
recognize that sometimes hypersexuality can be a form a self-harm for some people
keep kinks and fetishes in appropriate spaces and not bringing them out into general public spaces and thereby involving people in scenes they aren’t consenting to
understand that some fetishes are inherently unhealthy and some illegal to actually engage in for good reason and ignoring that is irresponsible at best
For years I’ve been searching for a good “remastered” version of Dialga’s Fight to the Finish. But not a single person has been able to capture the feeling of power and desperation in the song- the reality of the situation. They’re all just kind of ok remixes of the song that have a pop-music inspiration to them. This is why I believe the original will never be, and cannot be topped by any other; in this essay I will be-
you know these moments when a friend just casually says something that validates your friendship, like just refers to something as “our place” or “our thing” and suddenly your heart is auditioning for Cirque du Soleil and days later you’re still thinking about it
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