Forgive me, but to me not experiencing sexual attraction reads the same as “not being interested” because you don’t experience sexual attraction. (Why would you be interested in something you have no attraction to?) Cheers.

Not being interested in sex is different than not being interested in a game? That’s how I read it, anyway. Apologies if it came off otherwise.

I don’t play Kart or Smash because I don’t own Nintendo consoles anymore and haven’t in a hot decade.

I guess that just makes me old ha. An old fogey not in the streets or in the sheets.

Welp, you don’t get a choice, you’re asexual now whether you like it or not. Meme says it, so it’s true.

Be, uh, careful with that barrel roll.

Kirby for smash

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Yeah because Sony’s been making real solid business decisions lately to retain players.

Like Helldivers 2 is still a wild success story, right? Right??

Oh… Wait… I guess they alienated a bunch of customers with that.

Or well, what about the PS5, I mean, it’s the most popular cons-

Oh… Wait… It’s priced so high for the PS5 Pro that people are buying PCs and they increased the prices of their already absurdly priced controllers with stick drift issues again.

Rootkit Sony, you mean those fucks? Never forget.

Megan Ellison sounds like a terrible chip off the old block of Larry Ellison.

This sucks for all the developers and sucks for the people who resigned since Ellison obviously doesn’t care about their concerns.

People like you describe don’t want to play the game

I think this is part of the problem I have.

Are they still pressing buttons and making input? Yes.

Thus, they’re still playing the game.

If you want to sound less judgmental, stop saying they’re not “playing” it or that “they don’t want to play it” just because they’re not “playing it the way I think is right.”

If you really think its okay, accept that when they are still pressing buttons and interacting with the game, they are still functionally playing the game. Not playing the game is watching a Let’s Play.

It’s a pointless distinction rooted in treating people who want an easy mode as “lesser” because “they don’t want to actually play the game.” Sorry, sick of hearing it worded this way.

I think easy game modes take away what a great game makes a great game.

But a lot of people are coming to gaming from traditional media where there is no interaction. A lot of those people like the narratives in games, but don’t love beating a challenge. A lot of those people are tired from long days at work and do not get joy from eking out a win. To them, it feels like a chore, and they didn’t get into this to do chores. They got into it to get away from the stress of the world.

(EDIT: Forgot to mention, this is also why Let’s Play youtubes are popular. I know a guy who doesn’t game at all but has watched full playthroughs of things like Firewatch.)

If you get enjoyment from great game mechanics, more power to you. However, that doesn’t mean those game mechanics are less impactful in story driven games where the gaming is “easier.”

My partner didn’t play games at all until those old Walking Dead games by Telltale came out. They were like a TV show, and she started playing them… because it was like “playing” one of her favorite shows at the time. I literally chose them to introduce her to gaming because it was more like a TV show than a game.

She recently finished Baldur’s Gate 3 on normal and its her favorite game now. So games with easy difficulty levels can also help people who have never gamed before be able to get into it and eventually love the more difficult challenge.

Anything where you’re more interested in the story than the challenge.

So… story-driven games.

But it’s unclear whether the original creator of Flappy Bird, Dong Nguyen, is a part of the game’s relaunch.

The Flappy Bird Foundation said it acquired the rights to the game from Gametech, LLC, which isn’t associated with Nguyen.

Why would he want to be part of it? Didn’t it really fuck up his life? Wasn’t that part of why he took it offline??

Seems like everyone else’s happy memories of it make them seem to forget that this was not a happy moment for him.

In the article they make clear that the rights to it wasn’t bought from Nguyen, speaking to the idea that’s he’s already sold the rights to Flappy Bird before, and likely has no interest in returning to it.

I can call ‘Flappy Bird’ is a success of mine. But it also ruins my simple life. So now I hate it. It is not anything related to legal issues. I just cannot keep it anymore. I also don’t sell ‘Flappy Bird’, please don’t ask.

This is what Nguyen said when he took it down.

I don’t know what they’re talking about anyway, my Dreamcast is still kicking, ain’t dead.

one of gaming’s most beautiful failures

that’s def how my parents thought of me at 25 while playing Dreamcast.

Hasbro can make that demand for sure, but the code is out there.

Copies of the game with the code are already downloaded, including GOG versions which don’t have any DRM.

Those copies are not going to go anywhere.

Hasbro will not be able to sue every single person who has access to these tools to delete them.

😱

Actually, yeah I can. Every time a fucking bean-counter makes a living humans life worse at their job to save the company a buck is a great time to blame accountants for doing their fucking jobs.