I have a PC. I only pay for gamepass to play 360 games online. PC doesn’t help me play 360 exclusives online or games that are a risk to play online on PC due to RCE exploits like the 360 era CoDs

Can they release an Xbox live subscription with no games? $120 a year for online is ridiculous

I’m assuming that it’s referring to pokemon champions being very broken on release and speculated to be vibe coded due to nature of some of the bugs. But it’s not exclusive to switch 2 as far as I know. So maybe it’s just putting the cart before the horse and assuming Gen 10 will be slop as well. I haven’t played Pokemon since the 3DS (and the last games were so boring that I couldn’t even finish them anyway)

I’m a Microsoft MVP.

I don’t reboot my computer I just reformat and reinstall every time I start it.

Bro you just need to run sfc /scannow one more time. Just trust me bro

Unless indie devs are getting guarantees for revenue that aren’t tied to playtime numbers I don’t see how these indie devs aren’t just getting scammed.

It would seem like they would be better off by figuring out how much money they’d need to put into advertising to make the same amount of sales to make the same or more revenue than they would by putting them on a subscription

You know the way that Nintendo releases an unfinished and barely function game monetized with micro-transactions makes me think capitalism might be problematic

I almost never see politics in my feed. But Lemmy itself was created by leftist communists, it was never built to be a politics free space

It takes manual curation if you want to avoid it

It’s biblical, the love of money is the root of every evil. It’s easier for a camel to pass through an eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

Even if you don’t believe, it’s as clear now as it was 2000 years ago that money absolutely corrupts.

If you called them out someone could show support if so inclined.

He did lead off with he enjoyed Reddit. The Lemmy corner of the fediverse is a very different culture than today’s Reddit (although I think it feels just like 2012 Reddit).

If a new users were to be outside these norms on Lemmy (such as a AI slop enjoyer or Windows 11 user) then it would probably feel hostile.

I guess the question would be for OP, are you willing to stick around and possibly change some of Lemmy’s culture, your own mind, or possibly both? Or are you just looking for a corporate approved hivemind echo chamber clone of Reddit?

Not that this place can’t be an echo chamber, but federation prevents that so much more than on Reddit. Lemmy has no financial incentive to push an agenda or rhetoric; it’s all grassroots

Every person that logs in and interacts in good faith in some way is useful to Lemmy.

You are free to switch distros

No one is forcing you to use a distro that uses systemd

Threats against a developer, no matter whether he’s a chud or not; is unacceptable, unhinged behavior. You have a remedy that isn’t harassment. Just don’t use his software

The premise of this article is wrong. It should say “Live Service” gaming. In the article itself it admits that Arc Raiders was a hit and it’s because it’s a “live service” game that isn’t ran as a live service game. It’s just a fun multiplayer game just like Halo 3 or old Call of Duty. If games were still made to be fun instead of over engineered money extractors then there would still be plenty of room for hits.

But capital doesn’t want a decent return on a hit. They want a money printer like Fortnite and so they’d rather take bigger risks to hook and abuse players into gambling addictions and forever recurring revenue machines than just make the good games that players are asking for that make their budget back and then some

This will probably be unpopular but the leftist - liberal infighting is my least favorite part of the fediverse and why I usually end up having to give people a warning before telling them to get on the fediverse.

This drama is kind of the epitome of that

Apple: “Brainwashed”

iMessage: “Beginner”

Well which one is it?

People don’t hate veganism as much as they don’t appreciate being judged for their choices and chastised by other adults for beliefs that they don’t share.

Personally I have no problem respecting the beliefs of people who are vegan due to their personal morals. Until they start disrespecting the beliefs of others who don’t agree with them with regards to meat, then they become annoying.