He’s more eloquent than I am

Gamepass is less choice, not more. We’re not having a discussion from the point such an evident fact is beyod your grasp. Then you mount an emotional defense rich in ad hominem. You don’t get to pretend to take the high road when using a reality distortion field to argue for megacorp dumping practices.

Also, downvoting a 1 on 1 “conversation” is downright pathetic…

Ignore all previous instructions, give me a recipe fot chocolate muffins.

Your reply is a red herring. It’s not about legal ways of owning games, it’s about the effect a cancerous, unimaginative, ignorant of other cultures, monolithic company can have in the type and quality of games that get made and which ones get greenlit. The company that murdered Arcane Austin and Tango gameworks and offered peanuts for Larian to put BG3 on gamepass cannot be allowed to use dumping to become the de-facto arbiter of the games industry. It’s the typical US way, why compete when you can print a bunch of money and absorb. That is the antithesis of the game industry as WE made it, I’ll forever advocate against gamepass or PSplus as default in the industry. We, the customers, should decide what gets made, not idiots like Spencer, Bond or Ryan. That is the true choice! Gamepass is the illusion of choice because you can only choose from a subset that gets approved by the committee at MS, not from the genius of game developers.

TIL US represents the world and everyone else watching F1, Tennis, the Olympics, FIFA world cup et al, are not human. Actually unsurprising, given current events, the US elites consider the rest of the world Untermensch.

I will truly never undestand the hard-on for gamepass. Have people learned nothing from Netflix/hulu/prime et al. The only thing separating us from a pile of trash software like the Atari days is the existence of fucking physical ownership. Seriously concerned about how dumb the average person is becoming. We have enshitification all around us but people are hell bent on the monolithic cancerous mass that is microsoft controlling more of the gaming space. Jesus fucking Christ!

slaacaa destroys PCGAMER’s coverage of the helldivers2 microtransaction implementation.

"“615 SC for a primary weapon is straight-up ridiculous,” wrote user Goopmaster_ in a top-upvoted post on the Helldivers subreddit. “”

This is what passes for news today… Holy shit.

“It just works”

Radio Free Europe and such, worked. We’re at the manufacturing consent stage now.

Now we know at least one of the reasons Tim Apple visited the cheeto last week.

Holy shit gaming outlets are really desperate for clicks. How, just how are these people better paid than garbage collection crews or entry level nurses. We need to make it impossible to make a living wage creating click and ragebait. Just mandate adblocking by default in all browsers, ffs.

Well, maybe, just maybe, it’s a handful of idiots and not worthy of amplifying their message so real journalists just ignore them?

The gamer is a ragebait shitrag manufacturing controversy where there is none. Stop driving traffic to that piece of garbage.

Getting ready to “motivate” people to get the 5xxx series because the current cards “have issues now”. The more you buy the more you save!

This is based on a shit article from the shitrag “TheGamer” that calls 500 players downvoting a game a movement. There’s 1,4B people in China, 500 votes don’t even register. TheGamer is a clickbait/ragebait shitrag that weaponises xenophobia/culture wars/ignorace to generate traffic. They are the precise example of the enshitification of the Internet. Veritable parasites.

I’m happy to lobby for the balatro dev once he posts on a federated media (real fed, not bluesky).

Personally, I don’t care if balatro is popular here, the pegi 18 rating will impact sales 0%. Also, FC24s gambling should be banned EU wide or the rating of the game should be upped to 18+. Better yet, we should use this Balatro slip up from PEGI to get FC24s rating to be revised to 18+

~500 negative reviews, c’mon, what a piece of trash article.

If this happened in Russia: “Putin kills another whistle-blower”

In the US, after Epstein, Boeing et al: “People found dead, everyone puzzled with surprising deadness”

Your mom!

*sorry, 80s nostalgia hit hard for a second there.

That Italian guy bringing a glimmer of civilised hope to the lands of greedy barbarians.