Just think about that. Forget the politics of it for a second. They’re hiding a literal corpse. Think of how messed up that is. Like imagine if the manager of a Walmart one day just stopped being visible on the work floor. There was no new manager, and you as a worker were told he’s still the manager. But everybody’s been saying how he’s actually dead in his office which now reeks…and everybody knows. But they keep at the lie. They keep telling you the manager has written you up for insubordination. Normally when that happens he calls you into his office to yell at you. Not this time. This time you’re just handed a write up slip. You ask if this is because you asked if his corpse were rotting in his office, to which they reply there is no corpse. He just has the flu, but he can still see all the cameras and write you up for causing trouble.

That’s kinda what this feels like. Like being in a walmart that reeks of dead bodies while everyone else acts like everything is normal, while you wonder why nobody is burning this tinderbox to the ground.

Is Skyrim really the last one???

Didn’t they go out of business? I mean…they will NOW! Make a PS6 physical disc all you want, but if Sony never releases a PS6 with a disc drive, what good is it?

Yeah, I’m hearing they’re selling an “Ultimate” version. Which is $100, and thats the only way to play single player.

I grasp what you’re saying. You’re not grasping what I’m saying.

I’m saying as the price point came down through the 90s to $60, the amount of gamers went up.

And as $60 in the 2000s was worth less, gaming exploded in popularity again.

As it cost less, more people bought in. As costs rise, less people will buy.

A combination of high price tags, and low quality games caused the entire market to crash in 1983. To the point where video games was considered dead as disco.

We’re nowhere close to that point right now, but this is the first time in 40 years they’ve reversed direction. Games have gotten cheaper over time, and the industry grew. Now they’re making games more expensive. What is the logical outcome of that decision? If low prices make line go up, then high prices make line go…where?

NES games were $80. Thats why most households usually only had 1-2 games.

It wasn’t until resell shops came around that everyone sold their games, and bought 2-3 used games with that money.

Video gaming was unaffordable in the 80s too. I think if you compare lifetime sales of most NES games to most modern games, you’ll find the trend was that if your game wasn’t mario, it didn’t sell all that well on the NES. Even Zelda in the early days had a rough start.

Whereas these days, the industry has grown so much due to keeping prices relatively stable for 40 years. So now consoles sell more, games in general sell 10x more.

Prop that price up and watch the sales fall.

Gaming is unaffordable? Yeah. GTA 6 is going to be $80, digital only, with single player locked behind a $100 price tag.

Yeah. Gaming IS unaffordable.

Because my creatures are mostly dead after 2-3 battles in the wild. So you go out, have a few battles, and then cafe to rest. I’m over here at level 23, and still getting killed by level 9 creatures over a few battles.

I liked the cafe song the first time I heard it. I was also high and very relaxed. By the 10th time hearing it in an hour it had lost it’s charm.

I swear I’ve heard the song you linked, except without the lyrics.

Nope. I got the game for free from Epic Games some time back. I use a program called GameNative to play PC games on android.

Is that the song that plays in the cafe? Thats the only one I’ve heard with lyrics. I’m getting sick of that song, just because sooooooo much of the game is go out, fight, come back to the cafe. Repeat.

So you hear 30 seconds of that song over and over and over. It has the same effect on me that radio songs before the 2000s did. You just never want to hear it again.

Then you’re just sitting on the toilet like “I’m certain…I’m certain…”. Then you get mad that now you’re singing the song.

Retroid Pocket Flip 2.

Which is the exact same hardware as the Retroit Pocket 5. Just in a different shell/form factor.

Like Hitler.

Wait, why do you hate lemmy for this? I think who you actually hate are humans. Reddit and all the other modern social media platforms have the same issues, because they too have humans.

2023. I lose access to the email I’ve had since 1997.

I try to reset my login credentials. The website is caught in a loop. I open a tech support issue explaining that I just need to change my email.

I get sent an automated reply being told email changes use the automated system…the one caught in the loop.

I post a reply to my ticket saying I can’t use the automated system. It’s stuck in a loop.

I get sent an automated reply being told to use the automated system.

I search google for an 800 number. I find there is no 800 number.

2026 I still haven’t changed my email address. I also haven’t bought a single game. I claim the free ones, snd I can still log in for now. But I just know eventually it’ll say something like “For security purposes we’ve emailed you a code” snd that email will go to my lost email address. And I will have lost the whole account. So I’m not spending money on games I could lose next week.

So Epic, you want sales? Step 1, let me change my login email.

Step 2…well, you’re still fucked. Steam is a juggernaut in their space.

But at least you gained 1 potential customer. Though lets be real.this 3 year wait has left a pretty bad taste im my mouth. I’m not sure if regaining my account would prompt me to buy from a company making me wait this long.

If it exists on GOG or Steam, I can’t imagine wanting it on Epic.

What device are you using??? Cassette Beasts takes 10 minutes to load for me, and keeps crashing. Sometimes doesn’t launch with audio.

And Tape to tape keeps freezing.

GPS can go offline. If you’re handy enough to navigate from the stars, I trust that method much more than a gps service.

I bought a seagate once. Brand new. 250gb back in the days when that was a lot.

Brand new, put it into my computer, turn on my computer. It sees it just fine.

30 minutes later, my PC started reporting errors.

Dead. Seagate would not honor the warrenty. That was 2003. I’ve yet to buy another Seagate since.

I assume your drives are dead, just based on it being Seagate.

Shouldn’t the first step be to rehire under union protection, all 33 fired employees?

Haaaaaaaang on. The ad industry has been targeting civilians for literal decades, and that’s fine. No outrage from our government that it’s citizens are being spied on by big businesses. Nope.

But now that it’s your own armies that are getting targeted ads, NOW it’s a problem. You realize that if you’d have had this reaction 20+ years ago, it would have ended 20+ years ago. It never would have advanced to the stages it’s been at for years. It would be all highway billboards and dumb advertisements.

But it’s ok. You don’t give a shit about your citizens. Not even just the current administration. I’m talking basically every administration since Clinton. Could have stepped in at any time, and yet I never once remember the government trying to do ANYTHING to help put any road blocks against corporations abusing citizens. If anything, it feels like you’re in bed together.

So it comes as no surprise that you didn’t care then, but NOW you do.