required subscription

allows 3 games per month

$900 without subscription (so I guess the subscription ISN’T required)

raise the price of the lowest tier

1 year contract

This is the funniest bait I’ve ever seen, I’m crying holy shit. The only thing it’s missing is Drink Verification Can.

It’s not that banking is difficult in Japan (unless you’re a foreigner), it’s just culturally a cash-centric economy. There’s a whole etiquette about placing your money on a specific plate, making sure the bills are face-side up, paying as close to exact change as possible, etc.

Japanese 7-11’s all have an ATM that will accept American debit cards and allow you to withdraw Yen, even handling the conversion fee for you. Cash cards with RFID chips like Suica make subway/train fare super fast and simple. It’s not for lack of technology, for sure.

My bias is showing but Ace Combat 8 really bucked the trend this year.

• Announcement trailer with gameplay and story premise during TGA 2025, releasing 2026.
• Release date trailer during Sony’s state of play with more gameplay, more story beats, now with solidified release date for 4 months out.
• Topping it off with a PC Port announcement of one of the beloved PS2 classics as a pre-order bonus.

That’s a pretty strong, confident marketing campaign, especially when AC7’s first announcement was everything you’d hate: cinematic teaser, no gameplay, no story, no release date, game still 4 years away.

That’s not to say it’s been perfect, they’re doing a pretty gross multiplayer season pass and pre-order bundle. Real hat store shit. But otherwise it’s been quite refreshing compared to all the other games I saw in the last 6 to 10 months.

Persona 6 “trailer”:

2016 in Japan, 2017 in the west, yessiree

Well, at the risk of repeating the obvious, what do you pay a legal expert for? As in, what did you hire them to do?

If you hired them to do research on current laws and regulations to see what you must abide by / can get away with, then you’ve paid them for information, even if its information you don’t want to hear.

If you hired them to represent your interests, to argue your case in court for you as their client, then yeah you can’t really have a lawyer that’s wishy washy on your position. As stupid as they sound, that’s what Trump’s DOJ is doing at great risk to their own careers. Which is why more and more of them are resigning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0-szsoiWcQ

“The Thirteenth Amendment says that slavery’s abolished? Shit, look at all these slave masters posing on your dollar!”

Well the dev is just one guy so I really hope he hasn’t been sold lol

When the US “banned” the sale of routers, I went out and bought one I didn’t need as a backup. Not so much an investment as it is an insurance policy against technofascism.

My father literally taught me how to use the Internet when the best search engine was Ask fucking Jeeves.

The most important thing to remember, he said, was to never give your real name, address, or phone number on the internet. Once you do, it is there forever because anyone can copy it down.

And then Facebook happened, and tons of high school classmates were asking me when I would make an account. I told them all the same thing, that putting your real name, let alone your whole fucking face, on the internet was a bad idea. Eventually I had to make one to coordinate different club activities but I never liked the whole idea of Facebook. I couldn’t even watch The Social Network because it was everything I already knew.

We’re so, so, far down the hole from back then that looking back feels quaint.

“In the end, maybe it’s just that I’ve barrelled through 40 years of work and private life powered purely by ‘exciting things’,” he added

I think older people still have this optimistic view of technology, bordering on rose tinted. For the majority of their lives, they’ve seen technology evolve and expand, so they don’t understand the “new” negativity towards it. Enshittification is a new term to them, if they’ve heard it at all, but for many younger people it’s all they’ve ever known. For some, technology has always been inexplicably getting shittier. For others, technology that was once great has become a tool of oppression, entrapment, and misery in their lifetimes.

All these different groups, anecdotally, react very differently when you ask them about their thoughts on AI.

I don’t see any mention of how much RAM these units will have, just their storage capacity. So I wonder if the two lowest priced SKU’s have no RAM in them at all and they expect you to add in like SODIMM’s.

I’m glad both party

Like any tech industry hype cycle, it requires them talking out of both sides of their ass, because AI is the only thing investors and stakeholders will pay any attention to. So even if they have to cannibalize their core business to feed the AI frenzy, that’s just a Pavlovian response at this point.

Allbirds was an extreme example, but basically every company is Allbirds to some degree at this point. It’s a mass psychosis.

There’s definitely a time and a place for playtesting, and “user was confused about which way to go (water looked inaccessible)” would be the kind of note I’d expect them to take out of such a session. If I were the developer and I saw my player struggle like that, I’d be kicking myself for that design.

I think TGD is only trying to say that the show floor isn’t the time or place for playtesting. One would hope that that has already been accomplished by that point.

Oh yeah, I’ve only ever seen this adage used with the former implication rather than the latter.

(jp: sekkyo ojisan) are people of any age and gender

It’s kind of funny to me they used the word ojisan which normally means an older man, but the connotation is that it applies to anyone and describes their behavior as being “old man”-like. Like if you called someone Unc or Gramps.

Or maybe this is just speculation on the part of the article author? Edit: nope, they are explicit in the original tweet lol

The point is that some users like acting like QA, having an active role in the development of a game. And an easily persuaded developer might assume they ought to cater to the feedback they receive, but the adage is meant to signal to developers that they should take their user’s feedback with a grain of salt. It stands in opposition to another adage: “the customer is always right.”

I wish charts like these could “adjust for inflation.” Not the inflation of money I mean, but the inflation of the industry. The number of video game players globally has increased dramatically since the heyday of Super Mario Brothers. It was a much “smaller world” back then, so the success of SMB is likely more impressive than the success of e.g. Skyrim, and the success of Tetris would look just absolutely ludicrous lmao.