HFY in the modern sense was originally the result of angry neckbeards being triggered by James Cameron’s Avatar and venting by writing a bunch of stories that basically boiled down to “chad humans showing the virgin xenos what for (usually via mass murder)”. After a while people calmed down enough (or enough non-angry neckbeards got drawn in) to start expanding beyond that original concept, which is when we started getting more “humans are the tide that lifts all boats” and “humans are weird and that’s OK” style stories. So yeah, I agree that even if the genre is more that that nowadays, it’s still a fundamental part of it.

Why would I shell out $50 to play on a tiny ass screen with shitty touchscreen controls? Fuck that noise.

Yeah, Switch pointer controls were pretty YMMV, simply because the joycons themselves aren’t nearly as reliable in that regard as the Wiimotes were.

Link is for the wrong trailer.

I mean, as long as you don’t give Steam any personally identifying info and make sure that your beneficiary has your password and 2FA, I don’t really see how that’s enforceable.

That’s because pretty much everything does cause cancer eventually. That’s just a consequence of how cellular division works. The trick is knowing how much exposure to any given thing is needed to cause cancer, and whether you’re likely to reach that threshold before you die of anything else.

I mean, wouldn’t paying for Truth basically be bailing President Loser out?

The way I see it, if you’ve bought a game from GOG you’ve already paid, so no one can truthfully say in good faith that subsequently grabbing a cracked version of the Steam release is a lost sale.

Defendants also argue that Musk needed additional incentives to stay on at Tesla or he would spend more time at SpaceX, where he could fulfill his galactic ambitions to establish interplanetary travel, colonize Mars, and potentially earn more money in the meantime.

Not like he even actually does anything at Tesla anyway, between all the people they’ve got to babysit him and his spending all his time shit posting on Twitter.

Hm, don’t remember seeing that with the Switch demo. Yeah, that’s skeevy though.

Todd Howard? Wasn’t expecting that. Anywho, looks like this’ll mainly be in 1st person? That’s kinda neat actually, I don’t think we’ve had a 1st person Indy before.

Flushing isn’t exactly silent, though? The toilet getting clogged should make a very noticeably different sound.

Just go back to first principles and celebrate the actual solstice.

Yes, thank you, I’m well aware that internet randos are people. And I like not having to deal with them while I’m unwinding. Why is that a “problem”?

I mean, I hate playing with internet randos anyway, so that’s not actually a downside for me.

It’s leave, you idiot! Make like a tree and leave! You sound like a damn fool when you say it wrong.

I mean, sure. That’s basically how always-online DRM for games works. But the fact is that you do still have the disc with data on it, so generally it’s just a matter of time before someone comes up with a way to bypass or spoof the DRM.

With the obvious caveat that IANAL, I think there’s a distinction to be made between the physical medium that an IP is distributed on, if any, and the IP itself. Like, when you buy a movie on DVD you obviously don’t own the IP. But strictly speaking, you don’t even own that particular copy of the movie as encoded on the disc you bought. But you do own the disc itself, which just happens to have a copy of the movie on it. So while a publisher can always pull their IPs, and make it illegal for people to distribute them, they can’t come and take the discs that you already legally own.

Gonna throw in a shout out to AC’s spritual precursor, Prince of Persia. Also can’t go wrong with Rayman or Rabbids.

Now, that’s not true. They also provide freshies with no relevant work experience sitting in meetings. At least until they jump ship to a company with better pay and/or conditions.