"Gamers push back." Just like they pushed back against $70 and $80 games by lining up around the block to buy a Switch 2 so they could buy $70 and $80 games to play on it. Like Rockstar will make a mint selling $100 copies of GTA6.

America isn't failing, it has already failed.

People so fucking unwilling to face reality, for any number of reasons. No one likes to admit that their actions or lack thereof might make them in some way culpable.

The cancer's been in us since Reagan. The Bushes, Clinton, fucking Obama didn't do shit about it because they were profiting from it. Just like they still don't actually care, because they're part of the owner class. They ain't the ones at risk from any of the insanity in the world. Their wealth, status, and privilege protect them.

Trump wasn't the cause of this. He's just the point at which the cancer had metastasized to the point it couldn't be ignored. Maybe we'd have survived if Biden hadn't been such a drizzling, spineless shit of an administration. Radical surgery and treatment might have been able to bring us back from the brink. Weakened, damaged, diminished, but able to recover if we hold to a new way of living.

Trump 2 was us deciding as a nation to be the smoker with COPD and two heart attacks lighting up another smoke.

Biden refusing to make examples of the ringleaders of the Jan 6 coup attempt - the congresscritters, media personalities, and yes fucking Trump himself - sent a message that was heard loud and clear. Treason's okay. If the leaders of the coup had been charged and tried for treason, with all that entails, then maybe it would have caused the cult to wither. Because it's not just the dumb, poor cultists you need to go after, you gotta get the leaders too. Cults can't survive without their leaders.

But maybe if Obama hadn't been such a spineless fucking coward, we wouldn't have been here. Whip your stupid party into shape, run roughshod over any wet pants senator or representative that tries to get in the way of delivering on those promises of aid programs for the people, tell Glitch to pound sand and just bypass Congress entirely and appoint Garland to the SCOTUS if Congress refuses to do its fucking job. Because the failures of neoliberalism set the stage for a fascist populist to take over. People wouldn't buy into that messaging if they were happy.

But there's no coming back from the kinds of damage Trump has done, both domestically and abroad. The damage that piece of shit Musk did with DOGE will be paying dividends for years, let alone what his little Hitler Youths were doing by stealing social security data and selling it off to Palantir.

America's dead. People need to stop being stupid and accept it.

He is. Or he's a vegetable, which is no different in terms of being able to perform hus duties as a senator. They're playing weekend at Bernie's with him and they'll do the same when ol Grim eventually claims Trump.

Dude was a piece of shit. Why are you so eager to defend him?

It's okay to be happy awful people are dead.

Okay, cool. What happens while you're training that new human? Trainees will operate at substantially less efficiency than expected while learning and may for a while afterwards too, depending on complexity of the work. What happens if one of those humans gets hurt or sick?

Dude really was a moron, wasn't he?

I feel bad for the tutor that was teaching him but you won't see me shedding a single tear that there's one less c-suite parasite on Earth.

Good riddance.

Most of the actually good games don't need strong hardware.

It's weird that we don't really have any laws to handle this sort of thing.

How long do you think a Democrat would be allowed to play corpse before the GOP would start screaming about replacing them?

Author's note:

I've had plenty of people let me know that these games are in fact available on Google's own Play Store. Oh the irony. Rather than edit the whole angle of this article, I'll just say that this is quite funny. Since Google's Play Store is such a little part of my life (I never use it outside of emulation/retro handheld reviews), that totally passed me by.

All my apologies for not checking things better before posting this one! That is 100% on me. Instead try to read over it with an angle of "...you're better to play these from F-droid than Play Store"..!

Oh, okay. So basically this was just something they shit out and published without due diligence.

Why share this, then?

The wealth hoarders immediately after that part you quoted.

It doesn't warrant death, no. But people can cheer the death of an awful person without saying "hey we should keep the streak going!"

And what are you talking about? Our current case of fascism is a direct result of unregulated capitalism, courtesy of neoliberalism.

It encourages people who find these bugs to use them rather than report them.

Why do I need to justify being happy a rotten person ain't fucking up the world anymore? Can't I just be happy that the wicked witch is dead?

That's how I felt when I tried bluesky. I missed the boat on Twitter and it'd already gone down the shitter so I never tried it. Figured bsky would be an opportunity to try the whole tweeting thing for myself.

And even still, it was just nothing but political bitching, navel gazing, and glorified (or actual) advertising. Like... what's the point of it all? Deleted my account within the month.

Lemmy has its share of faults but at least people are willing to have actual discussions and conversations here. On bsky it felt like talking to a bot. People talking past each other instead of actually communicating.

Yes, I wouldn't mind a more detailed description of how and where AI is used.

I'm sure his family is just fine crying into their piles of money. They don't need my sympathy or yours.

Old reddit is the only way I interact with the site at all, and only for communities and stuff that for whatever reason haven't moved on to greener pastures. Once old reddit's gone I guess I'll finally move that site into the graveyard.

It was a cool place while it lasted.

It's weird to think this isn't the majority opinion. If I had to make a "best games of this decade" list, I think maybe Shadowbringers would be the only AAA project on that list.

Games made by small teams with small budgets, like Shovel Knight or Blasphemous or Stardew, are what'd be crowding the top.

Overtime solves this issue pretty effortlessly. They call you and offer a shift of overtime to cover someone that's unexpectedly absent. If you're willing to sacrifice your normal time off, you get time and a half in exchange. If you're not, then either another person will or the manager/foreman on salary handles it. That is, after all, one of the reasons they're paid more (and on salary.)

I don't play Ubisoft games. I don't have a horse in that race.

He's awful because he was one of the money-addicted ownership class that collectively are ruining our world to fuel their addictions. Everyone in that class is a piece of shit and I don't find much value in trying to determine the particular vintage of shit we're dealing with. There are no "good guys" here.

I won't wish death or harm on any of them, but I'll certainly not shed a tear if karma gets them.