thedirtyknapkin

yeah, there's a disappointingly small number of effects, and that generally aren't that crazy.

i mean, in the video they make it pretty clear that it's because they were bought out by venture capital and taken public.

i will never get over them fighting with the community about whether the game had multi player when it clearly provably didn't.

when this game was announced i literally laughed at how badly overpromised it was. that generation of console would never have never been capable of what they wanted. i told all my friends not to buy it because it obviously couldn't possibly deliver on even half of its claims. they literally just promised everything you could ever want in a space exploration game. the other games that had tried to do that with more resources, more time, and that required better hardware couldn't even come close to a quarter of what they promised.

they had to know they were over promising. i simply can't ever trust them after all of that. also, i don't often like randomly procedurally generated environments in an exploration game. they just get boring fast without someone crafting an exploration experience with goals and points of interest.

well hold on now, they might have kind of a fucked up point if the metric for quality of customer service is strictly defined by customer retention.

most of the isp customer service I've dealt with explicitly tries to make it hard to cancel and swap services. if that has stopped enough people from switching then the goal is met. it may not be our definition of what good customer service is, but they didn't define that. strictly speaking, they're not technically wrong to say that some customers are still there because of their customer service.

not trying to defend them, just trying to guess what they might use to support their argument. it's disgusting and shitty either way.

yeah, plus there's only one launcher, and possibly thousands of games.

you may not know which one is next, but this one is clearly there.

to me it's kind of kind the nazi bar thing. if you're at a bar with 2 Nazis, and you're not a nazi, you're still hanging out at a nazi bar.

they fucking adore this frog. no other group has embraced it as strongly or consistently. I'm quite happy to let an old ass meme die because i find it distasteful now that it's the favorite meme of nazis.

you could repurpose this headline to literally any creative or journalistic industry these days. "x industry is being propped up by underpaid freelancers" is just a fact of life now. it's just so much cheaper when you don't owe them any benefits or dignity or anything at all in fact.

sometimes i put in on my knees, but I'm almost never in a situation where i want to game, but don't have a table.

like, sure, i could spend $1000+ dollars on a mobile solution to compliment my desktop. or i can take my existing hardware and have a pretty good time with it while traveling or waiting for someone or something. it feels like people are trying to come up with silly reasons for this to not work. why would you think i would try to hold the phone in my hands too?

how does needing to put the phone down defeat the purpose on not bringing an entire extra $1000+ dollar gaming machine with me? i mean sure, i could play 2 generations old games on a laptop for a lot less than that, but i haven't spent a single penny on my mobile setup. it's not about being the ideal setup, it was about realizing i could use my existing tools to do interesting things like play my favorite childhood Gameboy games whenever and wherever.

you don't even need a special case for it. i just use a pop socket to stand it up or hang it off something. again, something I already had.

i mean... why? i just toss the controller i already owned in my bag when traveling and have thousands of old games. phone sits up on the table with its case. to me this is a much not sensible and reasonable thing than a handheld console. i don't need the latest aaa games every time I'm not at my pc. i haven't even spent any money on this yet. i already owned all of this for other purposes.

you can use any Bluetooth controller with phones these days. including standard xbox ones.

i love it for emulating old Nintendo games

really? they're almost as common as cigarette butts once were now. are you a hermit?