This is fair. I am usually not in spaces where I’d see it much but have heard tell. Part of why I say it is to not have people feel shamed if they just generally like the culture/pop aesthetic involved without any baggage and to encourage people to do what they can to counter co-opt attempts

This is hyperbole. A large amount of racists and bigots are into norse stuff? Maybe. Almost all people in the norse stuff are racists and bigots? High doubt, and shouldn’t be allowed to be coopted anyway. Loki is one of the few ancient figures with some gender fluid markings as it is.

Feels like this is made in an attempt to get outrage clicks, but I’m pretty sure the show has a legitimate claim to “The Game Awards” as a trademark.

How are there so many hero shooters but zero good ones?

Four is better than two, but two is still much better than zero

Loved the previous steam controller but probably passing on this as it is missing what I think is the killer feature: the rear buttons

Also you can’t fire without cause here, and the burden of proof is on the employer should it be contested. Instead they do this and rely on the cooperation/feeling of obligation/“the implication” to get employees out.

Cinematic was fun, but was not expecting a hero shooter from it. Was a bit deflated when they revealed it as “5 v 5 shooter”

I’m not pissed at this strategy like typical ones, however I absolutely hate having my collection of a series split across platforms and feel like this isn’t the least common idea. Now, if they were to include the older game in with the new one in this strategy or have some sort of cross buy feature for older titles, but this will never happen.

I feel like Steam would make more than 12 billion pounds in the time it would take for a take over to finalize

The article says that they couldn’t find subgroups to show trends, so seems to be pretty flat across the board

So far up his own ass he’s back out the mouth and heading for a second entry

I don’t see the methodology in here, so any influence I could guess is pure speculation. The mentioned lack of strategy games is a possible culprit. This would also prevent people from discovering an interest, as new eyes wouldn’t be on the genre. I’m sure a lot of people discovered they like some RPGs via Baldur’s Gate 3. One I might suggest exploring is that as gaming expanded in audience to different types of people, the new members would proportionately be less interested in deep strategy skewing the average interest as a whole. As a guess, a lot of people who have gotten into gaming via their phone are more interested in things that can be done while focusing on something else or something with a shorter run time than the typical strategy game.

It was more niche when you were 10 so if people were playing games they were probably playing similar games. Plus, the people you were meeting probably had a higher probability of the same interests at that age

Closest is Terraria. 2D, yes, but very expansive and tons of content

I’ve heard that the original Switch was supposed to have magnetic joy-cons, the snap sound they using being the sound of the magnetic joycons attaching. However they couldn’t get the magnets to not mess with the electronics at the Switch’s form factor at the time

I feel like this game got announced crazy long ago as a push for Xbox to get more Japanese people on the Xbone. Crazy to see it coming out now

Haven’t played the game yet, more due to still not having explored the Vermintide games enough to move to another, but the name got me temporarily excited at a Repentia addition. Not the best literacy from me, sure, but whoops

Seems a lot like competing launchers, a lot of companies want a slice of the pie that Valve discovered but aren’t willing to do the same amount of work. I’ve heard good things about the Ally, at least.

Walmart’s not going to be a good model, there, as while the chance of abuse being the cause might not be 100%, it hangs out near enough 100 to know more than a few intimate things about it.

If you’re asking someone to collect your groceries, maybe pay them to do so. Tips are broken as a concept, so whatever there.