John Kramer, is that you?

And so do Politicians and Parents…

They say: “Sonic Dream Team is an Apple Arcade Exclusive, maybe we’ll do a port one day if our contract allows”

I hear: “Sonic Dream Team is in devleopment hell and may never be released”

Steam: If a game is not in our records

GOG: Or ours

Both: Then it doesn’t exist

Not a bad idea all things considered

Edit: Save for the “Showing your ID” part, anonymity is healthy for the net and far too rare these days

Justice for The Crew

But I loved having an inferior version of Sonic Dash that only has the Prime characters, when the Prime characters are in Sonic Dash anyway /s

Remember when Netflix took Demogorgon out of DBD because “We’re making our own game!”

Then they were like “Nevermind, we got nothing, you can take this shit back.”

Bet: He will not release a single fucking game

“I voted for the idea that women aren’t people, now the women in my life don’t like me.”

Pretty much, I mean I’ve seen amazing things the mainstream will never touch or know about… ultimately they made no money and the creators of them are either bitter or dead.

And I’ve seen absolute shit become a global phenomenon

Luck is sadly a necessary survival skill

Oh and there’s Alone In The Dark which just defies any explanation I have because it had one good game that aged horribly, and people are still trying and failing to reboot it.

This, I mean… Epic tried and had a storefront so terrible they had to bribe developers into making their games exclusive. Something that never fucking worked for any game that wasn’t Kingdom Hearts; Only resulting in the games bombing because they released on a constantly malfunctioning storefront that constantly got bad publicity.

And Origin was literally ran by EA, so… yeah…

GOG is the only real competitor Steam has, and most people’s opinion of it is “This is nerd shit”, which is a take even I agree with because the only games it really has are older than dirt, meaning I’m the only one who gives a shit about them.

The problem is everyone who tries to do what Steam does does it incompetently so it’s not viable.

GOG Galaxy is the closest I’ve seen to a viable competitor though and I respect the work they put into making older games run on newer hardware.

I’d probably have a PS5 and complaing about how Sony has me by the booba

TF2 here, when Microsoft laughed at the idea of continously updating one game instead of doing sequels or paid expansions, ya know because that used to be unusual, and shit-canned all updates for the Console verison I moved to PC… and… then switched back to playing the console version because my PC couldn’t play online games worth a damn back then.

Then I abandoned my Steam account to rot… until Portal 2 came out and paying full retail price for a Portal sequel felt silly, so I just got the Steam version since if I recall that was not only cheaper but came with a bunch of other games in this thing called a potato pack that also gave me Super Meat Boy.

Then I realized that playing on consoles, paying for Xbox Live, and risking my physical media getting lost or damaged… was kinda silly.

To be fair, 2005-2009 felt like a Death of PC Gaming since people stopped making PC Ports of games out of fears that that just invited piracy.

RIP games with no Steam release like Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard and Enchanted Arms

Hope ports happen some day.

To be fair when Steam first dropped, the idea of digital distribution was hopelessly naive and everything similar to it (like GameTap) was shut down pretty quickly.

Everything that tries to be “like Steam” also fails hard.

So there was a time when I was laughing at Steam with the rest of them.

For the most part, X has held up as the closest thing to a central platform for political and cultural discourse.

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Whoever told you that is a god damn liar.

The fact that they successfully branded “Not Being Racist” as being “Woke and cringe” is… some ol’ bullshit

Jesus Christ that’s cold.