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I got 30hrs out of Animal Well and enjoyed every moment of it :)

I doubt it’ll have the “Edge sense” (squeeze for actions) feature, but I gotta say, for my U11+ it was a game changer and I miss it

Oooof, I hear that. Things are more political than ever at my work and it’s like, I just want to do my job and go home

Op, please find a different hobby. Ads are NOT what we need more of on the internet.

Yeah, I absolutely get the anger. My wife in particular hates cruelty to animals, fictional, plush, or otherwise, so it’s a line she refuses to cross. That’s a totally fair outlook

That’s… Really passing the buck though.

Nothing is stopping corporations from doing The Right Thing right now except their own desire not for profit, but for maximized profit at all costs. Dare I say it, but if a company can’t make a profit without creating harm, it doesn’t deserve to make a profit.

Was it fun though? Or was it awful?

My wife found out about The Elephant Scene and refused to ever play it as long as she lives

It’s not just “they make products and services that people buy”, it’s that “they maximize their personal profit at the expense of people and the environment”.

It’s easy but reductive to blame consumers for consuming, when it’s worth noting that biodegradable packaging costs more than plastics that will never break down, so corporations will choose cheap plastic over environmentally friendly packaging 99.9% of the time.

The incentives are wrong. Instead of maximizing profit we need to ensure that profit is not maximized at the expense of sustainability, at the expense of pollution, and at the expense of the entire future of our planet.

Good thing that hype always delivers.

Nerds still are smarter than us.

Unfortunately a cult of managers has arisen to rule over the nerds and they hype with an iron fist.

As usual with headlines involving either AI or Adobe,

Meh

I hate how this is phrased as “redundancies”. IGN literally JUST bought these outlets, they haven’t had time to dig into and examine the organizations they acquired; it’s just straight into the Corpo playbook of “lay people off and let the dust settle where it may”.

These are people, not “redundancies”. They contributed in the old organization, and they could contribute in the new, but they never even got the chance.

Vaguely human-like

Always have been, apparently

Boycott is a strong word, but I know that I and many, many others decided not to purchase Disco Elysium based on how all that drama went down. And I know I’ll never buy HiFi Rush after the way Microsoft closed that studio while simultaneously lamenting how they wish they had more games like that, because I don’t want to reward bad behaviour.

Same reason I haven’t bought anything from EA in a decade, and I’m really on the fence about supporting Ubisoft at this point too.

I’m 4hrs in and it’s been a very rewarding experience so far! More heart than the last Assassin’s Creed I played, which I don’t even remember which one it was