DLH OTM
Adam and Tofu just more accelerationist than the rest of us
― your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Thursday, 18 May 2017 00:54 (seven years ago) link
Adam, yes, please go back to being a thief, that seems to be your aim here
― your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Thursday, 18 May 2017 00:56 (seven years ago) link
as monopolies go valve/steam isn't much of one
― Mordy, Thursday, 18 May 2017 02:02 (seven years ago) link
it's approximately as much of one as twitch, youtube and the itunes store
― your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Thursday, 18 May 2017 02:03 (seven years ago) link
yeah none of which i think are particularly egregious. in the "video game" space steam isn't even the biggest player. it's the biggest player in the PC gaming online retail space.
― Mordy, Thursday, 18 May 2017 02:05 (seven years ago) link
All of the arguments against this piece seem to be just going around the point entirely. So it's not egregious - that's the same as being okay?Is it perfectly acceptable that we have to rely on lawsuits in other countries to keep this company from exploiting its "exclusive distributor" status to an even greater extent?
― your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Thursday, 18 May 2017 02:10 (seven years ago) link
what is steam exclusive distributor of?
― Mordy, Thursday, 18 May 2017 02:17 (seven years ago) link
...
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 18 May 2017 02:25 (seven years ago) link
I dunno man I tried my best maybe you can load more results than me
https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=exclusive%20on%20steam
I'm slow, that's also maybe why I needed forks to tell me corporations aren't moral beings
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 18 May 2017 02:28 (seven years ago) link
Half Life, Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress? Is that the complaint? It's not like they're three particularly hot franchises atm.
― Mordy, Thursday, 18 May 2017 02:28 (seven years ago) link
steam is valve's exclusive distributor which is not exactly a monopoly, it's just the delivery service for the games they make
i dunno why this got under your skin tom but i'll happily pour you that drink nowhttp://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/16/161375/2254963-link_receives_red_potion.jpg
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 18 May 2017 02:43 (seven years ago) link
i'm with you tombot
― Nhex, Thursday, 18 May 2017 07:36 (seven years ago) link
_If you were to ask the average PC gamer, they’d swear up and down that there’s no way they’d ever give their money to such a corporation. They’d not only be caught dead before helping a company like that come to power, they might even join the resistance to stop them._lol are you serious
lol are you serious
I had a hard time finishing the article after reading this. The article reads like an angry Reddit post.
― beard papa, Friday, 19 May 2017 19:14 (seven years ago) link
I think the average PC gamer is only worried about big corporations when they don't adhere to ethics in journalism
― The Remoans of the May (Noodle Vague), Friday, 19 May 2017 20:53 (seven years ago) link
luckily nothing unethical happens during the manufacturing of those PCs
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 19 May 2017 20:56 (seven years ago) link
https://www.patreon.com/saint11/posts?tag=tutorial
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 18:54 (seven years ago) link
good piece on the architecture of dark souls: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-06-18-an-obituary-for-the-architecture-of-dark-souls-eternally-dying-land
― cast your vote for fully automated gay space luxury communism (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 19 June 2017 09:10 (six years ago) link
https://www.polygon.com/2017/7/17/15974096/what-it-costs-to-run-an-independent-video-game-store
― Nhex, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 08:19 (six years ago) link
good piece, albeit depressing
this is nuts:
Jake Stoner at Cap'n Games in Sparks, Nev. simply has an Amazon Prime account and preorders one copy of every new game. Since Amazon offers 20 percent off preorders, he gets a lower per-unit price than distributors offer. Then he turns those around for a $5 profit on each."I don't try to mislead my customers, but I'll let them know that I'll have one," he says. "So if you want it, that's great. I don't have an issue with that. But I'll only have one. And that works OK. But most of the time, I just refer people elsewhere."For some like Brossman at Complete in Box, though, it's worth it to suck it up and play the distribution game. He points out that certain items have even worse margins than new games, noting that he pays $29.90 for a Microsoft gift card that sells for $30. If a customer buys that with a credit card, his store loses money on the sale.
"I don't try to mislead my customers, but I'll let them know that I'll have one," he says. "So if you want it, that's great. I don't have an issue with that. But I'll only have one. And that works OK. But most of the time, I just refer people elsewhere."
For some like Brossman at Complete in Box, though, it's worth it to suck it up and play the distribution game. He points out that certain items have even worse margins than new games, noting that he pays $29.90 for a Microsoft gift card that sells for $30. If a customer buys that with a credit card, his store loses money on the sale.
― bitumen: the animated series (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 08:36 (six years ago) link
fell into a youtube hole last night watching a series called 'boundary break', where a guy pokes around in areas outside the limits of videogame spaces
super-dorky but i love this shit - here's the dark souls iii one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbaA6_84gyY&list=PLYfhW_P-MkU7vBmWwwyqdIWNDzXfEZwnO&index=24
― bitumen: the animated series (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 08:40 (six years ago) link
directly related but not specifically about games - http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-08-04-bungies-13-year-battle-to-kill-crunch-culture
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 6 August 2017 00:25 (six years ago) link
"A lot of people get burned out because they don't take the vacation, so as a manager part of your job is to make sure they do," Timmins said. "Leadership needs to set examples. It can take years for a culture to develop; for people to believe it's okay to take a vacation, that it's not a crazy crunch culture where something bad is going to happen when they come back."
i wish i could staple this to my PMs' foreheads (i don't work in games, but i am a software dev; at one point this summer i worked 29 days in a row, and we still haven't launched)
― the portentous pepper (govern yourself accordingly), Sunday, 6 August 2017 02:43 (six years ago) link
good article. hope people in the business read it!
― Nhex, Sunday, 6 August 2017 18:17 (six years ago) link
https://gamehistory.org/aladdin-source-code/
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 15 October 2017 17:43 (six years ago) link
https://kotaku.com/the-runescape-players-who-farm-gold-so-they-dont-starve-1819720013
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 25 October 2017 15:31 (six years ago) link
herne bay arcade, kent. not rly heavy on video games but there’s some good vignettes:http://www.seasphotography.org.uk/search/results/6b8242cef3ec13ea3a46da0b9e2ecbf7
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 19:34 (six years ago) link
https://splendorsvendor.wordpress.com/2017/03/28/behold-a-paleblood-sky/
― chihuahuau, Sunday, 5 November 2017 22:11 (six years ago) link
https://kotaku.com/one-of-the-most-famous-faces-on-twitch-refuses-to-let-t-1820333034
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 11 November 2017 20:40 (six years ago) link
good one
― Nhex, Sunday, 12 November 2017 02:32 (six years ago) link
So the developers behind one the first idle RPGs to take off have announced they’re abandoning the free-to-play model because it’s unethical:http://www.clickerheroes2.com/paytowin.php
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 25 November 2017 19:42 (six years ago) link
Regarding Metal Gear Solid samples in Burial's 'Untrue'.
https://kottke.org/17/12/the-making-of-burials-untrue
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 19:12 (six years ago) link
Not a whole lot on Metal Gear Solid, but thanks for linking that, lots I didn't know yet
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 20:11 (six years ago) link
this is not "worth reading" but is it weird that i think Tim Rogers is my favorite person to hear talk about videogames? is anyone else a tim rogers fan?
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 16 December 2017 01:41 (six years ago) link
Where be the kingfish
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 16 December 2017 01:58 (six years ago) link
me, usually
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 16 December 2017 02:44 (six years ago) link
Tim Rogers and his little lackey wanted to fight me and my friend at an E3 party because he was wasted and mad we didn't know who he was
― Joan Digimon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 16 December 2017 03:30 (six years ago) link
hah! that sounds right.
― Nhex, Saturday, 16 December 2017 07:14 (six years ago) link
yeah i read/listen to everything he does. i highly recommend the "violence island" podcasts. they are basically battle royales styled after grade school playground debates (basically: who would win in a fight, X or Y). my favorite moment was during a battle between Flubber and Bo Jackson, the two merge together and become the unstoppable Flubbo Jackson.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 16 December 2017 20:10 (six years ago) link
like some sort of overdriven bo jackson
― crocus bulbotuber (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 16 December 2017 20:57 (six years ago) link
i like tim rogers's more recent content. met him a couple times at pax and he seemed alright
― ciderpress, Saturday, 16 December 2017 21:00 (six years ago) link
yeah he has a pretty cool series on Kotaku about translating FFVII
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 16 December 2017 21:17 (six years ago) link
can't find violence island?
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 16 December 2017 21:56 (six years ago) link
the original podcast was hosted at www.earthblows.com. the site is down now but you can still find the archived shows:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160304064152/http://earthblows.com/
there are also some recent ones on youtube. this is the Christmas 2016 episode, "Violent Night", where they pit all the movie Santa Clauses against each other.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NYA0KlWoY4
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 16 December 2017 22:27 (six years ago) link
the first episode of Violence Island has Godzilla vs. Tinkerbell i believe. they argue that she could either fly into his nasal cavity and disconnect his brain or explode his heart from within, or that she could sprinkle dust on him and cause him to float away (winning her the match by ring-out). when her character's homicidal tendencies were questioned they looked to her temper and the low key jealousy and violence shown towards Wendy in the "Peter Pan" film.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 16 December 2017 22:37 (six years ago) link
tink could also shoot godzilla with a gun
― crocus bulbotuber (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 17 December 2017 07:29 (six years ago) link
or oversalt his tater tots after swapping his high blood pressure meds with sugar pills
― crocus bulbotuber (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 17 December 2017 07:32 (six years ago) link
I love Tim Rogers’ content and also I have a crush on him.
― .oO (silby), Sunday, 17 December 2017 19:16 (six years ago) link
the classic content-supplemented crush
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 17 December 2017 19:37 (six years ago) link
https://kotaku.com/no-man-s-sky-players-had-their-first-war-and-it-killed-1821399331
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 18 December 2017 22:00 (six years ago) link
https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/20/16800924/silver-snipers-senior-counter-strike-team
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 20 December 2017 19:45 (six years ago) link