Can’t beat them for games that require low latency input though. Just playing retro games on them is worth owning one.

What about all the people that breathed in that toxic cloud or injured themselves trying to run away from the chaos? Surely many of them ended up in hospital.

People are allowed to ask honest questions and IMO this seems like one. If more people exercised self-reflection like this we might live in a better society.

I know what you mean, but they’re going to abandon it eventually, right? What matters is how they abandon it; what they leave behind. Currently, they leave nothing for the playerbase.

If they need to retire the live service to move forward, so be it. But if I wanna boot up a server for a night of gameplay with friends on some retired game I should be able to do so.

Allowing dedicated servers after said live service retirement is the fix.

Exactly this. It would obviously be disappointing to lose leaderboards or any other massively multiplayer elements like that, but just being able to fire up the game and have fun with friends after the live service has shut down is basically all that needs to happen.

“It’s a weird, challenging problem, though, because I think that at the same time, if we’re going to have any games that are sincere live services, it seems mutually exclusive to have something that’s going to be a living thing that can’t be allowed to die. I don’t know how to get around that.”

Dedicated servers. Let people host their own servers. How is this so fucking hard to understand? When the company is ready to move on and retire their official servers they can do so without invoking ire from the playerbase.

This was a great read. What a monumental effort to emulate that device. The perseverance is inspiring, honestly.

Go to a family member’s house and try to show them something on YT.

Cringe in horror at the experience.

Who on earth is gonna shoot a starling for food?

Have you seen starlings? They can fit in the palm of your hand.

Some shit is just straight up poison though.

You hate to say it because you know this is a ridiculous take. There’s no fucking way that the parents are “more at fault” for their son’s death than the company whose product encouraged him to hide his feelings from his parents and coached him on how to commit suicide.

Read the lawsuit filing. https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Raine-v-OpenAI-Complaint-8-26-25.pdf

*I have excellent parents and even they were not privy to the depths of my emotions as a kid. * You are actively choosing to ignore the realities of childhood as well as parenthood to play some shitty devil’s advocate online.

Hmm. Interesting idea.

Louis Rossmann has commented on the situation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RJvrTC6oTI

I’m glad they re-made the worst entry in the early era of the series and didn’t fuck with Sons of Liberty. That game is literally perfect. MGS3 is tedious AF. Still fun and better than a lot of games, but massively overhyped. Also, worst fucking camera system in the history of gaming in the original PS2 version. Truly atrocious.

I hope it turns out well, but I still doubt that I’ll play it.

If we settle for slogans, we are going to get our private parts sucked into a toilet at 34,000 feet.”

Amazing intro.

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When I run out of stuff to see on Lemmy, I touch grass. Simple as.

I feel way more in control of my online experience when endless scrolling isn’t possible.

Exactly. I have a daily, weekly and monthly backup that erases the previous version.

You’re the outlier, I promise. People are literally forfeiting their brains in favor of an LLM transplant hese days.

Thanks! I’ll disconnect my Linux drive when its time to accept Microsoft’s shitty upgrade.