HelsEch Nintendo Switch emulators suck too. The PC ones are way better

However, playing Gameboy Tetris on my Switch on my work commute is pretty amazing.

(I know I could have simply taken my steam deck instead, it stays at home)

      Dielan They do, but the fact that the market for them exists creates an issue for these preservation efforts.

        HelsEch that’s also sidestepping the actual argument being made. It’s specifically about preserving out of market (no way to purchase from 1st or 3rd party sellers) software and video games. Rarely do companies rerelease games in those prior states, even collections usually make some changes. I didn’t follow the entirety of it, but I don’t think they’re asking for mmo servers to still function past sunset.

        Idk to what extent things would really plague the market, but it certainly wouldn’t inhibit the properties from having remasters or remakes or anything.

        It also speaks to the quality of major releases if people want to play older games more than new releases, but that’s not what’s being talked about right now.

          I'd prefer to see some kind of IP regulation that clearly defines what abandonware is and let's us fuck with it

            Dielan See, I'm totally down with actually just kicking copyright laws down a peg.

            I get why they're useful, but the Mouse went too far in its law battle, and we've been dealing with an IP inflation dampening creativity in the entertainment market since

              Victim I feel like I said exactly something like this when I gave my Metaphor first impressions. Racism, intolerance, oppression, all of that is present in Metaphor but it is well written and natural.

              Seeing the disclaimer on the left hand side for your dialogue choices in dragon age helps me understand what SkillUp was saying when he said the writing "felt like HR was in the room" if anything this reminds me of those annual online HR courses us corpos have to do every year, where each answer is explained just like that why it's right or wrong when you click on them in the training webpage. What an embarrassment

                We should probably make a new thread just detailing the dragon age shenanigans going on. By the time our show returns in January it will probably blow over

                  I want to keep an eye on that Ubisoft NFT game for a couple of days. To see how quickly it flops, cause that’s a hilarious failure incoming.

                  5 days later

                  Mercante is out!

                  Here's the attached image on the tweet: saved it off just incase she deletes it or goes private

                  I know shewrote it as if she chose to leave, but it begs further questions. With her departure there's nobody left at Kotaku that has any ongoing controversy. They might actually be sticking to sports lmao

                    Another round of journo layoffs, this time inverse

                    So sudden its almost like several outlets suddenly lost a source of funding I wonder what kind of major event could have led to that

                    Apparently, yelling, threatening, and blaming audiences didn’t work out. Neither did coercion or lying. AAA suffered bad this year specifically. As did anything relying on “in your face” woke ideology. People don’t like being talked down to and there’s a lot of establishment media and companies crumbling because they haven’t moved on from 2014.

                    Not commenting on the occasional blunders of the pirat_nation account on twitter right now, but he has tweeted a meme about DEG Mods. Seen by half a million people

                    This is huge exposure!!!

                      Dielan I know when we covered this I mentioned my first impression was that DEG might be short for degenerate (its not) but hilarious the meme in question was about a sex mod lmao

                        I know the meme is about a sex mod (in a loose sense). But I think it’s a fair thing to mod in and highlights how easily lines can be drawn on the platforms that are better known.

                        Funny that it doesn't feel that old. Covid brainrot.

                          You know, this might actually happen

                          We’d all counted them out, but Kick has managed to hold on long enough to maybe win.

                            SkoomaDealer its like watching a NASCAR race and one car ran out of gas, two others crashed into each other, and the last car standing is only standing cuz it was going slow

                              Dielan I’m genuinely surprised that happened. I guess there’s something to the new standards people have been talking about since the election.

                                We need to get funded by the Canadian government to make the podcast from now on.

                                Oh they must be really pissed

                                In fact, TheGamer (and its obvious GenAI ghostwriter) is hard at work shitting out clickbait. Looks at the time stamps

                                Maybe that’ll get a Bloodborne 2. I’m wagering it’ll lower the quality of their work, though.

                                Defying all expectations wukong won goty at the golden joysticks.

                                I'm not spoiled on the rest so I will watch the vod. I'll live post my thoughts in a new thread

                                I think it adds to my belief the pendulum is swinging to the right now. A lot of the progressive left ideals have been proven to be infinite money sinks that don’t produce value to the consumers.

                                So now the consumer is correct again.

                                Dielan looks like this platform uses Solana for tips, which is a popular cryptocurrency (shitcoin)