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Re: What Happens When An Arms Dealer Publishes Your Video Game?

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This article is great journalism (relative to the level of scrutiny usually present in retro gaming) and it speaks to the direness of people's critical thinking atrophy that so many seem incapable of handling what, to my eyes, seems like a pretty even-handed and responsible read of this whole mess

Re: What Happens When An Arms Dealer Publishes Your Video Game?

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I love games dearly, they are my lifelong passion, but not to the exclusion of everything else in the world, because if you solely focus on games your entire life, and shut out anything that jars you from your comfort zone, you become a person without critical thinking skills who lashes out at anybody who does, like a non-zero amount of people in this comments section
No matter how hard people like this try to shut out the real world, you have to engage with the real world like an adult and develop the media literacy to see things coming and survive them, otherwise one day it will trample you and you won't know what hit you because you weren't paying attention

Re: What Happens When An Arms Dealer Publishes Your Video Game?

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The difference between Twitter/ModRetro and any other company involved in horrific things is that those other countries aren't being cringe all the time and obnoxious and going out of their way to attack vulnerable people publicly (this is mainly a Musk thing, not really as much with Luckey) and putting it all over their marketing

ModRetro's marketing is plastered with "REMEMBER WHAT THEY TOOK FROM YOU" dogwhistle rhetoric that is like one step removed from "fashwave" which is the whole thing where they were juxtaposing fascist imagery with vaporwave and the VCR font

Luckey's involvement with video games is focused around preying on how people in the retro video game scene tend to have reactionary tendencies, in order to rehabilitate his public image by picking an easy target to influence.
It genuinely feels like he's preying on neurodivergent adults (of which I am one! so I'm not trying to be cruel here) because a lot of them don't want to think too hard about the real world and love to sing the praises of anyone who gives them things that make them feel good

When you start saying "things were better in the past" all the time, it's easy for that mindset to leak outside of video games, and before you know it you're lamenting it being the 1980s anymore in every way, forgetting it was a time when many people could not live openly and many died due to prejudice

Many companies affiliate themselves monetarily with the right-wing for money, and it is what it is, but what makes Musk and Luckey unique is the way they camouflague themselves in "epic memelord" ***** and act like adult children in public, it's been ten years since 2015 and I'm so sick of thinking about "Pepe" and "kek" and ***** like that, doing war-crimes quietly is one thing but when you shove it in my face like a 4chan teenager who just discovered /b/ and you start naming your project to destroy tens of thousands of people's jobs after an old unfunny meme from 2014, I can't hold my breath anymore

Re: Piko Is Using The Bleem Name To Crowdfund "The Ultimate Retro Platform"

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If Piko wants to go for the GOG (get it, like go for the gold) their releases need to be better, like, CDProjekt, or Nightdive, everything works in them as they should
Games like Glover are still pretty busted on PC, they're the Dollar Store Nightdive at this point, Little League Embracer
Who's ever heard of kickstarting a store-front? And "lifetime subscriptions"? I'm sorry but this whole idea is incoherent and it's giving Mike Kennedy

Re: Konami Is Reviving A Long Forgotten DS & Game Boy Series For The Switch 2

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@no_donatello No kidding, getting Lost in Blue back when it came out as a kid I was so hopelessly confused about how to make any headway, not even GameFAQs could help me
I loved though, how the game really committed to the seriousness of its premise, something it looks like this new game isn't doing at all, like, that game's systems are so hard because surviving in such a situation would be extremely difficult
Why are these kids getting stranded for sh*ts and giggles just because they found an old map? Where are their parents? 😭
The DS launch period was so cool, so many intensely stylish games that felt like they were so much more sophisticated right around the time in my life I began to demand that kind of sophistication, it felt like we had Phoenix Wright for lawyers, Trauma Center for surgeons, and Lost in Blue for being stranded on a desert island, all of them committing to their premises in equal weight

Re: Konami Is Reviving A Long Forgotten DS & Game Boy Series For The Switch 2

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I wish this was more like Lost in Blue, something more serious and story-oriented, this just looks like Castaway Overcooked
@Serpenterror Survival Kids probably has more name recognition, and bafflingly there's another, completely unrelated game on the iOS and Android app stores right now called "Lost in Blue" that also jacked Konami's entire premise, so that's likely why
Idk why Konami only put their name in the smallest possible fine print at the end of the trailer, it's like they're embarrassed to proudly show their logo or something, which doesn't speak well to the game's quality

Re: Katamari Damacy Game Has Got Its First All-New Entry In 8 Years, But There's A Catch

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Once Upon A Katamari's existence has been leaked, so this is likely a stopgap made using an idea that was considered to be compelling, but not enough to carry a full-size game
The real next game is still coming
I hope they got Keita Takahashi back because every game since We Love Katamari has felt like it was missing its soul due to his departure after just two games

Re: Evercade's Gremlin Collection 2 Revives Four PS1 Classics, Including Loaded And Re-Loaded

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Include an overclock setting! Both Loaded and Re-Loaded have wildly fluctuating unlocked framerates which make them the perfect candidate for such an improvement, as it does for basically any other game in a similar situation! (Jumping Flash 1 and 2, G-Police also being great examples)
Not doing stuff like this is always why going with unofficial solutions ends up being better

Re: Legendary's Street Fighter Film Could Be In Trouble (Again)

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That director is an interesting choice, Bad Trip was great, it had the same spark of joy that Dumb & Dumber had in the early 90s, as is The Eric Andre Show which it descended from, I hope this guy's work wasn't ending up a little too subversive and goofy for Capcom/Legendary/Sony's tastes
It'd be a shame if it had, because the main reason people like the 94 movie is for being subversive and goofy, so they really ought to just lean into how absurd Street Fighter inherently is, especially stuff like how strange some of the more obscure cast members can be, it's time for Q to finally make his silver-screen debut

Re: ROM Hack 'Pokémon Mario Red & Luigi Green' Will Fuse Two Famous Nintendo Properties

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Both players need to have beaten the game with all 150 Pokemon for this trick to work.The Blue version player trades the Red version player for a Dratini. The Blue version then evolves the Dratini to a Dragonite and trades it back to the Red version. The Red version should head to the basement level of the Unknown Dungeon and surf closest to where Mewtwo was. Then take a Fire Stone and use it on the Dragonite. The screen will glitch, and the Dragonite will evolve into "Yoshi". This Pokemon will still keep the stats of a Dragonite, however in the Stats Screen, it'll have Yoshi's pic with the ID No. of 999.