And causing a nuclear disaster would help with this how? PS: When you hold part of your opponents country that means you’re winning.

Why would Russia blow up the NPP when they’re winning the war? This is another atrocity by the Ukrainian military to muddy the waters and try to attract yet more international support like the dam bombing.

Social democracy was a false idol anyways, nothing but socialism can work in the long term, socdem always gets repealed by the rich.

Leather is murder anyways.

Well… I mean I’m not having kids either, but someone has to to continue the species, nobody needs to eat meat.

Cycling is cool but that’s small-fry compared to if we all went vegan (or even just vegetarian)…

Noita, so confusing and not really very much fun IMO.

The default site literally doesn’t work on mobile anyway so it’s not like it makes much difference.

These figures are totally made up.

This game looked like trash from the announcement trailer, anyone lining up to pre-order a Bethesda game though, what can you do? Some people want to get their pockets picked.

Cost I guess. Also it would take loads of water to fill a deeper bathtub.

True. It’s not like microtransactions are the biggest issue with our world to begin with, I just see them as a symptom of the complete drive towards nightmare rentier capitalism where nobody will own anything except the hyper rich and we’ll all have to pay subscription fees for every little service in our lives.

I wish artists wouldn’t use Twitter, it might be convenient for them but it’s absolutely abysmal for the users, it’s impossible to do any kind of searching as is very easy on boorus.

To me, whenever I have to put in more cash after the initial purchase I pretty much feel exploited. Not saying I never buy DLC but often what you get in DLC is nowhere near comparable to the hard work put in by mod developers who aren’t getting paid at all (eg HOI IV). I think things will just keep getting worse unless governments put a stop to it.

I feel these ‘seasons of content’ have limited value, it’s much better to produce something fully functional in the first place. We’ve all gotten used to paying more for less. Of course we can say ‘constant purchases is more profitable for studios’ but does that mean we should accept it? I’ve never been impressed by live service games.

Can you post a non paywalled link next time? Thank you.

Seems like an interesting idea anyway.

Well by ‘developers’ I mean studios and publishers not individual employees. My question is why can some games seem to get by just fine and continue development without microtransactions? For example Project Zomboid has been in development for like ten years and has never asked for anything more than the sticker price, they just focus on selling more copies.

LOZ TOTK is only £50ish though, and that’s a fully fledged 60 ish hour game with tons of content, how can we accept the argument ‘it’s too expensive to make games’?

Of course paid cosmetics aren’t anywhere near as bad as pay to win but it still contributes to a toxic gaming landscape where the developers will nickel and dime you for every little thing rather than just try to create a compelling product you will want to buy once. Ultimately capitalism is toxic to creativity.