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Steam Decks discontinued. Phil Spencer retiring. Next gen consoles being delayed. Bluepoint shuttered by Sony. Things are not looking good.

@gamestop You just self owned yourselves and you aren’t even armed with the self awareness to see it.

We won't even offer $4 We don't want to go anywhere near this card

@Hongjitsu @Leftykenbear “I didn’t do it once!” Caught doing it multiple times lol

My biggest fans! ❤️

@joerussotweets Oh look, a gatekeeper.

I am so sick of SINNERS fans. It’s a movie about vampires. The vampires are core to its themes. IT’S A HORROR MOVIE. And it’s NOT above other horror movies. You just haven’t seen enough of them to know how emotionally and thematically deep the genre goes. Watch more horror.

@randyswish @Grxit Despite their love of the game, they brought a hostile and finger pointing tone to the stream. I just wanted to watch a speed run and follow the progress of donations to charity.

Embarrassing what this shit has become

The fact that the game industry is looking at $1,000+ consoles and $100 games is just going to kill it. Good thing we have decades of great games to fall back on.

Still enjoying the hell out of #MetroidPrime4 . The game has its flaws - as most do - but it's honestly what I've been looking for.

I completely agree with this, actually. I did come around a bit on Episode VIII, but regardless, Episode VII was a solid return to form for the franchise.

@REALMizkif No one cares. Goodbye and good riddance.

Goodbye Twitch, Forever.

I know there's been a lot of discourse about it online... but I'm really enjoying #MetroidPrime4 .

If my console ever dies I am not spending $700+ to replace a machine I initially got for $500. Get all the way fucked.

@BradEBonham Question: Do you know successful people that like to watch sports? Likes to go fishing? Go to pubs with friends? Enjoys gardening? Pours themselves into a hobby? Your comment can literally apply to -any- of these things. “Durr, be a better husband, father, provider.” 😒

Hot take: I do not personally know a highly successful man that plays video games regularly. Not that they don’t exist. But a common thread that I’ve seen is that video games distract from far more important things. Put the controller down. Get to work being a better husband, father, and provider.

@dark1x @GmanLives I mean, Medal of Honor: Allied Assault used to make gamers feel as though they were actually storming the beach of Normandy. Play it now, and there’s nothing going on, compared to what games do today. It falls very flat. Products of their time. Products of their time.

@GmanLives Dude. Try replaying it! Maybe more tolerable on PC where it doesn’t cut the frame-rate in half every single time you fire a weapon lol

I see people dunking on this stuff but, like, this actually makes the campaign way WAY more appealing and interesting to me. There's a lot of weird stuff in there. Especially after slogging through the awful Call of Duty 2 campaign the other day (but hey, it's 20 years old)

@dark1x I don’t really care about concepts, honestly. It’s gotta be fun to play. This… just looks like a bullet sponge stop point.

In this case, the gameplay in this scene definitely doesn't look amazing - I'm simply talking about it conceptually. That is, it's doing unexpected things which automatically grabs my interest. Whethe the game itself is actually good, though? TBD

@PirateSoftware It shouldn’t be allowed. Don’t care if the actors lent their voice and were okay with it. Would have been more time and a larger payday if they recorded all their lines instead. Do not stand on a podium and try to wave this off as people trying to be all faux moral high ground.

Arc Raiders callout voices are the same technology as live stream TTS. The argument against Arc Raiders use of AI voices has reached an absurd fever pitch that doesn't make any sense to me. Lots of grand standing and moral highgrounding for what amounts to nothing at all. The voice actors involved were paid for their work and agreed to have their voices used in this Text To Speech system. A very large majority of streamers use the same technology every day. Despite this nobody cares until it's used in a video game. There was even a long standing meta across all socials to have Dagoth Ur voice TTS lines both live and on static videos. There was no outrage here and the original voice actor definitely wasn't paid. All of this just looks like being mad for internet points more than trying to fix an actual problem. It's fine to be mad I guess but at least be consistent if you truly don't want TTS systems used.

@XboxGamePass lol

quite the variety today

@Qwik This is a silly take. I can play 100 hours in Elden Ring without beating it… same with a game like Skyrim. That’s not enough for me to solidify my feelings on a game?

@Apple Would be great if you could meet demand, though.

This is iPhone 17 Pro. With a durable design and 48MP Pro Fusion camera system, it’s the ultimate Pro. iPhone 17 Pro is loaded with the most cinematic camera we’ve ever made, featuring an 8x optical-quality zoom to get even closer to the action.

@LUPASAN2 Except it is

Xbox owners, just get a PS at this point. I seriously do not see another Xbox happening.

I'm not sure why Hollywood is so insistent on always remaking movies... but doing them worse. Just... stop already. We didn't need Total Recall. We didn't need The Running Man. We certainly don't need Cliffhanger.