I understand that a rather large portion of the active players of FFXIV are subbed mainly so that they can participate in the mod-supported ERP community. Yoshida is also the director of that game so I'm pretty sure he knows precisely how futile this request is.

lol ok sure is terarria a dead game? what about mario 3? agree with the devs on this one who gives a shit if people aren't mainlining it every day of their life

the enemy placement isn't exactly amazing in vanilla but it is atrocious in scholar of the first sin. which one did you play?

"I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less and I'm not kidding 😎"

Indie games are kind of this, but it's hard to make the "paid more" work consistently at scale. Largely because there's a shitload of people making really good indie games and I can only play so many of them.

"I CASt pissed off angel that's going to whoop your ass"

here I was thinking op was talking about the 9th level spell that can summon an extraplanar ally. the CAS of D&D

The game has a ton of subtle mechanics that it doesn't really go out of its way to tell you about. So there's a degree of mastery and cross-polination of strategy and builds that take advantage of those mechanics between groups, which adds a lot of fun for me. I respect how that's not for everyone though.

This isn't that complicated. Imagine what would have happened in Iraq or Afghanistan if the president was an intelligence asset they had cultivated for decades. Not to mention tons of senators, represntatives, and influential NGOs like the NRA. Also all those social media psyops that are disappointingly effective at sowing division in the US.

Russia has an incredible amount of influence in the US and is still getting wolloped, although not nearly as much or as quickly as they should/could be.

Although I have my grievences with Valve for other reasons I do have to commend them for their efforts to make linux a way more viable gaming platform than I ever could have imagined. I think a full 2/3rds of my steam library is playable on linux, which is pretty good considering that's not something I considered when buying them.

this message is for investors, not gamers

dumb investors will be like "oh yay they're doing the tech hype fad thing that lets management do big layoffs and pump out content"

smart investors will be like "this will make the games worse"

Matchmaking is a pretty good system for people who just want to get a game going without having to navigate the social fabric of a community.

What I'm saying is that both are good for different audiences, or even the same people at different times.

It seems within the realm of possibility that counterintel knew he was leaking and fed him him info they wanted to be "leaked" prior to charging him.