expedition 33 is a game about what would happen if you died and your family went insane fighting over your minecraft world you made when you were 12

does anyone have gifs of that girl from nikke but she's all twitchy and visibly experiencing shellshock

realtalk: i can’t wait for AI to get better to the point where you can have a legit conversation with your computer or phone just for the heck of it imagine how innocent they’d be, and like they don’t know what swearing is until you teach them then they go overboard with it like a child and hhHHHG

For those without timestamps the original post was made in 2014

helldivers 2 literally sounds like the fuckin ‘omg here’s what I’d put in a game’ wishlists you and your friends would come up with at 3 am while vibing in some AAA game

going to break into the piracy discourse and argue that it isn't ethical to buy a AAA video game. you shouldn't give them your money. it's only ethical to play if you pirate it.

I think I could be persuaded of this if you give a good enough justification

Is this true for all AAA games? Do all of them treat their workers that badly? And, on the flip side, are smaller titles any better?

I don't have the answers to whether or not each specific company acts like this but I think these huge companies going through this is indicative of the industry at large. And when we talk about the "flip side", it's a very, very big range of titles. My rule of thumb is: if the people who actually made the game get the money, that's more worth it to purchase. I am not typically a mainstream gamer. A hard majority of the games I purchase & spend time with are from independent studios or solo developers on platforms like itch or steam, so I know that most of the money from my purchase goes toward the people who actually made the game. Sorry if "you have to do your research to know for sure" is not a satisfying enough answer from me, but when I see the game industry at large, it's very exploitative and I'd rather the income of rich shareholders get hurt over the income of actual developers.