Boot from a flash drive and try to recover any data you can, but that hard drive is toast

Nintendo EPD, ID, Valve

Terrible business practices aside, as a developer, Nintendo is fantastic. EPD specifically works on flagship titles and where Myamoto kisses each one before launch.

ID- groundbreaking work in the past, and I loved the recent DOOM games. Can't wait for The Dark Ages

Valve- obviously amazing devs, 3rd on this list for not releasing anything good recently (Alyx doesn't count because I can't play it because I can't afford a VR headset)

Fair, better luck next time I suppose

not overnight oats?

This is the first interview since Biden dropped out of the presidential race. I think he's going through it.

There's soooooo much culture. I keep getting in to niches and they keep having a culture. What is an antipodean coffee? British vs American rock and roll? A Midwest goodbye? Fuck, I have a have a barbecue exam next week.

It's fiction. It's not real. If you have an actual study that shows that it causes actual harm, I'll listen to you but until then you're just making moralistic argument for no discernable reason besides that it makes you feel icky.

Most people don't seem to be genuinely interested in doing this work or making this type of content, either

Bullshit. The Indie horror scene is and has always been huge. People enjoy it and IT DOESNT HURT ANYONE so there's no reason to outlaw it. What does need to be outlaws is coercive business practices that keeps employees from having to experience these forms of media against their will. Again every single one of my comments has been pro-worker. You would rather impress your own morals on others without ANY scientific backing or attempt to understand another's point of view. You are literally saying the same arguments that SWERFS say to attack sex workers.

Believe it or not, I think communism is about raising up the proletariat, not policing video games.

there's just a point where worker rights needs to be prioritized over your desire for simulated snuff treats, and we've already gone well past the point.

Literally all of my comments have said that the workers should be protected. If everyone consents to making a violent video game without coercion then there's no reason to stop them.

Literally what is the point of communism if our goals are not to protect people and improve lives?

How is banning violent video games improving lives? How is it protecting people? The point of communism is not to prevent someone from getting scared because they actively chose to consume violent media.

What is the difference between a gory video game and a gory movie? Are you suggesting that people should not be able to decide of their own free will to engage with these forms of media? Where would the line be drawn? Who would draw the line? Again, no one's livelihood should be on the line if they don't want to engage with it, but if people choose to traumatize themselves, who is to say they can't?

If we want to call ourselves revolutionary communists, we have to imagine a world where we pick up arms and actually engage in war. Even the most ultraviolent video games are literal child's play compared to that. We can't sit here and be afraid of Mortal Kombat.

That's not what we want to see, LargePenis

Obviously, traumatizing your workers should be a crime. That being said, I think abhorring violence is liberalism tbh. It isn't the violence of the video games that is an issue, it is the culture around the violence. If you can shoot a gun in a game, it's a big difference if that gun is aimed at a Nazi vs a 'jihadi militant' or whatever racist shit COD is about.

I think every one earth wants to be considered hot, smart, and funny. If your partner says something that comes off as suggesting you are not one of those things, it can be hurtful.