Balatro is…not something big studios could even possibly replicate

…and why not?

What would be the point of a big studio trying to make a game that one developer can pull off?

…money?

They’re simply drawing all the wrong conclusions here:

even though Spider-Man 2 sold more than 11 million copies, several members of Insomniac lost their jobs when Sony announced 900 layoffs in February.

The layoffs don’t mean the game or company were unsuccessful, it means they found other ways to eliminate those jobs.

Warner Bros. Discovery took a $200 million loss on Suicide Squad

That’s nothing to do with graphical fidelity, it was a shit game that followed up a shit movie.

Sony closed the studio behind Concord

Lots of potential reasons for this. If you ask me, they released a $30 game into a genre chock full of “free to play” games.

Personally I appreciate “cinematic” games but titles like Balatro and Stardew Valley (neither of which I own) are proof of the simple fact that making games that are actually fun to play is far far more important, and far more profitable.

That won’t make much of a dent in climate change.

It makes a massive difference. Think about how much food and other products a single person consumes in their lifetime. All of that is gone if they’re never born.

The main cause of climate change is pollution on a massive scale by corporations.

They don’t pollute just for the fun of it, they pollute to make products to sell to consumers. No consumers = no pollution.

Well that sounds like a problem, wouldn’t you say?

Uhhh I’ll take one if you’re giving them 😃

You shouldn’t be okay with that.

It doesn’t matter what software you use, Apple doesn’t allow automatic backups on their phones. Consider buying a different phone that allows you to use it as you see fit.

There are always people who want aesthetics over performance

You don’t have to choose though. Plenty of people are running this hardware in a box much smaller than this, their explanation is nonsense. It’s just bad design.

why wouldn’t corsair sell these

Because they care at all about their reputation?

Don’t know about you but Epic gives me a bot challenge every time I do absolutely anything on their site.

It’s Korea.

Honestly culling the herd is probably our best bet at battling climate change at this point.

Which GPU? How many drives?

Put a kill-o-watt meter on it and see what it says for consumption.

That’s great but these things never should have been up for sale in the first place.

0.1kWh per hour? Day? Month?

What’s in your system?

Bambu is in the initial phase of enshittification.

I wish they were more open

This is how you can tell.

Also every time someone links to a print on their website it begs me to download their app.

Cannot recommend.

It doesn’t help that Steam store is a nightmare to navigate.

Releasing demos is a great way to succeed. It doesn’t take me more than 5 minutes to decide if it’s something I want to continue playing.

Putting videos of nothing but cut-scenes is a great way to ensure I keep scrolling but every title seems to take this approach.

Tech Jesus made a tribute video.

Yeah this is everything the Steam Deck is not:

1. Crazy expensive
2. Disposable/unrepairable
3. Windows trash
4. Chinese gobbledygook company that will disappear from existence in 6 months

I mean they squeezed all the blood from that orange. Not that that ever stopped Ubisoft…

I see.