Nintendo is a MASSIVE game company, indie game companies could never produce their games the way Nintendo does. What a confounding example you chose from a company that is notably hostile to hobbiests and indie developers.

When Nintendo came out with the wii, they were laughed out of the room by Sony and MS because their games were too simple and graphics lacking… it was a huge success, that is what I meant… plenty of small, indie even, video game studios have and can produce huge hits… more importantly, they do not need to make a kajillion dollars to break even which means their games are not akin to armed robbery

Large game companies can create games that would be impossible for smaller indie studios to make, large game studios can offer employment of a nature that smaller indie game companies simply can’t.

I am not refuting that… I am refuting your claim that not having AAA games means the video game golden age is over… AAA video games have been mostly pain in the last 7 years… we can have tons of fun with no AAA titles

You are saying “If Mercedes Benz collapses, cars are over”… I am saying “there are plenty of other car makers to keep the industry as a whole”

I love indie games, don’t try to take the high road of claiming you have made yourself more pure by only playing indie games as if that was a solution, they are different categories.

Never claimed any of that… simply said I have fun with them and won’t miss AAA games

Don’t conflate workplace culture with the basic reality of working at a riskier, smaller company vs. a larger established company with longer and more predictable product development cycles. You wanna start a family while working at a tiny company that could go POOF if only one or two things go wrong.

What AAA Studio are you thinking of? which one has NOT laid off tons of people as soon as their very successful launches cash in?

I think your smashing of AAA games / their studios and a Golden Age of video games is borderline ridiculous.

I think history has shown (Nintendo specifically) that game play is king, you do not need a billion dollar project with ultra realistic graphics to have fun… many people, like me, have a ton of fun and rarely play any AAA games

The second part is also ridiculous (specially the family part) considering AAA Studios were the worst at exploiting their staff and lay them off the second the beta game was sold in early admissions

Nah… I’m sure Americans will move the goal post again and claim wE aRE noT THerE yEt

Billionarie charities are just money laundering machines… like the billionaires themselves, they should not exist

Windose users do not understand this meme

well, that is what the phrase contradicts… if things were rational, yes the retail market would directly and proportionally affect the financial markets… but in reality, the financial markets are more speculation than reality so you could be promising to sell polished turds with AI (which makes no sense, nobody wants and you won’t sell a single unit) yet your company’s stock is evaluated in the billions

The phrase you mentioned refers to the stock market where companies like Tesla, for example, has stocks at huge prices when every single measure of their actual capacity, sales, innovation, demand, etc are tanking

this is not “the market” that phrase is referring to

for three more years.

Oh, my sweet summer child

How does the US get blamed in this?

Your orange pedo president demanded this and our stupid PM conceeded thinking it would help negotiations

but fail to act on it

isn’t most income tax taken at source?

already made… stop pretending it’s a bad step

same, that was the final nail in the Spotify coffin

a simpler explanation is that they are all morons

Let me put it this way… having a jeep for off-roading is like training for war in Call of Duty

so much so that in Canada, we can now easily recognize the American traits we copied vs the European ones… finally people seem to realize everything American is basically cancer

same!… heck work updated my laptop from win10 to 11 and now the “Windows App” won’t run… IT dude gave up trying to fix it and order a swap

This is a laptop used, at most once a week, for regular office bs and it basically self destroyed just through windose updates

You just need to add the extra repos

The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch