Not defending right-wing culture warriors, but I fail to see how anti-woke losers are responsible for the natural progression of capitalism. Nintendo is a virtual fiefdom and has been for decades; they're capitalizing on it being the biggest it ever has been by raising prices because they know they'll get away with it. If every chud whining that is fuckable enough started whining about Mario Kart costing $80 it wouldn't change shit, because where else are you going to go play Mario Kart?
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where else are you going to go play Mario Kart?
On my Yuzu emulator.
I play indie games that I pirate and run on my potato laptop 
Return to backgammon and mahjong
Since we did balatro with poker and d&d gamblers with blackjack the next logical step is a rougelite mahjong game.
ffs mahjong is already a roguelike
how potato is it?
I'm probably exaggerating but it's an i5 with a gtx 660m so I really can't play any modern titles that aren't 2D.
gtx 660m
a fine vintage
Just dont buy the latest gaming console.
Maybe we should all just play the games we have as shit gets more expensive and oligarchs are trying to mess with our lives.
Sometimes I think about how my fascination in tech and video games led to these oligarchs getting more power. We should probably reflect on our consumerism habits.
They targeted gamers.
Gamers.
We're a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.
We'll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it's fun.
We'll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.
Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.
Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?
These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We're already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren't shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic,removed apologists is going to change us? We've been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a s***ty head set. They picked a fight against a group that's already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they've threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can't is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.
Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You're not special, you're not original, you're not the first; this is just another boss fight.
This is a real thing a real person has written down seriously for the world to see
I couldn't believe it. I thought this was a bit but the person was.... Legit 
It was on kotakuinaction
A beautiful copypasta on par with the navy seals.
tfw your wife's boyfriend can't afford you the switch 2 
When are gamers going to stop demanding new consoles and start demanding less hardware-intensive games?
We could still just make games for the Switch, but no, gamers demand a new console so Mario has more pixels. 🙄
True Gamers demand realism, something that you probably don't understand. Without Aloy having peach fuzz what would they have to complain about?
I’m literally confused because the Switch is a perfectly fine console and many amazing games can still be made.
“Innovation” literally for its own sake just leads to waste.
The switch gets a lot of odd hate for being "underpowered" i actually saw a thread where people stated that it was weaker than a ps2 like bruh. And no it wasn't a joke it was entirely serious over metal gear solid ports to switch which were definitely not the fault of konami being useless shits. Especially considering the vita ran the games better
The switch gets a lot of odd hate for being "underpowered"
Bad hardware with a tightly controlled walled garden being sold at a premium because it's from a huge and extremely shitty entertainment company that buys exclusives and maintains a stranglehold on a handful of stagnating franchises that people still keep buying for some reason is bad, actually. Like all three console manufacturers are terrible, terrible companies, but Nintendo really shows just how shoddy and minimal a minimum viable product can be while still being inexplicably successful.
I mean compared to the competition, Nintendo has made lower spec games for lower spec hardware since like twenty years now (or whenever the hell the Wii came out)
I'd say it's less that Nintendo intentionally made lower spec devices, it's that microsoft and Sony decided to make giant loud frankenstein hardware designs.
Come on that just ain't true. The last two generations of consoles have all been extremely "reasonable". Off-the-shelf hardware all on one chip, designed to be profitable to sell from day one at the same price they always tried to sell their consoles at. They are just small computers, exactly where all of hardware tech is at right now. None of them are like the PS3, which actually was a ridiculous overspecced stupid piece of hardware born entirely out of grandeur and delusion.
If you want to criticize these consoles and their makers for continuing to make the exact same games as they've done since the PS3 days, then that's a totally reasonable argument to make, but to me that also doesn't apply to Nintendo. If anything they've been getting the most out of their hardware wherever they go and have been trying to evolve their gameplay with the hardware: BotW could be made on the Wii u, but not on the Wii, TotK could be made on the Switch but not on the WiiU, and it doesn't seem to me like they could have made the new Donkey Kong on the OG Switch.
These literal cockroaches will talk about everything else but the underlying root of all problems called capitalism.
And the few that do won't go very far beyond that and say the problem is "crony capitalism," "not true capitalism" or go straight to JQ-ing.
What's jq-ing
Jelqing
I think they mean "Jewish Question"ing, referring to a person going off on an antisemitic rant.
Ah i see
These braindead troglodytes literally posed in the steam discussions for INZOI a goddamn Sims-like life sim bitching about woke, LGBTQ+, and pronouns...
For fucks sake you absolute dense, hate-filled donuts, these people are a part of LIFE what part of LIFE SIM do they not belong in!?
The Sims also established this as standard like ten years ago. I believe the questions they asked were, "can this Sim pee standing up?" and "Can this Sim get pregnant?"
Pissing is the only gender spectrum I respect
Switch 2 is going to cost more than a steam deck? lmao
Just pirate it bruh
Pretty pessimistic about switch 2 being cracked soon, but yea I'm planning on just waiting for emulator support.
You'll buy your $90 non-hall effect joycons which will stick drift in 7 months and you'll like it
That's fine I'll play Metroid Prime 4 on Switch 1 and ignore the Switch 2 for like 4 years
They targeted gamers. Gamers.
you fucked over ALL OF US because of this shit
How do? I mean gamers are total bootlickers so they give energy to the right wing movement. They're also too stupid to realize they're being squeezed by corporate game devs and spending their time crying about how women look despite not having any real women in their life. But at the same time I think that once capital entered the gaming industry the great squeeze was always gonna happen.
I didn't do this
Video Game Crash II incoming!
I've long said that if these gamer duds put their energy into fighting capitalism we'd be better off.