Actually, I have bad news for you… prices are likely going to go up from the AI bubble plus the upcoming RAM shortage.

Meanwhile I bought an Xbox Series S and PS5 and a Switch 2 plus a bunch of SSDs all in November lol

Having a knee injury plus not much else to do plus a 75 inch TV I bought back in September will do that for you lol

I think you’re looking for “genres”, the problem isn’t the term “video games”.

True, but Gabe is just about the best one I can think of.

Sure, I should have clarified not surprised by the power or the price.

It makes sense that as more and more power becomes available, the price doesn’t necessarily have to increase.

Computers (especially CPUs/GPUs/SOCs etc) are becoming more and more powerful all the time, and more and more efficient all the time. It doesn’t mean that the price of them has to rise.

The fact that it’s 6 times as powerful doesn’t mean it should be more expensive than the most expensive version of the Steam Deck. The fact that it’s 6 times as powerful should be entirely expected, given the fact that it’s newer with a larger form factor (meaning that it may not be as limited in terms of heat etc)

Hopefully this is a detailed enough comment to clearly explain my thoughts on this.

It’s newer hardware in a bigger form factor.

It should be 6x as powerful, that shouldn’t be a surprise.

True, but it’s also nowhere near $1000.

According to statcounter, Linux desktop was over 4% marketshare in April 2025, damn that’s impressive.

We really are getting there.

Well clearly you’re lying or you haven’t been looking, because this is NOT the most popular initiative on ECI.

Regardless, you can support more than one issue. It’s not a zero-sum game, you can fight for multiple things. It’s really not that hard to figure out.

Every single one of those games is excellent, but tbh I’d recommend starting with Underground 1 and then going onto Underground 2, they’re both fantastic IMO.

So business as usual, then.

They will keep doing it at each and every opportunity they get, even if they have to create new opportunities to do it, they will do so, always. They have already shown who they are.

Reality: The Switch 2 has one of the strongest console launches, despite increased prices. Their games continue to hold more value than others, with used games selling for near, or even above, their original sale price. Their consoles and games remain the #1 pick for families with kids.

Their pricing is pricing out many families, and I don’t like that. I’ve remained firm in my stance that I’m not going to buy this console. It doesn’t matter if everyone else around me buys it, I’m simply not going to do it. It’s too expensive, same with the games, and I simply don’t want to continue supporting Nintendo.

Gabe said piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem, but Nintendo has now made it both lol

I’m sad that more people aren’t voting with their wallets but it is what it is, I can at least do my part in refusing to support them.

My first work from home job was a lot like that. My next two after that were only like that sometimes.

My profile is private anyway so it doesn’t matter lol

People outside of USA don’t even have Amex or Discover as options.

It’s either Visa, MC, or Bitcoin.

Because they didn’t just stop there when they removed from all NSFW content from itch.io

It’s not just a one-and-done thing, it will keep escalating.

They already removed all NSFW from itch.io

It opens the door to removing any number of games for any other number of reasons.

Remember the war on violent video games? Maybe not, but there are tons of people who think that violent video games cause people to be violent which has been proven to not be the case, yet people still parrot it like it’s true. It could easily escalate to that.

Also, they already went after ALL NSFW games on itch.io with all of those games being removed, so it’s already getting worse right before our very eyes.

If you don’t see how it can escalate from here then I don’t really know what to say.

Almost at 1.3 million! Make sure to vote if you’re eligible and haven’t already, it’s super important. Fuck these greedy companies.

I definitely agree that this is interesting, this was a great read!

Older games are better plus gamers can play all our existing games.

Give me a call when they’re in the bargain bin years from now.

If they’re still functional, thankfully there’s the Stop Killing Games movement.

I’m just worried some of them are botted, especially now that we’re less than 100k away from 1m.

5 minutes later and it’s 843k, almost 1k signatures per minute, not bad at all!

I don’t think you’re wrong, and I think the EU petition will go the same way, but it’s still worth signing regardless.

Devs geting screwed over by management (not even just game devs but all devs) is a tale older than time, sadly.

I’ve seen him described elsewhere as “a poor man’s idea of a rich man” and I think it’s accurate.

With that said, I don’t think it’s his fault the petition failed, people just don’t care usually.

edit: To give more context, Pirategames literally does not know what the Stop Killing Games movement is about, he thinks it’s only about single-player games being always-online (yes that’s a component of it but not the whole thing) and converting multiplayer games to be offline-playable single-player games but it does NOT mention that anywhere because it is NOT about that. However, I guarantee you that Pirategames will not admit that he was mistaken about his understanding of the Stop Killing Games movement, he will instead double and triple down and insist that he had the correct understanding of it. lol

For better or for worse, it’s actually quite different. Many people seem to actually prefer Mario Kart 8 lol

They aren’t really direct competitors, though.

They avoided direct competition by previously being cheap enough that people could afford a Nintendo console and a Playstation or Xbox, and their video games have been so good that buying a Nintendo device was always a no-brainer.

They focused on selling games, not consoles.

Yep. Nintendo is unfortunately extremely smart. Nobody can say they don’t make good games, it’s all the other things about them that are problematic.

I don’t expect much from it, and it’s not surprising since Microsoft won’t even put the effort into making their own handheld rather than just partnering and making a modified existing one.

Plus, I use Linux because I don’t want to use Windows.

My point was more that games that require the Internet itself, and not just LAN-capable servers, are games that are inevitably going to disappear.

It may seem like I’m splitting hairs but what I said is technically true.

Technically 100% do, games that require the Internet require the Internet, which means by design you’re relying on someone else hosting servers which means it may not be available, 50, 100, or even more years into the future. That’s not the case with single-player/offline-available games.

Something tells me their “peepee” never worked to begin with tbh.

Yep, I love the Tomb Raider games too, I still play Rise of the Tomb Raider sometimes, it’s such a great game.

Plus also she’s awesome anyway. What the fuck is wrong with people? Oh I can’t enjoy my vibeo game with a wahmen as main character, it’ll ruin my mood!

That’s what I don’t understand, like, have people not played the Horizon games? They’re awesome, they’re fun as hell.

Pokemon MMOs literally use Pokemon assets as well as trademarked data too, and they’re literally using Nintendo’s intellectual property. It’s not too different from decomps.

I say Pokemon MMOs haven’t been taken down, because, I’m playing PokeMMO in 2025 on my PokeMMO account I created back in 2013. PokeMMO has been around for over a decade, Pokemon World Online has been around since like 2007, Pokemon Revolution Online has also been around for a decade, etc.

Do you have any proof of any Pokemon MMOs that have been taken down by Nintendo? I’m looking for Pokemon MMOs that have been shut down and I’m not finding any, I’m just finding Pokemon MMOs that have been around for years without being shut down.

You could say that about Pokemon MMOs too, and yet I’m playing PokeMMO in 2025 on my PokeMMO account I created back in 2013.

There are some things Nintendo don’t go after, and there are other things that they do go after. Decomps don’t appear to be something they go after, which is good because then we can get cool ports of older games too.

Why expect this to be taken down if other decomps haven’t been taken down already? Why expect other decomps to be taken down?