If we want to talk about first, then Maze War takes the trophy. Wolfenstein 3D may have come before Doom, but it lacked the influence and staying power. Wolf may have been earlier, but Doom birthed the genre as we know it

Many other games have “defined” their genres, but few have done so quite as completely as Doom (1993). And on top of birthing the entire FPS genre, the practice of making Doom run on any electronic device with a screen and a CPU has long been a fantastic exercise in programming and hacking. The possibility of implementing Doom in everything from calculators to pregnancy tests to Captcha in a browser window has kept the game in the public consciousness for decades, and will continue to do so for decades to come.

Of course the real answer is Clash of Clans, because it popularized mobile gaming and skyrocketed that platform’s revenue to the point that it outpaces every other gaming platform combined, but I’ll boycott BAFTA if something riddled with microtransactions gets any recognition

Mobile is the biggest platform by far. Mobile games make more money than console and PC combined.

Can’t wait for some console/PC gamer to tell me that playing Bloons TD doesn’t make you a gamer, but playing Fortnite somehow does

It doesn’t have to be inevitable. You, a gamer, can openly and loudly refuse to buy games that are made with the use of generative AI

The fact that Google refused to restore his account even after the police that they called said there was no child porn pisses me off to no end. They are officially allowed to close your account for no reason other than they don’t like you.

Jesus Christ they’re like bed bugs

Is it too much to ask that my phone only contain the shit that makes it work, and not anything else?

Macross 7 by Disney directly, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and The Simpsons by various other rights holders, and probably more that I’m not even aware of

Right now it’s just one plotline in Macross 7 that involves sexual assault, and some “offensive” episodes of Always Sunny and The Simpsons. From what I’ve read, the Macross one makes the show better, but I’d rather not set a precedent that lets them clip out every gay and trans character to please the current administration

I used to think this way, but then I found out that Disney is actively censoring media that they’ve bought the rights to, so now my argument is that you should pirate stuff to keep the original art available

fintech that handles direct money services

A perfect description

Cashapp is also sort of an entirely online pseudo bank. There are places that let you deposit and withdraw cash, but they’re like two steps above Bitcoin ATMs

I do know people who have these fully online banks though. On its own, it’s a lot less convenient then just having an account with a local credit union where you can withdraw cash for free, and I really don’t like that services like Venmo and Cashapp and Zelle are overtaking just handing physical dollar bills to each other

I mean I use Cashapp, but I could also not use it and my life wouldn’t be much harder

Can’t your purchases be tied to you via credit/debit card number? I mean obviously you can use cash, but I don’t see a lot of people using cash

A hot and uneducated take: nothing of value will be lost. Nobody will ever go searching through a defunct twitch account’s 142 hours of Minecraft speedrun attempts. If it’s valuable, back it up locally

Killing this guy is a very good way to piss off a lot of poor people who like him. The rich fucks need this to end in a relatively short prison sentence

Solitary confinement is absolutely unconstitutional, but good luck convincing someone that it’s cruel and unusual if they’ve never been subject to it

I’m just tired of the genre. I have played Morrowind, and Oblivion, and Skyrim, and Fallout 3, and New Vegas, and Fallout 4, and Fallout 76, and Outer Worlds, and Cyberpunk, and Starfield. I’m good.

Give me more Hi-Fi Rush. Give me more Atlas: Reign of Sand. Give me more Eternal Strands.

I am down to have monthly updates for the next few years, weekly updates through 2031, and daily updates throughout 2032

I just feel like if we do daily updates for the next 7 years when it’s in all likelihood going to miss us, we’ll be too complacent when an asteroid does have an impact trajectory

It technically would alter the moons orbit, but not by a lot. This asteroid would impact with roughly the energy of a nuclear bomb, which sounds like a lot, but on the scale of our moon it’s negligible.

A rough estimation given my limited understanding of physics is that to change the moon’s orbit by 1 m/s, you would need to impart something like 10²² joules of energy into it. Wikipedia says that if this asteroid hits the moon, the impact energy will be around 10¹⁶ joules. I don’t know how much you know about exponents, but 10¹⁶ is approximately 0% of the way to 10²², and that’s just change of 1 m/s

Of course, someone who actually understands physics is free to correct me if I’m wrong

Can we please not post daily updates? This is still 7 years away

Fuck me for wanting in on a discussion about how my own country is going to shit, right? I guess I’ll go jump off a bridge or something

The fact that it’s not even daily is going to kill any pull this has with me. It needs to be linked to progression level, like it used to be