From the article:

Hate, unfortunately, sells. Right-wing extremism researcher Kaz Ross told ABC that Meta’s “financial model is to reward content creators who get engagement, and as we know, the best way of getting engagement is to produce rage bait, extremist material, aggravating material: anything that will get people upset and arguing is the best way to get engagement.”

It’s another example of how quickly Meta dropped its once-stricter content moderation policies when Donald Trump returned to the White House. Shortly before his second inauguration, Meta loosened its standards around hate speech, particularly on topics like gender identity and immigration, two of the far right’s favorite issues.

Not tower defense, but I’ve been a long time fan of a super simple game caked Landrule. It’s literally just Risk, but it’s super simplified graphics means it can run on a potato, and the visual information is super easy to digest. It has a ton of speed options so when your comfortable with it, you can crank it up and play an entire game against 5 computer opponents or more in 5 minutes. And, best of all, a tooooon of maps so you can mix it up and keep it fresh.

The point I was referring to was that physical media is dead/not important any more.

Mate, I’m a PC gamer as well, so you’re preaching to the choir. I just don’t really get how Sony saying they are stopping physical game production because gamers don’t need it, then responding to that by… getting rid of your physical games makes any sense.

I mean, doesn’t this kind of prove Sony’s point though?

I personally won’t be cutting off my nose to spite my face. You can take my disc edition console and the physical games I have from my cold dead hands.

Wow, good shout. I actually didn’t notice that. I had already read this article on Euro gamer and totally assumed this was the same link!

People downvote things they don’t personally like, instead of things that don’t fit or add to the community. Whether or not I’m interested in GTA 6, I think news about it is important to the industry and adds to this community.

Americans would rather have thought crime and mass surveillance than give up their guns, because they need those guns to combat a tyrant or fascist.

So anyway, how’s USA’s government going these days? Surely not fascist or tyrannical with all those guns around, right?

Right?

“It is a one time fee that you pay annually.” One of the best Portlandia skits.

Retch is still a word in modern English usage, but yes this is absolutely just an error and it’s meant to be “wretched”.

They are very closely linked, though. You are not incorrect, but the vast majority of games shipped on disc can be played without servers, etc. Once they take those physical discs away, the only way to get them will be digital distribution, which is way more prone to being shut down than every disc in existence being destroyed.

“some newer games” is doing a massive disservice to the fact that it remains the vast majority. It is more honest to say some games aren’t playable from disc, but most are.

The majority of games released on disc, even today, are playable by putting them into a console, installing, and playing. No internet, no downloads.

There may be debate about “full games” given day one patches and future content updates, etc, but it is a misconception bordering on misinformation campaign that games these days don’t ship on disc.

They do. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, for example, has so much game shipped on disc that it came with two.

You can check out http://doesitplay.org/ to see what games do (the vast majority) and don’t play from disc.

Nintendo churns out the same slop franchises

looks at most highly rated video games of all time

Look mate, not everything you don’t personally like is “slop”.