Picked up the Switch 2 port of Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising. I’ve been starving for something new with crossplay. Learning Metera, but I am really struggling to escape the corner. I guess that’s kinda what I sign up for when playing zoners though.

Also been spending many sleepless nights chipping away at Sudokuvania 2: Lineage of Logic. This is my game of the year for 2026, no joke.

They do. You can still load books onto them manually from a PC, you just can’t access the store from the device itself.

Planned obsolescence does suck, I’m with you on that. But these devices were supported for 14 years, and they do still remain usable even past this expiration date. If the goal is to fight against planned obsolescence, this just seems like the worst possible battle to pick for that fight.

That would require every console game to be compatible with PC. In theory it’s at least possible for any game that has a PC port to just give you the port, but not every game does. And for those that do, well, why pay for this service over just buying the ports?

I think you answered your own question. Regional pricing is important so that consumers in poorer countries can still afford products, they’d rather sell at a reduced price than not sell at all in that market. But regional pricing has to be able to be enforced or else it falls apart, if consumers outside of those regions can just buy at the reduced price, then they’ll stop doing regional pricing altogether and the regions it’s intended for get screwed.

Violet Evergarden, episode 10.

So 14 years is enough then?

I don’t think that trying to argue that 14 years isn’t enough is a winnable battle. I don’t think expecting support to be forever and ever to be a precedent that will ever be set.

If you want to set a precedent, you have to first pick a battle you can actually win. Your inability to answer the question comes across as a tacit admission that 14 years isn’t unreasonable, in which case I don’t see this fight as winnable.

It’s a pretty simple question, I dunno why you couldn’t give a straight answer. I think it’s going to be hard to win this kind of battle if you can’t give a direct answer.

That did not answer my question.

They’re not ‘useless’ though, they continue to work offline, and that kind of hyperbole makes it hard to take this seriously.

I really am asking here, if 14 years isn’t enough, what minimum would be? I’m asking what you think is reasonable.

If it was six months, that would be a very different situation. But the devices being discontinued are from 2012 and earlier, meaning they got at least 14 years of support. If 14 is not enough, what do you think a reasonable minimum should be?

Should a consumer reasonably expect any product to be supported forever and ever and ever just because they didn’t say they won’t?

It’s not like the device is actually bricked, it continues to work offline. I think it severely hurts this lawsuit’s credibility when they hyperbolize it to the point of being factually incorrect.

It’s just not being maintained to preserve forwards-compatibility, and that’s kind of inevitable. Nothing can truly last forever, forever is impossible. And if we can accept that there’s no such thing as forever, then it’s just a question of when to draw the line, when it’s finally okay to eventually drop support. And the question of when could be a valid question to ask, but it doesn’t sound like that’s the question this lawsuit is asking, it sounds like they just expect infinity.

505 Games

Ah, I understand everything now.

I had a falling out with the people I thought were my friends. Set off a horrible chain reaction of events that fucked me up in a big way and destroyed a longtime dream I’d been working towards.

I don’t know how to make friends again, and I don’t know how to trust people. I’m stuck with this paranoid fear wondering if people are only pretending to be nice to me but might secretly hate me behind my back. And I want to tell myself that’s an irrational fear, most people surely aren’t like that, but it happened once already.

I propose twelve holidays: 1/1, 2/2, 3/3, 4/4, 5/5, 6/6, 7/7, 8/8, 9/9, 10/10, 11/11, and 12/12.

The article says he wasn’t just distributing pirated games, he was selling them, and was running a pretty large network of sites for it.

Regardless of how you feel about Nintendo, regardless of how you feel about what the law currently says, this is a pretty clear cut case of fucking around and finding out.

Saw Porter Robinson’s Smile tour two years ago, absolutely fantastic show.

The problem with the left isn’t that anarchists and tankies get into internet arguments sometimes. That shit doesn’t matter, none of this matters.

The lack of organization that matters is at the top. The root of the problem is that the far right likes the GOP, but the far left does not like the DNC. And first-past-the-post elections ensure that the far left can’t hope to organize any kind of competition to challenge the DNC.

Could they? Sure, they hold the keys to the kingdom and can block the release of any title for any reason. And eventually Sony is going to say that PS4 is done, no more PS4 games, and eventually they will also do so for PS5, 6, 7…

But I don’t think it makes any sense for them to do so prematurely. Cross-gen releases are good for them because the side-by-side comparison helps demonstrate the power of the new hardware. Upgrade paths help keep consumers locked into the ecosystem, even if they buy the last-gen version now they’ll have an incentive to buy better hardware to play it on later. And probably most importantly, it’s just not a good idea to burn bridges with their business partners by being too controlling.

The fact that we’re still seeing PS4 games released today tells me that long cross-generation transition periods will remain the norm.