xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

@coolboymew @Monadwill I was talking about back before digital distribution. Physical copies of PC games are dead everywhere outside of collector's editions and usually only indies bother with them.

Back when physical copies were still relevant, the big boxed games were usually sold in either higher-end stores like Target or electronic stores like Best Buy. Stores like Wal-Mart had a bunch of bargain-bin crap. Usually, they were full versions of WildTangent games, but if you were lucky, there will sometimes be a budget, jew-case only re-release of a AA or AAA game much like how Nintendo had their Player's Choice program.

Eventually, publishers decided to forgo big box PC games entirely and resorted to using standard DVD cases (or in EA's case big DVD cases) just like with console games. I guess they did it so stores like Wal-Mart would sell them at a much affordable price.

Looking back on it. This was all because PC gaming was always a niche market up until the release of Steam and it was not guaranteed that the game you purchased would work on your computer and stores would probably be bombarded by tech-illiterate parents demanding refunds. That also probably explains why these budget title games had both Windows and Mac OS binaries on the same disc. Hell, the first time I ever heard about Linux was from one of these games because it also had a Linux binary on the disc.

@coolboymew @Monadwill The one thing that Target had over Wal-Mart was that they had a much better PC game selection. Wal-Mart usually only had the bargain-bin, jewel case only, shovelware crap.

@Arwalk @Moon I had the same hopes with ZeroNet since it was more user-friendly, but when 8chan had their bunker, most of the users weren't using a VPN or Tor and had their IPs exposed by journalists.

@Moon Who even uses shoutboxes?

@rasterman @ArdanianRight @ChristiJunior
@PorkCow Maybe Sakurai should start developing roguelikes.

@coolboymew @Moon They probably have it because they know it's going to be useless, so it's okay to dumb it down.

@coolboymew @Moon
>I absolutely question such classes existence
They only make philosophy classes mandatory because almost nobody would take them otherwise and the philosophy professors would be underpayed. It's not about "expanding your mind". It's about paying the professors for useless courses.

Philosophy isn't required in my college, but my guidance counselor added Logic to my schedule during my Freshman year (we couldn't choose a schedule for first semester). I fucking failed that class. He thought that CS majors should take it to understand if-statements, but literally anyone can understand a fucking if-statement without a semester long class about proving theorems through deduction. Granted I think I would've passed it now. I was still in my lazy high school student mindset and wasn't aware that professors list all the homework assignments on their syllabi.

There is literally no point in having these classes. People who major in philosophy just to "expand their minds" are just wasting their time and money. You can just learn this shit on your own. I don't go to college to "expand my mind". I go there to learn what I need to know for my career path and get a degree. For the vast majority of students, whatever political/social/philosophic issues you bring are just going to go through their heads.

@Moon That and sociology.

@takao @ChristiJunior @rasterman I also heard that the developers were more experienced with text-adventures games and then jumped straight to 3D.

@thestrongest @coolboymew They better not name the new Zelda game BotW2. And I'm sure the Metroid is fake because there was a cancelled Metroid Dread (had no relation to Prime) for the DS and I doubt their going to remake it and make it part of the Metroid Prime series.

@djsumdog @Terry @coolboymew @thestrongest Blogs are really only useful for posting updates on a project such as an indie game or for transparency reports on some service like a Fedi instance.