Miles O'Brien

As someone who has moved several free pianos and now tells people I will drive it but loading and unloading is on them…

They all sound like complete shit.

The piano is free, making it sound good isn’t.

But then, most people just have a piano for decoration.

… Dodging?

Is that some kind of move weaklings make when they can’t take a hit?

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saw war as a thrilling, life-or-death, adventure.

That just sounds like psychopath-lite…

Oh man, I missed bullpupping memes…

A person can dream.

Make every company that has a whistleblower die in ANY way face extremely heavy penalties including, but not limited to: 75% taxing on all income for a period of time as part of a fine, jail time for executives, board members, and potentially large shareholders, potential nationalization of the company, etc

Make every company afraid to have a whistleblower die. Make them want to hire private security and pay for all health expenses to ensure the person lives because the alternative is the company ceases to exist in any way that benefits those in charge.

The angled DOD seal to reflect Walter’s slightly down turned head is a nice touch

I believe it’s properly pronounced “Brock ‘THE RAPIST’ Turner”

… And?

Why do we give a shit?

Why is this newsworthy?

Are we going to hear about his time working in retail soon? I’m sure it will provide deep insight to find out which store he worked at for 3 months, 8 years ago. clearly that’s relevant information.

They’ll just relocate to Neptune. It’s basically like playing whack-a-mole.

I think after years and years of 3d games, I just don’t like 2d anymore.

I’ve become institutionalized by a third dimension…

I don’t even enjoy Castlevania anymore and those games were my jam back in the day.

I never could get into terraria, but some days I want to buy it just to support a good developer.

Yeah, like… This was absolutely me as a kid, I just imagined my fully grown dad but child-size, so I want to laugh…

But I can’t laugh when it’s just a photo that’s essentially going “HAHA LOOK AT THIS ABNORMAL PERSON, LET ME BRING FOCUS TO THE ABNORMAL THING HAHA!”

It feels gross.

So I approve of the joke, just not the accompanying image.

Ive seen it being played by almost everyone on my friends lists at one point or another

honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s hundreds of thousands, if not millions.

Pffffffff

I can see that bright white dot against the dark mode background on my maximum brightness screen with ease! Therefore your argument is invalid!

It’s a neat game. I’ve put a couple dozen hours into a few villages over the last few months. There’s still a lot to improve on, but based on the little I’ve learned about the developer this seems like more of a passion project than a money maker.

Chug along, little dev, there’s dozens of us waiting for updates! dozens!

Yes, someone would have. Eventually.

But valve did it early.

It’s easy to fill a niche once it’s formed. Not so easy to do before, or as it’s forming. Or predict if one will form.

I’m not saying valve or Gabe had some kind of foresight or wisdom, I still think it was a gamble. It just happens to be a gamble that worked.

I mean… It was a gamble. Internet was still young. Speeds weren’t keeping up with game sizes outside a few major cities. I was mailed a few large files because it was quicker than downloading them. Not to mention the desire for physical copies over a digital thing you can lose with a bad hard drive was at an all time high.

Then people realized the internet wasn’t just nerd shit, ISPs slowly ramped up their DL speeds and suddenly the thing people mocked for not being feasible is doing well because of how convenient it became.

Gabe even admits he had doubts for awhile.

I wonder where gaming would be if he had listened to the doubters. There’s no denying valve has had a major impact on modern gaming

Having done exactly 0 research, I going to assume it’s one of those “DO NOT PRESS OKAY UNLESS YOU ARE EXPERIENCED AND KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING” and someone went “pffft I know what I’m doing. click now what does this option do…”