Going to concerts of local/visiting artists is the best way of support, and the by a CD or something.

Unknown indie artists living in precarious financial situations like The Biggest Name in Trip Hop and The Biggest Name in Post-Rock.

no it doesn’t

Except the cake will be good. It‘s more like making the entire cake out of fondant.

It’s usually called the Web though, not http as only one of the technical details involved.

All the positive Steam reviews are from people who can’t believe the game has been finally released and say nothing about the actual game, except maybe that it’s not a broken mess.

its clearly pr

Yes, as I said, plan B. Do you expect the studio to say “ok fuck it, let’s close up” when they projected a huge loss of sales after Steam denied their release?

It would be an extremely risky strategy. The studio’s whole portfolio are offbeat shortforms (indeed one of the higher profile indie devs) and I don’t think getting banned from Steam and losing sales there was something they anticipated. Using this for publicity is plan B for damage control, never has been plan A.

please share your theory. also, why popularity matters.

Good you don’t have any.

It already is a unique art form. This is not defined by the commercial availability, and this game wouldn’t be the first art piece that understands controversy as part of its essence.

What’s CSAM?

Stardew Valley totally would have taken staff and money if you can’t live in your parent’s house forever.

Chatbots aren’t the worst use case, too, even though we are headed in a wrong direction.

like Comic Sans

legitimate use of a LLM

weird revenge fetish

… or their disposable energy after working 10h and caring for the kids.

I don’t want to discredit Steam’s features like compatibility layers, but the software itself is a mess. It is an unnessecary RAM-heavy chromium instance, to be fair, just like most other launchers. I replaced it with Playnite which is streamlined, responsive and more feature rich for managing a library (Steam still needs to be installed of course because they don’t offer offline installer like GOG). And I’d argue that console user saren’t free of launcher, they are locked into a very specific one.

But as someone who’s neither been to Costco nor Walmart, what is the difference?

With the second paragraph I agree, it’s a bad fit for a sequel and this is consensus (probably, I didn’t enjoy Bloodlines much), even TCR thinks so. But is this a scale? Is Bloodlines 1 a lesser game with subpar gameplay because it’s systems weren’t as complex as other CRPGs? “Game” is just the term we stuck with, it doesn’t mean that the fidelity of the gameplay, the mechanics and dynamics is paramount. If I value narrative, and it is, has become, a narrative medium, I very well might think that A Machine For Pigs did a better job.

And would hip hop be lesser music than jazz?