You’re right about that. I don’t think people realise how much blu-ray players rely on a licensed firmware encoding that has an expiry date, for instance. Your un-DRMd games and movies are yours.

You can really tell how cut-throat and efficient the free market is when founders just have millions spare knocking around to play at Blackshirts.

Gestures around

He’s attacking digital media, which isn’t really an issue as most of it you can keep on shelves and in boxes. Seems like it’s just online stores with licenses that are the problem.

Uh, games on DVD can’t be deleted or taken away from you (though actually they could by a firmware update). Not sure what he meant by that.

Why not just cut out the middle man and join an ethno nationalist party?

Adults playing with Minecrafts.

They didn’t say it was a good university…

Doctors hate this buddhist monk who can unlock your chi healing

There’s also only one brain cell that we all share.

Street Fighter 2 cabinets

All red wants to do is stuff his face
He eats everything he sees
from trucks to prickly trees
but smart old blue he took the milky way

You’re certainly not short of self confidence!

Damn classisists casting shade on anything from the last 1500 years!

You can watch porn on a PS5 though

I want to know what posters on the far right X platform think about this, for some reason.

I’ll just let wasps buzz around my face until they get bored. Unless you’re too near the nest they’re only going to sting you if you freak out and start flailing around.

Go to the park and watch kids play. They’ll be less overpaid and spend less time on the floor.

This is much more obviously true in the table-top space, but I suspect the obvious expansion of diversity in gaming culture was exactly what all the awful reactionary gatekeeping crap was about, and why they continue to peddle the myth. I’ve seen similar arguments made that comic books are only for young white cishet men and that publishers are deluding themselves by not only catering to that market, despite the fact that the comics market in the US has pretty much collapsed while the more inclusive Euro and Japanese markets are doing very well thank-you-very-much.