I might wait a year, based on what I’m hearing. He’s already got a weird sense of humour compared to kids his age, I should probably cool it.

Yeah? Admittedly I’m calibrated to the 80s version of what “PG-13” meant. What was the most risque bit? Mine is pretty comfortable with non sexual nudity and rude humour, but anything sexually explicit he’s probably not ready.

Ooh how exciting.

I’m tempted, but I’d want to share in the fun with my kid. Anyone who’s played it, What’s the youngest you’d recommend?

I knew I wasn’t the only one.

Cool sweeper game tho

Any time I hear “capitalism breeds innovation”, I feel like grabbing a chair and swinging it.

PE is all about that cash, but they have ways of making money that don’t involve strong fundamentals. Direct private ownership, such as with Valve, aligns the owners interests with their customers much more closely.

You can’t trust the reviews, it’s true. But also, it’s very much a buyers market with games in general right now. The headline issue is only a problem if you take the side of AAA studios who have to compete with passion-driven indie projects that aren’t just out to make a buck.

I’m going to spend how much to play a game with an obligatory launcher after I already opened steam? And it’s badly optimised? 100gb you say? And I have to see ads for skins? And that’s competing with a game less than half the price that’s amazing, 3gb, no ads, and it can run on a decade old computer?

This is a big-budget problem. They made their omelette, and now they’ve got to sleep in it.

Actually though. I can’t bear football and I’d still rather kick a ball around than sit and watch it

Arguably my comment is funnier if you know anything about great apes

Goddamn they live better than us in every way

You take the rough with the smooth

Gotta look after your ticker if you’re going to stay active at that age. Condolences and/or congrats to his wife though.

That’s not the only thing that falls apart in your seventies, eyyyy

See I didn’t know that was the origin. I like it better as an outside boundary.

When did we as a society give up on the “½ X +7” minimum dating age formula?

Maybe he could try to make another TV series.

Variation did begin to pick up once they started making indie games for consoles, but I was referring to games you could find on the shelves for an average home console. And I wasn’t going from memory, I was going off something I read a while back.

https://techraptor.net/gaming/features/cost-of-gaming-since-1970s

Since as long as I’ve been a gamer, the average MSRP of a game has been quite steady despite the fact that the purchasing power of that price tag has completely collapsed.

An average Atari 2600 game cost $39.99 but that’s closer to $170.70 in today’s money. A game for the PS4 had a sticker price 50% higher, but the actual value of that money is nearly ⅓ as much.

If you have better data than the article I’d love to hear of it. I hated how they referred to typical MSRP as the “average” price when it’s clearly the mode and not the mean.

My only point was that the price of these games has been at a certain level without regard for the drastic decline in the value of the dollar. Demand for games should be on the elastic side, so it’s weird that (most) prices have been so steady.

It’s just really hard when we’ve been for decades conditioned to largely see every game as priced at something like $60. It’s created a group of consumers who are incredibly price sensitive, but also likely to look on anything priced under $60 with a jaundiced eye.

I thought the top of the list was self actualisation, but I think you have sense on your side there.

You can’t trust dudes who say they don’t jerk off, either they’re lying or dangerously crazy.