Playing Breath of the Wild helped me process depression.

You know what’s crazy? So are intersex people!

Yeah, The Lord of the Rings isn’t an allegory, but it does have themes, and Tolkien definitely drew on his experiences in WWI when writing it.

Thirded

They’re not all shagging at the same time

Probably Obama, like most people, figures there’s life on another planet somewhere in the universe, but that tge aliens haven’t visited Earth.

And those people have higher than average testosterone, so they’re hornier. Apparently Olympic Village is a small orgy, hence all the condoms.

Before the 1840s, Irish farmers lived on.potatoes and milk, with the odd herring in winter when milk was harder to come by. Not a pleasant diet, and you’re buggered if the potato harvest fails, but definitely doable.

Fascism is a radically conservative ideology obsessed with promotion of (what the fascist sees as) traditional values and behaviours. That includes cisheteronormativity, as queerness isn’t traditional anywhere.

The ultimate goal is for Amazon Retail to become infrastructure. Bezos and his minions don’t want people to think of Amazon Retail as a shop; they want people to think of Amazon Retail as The Thing You Use To Buy Physical Things On The Internet. As Steam is to PC games, so Amazon want to be to physical things.

Cannibal?

I used to work at a call center dealing with phone bill questions. Once you go past 20, people only see the first digit and the total number of digits, and perceive every digit after the first as 0.

If I had a nickel for every time I had this conversation, I’d have more than two nickels.

Customer: Why has my bill gone up by £10?!

Me: I see that on <date> you called a premium rate line which cost £2.

Customer: That’s only £2! I want to know why my bill is £10 higher!

Me: Your bill is normally £29.50. This month it’s £31.50. That’s a £2 difference.

Customer: Oh, so it is.

Steam is a DRM system.

I am not being flippant or facetious. Steam is literally a DRM system with a shop grafted on top. That is what it has always been. If a game is on Steam, it be definition has DRM.

There is no guarantee those sources say what the answer says, or indeed that they actually exist. Generators can and do assemble words into phrases that look like citations, but those sources don’t exist. It’s actually a problem for librarians, who keep getting accused of hiding nonexistent books “cited” by ChatGPT

Or in comic form:

GoNintendo got an official response from Nintendo

Nintendo requires all games on its platforms to receive ratings from independent organizations and to meet our established content and platform guidelines. While we inform partners when their titles don’t meet our guidelines, Nintendo does not make changes to partner content. We also do not discuss specific content or the criteria used in making these determinations.

Vague, but it definitely sounds like the issue is with a ratings agency, not Nintendo.

Sega own Bayonetta, Nintendo just license it and pay PlatinumGames to make it.

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Yeah, Sony was very laissez faire back then. It’s why the PS1 was so successful; Nintendo were notoriously strict, so Sony’s policy of “Do whatever as long as it’s legal” attracted both devs and players. It’s not the only reason the first two PlayStations were massive hits, but it’s a factor.

Nintendo initially stuck to their guns but, after seeing Sony eat their lunch, afternoon snack, supper, breakfast, second breakfast, and elevenses, decided to cool it with the censorship at the ends of the 32 and 64-bit era. Beginning with Conker’s Bad Fur Day they pretty much stopped enforcing rules on other devs and even published a few 18-rated games like Eternal Darkness.

Then for some reason Sony started censoring hentai games in the PS4 era while Nintendo let them go uncensored, and gamers everywhere were bemused at how edgy Sony and wholesome Nintendo had apparently swapped positions.

Perhaps the pendulum has swung back.

It looks like CERO might be responsible.

CERO is very strict about genitals and dismemberment. CD Projekt Red got around that by having two different versions of Cyberpunk 2077; the version sold on the Japanese eShop is censored so as to comply with CERO, while the European one isn’t.

AdHoc doesn’t have the same resources as CD Projekt Red, so they might have just made the one version which they sell everywhere.

It’s still surprising that Sony is apparently being more lenient than Nintendo for once.

You cannot kill what doesss not live