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This is one of those "big enough to make mainstream news" events.

@chamurai: Nintendo eShop Vouchers (or whatever they're called, which are good for one first-party game) are a thing in other Switch markets, yes.

Wow, it's Drew!

It's not like Epic are the first ones to revolt against this ridiculously high "tax". Netflix, Spotify, Amazon and others have used various methods to bypass Apple's stranglehold.I have no doubts that...

The degauss button.

@adamalc said:@fourthline: I played and enjoyed Far Cry 5, and if that cliche romp challenged you, good on you, but lets not pretend it was some underground philosophical masterpiece.Wait, you mean to...

@clagnaught said:My biggest issue is the tone on some of their games. For the past 5+ years, Ubi has been making games about the world falling apart, surveillance states, and so on. So in 2020, to hav...

Much of the stuff Ubisoft showed was very tone-deaf so I am not at all surprised that the crew was annoyed with it.Ubisoft cannot constantly hammer the "Our games aren't political so you can't critici...

For anyone that has already exhausted those old destinations by playing each of them for hundreds of hours, I can understand that this isn't a big deal. You're tired of those locations and don't reall...

Since they were talking about SEGA ad campaigns, this one is pretty ridiculous:www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n3BMeLZr-A

@north6 said:I can't really suss out what most people are arguing for, do people want a game made with less than ideal (crunch, etc) conditions to *detract from the actual review score of a game*?If s...

@banefirelord: "Please don't discuss my game that way" is how it came across.

@sweep said:Should studio conditions be taken into account when reviewing games? Do we have an ethical responsibility as consumers to hold these devs to account?Yes.

Cool to see Vinny on this side of the tape for once.. and Austin! Wow.

It's almost like twitter was made for (and encourages) people to post their immediate, current thoughts and not to write nuanced essays. Huh.

"I don't like these protests that are going on but I will definitely make a thread announcing my own personal protest. Mine is more valid, somehow."

@monetarydread said:Sounds like the definition of an American problem, not a global one.Okay. You do realize everyone on the Bombcast is an American and is affected by these events, though... right?@m...

@jacksukeru said:I still think that somewhere out there some poor person had to work very hard for that bullet point that ended up completely bypassed.Related to this, there is a great Iwata Asks ser...