davidfox1983

I respect everyone’s views but I’m still not sure why backwards compatibility is so important to everyone. If the launch lineups were crazy-good, would it not be an issue? I mean half the old games I play, I play for 30 minutes before going “ok, I’m good” and in most cases, playing them ruin my fond memories of them. Why do we really want to play our old games and why can it feature SO heavily in our purchasing decisions?

I've been trying to get a PS5 for a while but stocks here (in Japan) are so low and every retailer just goes by the lottery system. Even some companies who have no past in video games get a few in and announce a lottery. I assume just so they can get a zillion sign-ups to their service, whatever it is. Often there are entry requirements such as a "past purchase history at that place", "membership card" etc etc. It's a pain.

Essentially I really enjoyed my PS4 and although neither new console seem to have an AMAZING launch, I'm a sucker for "new" console stuff. Sony's new UI (even if it might suck in some ways for now), genuinely new controller, Miles Morales, Astrobot and the crazy load times are enough simple things to make me want "the new thing" but I also believe it'll be a good console going forward.

I’d do the opposite and play asylum and drop this

We’ll still have all of Abby’s stuff in the archive to have fun watching but it’s a definite shame she’s going. My personal favourite was basically any moment from Steal My Sunshine. And the Deadly Sims series was great too.

Godspeed Abby. Brighter pastures await and can’t wait to see what you get up to next. Don’t be a stranger!

My Abby's Highlight; team-trolling Alex with Dan on Steal My Sunshine. She was great on that feature.

We're getting a little off-track so how about this: keep up the cool opinions but also, if you've seen his stream, saw just what you think of them? Honest opinions on a stream plz

@gundato:

> Wait, he is asking for money in exchange for entertainment? Fuck that shit

This isn’t about “value for content” or anything else. All I was talking about was the mind shift.

This is a GB forum so this is just the place to talk about previous and prior staff. All I’m saying is that it’s weird to see such a shift in values

@ralphmoustaccio:

> , I very much view it as almost a parody of stream culture. It's just another example of him taking something about his personality and turning it up to 11 as a goof.

It’s different when he’s directly asking for cash. Maybe not unavoidable, but it’s definitely different from his times on gb. And that’s all I’m trying to start conversation about; is this weird? I’d also ask “if it’s predatory” but that’s all twitch streams.

@sessh:

> Not going to comment on what I actually think of Dan doing this stuff, but has anything really changed?

Yeah it has. Direct requests for money. Doing whatever it takes to get more followers and cash

@bigsocrates:

> It sounds like he's just messing around, trying to get people to do dumb* stuff like send him food, seeing what even dumber stuff people will do (like send him a soundbar),

But it’s not understood as a joke or part of his persona in the chat. It’s a direct request from him with rewards if you contribute. There’s no fun being had here and no “dumb interactions”. It’s straight-up, “buy me shit” which I know is standard for many twitch streams. That’s fine. It’s just weird for Dan