It’s not about whether you or I are going to sit down and read through them all. It’s for the sake of those workers, that they have documentation of what they worked on that they can cite and say “I’m in there, you can check the credits and confirm.”

Then how did the right win by doing the exact opposite?

Romhacks:

• Link to the Past Randomizer - Generates a shuffled ROM with all chests and items swapped around, sending you on a wild goose chase through Hyrule trying to find everything required to beat Ganon. Has a LOT of settings to play around with.
• Link to the Past/Super Metroid Combo Randomizer - Like the above, but with both games combined into a single ROM using some elaborate witchcraft. Certain doors take you from one game to the other, and the item pools are shuffled together so you’ll have to go back and forth between Hyrule to find Metroid items and Zebes to find Zelda items. It’s a bit imbalanced by the fact that LttP is a much bigger game than SM with far more items and locations, but I recommend playing through it once for the sheer novelty.
• Celeste Mario’s Zap & Dash - A metroidvania running in SMB1’s engine. As the name suggests, it’s heavily inspired by Celeste and ports in mechanics from that game.

Standalone fangames:

• Panel Attack - Open source clone of Panel de Pon/Tetris Attack/Puzzle League/Puzzle Challenge/oh my god Nintendo please pick a name and stick with it featuring netplay and modding support.
• AM2R - Another Metroid 2 Remake. Do note that I’ve heard a big 2.0 update is supposed to be coming soon, so you may wish to wait for that.

I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less and I’m not kidding.

DRM-free games can be freely copied, nothing’s stopping you.

Pirates have to crack games that don’t have DRM-free versions available, games that aren’t on GOG.

Will never be anywhere close to what Newgrounds and Kongregate were at their peak.

Porting two existing titles is hardly what I would consider a new golden age.

Browser games peaked in the 00s-10s as the most accessible place to publish a simple indie project. It was simple and easy for beginner developers to just make something and put it out there, and for those that took off there was a decent pipeline to monetize a hit by licensing it to sites that would share a cut of ad revenue.

But now, mobile and Steam have replaced that as the go-to target for developers. They’ve gotten to a point where they’re just as accessible to develop for, and if you want to make a living off your work you’ll have a much better shot that way.

Plenty of great tools still exist for HTML5 development, if developers wanted to they could, and some do. Itch.io has a good amount of new browser games, they exist.

But there’s never going to be anything as big as Newgrounds or Kongregate. Those days are gone for good.

They may not know how their own voice sounds, but they are definitely aware that Deaf people are often perceived as sounding odd. Some Deaf people put a lot of practice into learning how to speak, sometimes even with the help of a vocal coach. Others may choose not to even try because of it.

FTL

Don’t forget Splatoon 2.

The only Switch 2 game I even have right now is Deltarune. But I know I’m buying Kirby Air Riders, and I figured it’d be best to make sure I get the console right away in case tariffs fuck anything up by then.

I hate that Discord has taken over most communities and put them in a place unindexed by search engines. I hate it so much.

But this is where users all go in Current Year, and I don’t blame game developers for following the crowd. Especially for smaller multiplayer games, if you want to sustain an active community you’ve gotta have that #matchmaking channel for players to organize.

Also, tbh, Steam Forums ain’t great either. At least they’re searchable, but that’s all that can be said about them. In my experience they’ve often devolved into the most toxic hellholes due to Valve’s lack of moderation. Also not ideal for anything multiplatform, that only covers Steam users.

The other alternative is reddit, but, well, I’m here because I refuse to ever go back to reddit, so, y’know.

I haven’t gotten all the way down to 2 yet, but at the rate I’m going, I could see it. I’ve settled into mostly grinding the same few forever games while the mainstream industry moves further and further away from my tastes.

I’m here making a point, and you’re willfully ignoring that point to pretend I agree with you.

Did you miss the part where I’m pointing out the fact that it won’t happen? I’m not agreeing with you, I’m making a point.

They should have. But they won’t.

I’m against the death penalty because I don’t believe it should be necessary in a just world, nor should the state ever be trusted with that kind of power.

However, I see the guillotine as symbolizing the last resort in an unjust world. The worst monsters in society commit their injustices in broad daylight, and nothing will be done about it. We know that justice will never be served through the courts. So what then?

Yeah, there’s definite value in having these boards to ask questions. It just… needs moderators to be more proactive in dealing with bad actors.

Adenosine Triphosphate.

Don’t want to manage your own forum, then disable user posts entirely.

I don’t believe that’s an option. I know one indie dev that actually told me they wished they could just not have a Steam forum because they hate it.