Komma @KommaChameleon@awoo.space

I only go ONE PLACE for my movie reviews

also J. Paul Getty is a horrible monster; I'm not sure I needed a movie to tell me billionaires are bad but WOW this one

I sure do love graphic illustrations of ear removal in my golden globe nominated films

HPJSIDOFJ: WOW ENDING

Ooof, E3M9 is a doozy

Time to finish Dusk

https://www.twitch.tv/commachameleon I want YOU to help me figure out this 16-bit flying machine!

You've probably heard me moralizing about gacha games and loot boxes before. I think a lot of the most successful mobile games skip back and forth over the boundary of what's ethical (like lots of tech companies!) by collecting massive player data and manipulating psychological tricks to get about 1 in 50 people to spend a truckload of cash on their clans or whatever. I don't think that's great!

Some stats say there are over 300,000 games currently available to download on the App Store. That's more than all home game consoles put together. Curiously this isn't the peak; that was around 500,000 in Q3 2016. It's a different sea.

I would try to learn more about mobile games but it's tough--the quality standard is low, old games vanish alarmingly fast (Puzzle Fighter existed for less than a single year) and multiple literal slot machine apps stayed in the top 50 grossing for over 4 years.

The home video game console with the most games is, surprisingly, the PlayStation 1 at 2700. It's interesting to think about why that's the case despite digital distribution, game engines, etc. (it's mobile games probably)

Dusk is *really* good

you have a camera and these game&watch style mini-games are expressed as QR codes in the fiction of the world...

but you do not use your phone to photograph qr codes to get the games

I wish Cloud had a black-haired color choice in Smash, just so people could make "Zach f-air" jokes.

Happy to see new people are discovering my retro games list. :D

I forgot that infinity war was a thing and I am groaaaaaning

sega bass fishing is a real shitpost of a game

oh no, Windows update deleted my Retroarch install and associated saves