Fextralife embeds their twitch stream into their site, artificially inflating their twitch viewer numbers, which in turn hurts smaller streamers since fextralife will be sorted first by viewer count.

This is one of the main reasons I use Kagi. I have sites like fandom and fextralife blocked in my search results.

One of the things I miss about early internet years was all the independent fan sites and forums people had. Now, so much is just posted to these garbage platforms that control everything.

The article might as well be "Valve Says Counter-Strike 2 for macOS Not Happening Because We Have a Vested Interest In Selling Steam Decks" just as Apple isn't porting iMessage (and other apps) to Android because they have a vested interest in selling iPhones.

I'm all for games being as cross-platform as possible, but considering how Apple doesn't offer apps such as iMessage, Facetime, etc. on other platforms, I'm less sympathetic to them for this.

Apple users chose a famously closed ecosystem, so they shouldn't be surprised when some things aren't available to them.

I'll recommend a few from different genres:

• Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade (later FE games also allowed the player to choose between male and female)
• Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (or Bloodstained: RotN for a newer, but aging, game)
• A Hat In Time (not sure if this is really that old but it's an amazing platformed)
• any Touhou game
• Life Is Strange (again, not sure if you'd consider this old)

I think Mike Mahardy from Polygon is alright, but generally I find their content leans into social commentary more than I want in a gaming outlet. I respect that some people want that, and I'm glad these sites exist for them.

I've tried to get into their branching podcasts. The one I enjoyed the most was probably Fire Escape with Dan, Mike and Mary because they have the strongest group dynamic IMO.

I've listened to 8-4 Play on and off for years. I usually check back in with them when a new Monster Hunter game/expansion comes out because few other podcasters I've come across really cover it with any depth.

I never really read PC Gamer. I used to subscribe to PSM and Nintendo Power. By the time I got a PC capable of running games, magazines were already on their way out lol

As someone who doesn't follow vtubers, I can confirm Holocure is excellent, and obviously made with love. Every character has a unique playstyle, and the aesthetc is a nice departure from the gloom common to the genre.

Yeah, mine is unpopular d(-_☆)

If it's in a setting where open conversations are normal, then I think it's fine as long as their speaker volume isn't louder than any other normal conversation. To me, there's no difference between two people talking in person and two people talking over the phone.

If someone doesn't want to hold it to their ear because they want to video call or just browse their phone while they talk, I don't see the problem.

I'd like one if still available, please.

I’d be interested in an outlet that:

• Does not accept free copies/codes for game or early copies of the games. Access journalism is a plague.
• Brings in guests to the show/podcast/whatever who are proficient and knowledgeable about the games being discussed. I don’t expect the hosts to be experts, but I’m tired of hearing layman’s takes on games that I’m interested in.

Would you be interested in supporting an outlet financially? If it’s a good product, I’d support a Patreon or whatever.

Do you have any preferred platforms? Would you be interested in an outlet that prioritizes the Fediverse over Twitch, Youtube, etc.? I think it would be best to post content cross-platform otherwise you risk having a dead community or, worse, a circlejerk community.

Do you have a preference between written content, video, audio? I think video and written are a minimum nowadays with audio being a nice bonus.****

This guy needs to save his game before he rolls so he can reroll.

• Anime cRPG, like if Obsidian collaborated with Atlus
• MMORPG with Souls combat and no microtransactions (subscription model preferred)
• Mass Effect, but with a good ending
• A Bethesda game without bugs
• Dating sim, but all romance options are your friends' moms

If your laptop is having issues running Hogwarts Legacy, it might be relevant to include your laptop specs as well as some more specifics on what you're looking for in a magic game.

Do you just want the magic system to be simple, or do you also want a simple, casual game? For example, Little Witch Nobeta has a simple magic system with a focus on magic combat, but it's a Souls-like, so it could be on the difficult side.

Did Elon buy Hoyoverse too?

This sounds like it would hurt Reddit more than the users since a lot of value was in being able to search archived solutions to obscure problems.

• Nier (both games)
• World Ends With You
• Jet Set Radio
• Splatoon
• Chrono Trigger