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  1. Lol, having a single company dominates the whole market isn't "doing just fine". Again, the last notable non-Nintendo handheld was PS Vita and it was more than 10 years ago. The handheld market has been stagnated for decade now without any new faces. If the fact that Steamdeck created a new market for handheld PC, inspiring other brands to dip their toes into the handheld market, isn't "bringing new life to" the handheld market then sure, sue me for not being pedantic to your standard.

  2. Well, would you say that digital distribution is in need of revitalization since it's dominated by Steam? Nintendo figured out the perfect formula to create successful handhelds, and any competition they had either shot themselves in the foot or simply failed to provide a compelling reason to choose their product over Nintendo's. By all means, Valve has created a viable alternative to Nintendo's offerings in the handheld sphere, but portable gaming as a whole was doing just fine before it came along.

  3. Yes, if there is a competitor to Valve, sure, why not? Competition is good for customers, more options are always good.

  4. My entire point is that you made it sound like handheld gaming was dead or dying, but it wasn't. It was doing about as well as it ever did.

  5. The real answer is that Paradox didn't want to create a dedicated religion system, and thus made Spiritualist as a generic stand-in for it, with Materialism being the stand-in for atheism.

  6. Yes. Reload the save and if lucky, they’ll discover the root cause and award you a good amount of research point.

  7. Really? I never bothered researching it after the first few times. Figured it always ends in them dying 

  8. I am enjoying the direction this is taking, but it is also helping me to recognize the fundamental flaw in the setup. In reality, we rarely see a unipolar world like the one with the Galactic Senate. In our world, we had periods where there was a conflict between capitalists and communists, and now it is the US and its allies against BRICS. When translated to Stellaris, there could potentially be a coding mechanism that allows for a split within the Galactic Senate.

  9. It's more like the US and its allies against China and its allies and Russia and its allies. BRICS ain't much of a coherent alliance.

  10. I think it was. There’s a reason the N64 library is so tiny, and that’s arguably attributable to devs being put off by the comparatively tiny storage space. It’s certainly a good reason why Square chose Sony architecture for their games, for example.

  11. There's also the fact that cartridges are way more expensive than discs, which meant more profit per-game on the PS1. Yet another reason to leave Nintendo in that era.

  12. The Sega CD was actually decently successful for being such an expensive add-on for the Genesis, having sold 2 million units. The Saturn's launch was only one part of the many, many problems that console had getting to market. The N64 not using discs was a major misstep, but Nintendo's stubbornness would bite them more in the next generation. The Virtual Boy was just a flat fuckup on every level.

  13. Seriously, what do these people expect when they let other people fuck their partners? Of course they're going to stop respecting you.

  14. Poly-whatever relationships seemed doomed to failure due to the innate power imbalances within it.

  15. A lot of retro gaming isn't actually worth playing outside of historical novelty, mostly in the second and fifth generations of video gaming, but anything which was at the forefront of the medium has typically aged very poorly.

  16. I don't like sonic games, aside from Adventure 2. I've tried and tried and tried for 20 years. It's mostly the floaty, imprecise movements. It isn't fun to explore stages. It may be that I don't get it, but I still don't enjoy them. And for reference, I think Castlevania is one of the masterpieces of game design.

  17. It took me a long time for me to actually come to appreciate 2D Sonic too; it's at its most fun when you're replaying it and putting your knowledge and skills to use by flowing through the levels with ease. They're now some of my favorite games, however.

  18. I've played the Steam release with a mod to fix the issues with it, and I can definitively say it's...fine. Really the only part I didn't like was the Big sections, but it didn't have any real big highs for me.

  19. By focusing on the west like they did in the early 90s, instead of choosing Japan as their main market and failing miserably.

  20. There were a LOT more problems with Sega at the time than just that.

  21. I agree, I also think it's nationalism that gets Europeans all bent out of shape about American heritage.

  22. I always think that Europeans who talk shit about America are just trying to engage in good 'ol ethnosupremacism, but don't want to be seen engaging in dirty nationalism.

  23. The problems I'm describing are the fundamental mechanisms of capitalism as a system. Monopoly is what capitalism trends towards and is demonstrably true. Indeed economic power and political power are inextricably linked, so much so they are almost entirely one.

  24. Capitalism is designed to return greater profits to those that own capital than it does to those who labor. At it's core, it is designed to centralized wealth in the hands of a few.

  25. The first clause has no bearing on the second clause. A person who finances and manages an enterprise should get a higher wage than someone who works for them, on the same principle that a doctor is paid better than a janitor; their work is simply more valuable.

  26. More money, less profit. Everyone in the industry says that margins are getting thinner every year, which is why you hear that games selling 3 million copies are underperforming, because of just how much it cost to make

  27. Which in my opinion kinda shows how bloated the AAA industry is. While these mega-blockbuster games are neat and all, realistically the market just isn't big enough to sustain the ballooning budgets.

  28. That's literally how 99% of cuisine is created. Is there no such thing as Mexican food since it's mostly Native mixed with Spanish foods?

  29. I don't actually think that's true. Old Europe started developing rapidly right after role of god and the church decreased. And I don't believe "equality before god" is a thing in christianity, considering that bible was used to justify slavery. Hell, bible is directly stating that slaves should be obedient to their masters, and master have all the rights to punish a slave for misbehaving.

  30. The idea of equality and democracy came after enlightenment, when philosophers and scientist came together and debated the existence of God. Yes, the west has a Christian culture for millennia. But the goal of our forefather was to secularized the state and I still equality without the churches being in control of our government like how feudal Christianity was in Europe.

  31. The concept of democracy went all the way back to ancient Greece, and the Enlightenment was a revival of ancient Roman philosophy. These ideas weren't new-they were simply re-examined and extrapolated upon-but there are very clear precedents that stretch back millennia if you look for them. It was the synthesis of these ancient ideas with Christian values that resulted in the birth of Liberalism and the democratic-constitutional west we live in today.

  32. A completely delusional take: Republics of the time were in no way democratic and monarchies were not eventually unremovable.

  33. Generally, starting off with a constitutionalist government is less likely to devolve into the extreme absolutism of the Tsars.

  34. OH BOI I CAN'T WAIT FOR PEOPLE TO DEFEND INCEST IN THE COMMENTS!

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