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minus-squareMurrayL@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·19 hours ago It’s well known that video games today are disposable pieces of slop. Kicking off an article with such a provably incorrect and inflammatory statement is certainly a choice.
minus-squaremarkovs_gun@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20arrow-down1·19 hours agoYeah and looking at the past with rose colored glasses. There was plenty of “slop” in the past. It was such a problem in the earliest days of video games that it almost killed the entire industry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983
Kicking off an article with such a provably incorrect and inflammatory statement is certainly a choice.
Yeah and looking at the past with rose colored glasses. There was plenty of “slop” in the past. It was such a problem in the earliest days of video games that it almost killed the entire industry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983