As someone who isn’t necessarily big on the notion streamlining is “objectively” good game design… That more or less began to be disposed of the minute we had the technology, minus a few now-niche genres that rely on it. It was gradual, but mass market games as early as Zork in 1981, had save schemes.

Makes sense (I think what put that in my head was someone advising against booting Windows from SD Card on Steam Deck.)

Sounds like it could be a cool novelty for a little while, but ultimately it’s a waste of SD Card to make them for every game you have. Also, isn’t it not great for SD Cards to constantly read or write from them?

I believe the only reason adult games aren’t as popular in Western countries as they are in Japan (and I think elsewhere in Asia?) is because there’s a stereotype that they’re low quality, which came about because of the ESRB (not sure about other countries’ rating systems) basically making it so there was no money in it in a pre-digital download world.

this post made me consider getting off lemmy

It’s because YouTube used to be mostly independent creators, even when people first started making money off it. That was the sales pitch.

At this point I think the women using it got psyopped