"Indie developer makes his game free after Warner unceremoniously tells him they're 'retiring' it"

Full headline: "Indie developer makes his game free after Warner unceremoniously tells him they're 'retiring' it from Steam and the PlayStation Store"

More Glorious Digital Future horseshit, in other words.

Now, ordinarily I would've ranted about that here for a bit[1], except that I only just found out now, for the first time, via comments under the above PC Gamer article, that apparently WB is shutting down Rooster Teeth, too. Which I guess means RWBY is very likely dead as shit and will never be finished, or so I can only assume.[2] Oh well. Kind of glad now I never bothered to catch back up with it after I watched the first few seasonsvolumes several years ago. *shrug + weary sigh*

(Kind of surprised that I didn't already have a "warner bros sucks" tag before now. Huh. Well, guess I have to go and back tag some posts noweventually whenever I feel like getting around to it. [Which, I am pretty certain, is a thing that only I even remotely care about. *shrug*])

[1] - Even though Small Radios Big Televisions is not a game I'd ever heard of prior to this post and in which I have very little interest in playing even if it is free[3], it's the general principle of the matter that a video game publisher can just arbitrarily decide to "retire" a video game, apparently because they just don't want to bother with paying someone to process royalties to its creator anymore or whatever dumbfuckery, that abstractly pisses me off.

[2] - And despite the fact that I'm seeing vague rumors from randos online that RWBY really isn't dead, because of reasons, I'm not going to believe any of it until I actually see concrete news that the next seasonsvolumes of RWBY really are complete and available to watch (even if that "availability" is only via Crunchyroll or whatever, which basically makes it not "available" to me, as I'm not paying for fucking Crunchyroll just to watch RWBY).

[3] - That said, it's only 158 MB, so I went ahead and downloaded it, regardless, so maybe I actually will try it someday, assuming I even remember later that I downloaded it. *shrug*[4]

[4] - Yeah, this is one of those posts. ¬_¬

"Even 'cozy' gaming's biggest fans can't decide on its definition, but they aren't worried"

Full headline, because yet again PC Gamer makes too long headlines/Dreamwidth's subject field is too short: "Even 'cozy' gaming's biggest fans can't decide on its definition, but they aren't worried: 'There's a whole lot of grey area, and that's what makes it interesting'"

This is incredibly timely for me, because I almost wrote a post a couple days ago ranting about this very thing, i.e. how I wish the word "cozy" would stop being used to describe video games. I went through a Steam discovery queue a few days ago, and no less than four disparate games in that particular queue used the word "cozy" in some way to describe the game. Hell, one of them used the term "cozy murder mystery." What in the actual fuck.[1]

In any case, it's just yet another example of how game genres are the dumbest. "Cozy" is simply yet another bullshit buzzword, in a growing list of bullshit buzzwords used to describe, badly, various aspects of the modern video game industry. It means nothing and is, thus, essentially worthless.

In any case, "a whole lot of grey area" is not a good thing when it comes to trying to fucking define a term. It doesn't make it "interesting," it makes it "goddamned annoying."

Or... I don't know, maybe I just hate the word "cozy" itself, in general.

[1] - That said, apparently cozy mystery is a thing even outside of video games. Again, what the fuck. Seriously, "giving a feeling of comfort, warmth, and relaxation" is decidedly not what comes to mind for me when I think of "murder."