I want to see the in game lore reason why Richard Ayoade is there.

If you search from your own instance, I think it only shows the subscribers from your own instance. So browsing from lemmy.ml there might be one subscriber but on lemmy.world there would be 77.

I would prefer that the default sort is for subscribed and hot. Active and all tends to show the same posts every time I look.

True, I would argue that overall emulation increases brand awareness and promotes video games as a whole. Would the likes of Mario and Pokemon be as popular if the classic games were not readily available, especially 20-30 years ago?

Remember Google Glass? And Glassholes? People made fun of those who chose to use something which was way less intrusive than the Apple headset.

One thing I noticed was that I didn't get any notification that my account on beehaw.org was approved. Try logging in, it might work.

It stifles innovation in the same way that museums and libraries stifle innovation ie. in no way

Socialism is not the same as what's going on here. Socialism means you believe in good for the common citizen, not denying reality and wishing death and destruction on peaceful people.

What's the deal with games needing so much VRAM nowadays? For the same resolution, I don't really think they look any better, but run way worse and require much more powerful hardware.

They look great! I came across this fantastic video a while ago, take a look https://youtu.be/5HVK55hEtjk