Yes, I think it was through those services. You’d pay, receive a message with the link, and download the game. However, I’ve always done it the “alternative” way.

Although I had collected a bunch of them, I rarely found myself actually playing and enjoying them. The number pad, or stick, controls were atrocious and most games weren’t that great. My most played were card games and Frozen Bubble (which is also on the Play Store now) on the phone, and Asphalt on my iPod Nano. Asphalt was really fun and with gyro controls.

I was shadowbanned, so I signed up for Lemmy for the long term, and made another account on Reddit because who gives a shit about “ban evasion”.

Will keep using both till I’ll be permabanned; Reddit still has more of the communities I’m interested in. I hope Reddit fucks up even more so there’ll be another exodus to Lemmy.

Not yet, but it might be there soon.

Report it at !summit@lemmy.world

This is, at least for me, the holy grail of videogames relics.

I consider it a faux democracy. It still has the semblance of one, with people voting, believing they matter and that they have actual free speech, but the masses are being, increasingly less subtly, controlled by media corporations and rendered incapable of critical, independent thinking by an ever decreasing quality of education.

Don’t be fooled though! This isn’t happening in the US alone. It is widespread all over the globe. The US is simply doing it in a smarter, more cunning way, while leading the wealthy 1% in other countries by example.

It’s a good sign actually. They’re scared! It means the discourse can, and will, make a difference.