Oh, okay. That makes sense.

So let the buyers decide. Don’t just cease sales.

Companies should just add a line on each product page listing tariff amount. Keep selling the products, have consumers cover the extra cost as Donald intended, and make sure he gets all the credit.

Despite being a devoted Monster Hunter sicko for well over a decade now, even I didn’t know about Monster Hunter i. And for good reason: The 2006 port of Monster Hunter G wasn’t just a Japan-only release—it was a keitai game, released exclusively for early 2000s Japanese cell phones. It was Monster Hunter’s first game for mobile phones, and until last month, it was believed to be lost to history.

As you might expect for games whose natural habitat was an early 2000s flip phone, preserving keitai games is a complicated process of recovering and decrypting software from decaying handset hardware. As game preservationist RockmanCosmo wrote for Hit Save in 2022, keitai preservation is “one of the most difficult sections of video game preservation due to its obscurity, regional concentration, and lack of documentation.”

But Lemmy users are obviously smarter, so it’s better to ask them.

… One of the most popular cozy games, “Animal Crossing: New Horizons,” helped the genre rise in popularity. The game was released in 2020 and sold over 47 million copies worldwide.

Since the pandemic, the genre has continued to grow, with older games like “Stardew Valley" and newer titles such as “Unpacking” gaining popularity and appearing more frequently in mainstream media.

With the rise of cozy games, a clique of avid players has formed around it. The subreddit r/CozyGamers, created in 2021, now has over 250,000 members who share pictures, stories and advice focused on cozy games. The community surrounding cozy games is accepting as each user turns to cozy games for a different reason.

“It’s Biden’s fault.”
— conspiracy-loving right winger… probably

Edison would have been a more appropriate name