when you get a god run with a good synergetic build this game is insanely satisfying
Gets carried away in overly rambly rants about unimportant bullshit, uses fancy words without understanding their meaning, has a complete lack of self awareness.
Likes budgies.
when you get a god run with a good synergetic build this game is insanely satisfying
After Prey I’m in, it was a really good effort of a movie and an innovative use of the franchise
I am currently one of the scrubs you beat in Tekken 8 on your way to the red ranks
Well surely this means that archive.org will be allowed to exist in peace, since it would be ridiculous to make the information and culture produced in the year of our lord 20fucking24 the most ephemeral it has ever been in human history, right?
Right?
The tradeoff kinda made sense at the dawn of streaming, when the transaction was basically trading quality for better pricing and convenience.
Nowadays? Yeaaaaah I don’t know about that chief
Crazy to think that we lost all the advantages that streaming offered, kept all the disadvantages, piled on a few more disadvantages on top of that, and people went “sure that makes sense 24 bucks a month worth it bro”
waaaay out of the timeframe you have specified (it is a 2020 game that is still actively updated) but still with the same vibes, I’d check out Easy Red 2, as it scratches that specific itch of a WW2 shooter with scale. It is maybe too open at times for my taste but it is one of the very few modern games covering that niche. It does have optional squad management gameplay elements but you can ignore those in favor of playing a simple soldier, and the AI will do those jobs for you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ziR73NhHjY
It sure is fascinating how surges in the usage of pirate platforms tend to coincide with eras of worsening value proposition in entertainment. We should really get some top notch analysts on this to get an explanation.
This sounds like something that would be played on The Genius, I’m all for it
I had some difficulties like these in the past, and what helped me was looking into amateur theater. There are part time (2 to 4 hours a week usually) amateur theater/drama schools that form closed groups and that group stays together over the years as they progress (with some inevitable degree of turnover obviously). I still talk to and meet with some of the people I met through that even though I left a bit after covid hit.
These kinds of spaces are good for people in our situation for multiple reasons:
You will however have to look into the details of what kind of options are in your area for that and how they work and when the groups are formed and what levels there are and all of that jazz because I can’t assume that it will work the same as it works here. If any of them are like my school was, then they offer smaller experiences (like a weekend or a month in the summer) so that you can dip your toes and get a feeling of how things work.
With all of that said, you should still look into regular therapy sessions while you are going through this. For people like us, our own brain is our worst enemy in this situation, and we need an external, specialized perspective that recontextualizes things for us. It will help more than you can imagine if you stick with it somewhat regularly.
You can say that again, at this point of my career I’m convinced that the concept of pre-production is a myth.
Hm yeah you are right, I shouldn’t deride the public for hoping this time it would be different. That was too harsh on my part.
The fact that this is even news at all confirms, yet again, that the memory of the general audience of the videogame industry only goes back to the last 6 to 8 months, if that.
Until I get my Legend Of Dragoon remake, there aren’t too many, no. After that ya’ll can do what you want
Damn, this is an intriguing time. While in the back of my mind I had assumed this was a likely possibility, the idea that ARM could replace X86 in PC is still hard to accept for me. Can’t wait to see how it changes the landscape of CPUs on PC.
They pay me by the word, don’t tell anybody
This, for me, is a good example of why the assessments that I’ve seen lately about how much Lemmy/Kbin may or may not have caught on, and the assessments about how Reddit may or may not have been impacted by the migration, are way, way too early and kind of nonsensical to make right now.
It is important to understand that Reddit is set on becoming a public company, and for a public company, not taking any avenue that could provide additional revenue is essentially only one step below setting that money on fire. If there’s a chance that something will make the company more efficient, you are kinda obligated to do it. This will constantly (and increasingly) lead to policies like this, which sacrifice user convenience or add additional friction to the experience, because an experience that is open, accessible, non-intrusive and non-restrictive inherently implies lost opportunities of revenue at each one of those unrestricted points (which is a weird paradox of digital capitalism, in which to make your product more profitable it has to become worse, which flies in the face of the traditional capitalist theory that you make the most money by making the best product, but that’s another story and I don’t wanna get sidetracked).
Anyway what I wanna get at, is that each person has their own points of friction (mobile becoming app-only, old reddit dissappearing, who knows) past which they would find the idea of transferring platform less intrusive than the experience they would get by staying on Reddit. And the fact that cutting Google off is even in the realms of discussion shows that Reddit is very willing to reach those points and beyond. If these changes pile up and the friction created in the experience by them becomes significantly greater than the idea of transferring platforms, then it’s not outside the realm of possibility that Reddit will bleed out slowly by taking actions like this. Time will tell.
It’s fascinating in a certain way. Massing dudes armed with the spear, one of the most basic concepts for a weapon possible, remained viable for millenia; but massing tanks and planes, which are marvels of advanced engineering, has been made obsolete in a century. XX and XXI century progress has been absurd.
If this is true… Oof…
Like, imagine losing your job because somebody decided to drop over 70 milion in something like this… I bet everybody affected would have predicted that this needed to be canned way earlier. Yet the people responsible for this unforced error will be largely unaffected because since business is accepted to be a gamble at times, I guess that means you get to make stupid mistakes that ruin hundreds of livelihoods for no reason and just go oops, my bad, we’ll have to do a tactical restructuring I guess.
Seriously, the first trailer was unanimously received with “another one of these games?” reactions. There is no excuse for any dollar spent after that! Anybody could have told you it was a miss! Aaaarrrgh.
Also much less important but still frustrating, knowing that so many properties under SEGA have struggled to get a budget and support, while they were spending all of the money in a fire pit instead. Now that it’s been cancelled, we can say ANYTHING would have been a better use of that money. Don’t ever let SEGA tell you that anything would be a bad project ever again! Oh, SEGA, you still think a localized port to modern platforms of Valkyria Chronicles 3 would be a bad project? Well let me tell you, it sure as hell wouldn’t have lost DOZENS OF MILLIONS.
And in that line, nothing hurts more for me personally than knowing all of the issues that the Total War franchise has had, with products that didn’t get the development time they needed, additional content policies that went way overboard with pricing, very small degree of evolution and investment between entries… And the money that could have gone to that consistently performing franchise that has no true substitute competitors was instead going to… To burn it in a pit with funny colors and masks and dances and…
Man, I just cannot. Man.
You are not wrong, but I feel that the way that so many users have stayed active on Twitter despite all the controversies under Musk proves that a non-authoritarian audience can potentially sleepwalk itself into a super-app with a mixture of user complacency, shortsightedness, and unwillingness to deal with even a bit of inconvenience to support a competitor.
It’s a really small chance, but I think that it is there.
When I go back to read the stuff I write I think mostly “damn that guy sounds like a psycho”