MolochAlter
@MolochAlter@lemmy.world
- Comment on Steam is 'an unsafe place for teens and young adults': US senator warns Gabe Newell of 'more intense scrutiny' from the government if Valve doesn't take action against extremist content 1 day ago:
Worth mentioning that the main US senator supporting this, Mark Warner, received substantial donations from Disney, which also poured 1.5 billion (with a B) dollars into Epic Games.
Wouldn’t be surprised if some bigwig at Disney pushed for this investigation, too, especially given how fucking flimsy the results were (55% of all hate symbols were fucking pepe the frog).
- Comment on How long do you think we'll keep seeing "formerly Twitter"? 2 weeks ago:
We’re doing ok in Europe.
Even with lower salaries than the US, most people in their 30s I know have a mortgage.
I myself bought at 31 with my wife.
It’s not affordable for everyone but it’s doable for people with actual salaries, you just might have to compromise a bit on position or size.
- Comment on ‘Unknown 9: Awakening’ Arrives To 200 Steam Players, Poor Reviews 4 weeks ago:
Fuck I hope not, Indiana Jones absolutely should booty be a shooter.
- Comment on Why does the media print rags to riches stories? 1 month ago:
Neither of those people were ordinary in any way tho.
- Comment on Phonebooks 1 month ago:
Very small font on very thin paper.
- Comment on Ubisofts stock tanked this morning ahead of the markets opening 1 month ago:
That would be quite smart of them tbh.
- Comment on Ubisofts stock tanked this morning ahead of the markets opening 1 month ago:
Yeah I mean, it’s got upsides and downsides, like everything. Unparalleled access means anyone can make something, which means a lot of things that have niche appeal can find their audience, etc.
It also means a lot of things without any appeal will be out there.
It’s not good or bad in itself but it can be impractical on the consumer side of the equation, and it makes even the remarkable stuff very likely to just disappear in the shuffle.
- Comment on Ubisofts stock tanked this morning ahead of the markets opening 1 month ago:
Sure, but the stock is tanking now, and the regulations are not on the books.
Like, I agree there needs to be an overhaul of a bunch of regulations regarding monopolies and such, but this doesn’t help analysing the current situation where they’re not in place.
- Comment on Ubisofts stock tanked this morning ahead of the markets opening 1 month ago:
That’s just generally all of media right now. We are at perhaps the highest level of accessibility for media creation we’ve ever been, but that means that any schmuck with a pair of thumbs and time to waste can make something.
High accessibility means abysmal signal/noise ratio, turns out.
- Comment on Ubisofts stock tanked this morning ahead of the markets opening 1 month ago:
You realise this isn’t make believe at all, right? Stocks are ownership.
If a stock dips low enough it’s possible to do what microsoft did with Activision Blizzard and buy out another company wholesale, for instance.
Speculation on the stock market isn’t the reason the market exists, it’s a side effect of its pricing mechanisms, the actual point of it is to gather money for companies and gather stake for buyers.
If a major company like Ubisoft keeps tanking, odds are you can look forward to another major buyout and merger which will make the already horribly oligopolistic game industry even smaller, which is not good for anyone involved.
- Comment on Would you consider making a sandwich to be "cooking?" 1 month ago:
They did not say “do I enjoy it?” they said “Is it worth the effort?” and if having food made exactly to your taste is not worth the effort you either have no standards and would be fine with microwave slop and fast food, or you lack the skill to make something that satisfies you.
Either way, skill issue.
The one exception would be if you’re disabled or something, and I don’t mean “I have adhd” disabled, I mean “I physically can’t stand at the stove for 20-30 minites” disabled.
- Comment on Would you consider making a sandwich to be "cooking?" 1 month ago:
Is it worth the effort?
No.
Sounds like you suck at cooking, my guy.
- Comment on It genuinely upsets me that Valve spent their time and resources on another Dota variation 2 months ago:
Both of your points are only partially correct.
I think we can state as a truth that they have less potential profit.
Wrong, they just take less effort and have a more constant revenue stream.
Potential for profit means nothing, when so many attempts at milkable forever games end up like Suicide Squad or Concord.
Also you can come into them half baked and pull the plug if the game doesn’t sell (because it’s half baked) like they’re doing with SS and they did with the Avengers game.
They spend more money.
They don’t, you can’t spend money you don’t have, whales are working adults.
Kids spend money for less. Better ROI, not higher payoff.
You make the 18302nd skin and troves of kids will badger their parents for fortnite bucks so they can buy it but not everyone will. The upside is that making a skin costs you single digits percent points of the profits, so even if one or two are a dud, you’re fine, the good ones will make up for it.
It’s a business model you can throw money at once the game’s got an audience base, which is very attractive to companies, because it’s uncomplicated and reliable.
- Comment on If you feel like you're always being watched, can you really claim to have integrity? 2 months ago:
Of course, just because there’s an audience doesn’t mean you’re pandering to it.
Fundamentally, integrity is an internal concept.
Only you can know if you have it, because only you can truly know your motivations.
As long as your moral choices are truly based on your own principles and you would do the same regardless of observation, then you have integrity.
External factors can only give you reasons to pretend you have integrity, but they can’t prevent you genuinely having it.
- Comment on Did we ever find out more about Thomas Crooks? 2 months ago:
Given the fact that neither side demonized him, this may be one of the few cases of actual “mentally unstable lone wolf” with no sane or reasonable motive.
- Comment on Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Delayed AGAIN — This Time to the First Half of 2025 2 months ago:
How big do you think my ass is?!
- Comment on Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Delayed AGAIN — This Time to the First Half of 2025 2 months ago:
Is there a preferred metric to measure this by?
For the sake of my asscheeks’ preservation, I’d say “if in ~20 years (that’s how long it’s been, god I feel old) it’s regarded with the same high praise and fondness as Bloodlines.”
Preferred by me of course.
But honestly, I’m definitely going to at least pirate and play it, and I’m a man of principle, so I’ll own it if i think I was wrong.
Your word picture is just so funny that I want to root for the game’s success just to be the person that quotes this comment and @s you, even if I tend to agree with your assessment.
Nobody ever spares a thought for my asscheeks! Everyone just wants to see me fail! Assless and suffering! But I’ll show you!
- Comment on Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Delayed AGAIN — This Time to the First Half of 2025 2 months ago:
Don’t be, this game won’t quietly peep its way into obscurely, it will be an uproarious fart all the way across the halls of the internet.
It will come out and literally nobody will like it because a) it has an impossibly high bar to clear even in the hands of competent devs and b) it’s been made by walking sim developers as their first attempt at a real game with gameplay beyond simple puzzles.
I will literally slice off my own asscheeks, cure them into honey glazed ham, and serve them on rye if it comes out as anything resembling the success of the first.
- Comment on Lemmy votes ARE public, should they be anonymous? 2 months ago:
In reality you should be able to get an anonymized reference number to show your vote was tabulated correctly though.
The reason there is no such thing in elections, is to prevent vote buying/extortion.
In Italy it’s such an extreme problem that any ballot where the party is not marked with a cross on the party logo and (if present) a block capital name next to it on the provided line, is automatically discounted, because stuff like writing a name a specific way or using crosses, checks, dots, or other symbols was used to track vote buying/voter intimidation in mafia controlled territories.
Some vote counters and polling station overseers would be on the take and keep track of if the votes they expected to see showed up when counting ballots and report back.
- Comment on Actors demand action over 'disgusting' video game sex scenes 2 months ago:
The fact that the scene wasn’t mocapped doesn’t mean it wasn’t in the game at all, or that they didn’t get someone else to mocap it instead.
- Comment on Actors demand action over 'disgusting' video game sex scenes 2 months ago:
If i had to guess it would be Little Hope. It is a horror interactive movie and the games by that team tend to be pretty edgy for a modern dev.
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard launches October 31 3 months ago:
As I said, good for you. Play it, enjoy it.
Not once have I tried to persuade you otherwise, I just explained why I won’t and don’t.
I expressed my preference, same as you, except apparently my time could be better spent.
Make of that what you will.
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard launches October 31 3 months ago:
I just have noticed a trend of Origins people that come into any dragon age thread just to talk smack, and I think it’d probably be better to just play a game you like instead of focusing on how much you hate ones you don’t. ya know?
Eh, there’s plenty of time to do both and the games are absolutely worthy of a good thrashing.
I am annoyed at them because they show an utter disregard for the user’s time and money. I wanted to like them, and I was exceedingly disappointed in the product.
especially considering how excited people are for the new game.
Are they? All I’ve seen is suspiciously defensive articles about BG3 comparisons not being fair (despite DA having the full might of EA and the soulless husk of the company that made BG1 and 2 at its helm) and shittons of astroturf and fluff pieces.
You are the first person who openly calls themselves a DA2 fan I run into in the wild.
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard launches October 31 3 months ago:
I came into origins because it was in a branch I liked, so yeah, I have eaten well in the past and there’s more than enough for me to keep eating well for a good long time.
To me it’s mostly the obvious lack of care of DA2 towards the lore and even the internal consistency of the world and characters in that same game that made me acutely aware of the downfall of BioWare.
I’ve since moved on to other things. Mostly indie stuff, and stuff like BG3 which is much more in my general direction.
I’ll miss OG BioWare (Baldur’s Gate 1 & 2 BioWare, to clarify) but I’ll live.
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard launches October 31 3 months ago:
Unironically, good for you. Enjoy it while your taste is still where it’s at, it probably won’t stay there but more power to you in the meantime.
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard launches October 31 3 months ago:
Dragon age as a franchise showed promise when it was an actual modern take on a CRPG.
Ever since DA2 it became worthless, casualized dreck gameplay attached to a story written by and for a very specific californian millennial crowd and, frankly, they can keep it.
- Comment on Well that's a $70 fuck up... 3 months ago:
Oh oof, it happened to a friend of mine as well, not fun.
Not fun to fix, either.
- Comment on Announcing the Kawaii - A keychain-sized Nintendo Wii 3 months ago:
Or the kawawii
- Comment on AYANEO's Pocket EVO Is The World's First Android Handheld With A 7-inch 120Hz OLED Screen 4 months ago:
This reads a lot to me like “the first horse mounted archers armed with aircraft grade machineguns” but ok I guess?
- Comment on Why is prostitution called sometimes world's oldest profession? 4 months ago:
This guy capitalists.