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- Comment on When Harris had to pick a VP, all media kinda agreed it should be a white male, to balance the fact that she is black and a woman. So Waltz is the DEI hire. 3 months ago:
Yeah, I kinda wish Walz was the candidate instead, based on his progressivism and integrity.
- Comment on V Rising has launched out of Early Access! 6 months ago:
Choosing presentation over game quality is what caused the games industry to be bloated beyond belief.
- Comment on V Rising has launched out of Early Access! 6 months ago:
I’m not talking about about adding hours, I’m talking about adding quality.
But at below AAA levels, I’m often served extremely well for $35.
yes, good games exist at that price point, but the average game is not good, and is not worth that.
You mention things like better resolutions, better frame rates, better voice acting, more modern, more better, etc, but none of those things are what makes games good or worth more money. AAA games with cutting edge graphics and star-studded voice acting are not automatically good games, and in fact it frequently has an inverse effect where focusing so much time and money on stuff other than the game leaves a shitty game that will be forgotten about in months; that would absolutely not be worth $30, despite having all your superfluous qualities
- Comment on V Rising has launched out of Early Access! 6 months ago:
That used to be the norm, and we were happy with that
Then you should be supportive of deflation in the video game industry, instead of making excuses for why we should pay more for less
- Comment on V Rising has launched out of Early Access! 6 months ago:
Video games are afraid to be only a couple hours because they are afraid of charging less than $10
If your game is short, doesn’t offer replayability, and doesn’t have any novel gameplay to truly set it apart, then youtube Lets Plays offer real competition of getting basically the whole package.
but if you multiplied a movie’s runtime by 2-3x for some extra production value in your game, you end up at that $35 price point easily for a game that’s 5-10 hours long
That’s making a couple assumptions though, that price point is for large studio releases and non-matinee prices. If I go see a movie on a Tuesday afternoon, it’s only $7, a perfect price for an average small game.
Even for a direct comparison to Atom RPG, I’d rather pay 2-3x as much for a Wasteland game to get what I’m looking for
Atom RPG isn’t exactly a Wasteland game, it leans pretty heavy on classic Fallout, which while inspired by Wasteland, have diverged noticeably in the end product. So if you wanted to get what you’re looking for in this case, Fallout 1 and 2 are $10 each, or you can get a bundle of 1/2 and Brotherhood of Steel for $20 (more like brotherhood of steal amirite).
- Comment on V Rising has launched out of Early Access! 6 months ago:
That’s true, I’m using hours per dollar as a shorthand for value, but on the flip side if video games are going to be a couple hours of one-time fun, they gotta expect to have a price point similar to movie theaters which have a similar experience, which is like $10-$15
- Comment on V Rising has launched out of Early Access! 6 months ago:
I’d gladly pay $30 if they are worth it, most games are simply not worth it. Recently I’ve put over 75 hours into Atom RPG the last two weeks, and it’s $15 full price, and the developers have released a spinoff and announced a new project, so they seem to be doing fine.
Hopefully you can sit down with a calculator and figure out that things can be better.
- Comment on V Rising has launched out of Early Access! 6 months ago:
8 full time 100k salaried employees is quite a bit more than “small team.” Doom was 6 people. That many people are simply not required to make the games that are being produced; they can choose to size down any time they want. If they want to go “all in” on making a “AAAA” game, then they need to deal with that reality and make a game that is actually worth $60.
Their games ranged from $30-$50 and had every sale, bundle, giveaway, and promotional opportunity you could think of.
Perhaps that’s part of the problem? Maybe they should have priced their works more fairly from the start and not rely on bundles and givaways which surely aren’t going to make them more money.
My point is, the “average” game is absolutely not worth $30. Most games should flop because they’re overproduced trash, and we should return to smaller, more artistic-focused development with a smaller scale, more consumer friendly pricing, and where the (few) devs get more slices of their pie.
- Comment on V Rising has launched out of Early Access! 6 months ago:
“Moderately budgeted” compared to what? Modern AAA game budgets have absolutely exploded and are not sustainable, turning game dev cycles into 5+ year marathons and giving it Hollywood Syndrome where every game needs to be a blockbuster to be considered a success and no risks are able to be taken because of the massive investment each project requires. Do you think that’s sustainable? Or do you think that perhaps things have gone out of control when a $90 price point is being floated, even in conjunction with money printing anti-consumer features like lootboxes?
- Comment on V Rising has launched out of Early Access! 6 months ago:
“Compared to the rest of the industry” is damning with faint praise.
I’d say most games are maybe worth $20, more only for the ones filled with content that you can replay many times.
- Comment on Dramatic rise in women and girls being cut, new FGM data reveals 8 months ago:
Because circumcision is widely considered acceptable in America, so it may cause male victims of genital mutilation to feel distress when seemingly only FGM is discussed in the mainstream.
- Comment on Supermarket responds after Reddit user’s warning about self-checkout overcharge — ‘Was annoyed that the total amount due on my supermarket purchase did not equate to the individual items I purchased.’ 10 months ago:
God be with ye
- Comment on Supermarket responds after Reddit user’s warning about self-checkout overcharge — ‘Was annoyed that the total amount due on my supermarket purchase did not equate to the individual items I purchased.’ 10 months ago:
Carelessness or ignorance, believe it or not, evolve language. Have you heard of compound words?
- Comment on Supermarket responds after Reddit user’s warning about self-checkout overcharge — ‘Was annoyed that the total amount due on my supermarket purchase did not equate to the individual items I purchased.’ 10 months ago:
Except language is demonstrably fluid, meanwhile it seems like your grasping of prescriptive pedantry is coincidentally just a lazy reason to try and be correct when everyone knew what “instore” meant.
Do you say “God be with you” when departing, or just goodbye?
- Comment on Should this be in unethical life pro tips 10 months ago:
Okay sure, but by taking their money, that’s just doing the same thing the church is criticized for, taking money under false pretenses.
Grifting the grifters would be defrauding the church, not the congregation.
- Comment on Should this be in unethical life pro tips 10 months ago:
Sure, but that’s not a grift.
- Comment on Should this be in unethical life pro tips 10 months ago:
How are people donating their own money grifters?
- Comment on The White Buffalo 10 months ago:
I’m sorry why is it okay to make fun of guys for being traumatized by women but not vice versa?
Maybe we should extend compassion to everyone instead of removing it for “equality.”
Sorry you had some shitty experiences with women, that sucks, but if your reaction is “everyone should get this shitty treatment” then I kinda lose sympathy for you because you’re putting more hate into the world.
- Comment on Also, the doors actually open. 10 months ago:
This could be us but you playing
- Comment on ...So I Finally Quit Spotify 10 months ago:
Radio fucking sucks, amigo. Literally the most homogeneous playlists ever unless you are close enough to a college radio station or a major city that can support anything other than top 40 or the same 100 classic rock songs.
- Comment on Windows 10 end of life could prompt torrent of e-waste as 240 million devices set for scrapheap 10 months ago:
Like are shell commands different between distros, or do I have to install something to have certain commands?
Yes and no, kinda. So the most popular shell by far is Bash, which includes its own built in functions, and can also be extended with custom functions which certain distros may include in your bash config file by default. But generally, Bash and the GNU coreutils are standard, although some more “hip” distros will include other shell prompts such as zsh or fish by default, but even those tend to come with bash for script compatibility or easy switching for user preference. Some distros may include programs by default, but most of the time those are easily available in other distros through the package manager.
How do I even know what commands I do have?
compgen -c(orcompgen -c | morefor a scrollable list (pressqto exit)) should do the trick, but that is a built-in bash command that may not be available on other shells, but generally you can find all the programs able to be called from shell inside the/bin
/sbin
/usr/bin
and
/usr/sbin
directories. All these directories are added to a variable called $PATH, and when you type a command into your shell, these are the places that get searched for a matching program to run. You can use
echo $PATHto see all the directories on your machine which are searched, or even add your own directory containing custom scripts or utilities so you can use them anywhere like an installed program. - Comment on Windows 10 end of life could prompt torrent of e-waste as 240 million devices set for scrapheap 11 months ago:
exactly, I admit to sharing some of the “bro its so easy” attitude, but that should result in simple answers instead of berating, like a “no stupid questions” but for linux thing
- Comment on Windows 10 end of life could prompt torrent of e-waste as 240 million devices set for scrapheap 11 months ago:
There should be a “Linux hotline” community where people can post whatever is stopping them from switching and get solutions
- Comment on Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net. 11 months ago:
Imagine Chrome not allowing you to visit specific sites and then Firefox not allowing you to visit a different set of sites.
Imagine a worse, less fitting analogy
You can literally spin up your own instance in 20 minutes and see every instance ever if you’d like, it’s a choice and its good to have
- Comment on Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net. 11 months ago:
xenophobes scared of everything and defederating everyone
Go join a monolithic network if you are not interested in the features of the fediverse.
- Comment on Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net. 11 months ago:
baby its not xenophobic to defederate, calm down
- Comment on It's almost impossible to deny being an alcoholic without sounding like an alcoholic 11 months ago:
Others have mentioned it, but to elaborate, Alcoholics Anonymous is not merely sitting in a circle and sharing your problems, but a belief system which requires you to submit to a higher power to move forward.
- Comment on Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net. 11 months ago:
Ability to choose with whom to federate with is a core concept of the Fediverse
If you don’t want any defederation, join an instance that doesn’t do it.
- Comment on 'There's almost nobody left': CEO of Baldur's Gate 3 dev Swen Vincke says the D&D team he initially worked with is gone, due to Hasbro layoffs 11 months ago:
Oof, glad I got all the Infinity Engine games in a Humble Bundle before BG3 released
- Comment on Adobe faces big fines from FTC over difficult subscription cancellation 11 months ago:
Any reason 6 in particular?
