Vampiric_Luma

@Vampiric_Luma@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why there are 861 roguelike deckbuilders on Steam all of a sudden⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe my subjective take of sudden is different, but is it sudden? (aka I progressively succumb to madness over a title)

  There’ve been many fantastic roguelike deckbuilders out since 2020, a little after Slay teh Spire’s official release date. It feels more like people have became aware of how fun the subgenre is after the hype Baltaro generated on streaming platforms. If anything is sudden, it’s the second-wind of attention we’re getting thanks to the above-mentioned game.

  I know I’m continuing to split hairs over nothing down here, but 861 games is a little misleading once you get to the end: “Surprisingly, deckbuilders are still an underserved market”

  You never know when you’ve reached the peak of a trend, but deckbuilders seem like they’re not quite there yet. Games-Stats tracks 527 roguelike deckbuilders, and Dev_Hell’s Westendorp suggests their higher-than-average revenues, wider revenue spread, and demand make them “relatively underserved as a market.”

  So, there’s not 861 games, but 527 games?

  If you investigate why there’s a large gap in reported game listings, it’s because Steam is including packs like [Slay the Spire x Backpack Hero] and DLC where Game-Stats is tracking the individual games (i.e, bloatless). This ties back to the title - ultimately we’re not trying to answer the literal question, “Why are there 861 roguelike deckbuilders on Steam”, because OP never answers that question. Instead, we are answering an alternative interpretation: “Why are there so many roguelike games appearing on Steam in a short amount of time?” The answer, may shock you:

  spoiler

  Money, popularity, ez(er) to dev

  While I’ve taken those answers from the article, I find it further interesting that they conclude a different question all-together: “Why are roguelike deckbuilders taking off?”

  Buh, I’ve lost it. Ultimately I really liked the core article and their enthusiasm, but I’ve driven myself to madness here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey, that sucks⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  claps vigorously

  WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tekken 8 players divided as devs add “Tekken Shop” with microtransactions⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Early access paranoia can finally be shared by all~ Yippeeeeeeee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A literal child taking orders in a fast food restaurant in the US⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When I was 13 I was ‘encouraged’ by my family to get a job. I had no interest. They pulled some strings and I began illegally working (14 was the legal age) for a small family diner. At this time I just wanted to fiddle on my tech as I was very nerdy, but my family didn’t want me to “stay in my room all the time,” so pointless labour it was.

  I did appreciate the liberation I gained from my family, even if I didn’t have the knowledge of what to do with it; How to expand upon it. Probably for the best imo. I spent my whole first paycheck on some games that me and my homies would play in the garage and made great memories. If there was a life lesson to be learned during this whole experience, I never understood it at the time. Eventually I was let go from work since no-one taught me how to perform my job duties well enough. That’s life, though!

  By luck, one of my caring high-school teachers managed to slip-in his own curriculum. He taught a class of ~15 students some important financial skills… how mortgages work… how to create and manage savings… credit building… Bunch of important life stuff that I would consider essential knowledge in our society was an optional course I learned through word-of-mouth/happenstance.

  ???

  why

  Meanwhile and my ultimate gripe with this thread and tying this back into a dystopian - I see some people mention they learned valuable life lessons and a bunch of other copium. Witness me and your kin around you. Is the knowledge you gained - the wisdom acquired through action and experience - is it gained through labour? No. I didn’t and others didn’t either. Can it be taught safely without forcing children with a young developing brain into dangerous work environments? Yes. I gained such wisdom later from the safety and comfort of my school. And we rest on the final point with a question:

  How many opportunities in the common layman eye are there for children to receive education on the matter?

  If your experience had 1 or more, I’d love for you to share such experiences here as it’s eye-opening to those who received and did not receive such privilege. I’m certainly interested! :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Call an expert⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  … I don’t know why I never thought to put my screws into my magnetic bowl. I’ve been throwing change into it like an M.

  Thank you, I needed this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chick-Fil-A staff in the rain.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s pretty cool :p

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chick-Fil-A staff in the rain.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We have a local gang organization that does charity drives. Even if some of those individuals promoting a good public image weren’t involved, the organization goes as far as trafficking young children. Grew up around it unfortunately. Yet ironically, I have people vehemently defend them as arbiters of good like they’re vigilantes or something because they haven’t seen what radical effects these people are pushing into our world.

  That’s much further on the scale of course, but we can ask the same question still: Is the good that this one meso-group supplies negate the evil that they’re supporting?

  Could all of these wonderful people be working at another facility, providing you with the same quality of service minus the bad moral after-taste? Yes, but only if they’re obligated to work somewhere else. Otherwise, why change when they’re getting so much support from the people they serve?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chick-Fil-A staff in the rain.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One of my favorite fast-food joints when I visited the states was Checkers. It was only walk-through and looked horrible to work in (Shed-sized building but one kitchen), but I liked the concept. It was easy to wander up, order food, chill, then maybe wander off somewhere else.

  Without any cars to access or even reliably park (??), it was relaxing. A small slice of walker’s paradise where all of the scenery catered to our eyes instead of condensed seating areas surrounded by idling cars.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chick-Fil-A staff in the rain.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A low temperature in Alaska will affect you MUCH differently than low temperatures in say, BC which is much more humid and cuts into my bones at -1 where in Alaska/Yukon I’ve handled -34 and I’m mostly struggling to breath.

  As long as it’s a quick jaunt into a heated facility, it should be fine with some moderate layers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well, it looks like verification photos might be useless now.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lornas can be supplied to the AI. These are data sets of specific ideas like certain hand gestures, lighting levels, whatever style you need you can fine-tune the general data set with lornas.

  I have the minimum requirements to produce art and HQ output takes 2 minutes. Low-quality only takes seconds. I can fine-tune my art on a LQ level, then use the AI to upscale it back to HQ. This is me being desperate, too, using only local software and my own hardware.

  Do this through a service or a gpu farm and you can spit it out much quicker. The services I’ve used are easy to figure out and do great work for free* in a lot of cases.

  I think these suggestions will certainly be barriers and I can think of some more stop-gaps, but they won’t stop everyone from slipping through the cracks especially as passionate individuals hyper-focus on technology we think in passing continue working on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Locking myself out of the Ghost achievement in Dishonored, I might have made the game more enjoyable to me by accident⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I like to save scum. Part of redoing a section over and over again is to overcome a difficult trial. The feeling of success is the reward for me, but we also become better for it.

  I used to prefer low-chaos runs but I like to blast through like Rambo these days since that’s where the challenge is.

  I’m struggling to imagine any time I’ve ruined am experience with save-scumming other than the present popular game Lethal Company. The fun is experiencing the cycle with others and I’m not beholden to my ships accessories. One of my crew had me do it and I’ll never do it again.

  Ultimately: do what you want to do and makes you happy and comfortable :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Walmart, Costco and other companies rethink self-checkout, some stores removing them⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. Perhaps once upon of time, but I haven’t met a cashier with that energy in years.

  Which is great because I also don’t like the interaction. My experience lately has been nodding and card flashing - maybe a “Credit” / “Debit”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ghost Aurora over Canada⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s goin’ “AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You had unrestricted access to the internet as a child, didn't you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Uhhhh yeah, it’s called being 10 with unrestricted internet access silly. 🤭