steakmeout
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- Comment on Firefox 120 ships today with massive privacy improvements - gHacks Tech News 11 months ago:
You understand why they changed those terms, right? Because Mozilla isn’t reselling the data and the data can’t go elsewhere.
- Comment on AI will change the way we do everything. All jobs will be replaced. 1 year ago:
The pronunciation of country names and their spelling is not niche.
- Comment on Over 10 Years After It Was Announced, Star Citizen’s Single-Player Squadron 42 Is ‘Feature Complete’ - IGN 1 year ago:
Eve online Star Citizen have very little in common.
- Comment on Over 10 Years After It Was Announced, Star Citizen’s Single-Player Squadron 42 Is ‘Feature Complete’ - IGN 1 year ago:
I asked the question honestly. I want to know why they care.
- Comment on Over 10 Years After It Was Announced, Star Citizen’s Single-Player Squadron 42 Is ‘Feature Complete’ - IGN 1 year ago:
The point I was making was a response to the budget statement. Starfield uses an engine that bethsoft first licensed expensively, modified extensively at expense and then bought the company’s assets. The game’s singular budget does not show the development cost. That was my point.
If we’re discussing game dev budgets we’re not talking from an end user perspective.
- Comment on Over 10 Years After It Was Announced, Star Citizen’s Single-Player Squadron 42 Is ‘Feature Complete’ - IGN 1 year ago:
I do care. I cared so much that I was a games journo for over 5 years. I love gaming. Always have always will.
I’m well over 50. My first gaming devices predate the 2600. Calling this predatory is hyperbole. People are not paying now to play later. They are paying now to play a title in development. That’s not the future of gaming. This is the present. Diabolo 6’s bs isn’t really an apt example. I can give you a much better, more relevant and apt example: Watframe. Warframe used exactly the same fubding model as SC and was nowhere near complete for almost a decade - people still played it to the point that it successfully ran its own convention over multiple years. Now it’s feature complete and has dropped multiple addons and expansions. Would that have happened without audience financial participation? I don’t think so. Hell, no studios of or pubs believed in it and Dark Sector had to be so heavily bastardised to fit with the FPS warshooter trend to even get published. If Digital Extremes didn’t shift models to crowd funding they would have died. Cloud Imperium are making a very specific game for a very specific audience and they are smart to sell directly to that audience. That money has no negative impact on you and has a positive net effect on the industry - lots of people are being employed across different nations and lots of others are also earning money in audience participation (bloggers, influencers, convention staff etc).
This is the present for this niche audience but if it becomes a way for more games of greater variety to reach the audiences that will pay for the specific experiences they want while being able to avoid all the bs associated with seasonal trends and ridiculous short shelf lives leading to crazily overreaching copy protection and awful cycles of boom/bust hire/fire/studio closure I’m all for it.
- Comment on Over 10 Years After It Was Announced, Star Citizen’s Single-Player Squadron 42 Is ‘Feature Complete’ - IGN 1 year ago:
That depends on your perspective on the engine and dev tools.
- Comment on Over 10 Years After It Was Announced, Star Citizen’s Single-Player Squadron 42 Is ‘Feature Complete’ - IGN 1 year ago:
DNF had a 14 year dev cycle and this has already been exceeded by Beyond Good and Evil 2 at 22 years. So no, Star Citizen S42 isn’t going to win that award.
- Comment on Over 10 Years After It Was Announced, Star Citizen’s Single-Player Squadron 42 Is ‘Feature Complete’ - IGN 1 year ago:
Why do you care?
- Comment on How Tom Polce and Kay Hanley Took Star Trek To Broadway, And Beyond 1 year ago:
Season. Lol. As if that matters at all to a streaming platform with a huuuuge captive audience of loyal fans.
- Comment on D or d come on 1 year ago:
That isn’t true.
- Comment on Phones should have FM radio again 1 year ago:
Phones still do. Xiaomi phones for example.
- Comment on The games industry sucks 1 year ago:
That’s really not at all what happened. Gaming development goes back to the 70s and gamerbro culture has almost nothing to do with history of game dev, that’s a more recent thing that happened with DOTA and the like.
- Comment on Why don't laptops have proper low power states where useful stuff like downloads can run during sleep/with the lid closed? 1 year ago:
They do have these states.
- Comment on Nearly 500 smartphone brands have left the market since 2017 1 year ago:
Do you know any other manufacturers?
- Comment on “Lies and fantasies:” Bowen puts $387 billion price tag on Dutton’s nuclear plans 1 year ago:
Yes you fucking can in Australia - we have extreme winds, extreme heat, we’re tidally locked and we have ample room for solar, wind and tidal power generation. What we lack is spine enough to push back against conservative talking points.
- Comment on Drew Barrymore announces talk show will not return until strike ends 1 year ago:
Why would you lie about something that is easily disproved?
- Comment on X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called 1 year ago:
That is not the real story at all. Unions work with organisations, that’s the point.
- Comment on Unity adding a fee for devs for each time a game is installed, after certain thresholds 1 year ago:
- Comment on Starfield’s Planets Are Covered In Thousands Of Dead Creatures 1 year ago:
It is not a modern game in any way. It’s just Fallout 4 in space, which was Skyrim with retro futurism.
It’s once again a giant shallow pond.
- Comment on Some Tesla engineers secretly started designing a Cybertruck alternative because they 'hated' it 1 year ago:
Something that looks straight out of a Hulk Hogan action show is refreshingly new to you? It looks like a late 80s early 90s toy.
- Comment on Google, Netflix, Apple and Amazon are the "barbarians at the gate" of the games industry, says ex-Sony boss 1 year ago:
No they don’t. Apple far and away makes the most money in gaming - by an order of magnitude.
- Comment on Rise of draconian anti-protest laws in Australia is highlighted by UN Special Rapporteur 1 year ago:
Look, that’s your arse and that’s your elbow. Note the difference.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Oh god. We have joke murderer.
- Comment on Statement from Linus Tech Tips about Madison's accusations 1 year ago:
Your last paragraph really sums up your perspective. Hi staunch capitalist.
- Comment on unapologetic Lower Decks supremacy post 1 year ago:
Wait till you read The Diamond Age.
- Comment on Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser 1 year ago:
Thank you for being a great example of exactly what the author refers to.