EightBitBlood

@EightBitBlood@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Still Can't Say How Much the ROG Xbox Ally X Will Cost Due to "Macro-Economic" Conditions, Despite Announcing Release Date and Availability Details(Leaked prices $549.99/$899 for Ally/Ally )⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting strategy! And thank you for describing it in detail as well! If I sounded condescending at all, it was certainly towards Microsoft 😉 But you’re right - that path is worth pursuing for that value proposition. It’s a safer path than others as well.

  Agreed it’s almost destiny that the futon will be dueced. But at least this approach could make things interesting 🤘

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Still Can't Say How Much the ROG Xbox Ally X Will Cost Due to "Macro-Economic" Conditions, Despite Announcing Release Date and Availability Details(Leaked prices $549.99/$899 for Ally/Ally )⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree this is clever, and a decent shot at evolving what an “Xbox” is. I just think it’s spreading the brand thin when it’s already been stretched far. While it would be very convenient and cool to have a certified Xbox machine, outside of CoD or Overwatch, there’s not much software that makes the Xbox brand as a recognizable game service valuable.

  Basically, If all Microsoft has to offer on our Xbox PC’s are CoD and Overwatch, then that is what the name “Xbox” will be worth. I would not say either of those games have a bright future, let alone one that’s uniquely identifiable as “Xbox.”

  So while I agree that Microsoft is making sure everything can be an Xbox, I disagree that will increase its brand value. I think, if anything, it will just further dilute the value of Xbox as a service or name that people relate to for games. If the only games offered are ones that have shrinking crowds, then what else is growing them that Xbox offers?

  Imo, more entry points into having an Xbox doesn’t mean there’s more of a reason to enter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Still Can't Say How Much the ROG Xbox Ally X Will Cost Due to "Macro-Economic" Conditions, Despite Announcing Release Date and Availability Details(Leaked prices $549.99/$899 for Ally/Ally )⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  So in ten years Xbox won’t exist as a brand at all? I agree. No need to take the bet.

  I think what you’re describing is exactly what Microsoft is doing. Except I think it’s incredibly short sighted from a business, consumer, and brand perspective.

  IMO, It’s basically the brand equivalent of seppuku.

  With no functional distinction between Xbox and Windows, you just get the entirety of the Xbox ecosystem silently competing with all of Steam. But even worse: it’s now just the word Xbox on Windows. And everyone really hates Windows at the moment. It’s bleeding OS marketshare to Linux like nothing I’ve ever seen.

  So they want to put the entirety of Xbox recognition on a Platform (PC) that their console users won’t be familiar with, and the OS they’re integrating it with is actively losing users. Mostly to Linux. Which Steam has an entire OS built on top of that anyone can use for their games for free.

  So the consumer choice for PC users will be between:

  • Steam OS based on Linux for free. Runs all steam games and has a desktop mode for all other apps.

  • Windows 11 for $hundreds, smaller pool of games + worse performance.

  I don’t think people are going to choose option 2 just because the word Xbox is in it somehow. Some might, but this is just HBO becoming MAX all over again, but without the escape plan of returning to HBO.

  Destroying a console AND brand just to compete with Steam with an inferior product is incredibly dumb, and incredibly Microsoft.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Still Can't Say How Much the ROG Xbox Ally X Will Cost Due to "Macro-Economic" Conditions, Despite Announcing Release Date and Availability Details(Leaked prices $549.99/$899 for Ally/Ally )⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Slapping the Xbox name onto the ass-end of an overpriced and confusingly named steam deck clone is definitley the funniest way to kill the Xbox brand.

  I mean Nokia had the NGage which was designed to look like goat-c, so the bar IS high.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asus moves US-bound manufacturing to avoid tariffs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Almost like it takes materials, complex machines, and a fuck load of time to build a factory instead of Tariffs magically creating them.

  {I agree with you. But the Tariff debate is an incredibly stupid one that boils down to team Trump literally not understanding basic cause and effect.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta's flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York. He never made it home.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My dude. Robots just conned a man. As you pointed out, that was previously only possible through engagement with actual humans.

  Seeing as how just a dozen people on Fox News successfully conned the US into Fascism, it’s not comforting to know that can now be more easily accomplished through robots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk is not as bad as he seems, he's playing a character.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Going to Mars.

  If that’s his goal, he’s awful at optimizing it for success. Going to mars is at minimum, a 3 step process:

  1. Getting to Mars
  2. Making Mars Survivable
  3. Building Mars Infrastructure

  Musk is focusing on step one. Which is sure as shit profitable. Especially with all those Trump favors like defunding NASA so they wouldn’t compete with Musk.

  Which is just so obviously short sighted. NASA funding would do nothing but benefit getting to Mars in the long run, especially with a shared pursuit of scientific discovery and cooperation. Instead Musk and Doge meddled their budget.

  That’s profit over goals.

  Even worse, with climate change likely decimating all forms of capitalism in the next 30 years, focusing on profit over basic sustainability is going to lead to a guaranteed failure of any money based pursuit. It’s short sighted at best, and incredibly, righteously stupid at worst - because just prioritizing step 2 would likely solve climate change with it.

  Getting to Mars requires making Mars habitable, so Musk should be prioritizing making Earth habitable if his goal is Mars. Otherwise, his gaze just exceeds his abilities, as it almost always has cough cybertruck cough Twitter being profitable cough

  If Musk took 10% of his worth and dedicated it to terraforming Mars, therefore saving earth, he would be worshipped as a literal god having used his power for the better of the world instead of just his bank account.

  Any extremely twisted desire for attention and God like admiration would be immediately filled, permanantly, for the rest of his days if he succeeded in beating climate change in wanting to Terraform Mars.

  Instead he’s making money, and being sad when people don’t like him.

  Humans love movies about those with great power having great responsibility.

  Musk lacks any of that responsibility despite having that power and even comparing himself to those heros. He asks for their respect, while acting with none of their responsibility.

  Tony Stark built suits to stop invading aliens. Musk is just building bunkers for him and his friends, and is defunding NASA to steal their contracts for satellites and launches for the money to do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The next time you hear someone say they're just vibing in life without a job, just look at this image.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ll be able to go through life saying that a lot. Eventually, the only thing you’ll fear is when that might end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the equivalent of rose coloured glasses for always seeing something in a negative perspective?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mine calls em shit shades.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ROG Xbox Ally Is $700 And Xbox Ally X Is $1050⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  RIP Xbox.

  Did they bother looking at the history of console launches that were above $600?

  You know, all those household names like 3DO, Jaguar, and CD-I, that prove how historically there is NOT a big audience for expensive consoles.

  Good ol Playstation even learned their lesson with the PS3.

  And now in the middle of a global recession, one where people are even turning on Nintendo for price increases - Xbox is releasing their most expensive console ever with no exclusives, and not a single reason to use this new “Xbox” because game pass is available on everything else.

  I’m sorry. But whoever is left at Xbox needs to pull their head out of their ass and breath real air.

  This move is out of the 90’s with crossbranding that smells of desperation. WHY would you call it so many names? WHY the ROG Xbox Ally? And not the Xbox Ally?

  You really just had to slap the corporate partnership with ROG in the name of the product at the front like that? People smell that bullshit ten miles away now, as it basically the equivalent of putting corporate flowers on a devices grave. Like the Verizon Blackberry Storm, or the ATT Nokia NGage.

  FFS “XBOX ALLY” is a great name! They could have even called it the “Xbox ALLY by ROG”

  Now it’s going to be another “Xbone” situation because Microsoft can’t unincorporated their brain from making terrible decisions.

  The ROG Xbox Ally is an overbranded ununique afterthought of a console designed to milk Xbox nostalgia from people that don’t have the budget or desire for an expensive portable PC.

  I wish Vegas took odds over the potential failure of this console, because it’s almost certain how much of a failure this thing is going to be at launch.

  Just my 2 cents. Haters better tell me how many of these they’re planning to buy at launch to scalp.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former and current Microsofties react to the latest layoffs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Incredibly well said. And couldn’t agree more!

  Especially after working as a game dev for Apple Arcade. We spent months proving to them their saving architecture was faulty and would lead to people losing their save file for each Apple Arcade game they play.

  We were ignored, and then told it was a dev problem.

  Cut to the launch of Arcade: every single game has several 1 star reviews about players losing their save files.

  This cannot be fixed by devs as it’s an Apple problem, so devs have to figure out novel ways to prevent the issue from happening using their own time and resources.

  1.5 years later, Apple finishes restructuring the entire backend of Arcade, fixing the problem. They tell all their devs to reimplement the saving architecture of their games to be compliant with Apples new backend or get booted from Arcade. This costs devs months of time to complete for literally zero return (Apple Arcade deals are upfront - little to no revenue is seen after launch).

  Apple used their trillions of dollars to ignore a massive backend issue that affected every player and developer on Apple Arcade. They then forced every dev to make an update to their game at their own expense just to keep it listed on Arcade. All while directing user frustration over the issue towards developers instead of taking accountability for launching a faulty product.

  Literally, these companies are run by sociopaths that have egos bigger than their paychecks. Issues like this are ignored as it’s easier to place the blame on someone down the line. People like your manager end up getting promoted to the top of an office heirachy of bullshit, and everything the company makes just gets worse until whatever corpse is left is sold for parts to whatever bigger dumb company hasn’t collapsed yet.

  It’s really painful to watch, and even more painful to work with these idiots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. We are heading towards a crash. We are very much already in one, and have absolutley no way out.

  Trump killed all US international commerce with his TACO tariffs and is currently propping up a failing stock market by converting medicaid dollars into ICE / TECH BRO MILITARY funding. The stock market keeps doing great because our tax dollars are propping up companies like Google, Plantir, and Amazon through government grants instead of providing us a safety net. That money will run out eventually, but likely not before more CEOs are killed over it.

  Literally we are living through the gilded 1920’s again but with an American Hitler.

  We now have years of uncontrolled inflation well above target rates, a corrupt government, wealth inequality worse than the French revolution, and rampant unintelligent Tariffs hurting all international trade at the cost of every small business in America. These are the same factors that caused the great depression, and if you think it’s not going to happen again, you are wrong.

  We are a country being lead into disaster by the least competent people imaginable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I made the indie game INK INSIDE, which is based on a lost cartoon pilot I pitched to Nickelodeon in 2015.

  Instead, I turned it into a cartoon show action RPG staring Brian David Gilbert.

  It has a completely unique combat mechanic that’s a combination of beat-em-ups and bust-a-move. It’s big on narrative, loot, and world building and even has live action segments.

  We’re on sale at 50% for only $10.

  Would love for you to check it out, as it seems like you might really enjoy it based on the other games in your cart!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Donald Trump is going to make the troops at his birthday parade swear an oath of fealty to him during the event.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a liberal gun owner. Also go to ranges. Also see that the majority of people there are right leaning.

  That doesn’t mean they support fascism. That doesn’t mean they will use their weapons to kill those that oppose fascism.

  No one on the right actually wants a civil war, but the people they keep electing say they do becuase they’re stupid enough to think it would be profitable.

  In reality, the dumbest people imaginable are in control of our government. And the people that eat Fox News corpo-governemnt propaganda on the daily are likewise just as stupid, but only in that their ability to reason has been compromised - so they posture about killing liberals for clout just like previous generations postured about joining the military despite never serving.

  In the end, the people that are actually stupid enough to use their guns against other Americans are in the vast minority. But also, they are stupid enough not to use or operate their weapons correctly.

  The people I see at ranges that regularly threaten their lives with poor trigger discipline are usually the ones that support Trump, so I’m more afraid of them killing their friends from incompetence than a left leaning American.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Florida ban on kids using social media likely unconstitutional, judge rules⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No offense, but have you considered that Democrats aren’t left?

  Because compared to the rest of the world and political spectrum, they are not “left.”

  So you are absolutley correct that:

  we’re exactly the same. Both sides believe they are critical thinkers.

  Both the GOP and DEMS have the same corporate blindspots. Both think they’re critical thinkers, but will defend their party as the “correct” one rather than admit that the system has completely failed to keep money away from influencing every outcome.

  We have a congress and senate stacked with millionaires doing the bidding of the billionaires that pay for their campaigns instead of the people that vote for them.

  The only difference between the GOP and the DNC, is that the DNC wants a slow decent into a corporate dystopia instead of a fast one that kills people unnecessarily.

  Actual “left” policies requires the following discourse that is impossible for the DNC to have honestly:

  • reducing the military budget
  • reducing corporate welfare
  • workers rights & Union rights
  • increasing taxes on the wealthy

  All of these things have become “too socialist” for a DEM to even bring up, and you’ll justify that as them “aiming for moderates” instead of thinking critically about how every facet of our society is now corporate controlled and the reason actual “left” socialist policy isn’t talked about is simply because Facebook, Google, and X own the spaces those conversations happen. Instead of actual discourse, and cooperating on collective measures, corporations make sure the algorithms they control make America to afraid and angry to not think critically about the failure of their society to move forward in two decades despite the massive wealth concentrating at the top of it.

  DEMS love having a bad guy to point to. So do the GOP. Yet that finger is always pointed at the other party instead of the Billionaires that have used their unspent “Trickle Down” Reagonomic tax breaks to make society worse instead of better, because problems like unaffordable Healthcare are incredibly more profitable than a publically funded one.

  Yet I’ll bet you want to blame the GOP for that too. Not Senator Lieberman, an Independent, who got rid of the public option in Obamacare by simply threatening a filibuster that the Dems immediately capitulated to despite already having enough votes without him.

  If you want to think critically, you’re going to have to start by not pointing fingers at the GOP when the DEMS consistently capitulate on our most beneficial legislation to favor their coporate donors.

  Actual critical thinking is almost impossible in America, as it requires accepting that the system we live in doesn’t work, and insisting on using it the way we’re “supposed to” has lead to massive wealth disparity and the loss of freedoms to corporate interests.

  It’s certainly not hard to see when the greatest threat to United Health and costly health insurance in the last 15 years has come from an assassin instead of our elected officials.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Florida ban on kids using social media likely unconstitutional, judge rules⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The left uses critical thinking. They need to actually engage with information and verify it before choosing to adopt it. This takes time.

  The right are scared children and adopt whatever their TV parent or religious politician tells them out of fear. This takes zero time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BlackRock is Suing UnitedHealth for Giving “Too Much Care” to Patients After the CEO was Murdered⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting take!

  I’m not sure how well recieved it will be here on Lemmy, but it’s well reasoned and explained with clear references.

  Even if others don’t agree with you, you’ve certainly earned respect for so cleanly writing out how you’re looking at this and why.

  Personally, I think your answer aligns itself well with the classic solutions to these problems.

  Machiavelli wrote extensively about what you’re saying in “The Prince” and came to a similar solution that institutions and any position of power over them needs to be completely transparent and open to critique. He pushed for heavy regulation becuase it’s the literal singular mechanism that pushes institutions towards benefiting the public instead of benefiting themselves.

  The most interesting takeaway from reading The Prince in a modern context is how deregulation killed every system of governance we’ve tried going all the way back to ancient Rome.

  Nero fiddled as Rome burned because Roman government was deregulated to the point an idiot could hold power over them.

  USSR couldn’t keep communism regulated, so those that were stealing and breaking the system used their illegally gained resources to deconstruct the communist regime in its entirety.

  Now, in the US we’re watching as both of these happen at the same time. A social system deregulated to the point several reality TV stars can hold the highest military and government positions while bailing out our Oligarchs so much they’ve evolved from “too big to fail” into “too big to stop.”

  Tansparency and regulation are a necessity in any functioning society to prevent the minority of horrible humans among us from becoming subjugators.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good cooperative shooters? Hidden gems?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  check out:

  Ink Inside On steam.

  It’s a couch co-op action RPG with ranged combat meets beat em up fights. Aesthetic is 2014 cartoon network, with a story based on a lost Nickelodeon pilot. Voice cast is solid with Brian David Gilbert too.

  If it sounds interesting, could definitley be up your alley!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And sir cumference, the sphere⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “King Arthur and the Knights of Justice” is what you’re looking for - and more specifically the absolute facemelter of an opening song they had for the show:

  youtu.be/gjbWDjzTM0A

  The whole series is on YouTube for free BTW! Not a bad watch either. Still pretty fun, but certainly dated for the time.

  That opening guitar still gets me decades later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Delivery Driver Scammed DoorDash Of More Than $2.5 Million⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Reddit had an AMA with a Bank Robber ten years ago that they’ve since deleted for corpo purity reasons 😂

  Here’s the big points from it:

  • Banks don’t care about losing amounts under 5k.
  • Security won’t stop you if you don’t have a visible weapon.
  • Worst they do is lock the door, so bring a hammer.
  • the goal is to get in, and get the teller to give you a couple grand asap, then leave under 10 minutes.
  • Guy did this to at least 5 different banks (all different companies) in one day, once a month, for several months.

  He eventually got caught because of the money he had, not because his face was on every security camera.

  He recommends not doing this, as do I, as it’s just not worth it.

  But just in case you wanted to know how it was done a decade ago, fuck Reddit, here’s the details they recently deleted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Study Fascism at Yale. We’re Leaving the U.S.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  These experts sound like they rolled high for their intelligence stat, but low for wisdom.

  As an expert, they should know how well hiding has historically worked against fascists. Eventually, the only place that ends up being available to hide in is the mass grave the fascists dug for you.

  How about fighting before it gets worse? How about you make the thin skinned idiots scared to be so openly fascist? How about showing them there is a resistance against their behaviour instead of immediate capitulation at the earliest necessity of protest.

  Because from where I’m sitting, running away encourages fascists to think they’re scary enough to avoid the consequences of their actions via intimidation. Yet, they’re a bunch of old geriatric idiots that take offense for calling their hands small.

  Fucking calling them names works better than running away.

  Running away makes it seem like sticks and stones are necessary when words will always hurt them.

  All thats needed to beat these idiots is a stream of childish insults being lobbed at them publically at a near constant rate. Trump would literally quit being president if he had to hear about having a small dick, hands, and brain everyday. But heaven forbid such a stupid solution ever be pursued by academics. (Despite it being incredibly effective when Trump did the same to Biden).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Max pivots back to HBO Max as WBD rethinks ability to compete with Netflix⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean. Not many. At least in the entertainment industry. This fuck gets 250 mil a year, and pulls movies from distribution to save 40 mil instead of take a pay cut. He’s single handedly fucked Hollywood into the ground so hard, that large American studios are likely never going to recover.

  Warner Brothers has already been fed into the wood chipper for parts, and not much is left. They literally sold the rights to their own theme music (As time goes by 1962) in an accidental bulk sale of their own properties. This idiot sold so much of what made Warner Bros, he now has the company paying someone else to use their own jingle.

  That GQ article didn’t go hard enough, and was pulled because billionaires have thin skin from the complete lack of skills their money has insulated them from developing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New York Mayor Eric Adams to Crypto Industry: Come Build an Empire in NYC⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I find it absolutley bizarre that crypto is viewed this way on Lemmy. Because if anyone wants to know the problem crypto is trying to solve, you can read the original anonymous white paper written for Bitcoin where it was clearly stated its creation was for an alternative to fiat currency.

  So if you hate the way capitalism has fucked the world by making everything’s value tied to the US Dollar, Crypto is the solution to that.

  No need for: banks, the fed, or any government or private institution to regulate currency and manipulate its flow towards corruption if all those institutions are decentralized and accounted for digitally.

  That’s what Crypto does.

  You have a wallet instead of a bank account (modern ones even have savings and loan features). You have a block chain regulating the currency through diminishing returns instead of the Fed. And you have an uncorruptable fully transparent leger with where transactions are going instead of random bank fees going towards bloated executive salaries.

  Is some Crypto a scam? Sure. But there’s scams in literally every new technology where there’s a gap between ignorance and experience.

  So don’t let yourself become ignorant about crypto simply because the counter propaganda is strong and made you scared to try using it yourself. I’m not talking about daytrading, or making a quick buck. I’m talking about using it as intended to buy goods and services.

  Because not only is it easier to use than money, it’s more lucrative and rewarding, and the sooner you start using it, the more likely the value of your assets will increase. It doesn’t take long using crypto before you’ll see the problems with existing paper currency and the bullshit system it’s designed to perpetuate.

  By that I mean - for example:

  Take whatevers in your bank account, and look at what was in it 10 years ago. Let’s say $10. Chances are you still have about $10 in your account now, so for arguments sake, let’s say theres been $10 sitting in your account doing nothing for 10 years.

  In US currency, due to inflation, the $10 in your account after 10 years is now worth $7.

  If you had a Bitcoin wallet, that $10 would now be worth $1000.

  If you want to know why the 1% have so much power, it’s because they control the fiat capital in a capitalist system.

  Crypto is an alternative to that fiat, and one that endangers the existing system. If people used it more than $Dollars, capitalists literally would no longer have power as the system they use to maintain their control (banks, corrupts government, money laundering) is no longer being used.

  Crypto provides a solution to the corruptable fiat in a capitalist system through removing the existing mechanisms of corruption that have been created and replacing them with a decentralized fully transparent digital alternative.

  The people who created Bitcoin did so to fight the same people and systems everyone here seems to hate.

  So I find it fascinating that the firehose of propaganda about crypto is still readily seen here.

  Is Crypto bad? Sure. Nothings perfect. But at this very moment - it’s a much better store of value than the dollar, especially in uncertain times, yet people are convinced it’s a scam.

  When unquestionably the best thing for people to do right now is to get away from the tanking dollar. Inflation is guaranteed simply because Trumps policies have dramatically reduced the amount of Treasury Bills the world is now buying from the US. Those TBills are the US debt, and as a deficit spending country, the US economy only works if that debt is purchased.

  It ain’t being purchased.

  So if you want to know why there’s a firehose of propaganda about crypto right now - it’s because those with $Dollars want you to also have Dollars, so when they diversify into scam coins, they profit and you’re left holding their losses.

  Crypto is unquestionably the best currently available solution to fixing the damage capitalism has caused, and those already using it know and feel this. They just have an impossible time convincing anyone else otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids nowadays don't have many (if any) videogame heroes...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you so much! 😁

  We lucked out and got some love from some great streamers like Stumpt, Atlas Anarchy, Blazekin, and some others. All organically through promoting the game at places like PAX and LA Comicon.

  But since a good amount of that attention was before we launched, it mostly translated to wishlists. (Which certainly still helps).

  Regardless, BOTH wishlists and reviews do amazing for us - so if you enjoy the “First Page” demo, let us know! 🙂

  And thanks again!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids nowadays don't have many (if any) videogame heroes...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you so much! Very proud of what we’ve made, as we made it exactly for people like you! 🙂 Hope you enjoy and thanks for sharing the link!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids nowadays don't have many (if any) videogame heroes...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Awesome! Thank you so much! We love the support! And I’m sure you’ll both get a kick out of it 😁

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids nowadays don't have many (if any) videogame heroes...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I literally made an indie game to fill in this gap. It’s local coop and was designed for kids and parents to play together.

  It’s called:

  INK INSIDE (PC now, all consoles soon)

  Brain David Gilbert voices the lead: Stick the stick figure. The whole cast are children’s drawings come to life living in a kids notebook that’s getting corrupted by a slow leak dripping water into their world and warping them into “sog” monsters.

  It’s a game based on a lost pilot to a Nickelodeon show, and as such is both a cartoon and action RPG with a narrative that follows the first season of what you used to see on Saturday Morning.

  It’s pretty much what you’re looking for imo, but since we’re indie, marketing has not been treating us well 😅

  Reception from our intended younger audience has been glowing. Just harder to sell to kids as they don’t have money 😑

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony Music Among Parties Pushing To Cut Off Internet for Pirating Customers — Supreme Court Asked To Intervene⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The level of short sightedness in this pursuit is laughable, even if it’s coming from corporate.

  You pirated a song?

  Well then, we’re going to cut off your internet so that we can never effectively market anything we make to you ever again.

  We’ll gladly lose out on all the revenue you normally spend on corporate movies, tech, and content because we’d rather hyper fixate on the pennies of lost revenue that mp3 cost us, than ever worry about the macro economic conditions of the real people it comes from.

  Fucking LOL.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fund managers worry about Trump’s mental state amid tariff debacle⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, that’s what Trump is doing - but does he even realize it?

  A toddler learning to walk gets a lot of attention from his parents when he tries to stick a fork in an outlet.

  If that Toddler wants more attention, they’ll do it again and again without ever realizing how close to being electrocuted they are. Eventually that Toddler grows up learning all the wrong lessons, and if they come from enough money they never suffer or learn the consequences for acting that way. That Toddler, now adult, still craves negative attention from adults, and acts like an insufferable asshole to get it, grabbing people by their genitals, doing drugs, and never getting punished because of their parents wealth.

  Do they know they’re an insufferable asshole? Do they know their actions - done purely for attention - have a bigger impact on those around them?

  I don’t think they do.

  They are too emotionally underdeveloped and intellectually stunted to ever understand their own motivations.

  When it comes to Trump, I don’t think there’s a chance I hell he knows he’s even doing his “big ask” strategy. I think he’s at the mental capacity of a toddler doing to the world what worked for him to get attention from his deranged parents.

  He’d ask them for big things, like an entire business he can run to get their respect, then settle for a small loan or something else he’d never get from them otherwise because his parents hated and mocked him for taking their handouts instead of working on anything himself.

  He’s a toddler doing what worked for him to get his parents attention on a national scale, and I sincerely doubt he even understands his compulsion to behave that way.

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  Based on US history? Yes. Based on the overwhelming majority of experts? Yes. Based on basic economic theory? Also Yes.