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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I’m just going to stop looking at articles with remotely sensational headlines.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fighting games have a product design problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Updates suck. Gaming was better when they didn’t exist.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fighting games have a product design problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
The idea of buying characters is itself wild. Games as a service has really screwed up player expectations.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fighting games have a product design problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
This is legit. I remember playing Soul Calibur 3 I think on PS2 pretty regularly with a couple of friends. One of them owned the game and would stomp us until I asked to borrow it for a while so the other two of us could get good. A few weeks later I was doing bomb and air grab loops with Takin and we were pretty evenly matched, while other friends who would play occasionally were pretty easy to beat. There was no big competitive online play, we got better by figuring out how to counter each other because we had similar amounts of experience with the game.

I’m not sure how you replicate that experience with randos.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
It’s much easier to build momentum around a franchise when you release 7 games in 10 years than 2 games in 7 years.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
What do you meeaaan? Stoats are fucking adorable!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Most of them have Patreon for that, which actually produces income.

What’s the incentive? All they would be doing is pushing views away from platforms where having viewers actually benefits them, either through metrics or income or both.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, agreed. The one thing the platforms you see that aren’t YouTube that creators actually use have in common is financial incentive. Nebula is the best example here. Creators get a cut and have more creative freedom, so they actually use it and try to direct their audience to it for bonus content, which seems to actually work. Patreon is similar for a lot of creators, letting them put out additional content with fewer restrictions and letting them get more income from their viewers.

Some people also seem to have some success with independent platforms. If you look at like a Dropout or Viva Plus, these are both putting stuff out on YouTube and then drawing users in with subscriptions, and that seems to be a sound model.

But Peertube produces zero dollars for creators, which means they have no incentive to push users there. In fact, they’re incentivized to avoid doing so because there other platforms that will actually pay them if they can direct traffic there. Peertube lacks both the money-making side of things and the exposure side of things, so there’s no real reason to use it.

Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to see something independent like Peertube take off, but the model doesn’t really work.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Peertube isn’t really a viable alternative. There isn’t a substantial enough audience for creators and there isn’t really enough content for an audience. I guess if you’re one of the 100 people watching transport evolved that’s cool but it isn’t really a meaningful alternative. I suppose it could be supplementary, but why would creators want to drive their traffic to a site that doesn’t actually matter for their visibility? I imagine the same probably applies to loops.

Also, like, with video you kind of want a reliable host that you know isn’t going anywhere.

The rest are okay as long as you’re not super worried about how many people are seeing what you post. Lemmy and Piefed are great for content aggregation and discussion, but they seem to be the only ones that at this point actually do anything that might be helpful.

I’ve tried Mastodon and while it’s way better than Twitter it isn’t exactly providing a way to reach a substantial audience. Personal websites are probably a better bet for ease of access.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video games, random friend requests, and scammers!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Aren’t those attempts to jack your steam account? I remember hearing something a few years back about people being able to “recover” an account by having a certain number of friends put in a ticket saying it was stolen.

Or maybe that was discord. Either way, as a result I don’t add randos.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur's Gate 3 director agrees with No Rest for the Wicked lead that Early Access is "a positive thing" for games like their two RPGs – when it works⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It honestly turned out great, it just took a while. The clients and servers both run pretty smoothly these days and the modding potential is crazy. Hands down the best game for voice RP just because of how expressive the body language is.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur's Gate 3 director agrees with No Rest for the Wicked lead that Early Access is "a positive thing" for games like their two RPGs – when it works⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Early access can be great. DayZ spent years in early access and was at the time an incredibly fun janky experience that myself and a lot of other players have fond, chaotic memories of. It’s neat to see how far it came, and the game that exists today wouldn’t be here without that process. Those memories of exploding legs and invisible zombies are worth something.

If you absolutely must have a finished game when you spend money, don’t pay for early access. Nobody’s forcing it on you. But for those who like the look of a project and want to help get it off the ground while also getting to participate in its early stages, it can be rewarding.

And yeah, there are going to be games that flop in early access, but there are also plenty of games that flop on official release. I’d take some unique and interesting jank over something polished but boring and uninspired any day.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨99% of the time when I get exposed to content that sucks, it's because of other people creating content about the content they also think sucks.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That’s why I block bait and people who post it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do video game skeletons put themselves back together?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Presumably if they’re just skeletons they were animated this way anyway. Otherwise they’d just be a pile of bones with no way to move or hold themselves together.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Owner Valve Faces $900 Million Lawsuit Over PC Monopoly Claims, Following UK Tribunal Ruling - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
How many devs actually take advantage of it though?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Owner Valve Faces $900 Million Lawsuit Over PC Monopoly Claims, Following UK Tribunal Ruling - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Unfortunately that doesn’t help with multiplayer games that rely on steam
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I think unintentionally hit the jackpot.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t have a switch so I don ‘t really know. Emulators that simulate CRT blur aren’t terrible, but they’re not really the same. I think most of the remakes tend to have more modern looking pixel graphics, though, so it’s not going to be quite the same as genuine CRT blur.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I think unintentionally hit the jackpot.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The biggest difference you’re going to see for fidelity on CRT displays will be improvements for 2d and early 3d games. There are some SNES games with some great art styles that are better suited to CRT. If you like RPGs, I’d check out Shadowrun, Secret of Mana, Final Fantasy VI, Chrono Trigger, and Super Mario RPG. For 3D games, FFVII is one that particularly stands out for me as looking pretty bad on modern monitors but pretty good on CRT. Even something like Goldeneye for N64, which looks comically bad on modern screens, was a lot nicer looking at the time.

Admittedly, especially in the case of Goldeneye, some of this may just be that the games looked comparatively better before later 3D gave it us a better basis for comparison, but CRT is at least a factor. SNES games really shine with CRT, though. The art styles had really come into their own in that final 2D console generation, and a lot of them look much better than what followed on the first 3D consoles.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Transistors are probably a bit reason we don't live in a steampunk world.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Also because steampunk is fiction based primarily on aesthetics with explanation as an afterthought.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
This sounds stupid, but I’ll probably watch it
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK officials may be barred from US over X ban⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, but I’m not sure “debate” in the sense the internet uses it has any relevance anyway. Debates in the formal sense are basically an academic sport, but what people on the internet do is basically just aggressively dribbling at people who have no interest in playing basketball.

Like, generally people on the internet just start trying to debate bystanders making casual comments or sharing their opinions who aren’t in it to prove anything. It’s kind of weird.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK officials may be barred from US over X ban⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
The entire spirit of bickering about everything on the internet as if making some point or dunking on someone actually has some meaningful social value is exhausting regardless of the particular viewpoint being espoused. Like, yeah, if it’s dirt stupid and inherently destructive it’s worse, but I see the same sort of behavior from all sorts of different perspectives and none of it is good.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“My body, my choice” should apply to drug use, too.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
You make some really weird assumptions.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“My body, my choice” should apply to drug use, too.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Honey, you do not know me.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“My body, my choice” should apply to drug use, too.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
So what you’re saying is no more football and no more driving.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub Restores Repo of GTA Mod 'Multi Theft Auto' After Take-Two Fails to Sue⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
That’s not even a valid take-down notice. It’s missing the requirement to state that it’s valid under penalty if perjury.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Didn't realize how hard MGS4's Disc Swap joke hit until I backed it up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
The original Baldur’s Gate was 5 cds and an additional cd for Tales from the Sword Coast.

The most obnoxious bit about all that was that you had 6 cds to potentially scratch that might prevent you from playing the whole game.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Consoles are normally sold at a loss if I remember correctly. Companies tend to bet on people buying enough games to make up the difference, because generally people do. Most people aren’t sitting on a console with only 3 or 4 games for it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resident Evil (Gameboy Color) final build now recovered!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Barry! We’re Barry, Barry!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
If SAG hadn’t gone on strike, Netflix would also have been making agreements with actors to use their voice and likeness without actually offering future work too. Was SAG wrong to push against this?

Just because someone makes a deal doesn’t mean it isn’t a toxic business practice that’s bad for the industry or the people involved in it. People also agree to work for subpar wages, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t push for higher minimum wages.