p03locke
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- Comment on Death Stranding 2 preview: how a big dollop of Metal Gear is expanding Kojima's bizarre epic 6 hours ago:
I’m sure there’s plenty of fans, and you guys and gals can enjoy your sequel.
But, I’m just not down with Kojima whipping out his Kojima and Kojimaing all over the place. The man cannot write a cohesive story that makes any amount of sense if his life depended on it, and the absurdity has gotten even worse over the last few games. He has nobody to tell him “no”, so every shit idea and thought in his head ends up in the game.
- Comment on After saying negative reviews 'might just cause our death' and 'we've got a few months left in the oven', No Rest for the Wicked CEO claims he never said they were in 'immediate financial danger' 6 hours ago:
- Comment on Ori studio in crisis: No Rest For The Wicked could be their final game 2 days ago:
That’s what the pre launch marketing campaign is for. Getting on YouTube and Twitch channels is just to get the snowball rolling.
Right, and that’s what this game didn’t have. You have a trailer and some people who happened to discover this game and decided to play it. No real marketing campaign push to get indie streamers to play it. The name makes it even worse because it’s not a unique phrase.
- Comment on Ori studio in crisis: No Rest For The Wicked could be their final game 2 days ago:
It’s not one you should rely on. People don’t stare at their Steam page every day.
This should have been promoted through the usual YouTube and Twitch channels. Find all of the YouTubers that review indie games and start sending emails.
- Comment on Ori studio in crisis: No Rest For The Wicked could be their final game 3 days ago:
I think NRFTW is fantastic, and it’s exactly what I was expecting it to be. However, people saw it at the same “style” as Diablo or Path of Exile and expected the game to be like those… except they’re not. And for those that do realize that, you have the other idiots that refuse to accept that it’s an EA game that still has a long roadmap until completion and bitch about the lack of an “endgame.”
Honestly, I think trying to compete with Diablo and PoE2 is already too much, even if it’s trying to say it’s not those. Those games are huge, with long-running, dedicated fanbases, and they do enough to oversaturate the market just fighting amongst themselves.
This was the wrong type of game to be trying to dive into the first time they cut themselves off from Microsoft’s financial cushion.
- Comment on Ori studio in crisis: No Rest For The Wicked could be their final game 3 days ago:
It’s always lack of advertising. The unfortunate fact of life is that 99.99% of indie studios have no clue how to market their game. They think they just have to make a good game, and boom, people will flock to it.
Steam is there to make sure users have a platform to download their game. It’s not there to market it.
- Comment on Nintendo Anti-Piracy Policy Device Lock Update Warns of Console Bricks for Unauthorized Use 3 days ago:
At this point, I’m just calling this an excuse.
I mean, fuck Japanese IP laws, but also fuck Nintendo for trying to gaslight us into pretending everything is normal and standard. Nintendo of America is not in fucking Japan.
- Comment on Whoop backpedals on its paid upgrade whoops 3 days ago:
Awesome, a smart watch with no display. Very cool!
- Comment on Alabamians Want Answers About a Four-Million-Square-Foot Data Center Coming to Their Backyards 3 days ago:
A city with 70% black people, and they find the one white guy to put on the front page of the article.
- Comment on Internal docs show Pornhub had 706,000 videos in May 2020 flagged for child rape or other problems, often not removed until flagged 16+ times 3 days ago:
Okay, now apply that argument to the next levels upstream, the ISP, backbone providers, CDN providers, the domain name holders, the SSL certificate trust companies. They all earn money with it.
You see how ridiculous that argument becomes.
- Comment on Internal docs show Pornhub had 706,000 videos in May 2020 flagged for child rape or other problems, often not removed until flagged 16+ times 3 days ago:
If they had confidence in their reporting, they wouldn’t post this in their Opinion section.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Governments generally do their best to avoid that, because people would start holding off on purchases expecting lower prices next week, month, quarter,… and it would tank the economy.
That’s not how human nature works. If people need groceries, they aren’t going to hold off purchases until the prices go down.
- Comment on Polygon Has Been Sold With Mass Layoffs Hitting The Outlet 1 week ago:
I don’t think even IGN has much of any critical/cultural/marketing value anymore so good luck to any other website
IGN, the EA of games “journalism”.
that somehow instead of a yes/no is instead an article of 20 paragraphs saying nothing
That we’ll later summarize with another LLM.
- Comment on Well played, Todd: You can see Skyrim, or at least its tallest mountain, from the edge of Oblivion Remastered 2 weeks ago:
Good job, reporter! You’ve done your work to signal boost an AAA game for corporate profits without managing to actually add any new information!
- Comment on Google is paying Samsung an ‘enormous sum’ to preinstall Gemini 3 weeks ago:
Which is worse: Bixby or Gemini?
- Comment on 4chan Is Dead. Its Toxic Legacy Is Everywhere 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, he claims to understand 4Chan culture, but then post such a clickbait article that focuses 4Chan as the “violent, seething underbelly of the internet”. Oooo… spooky!
- Comment on Meta could take a $7 billion hit this year because of Trump's tough China tariffs 3 weeks ago:
It’s a pretty high gamble here, one that risk-adverse corpos normally don’t take. I don’t understand why they are going along with it.
- Comment on Here the fuck we go again 3 weeks ago:
Starfield? Try Fallout 76.
Hell, Fallout 4 was still not a great game, but at least it was functional and had a story. As soon as they announced that there was zero NPCs in Fallout 76, I knew that they COMPLETELY lost the plot, and the point of any of their previous RPGs.
- Comment on Here the fuck we go again 3 weeks ago:
$$$
- Comment on Here the fuck we go again 3 weeks ago:
Wtf happened to bethesda
Todd
- Comment on Morpheus Actor Laurence Fishburne Reveals He Was Turned Down for The Matrix Resurrections — So He Might Not Be Back for Matrix 5 Either - IGN 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on The Social Network That Can't Sell Out: Understanding Mastodon vs. Bluesky 3 weeks ago:
That’s exactly my point. Reddit is still shit, and you can’t exactly fork the data, because they’ve locked down the API.
Bluesky could do the exact same thing.
- Comment on Give them some privacy 3 weeks ago:
Imagine getting sued by Nintendo because you said the word “Nintendon’t”.
- Comment on Give them some privacy 3 weeks ago:
Those pussies couldn’t even put out their tag line without having some legal blurb at the bottom.
Oh noes… my registered trademark!
- Comment on The Social Network That Can't Sell Out: Understanding Mastodon vs. Bluesky 3 weeks ago:
Bluesky is centralized but it seems like its design is committed enough to open technology that it would take them a long time to walk it back
Let’s not forget that Reddit’s code is open source. Just because their technology is open doesn’t mean that the data, usage, and network are protected.
- Comment on Wikipedia is giving AI developers its data to fend off bot scrapers 3 weeks ago:
It’s a common problem. People writing bot scrapers for public data, which costs a lot of bandwidth, when they could have easily just downloaded the entire dataset from a dedicated link. Finding better ways to tell them “Hey, morons, go download the goddamn link!” saves on that bandwidth and web server CPU.
- Comment on Atari 2600: The Atlantis of Game Consoles 4 weeks ago:
Wow, this “journalist” had no idea what games programming was like back then. Yars Revenge even used its own code to display the neutral zone. There were a lot of creative tricks like that to save on memory and CPU.
- Comment on Atari 2600: The Atlantis of Game Consoles 4 weeks ago:
Tanks!
Had a ton of fun with that one when I was a kid.
- Comment on Meet Neptune, a TikTok alternative where creators can hide likes and follower counts | TechCrunch 4 weeks ago:
I think you forget just how much money was dumped into Quibi.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’. 4 weeks ago:
This is just wrong. If you write a book, you own that book. Many people sell art.
If you want to publish a book, you have to contact a publisher, and they will acquire the rights to publish your book. If you want to publish an album, you have to give up your rights to the music publisher. You don’t really “own” your media at that point.
Also, compared to the number of artists out there, many people don’t sell art. A select few sell art, and the rest are broke.
