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bearboiblake@pawb.social 16 hours agoThanks very much for the honest reply :)
He’s just funny.
That’s fair, how long have you been watching him for?
I don’t like modern trends in modern gaming and shows
Which trends bother you the most?
for someone who grew up in powerty in broken post communist economy, his pro communist stance is just pure cringe to me.
I totally get that. I’m guessing you’re from an ex-USSR republic in Eastern Europe, or somewhere around there, right? My partner is Estonian, so I have a lot of understanding and sympathy with this.
I’m glad you have someone you enjoy and identify with.
I’m also wondering a little about how you feel about things like the cost of living crisis - do you feel impacted by that? Not sure where you’re from or what you do for work etc. but have you experienced issues with public services getting worse, prices going up faster than wages, struggling to buy a home, things like that?
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Few years now. More or less since he shifted from WoW to reactions and political commentary
The most? The twisted idea of political correctness. Every game made by well established corporation is bland. It has perfect representation of all races, all skin colours, all LGBT minorities, and every one of them feels the same. Bland, uninspired, boring and usually expensive. I want games like Witcher 3, with unique slavic style and mythos, Expedition 33 with unique french style, Black Myth Wukong with increadible chineese folklore and art - these games are actual, real diversity.
Yeah, I’m from Poland
I make above average, so I’m not that hard impacted, but the COVID inflation hit Poland much harder than US or rest of EU. Prices of everything increased 2x in the last 6 years. Wages followed, but not equally. Small business ran by my cousin got hit particularly hard on both sides. His costs of living increased considerably, while due to specifics of the business model, inflation shrunk their real cash flow.
State itself runs fine, housing is as expensive in terms of avg income as always while quality of services, like healthcare is the same as always.
Population growth is horribly nagative - people often say its due to financial reasons, but I don’t believe this to be main factor - the poorest people have plenty of subsidies in forms of government mortgage subsidies, children subsidies ect. while rest is definitely making enough to support children if they wanted them. Poland is quite a wealthy country these days
bearboiblake@pawb.social 13 hours ago
Thanks again for your continued honest and good natured responses, I really appreciate it.
Does political correctness in video games bother you more than predatory monetisation practices (lootboxes, microtransactions, increasing prices relative to content, and so on)? How about live service games becoming unavailable after servers are shut down, i.e the issue addressed by the “Stop Killing Games” movement?
I totally agree with you on that - though I would identify the issue as being caused by video games more and more becoming products intended to maximize profit, rather than works of art. I believe the best games are those which are daring, and try something new, rather than aimed at mass-market appeal. Making a game appealing to as many people as leads to bland, derivative design driven by focus groups and design committees, rather than artists with a compelling vision.
Nice! I have never visited Poland, but I’d love to go, I definitely will some day. I’m from Scotland.
Can I ask what you do for work? Of course, don’t dox yourself or anything, just a broad idea.
I’m really sorry to hear about your cousin. I hope things improve for him soon.
Is this based on your personal interactions with them? I wonder to what extent you socialise with poorer people and hear from them directly about their experiences of this?
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
A good game with predatory monetization can still be enjoyable. Bad, boring uninspired game cant’t. Aside of providing honest working product for a price, Stop killing games is important from cultural heritage point - these games have historical value, and should preserved. Some of important motion picture works like first season of Doctor Who, has been lost, and I don’t want this to repeat for games
Just know, that game assumes you’re familiar with the wukong myth. I wasn’t when I played, and many scenes lacked necessary context.
I did. This is the best hardcore RPG since Fallout 2. When I first played it in early access I had very strong impression that this game really brings back the climate of original Baldurs Gate and tabletop experience. They also implemented LGBT themes in a way thats actually enjoyable for normal player.
I think its different phrasing of the same issue. Instead of pushing the boundaries, these companies produce stuff that won’t cause any controversy, no risk taking, just one established scheme over and over again as long as revenue exeeds the costs.
Do you have insight of why UK left the EU? From our perspective, this was a horrible move. Poland was one of the biggest beneficiaries of common market and EU funds for infrastructure were a game changer for our economy.
I trade cryptocurrencies. Won’t say any more due to privacy reasons.
Shit happens, if things go bad, I’ll be there to support him.
To be honest when I socialize, I don’t care about financial status. Very rarely anyone talks about financial status here. People talk about jobs, family issues, politics, hobbies and interests, but noone ever talks about actual money. People are quite privacy oriented around that subject. Is Scotland different in that regard? When I talk about subsidies, I mean government programs made in order to allow young people to start families.
I honestly dont know. I have suspicion that’s result of women doing careers all the way to their 30s spending most of their fertile part of life on working rather than building a family, but thats just my hypothesis
bearboiblake@pawb.social 57 minutes ago
Sure, but I’d say that predatory monetization does a lot more harm than a boring game does. A boring game is just “wow, this kinda sucks, guess I’ll refund it” or maybe at worst you lose the purchase price of the game, but games with predatory monetization can cause serious financial harm to people who struggle to control their spending habits, it’s a bit like gambling.
Yeah, this was one of the reasons I asked about it - I think it’s a demonstration of how fun and enjoyable games with lots of diversity can be, and I was curious how you felt about it. Glad to hear you enjoyed it!
Yes, exactly! But my point is that I don’t see the root of that problem as political correctness, the root of the problem is greed, and they’re just making a game that tries to appeal (or panders to) modern gaming audiences, who are more and more diverse themselves by the day. They just do a really shitty job of it.
I sure do. Scotland is very pro-EU, and we had an independence referendum shortly before the Brexit vote (i.e. a vote to decide if Scotland should become independent of the UK or not) and one of the major points the anti-independence people kept making was that an independent Scotland would be kicked out of the EU and have to re-apply to join. It was probably a big reason why the independence referendum failed. Then we were dragged out of the EU a short time later by England anyways. It was a very frustrating time.
As to why the UK voted for Brexit, there are a few reasons, but the central one is basically the same old story - cost of living increasing out of pace with wages, public services under a lot of strain and failing, etc. Another major component was the media, who constantly spammed pro-Brexit messaging. There was some other stuff mixed in there too - ideas of “sovereignty” - i.e. British chauvinism (“no damn frenchie is gonna tell me what to do! what if i want a flammable pillow!!”), and to some extent, racism also played a role, but in all honesty, if it wasn’t for austerity, I think we would still be in the EU. I really hope we can rejoin soon.
Thanks for sharing that - I’m a software engineer.
Good for you <3
Sure, I get that, but what I’m trying to get at, is that you might not be aware of the issues that affect people who aren’t as well off as you are if you don’t talk to them about it, right? Like, I can speak from experience that there are lots of government programs in my own country which exist to provide support to people, but in practice, actually accessing those programs is very, very difficult. I’m disabled, spent my years 18+ in a wheelchair, and applying for disability benefits was/is a complete nightmare. My first request for it, which provided like 300+ pages of evidence, doctors notes, etc. was rejected, and from what I hear basically everyone is rejected on the first try. After appealing, it was accepted - but then, a few years later, they just arbitrarily decided that I must have gotten better, so I had to re-apply and go through an appeals process which is still ongoing over a year later, and I’m just having to scrape by without that much needed money. I’m really lucky that I’m able to work part-time and that I have a supportive partner, because if I had lived alone and was unable to work, I’d be homeless by now. My story is hardly a rare exception, either - I’m a volunteer at a local advocacy & support group for disabled people, and I hear stories like this from almost everyone.
It varies a lot - in my experience, older people tend to be a lot more private, but younger people are more open. It benefits people to talk about things like this, especially at work, so that they can learn that they are being underpaid or paid fairly for their job. There’s nothing that motivates you to ask for a pay raise quite like hearing that someone in the office who does a worse job than you do gets paid more!
I’ve heard this hypothesis before - I guess my first question is, if women have to spend their lives working, isn’t that just a second-order effect of financial reasons? It used to be that a single working man could make enough money to afford to pay for a whole family, but that is no longer true. Women need to take on a career so that they can afford to live.