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- Comment on The Two Genders 5 days ago:
People 18-39 vote predominantly for Konfederacja (far right), KO (populist centre-right), PiS (populist right). I could dig some more precise sources with gender data but I think it’s telling that these are the results even with women in the mix. Coincidentally even among young women voting for far right is more common than for centre-left. I’m not mentioning left since their popularity is within the margin of error.
Yeah, artists skew left but you won’t find a more bigoted libertarian than a young polish programmer. Most of them are also pretty spoiled too because of the degressive tax system that favours them so much.
- Comment on The Two Genders 5 days ago:
Please stop blaming those things on everything except people. I’m Polish. Polish people drink homophobia with their mothers milk. We didn’t need to import it from US or Russia and it’s still better than the 90s. Average developer is a young male who predominantly votes for outright fascists. The reason CDPR appears progressive is because they calculated it to be more profitable.
- Comment on What game surprised you with their length? 1 week ago:
Is that correct? Kojima bought full rights to the IP couple of months ago and released Death Stranding on everything immediately. Seems like it’ll be timed exclusive at most.
- Comment on How Trump's Tariffs Could Cost Gamers Billions 3 weeks ago:
Could be that US rejected modernity because it wasn’t working for them.
- Comment on How Trump's Tariffs Could Cost Gamers Billions 3 weeks ago:
Politicians lie so I’m mostly interested in outcomes, not the narratives that politicians use to make things happen.
- Comment on How Trump's Tariffs Could Cost Gamers Billions 3 weeks ago:
They will do what’s most profitable. If domestic production becomes competitive someone will do it.
- Comment on How Trump's Tariffs Could Cost Gamers Billions 3 weeks ago:
If you proposed something else that would uplift lower classes sooner they’d probably vote for it. What Democrats were offering wasn’t credible enough because people have been deceived for too long.
- Comment on How Trump's Tariffs Could Cost Gamers Billions 3 weeks ago:
Are you arguing that tariffs and other market restrictions are ineffective at incentivising moving of production sites?
- Comment on How Trump's Tariffs Could Cost Gamers Billions 3 weeks ago:
I’m not here to convince liberals that they should try to care for the poor. I’m here to argue that the jig is up for the liberals - people are voting for literally anyone, including fascists, that promises to change the course.
- Comment on How Trump's Tariffs Could Cost Gamers Billions 3 weeks ago:
Tariffs can serve as a stimuli to build out local manufacturing capacity, which sounds pretty leftist to me. I understand arguments for laissez faire policies but at heart they are liberal and not left. It’s the refusal to accept it that led to far right being as popular as it is.
- Comment on How Trump's Tariffs Could Cost Gamers Billions 3 weeks ago:
Won’t the tariffs incentivise domestic production and give work to more regular folks? Sounds like a leftist idea to me.
- Comment on From Deadpool and Wolverine to Dune: Part Two, all 10 of the highest-grossing movies of 2024 are sequels – and it's the first time that's happened in at least 50 years 4 weeks ago:
The title is quite confusing. It sounds like the last time all top 10 spots were occupied by sequels was 50 years ago. What they actually meant is that over the last 50 years numbers of sequels in top 10 was gradually increasing (starting from 0 in 1973/1974).
- Comment on Why are most mobile games trash? 5 weeks ago:
Most of the games in AA that I played have been reworked to remove monetisation while their regular App Store versions offer freemium model only.
- Comment on Why are most mobile games trash? 5 weeks ago:
If you own an iPhone just get Apple Arcade through Apple One, it’s really worth it if you game on your phone. No predatory monetisation, regular self-contained games, plenty of high quality titles.
- Comment on Metaphor: ReFantazio's success is further proof that politics are good in videogames, actually—no matter what reactionaries tell you 1 month ago:
I understand that half of the world is currently healing psychological trauma from the US election results but Atlus has been commenting on politics in their games for much longer.
- Comment on Issues with the current free to play model (The Bazaar) 1 month ago:
Apple Arcade is still going and getting plenty of releases. I don’t know anyone buying it specifically but including it in Apple One (competitively priced subscription for most Apple services) means lots of people have access to it. Me and my partner use it a lot. It’s very nice knowing that those games won’t try to shove microtransactions down my throat.
- Comment on Last-minute PS5 Pro leaks indicate system will pack 16.7 TFLOPS GPU with 16GB dedicated GDDR6 VRAM — plus 2GB DDR5 system RAM 1 month ago:
No longer a leak, embargo lifted couple of hours ago.
- Comment on [Weekly thread] It's Thursday, which movies have you been watching? 1 month ago:
Yesterday was Twilight, today New Moon. Something tells me I might see Eclipse tomorrow.
It’s hoa hoa hoa season, baby.
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard | Review Thread 1 month ago:
I wait for a Digital Foundry tech review before making a purchase on AAA game these days. They tackle what’s quantifiable and add their thoughts on the game in general which is about as much as I need from a professional outlet.
- Comment on U.S. Copyright Office rejects DMCA exemption to support game preservation 1 month ago:
When preserving culture is criminal, or punishable, ya might want to reevaluate your laws
Or, don’t treat it like culture but slop to be consumed and discarded. If law is not there, put pressure on publishers to release games under licensing that allows preservation after predetermined amount of time. Maybe make slop ineligible for game awards and remove it from review aggregators. There are ways I’m sure.
Who am I kidding, nobody is going to do this because it makes too much sense.
- Comment on Annoyed Redditors tanking Google Search results illustrates perils of AI scrapers 1 month ago:
By adding "site:reddit.com” to search results, users can hone their search to more easily find answers from real people.
I’m convinced that media that keep saying this are in cahoots with advertisers who have noticed this ages ago and have astroturfed Reddit beyond being reliable source of information long time ago.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I think publishers were involved but those services are the lowest priority so I wouldn’t look into it that much.
- Comment on 12 Years and $700 Million Later, What's Going on With Star Citizen's Development? 2 months ago:
I imagine that the news headlines of the future will be:
12 Dyson Spheres and 700 Million Years Later, What’s Going on With Star Citizen’s Development?
- Comment on Are there any recent-ish single player, complete games that are similar to Rise of Nations and would work on Mac or at least on WINE? 2 months ago:
Not the same but StarCraft 2 is available on Macs and runs acceptably on my M1 Air. It probably runs quite well on M2 Max. Even though it’s seen as predominantly multiplayer game it has a very nice single player campaign.
I know there are many Total War and Paradox games on Macs but they don’t run well for me through Rosetta. Might be worth a try in your case.
- Comment on How to Beat Elden Ring in Under 5 Minutes | Speed Break 2 months ago:
Here I am at 2 months of attempting Shadow of the Erdtree final boss. I do it couple once or twice per week now, got incredibly close dozens of times (past meteor). Refusing to switch my weird ass incantations based build. Bayle was a complete pushover compared to this guy.
- Comment on Game Freak has been allegedly hacked, with source codes for Pokemon games reportedly leaked 2 months ago:
This is a very valid point, yet companies do shady stuff all the time and some even get caught via subpoenas and such. Nintendo can do it in a way that will never be noticeable on their books for sure.
- Comment on Game Freak has been allegedly hacked, with source codes for Pokemon games reportedly leaked 2 months ago:
What’s that source? You mean anonymous group claiming responsibility being reported in media?
- Comment on Game Freak has been allegedly hacked, with source codes for Pokemon games reportedly leaked 2 months ago:
There’s motive and circumstances. Nintendo opened every possible front in the last year or so. Now this happens. Even if not related to IA specifically this definitely looks like retribution.
Also, please read my first comment again. I think I made it clear it’s speculation.
- Comment on Game Freak has been allegedly hacked, with source codes for Pokemon games reportedly leaked 2 months ago:
What was wild about this assumption?
- Comment on Game Freak has been allegedly hacked, with source codes for Pokemon games reportedly leaked 2 months ago:
It’s like Lenin said, you look for the person who will benefit… And, uh… You know, you’ll, uh… You know what I mean.
The Dude