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- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 1 day ago:
Honestly that was how I felt as well. I remember being hyped the play bl2 and then getting bored doing meaningless quests over and over. Like am I supposed to feel anything for these people asking me to retrieve parts over and over? At least do some sort of quest where they can shoot people. I thought the combat system was better but I wasn’t compelled to play through it
- Comment on Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research 6 days ago:
I’d argue James bond as a franchise is basically a hypermasculine fantasy and the gadgets are pretty much a tech fantasy within it. Breaking laws of physics is completely unrealistic, but the point I was making was that you don’t need to do any of these things- you could write a story about how you went to the gym and broke a treadmill (even though you didn’t) and it would be fiction. The bar to fiction is not that high.
- Comment on Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research 6 days ago:
What you’re saying is sound and I agree the plot not being real is fiction; the only problem is you said fiction required unrealistic elements and most people see “unrealistic” as basically fantasy
- Comment on Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research 6 days ago:
I’m referring to this review from NLM looking at 49 papers to investigate the effects of gaming on women. It is possible to have multiple articles that contradict each other
- Comment on Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research 6 days ago:
Me arguing something can be harmful for society doesn’t mean I’m arguing it has to be abolished in its entirety. I’m not sure why you think everything has to be black and white since obviously there’s room for artistic use- remember you are the only one who thought that, or perhaps it just wasn’t obvious for you. And can you explain how unrealistic body standards is not bad for society? It isn’t far fetched seeing young people compare to beauty standards they are bombarded with. It doesn’t only happen in video games but in tons of visual media.
- Comment on Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research 6 days ago:
It is possible to have a realistic story in fiction. For example, Mad Men is a tv series that’s pretty grounded in history but the characters and everything that happens to them are the product of the writers and their research. It’s not a documentary, it’s fiction, but quite realistic.
- Comment on Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research 6 days ago:
Have you ever read historical fiction? Stories like jane eyre are not real but they’re sensible. A story can be fiction and realistic. You can write a short story based on stuff you’ve researched and seen and it’s still fiction.
- Comment on Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research 6 days ago:
Who said that was a requirement? It’s still a fact that it causes harm
- Comment on Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research 6 days ago:
I’m not sure why this is being downvoted because setting unrealistic body standards is absolutely terrible for society
- Comment on Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research 6 days ago:
Fiction can easily be realistic- You’re thinking of fantasy which is unrealistic. Fiction means it’s not a true story, not that it can’t be realistic
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I wonder what they’d say if you tried reselling them near the local church
- Comment on The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement 1 month ago:
Honestly it’s more symbolic of what this regime has done to America
- Comment on You don’t see articles like this about moms with three two jobs who still manage to take care of their kids. 1 month ago:
That’s because his work is thinking about how much money he could be making, not actually producing anything substantial. Those days are long gone
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 2 months ago:
Probably would not add kpop to the list of chill. That industry is rife with abuse like slave contracts.
- Comment on Car crashes have killed and seriously injured roughly the same number of people as shootings in Chicago this year. Only one of these things is treated as a safety crisis in the media 2 months ago:
The graph didn’t offer the conclusion- op did, and yes it’s cheap
- Comment on Has Xbox Considered Laying One Person Off Instead Of Thousands 2 months ago:
That really sucks. Consoles these days are just pcs with expensive libraries. If you can muster playing on pc with your son, the games are cheaper and I highly recommend it. On steam, you can filter by local coop and hook up two controllers to get a similar experience. You can even try emulating older games like on the ps2.
- Comment on My mom tells me I should cut dad off for cheating on her, am I a bad person for not wanting to do so? 3 months ago:
Why are you suddenly deciding that being with his father is a bad choice? We literally know nothing about whether he’s a good dad- it is possible to be a good parent and provider and a bad husband. No matter what happens in his parents relationship, both will still be his parents and it’s the parents’ job to sort it out. What we do know here is that his mom is absolutely a red flag- you do NOT manipulate your children into taking sides in a divorce. The parents should be there to support their children and not the other way around.
- Comment on Players Have Too Many Options to Spend $80 on a Video Game 4 months ago:
Wow, shift goalposts much? You said “$10 in qbert days” which was the 80s and now it’s not $10 it’s $30. You can just admit you got it wrong and it was never $10 (though I do think prices right now are actually well aligned at $60 because of the far lower costs in distribution and marketing). Also I’m NOT the OP who played thousands of hours on qbert. Great job quoting someone else.
- Comment on Players Have Too Many Options to Spend $80 on a Video Game 4 months ago:
$50-60 based on what? Adjusted for inflation in 1982, it’s more like $33. Truth is you just need to find a compelling gameplay loop but companies don’t like taking risks- not every game needs to be a massive endeavor like skyrim. Look at games like slay the spire and see how a cheap game can be compelling without having to be a AAA behemoth. And at that note, is there even anything wrong if a game only takes your attention for a hundred hours? I don’t see the need to extend the player’s attention with poor side quest grinding. These things add unnecessary cost
- Comment on Gemini wont talk about Bernie Sanders 7 months ago:
Kinda difficult to have an AI with those restrictions because anything is politicized depending on your pov- just getting information and using science is considered politics in 2025. That said, AIs need to do a better job sourcing their info of people are using them to search so it’s at least traceable. Chances are most of this info is just from Wikipedia but they should do track it better
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Thing is they’ll then just miss those games or be accused of abusing its market position to be anticompetitive, but I think in general these publishers are getting that we don’t want stupid launchers/extra logins. It happened with 2k and it’s good it’s happening with Sony. Honestly I check before I buy any game if the store mentions a third party account now because that’s so annoying. Especially origin- they are awful and their business is awful.
- Comment on Same 8 months ago:
Sadly, the young’uns can no longer play the 18+ restricted card game that’s explicitly got zero gambling in it. They’ll have to get addicted to real gambling in EA sports games
- Comment on Most of the trick-or-treaters have been skipping my house, and I finally figured out why 10 months ago:
“I’ve never seen it therefore it must not have happened”. I can’t imagine how you’re a parent while thinking human experience revolves around you.
- Comment on Did the concept of 9-5 included a 30 minute lunch and two 15 minute breaks? 10 months ago:
That’s wild that it wasn’t full time. IRS now defines 30 as full-time thankfully
- Comment on PS5 Homescreen Now Replaces Unique Video Game Art With Annoying Ads You Can’t Turn Off 11 months ago:
With a 2 min search I found a cyberpowerpc prebuilt for $700 that included a r7 5700 and rx 6700. And yes, you can absolutely get 60 fps at 1080p on some aaa titles; I don’t know where you get that idea you can’t, especially if you can tweak graphics settings (for the record, most pc gamers don’t even use ultra- high and medium presets are the most reasonable settings). I’m sure a title like Diablo 4 doesn’t require tuning at 1080p at all.
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