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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DarkPattern.games » Healthy Gaming « Avoid Addictive Dark Patterns⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So he’s capable enough to add new islands and content, but not change a trigger on how to save. One button. Same logic…

  A buggy mod by someone who didn’t write it doesn’t mean it’s not possible. Many mods are of poor standard and don’t have access to the same code or the facilitate a way to change something, so they often have to work around whatever APIs are exposed.

  It is a dark pattern. You can like a game and someone and still be able to be critical of a game design decision they make. Not everyone is good or bad. A hero or villain. No one is perfect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DarkPattern.games » Healthy Gaming « Avoid Addictive Dark Patterns⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess so, you just cannot quit midway through a day without losing progress or sleeping early and losing a day. There is a negative cost that forces to play to when the dev chooses rather than you.

  Great game, great developer, but it is a dark pattern.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DarkPattern.games » Healthy Gaming « Avoid Addictive Dark Patterns⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This one is a fair point.

  Some games do create a need to depend on some. For example, in Old School Runescape, you make a decision in a quest and rely on someone who made a different decision. You cannot change it and you do depend on them. So they may feel obliged to reciprocate. The obligation is created due to a game design decision rather than because of an intrinsic decision of players.

  Some games are set in such a way where you cannot of progress without assistance. New players can get locked out of progression. Maybe this could be relevent in those cases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DarkPattern.games » Healthy Gaming « Avoid Addictive Dark Patterns⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m curious. Which of those do you think aren’t a dark pattern?

  Are they really not dark, or are they so common now that it has become accepted.

  For example, I love Stardew Valley but the inability to pause, and instead complete the day is a dark pattern.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s X obtains $44bn valuation in sharp turnaround⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a very expensive Nazi bar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't hate Body Type replacing Gender, I hate laziness⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  In agile development. You do a little, release. Otherwise it is too big and may never be done. The fact they committed resources to improve this is a positive. The hope is they build on it and add more options.

  However, if they get trashed for trying, they and many other companies may not try.

  I think for progress, the best approach is maybe “positive first step but more options are needed for non-bonary for this to really make players feel comfortable”.

  From a technical perspective, separating pronoun hard coding from the models gives more scope to give more options in the future, however, as someone mentioned, there is a lot of art work needed on assets and animations so the new shapes function the same in all cases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ex-Twitter staffer wins $600K over Musk’s click-yes-or-resign ultimatum⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s unfortunate they couldn’t use a Euro figure which would have made it much clearer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TIL about Bomba Patch, a series of Brazilian mods for Pro Evolution Soccer for the PS2 that, for a number of years, were more popular than the official FIFA games.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That era was peak Pro Eco.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A supermarket trip may soon look different, thanks to electronic shelf labels⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah interesting. Appreciate the clarification. Not seen much from Beehaw in a while.

  Lemmy.world has a higher percentage of questionable users for sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A supermarket trip may soon look different, thanks to electronic shelf labels⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Separate point, but are beehaw now not defederated from the world? When did this happen?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, apreciate the clarification.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Why does this feel lie a viral marketing campaign to get people to watch stuff on X?

  “I interviewed Elon, got cancelled and he mad. Watch on X”. It just doesn’t add up to me.