SoupBrick
@SoupBrick@pawb.social
- Comment on Practice makes perfedt 4 hours ago:
I have learned the best way to remember how to spell restaurant, for me, is to pronounce the Spanish word for it, “restaurante”.
If you remove the ‘e’ it sounds the same as it is spelled.
- Comment on The Matrix 1 day ago:
Let people grow, man.
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 1 day ago:
- Comment on How could I prepare for this market scenario? 2 days ago:
- Comment on From a socialist perspective, what are the solutions to doomerism, and that "can't find love" feeling that I've been seeing on Twitter (specifically a frontend)? 6 days ago:
Seconded. Also, acknowledging the reality that change is slow.
Some people think burning down the system is the way to go, but rarely talk about what comes after. We have a system currently, albeit shitty af, but changing it will take much less work and time than building one from the ground up. Not to mention the amount of suffering that would be caused by the turmoil that would follow a governmental collapse.
Zohran Mamdani and other Democratic Socialists have proved that it is possible to co-op the Democratic party. Now, it is just a matter of like-minded people putting in the work to organize.
Time will tell if our ability to organize changes, but as of right now we have hope.
- Comment on Destiny 2 is dead: "active development" ends next month after one final update, but Bungie says the MMO will still be "playable" 1 week ago:
With that being your stance, I hope you stop enjoying every single thing you currently are. Because there is no ethical consumption under capitalism.
You can probably still touch grass without feeling guilty, actually you probably should anyway.
- Comment on Destiny 2 is dead: "active development" ends next month after one final update, but Bungie says the MMO will still be "playable" 1 week ago:
you were and are directly incentivizing this behavior by not having a fucking spine and continuing to patronize these companies despite their shitty behavior
Way to judge somebody you know nothing about!
I dropped the game a while back BECAUSE of their refusal to learn from their mistakes. That doesn’t make me stop wishing that they would choose to save their IP before it died.
- Comment on Destiny 2 is dead: "active development" ends next month after one final update, but Bungie says the MMO will still be "playable" 1 week ago:
I am aware that it is a thing, I just don’t see why you are insisting that, because of the model Warframe operates under, the developers are evil.
I think they are doing 10X better at putting the money back into the game and also using it to support the community aspects than any other live service game out there. I believe they have worked hard to make that happen and deserve props for not fucking over their fanbase like other developers, such as Bungie, do.
- Comment on Destiny 2 is dead: "active development" ends next month after one final update, but Bungie says the MMO will still be "playable" 1 week ago:
So, the way you see, people shouldn’t engage with things they enjoy, because there is a greedy entity on the other side?
Do you know how many hobbies that covers?
- Comment on Destiny 2 is dead: "active development" ends next month after one final update, but Bungie says the MMO will still be "playable" 1 week ago:
Because short term profit milking is extremely shortsighted and as is evidenced by LITERALLY the article we are commenting under.
- Comment on Destiny 2 is dead: "active development" ends next month after one final update, but Bungie says the MMO will still be "playable" 1 week ago:
You can play the game and not spend a penny on MTX to get the premium currency, this is why I said look it up.
So, the investors are happy, the players are happy, but the developers are actually evil because “dark patterns”?
- Comment on Destiny 2 is dead: "active development" ends next month after one final update, but Bungie says the MMO will still be "playable" 1 week ago:
Do you think there might be a reason why people continued to come back to that game and play it? Maybe that it might be fun?
It is possible to enjoy something and acknowledge the fact that it could be much better.
- Comment on Destiny 2 is dead: "active development" ends next month after one final update, but Bungie says the MMO will still be "playable" 1 week ago:
I would recommend looking into the development history of Warframe. That, IMO, is the best example of GAAS that works for both the studio and the players.
- Comment on Destiny 2 is dead: "active development" ends next month after one final update, but Bungie says the MMO will still be "playable" 1 week ago:
Are you trying to make a point or just trolling? The only thing I can think of is you are trying to make the case that it is the fault of the players and not the studio that the game didn’t survive.
- Comment on Destiny 2 is dead: "active development" ends next month after one final update, but Bungie says the MMO will still be "playable" 1 week ago:
That mistake? You might want to take a look at recent Bungie news if you think that their mistakes didn’t cost them their fan base.
- Comment on Destiny 2 is dead: "active development" ends next month after one final update, but Bungie says the MMO will still be "playable" 1 week ago:
The two off the top of my head would be No Man’s Sky and R6 Seige.
No Man’s Sky: …substack.com/…/the-decade-long-journey-of-no-man…
Not sure how R6 is doing currently, but at one point they had a decent resurgence after they finally doubled down on improving the game.
These don’t match the exact scenario of Bungie, but they work as evidence that a studio CAN create something great out of something mediocre.
- Comment on Destiny 2 is dead: "active development" ends next month after one final update, but Bungie says the MMO will still be "playable" 1 week ago:
Correct, but as is the case with Warframe, which has so many more premium currency purchases you CAN make, it is possible to have a live service game and also make something fantastic that players can enjoy for decades.
- Comment on Destiny 2 is dead: "active development" ends next month after one final update, but Bungie says the MMO will still be "playable" 1 week ago:
God forbid a gamer enjoy playing a video game and hope a studio learns from their mistakes.
- Comment on Destiny 2 is dead: "active development" ends next month after one final update, but Bungie says the MMO will still be "playable" 1 week ago:
That’s cool, I enjoyed the game, but got frustrated with how shitty Bungie was with their refusal to learn from past mistakes. I wish this game lasted for much longer, but their pattern of repeating the same mistakes and releasing more mediocre DLCs than good ones drove me away.
Warframe has shown it is possible to exist for a long time, continuously drop quality content, and have a fantastic relationship and collaboration with their community.
Enshittification begins when the profits become a higher focus than the product.
- Comment on Destiny 2 is dead: "active development" ends next month after one final update, but Bungie says the MMO will still be "playable" 1 week ago:
All you have to do is look at Warframe. Bungie had metric tons more money to work with than DE did during their early life. Warframe is better than D2 in almost every way.
I think whoever was driving the core development decisions at Bungie was actively hindering the success of the game, whether intentionally or not.
- Comment on Destiny 2 is dead: "active development" ends next month after one final update, but Bungie says the MMO will still be "playable" 1 week ago:
Thank goodness they didn’t over deliver.
- Comment on 🫡🫡🫡 2 weeks ago:
🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸IGNORANCE🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅
- Comment on Tolerance break 3 weeks ago:
Ngl, this seems like the type of meme a cop would post in a discord server.
- Comment on Hee Hee Ho Ho Ha Ha 1 month ago:
I mean, if you ignore the constant advocacy he does for rank and file workers and unions, alongside his repeated acknowledgement of his privilege, this would be a legitimate criticism if you left out the “in the same way”.
- Comment on swag 1 month ago:
- Comment on Can you do this with your ears? 1 month ago:
I can move my legs without using my arms
- Comment on Traditional Easter baked bean boba 1 month ago:
Fuck you
- Comment on Is there any decent PvP FPS that's not infested with cheaters? Looking for a decent PvP FPS 1 month ago:
I would say The Finals. It doesn’t have a flood of cheaters due to the semi-low playercount (13k avg), but the skill ceiling is high as fuck. Which means you will probably lose a ton of rounds before getting a hang of the flow of the game.
It has amazing gunplay and movement.
- Comment on dollah 2 months ago:
I would rather get u for a dollar in 5 million years ❤️
- Comment on Artist whose work was used in Marathon without permission now has a credit in the game 2 months ago:
I doubt they could have kept the artist silent if they did some shady shit. It’s not like Antireal signed an NDA with them.
My hope is based off the fact that Marathon will most likely be a make or break game for Bungie, and they desperately needed that PR situation out of the way. Throwing money and a title at the artist is a much cleaner solution than trying some underhanded BS that might create an even worse situation.
