Flatfire

@Flatfire@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨make it make sense⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh don’t worry. They believe it’s man made, just not in the way you want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is unpopular in high school⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Makes sense. I’ve always heard about it being taken a while before finishing highschool so I figured it was engrained in that curriculum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is unpopular in high school⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wild. We just have pre-requisite courses that typically qualify you for University programs. You overall grades matter, but there’s nothing like an SAT

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is unpopular in high school⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Schools in the US have tests on Saturdays? We don’t really have an equivalent to SATs here in Canada, but I figured it was just a summary exam or something you took like anything else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Heroic Games Launcher v2.15 has expanded GOG support, EA games from Epic Store support⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  GOG, basically. Which feels a bit ironic given Heroic covers GOG

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Insidious World of Fake Mobile Game Ads⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depending on the developer, and the scale of their game, these things can also be incredible cheap to produce too. If your gameplay/monetary loop is something designed to arbitrarily force a player to wait to accomplish something or otherwise spend money, then you can drastically reduce the amount of content that needs to be added as long as you have an adequate base.

  Even if you spend money, loot box mechanics and randomized stats can push players to continue to spend because while they got an item, they didn’t get the perfect item. Base builders, team combat titles and character based games are very, very effective at this.

  For developers like the one behind Evony, they can be a lot cheaper because that game, and a hundreds like it have existed all the way back as far as farmville and earlier. They just got better at the monetization loop over time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The worst pick-up line I've ever gotten⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Similarly, if you’re born at the tail end of Millenial/start of Gen Z, then you still grew up with a collage of 90s and 00s culture and inconography, offsetting the definitions the groups typically gain over time. Some Gen Z grew up into adolescence without really feeling the advent of the modern internet or social media. The end of that range never knew a world without it.

  Generations are useful statistical groupings, but don’t represent individual experiences or influences, leading to disparity or outliers that feel excluded from their “peers” so to speak. I’d say I probably share more experiences with Gen Z, but a lot of the cultural aspects of my childhood are closely linked to later Millenial ones. There’s a gradient, not a cutoff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LPCAMM2 upgradeable RAM for laptops sounds awesome⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While true, I think buying into a proprietary memory format that hasn’t been formally made an open standard is something you have to accept some risk on. CAMM is cool as hell, but it never made it this far.