Realitaetsverlust
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- Comment on I don't even have a PieFed account ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 2 days ago:
Good work doesn’t excuse shit behavior. Hell, if you dig deep enough, you will probably find some good things done by musk or trump.
I will not give a single cent to people who defend russia in their aggression against ukraine, no matter what “good deeds” they otherwise do.
- Comment on What would this list look like for your generation? 1 week ago:
What is so bad about “Cold in here”?
- Comment on Consumers make their voices heard as Microsoft's huge venture flatlines in popularity 1 week ago:
The funny thing is, that microsoft has been doing that for years now and people just ate it, including forced updates, changes to default applications, limitations on hardware etc. It’s kinda funny that copilot is the drop that made the barrel spill.
- Comment on Reminder if you're leaving Discord for this Revolt server ( Linux + Steam Deck devs / creators) 1 week ago:
Why do we fragment again? We have matrix already - why make another application.
- Comment on The pipeline 1 week ago:
Which is the prime example for gendered language not doing shit for inclusivity.
- Comment on I can't believe it 3 weeks ago:
Skip the peas and it probably slaps ngl.
- Comment on IT'S NOT A COINCIDENCE 3 weeks ago:
The thing that pisses me off about shit like that the MOST is that ivermectin has genuine uses for humans, and really good ones at that - but shit like that gives it a bad light.
- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 4 weeks ago:
Not sure where you’re from, but in germany and austria, christians are definitely doing good. Churches here have a lot of support networks for everyone, especially elderly and people in need. In germany, we also have the “diakonie”, a service of the … protestant church? (idk how to translate that properly into english, the opposites of catholics here lmao), which is a major part of elderly care. And in many villages or smaller cities, the churches are open during the night for the homeless to take shelter, if they want to.
While I’m really not a big fan of religions in general, I feel like it’s unfair to claim that christians don’t do anything for society at large. At least from my european perspective.
- Comment on Thinkpad for the win 1 month ago:
I honestly will never understand why people buy macbooks.
- Comment on Anon works from home 2 months ago:
This is me rn. I work like 4 hours a week handling all the devops tasks. Boss happy as fuck, colleagues happy they don’t have to do it.
Living the dream rn.
- Comment on Is the pipeline true, fellas? 2 months ago:
Certainly, very fancy. Sounds like you’re a really intelligent person if you’re talking to a person that isn’t very smart. Good job bro!
- Comment on Is the pipeline true, fellas? 2 months ago:
A lot of fancy words, but all on nonsense.
- Comment on Is the pipeline true, fellas? 2 months ago:
Don’t think this has anything to do with men, but with too much money and the power that comes with it.
- Comment on Steam Deck sales drop hard following the Nintendo Switch 2 announcement 3 months ago:
That means nothing. Nintendo and Valve are not in direct competition.
- Comment on Corinne Busche, director of Dragon Ave: The Veilguard, departs BioWare 3 months ago:
Was Morrigan popular when da:o was new? She’s an extremely edgy teenager.
Morrigan has a great character arc where she really opens up, gives witty responses to many things especially if you have alistair in the party and just becomes very likeable later on.
I really don’t think queer stuff needs to be banished from the realm of RPGs.
Never said that it should be. Nobody cares if there are trans people or other queer stuff in games. That kind of stuff already exists and the only people that are mad about it are some rightoids. But I feel like bioware wanted to make a game where one of the “main focusses” lies on trans people issues but just chose the wrong platform for it.
- Comment on Corinne Busche, director of Dragon Ave: The Veilguard, departs BioWare 3 months ago:
They say a character is badly written (B), but really they find the queer subject matter uncomfortable (A)
I think both is true. I said it in another comment, but veilguard is just not the correct environment for this type of character arc. It doesn’t have anything to do with being queer, a pubescent teenager who acts like a dick all the time would be equally annoying. People just don’t want to play with annoying characters.
This topic would be great for a dontnod game that could appropriatly handle that topic - not an RPG.
- Comment on Corinne Busche, director of Dragon Ave: The Veilguard, departs BioWare 3 months ago:
The stuff I got from youtube was full of the veilguard situation which I don’t really consider as “social media”. Starfield was something I noticed far less of, ironically.
- Comment on Corinne Busche, director of Dragon Ave: The Veilguard, departs BioWare 3 months ago:
The writing of Taash, while basic, has a lot in common with folks early in discovering their trans identity. Yeah, it is awkward and uncomfortable.
Maybe it is, idk. Doesn’t really change the fact that the character is absolutely unlikeable. There’s also no real explanation on the “why” - it’s just a disrespectful, rude and arrogant character, and that’s how most people saw that character.
This topic would be great fot a dontnod game in the style of life is strange where the background of the character is represented appropriately so you actually have a chance to understand the character and why these negative character traits exist in the first place.
Veilguard was just the completely wrong platform for this kind of character development.
And the discount could be telling, but (I just looked it up) it was around 29%, which is still $50.
Dunno where you saw that, steamdb (steamdb.info/app/1845910/) has it listed on 38.99€ at a 35% discount, which is horrendous for a not even 2 month old release.
- Comment on Corinne Busche, director of Dragon Ave: The Veilguard, departs BioWare 3 months ago:
Everyone I know that has actually played has found it to be quite fun.
Most people I talked to have refunded the game on steam. Nobody really had fun with it, except for one person that was completely new to dragon age.
So the first one can be thrown out
I don’t think so. The writing of Taash was so bad and uncomfortable for the most part that I genuinely didn’t know if they were trying to mock trans-people with this representation. It felt like they were just looking at a terminally online twitter user and modeled the character after that. I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say that taash is the worst character I’ve ever experienced in a triple A production.
It not a CRPG like Origins
Breaking with an established formula can be a big detriment to a franchise. We saw that with final fantasy, where FFXII was considered pretty bad for most FF fans, me included. The combat just seemed really weird at first. However, the combat got significantly better later on if you have access to more tools, but it takes a while to actually get to that point, so many people were very on the fence about the game.
Veilguard, on the other hand, doesn’t get better. It just stays bad and even confusing at times.
From what I can find it is probably selling fine. Not amazing, not bad, but fine
All time peak on steam is 90k - that’s horrendous. Obviously, that’s not the total sales and it’s also sold on other platforms, so we do not know the real number. However,the game went on discount not even 2 months after release, and a pretty hefty one at that, 35% I think. I don’t think it’s exaggerated to claim that the game didn’t hit 2 million sales yet which would be really bad. We don’t know the budget, but a figure that’s thrown around is 250 million dollar which is not unrealistic for a AAA production.
- Comment on Corinne Busche, director of Dragon Ave: The Veilguard, departs BioWare 3 months ago:
but I haven’t really seen any negative press about it
Are you saying you haven’t heard anything negative about inquisition or veilguard? Because if you heard nothing negative about veilguard, I wonder how offline you’ve been for the past month.
- Comment on After shutting down several popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legal 3 months ago:
Because there are no games made for the PSP anymore.
- Comment on After shutting down several popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legal 3 months ago:
If we compare the prices of two devices, we compare the prices of two devices, not the original factory price and a refurbished price.
- Comment on After shutting down several popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legal 3 months ago:
No but what’s the dumbass comparison lmao
- Comment on After shutting down several popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legal 3 months ago:
Not an argument, you can also buy refurbished switch for 150 - 200
- Comment on Anon doesn't wash 3 months ago:
… And what is washing you chicken going to do to prevent it? Just cook it through and you won’t ever get salmonella.
- Comment on Anon visits America 4 months ago:
Idk why Americans love that stuff so much … I feel everything that has high fructose corn syrup in it istasting the same
- Comment on Le Reddit Army is Here 4 months ago:
made me giggle ngl
- Comment on Le Reddit Army is Here 4 months ago:
Lets be honest it’s not like lemmy is any different, just on the other side of the fence. Probably even worse.
- Comment on Roblox will restrict kids under 13 from chatting outside of games 5 months ago:
Crazy thought, how about parents actually being parents again?
- Comment on Is it okay to continue to work for a (non-defense) federal government agency under an administration hostile to my own moral and ethical beliefs? 5 months ago:
If you’re working for the government, you had no morals and integrity before.