Zacryon
@Zacryon@feddit.org
- Comment on Anon is Turkish 6 days ago:
All drivers in Turkey are a nightmare to deal with.
- Comment on My current mental capacity 1 week ago:
Thank you.
- Comment on My current mental capacity 1 week ago:
What is this?
- Comment on Physicists vs Normal People 1 week ago:
Cookie-Chocolate-Bar
- Comment on Anti-acknowlegements 2 weeks ago:
Really? That’s news to me.
- Comment on Anti-acknowlegements 2 weeks ago:
Simpler said than done. Of course I agree with you, but we need deeper changes in our society, in our behaviour as people. If you get told time and time again, that you’re worthless, can’t achieve anything etc. that’s going to leave a mark. Sure, encouraging to not let that dominate one’s thoughts is a useful skill. But it shouldn’t be necessary in the first place.
- Comment on Anti-acknowlegements 2 weeks ago:
Reminds me of Sabine Hossfelder, a physicist, who had made some similar experiences.
youtu.be/LKiBlGDfRU8?si=5zCg4doidh7tSJIM
Proof that educated people can still be immensely stupid and be utter human trash.
- Comment on put that in your pipe and smoke it 4 weeks ago:
These look like toilet paper rolls.
- Comment on Advice on enjoying your life 1 month ago:
There are indeed several modified concepts of capitalism, which improve upon the shortcomings of our current system. For example, humanistic capitalism.
If we can’t ditch capitalism at all (yet), maybe we can at least improve upon the current system
- Comment on Advice on enjoying your life 1 month ago:
Time to ditch capitalism in its current form.
- Comment on sterile rot 1 month ago:
TLDR; eat fiber and don’t get old.
Or don’t eat fiber and don’t get old as well.
- Comment on Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games 1 month ago:
If the “win for everyone” includes shipping a game as microtransaction-based instead of ad-based, I doubt it’s really a win. Microtransactions usually come with dark patterns and rely on techniques from the gambling industry.
- Comment on Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games 1 month ago:
Some options you could consider include […] making your game free to play with optional upgrades sold via Microtransactions or Downloadable Content (DLC).
I am not sure this is better. I hate microtransactions usually more than ads.
Ads don’t cost you money, just time, and sometimes some screen space. They are annyoing and that sucks. But leveraging dark patterns as stuff like FOMO and other psychological tricks to nudge people towards microtransactions can cost you a lot. A business model, which relies on techniques from the gambling industry – also by catching some whales – is imo way worse than ads.
Such games aren’t made for all players, just for some who don’t have control over their expenses (or can really afford it).I can live with DLCs as long as there aren’t so many that it becomes increasingly indistinguishable to microtransactions. But in the end I don’t want to buy a fucking lego set, where I have to constantly buy new stuff.
That’s why I prefer single purchase games. I am also ok with paying more for them if that means the devs get the proftis to keep the development of games I like going. Buy once – have it all. Keeping games at a comparably equal price over decades is imo not meaningful anyways due to factors like inflation. But the gaming community can be really unforgiving in this regard. That’s why ad-based or microtransaction-based games are taking off. A majority of gamers are uncritical enough that this works. And then they are surprised when it bites them in the ass…
- Comment on Patch this Bish! 1 month ago:
TIL
Thanks for the link! This is really awesome. - Comment on Patch this Bish! 1 month ago:
- regrow hair cells to mitigate hearing loss
- (optional) eternal life and youth
- Comment on Don't forget where we came from and what shaped us as a species. The Jungle. 1 month ago:
Don’t forget where we came from and what shaped us as species
- Comment on Feelin free 2 months ago:
Modern Slavery
- Comment on Typical from my so called imaginary friend 2 months ago:
I like crazy. How can you not be crazy in a world like this? That’s a pretty sane reaction to me.
- Comment on Anon buys a TV without researching 2 months ago:
No. It’s a “the game is too grindy to be fun for me”-issue.
- Comment on Anon buys a TV without researching 2 months ago:
Dark Souls sucks.
- Comment on Anon buys a TV without researching 2 months ago:
I’ve read at some other post that some smart TVs won’t work at all if you don’t connect it to the internet.
Read with caution, I haven’t verified this.
- Comment on USA Air Force issues new guide regarding acceptable phrases to be used when on duty 2 months ago:
Excuse me, sir.
- Comment on USA Air Force issues new guide regarding acceptable phrases to be used when on duty 2 months ago:
Interesting behaviour.
- Comment on Anon's in trouble 2 months ago:
Muricas version of pressure.
- Comment on Video Games Can’t Afford to Look This Good: The gaming industry spent billions pursuing the idea that customers wanted realistic graphics. Did executives misread the market? 2 months ago:
Just saw a video todax about how on steam roughly half of the best rated games are indie titles. Needless to say that the 2D graphics are not photorealistic.
Maybe, instead throwing money on graphics alone, focus on making fun games?
- Comment on Boo! 2 months ago:
Forbidden onions.
- Comment on Schrödinger's Peripheral 2 months ago:
What would happen with circular connectors?
- Comment on Hurry 2 months ago:
- Comment on Why is daisychaining multiple extension cords considered unsafe, even if only done to the length of a standard cable? 2 months ago:
Isn’t the added cable resistance small enough to not cause issues so soon? In case you just chain a few ( < 10 ) together.
- Comment on What games have you sunk the most time into? 2 months ago:
You play games at work?
