edible_funk
@edible_funk@lemmy.world
- Comment on Hard work is no longer a guarantee of making a living in America. 5 days ago:
“Contributing” AI slop is the equivalent of shitting on the dinner table and announcing you helped cook dinner.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Scientology does this too.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Yeah dude, lemmings will follow you around and downvote all your comments if you call em out for stupid bullshit, or even just generally disagree with them. God forbid you manage to trigger a tankie brigade, they’ll follow you around for a month with alts and sockpuppets.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
On the other hand people pretend that being 5 foot 4 and 130lbs is some impossibly thin unrealistic goal when twenty years ago you’d have been called fat. It’s definitely not fat, but it sure isn’t thin either.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I’ve got sympathy for her going through anorexia, but that doesn’t really absolve her from being a generally kinda shitty person. She doesn’t deserve anorexia but she’s still just another rich asshole fuckin up the youth.
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 3 weeks ago:
You’re right Baldur’s Gate 3, Kingdom Come Deliverance and its sequel, Witcher 3, Cyberpunk 2077, all massive failures. You’re a fucking clown.
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 3 weeks ago:
You can’t even fuckin read kid.
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 3 weeks ago:
You just really like leaping to unimplied conclusions don’t ya? No DRM is a valid strategy as shown by the massive success of DRM free games, your assertion is stupid bullshit. And since you’re doubling and tripling down on bad faith ignorance like a shitty troll I’m ending the conversation here.
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 3 weeks ago:
You read so well you’re reading conclusions that aren’t presented! Actually read the fuckin link, it doesn’t say anything other than what it says and you’re some sort of ideological defender of DRM so you’re bad faith twice. Fuckin lemmy pigeons playing chess.
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 4 weeks ago:
You’re not academically literate are ya? Don’t parse many studies or papers or even know how to, do ya?
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 4 weeks ago:
It looks like a modern arpg but plays more like paper Mario. It’s turn based combat but there’s a rhythm block/parry system that’s pretty important to not dying. I think it has an auto parry mode for easy difficulty, but it’s very much a 2000s era jrpg under a fancy French coat of modern paint. There’s areas and dungeons very similar to how final fantasy or Chrono Trigger are structured. Great story.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
If it’s remotely on par with their previous dlc offerings it’ll be a dozen hours of content easy. The entire god of war game didn’t last that long.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Troll?
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Check out Dishonored and the Metro games. And Control. I think they would be up your alley based on your short list there.
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 4 weeks ago:
And how much worse would they have sold if they weren’t DRM free? You can’t assert they would have sold better without actual data, and there isn’t any available. But in the case of cyberpunk specifically, made by cdpr, the company behind gog, I can safely say that if they had DRM they would have instantly alienated a significant portion of their fan base.
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 4 weeks ago:
That’s not how data works. It doesn’t say anything but what it says. You’re making inferences, which sure fair but until there’s data specific to your inferences (there isn’t) you can’t say that. You can say denuvo cracks in the first week in the case of some 90 games resulted in up to a maximum of twenty percent loss of sales. It is an important distinction. And the massive success of DRM free titles also goes against your assertion.
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 4 weeks ago:
Cyberpunk sold well. Kingdom Come Deliverance sold well. Launching without DRM does not absolutely annihilate sales.
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 4 weeks ago:
That’s not exactly what it’s saying. It’s specific to denuvo games which generally means AAA publishers, it’s a small sample size, and it’s about the impact DRM has on sales, not piracy. It’s not an arbitrary distinction. I’ll grant it definitely implies piracy has a net negative effect on sales but that’s not at all what it’s actually saying.
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 4 weeks ago:
Don’t be so sure. Apparently they publishers don’t make hard numbers publicly available anymore so there’s no good data but there was a survey of denuvo games.
A Denuvo-protected game cracked in the first week after release can expect to make about 20 percent less revenue than if the DRM had remained in place, according to the study, while a crack six weeks after a game’s release only costs an estimated 5 percent of theoretical total revenue. After 12 weeks, new sales are so negligible that “developers could eventually remove unpopular DRM schemes with minimal losses (and possible gains from strongly DRM-averse consumers)
arstechnica.com/…/the-true-cost-of-game-piracy-20…
Unfortunately that still doesn’t answer the question but until publishers post honest numbers we’ll never have the proper metrics to measure the actual impact piracy has. But in the day freeware like Doom basically relied entirely on piracy for sales so it’s not an out of pocket take that piracy could benefit sales. It is an old take though. I’m old.
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 4 weeks ago:
Last I looked into it video game piracy actually had a net benefit on sales. Any advantage DRM has from a sales point of view is null after about 3 months post launch anyway. It can and does kill small indie devs but any big boy in the industry, piracy usually benefits sales.
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 4 weeks ago:
Expedition 33 might scratch your itch.
- Comment on Me this morning 4 weeks ago:
I always want to take a nap after a few cups.
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 5 weeks ago:
I get it but the distinction is not particularly meaningful when you’re discussing sexual attraction to children. There aren’t degrees of severity here.
- Comment on After laying off thousands, Ubisoft says losing "key talents and skills" is a big danger for the company 5 weeks ago:
I mean, they did review well. I guess not according to your unquestionable criteria but you don’t get to say in the seventies is bad. And it’s funny that people always mention botw and elden ring like they don’t do exactly the same thing but with their own gimmicks (and intentionally bad design) attached.
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 5 weeks ago:
I mean, not really? It means the same thing, it’s just not as stigmatized. That doesn’t make it suddenly not pedophilia. It’s still pedophilia, just nobody cares.
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 5 weeks ago:
Except the context is just that pedophilia is much less stigmatized. It still means pedophile it just doesn’t carry the social consequences because it’s more socially acceptable. It doesn’t mean something that can’t be expressed in english. It’s not complicated. Saying someone is perving on little girls would be less impactful than calling them a pedophile but it means the same thing.
- Comment on After laying off thousands, Ubisoft says losing "key talents and skills" is a big danger for the company 5 weeks ago:
Yeah but we weren’t talking about the games costing more than they made, we were talking about the general online opinion that Ubisoft makes shitty games when they consistently make quality games. You’re on to something with your point about the Ubisoft open world formula having generally lost favor among the masses. It seems like modern gamers that want single player experiences are looking for more focused and innovative narratives over curated playgrounds, though most of the money seems to be in online competitive games. Anyway I’m just pushing back on the assertion that Ubisoft makes bad games because that’s nonsense. They make good games.
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 5 weeks ago:
Can you link any of these studies?
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 5 weeks ago:
It’s only the same argument if running around GTA shooting everyone makes you horny. The effects of arousal on brain chemistry changes things so it’s not really apples to apples here.
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 5 weeks ago:
Wait, you’re actually arguing kids can consent?