MangioneDontMiss
@MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca
- Comment on 1 day ago:
people are cutting back on purchases period.
has little to do with culture, quality of games, etc. A lot more to do with the fact that inflation has gone fucking insane.
- Comment on 'Consumers are not okay with okay': Take-Two boss says BioShock 4 is taking so long because the company's goal is 'to make the best entertainment, not necessarily the most entertainment' 1 day ago:
You’ll be happy to know that none of the exec jobs moved over to Europe. They’re still right over there in Novato.
- Comment on 'Consumers are not okay with okay': Take-Two boss says BioShock 4 is taking so long because the company's goal is 'to make the best entertainment, not necessarily the most entertainment' 1 day ago:
yes because they got laid off.
- Comment on 'Consumers are not okay with okay': Take-Two boss says BioShock 4 is taking so long because the company's goal is 'to make the best entertainment, not necessarily the most entertainment' 1 day ago:
I worked at 2k when they first started making this game back in 2018 - and I worked in VERY close proximity to the studio making this game.
So bullshit. Its taking so long because take two is run by indecisive, cheap, executives who have pretty much taken the studio that was based in Novato, CA - KILLED IT - and moved almost the entirety of production over to Canada because its cheaper.
Its taking a long time because the executives can’t decide what to do with the game and they have already basically killed an entire team in order to reform it in a cheaper country.
Take two also basically gutted the other studio they had in Novato, Hangar 13, which was working on a 3rd person action RPG code named VOLT. The worked on that game for around EIGHT YEARS. Before completely cancelling it. But before they cancelled it they layed off the team that was working on it multiple times in order to move Hangar 13 from its primary location of Novato, CA over to, in large part, the czech republic, and UK. Both places substantially cheaper for making games.
The czech republic is actually the boom town of the game industry right now because its so fucking cheap. So many game studios have been made and reformed over there.
And people wonder why so many US game devs are being laid off. Its all executive greed. All of it.
- Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now 3 days ago:
fuck that, the more people nuke their comments on reddit, the faster site becomes useless. The faster it become useless, the faster lemmy grows. So I say bombs away.
- Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now 3 days ago:
And why do a lot of leave reddit and join lemmy? For me I got tired of getting banned and having my comments deleted all the time aka censorship. I’ve nuked my comment history out of spite at least five times after bans.
- Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now 4 days ago:
reddit is quickly making itself irrelevant.
who knew extreme censorship would be bad for the exchange of information??
- Comment on Regular issue 6 days ago:
get gud.
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 6 days ago:
greatest rpg ever made? doubtful.
- Comment on UK pornography taskforce to propose banning ‘barely legal’ content after Channel 4 documentary airs 1 week ago:
well, what do I know.
- Comment on UK pornography taskforce to propose banning ‘barely legal’ content after Channel 4 documentary airs 1 week ago:
I don’t think many of us USAians would drop the y and say Gar, but I get where you’re coming from.
- Comment on UK pornography taskforce to propose banning ‘barely legal’ content after Channel 4 documentary airs 1 week ago:
ok soooo… then you’re like making the legal age 20 rather than 18? What next 20 years olds are now barely legal? So we would have to make 20 year olds illegal now right? Whats the REAL legal age??
- Comment on UK pornography taskforce to propose banning ‘barely legal’ content after Channel 4 documentary airs 1 week ago:
What AI had to say about it:
Yes, I2P (Invisible Internet Project) does require an internet service provider (ISP) for its functionality. While I2P is a decentralized network, it relies on your existing internet connection to function. You still need an ISP to connect to the internet and access I2P’s network.
I don’t really understand it either. Sounds like a series of tubes.
- Comment on UK pornography taskforce to propose banning ‘barely legal’ content after Channel 4 documentary airs 1 week ago:
Ok off topic, but why call Jeremy “Jezza”?
I already did a quick google because I don’t get it, but the explanation didn’t help. Obviously, Dave for David, Liz for Elizabeth, Mike for Michael, etc… make sense. But Jezza? For Jeremy?
Make it make sense.
- Comment on UK pornography taskforce to propose banning ‘barely legal’ content after Channel 4 documentary airs 1 week ago:
But its legal…?
- Comment on GOG’s Freedom To Buy Campaign Gives Away Controversial Games For Free To Protest Censorship 1 week ago:
man i don’t even care. I claimed them all, i’m almost definitely never going to play any of these games, but i think its pretty cool what gog is doing here.
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 1 week ago:
Porn will always win.
- Comment on Great Advertise 1 week ago:
ment
- Comment on AI Data Centers in Texas Used 463 Million Gallons of Water, Residents Told to Take Shorter Showers 1 week ago:
you would think the cost of water alone would have some sort effect on how people think to design these things.
- Comment on AI Data Centers in Texas Used 463 Million Gallons of Water, Residents Told to Take Shorter Showers 1 week ago:
is there a reason why this water isn’t recycled?
- Comment on US education 1 week ago:
Those Romans had the right idea.
- Comment on US education 1 week ago:
Jesus…
- Comment on Valve is redesigning the Steam Store Menu and Search, wants user feedback 2 weeks ago:
Steam has a two-part fee structure for developers. First, there’s a $100 fee per game when publishing through Steam Direct, which is a one-time, non-refundable fee, but it can be recouped after the game generates $1,000 in adjusted gross revenue. Second, Steam takes a 30% commission on all sales.
- Comment on Valve is redesigning the Steam Store Menu and Search, wants user feedback 2 weeks ago:
Here’s my feedback: I don’t care. Sop gouging game developers.
- Comment on Missed it by that much! 4 weeks ago:
sell car, try again.
- Comment on The Harbinger of the Dystopia 1 month ago:
- Comment on Anon turns on raytracing 1 month ago:
amd cards can handle raytracing too though… soooooo.
- Comment on Anon turns on raytracing 1 month ago:
as someone who has worked in visual fx for 20 years now, including on over 15 films and 8 games, raytracing is most definitely not simply a marketing tool.
- Comment on Republican Senator callously says 'biblically, we are supposed to work' to millions set to lose health care 1 month ago:
if only these people didn’t pick and choose excerpts from an adult fiction novel in order to justify ruining other peoples’ lives.
- Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer 1 month ago:
the downvotes are part of the education
