Goodeye8

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibe Gaming: Project VEGA - Microsoft Research⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Because the goal isn’t to create a game, it’s to make an interactive movie or at best a “passive game”. You give commands and then you watch your character try and do them. To give them some credit it’s not the worst idea in the world, it’s miles better than the game world shit Google tried to do. But knowing Microslop they’ll fuck up the implementation in a spectacular fashion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy Kirkday!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t believe you’d promote your porn channel but then wouldn’t add any links so I could make sure I’d avoid accidentally seeing that porn. What kind of a monster does that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are so many games in certain genres all so samey in the places they really should not be?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t get me started on the survival genre where 99% thrown into it are nothing more than just games with superficial survival elements. I’m going to stop myself right here before I write a whole essay on survival games. I’ll talk about crafting instead.

  I think the issue why most crafting games feel the same is because crafting, as the process of putting things together, isn’t particularly fun especially when done in repetitions. I imagine most people don’t enjoy putting together IKEA furniture, but even the ones who do probably won’t find it enjoyable when you’re putting together the same piece of furniture for the 10th time. That would be in game crafting in a nutshell. You’ll be repeating the same moves over and over and over until all that is left of the crafting process is tedium. Factor in that for developers that would mean making a minigame within a game and it becomes pretty apparent while developers prefer to not implement the process of crafting into games. So what can developers do to replace the process? There are two options. You give players the tools to automate crafting and that’s how you get the factory builder games. The other option is to rip out the entire process and you get “in menu crafting”, which is what 99% of not factory builder crafting games use. Since crafting boils down to 1) find materials 2) craft the thing and you remove step 2 all you have left is step 1 and that again is not something you can do in a particularly interesting way. That leads to almost all crafting systems feeling the same.

  I don’t think developers are copy pasting the systems, I think there’s just not a lot of design space unless you tip your toes into tedium.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capitalism is an unrealistic death cult.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So all is forgiveable in the name of more industry?

  Is one country supposed to bear the burden of blame because every other western country moved their manufacturing there? If the rest of the world didn’t turn China into a manufacturing hub they wouldn’t be polluting that much now would they?

  Including Chinese slave labour?

  Now that is something you can criticize.

  China produces a lot of cheap plastic shit and textiles nobody asked for

  China produces a lot of cheap plastic shit because there’s a lot of international demand for it. The shit that ends up on Temu is the outcome of overproduction to meet the estimated demands of the foreign markets. If you want to blame anyone for China producing a lot of cheap shit, blame America who is their biggest importer of cheap shit.

  but they only recently became competitive in high tech after stealing from other nations like Taiwan and Korea.

  And that’s another thing you can criticize. As far as I know they’ve (allegedly) stolen DRAM technology and to that my answer is fuck the DRAM cartel, if stealing their tech is necessary to break their stranglehold on the memory production then I’m all for it. The reason we’re currently in the middle of a memory crisis is specifically because the 3 biggest memory manufacturers somehow magically all end up with similar RAM prices to a point where one of them deliberately shut down one of its fabs because RAM prices were getting too cheap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capitalism is an unrealistic death cult.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  China is the manufacturing hub of the entire world. Of course it’s going to pollute significantly more than India, its energy consumption is 5 times of what India consumes.

  And I don’t get this insinuation that China invests in coal power. China invests the most into renewable energy than anyone else in the world, almost 40% of global renewable investments come from China. And last I checked almost half of the energy China produces comes from renewables.

  And the reason China had use fossil fuels in the first place is because renewable tech didn’t exist when they needed the energy. Why didn’t it exist? Because capitalists refused to invest into green energy even though the oil companies did the research and knew that fossil fuels are a dead end (that research was done back in the 70s and Exxon decided to bury it instead of acting on it). We see in Africa that countries are skipping fossil fuels and are going straight to renewable because the tech exists, so it’s reasonable assume the same would’ve happened in China had the tech existed.

  If you want to shit on China, there are legitimate points to criticize. Renewable energy is not one of those points.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This crazy assassin character, who doesn't know what shampoo is, somehow would bother shaving her armpits⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My biggest gripe is when they’re not cleanly shaven, visibly dirty and rugged, and then their teeth are blinding white. Motherfucker even my own teeth don’t fucking blind me and I wash my teeth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some cool/decent PC games that are not on Steam?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I will add that it’s Minecraft-like only graphically. Anyone going into Vintage Story expecting their Minecraft knowledge to carry over is going to have a very bad time because the actual overlap is minimal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Social Security can be saved. Scrap the cap!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because people have finite time. Most of it goes to work, some of it goes to sleep, the remaining time gets spent on not looking like a hoarding caveman (or if you have kids, kids). So if you get an hour of actual free time in your day you probably have it pretty good. Now, do you want to spend that hour on politics or do you want to chill from your day?

  Keeping up with politics is a luxury most people don’t have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games Store will get a Linux version sometime "soon"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is exactly why I don’t think this will actually happen because it would require Sweeney to suck up his Valve hate and use something Valve created and considering how he’ll straight up do anything to oppose Valve that’s a lot of sucking up to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capcom isn't worried about PlayStation and Nintendo shrinking the physical games market: "90% of our unit sales are digital"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no point in asking that question because companies aren’t going to go “well, we no longer have to sell physical so we can reduce the price to make less money”. I’m well aware games don’t have to cost $70 (which is why I almost never buy games at $70) but it doesn’t change the fact that AAA games do cost $70. It also doesn’t change the fact that digital sales surpassed physical sales 6 years ago and have now completely taken over physical media. The profit margin of digital sales at the $70 price point is the norm for AAA. It’s why companies like Capcom are a-okay with consoles going fully digital because if the consoles can force even half of the physical media consumers into digital they’re probably going to make more money than if they kept selling physical alongside digital.

  If there’s a market for AAA to sell physical media it will come with the same strategy that LRG is using where you’re paying extra $20 to get a physical version of the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capcom isn't worried about PlayStation and Nintendo shrinking the physical games market: "90% of our unit sales are digital"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My bad, I guess I was more tired than I thought. That said, the $17 is production costs because the cost of the digital version already contains a developer/publisher cut and the digital storefront cut (which in this case would subsidize LRG cut). Which means those cuts are already covered by the original $13.

  While I messed up the numbers the point more or less stands, would people pay $90 for a physical version of a $70 game? Most people already consider $70 to be too high and wait for discounts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capcom isn't worried about PlayStation and Nintendo shrinking the physical games market: "90% of our unit sales are digital"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You do realize that same game costs $13 as a digital version? I can guarantee people are not going to buy a physical version of a game if it cost between $140 and $160 (assuming the same overhead as your example).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pro tip for voters: if a candidate on your ballot accepts $60 million in Super PAC dark money, don't fucking vote for them. They aren't working for you⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You have one candidate who says they refuse to take corporate money because they’re here to serve the people and another candidate who says how is such a shame how the political system works and it should be changed but in the meantime that’s the system and they’ll take the corporate money while telling you to not get your hopes up about changing how the system works.

  And somehow this is a close race…

  Clearly there are a lot of dots for a significant portion of Americans to connect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony doubles down. Only responds to their investors, not the consumers. I've never bought a digital console title. That will continue.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Then they’re being deliberately obtuse to make a point. Valve treats downloading and installing as the same thing so needing a connection to “install” a steam game is functionally no different than needing a connection to “download” the installer from GOG and then installing the game. Once Steam has installed the game and it has no actual DRM you can just copy it wherever you like. GOG gives a much better package for storing your games but that doesn’t mean what Steam does is DRM.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony doubles down. Only responds to their investors, not the consumers. I've never bought a digital console title. That will continue.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As I understand business judgement rule makes the assumption that the company did its decisions in good faith. It doesn’t mean a shareholder derivative lawsuit can’t happen. The shareholders can still sue, and there have been instances where it has been done, but in addition to suing the shareholders would then have to prove loss of profits alongside negligence or bad faith or whatever led to the loss of profits.

  Realistically this shouldn’t happen as it probably costs more to prove the company didn’t make every penny of profit it could, but we live in weird times where things that shouldn’t happen do happen so let’s not count out the improbable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cool Japan 🌸⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So shouldn’t all Americans speak (or at least learn) native American languages? You know, on the account that English isn’t native to America. Neither is Spanish for that matter. Nor French.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A new PlayStation controller patent showcases a controller with no physical buttons⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Stifle innovation? A patent doesn’t mean anything will be made. But it does mean anyone except the patent owner won’t be making the patented thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We hate him no matter who he represents.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s also a self-report that they like him only because he’s a republican.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gamer Logic 😡⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s also a subset of people who make up statements based on nothing more than them wanting to believe what they’re saying is true that overlaps with gamers in a big way. See: your comment.

  So I guess you’re a gamer too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European Union set to approve Saudi PIF acquisition of Electronic Arts, according to report⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If peace of mind is the only reason you’re buying a console just buy another PC. If you current PC is already pretty beefy you can buy a cheaper “work” PC. Move all your personal information there, wipe your gaming PC and use it exclusively for gaming. It’ll effectively be as “safe” as a console except you still get all the benefits of having PC.

• ⁨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"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But there are way more customers than there are corporations. What you’re saying it true only if the corporation is selling something no customers wants to buy. The existence of gaming whales more or less proves that is not the case. 90% of the customers can choose not to buy but as long as that last 10% covers the rest of 90% it doesn’t matter that the majority of the customers refuse to buy what is being sold.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve says there's no end in sight to the memory crisis, and prices are only going to increase: 'Honestly, it's still getting worse'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It upfront investment cost is simply too much to just start manufacturing your own chips. Just the fab alone would take around 20-30 billion and 4-6 years to build. Then add another couple of billions and 3-4 years to design a DDR5 chip that would give comparable performance to what the big 3 manufacture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve says there's no end in sight to the memory crisis, and prices are only going to increase: 'Honestly, it's still getting worse'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do people think Valve has some godlike influence over everything? Sony has sold over 90 million PS5-s, Sony reduced its Playstation 5 manufacturing in part because they struggled to buy RAM. Valve has sold less than 5 million Steam Decks. If a hardware powerhouse like Sony can’t get all the RAM they want what makes you think Valve, who barely has presence in the global hardware market, has any sway in the global ram production?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Closed game studio returns to un-live service its game with community servers before shutdown: 'We don't believe Deceive Inc. should quietly disappear'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  By they I meant the publisher. The studio is shut down but the rights are owned by the publisher and considering the article mentions the studio coming to an agreement with the publisher it’s very likely the publisher is footing some (if not all) of the bill.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas remasters are officially in the works⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t mind getting remasters. If it’s an older game that’s a pain in the ass to get running on modern hardware I’d buy a remaster if it means getting modern QoL (like ultrawide support). But what I’d really like are proper remakes, especially of games like New Vegas that were held by hardware limitations and/or time crunch. There’s so much unrealized content in New Vegas that you could remake it and have it feel like a new game.

  I’m less concerned about getting new games because those are coming in faster than I can play them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Closed game studio returns to un-live service its game with community servers before shutdown: 'We don't believe Deceive Inc. should quietly disappear'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re spending a lot of resources to get the game to a state where they wouldn’t need to spend money on it. I’d be surprised if they recouped those costs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Valve corporation is an American company. America has used visa and mastercard to target ICC judges who also live outside the US. If the government wants they can try and strongarm Valve to do their bidding

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The End of Ownership. Sony’s announcement has fans worried they might never truly own their beloved games.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t need a lot of people. I don’t remember the exact percentage but it’s something like if 10% of the population is willing to show support your cause it’s enough to get a law passed. Just look at SKG initiative. It took a million Europeans to get the political ball rolling not just in the EU but also in California. What we need is a continuation of SKG where digital purchases of products actually gives us ownership over said product and not just a use license where companies like Sony can do whatever they want with your purchase.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t have to like Gaben to see that Tim is much worse. Tim only cares about business. That’s why Epic store is great for publishers and developers and dogshit for customers, because Tim doesn’t see you as nothing more than cattle. Your interests don’t matter, you’re just a vessel to extract money from. You can dislike Gaben all you want but Valve at least treats you like a customer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of an era?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah. Sony will stick around, Playstation will die, Microsoft kills Xbox and everyone will complain about Steam being a monopoly despite their competition choosing to shoot themselves in the foot and dying all on their own.