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- Comment on Your teenager AND your husband 1 day ago:
I have learned more from your comment than anything else in my adult life.
- Comment on Your teenager AND your husband 1 day ago:
It won’t last forever. It will rot the day after I buy it. -_-
- Comment on Im curious what they will come up with 1 day ago:
This is why the creators of Veep ended their show.m when Trump got elected.
- Comment on Come on, I left Napster running and my mom got Choco Tacos. 6 days ago:
You are a wizard.
- Comment on Come on, I left Napster running and my mom got Choco Tacos. 6 days ago:
No. I don’t want jean’s that soak up water from puddles in the rain.
- Comment on Players are returning their Dispatch copies due to Switch censorship 1 week ago:
The amount of waifu and furry porn games in the Switch store is higher than you’d think. Why censor Dispatch?
- Comment on Unity launches Walmart SDK to "seamlessly integrate products" into games 1 week ago:
Products that are only sold at Walmart or something they have a deal to market? 🤷♀️
- Comment on Why are americans taking health advice from a former heroin addict ? 1 week ago:
3 post, no comments. Less than a day old. You a bot?
But I’m American and I’m not taking his advice. He’s a moron.
- Comment on Fake moo 2 weeks ago:
On top of this, some restaurants are pretty upfront about it. If I remember correctly, Sonic burger patties are part beef, part mushroom.
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 4 weeks ago:
Personally, I prefer not to be Nintendo because of Nintendo’s behavior, but the price is why they still struggle to sell these.
They sold a ton right out of the gate. Everyone that really wanted one already got one. After that, they need parents and grandparents to get them for the kids and that isn’t going to happen as much.
Nintendo was basically a “toy”. You could, for the most part, safely buy a Nintendo console for your kids at a somewhat reasonable price. (I know the OG consoles were a bit pricey).
You could buy your kid a handheld console for ~$200 or less. The Switch 1 was $300, but you could still get your kid a Lite for $200.
Now, the only option is a $450 Switch 2.
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah I have a bad habit of never finishing games despite playing the first 1/4 of the game several times.
I need a refresher like TV shows do when they come back for a new season.
- Comment on The college-to-office path is dead: CEO of the world’s biggest recruiter says Gen Z grads need to consider trade and hospitality jobs that don’t even require degrees 4 weeks ago:
I hate to say it, but the same rules don’t apply to his kids or other kids with parents in similar roles. They are going to be given jobs without much effort.
- Comment on The college-to-office path is dead: CEO of the world’s biggest recruiter says Gen Z grads need to consider trade and hospitality jobs that don’t even require degrees 4 weeks ago:
Yup. I went back to school a few years ago after being burned out.
I studied to be a developer because I like building things and problem solving. Finished a couple years ago. I spent a year looking for a job but I could only get one call back. And they still ghosted me after.
Maybe it’s me, but I’ve always been good with resumes and interviews before.
There aren’t many junior developer jobs out there. And if there are any, the don’t pay a livable wage anymore.
- Comment on Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles. 4 weeks ago:
This. Everyone experiences these feelings at some point, but when they start having an outsized impact on your life, there might be a cause such as Autism/ADHD.
- Comment on Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles. 4 weeks ago:
I felt like this which is initially why I didn’t get tested. Even tho I can see how medication has helped me, I still worry that I’m imaging it.
- Comment on We'll probably never see a Grand Theft Auto set in a futuristic city like GTA 2 because the team "hated it": "People didn’t connect with the game or its city" 5 weeks ago:
GTA 2 is my favorite of the series.
- Comment on EU lawmakers to study ban 'loot boxes' and other addictive features in video games 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think loot boxes are a thing anymore but Battle Passes are predatory. You pay for access to items but you aren’t guaranteed those if the timer runs out.
- Comment on Do you preorder games? 1 month ago:
Wtf. Of a physical copy? You got screwed more than most people in the comment section.
- Comment on Do you preorder games? 1 month ago:
You make some really good points. The game I’m referring to is Osiris Reborn from The Expanse series, my favorite book series of all time.
It’s not exactly an unheard of IP and the developer is what I could consider midsized. That’s why I was leaning towards not doing it at all.
My only motivation is how passionate I am about this series and wanting to see more games, books, shows, movies, etc set in that world. I want to be proactive in spending my money thoughtfully to encourage development in places I support.
Obviously, one preorder isn’t going to change that for this game and a preorder would likely do more harm to me than it would be to the series if I don’t preorder.
I’m usually pretty staunchly again preorders since I think it’s bad for players as a whole (and often for devs too), but, if I’m being honest with you, I would probably have done it if my favorite series was being done by a small indie dev team so they could have as much money upfront to make the game as good as it can be.
- Comment on Do you preorder games? 1 month ago:
For a moment, I thought this video was about the game I was debating on, 12 years too early! (The Expanse Osiris Reborn.)
- Comment on Do you preorder games? 1 month ago:
Thanks for specifying how you decide. I know most people don’t preorder at all and there is some skepticism toward Early Access. I expected most comments to just say that, which is why I really appreciate the detail you added.
- Comment on Do you preorder games? 1 month ago:
The game I was considering does have a collector’s addition but it’s $300 for some physical collector’s items that I don’t think are worth the price.
I don’t think I’m going to preorder at all, but the whole thing got me thinking about it the subject.
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- Comment on Vince Zampella, video game developer behind 'Call of Duty' franchise, killed in mountain road crash 1 month ago:
He was a very, very humble person
….proceeds to crash Ferrari while racing and showing off.
- Comment on Vince Zampella, video game developer behind 'Call of Duty' franchise, killed in mountain road crash 1 month ago:
At the reverse-Pornhub.
Instead of giving you time to make sure the sound is off, it plays the porn ad first.
- Comment on Christmas beetles 1 month ago:
They always fly in my hair. My dog likes to eat them.
- Comment on Sea Level 1 month ago:
There are a few reasons but I kind of think it boils down to biodiversity. Seasonal changes, tides, light exposure, and varying temperatures would affect the balance of diverse life.
For example, Earth didn’t always have oxygen. 2.4 billion years ago there was a bunch of microbial photosynthesis happening. Seasons and the tides affect ocean currents which moved nutrients around, allowing the bacteria to thrive and grow.
Ozone’s formula is O~3~, so the Ozone layer wouldn’t have formed either.
There are also other issues like how the seasons affect biological migration or how the moon slows the Earth’s rotation to about 24 hours/day.
- Comment on Sea Level 1 month ago:
Oh for sure. The universe is too big for it to not have happened elsewhere. I’m not saying it’s unique, just rare.
For me, it was the fact that the Earth is tilted at just the right angle that sort of blew my mind. Too much one way or another, we wouldn’t have seasons or day/night cycles.
From under, other planets have been identified with the potential for life, but don’t have the tilt or the moon.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 1 month ago:
I kinda feel like Clair Obscur is sort of stretching the definition of indie game.
I guess _technically _ it is.
I’m not saying every game needs to be made in someone’s garage and take 12 years to make, but it sounds like this game was completely funded by Kepler and parts of the game were outsourced to other companies. Sandfall is made up of experienced developers from places like Ubisoft. Kinda feels like Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise made their own movie with funding from a lesser known subdivision of Warner Bros, outsourced SFX to 300 animators, and called it indie because they filmed it with 10 people.
I do think Clair Obscur is a fantastic game and deserves to be Game of the Year (aside from the AI use). Sandfall and Kepler did a great job with a reported budget of $10M(!) and I especially appreciate what Kepler is doing to support the gaming industry.
I guess I see the point of the award to inspire people to believe they shouldn’t give up on their dreams by recognizing small teams making games outside of the traditional industry. I just don’t feel like Sandfall qualifies.
In the end, it’s not my award and they can give it to whoever they want!
- Comment on Sea Level 1 month ago:
I don’t recall what I was reading, but I once read about a lot of things lined up perfectly for evolution on Earth.
- In Sol’s habitable zone
- Has a moon
- Rotates on tilted axis
- Stable rotation and orbit
- Has magnetic field
- Has Ozone Layer
- Big planet (Jupiter) close enough to catch random asteroids, but not close enough to harm Earth
It’s bonkers that it all worked out that way so that I could be here, right now, reading your post and responding. It really boggles the mind and I don’t want to waste my time.
Welp, guess I’m gonna go look up random curse words in the dictionary. ಠᴗಠ
