pugnaciousfarter
@pugnaciousfarter@literature.cafe
- Comment on Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures? 3 days ago:
Well with the support that’s come from mainstream gaming influencers, I hope the opinion has swayed in the opposite direction.
- Comment on Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures? 3 days ago:
Isn’t that a win win tho? Less live service games?
The industry is already horrible to work in.
- Comment on call of the void 2 weeks ago:
I think the difference is that - chatgpt is very personified. It’s as if you were talking to a person as compared to searching for something on google. That’s why a headline like this feels off.
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 2 weeks ago:
The initiative’s issue isn’t with them being online-only (though personally people hate it). The initiative aims for games to have the ability to have a reasonable state of playability past the end of life.
This is for all kinds of games - single-player, multiple player, live service, only only. The point is to keep what you paid for.
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 2 weeks ago:
What do you mean?
Changing the design happens during the pre-production. This will not effect any games retroactively. As unfortunate as it is, until the EU parliament decides on a law or regulation all games destined to die will die.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone 3 weeks ago:
The world is tough out there cousin brother.
I send hugs and vibes.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone 3 weeks ago:
A data analyst with an econ degree specialising in econometrics and a political science degree.
Are you the cousin that my mother foretold about?
- Comment on There's still no sign of Star Citizen 1.0, but it did just get a revamped referral program so the die-hards can tempt in even more saps 3 weeks ago:
They have a management problem. Roberts has had a history with badly managing projects especially where his uberambition is unchecked.
They could’ve entirely and easily avoided the forever beta tag if they had released the single player early on (even if it wasn’t perfect), like they had promised and then continued to work on the persistent universe.
- Comment on Netflix is delisting some of its best indie games 4 weeks ago:
How’s the sequel? The OG was a unique in its horror. Though I can’t say much for it’s characters I quite enjoyed the vibes.
- Comment on The 'Stop Killing Games' initiative is close to its final deadline, and after that, its leader is understandably done: 'Either the frog hops out of the pot, or it's dead' 4 weeks ago:
A Lil bit of column A and a little bit of column B.
But spreading misinformation on it definitely did hurt it.
- Comment on Could I seek asylum as a US trans person in Costa Rica (or other countries)? 4 weeks ago:
Are there any transoutreach orgs you can contact?
A larger trans community might be able to help you with getting the right resources regarding this.
- Comment on The end of Stop Killing Games [Accursed Farms] 4 weeks ago:
“stop stabbing me”
“Oh, you are very adversarial! How dare you ask me to stop stabbing you? This is how I make my money!”
- Comment on The end of Stop Killing Games [Accursed Farms] 4 weeks ago:
Hell, even a lot of PUBLISHERS would rather keep their games running forever.
This is such a shit take that publishers want games running forever. The whole reason they get shut down is because they don’t make a profit and if something that’s not earning them money might as well be something that’s going to take gamers away from their new game. So they’ll of course shut it down. It’s in their incentive.
Your arguments seem very disingenuous.
- Comment on (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ 4 weeks ago:
The heart thing is not unique to India?
It’s a very common thing to take the heart out by villians everywhere.
- Comment on (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ 4 weeks ago:
And that would be for the Individual Americans to decide, or the institutions.
It wouldn’t have been plundered.
You are assuming that the artifacts such as those held in the British museum solely represent “saving culture” but they also represent the lingering colonial mindset. They weren’t taken away to preserve, they were taken as plunder. LITERALLY. There are photos of the Nigerian benins that are marked as treas
Imagine if Nigeria and other african countries invaded your country, forced you into indentured servitude, spread propoganda and took all the art/artifacts to their country and used the excuse that your president is a fascist douche turd and because of that none of you are worthy enough to handle it. You just can’t be trusted with your own art and then never returned it even after things got objectively better.
- Comment on (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ 4 weeks ago:
Of cause keeping it is worse. If the capital is too far away, why would London be better?
Exactly. We agree there then.
Countries are a social construct so instead of focusing on boarders, bring it directly to the cultural heirs.
I think this tricky. Usually, I think the Cultural heritage belongs to the countries from where the artifacts were taken, so that’s where the artifacts should be returned to. Otherwise, How do you decide who to give an artifact to? Most inhabitants of central America share Mayan ancestry, and they no longer follow the maya religion.
I guess it’s a case to case basis. I am sure the rare cases in which there is a dispute it should be left upto the countries or institutions that claim the artifact to arbitrate.
- Comment on (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ 4 weeks ago:
I doubt it.
There are 1.4 billion people. I think there’d be a stereotype about them doing black magic if it was an ever prevalent thing.
To be fair to the movie, it isn’t trying to say all Indians worship dark gods. It’s just depicting a cult that happens to be in India.
- Comment on (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ 4 weeks ago:
She has a beautiful smile.
- Comment on (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ 4 weeks ago:
So it’s better to keep it somewhere thousands of kilometres away where they’ll never be able to see it as compared to having difficulty seeing it?
- Comment on (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ 4 weeks ago:
Those relics belong to dead people.
No, it belongs to a community. Does something stop belonging to a people if the original creators die? No.
That way nobody owns any land, because it belongs to the amoeba.
Returning the artifacts is meant to be a good will gesture, and a sort of a reparation (in lieu of the actual reparations) for all the horrible colonial era crimes that were propagated not more than even 100 years ago.
- Comment on (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ 4 weeks ago:
Many cases
Source: my ass
- Comment on (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ 4 weeks ago:
You will never be able to get everyone to agree on anything and you can’t hold a referendum for every artifact.
So as far as responsibility goes, barring edge cases, it should be left upto the government to decide, as they represent the people.
There’s no clear ‘owner’ in many cases.
Just return it to the country where it was taken from. And I don’t think there are many cases where ownership is vague, most are pretty plain and clear.
then we should prioritize saving the artifacts over the ones that seek to destroy them.
That’s not on you, that’s on their original keepers. Otherwise you are propagating colonial era crimes and justifying them by arguing in bad faith.
P.s.
- Museums are notorious record when it comes to maintaining artifacts, especially the British museum.
- They also do less than what’s needed to discourage artifact smuggling.
- Comment on Nier creator Yoko Taro reveals the sad reality of modern AAA game development, “there’s less weird people making games” 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, personally a huge fan of the game, but if you think spec ops the line is the last best game, then you really haven’t played that many good games since.
There’s also such a thing as subjective tastes and I believe that it’s more so significant in games because of how diverse they are.
- Comment on Thing makes noise wallet goes empty 5 weeks ago:
It’s like learning a loved is sick again.
- Comment on Blue Prince - Have you played it? How blown is your mind? 1 month ago:
I can’t blame you. I was for forced to play it before I got into it. Forced by the fact that supergiant games can be er go wrong in my book 🙌. Haha
- Comment on Blue Prince - Have you played it? How blown is your mind? 1 month ago:
I thought I was the same, but I quite enjoyed hades. Though it’s not a traditional roguelike.
It has a good mix of mindless fun that doesn’t punish you when you lose and don’t make progress. The story does heavy duty in making sure each run no matter how successful it is.
I guess I still don’t like rogue likes that much but I do like hades.