RedFrank24

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t FFXIV an MMO? I don’t remember it being very Game of Thrones-y.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m of the opinion that it really depends on the nature of the game.

  For example, the children are super hyped for GTA VI, because even though GTA V came out before some of them had object permanence, they’ve been playing it for years. It’s remained in their consciousness this entire time.

  Compare that to Skyrim, which came out only a year or so before GTA V, and we haven’t seen an Elder Scrolls game since… The young don’t give a toss. They weren’t playing it then, they aren’t playing it now, so there’s absolutely no attachment to Elder Scrolls as a series.

  Games used to stay in the consumer’s consciousness before by having sequels made every few years, sometimes even every year! Now? It’s all live services, so it doesn’t feel like the game hasn’t had a new iteration for over a decade.

  In other words: Kids aren’t attached to franchises anymore because the game industry is stagnating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Come on, I left Napster running and my mom got Choco Tacos.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Was it? Because I remember how things were in 2012, and that’s not how I remember it. Anita Sarkeesian started her Kickstarter in May of 2012, and thus Gamergate was unofficially born, and 2 years later it was officially born, followed by Brexit, followed by Trump. Technically Anita’s stuff wasn’t what kicked off Gamergate, but the backlash against her primed an audience ready to pounce when Gamergate actually started and took half the internet on the road to fascism.

  2012 is the year everything started going downhill. While yes, some social progress was made, it was in 2012 that the seeds of today’s problems were planted, at least on the internet anyway. One could argue that 9/11 and the Patriot Act and massive expansion of executive power contributed heavily as well.

  Either way, shit was bad in 2012 as well, we were all just too blind to see it. The only people who actually did see it were pariahs on the internet for years and weren’t listened to because they were ‘SJW’s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HD 137010 b⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure that’s a sidequest in Starfield. The ECS Constant colony ship set off in 2140 to colonise a planet, arriving in 2330 at the planet Paradiso, which had become a luxury resort planet for the rich, because shortly after the ship left, humanity invented the grav drive and every ship just zoomed right past them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HD 137010 b⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Only 150 light years away?! Wow, that’s practically next door! Now all we need to do is figure out how to go light speed and even then it’ll take a further 300 years just to know if the colonists got there safely or not!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Come on, I left Napster running and my mom got Choco Tacos.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The more I think about the late 90s and mid 00s, the less I want to go back to it. What I want is to not know things, not know how horrible things are, because I know things in the 90s and 00s were horrid too, I was just too young to notice.

  I’m sure there are some people out there that have nostalgia for 2012 because that’s when they were a child. I remember the massive push for Ron Paul 2012 and how insufferable everyone was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great Mug⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless it’s like… Sociology, or Psychology. They care what you believe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God's Property⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Would this not also apply to mushrooms?