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- Comment on As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG 2 days ago:
I’ve always maintained that the first was a fine game that was tanked by the price. It was priced to drive gamepass subs, not sell the game. At $35-40, it would have been received much better, imo. Years later, now that it’s more appropriately priced, it seems to be more well-reviewed.
Unfortunately the second is going down the same path. It may take 5+ years for the game to be appreciated to its fullest (assuming no glaring issues), through no fault of the devs.
- Comment on game has multiple factions fighting each other 3 days ago:
It was when I grew up there. 80s-90s.
- Comment on How much support does the idea of "Mass Deportations" (in the USA) actually have? Do you actually know Americans IRL that support these policies? 4 days ago:
This is why subject matter experts matter. Support for the vague idea of “deport people here illegally” is pretty high, but any specific method of actually doing it is much more unpopular. Media is essential in getting that distinction out to the laypeople, but they’ve largely failed.
And I’d argue that it’s not just immigration where this disconnect exists. Lots of policies have broad support until you start talking about specifics. People just want to “get things done” but the “how” is either boring or unsavory.
- Comment on Is it actually just better to bury your head in the sand and ignore all the politics in the news since you can't change it anyways? 4 days ago:
You can handle what you can handle, and trying to drink from the firehose will only burn you out. Be as active in your community as you can, when you can, then take a break when you need to. Your own mental health matters, too.
- Comment on Anon pitches a new game 4 days ago:
But what if number bigger?
- Comment on Leaves have evolved at least twice 🤔 6 days ago:
Which came first, the plant or the seed?
- Comment on Anon misses the classic design 2 weeks ago:
You could even give it some sort of rocket propulsion.
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 2 weeks ago:
See also: census designated places, a collection of people with no formal town incorporation/government. My dad grew up in a “town” (CDP) of about 250 residents. It’s about a half hour drive from the nearest real town, for things like groceries and hospitals.
- Comment on Anon isn't fooled by planes 3 weeks ago:
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You just know somebody in that meeting suggested adding “copilot” in there somewhere.
- Comment on New ‘Marathon’ Info: Bungie Morale, Launch Worries And Changing Plans 3 weeks ago:
Bungie is a lot like Bioware in that regard: Some real bangers on the resume, but none very recently. It should serve as a reminder that companies don’t make games, people do. If the right people aren’t involved, or too many of the wrong people are, past successes are entirely meaningless.
- Comment on White House Says “No Final Decisions” Have Been Made on Movie Tariffs, Still “Exploring All Options” 5 weeks ago:
Also: bsky.app/profile/…/3logfwx7o5k2i
The statute he uses for emergency tariffs specifically excludes information, films, & art - www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/1702
- Comment on Instead of Orange Man doing Tariffs would it not have been better for him to talk about shopping locally and so forth. And giving more tax breaks to companies that stay and sell in the US? 1 month ago:
It’s harder to do insider trading if you aren’t manipulating markets by posting contradictory statements every morning from your gold-plated toilet.
- Comment on Notepad autocorrected what I was typing for my foreign language exercise 1 month ago:
TIL notepad has spell check.
- Comment on Skyblivion fan project lead reacts to Oblivion remake news with "all love and no hate" 1 month ago:
Yeah, I don’t remember all the details myself, so you’re probably right. I was basically trying to support your thesis that Bethesda getting nasty over mods would be something entirely new and out of character. The only example someone could even try to point to had a bunch of other (better) explanations than “mod bad, Bethesda mad.”
- Comment on Skyblivion fan project lead reacts to Oblivion remake news with "all love and no hate" 1 month ago:
For all their faults, Bethesda may be the most mod-friendly AAA studio out there right now.
I can vaguely recall a single instance where they shut someone down, and that was over re-used audio assets from an older game. That was almost certainly about contractual licensing obligations to voice actors.
- Comment on As a US citizen who was born in the UK, how risky is it to leave and reenter the US right now? 2 months ago:
On the one hand, it has to be a mistake, right?
On the other, malicious harassment of an immigration lawyer with a “foreign” sounding name is exactly the sort of thing you’d expect right now.
Absolute best case scenario for this administration is that they are prone to making stupid, dangerous, embarrassing mistakes that will end up getting someone hurt or worse. And that’s giving them way more benefit of the doubt than they’ve earned.
- Comment on As a US citizen who was born in the UK, how risky is it to leave and reenter the US right now? 2 months ago:
bsky.app/profile/…/3lml5ctrmmc2u
Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 2 months ago:
President Mike Johnson outlaws women going out in public alone and institutes daily Bible reading classes. Attendance is mandatory if you don’t want to end up in an El Salvador slave prison.
- Comment on Petty pedantry 2 months ago:
For all we know, in that moment Elon was standing on some dirt, making him the wealthiest person on lower-case earth.
- Comment on Anon takes an IQ test 2 months ago:
Overqualified.
- Comment on Will Box Office Rebound? Captain America, Black Bag, Mickey 17 Struggle 2 months ago:
I’ve been wondering how continued cord cutting is playing a role in the movie business. It seems like live TV was one of the more aggressive marketing avenues for upcoming movies, but with fewer and fewer people watching traditional TV (and the ads they bring) there is bound to be some level of collateral damage.
- Comment on Morrowind-inspired indie RPG Ardenfall releases in early access this year 2 months ago:
Especially with a company that once decided they owned “scrolls” in any video game title.
- Comment on Dozens of spam messages daily now 2 months ago:
Remember when the GOP sued google because its spam filters were too effective?
- Comment on Forza Horizon 5 Will Require a Microsoft Account to Play on PS5 3 months ago:
FH4 and 5 are effectively MMOs. There is plenty to do alone, and the other players can mostly be ignored, but it’s still a shared world.
- Comment on NewPipe was failing me today, so I reverted back to the YouTube app. After the first ad (20 seconds), the app gave me a permanent blur. 3 months ago:
Practical Engineering?
- Comment on Where did Captain Planet go when he flew away? 3 months ago:
So what I’m hearing is that we need to throw 99% of our garbage away at the north pole.
- Comment on Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this? 4 months ago:
Causing a complete collapse of society to own the libs.
- Comment on what is the actual name of this type of „logic”? 4 months ago:
In addition to the others this is also an association fallacy.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy
For example, a fallacious arguer may claim that “bears are animals, and bears are dangerous; therefore your dog, which is also an animal, must be dangerous.”
- Comment on What is something that keeps you up at night? 4 months ago:
Back pain.