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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It really does seem to follow the classic arc of going from marketing to consumers to B2B but like, you can’t sell games B2B can you? It’s so direct to consumer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Tru

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it keeps getting momentum⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s Wario’s dumber and less put together cousin

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s fair and a much better response than mine above. I’m just a bit disenfranchised from it all, especially the non action and non voting suggestions of many on the left.

  But you are right, it’s basically a center right and a far right party, and that super sucks and needs to be complained about a lot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes this year is going to be really good and productive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone I worked with had a great rage quit. He worked his ass off for the whole year doing insane overtime and sacrificing way too much for a thankless corporation. When it came to raise time, my boss gave him a 0% raise, citing that he already made more than average/benchmark.

  After that meeting he just left. He left all his work stuff on his desk, he didn’t tell anyone he wasn’t coming back from lunch time ish. It took a full month before they stopped paying him, and my boss would come around almost every day to ask if anyone knew where he was or how to contact him. I think they just assumed he was blowing off steam and would come back, meanwhile he moved to another city.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I assume all those “vote third party both side same” people were bots or Russian trolls. Obviously trump was always gonna be way worse

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rage for the machine?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Now I want a fully ironic X-Cops/GWAR style band that is on the nose trying to do this and doing a terrible job

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Live In Eastern Europe And I'm Making A Creepy Game About Authoritarianism (Demo Is Live)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh shit! You made Don’t Press the Red Button or you’ll delete the multiverse. I really enjoyed that! Hell yeah

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Live In Eastern Europe And I'm Making A Creepy Game About Authoritarianism (Demo Is Live)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Cool! I’ll try it out. The trailer has some severance energy to it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Only maybe! DEC works similarly to how we collect energy in photovoltaics, and seems to be pretty promising

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_energy_conversion?wp…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I really enjoy that kinda mid game, where a slightly longer drought or bad water would really mess you up, but it kinda falters shortly after that and becomes solved.

  I want them to do what Factorio did and make the end game stuff (rockets) feed you into what becomes the early-mid game. Like make water the whole map" or have “insanely deep water” or some resources that are hard to make the requirement to do the NEXT thing, which should be so big the whole map you were worried about becomes a little trivial

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve played a fair bit of timberborn, and it’s a great city builder! I get obsessed for the first dozen or so hours of a settlement but it’s always fallen a little flat in the more later-game parts.

  I’m hopeful that their continually adding content keeps it fresh deeper into the game. The mechanics and aesthetics are great

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware: Launch timing and other FAQs - Steam News⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cool that they’ll release specs and CAD for the faceplate so people can make their own

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨London stabbing rates vs X posts about London crime⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that it’s true specifically because you don’t understand correlation vs causation

  /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stardew Valley Turns 10: The Big ConcernedApe Interview - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Krobus and dwarf please

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Y'all got one, right?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But then how do you drain it after? Maybe the plastic liner can be lifted out and dumped?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity launches Walmart SDK to "seamlessly integrate products" into games⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I cannot imagine wanting that to be in a game you’re playing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anon is hungover⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  hungover as fuck

  Still drunk from 2004

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Steam dev is deleting his own game after girlfriend made him realize AI is bad⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, it still kinda feeds the AI narrative if he recodes the AI part.

  “See? He used AI to make it faster and get some money then he went back and touched it up, really helpful tool”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[meme] choochoo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk what the other dude is talking about. It definitely exists some places.

  Source: live in Copenhagen, don’t own a car.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Off the Rails⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A super fun counter argument I heard once is that if it’s intelligent design, surely it’s not for humans. The universe is BIG with lots of empty space, lots of massive elements to it. Surely it was designed for something much bigger than humans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A swing and a miss⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Miss normer can i

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Self-promotion] My partner just released a (free) game about a monster in a winter forest⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cool, I’m gonna check it out!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If your username were a Scrabble word with no bonuses, what would it score?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who started this shitposting?!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well Jimmy Carter won’t be exactly aligned with me on a Foreign affairs issue so I think we might as well just support Putin

  ^Average pre US election .ml poster

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Change my Mind⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t tell if this is sarcasm or not. I mean, Trump is just the marketing of a president. All sizzle, no steak. He has appeared in debates but it’s a huge stretch to say he’s shown up well in them.

  In fact, a lot of politics are purely a popularity contest these days, aren’t they?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This song, it's infectious⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or kpop? Maybe against demon hunting?

  Sounds a little demon-esque to be anti demon hunting

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Soup⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it’s like if you get a water flask at a restaurant and they have some lemon or something in it. It’s still water not soup.

  Same idea but vegetables and noodles

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where Winds Meet players are tricking AI-powered NPCs into giving them rewards by using the 'Solid Snake method'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure how I feel about AI chatbots as NPCs. On one hand, it does add near infinite dialogue options and flexibility to adapt to what a player does. That’s super cool and immersive.

  On the other hand, it feels so damn lazy. Like I want to play games with dialogue/story as an art form, not as a “how much time can I spend here”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where Winds Meet players are tricking AI-powered NPCs into giving them rewards by using the 'Solid Snake method'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Solid Snake method of conversation has taken on meme status in recent years, as players noticed the Metal Gear icon simply repeated the last few words of anything anyone said to him as a question. As was discovered by ‘Hakkix’ on Reddit, you can do the same to game the NPCs in Where Winds Meet. If someone asked you, say, to “Find the buried treasure chest,” you’d respond by saying, “The buried treasure chest?” and so on. Eventually, the NPC gets so confused that they express their gratitude and end the conversation. Whether that’s due to confusion or exasperation is unclear, but the effect is the same.