KoboldCoterie
@KoboldCoterie@pawb.social
Kobolds with a keyboard.
- Comment on [deleted] 17 hours ago:
Gary was 100% the best character in the movie, just wish he’d gotten more screen time. They managed to fit as much body language and expressiveness into his face as into entire other characters.
- Comment on "Benefit of the doubt" is a very important aspect of a game's success 22 hours ago:
This seems to be a trend as if you only take into account reviews with 2+ hours of play time, Highguard’s opinions are “mixed” rather than “overwhelmingly negative”.
People who enjoy a game are more likely to have more playtime, therefore the higher the playtime in the ‘window’ of reviews that you look at, the more likely they are to skew high. This is exactly what you’d expect to see on any game, barring situations like the developers making changes that ruin a game that previously was good.
So after 2 hours of not having a good time, the game was deemed bad and negative reviews were written.
Two hours is the window for a refund, so I absolutely make a call within 2 hours. If a game - especially a new / expensive game - hasn’t engaged me within that time, I refund it and move on. I don’t have enough hours in the day to play games I don’t enjoy hoping that they’ll get good eventually. Why should anyone feel the need to do that, whether they’re giving the game the benefit of the doubt or not? It’s the MMO argument. “The game gets really good around the 100 hour mark!” I don’t care. I’m not sticking around for it. There are plenty of other games to play that are fun within the first 2 hours. If a developer expects people to slog through an unenjoyable 2+ hours to get to “the good parts”, they probably deserve the negative reviews.
- Comment on Adobe Animate is shutting down next month 1 day ago:
This is no longer accurate.
We are not discontinuing or removing access to Adobe Animate. Animate will continue to be available for both current and new customers, and we will ensure you continue to have access to your content. There is no longer a deadline or date by which Animate will no longer be available. These are changes from what we shared in our original email.
Adobe Animate is in maintenance mode for all customers. This applies to individual, small business, and enterprise customers.
Maintenance mode means we will continue to support the application and provide ongoing security and bug fixes, but we are no longer adding new features. Animate will continue to be available for both new and existing users - we will not be discontinuing or removing access to Adobe Animate.
We are committed to ensuring Animate users have access to their content regardless if the state of development changes.
- Comment on Naughty birds 2 days ago:
The elites don’t want you to know this but the waxwing birds at the park are free. You can take them home. I have 458 waxwing birds.
- Comment on furry transfem 3 days ago:
Based on general science and tech literacy among furries, probably a statistically significant higher percentage than in the general population.
- Comment on Just say the word 4 days ago:
I am firmly of the opinion that babies suck, but kids - once they reach the age that they can engage with you at some minimal level - are great, and the older they get, the more fun they are.
- Comment on Anon finds a sugar daddy 4 days ago:
Hah, nah, you’re good, I probably should have assumed as much. :)
- Comment on Just say the word 4 days ago:
Yeah, it has the same energy as the endless jokes about men hating their wives.
- Comment on Anon finds a sugar daddy 4 days ago:
Anon claims his Dad was already married and cheating at 8 years old.
Can’t tell if this was a joke, but just in case… Anon is saying he was 8 years old when his dad was caught cheating.
- Comment on Just say the word 4 days ago:
Not wanting to be a stay-at-home dad feels like such a boomer mentality. Like, seriously, what father is so disengaged from their kids that they wouldn’t want to spend more time with them, given the option? Being a stay-at-home parent is a lot of work, no one’s contesting that, but there’s no contesting that it’s more satisfying work than working for some megacorp’s bottom line.
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 4 days ago:
I think devs actually get quite a bit for that 30%. Let’s present a hypothetical. What if Valve offered an option where you could list your game on Steam with no restrictions and they’d only take a 10% cut, but the tradeoff is, they won’t promote your game at all? Like, it won’t show up in any Steam storefront advertisements, can’t participate in sales, etc. - it’s still there if it’s linked to from off-Steam or if someone searches for it, but it won’t be promoted, period.
How do you think that would work out for developers? I’d argue not well, especially for small studios.
The promotion those games get applies to the game as a whole, not only through Steam - someone can see the promotion on Steam, then go shop around and buy it elsewhere. Why should Valve promote a game if they aren’t getting a cut of the sales?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
I’d actually be super impressed if someone managed to find a prompt that would get AI to make this. This seems like the kind of thing that needs that human wackiness element.
- Comment on TRIMUI Brick Hammer, a weirdly named but beautiful handheld 5 days ago:
This thing looks slick. How does it do with sleeping it mid-game session and resuming later? That’s the biggest make-or-break feature for me with any of these handhelds.
- Comment on Why do people pronounce ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) like it's a word? 1 week ago:
If someone told me this is specifically why it isn’t called that, I’d believe it.
- Comment on Why do people pronounce ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) like it's a word? 1 week ago:
Dub Dub Dub
- Comment on A gourmet meal 1 week ago:
Tablejoth?
- Comment on Oh nuts! 1 week ago:
How can anyone possibly not like them?
- Comment on Oh nuts! 1 week ago:
Grey squirrels are native where I’m at; even here, a lot of folks dislike them. They just can’t catch a break.
- Comment on Oh nuts! 1 week ago:
I suppose that makes them quite a bit less endearing. I’ve only ever lived in places where squirrels are native, and never really understood the animosity towards them.
- Comment on Oh nuts! 1 week ago:
I never had a problem with this. I think squirrels are as interesting to look at as birds are, perhaps moreso. I mean, look at the acrobatics this little guy has to perform just to get at that feeder. Unlike the birds who just fly down like it’s nothing. He’s putting in the effort, let him have the fuckin’ payoff.
- Comment on What challenge from a game isn't worth completing and what challenge from a game is worth completing? 2 weeks ago:
Achievements (for me, at least) are just a reason to spend more time with a game that I enjoy. In most cases, I have trouble enjoying a game if I don’t have goals to work towards (either game-imposed or self-imposed). If I finish the main part of the game, and am not tired of it yet, achievements give me goals that I can follow if I want to keep playing.
Definitely agree that there’s too many games that have achievements that are just in no way worth the time and aren’t even fun as an auxiliary goal, though. The best ones are the ones that get you to do things you otherwise wouldn’t (e.g. playing a non-standard playthrough of the game). The lazy ones (‘Kill X enemies, Earn Y dollars’) are just busywork or earned ‘automatically’ while doing other things and add nothing.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Well, I’d agree with you that the least colored one is the best for drinking. That doesn’t make it good for drinking, but better than the other options, which are markedly worse.
This is purely speculative and not based on real-world experience.
- Comment on who's gonna tell him? 3 weeks ago:
Hey, since nobody’s answered you yet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-hole
- Comment on Hostile architecture 3 weeks ago:
Maybe it’s intended to let a homeless person give two handjobs at once. Did you ever think of that?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I’m not familiar with nor am I equipped to comment on the natalist PoV, but I will comment on your argument:
Gun violence isn’t even in the top 10 leading causes of death in the US. You’re more likely to die in an auto accident or to cancer or heart disease or diabetes or a number of other things than due to gun violence. If you’re trying to present a serious argument here, you might want to consider actual statistics.
- Comment on Zootopia 3 weeks ago:
It’s telling that searching for “Nala bedroom eyes” gets you plenty of screenshots of it immediately.
- Comment on Zootopia 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Zootopia 3 weeks ago:
I mean, if you just watch the scene that’s linked there it makes it pretty clear. Nick (the fox) is pretending to stalk and kill Judy (the rabbit) by biting her neck. This specific frame is her intentionally over-acting dying after the reveal that it’s fake.
- Comment on Zootopia 3 weeks ago:
They knew what they were up to.
- Comment on The boy who was relentlessly bullied by his uncle 3 weeks ago:
This one weird trick Death doesn’t want you to know about!
