abbotsbury
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- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 2 days ago:
there’s nothing inherently wrong with fucking a woman
Yet it isn’t an insult for some reason, I wonder why?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Isaac Asimov, 1980
at least that long
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 2 days ago:
You’re not just pretending to be retarded.
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 2 days ago:
i know what i said and i meant it.
Then you’re just wrong, sorry sporto
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 2 days ago:
oedipal
and funny how your mind goes straight to homophobia or misogyny, when there are other interpretations for cocksucker
oh you’re trolling, good day
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 2 days ago:
Exactly, pussyfucker isn’t an insult because traditionally there was nothing wrong with fucking pussy, but calling someone a cocksucker is implying they’re either gay or a woman
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 2 days ago:
Okay but like, in regular penis-in-vagina sex, the man is (theoretically) giving pleasure to the woman while also doing all the work. Is that still power play? Is pussyfucker the same as cocksucker?
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 3 days ago:
Paradox of tolerance demands nothing, it is a concept that suggests some level of intolerance is required to protect overall tolerance. I don’t think it even applies here since those guys weren’t being intolerant, just despicable among themselves.
Methinks you picked that up as a buzzword to indicate and justify any time you think intolerance is called for, which is unnecessary in this case because they’re just being vile assholes that you can choose to scorn.
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 3 days ago:
That’s still degrading to fellators.
And idk if I’d say it’s a power thing, cocksuckers are the active participant in a blow job, and I’d say the submissive one is the one with their meat between a pair of teeth.
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 3 days ago:
Sharing private chats from your girlfriend? Yeah, that’s too far.
Whoa whoa whoa, but they said they didn’t commit crimes by sharing nudes without consent! They’re not that disrespectful!
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 3 days ago:
I don’t think it is that people are saying shitposting is a higher form of humor, but that it requires a level of trust that you know the people you’re shitposting with know you and know you’re joking. Lack of that leads to your second quote.
- Comment on Silent Hill f has been banned in Australia, and no one knows why 3 days ago:
I would not say equally bad, citizens are at least theoretically able to influence their government in a democratic system; you have no hope of influencing the ESRB or MPAA or CCA
- Comment on Silent Hill f has been banned in Australia, and no one knows why 4 days ago:
Government regulations are better than companies deciding what’s allowed.
- Comment on Roll tide! 1 week ago:
Keep up the good fight
- Comment on Anon becomes a shrimp farmer 1 month ago:
this is literally the plot of Forrest Gump (the book)
- Comment on Vibes based cooking 2 months ago:
Cayenne goes on everything
- Comment on Anon's PC works 2 months ago:
Normies still have hobbies
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 4 months ago:
I saw it when I was rather young but I thought it was pretty good, apparently people thought it’s edgy.
That’s me, I’m people. Same as you, I remember watching it when I was young and thinking it was a cool mature thriller, but I rewatched it last year for the first time and I was honestly a little shocked at how edgy it seems. Like the first 30 minutes really hammer how much trauma Evan went through, and it just felt really heavy handed.
- Comment on Why do Republicans bring up Kamala's "lies"/shortcomings as a way to claim Trump is better? 4 months ago:
Wow, you’ve gotten worse.
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- Comment on It's time for change, it's time for Linux. | DankPods 6 months ago:
Endeavour OS is both ime
- Comment on The problem with sleeper ships 7 months ago:
It’s actually a pretty common sci fi scenario, I remember reading about it in a pop science book in school
- Comment on V Rising has launched out of Early Access! 10 months ago:
The worth of a thing is determined by what people will pay for it.
No, that’s how price is determined, not worth.
I don’t think you’ll earnestly want to argue that 1 hour of movie entertainment is in general worth multiple hours of gaming entertainment
Depends on the movie and depends on the game. Some games with lots of content are good (if they’re well made), others are filled with trash content that is a waste of time to go through. Same with movies, there are some fantastic 75 minute cinematic experiences, and there are some that drag on for 3+ hours and do not successfully utilize their resources into a good movie. And vice versa.
but if you compare those of similar quality, the fact stands that the game will give you more for your money
If it’s a good game, sure, but we’re talking averages here and the average game is not good, so needing to play even more tedious uninspired levels doesn’t add any value, it in fact just makes it a bigger waste of time.
I gather that gaming doesn’t seem to really entertain you for the most part.
I actually love gaming, and I wish more consumers would have higher standards to not enable the terrible practices of the industry.
- Comment on V Rising has launched out of Early Access! 10 months ago:
The average movie isnt worth ticket price either IMO, and length certainly doesn’t equal quality.
And I’d certainly say “most games” are absolutely not worth it, as the majority of games are simply lacking in terms of inspiration, innovation, compelling gameplay or story, or anything else to set it apart and give me a reason to play.
- Comment on V Rising has launched out of Early Access! 10 months ago:
Choosing presentation over game quality is what caused the games industry to be bloated beyond belief.
- Comment on V Rising has launched out of Early Access! 10 months ago:
I’m not talking about about adding hours, I’m talking about adding quality.
But at below AAA levels, I’m often served extremely well for $35.
yes, good games exist at that price point, but the average game is not good, and is not worth that.
You mention things like better resolutions, better frame rates, better voice acting, more modern, more better, etc, but none of those things are what makes games good or worth more money. AAA games with cutting edge graphics and star-studded voice acting are not automatically good games, and in fact it frequently has an inverse effect where focusing so much time and money on stuff other than the game leaves a shitty game that will be forgotten about in months; that would absolutely not be worth $30, despite having all your superfluous qualities
- Comment on V Rising has launched out of Early Access! 10 months ago:
That used to be the norm, and we were happy with that
Then you should be supportive of deflation in the video game industry, instead of making excuses for why we should pay more for less
- Comment on V Rising has launched out of Early Access! 10 months ago:
Video games are afraid to be only a couple hours because they are afraid of charging less than $10
If your game is short, doesn’t offer replayability, and doesn’t have any novel gameplay to truly set it apart, then youtube Lets Plays offer real competition of getting basically the whole package.
but if you multiplied a movie’s runtime by 2-3x for some extra production value in your game, you end up at that $35 price point easily for a game that’s 5-10 hours long
That’s making a couple assumptions though, that price point is for large studio releases and non-matinee prices. If I go see a movie on a Tuesday afternoon, it’s only $7, a perfect price for an average small game.
Even for a direct comparison to Atom RPG, I’d rather pay 2-3x as much for a Wasteland game to get what I’m looking for
Atom RPG isn’t exactly a Wasteland game, it leans pretty heavy on classic Fallout, which while inspired by Wasteland, have diverged noticeably in the end product. So if you wanted to get what you’re looking for in this case, Fallout 1 and 2 are $10 each, or you can get a bundle of 1/2 and Brotherhood of Steel for $20 (more like brotherhood of steal amirite).
- Comment on V Rising has launched out of Early Access! 10 months ago:
That’s true, I’m using hours per dollar as a shorthand for value, but on the flip side if video games are going to be a couple hours of one-time fun, they gotta expect to have a price point similar to movie theaters which have a similar experience, which is like $10-$15
- Comment on V Rising has launched out of Early Access! 10 months ago:
I’d gladly pay $30 if they are worth it, most games are simply not worth it. Recently I’ve put over 75 hours into Atom RPG the last two weeks, and it’s $15 full price, and the developers have released a spinoff and announced a new project, so they seem to be doing fine.
Hopefully you can sit down with a calculator and figure out that things can be better.
