LoamImprovement

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former PlayStation exec says "$70 or $80" games are a "steal": "As long as people choose carefully how they spend their money, I don't think they should be complaining"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. I think there’s a problem with the modern development cycle that a fuckton of the budget goes into marketing and marketable assets (i.e. all them graphics that look great in the trailers but nobody’s computer can actually handle, and then the rest of the team’s on the hook to make a game on a shoestring that can actually use all of that content - The only way you can possibly accomplish that with a fraction of a fraction of the budget is if it’s super simplistic and repetitive gameplay that’s stretched over 40+ hours like a peasant on a torture rack.

  Think about how many games you’ve played over the last decade, and how many of them were still fun to play after the first five hours, either because the primary gameplay loops were satisfying enough to keep you engaged, or because the game was keeping it fresh with new mechanics that didn’t bungle clumsily atop one another like a raspberry and beef trifle. Making great games is difficult and expensive, and most studios would rather put out something with a guaranteed return than anything that’s fun to play.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A year later, Apple Vision Pro owners say they regret buying the $3,500 headset - "It's just collecting dust"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Juicero-ass headset.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy 420⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I think people forget that the definition of a weed is simply “A plant that is unwanted.” Himalayan blackberry in the PNW is often a weed and it grows aggressively in a lot of backyards here, but lots of people keep it around because… blackberries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Video of Trump Sucking Musk's Toes Blasted on Government Office TVs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  God if someone could get in and wipe out student loans, I would be so happy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make your complaints heard about bad games, says Dragon Age veteran Mark Darrah, but "your $70 doesn't buy you cruelty"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People could avoid paying $70 for bad games by not preordering. Like seriously, it takes maybe two hours after release for the criticism to start pouring in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Maps May Soon Feature Ads, But Not Everyone's Onboard - gHacks Tech News⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah no shit not everyone’s onboard. How the fuck does this help anyone except the apple C-suites?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Everything I Say Leaks,' Zuckerberg Says in Leaked Meeting Audio⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Creating and Bringing value” = Maximizing our ability to squeeze productivity from the chattel without them knowing how badly we’re fucking them over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BioWare veterans confirm they were laid off by EA, including senior Dragon Age and Mass Effect devs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the silver lining of the whole gaming industry fallout is that the indie game scene has never been better. I was lamenting the fact that we hadn’t had a good top-down zeldalike in a long time, echoes of wisdom notwithstanding even though the formula is pretty altered. Someone pointed me in the direction of Master Key and it was an incredibly satisfying time. Almost like it would have fit in perfectly between LoZ 1 and Link’s Awakening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's discuss: Like a Dragon / Yakuza⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I kind of feel that - I think the issue for me is that there’s a lot going on in each of these games that is tangential to the primary gameplay loop that on the surface isn’t obligatory, so if you find it not to your liking you can choose not to engage, but avoiding the secondary activities locks you out of some rewards for the PGL often and severely enough that you do feel obligated to engage to the point you can get these rewards. Especially in the gambling minigames, I often feel relieved when the points you buy end up being the same points you exchange for said rewards because it means I can just engage in the fighting a little more instead of having to gamble.

  Case in point, I’m playing Infinite wealth right now and it feels like a big step up from the first Like a Dragon, but I’m still finding myself pulled into the Sujimon quests even though I personally don’t like monster tamer games. I don’t even know what the rewards are but half of the map icons are raids and trainers, so I feel like I should at least be putting time into maintaining a team with the ones I can catch just from grinding out fights for Job XP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Sputnik moment’: $1tn wiped off US stocks after Chinese firm unveils AI chatbot⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, I do want cheaper GenAI in the sense that I want people to see that it’s dollar store crap that’s not worth the electricity to run the servers to make it and give it up like they did the fucking Juicero and every other smart appliance a couple years ago. God forbid I hold my breath and people wise up and understand that these people are all grifters looking to tape a horn to a horse and sell their “unicorn” to FAANG or whatever the equivalent is these days, I can’t be assed to rewrite the new poob acronym.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok Users Gleefully Embrace Even More Chinese App To Spite US TikTok Ban⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You say that like any of the conservative controlled courts give a single flying fuck about precedent. They will embrace this ruling to foist religious doctrine on people who don’t want it and reject it to prohibit any other material they find unsavory. The rule of law has been dead for a long time in the states.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America’s Right-Wing Propaganda Problem Might Be Terminal -- [Opinion]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is entirely intentional on the part of the people who actually run this country. Uneducated citizens who don’t or can’t think critically are very easy to spoon-feed bullshit against their best interests. Republicans have been openly attacking public education for decades, and at the same time parents have been foisting the rearing of their children off on educators because they work two or more jobs to support the household. The community mentality has entirely eroded as a result - nobody will step up to take care of neglected children because everyone’s too busy working, educators come under attack from both parents and administration for trying to be anything more than state-sanctioned babysitters, leading to mass resignations, reinforcing the idea that education should be privatized and/or run off of a bullshit voucher system.

  America failed a long time ago, it’s just a question of who realizes it and who doesn’t. If you want to live through the next couple of decades, start building your communities ASAP. Mutual funds, community gardens, canning and other food preservation. Unionize, coordinate, run for office if you think you can hack it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To appease a Steam user's demands for straight representation, Webfishing added a 'Straight' title that costs 9,999 fish bucks⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you mean “Straight” person

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's LinkedIn: If our AI gets it wrong, that's your problem⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If I didn’t need to have a profile there for work I wouldn’t. I had two jobs that were kind enough to tell me when I asked that they immediately passed on me because my resume had no LinkedIn or Facebook, and I deleted my Facebook a year ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's LinkedIn: If our AI gets it wrong, that's your problem⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The only thing I use AI for is generating character art for tabletop portraits and when the well is sufficiently poisoned I will probably go back to Pinterest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Rocky Horror Video Game is a thing, and coming out this month [Eurogamer]⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  SAY IT!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo has reportedly shut down Ryujinx, the Switch emulator that was supposedly immune⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I like it more, but I’m a fan of the more classic Zeldas. It’s good, but it’s marred by the same technical issues that plagued the LA remake, and the lack of some basic QoL features like a Quick Select or Favorites wheel is bringing it from ‘great’ to ‘good.’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ex-Twitter staffer wins $600K over Musk’s click-yes-or-resign ultimatum⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It makes a lot more sense if you reframe it as freedom for rich white landowners in the 1800s to not have to pay taxes to King George, not so much for the peons, paupers and slaves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Simples.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, it’s almost like trying to measure and codify man- and womanhood is inherently dangerous and phobic, even to cisgendered people who don’t meet the nebulous standards set by bigots who are obsessed with other people’s genitals, and we should maybe just stop doing that and let people identify themselves however they want?

  Just a thought.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft removes documentation for switching to a local account in Windows 11⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To add to this, if you’ve already connected to internet, you can disconnect with the same shift + F10 trick to get the command prompt open and type “ipconfig /release” to get rid of your connection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The heart we can't neglect indeed⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Literally 90% of my problems are because billionaires exist. My rent is too high, groceries are unaffordable, my car is one dashboard light away from breaking down. All of these problems are solvable with the money that billionaires extract from my labor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exclusive: Fresh Jurassic Park: Survival Details Revealed, Including New Locations and More⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually really like the SNES game, it is objectively not great though. You can’t even save, so emulation is a must unless you can dedicate an 8-10 hour sitting to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oxygen⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So I know it’s a joke, but isn’t this why dietary antioxidants are good for you, is because they literally help inhibit the oxidation of your body?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Number 1 Student⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Another kid with a baking soda volcano stole the show!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Book people think they know why 9-year-olds stop reading for fun⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I know exactly what it was for me. I used to read all the time in elementary and middle school, right up until 7th grade. To encourage kids to read, they implemented a reading requirement.

  Upon completion of a quiz, every book with a length of ten pages or longer awarded a point per ten pages.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft closes Tango Gameworks, Arkane Austin and others⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  And they’re probably carving themselves a nice bonus out of the tax write-off for the studio closure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I the only person that feels that retro games are better?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, let’s not forget that the early consoles had their own pitfalls, a period of gaming that spawned tropes like ‘Nintendo Hard’ and ‘Guide Dang It’ in order to, among other things, pad out the length of what we would sell time on their hints and tips hotline. I do feel like there was less bullshit in the past, but it definitely still existed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Like I think that’s the thing that pisses me off the most about this - Sony clearly didn’t give two shits about this game on launch with servers underprepared and overwhelmed for weeks after, but as soon as they smelled money they were more than ready to shit where Arrowhead eats with this godawful requirement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨blast me off, fam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Uncle Harry, don’t eat that!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has ethernet become illegitimate? A librarian flipped out after spotting me using ethernet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, I asked at a library if I could plug into the Ethernet because my laptop had an RJ45 port and I needed to download something sizable for work and the WiFi was dropping it. They let me hook up on one of the library computer ports and I left it the way I found it.