UnderpantsWeevil
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
- Comment on Top of the world, ma 26 minutes ago:
people have to tell everyone that the are vegans
I never see these people IRL.
But they must be deeply traumatizing, because I see people who complain about them everywhere.
- Comment on Top of the world, ma 36 minutes ago:
Ghee, specifically. Although there are plenty of vegan substitutes
- Comment on Top of the world, ma 2 hours ago:
Four in ten people in India follow either a vegetarian or a vegan diet, according to data by a Statista Consumer Insights survey. In all other countries polled, the figure is far lower, ranging between just five percent in Mexico and 11 percent in South Africa. In the United States, six percent of respondents said that they were vegetarian and four percent said that they were vegan.
- Comment on halal paintball 3 hours ago:
to weak
A joke so cheap it can’t even afford the second ‘o’.
- Comment on halal paintball 3 hours ago:
Yeah, that’s kinda buried in the lead.
“Hey, just FYI, all your paintballs have pork fat in them” would be a more startling revelation.
- Comment on Top of the world, ma 3 hours ago:
Half of India is vegan
- Comment on Top of the world, ma 3 hours ago:
It’s crazy how mad people get every time a Vegan exists
- Comment on The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. 18 hours ago:
- Comment on The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. 1 day ago:
The $8 tier has been around for a decade, for exactly this reason. MMO subscriptions, bargain games, podcasts, delivery fees. People love charging you $8
- Comment on The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. 1 day ago:
The biggest challenge I have with pirated games - especially Nintendo games - is the controller.
Yeah, I can get Metroid Prime or Mario 64 or Super Smash easily enough. But I can’t have that classic experience on a PS knock off controller.
It’s not the end of the world, of course. But I feel it.
- Comment on The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. 1 day ago:
You can always do the XKCD trick
ImageBut even this seems to have gone stale over time, as retro game prices get sticker (even going up as vintage games come back into fashion).
One thing I don’t see on this list is “piracy”, which is a bit weird if your line is $15. I find a lot of bargain bin games to be as bad or worse than FTP games. $20-30 has historically been my sweet spot
- Comment on The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. 1 day ago:
Glances at this guy’s main() function
Instantly dies
- Comment on Alabama is forcing incarcerated people to work at hundreds of companies, including McDonald’s & Wendy’s. Unionizing is illegal. The state takes 40% of wages. 1 day ago:
It’s been a feature of the US prison system since the end of Reconstruction. This isn’t something Trump invented.
Bright Blue California rejected a measure to ban prison slavery just a year ago.
- Comment on Im curious what they will come up with 1 day ago:
The Super Adventure Club episode exploded into my brain halfway through One Battle After Another when they drop “The Christmas Adventurers Club” on me like a nuclear warhead.
- Comment on Im curious what they will come up with 1 day ago:
The Adam Friedland Show hitting new levels of Super Sayan off this shit.
Nevermind TrueAnon
- Comment on I don't care if this is fake, I choose to believe it 1 day ago:
Imagine a T.Rex but its a giant parrot with teeth instead.
- Comment on "Luke, I am your *second* father" 3 days ago:
No no, your mother died of sadness.
BECAUSE YOU CHEATED ON HER WITH ANAKIN?!
Damnit, son. I need you to back off the hatred for a minute and think about this logically.
- Comment on London stabbing rates vs X posts about London crime 3 days ago:
Less crime before Brexit, too. It appears crime peaked during Brexit.
- Comment on London stabbing rates vs X posts about London crime 3 days ago:
The curious thing about US crime statistics is that we only count crimes against the state. We never count crimes committed by the state.
I would argue that US Crime has been sharply on the rise, from within the organs of the government itself.
- Comment on London stabbing rates vs X posts about London crime 3 days ago:
Sharp Decline
rimshot
You could make this graph about pretty much any crime-news coverage over the last 40 years. If It Bleeds Then It Leads has become western media orthodoxy.
- Comment on As player numbers fall, Highguard makes the actually-quite-good 5v5 mode permanent 4 days ago:
Demand for new games will always be up
Sounds heard shortly before an industry crashes.
- Comment on As player numbers fall, Highguard makes the actually-quite-good 5v5 mode permanent 4 days ago:
Art is the medium through which we process and communicate our most complicated emotions.
I know why they aren’t still relevant now
:-/
I’m getting a lot of confused responses in this thread.
- Comment on As player numbers fall, Highguard makes the actually-quite-good 5v5 mode permanent 4 days ago:
so you agree with me 100%
100%
:-/
Amazed you’re into text-heavy games when you’re struggling with basic literacy.
- Comment on As player numbers fall, Highguard makes the actually-quite-good 5v5 mode permanent 4 days ago:
Art is the medium through which we process and communicate our most complicated emotions.
Listen, I’m not saying we don’t need the odd new DeltaRune or Blue Prince. But the sheer volume of new mass market games seems to have eclipsed the real overall demand some time ago.
If you’re constantly obsessed with the New Title, you lose sight of the vintage classics. You never have a chance to pick up an old Atari game from the 70s or try some SNES banger from the 90s or even a PS3 classic from the 10s if you’ve glued yourself to the New Releases queue.
Maybe people have emotions worth communing with that are more than a year old.
- Comment on What kind of stupid rule is that? 4 days ago:
- Comment on As player numbers fall, Highguard makes the actually-quite-good 5v5 mode permanent 4 days ago:
The world needs more good games.
Does it? I feel like we’re flush. My Steam queue already has a dozen more games than I’d ever have time to play.
- Comment on As player numbers fall, Highguard makes the actually-quite-good 5v5 mode permanent 4 days ago:
I mean, it’s another FtP PvP base defense shooter. Like we were running short of Team Fortress clones any time in the last ten years.
I do sometimes get the sense that when a marketing team can’t gin up artificial enthusiasm, they settle on “controversy” as an attention grabbing strategy. Getting legions of digital skanks to declare a mid-game The Worst Thing Ever at least keeps the title on the radar, rather than falling into obscurity.
Honestly, I’m not even clear how you can spend nine figures on a game when its a copy of a copy of a copy. “We reskinned Tribes again, then dropped a full scale motion picture’s budget on the fucking trailer” seems to be how AAA titles get sold these days. No wonder everyone in the industry is so excited about AI.
- Comment on Do it for your country's debt! 5 days ago:
Even Nurse Ratchet
I’m convinced she’s a Deputy Secretary at HHS somewhere.
- Comment on Do it for your country's debt! 5 days ago:
Americans are trained to believe that our National Debt is some kind of foreign imposed obligation that comes with the threat of sanctions and military intervention if we fail to pay it. Because that’s how we handle debts international, it must be how we handle debts internally.
- Comment on Do it for your country's debt! 5 days ago:
It would generate $3T for the US Economy
Isn’t this one of the assholes insisting AI is going to take all our jobs? Why do you suddenly need 17-year-olds in the workforce and 67-year-olds delaying their retirement if Computers Are Gonna Do It in another ten years?
Nevermind the baby-brained cost-benefit analysis of pulling in under-educated teenagers for low margin labor or stalling burnouts from leaving the workforce. “Work Harder, Not Smarter” appears to be the motto of the modern capitalist.
