MysticKetchup

Maybe Quackenbush’s approach could’ve saved Valve some headaches along the way.

Oh so their suggestion is that Valve should have bowed to conservative censorship even earlier? What a waste of an article

Let us filter out the AI videos cowards

Yeah, they always talk about UBI as a pie in the sky fantasy. Anytime they bring it up the real question they should be asked is how are they working to expand the current systems of welfare such as Medicare or housing assistance. And murderers like Elon Musk that cut life-saving aid for millions of people should not even be part of the conversation

Yeah, taxing the average consumer more but refusing to tax billionaires is regressive and dumb as hell. Newsom is a sellout

Was watching this one, glad to hear that they pulled off the mechanics well, but disappointed that it’s so buggy. Will probably grab it after they’ve patched it to be more stable

Everything has to be live service now. Can’t even blame it solely on the companies themselves, a game will go a few months without updating and I’ll see people online calling it a dead game

I wish there was a way that they could both somehow lose

One issue with video games now is that there are so many and they all take so much time to play now. And since companies push out games so quickly there’s no point buying anything before they push out a patch to fix all the bugs in the initial release, might as well use that time to play some of the games I already have and then pick up what I want on sale.

I’ll happily pay full price for a short, creative indie game, but that’s already probably much cheaper than a big budget game anyways

At this point we need to treat AI web scrapers as DDoS attacks and prosecute the companies and people involved the same way we would those

As great news that this is, pretty fucked up that all of their very reasonable demands have to actually be negotiated for and aren’t just basic rights for workers

At the end of the day it’s still a video game designed to be fun to a mass market of consumers, even if it shows the rough parts players aren’t actually dealing with everything back then

I’m just saying there’s a difference between playing a game designed to provide a fun and rewarding experience and actually going through those harsh realities in real life

RDR2 does a good job of putting you in the shoes of someone 125y ago

Does it? I wasn’t alive then, and I doubt any of the devs were either. Even if you’re going off first hand sources it can still be hard to know if the perception we have today is actually accurate to how it was back then

I understand that it can feel that way, but remember that video games are romanticized interpretations that make things way easier than they are in real life. Life back then wasn’t RDR2 and there’s no guarantee that you’d find the community you’re imagining, and a much higher chance you’d have to deal with the harsh realities of those times

Switched to Octopi as well and had to configure it a little to get it setup but now I almost forget that I even switched

What’s the benefit of going private for a company that’s owned by private equity? Like from a regular standpoint, not being subjected to the constant growth demands of shareholders is good, but I wouldn’t think private equity cares about that as long as they’re making money