Literally never heard of it but the dev thinks if I get it for free I will want to give him money. It shows a level of confidence in the product that encourages me want to check it out.
A side effect of so many streaming channels is that they are all feeling the pressure to keep up with the catalog depth of Netflix and Disney/Hulu. This results in lots of mediocre content being produced to create the illusion of lots of stuff to watch. But no one wants to watch it or hasn’t heard of it to build mind hype for it. All that content is wasted money to prop up a failing service that is bleeding every contender dry. There will be more like Paramount. Consolidation is coming.
Valve made Half Life, TF2, DOTA2, Portal, etc. Each game is a giant in its field and has made Valve popular. Hi Rez has made… problems for existing fans of Tribes.
When Hi-Rez can compete in the same league as Valve, then their words have value. For now it’s peewee league mad at varsity for being too good.
Clouds will form over the spot as a warm wind blows in from the southeast. Flecks of rain will fall and a slow rumble will build from below as the ground shakes and a hole appears from the fallen ground. A representative of each will be sent: a sheriff, an artist, a socially conscious libertarian, and a racist.
They will each give you one gift and then the sheriff arrests you and takes you to be judged by the racists. The others watch on in quiet disapproval, to the abortion or the arrest it isn’t clear. The racist then says “As foretold, the skies open and you’re on trial in another state.”
The law must apply to all, including public servants. As they are beholden to the public, they are subject to review and FOIA requests are automatically granted for the content.
Remember the rule of authoritarians: if someone wants to stop you from being suspicious, they want to stop you from doing the same things they’ve done.
Ah, the yearly ritual continues. Bethesda makes a game that needs bug fixing, let’s the players fix it with mods, then B tries getting players to pay for the mods in the hopes they can finally charge money for mods that are needed to fix the game.
Classic Todd. Can’t wait until he quits making games. Bethesda might actually use a new game engine besides the Creation Engine.
When the dev doesn’t have enough resources or time or werewithall to make different areas with different mobs, they reuse the existing areas to pad out the grind. Level scaling is a sign of lazy development.
Reactionary policies are always a bad attempt at solving the problem and it’s hard for many folks to see that, much less deeply understand it enough to guide their decisions. People see something they don’t and they want it gone, not to study it to banish it.
It’s part of the appeal for right wing parties. Authoritarians use force to squash the problem and it feels good to see toxic equivalency meted out to those who hurt us. The goal isn’t to stop crime from happening, it’s to cause crime to know what it is up against and that will stop most petty crime. But organized crime will rise up and become a second government to those who wanted strength over study, brawn over brains.
Let them live in their cage. They made it, let them enjoy the fruits of their labor.
He gets away with it, which is why he’s doing it. Once other countries close their borders to Russia, the blood fued to retake Crimea will become very real to Russians.
No, the system that maintains these unsustainable standards isn’t the problem. It’s the people who don’t fit into the mold. We need to change people to preserve the system!
Comparing the Civs steals the joy they bring for their various reasons.
Civ 1 was unlike anything else and so legendary it created the 4X genre.
Civ 2 had the best espionage until an expansion for 4. Civ2 also defined the scope for all future Civs.
Civ 3 was fine. Resources were a good addition and tile quirks, like Floodplains on top of another base tile like desert, helped bring tons strategy and gave the ability to grow Tall.
Civ 4 was probably peak Civ for many people, especially including DLCs.
Civ 5 removed unit stacking and made happiness a resource.
Civ 6 emphasized the city development aspect and brought back the climate stuff from 2, 3, and 4.
They are all good but they are not collectively suitable for every person. Civ6 is amazing but it took me literally 30 hours to finally have it click. I also have 550 hours in Civ 6 and over 1200 in Civ 5. CiV is also a high water mark but it overshadows the real value and fun in 6.
It’s a shame most folks will ignore us and say 6 was bad for being too game like.
Zaslov’s plan is everything has to actively make money and all the free space on screen should be making money. Fuck the creators who make the things he sells, he wants the creations to always make money. Things that don’t make money aren’t culturally valuable and are thrown away. So that’s the directive WB seems to be following and Multiversus is the latest casualty to Zaslov’s Plan.
Seeing her in the Behind The Scenes footage of Labyrinth made me double take. I had to convince my family that Dr Crusher was in the movie and it wasn’t until after IMDB came out that they believed that Cheryl McFadden and Gates McFadden were the same person.
Yep. But it is still “Early Access” so it isn’t finished. But like other early access games, it’s a playable game. Think first person Freelancer or a better Elite Dangerous.
People paid money for a game to be made and it’s both being worked on and has playable content, just like other early access games. Why does Star Citizen get the hate for doing the same thing as other games?
This is why I learned to use metaphors. People love hearing about something if it was similar to something else. And not some dumb simile shit, like actual comparative metaphors.
“Why yes, the Internet IS a series of tubes. And the water pressure is bandwidth, the ability to move a volume of data in a set time. And each sprinkler is a user who may have individual restrictions but ultimately gets the same water as everyone else. That’s what the Internet is Grandpa.”
I dunno. Math asks me to just accept it’s normal to have 60 watermelons and is trying move bulk orders of melons on a regular car. The goal is to figure out the problem and not accept that the person who is a wholesale watermelon dealer in denial is commiting tax evasion.
Or to discover that the melon seller has a regular job in ag and gets a bunch of melons on the side from the field and sells the harvest at cost to make up the part of their paycheck that was paid in perishable food.
Should we shame the seller for breaking the law or sympathize for being forced into that situation? People don’t have the energy to care; they just came for a maths question.
Nolan needed that to make the movie entertaining. Corman could use that to make the movie entertaining. Corman had a gift for making people enjoy the hour and a half folks give him. It won’t win awards but folks like to shit on smiles when they can laugh.
No offense to the great Patricia Tallman, the fantastic actor and stunt person largely known for her work on Babylon 5 as well as the 1990 remake of Night of the Living Dead. The wide eyes just seemed an odd choice....
The big companies, known as consolidators, have bought hundreds of clinics from 2012 onwards, according to records and reports, across the country, because pets and vets are big money....
My friend was desperate for work and found a job with a veterinarian. The job was a vet tech but the work was euthanizing dogs and puppies for the county. He quit after a few months and has never been the same.
Now imagine it’s a big, faceless Corp that wants the government contracts for humane services. A worker will be forced to agree with how the company does business while the corporate bean counters look for ways to save money on euthanasia. Gas chambers will be manned by broken wage slaves who are only employed because they are detached from their emotions.
Most households have a TV with TV speakers, only capable of L/R. Why pay money and have people sit through a corporate short film for a feature most won’t use?
Almost a week after some of his officers violently cleared out a peaceful Palestine solidarity protest on the University of Alberta campus, Edmonton Police Chief Dale McPhee finally showed up Thursday to make his case at a police commission meeting....
The joke is the meta connection from 3 movies spanning 2 IPs with a single actor from both saying one line. It’s super thin as a premise but it works like dynamite here.
Golden Rice is the most obvious example of how wrong you are on all your points. Golden Rice is GMO to be easier to grow in bad locations and provides a lot more nutrients than non-GMO rice. It is cheap and easy to grow, intended to bring food nutrition to parts of the world that suffer from nutritional deficiency.
This one GMO food solved blindness, diabetes, and death from lack of vitamin A. Many MANY more foods are modified for our benefit that don’t attract people who are scared of the words Genetically Modified. Do you even know how things are genetically modified? Breeding programs that specifically target for traits. No one is going into the DNA to make 5G tracking chips or Super COVID.
The developer of Slay the Princess is encouraging those who can't afford it to pirate the game as a new Markiplier video goes viral. (www.pcgamesn.com)
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Captain, he has Manos. I suggest we turn around immediately set a course in any direction away from him at warp 9. (lemmy.world)
What Went Wrong: Inside Paramount’s Failed Merger Talks and the Battle to Salvage the Company (variety.com)
The Paramount Skydance merger talks have been halted by the Paramount side.
I'm not stuck in the Delta Quadrant with you. You're stuck in here with me! (lemmy.world)
[Second Wind] Hi-Rez CEO Claims Valve Is Overpowered | Cold Take (www.youtube.com)
Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis breaks 25% of the law. (lemmy.world)
Leak: EU interior ministers want to exempt themselves from chat control bulk scanning of private messages - EU Reporter (www.eureporter.co)
'Cheating and exploiting undermine the integrity of our game': Over 600 Star Citizen accounts have been suspended for racking up in-game currency (www.pcgamer.com)
Finger licking rule (lemmy.world)
Starfield’s Paid Mods Ignite A Review Bombing On Steam (kotaku.com)
Diablo 4 tried to repackage Diablo 2's grind for the modern era, but series overseer Rod Fergusson says the "consumptive nature of a live service" made it unfeasible (www.gamesradar.com)
‘Crime is out of hand’: how young people turned to far right in east German city (www.theguardian.com)
Germans under 25 gave the AfD 16% of their vote in the European elections, with particular support in the east...
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HELLDIVERS 2 - PATCH 01.000.400 (store.steampowered.com)
Epic won’t update Fortnite to run on the Steam Deck. Tim Sweeney says Linux is ‘a terrifically hard audience to serve’ (2022) (www.theverge.com)
Space Station 14 is a modern reimagining of a cultish and richly complex online RPG (www.pcgamer.com)
It's not just convicts. Russia is forcing its African migrants and students to fight for them in Ukraine. (www.businessinsider.com)
Russia is replenishing its troops with an unlikely source — African migrants and students....
South Korea thinktank suggests girls start school earlier to raise birthrate (www.theguardian.com)
Critics label as ‘absurd’ idea from government-backed thinktank as country seeks to address population decline...
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TBH 6 was kind of a downgrade from 5 (lemmy.today)
97 bricks of coke were found (rule) (slrpnk.net)
MultiVersus is a Smash Bros. clone that feels like a smartphone game, spoiled by its monetisation (www.eurogamer.net)
Kirk gets dancing advice from McCoy before his chorus line audition (lemmy.world)
Behind ‘Suicide Squad,’ the Year’s Biggest Video-Game Flop (www.bloomberg.com)
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Indie dev baffled after acquaintance clones his game, puts it on Steam, and acts like it's no big deal: 'Happens every day homie' (www.pcgamer.com)
Gruntflip rule (sh.itjust.works)
Take-Two is reportedly set to close Roll7 and Intercept and sell off Private Division (www.eurogamer.net)
The Sony State of Play 'open-world dress-up adventure' game and the RPG where you carry a child on your back are both headed for PC (www.pcgamer.com)
I can't understand why it never caught on... (lemmy.world)
Russian disinformation sites linked to former Florida deputy sheriff, research finds (www.nbcnews.com)
Kerbal Space Program 2 developer says Intercept team will be laid off in June (www.videogameschronicle.com)
Star Citizen Pushes Through the $700 Million Raised Mark and No, There Still Isn’t a Release Date (www.ign.com)
Autism rule (midwest.social)
Why People Don’t Catch The Politics In Their Favorite Games (aftermath.site)
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No offense to the great Patricia Tallman, the fantastic actor and stunt person largely known for her work on Babylon 5 as well as the 1990 remake of Night of the Living Dead. The wide eyes just seemed an odd choice....
Corporations are buying local vet clinics — raising questions about price, choice and quality of care (www.cbc.ca)
The big companies, known as consolidators, have bought hundreds of clinics from 2012 onwards, according to records and reports, across the country, because pets and vets are big money....
Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo (www.videogameschronicle.com)
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Why the U of A Protest Camp Raid Was a Disaster (thetyee.ca)
Almost a week after some of his officers violently cleared out a peaceful Palestine solidarity protest on the University of Alberta campus, Edmonton Police Chief Dale McPhee finally showed up Thursday to make his case at a police commission meeting....
Car Talk with Martok: No Sharpie Makeover? (lemmy.world)
Car Talk with Martok. All new episodes every Thursday!...
Gunman Who Shot Slovak PM Linked to Pro-Russian Extremist Group (www.kyivpost.com)
Seedless Catholics Against Watermelons? (sh.itjust.works)