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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • They’re mostly a bunch of neo-colonists that believe in western exceptionalism and won’t spend any time learning about the country the west occupied for over 20 years, let alone the complicated dynamics of the country.

    I mean legit half the comments are variants of “We need to civilize the savages”.

    Reminds me of all the crocodile tears against leaving Afghanistan in the first place “Think of the women!” they cried, well what happened when the country was dealing with a famine (which of course impacted millions of Afghani women) and the US stole half of Afghani assets at a time they desperately needed it? crickets.

    Propaganda is a hell of a drug.



  • It’s not about specs or scope, it’s about designing a game to be actually FUN.

    This is the key point that these publishers and studios are trying to avoid.

    • How much of most AAA budgets are spent on designing microtransaction psychologically manipulative money sinks (dark designs)?
    • How much of most AAA budgets are spent on creating addiction in the player-base so that they keep playing the game (and spending money)?
    • How much of most AAA budgets are spent on bullshit DLC (not actual new content)?
    • How much of most AAA budgets are spent on bullshit to satisfy shareholders?
    • How much of most AAA budgets are spent on shit the devs don’t want, but executives do?
    • How much of most AAA budgets are spent on bullshit padding for marketing purposes?
    • How much of most AAA budgets are spent on bullshit DRM?

    And keep in mind, by budgets here, I mean both the dollar amount AND time spent by devs that could be spent elsewhere (which is part of the dollar amount since salaries, but I wanted to make it clear that time spent is also important).

    Some of the absolute best games in the industry have literally none of that, and people still want to play and buy them years after release because gasp they’re actually fun, but these publishers and devs don’t want to compare to those, because they WANT the industry to be a bunch of “GAAS” bullshit that’s basically a vacuum pushed into people’s wallets, cause hey, if it worked for Candy Crush…


  • That site didn’t give much info.

    I’m guessing you only looked at the summary then.

    It says they are hard working people who are underexposed to political info and don’t feel they can decide.

    That’s not what it said.

    Besides that making them fucking morons (sorry), that still doesn’t excuse their inaction.

    There’s plenty of data there that explains their inaction. Your refusal to read it doesn’t make you right.

    It all comes down to giving people a reason they can understand to take the time to vote.

    Again, asking an hourly wage worker that can barely make ends meet already to travel/transit and then wait 9+ hours in line to vote is completely unrealistic and not something they should be blamed for.

    But hey, like the other guy, keep calling them fucking morons, I’m sure it’ll work out great. /s











  • This feels like one of two things;

    1- Their threats aren’t actually working, and they don’t have enough quality mods to replace the ones they’ve overthrown (as evidenced by subs where the mod teams were nuked remaining frozen)

    2- PR move to pretend like they’re listening and reduce anger.

    Seriously, what is the point of this attempt AFTER they’ve nuked so many mods and users?

    Edit: I feel like this comment is right on the money

    wasure_boshi

    better yet, they will listen but only in “small groups” of people “they pick” as to curate the the overall mod “response” and then will claim that all mods across all communities will share this same slated opinion.

    Watch.