laerinelt.bsky.social
Unreal developer in training, trying to make sense of the world. He/them. Stuck in the middle of the warzone known as Ukraine. A bit of an astronomy nerd.
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Skill system being designed in 2 weeks really explains a lot. It will never cease to amaze me how Starbreeze leadership has managed to fuck up what really should've been an easy hit game.
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And the Nazi concept of Lebensraum was based on Manifest Destiny.
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It's like those "as seen on TV" gadgets. Many of them were invented to help people with mobility issues. But then companies went "But what if we market it to lazy people?" and the the rest is history.
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Yeah, but finding a use for other ingredients is kind of the point of meal planning. Obviously, if you buy 500 grams of meat to make 2 burritos and let the rest rot, you'll end up losing money. But easier than ever to find recipes to use up ingredients.
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The point is that you can't compare the cost of 1 burrito you buy with the cost of ingredients to make your own. Obviously, the ingredients will cost more, because you won't be able to buy the ingredients for just a single burrito.
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While not the best example, but Concord had a price tag and died instantly. Perhaps it would've died even as a F2P, but your game would have to be absolutely amazing to justify a price tag these days.
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For co-op games, I wonder if making it so only one person needs a copy to play with their friends can work. Some games(like It Takes Two) do it already, and launching it after like 6 months since release can make it easy to convince your friends to try the game without killing the release sales.
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It does kinda seem like with those massive live service games with constant substantial support, you can't just make an indie multiplayer game and survive. But even in the past, so many neat indie multiplayer games died. I'm thinking of Monday Night Combat, Loadout and Lead and Gold.
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Warframe is probably one of the bigger indie hits, though by this point they aren't indie. Payday 2 has also managed to maintain 10k+ playerbase for over a decade until recently.
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Yup, apparently, it's somehow been spun out of a thread on a Buffy fan forum. Kind of like how Snopes exists because of usenet discussions.
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The right will promise a better budget to get into power and then blame the left when it inevitably cannot deliver.
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Probably because those aren't as focused on how people look, which reduces the creepiness of it.
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Pretty much. Lots of fun stuff like "selling promises to not cut down decorative trees(which wouldn't be cut down anyway) for carbon credits".
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It's an attempt for businesses to keep emitting CO2 while reducing emissions on paper. That's really all there is to it. It's much easier for businesses to pay some money to keep emissions than to reduce them in the first place.
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Educating only works if people want to be educated. But most people would rather hear "Elect me and economy good" than be educated on complex economic and social theories.
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Yeah, at this point, elections are a popularity contest. Voters aren't educated and/or interested enough to actually research what your platform is. So it's all about bullshitting your way to power and the left should recognize that.
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The problem is that many people happily touch the stove over and over again.
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Always makes me wonder where we would be if Supreme Court didn't hand that election to Bush. Though given the fossil fuel lobby, I doubt even Al Gore could've done that much.
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But didn't you hear? Activision devs said CoD is apolitical and the player base likes how the game has no politics in it.
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And for some reason, the art direction for character models is considerably worse than the environment.
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"Layers of complexity" is a good description of Dota, so having that for Deadlock is par for the course.
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Nah, he only means it for himself and his C-suite buddies. Regular employees get the "robbed out of any potential for joy" bit.
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He's being prosecuted while still being allowed to run for president. With Bin Laden, everyone acted like guilt was a given. With Trump, there's a very good reason that he'll participate in elections while still being prosecuted for obstructing the previous elections.
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Yeah, but he was actively hiding. Trump is literally running for president.
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But then I'm using Pinterest.
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Aside from sharks being old, Polaris is a giant star(which is why it's so visible) and those have lifespans measured in millions of years, instead of billions, like our Sun.
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Current Ashens is bald, but Mr. Beast is somehow looking older than how Ashens looked like 10 years ago, and he was already in his 30s by then.
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Accelerationists of all stripes are some of the dumbest people around.
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Makes you wonder if, perhaps, their magical algorithm is a lot dumber than it seems and is mostly tuned to show you the most popular stuff against your wishes.
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I wish I could just tell it what I like. Scroll through categories and pick my likes and dislikes. But nah, that's too simple, gotta have it all depends on an algorithm.
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To be fair, Hamas being backed by Russia isn't hard to believe, though not for the stated reasons.
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That's the trick of it. Populist rhetoric convinces dumb people that right wingers are the "people's party".
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There's even a whole trope if engineers believing into complete bullshit.
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And then they believed that daycare centers across US forced children to participate in satanic rituals.
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At the same time, let's not pretend like this reaction is only possible because the CEO knows of some hidden harm. For all we know, they might be chemophobic and react the same to stuff like vaccines or synthetic medicine.
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Regulators not doing their job, I'd imagine.
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It would reduce emissions in the long run. Just adding extra taxes on personal vehicles inside cities and increasing the amount of public transport would reduce emissions for minimal infrastructure changes.
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From all we know about him, I think he is that stupid. He's another one of those game designers who have a massive ego because they worked on one successful game 20 years ago.