styr0soup.bsky.social
I play games on occasion. Twitter took the kids. He/Him.
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Always been weird about mods too. where I want to support devs and their vision vs. modding to make something new. I’m unclear how permission for modding works.
I wish more games did modding where they pay modders for high downloads. Some 3rd party mods client partnering with games would be great!
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The only people setting age limits on games are too young to understand what adulthood is. A naive young perception that it’s an otherworldly thing. But adulthood is a new chapter of our childhood selves — in a more matured sense — trying to enjoy life as best we can, and gaming achieves that goal.
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What are we supposed to do? Again, I love innovation. And new tech that helps the average person. Right now, this is just going a direction to cause more harm than good.
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Like, how do I keep up with a full AI database? Yes I can use it, but what’s protecting me from someone much cheaper overseas without labor protections to access the same database for 10x my position. And yes I can use it to, but when it is normalized. When it’s a primary function vs. just a tool…
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While I support AI as a tool, like Photoshop, it simply isn’t being restricted to that. And I think that’s a bad thing? I mean it is, without any protections to labor force, and with higher and higher expectations on the force to provide more and more value. It’s scary stuff. Man I’m just scared tbh
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I’m obviously not arguing that AI is better because it’s preferred. It’s important we keep conversation human. Connection. Interaction. All these things need to be human, even if it’s not the preference. AI is only getting better, at rates we can’t grow past.
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Simply terrifying, and the reality is, it is not nearly as inferior as people say. In fact, in some applications, it’s preferred by end users over talking to people. Anecdotal, but there’s something twisted about preferring a platform designing itself to tell people what they prefer to hear.
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It’s more so a conversation of “this game is not for me” vs. “this game is bad.” All that nuance drowns on social media, especially with character limits. For example, Bloodborne is not a game for me, but it’s wrong for me to call it bad just because it didn’t suit my preferences.
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Tales of Arise did this to me. Battle mechanics in JRPGs irk me (usually).
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Think now vs. Overwatch. An in-game event with Transformers brand or Cowboy Bebop. These were skin sales for individual accounts. What if it was a movie theatre, letting players hop into a lobby, watch an animated short together and all gain a skin after. Or better yet, make this IRL like Rivals!
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Fortnite and Roblox are both great at this. Community driven modes, in-game events that benefit the experience for all. This is the key part of retaining a F2P community. A mutual benefit for both players and companies that retain them for future transactions.
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It’s an individual experience. quest dailies on YOUR account. It’s battle pass progress for your transactional gain. I’m almost thinking a communist angle on this. How do you make these experiences more collaborative? How do you bring the community together before you rely on individual retention?
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Stay strong, keep spirits high and most importantly if you are/ are at risk of being affected by this fascist regime’s blatant evil, stay safe. Not sorry for getting political, if you’re complaining about it you probably voted for it too.
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I have been and will remain immeasurably critical of this power trip we are witnessing. It is simply sad to see, and I hope we can at the very least find compromise to reduce the harm that’s fast approaching. And when even compromise feels laughable, it’s just sad to see America come to this man.