Carighan

Carighan , 1 month ago

I mean if they listen to Joe Rogan, they don't seem to think much of themselves either tbh. That counts as self-harm.

Carighan , 1 month ago

Not even that, but usually this comes with the actual big target on your back: Being publicly traded.

Now of course, you can be publicly traded without being a big corp, and you can be a big corp that is held privately. But usually these big corpos are the ones that are on the stock market, and yes, the moment that happens everything becomes secondary to your actual responsibility: To the shareholders. Line must go up! And an easy one is to fire more workers.

Carighan , 1 month ago

Prey retroactively devaluaed Dishonored for me - as amazing as those were at their time, Prey showed what really could be obtained from the formula, and perfected every aspect of it.

Carighan , 1 month ago

What about Elerium-115?

Carighan , 1 month ago

Because the indie space is also a graveyard. Investors are increasingly wary of funding anything but a “guarantee” and plenty of studios have had to shutter because the funding they were promised was rescinded.

Maybe gaming has become too bloated as a concept if no company can ever produce a product with their own money any more, instead always listening entirely to investor cash.

Carighan , 1 month ago

but Dishonored, Deathloop, and Prey all did pretty well I thought

I thought Arkane Austin (the closed one) was only Prey of those. Which is a shame, because Prey was utterly fantastic.

Carighan , 1 month ago

Yeah the studio put out nothing but nice games. Sure, Ghostwire in particular wasn't stellar, but it was also enjoyable and pretty well done. Evil Within was dorky, but in just the right way. Hi-Fi was phenomenal, and that alone should have seen them physically behead every single higher manager at Bethesda before they tough anyone at Tango.

But alas, apparently if it ain't Fallout: Ghostwire or Fallout: Hi-Fi, then it doesn't matter. Manager bonuses ain't going to pay themselves (hrm... come to think of it, they do?), line has to go up!

Carighan , 1 month ago

SwitchU, if anything.

Carighan , 1 month ago

And yet it was one of the best gaming experiences ever, no matter the framerate and resolution.

Been a long time since fidelity was interesting to notice, tbh. Don't get me wrong, all else being equal I'd take 165Hz and 4k over 24Hz and 720p. But all else isn't equal. And the better game easily wins.

Carighan , 1 month ago

You either never worked with anything that did actual agile (to be fair, most don't) or you haven't done development in a long time if you think that.

Carighan , 1 month ago

[x] Blurgenfurl

Carighan , 1 month ago

If you're the Consort, that's an important part of your endgame scoring! (Stationfall board game 😛)

Carighan , 1 month ago

💖 Check out Microsoft Azure AI

No thank you, I won't.

Carighan , 1 month ago

Well this one comes with rootkit DRM and season passes, so it's no wonder it wants to be as online as possible.

Carighan , 1 month ago

This is just shutting down an already outdated API. Devs should be moving off of it, and now it has a year out set for full removal instead of just being deprecated.

Carighan , 1 month ago

I think the mistake was ever thinking that one company is "good" while the other is "bad". Companies are just different flavors of bad once they grow above a size of, well, once they are companies.

Carighan , 1 month ago

I dunno, I don't think the game would benefit from flat combat and meanigless crafting grinds.

Carighan , 1 month ago

Yeah same, bunch of my friends had been playing it for a week or two, but between the in game story, the season passes and the utterly intrusive DRM, I figured I'll wait for a good sale at least. Well, guess I'll be saving 100% on this, now!

Carighan , 1 month ago

I still don’t quite get why some people are defending manufacturers which remove the headphone jack on their phones…

Not defending, just utterly couldn't care either way. 🤷

Carighan , 1 month ago

Power User is if you don't actually know how to close tabs, aye.

Carighan , 1 month ago

Also isn't Manor Lords plodding along fairly well? Who cares if they take a long time, better release done than Ubisoft.

Carighan , 1 month ago

And actual pocket TVs. Interesting to see OP think they were never a thing. Don't get me wrong, they were shit, but they did exist!

Carighan , 1 month ago

Also if you get an oil drip tray from an auto shop you can put kitty litter in it and the cat doesn’t have to step over anything to use it.

This is what my parents always did. Works perfectly fine, just need to clean it daily or twice daily.

Carighan , 1 month ago

Yeah because in some ways it's unrealistic. But we need a decision on what the "expected lifetime" of a video game is , I suppose. Much like how for rental flats there exists standards how long a kitchen, a bathroom, etc, last on average until they need refurbishment.

So if it comes down to say 10 years, then you cannot shut down your online services before those 10 years are up. As video games can be expected to last that long. Although I wonder whether this means they could shut it down after 5y if they refund everyone 50% of their sales price.

Carighan , 1 month ago

Yeah it'd be tricky. I would rather see a law that requires companies to keep their games accessible for X years minimum from release, which also affects online services.

Then at least it's a universal single standard.

Carighan , 1 month ago

It's never too late for a post-natal abortion.

Carighan , 1 month ago

You must have done something bizarre to your browser if Gmail logs you out every 5 minutes.

Carighan , 2 months ago

That's why you ignore all comments from usernames that are like the default ones. Has been that way for a long time, tbh.

Carighan , 2 months ago

The word implies an unhealthy and incorrect degree. Otherwise you're not radicalized, just representing an opinion.

Carighan OP , 2 months ago

Well yeah it is. It's also heavy on the mtx, non-pushy as they stay (for now). Compared to something like DRG I really don't feel the appeal, apart from maybe having overplayed DRG at this point.

Carighan , 2 months ago

Going to be called YouTube Podcasts. Soon to be spun off into Google Wallet + Podcasts, then to be renamed Podcasts Pay, then Pay Podcasts, then Google Chrome with Podcasts.

Carighan , 2 months ago

Meta is taking over the fediverse now, uh huh. Thought we all blocked it?

Carighan , 2 months ago

Or they might just be quite into the open and federated concept, above all else.

It's not your instance, so what do you care? Again, half the point is that you can run your instance however you want, and talk to whoever you want or do not want. Federated. Mastodon or Lemmy aren't distributed systems, they're federated systems.

Carighan , 2 months ago

Good reminder how confusing Lemmy's particular markdown flavor is. TY.

This explains why I keep seeing those colons in plenty posts.

Carighan , 2 months ago

Exploitative patterns like those idiotic youtube thumbnails the creators are using to draw extra attention to emotions not actually present in the video?

Or making half hour videos for all of 14 sentences of actual content, to stretch the ad-income as much as they can.

Yeah, that. Wish I could give a video -1 view instead of +1 after clicking onto it. Fuck youtubers such as this one, they're part of the problem and don't get to have a say in what we should or should not try to care about.

Carighan , 2 months ago

You're new to Ubisoft, right? Ubisoft needs online on installation cm because their shit is so buggy that not even the installer could make it all the way without a crash if not for day 1 patches.
No need for DRM if the game doesn't work!

Carighan , 2 months ago

For bonus points take their code and completely go wild with utterly random indentation and line breaks, just to drive the point home. 😈

Carighan , 3 months ago

Which begs the question what the actual intention behind the allegory was.

I suspect that pursuing knowledge is bad and you should not do it and trust in god instead? It fits with the church's then (and partially now) stance I suppose.

Carighan , 3 months ago

That's a cat wheel. It's not something that comes natural to cats but if they're used to it from kitten age they learn to use it to expend energy when they have their zoomies. Handy in households without long distances to run in those situations.

Hard to be sure, but I suspect specifically it's a One Fast Cat

Carighan , 3 months ago

This reads so weird.

The company is... just a consultation company? The kind of one you're supposed to hire when working on a script including minorities et al to ensure you're not accidentally getting something wrong or presenting it in a stereotypical or atypical way?

And for some reason they're angry about someone listing games they've worked on, as if any kind of exposure would ever be bad for a consultation company that, by its very nature, usually works in the background and hence finds it a bit difficult to get exposure?

And at the same time, someone makes a Steam curator list because they're somehow pissed some devs are doing something devs ought to do, hire a company specialized in character writing instead of letting someone less experienced do it?

Do people really, in 2024, not have any bigger issues so they 're busty with this shit?!

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Ah, it's a very biased "article" that clearly just wants to riff on the consulting company further as if they're responsible for games being bad, not the devs actually making the games. I also frequently blame the visual marketing ad designer for the graphics driver crashes, aye.

Carighan , 3 months ago

what makes game great is the effort put in not whether it is woke/anti-woke

More importantly, the moment someone uses the word "woke" in such a context you already know that:

• They don't actually know what they're talking about.
• They are the problem, not the games they're complaining about.

Carighan , 3 months ago

I struggle to think of an otherwise good game they have "destroyed" by "forcing" a narrative or token characters.

That is to say, I don't think I can point to a case where the game would have been otherwise good. Adding badly written characters to bad games does make them if anything marginally better (at least they're consistent 😅), plus unless the devs completely lost control of their own project the consultation company would not actually implement the characters. They'd give you background stories, profiles, example interaction scenes where they took scenes and re-did them with their characters, or example lists of character archetypes to utilize this profile in.

The actual (bad) writing, (bad) characters and (bad) narrative are still up to the devs to (badly) add.

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I mean just going by their official project list, I can only personally mark out Suicide Squad, BattleShapers and Sable as bad, and none of these games needed their inclusionism - such as it is, you could argue Suicide Squad makes a mockery of it anyways - to be terrible games, they were plenty able of being that on their own. Plus again, it's the devs doing that, not the consulting company.

Carighan , 3 months ago

The "article" is very clearly just a call to forther hate on SGI. It's crazy to what lengths people go to justify their bad purchases, desperately clinging to whatever explanation they can cook up for why there is no self-blame to apply for having bought into the shit that is Suicide Squad. No no, you see, the game would have been awesome if not for that WOKE consulting company! If not for them this would have been a 10/10, I could not have known it'd be bad!