fracture [he/him]

this take in the article was really funny

My guess at the real reason for all this grave dancing is that it feels like a victory over FOMO. If the new $40 game sucks and no one is playing it, I can safely go back to whatever I was playing before without worrying that anyone’s having fun without me.

i don’t know what most people’s reasons for deriving enjoyment from concord’s failure are, but there’s no way FOMO cracks the top 3 lmao

seeing the trailer, i definitely thought it was a bandwagon hero shooter that might have had some creativity if a bunch of suits didn’t say “make it GotG”, but realistically, it launched with little fanfare, in competition with valve’s first new game (beta) in ages. not that it was fated to fail but it didn’t have a lot going for it

can they just please make a lower budget game for the sake of branching out instead of pushing millions into a game expecting it to explode in sales? no? too much to ask? ok…

not that we should be equivocating meth and adhd meds in the adhd community 😭

but otherwise yea, very good point being made. i didn’t realize that was a criteria

really good little detective noir game. i think i finished it in one or two sessions. would recommend

the video game blurb rightfully points out the improved UX on point and clicks, which was a huge improvement on the formula i appreciated a lot

thank you, i appreciate that. i’m one of those people trying to make it happen

it’s not a controversial take to say a message’s tone affects how it’s taken. could you explain why it’s so difficult for you to hear the request “could you be nice”?

or do you genuinely believe a message’s tone doesn’t affect how it’s received? because if so, i’ve been wasting a lot of effort on being nice to you, myself :p (that’s a joking tone, because it’s almost certainly not going to be obvious)

you can explain all of that and be nice about it, you don’t need to assume that people’s motivation is to “get theirs”. like you say, most people have grown up with several decades of propaganda, it’s not their fault they see unions as bad. it takes time to undo that stuff and it’s hard enough as it is without assuming their motivations or blaming them for something they had no control over

you’re not wrong, but you are being unnecessarily antagonistic, and i would appreciate it if you didn’t push people against unionizing by being antagonistic about it. it’s hard enough to get a union going without shaming people for not doing it sooner

people are already suffering at the hands of capitalism. you don’t need to throw it in their face. and, y’know, maybe some people from the game industry browse lemmy. it’s almost like they’re probably just people like the rest of us

based

also i’m sorry, having done a similar journey

we need unions and unions need better protections than “can’t prevent layoffs”. unions need to make these painful for the company too

original i think https://www.deviantart.com/ptimm/art/A-New-Link-to-the-Past-551041132

at least explains why three inches seem to be cut off the bottom

i’m not sure there’s a lot of value in arguing that, since we have a fiat currency, the government can just make new money and no one has to pay for it. the argument will simply change from “people who need welfare are mooching on taxpayers” to “people who need welfare are causing inflation”. it’s not really changing anything

the argument we should be making, as progressives, is that it’s fucking inhumane to let people die on the streets. we’re wealthy enough as a country that we can afford the taxes to ensure that never needs to happen. of course, if we implement universal healthcare, then you’ll be paying for your own healthcare, as well as others’, and we’ll all benefit from it being cheaper

the same goes for housing, etc. but arguing from a position of strength (i.e. we live in a country wealthy enough to do this) feels a lot more persuasive, to me, at least for an argument in the abstract - something you’d see on television, for example. it’s less persuasive for individuals who are obviously struggling, but for them, the argument is simply the fact that the system isn’t really working for them. and what would universal healthcare, etc, do…?

game developers need to unionize yesterday

i actually had the same reservations, but as i thought about it more, i think stray actually makes more sense as a movie. that way you can give the cat more personality and drive, rather than trying to capitalize on people’s desires to be a cat and do cat things. the game really shoehorns in the narrative, especially past the first half. it would have worked better with a more personified creature imo, since the game really ends up being driven by the narrative rather than the whimsy of the player (which is what i would have expected from a game whose focus was on doing cat things)

for those in america, CWA, Communication Workers of America, is a union that’s trying to reach out to the developers in the game industry

in a week, my friend. on the 24th

damn she got evicted for not going to the same church?? that’s such ass. down with landlords

tokyo jungle is like this, although not limited to playing as cats. cats are one of many animals you can play as

i’m running psychonauts 2, really loving the level design and story and characters. it has really really good gay representation too!

in case you’re like me and didn’t know, PFAS refer to per- and polyflyoroalkyl substances, which seem to be correlated with negative health outcomes (re: developmental problems, cancer, fertility issues, etc) and are particularly tricky because they take a long time to break down.

they’re highly hydrophobic substances used in e.g. teflon. their use has decreased as we’ve come to understand their harms more, but we’re still dealing with the results of their high usage from the past. certain industries seem to still use it (stain repellants, polishes, paints, coatings)