Man I need to find the record I have that came with this comic.
Man I need to find the record I have that came with this comic.
I have a feeling their comment was tongue in cheek. I absolutely agree too, for while I do think there is some merit in artificial difficulty and creativity within set restrictions, I also enjoy games much more when I emulate them and have save states.
I think a great example that bridges the gap between more modern-style hardware and daily living, and old difficult repeatable gameplay is the era of the Gameboy Color. So many of the games for these style of consoles were meant to be played in bursts (arcades, anyone?) due to the on-the-go nature, and since that fit so in line with the already existing mechanisms gaming had – artificial difficulties by design – there is a very streamlined progression from 1980’s games and early 2000’s games.
So, what changed? Well let me tell you, it wasn’t the Blackberry.
Honestly, the iPhone. As mobile game consoles like the Nintendo DS got better, games got more fully fledged like the home console games were. Developers were recreating game experiences like Spyro, putting in huge games in tiny mobile consoles (Toon Link, anyone?). Yes, the Nintendo DS still had its shovelware but the iPhone was the new bridge that gapped the old arcade style pay-to-play. Games with artificial difficulty now had micro-transactions allowing you to bypass the designed limitations. As mobile consoles got better games, mobile gaming got far, far worse, leading us to “”““random””“” RNG -gacha and lootboxes and all the great gambling starters.
That’s only further developed for offshoots of software. Just look at all the junk between the: FOSS stores, Apple Store, Play Store, Samsung Store, Meta-Quest Store, going even further some devices have their own separate store entirely. And now these stores ship updates, so you don’t even have to finish your game before selling it!
Ironically, Nintendo paved the way for a really great opportunity, then capitalists saw the opportunity to exploit the free market and now there is literal garbage everywhere.
Twist twist: you only charge .20 cents for a subscription cause there’s a shit ton of blind people and you’d still be a millionaire in 3 months.
Twist twist twist: once you’re set for life all future profits go to non-profits and charities, funding millions of dollars for restoring vision.
Twist twist twist twist: in order to continue the overall positive of charity, you start working on ways to cause blindness again so their subscription goes to other charities
petitions to get dwarf tag added so DRG can finally win an award
Loses to dwarf fortress
Especially when people look at him talk like this and then emulate that. Thinking that it’s no big deal.
Is it stealing if it’s been dead for 30 years? Or is it modernizing it?
I wonder what number of cents a month is more than what content creators get from youtube or their other sites (sans donation platforms like Patreon).
It could be interesting to set aside like $5 a month to have dividends of that go out to people you actively utilize.
It feels wrong paying for Spotify knowing the artists get jack shit. Why bother
That’s an interesting one. I feel like you’d get a fun 5-10 hours out of it but it always kind of caps out there. I go back to it every few years and after an hour I’m just kind of like, oh yeah.
Hope you like the smell of skunk or living in a gas mask, I have a vicious racoon that can steal :3
I don’t think that’s true. Opossum has the “startled” perk and Racoon has thumbs that allow for lock picking and wielding.
Unfortunately? Sounds like you’re a French bourgeoisie who needs an appointment with a guillotine!
I ask you, if there is one party that tries you stop you from voting in any way they can, doesn’t you not voting play into their hand?
It’s a great OS. Ran it for a long time
Nice, looking good! Are there ways to customize it to a users liking? You could get a pretty good theme store going I bet!
Boost is fairly extensive but there’s a lot of menus.
Hey, I know. Let’s add the option to hide menu options we’ll never use.
Producing a video and writing an essay are two very different forms of work.
But because there is a similar end result does not mean the process is remotely the same.
I see both of these on all constantly.
I liked tails more than any other Linux distro lol.
They were probably nude