“Popcorn movies” are a big thing, and most of those big investments are these. They’re “turn off you brain for two hours and chill” events. A game, even the most chill ones, almost always last much longer and require more engagement. That is the defining trait of the medium. If you can totally turn your brain off then you didn’t make a game, you made an expensive movie. Games, for players, are an investment. Movies often aren’t.
Sometimes, yes. Sometimes, no. Just look at Kerbal Space Program, for example. It pretty radically changed a few times through Early Access.
Anyone who didn’t notice it is blind. The channel became increasingly more click bait over the years. At this point I rarely watch their videos. It used to be really informative content, but now it’s still vaguely informative but usually more entertainment.
You should finish Deathloop. I have two major issues with it, and the first is that it’s too short. By the time you really get going you’re about done. My second issue is there’s only one correct solution. There’s a lot of alternative solutions that allow you to accomplish different goals, but, for completing the game, there’s only one path.
It’s sad that Arkane made Prey (which is one of the best games ever made) and then Deathloop (which is a very good concept, if flawed), and then we’re forced to make Redfall. I think they lost most of their talent over that, so I don’t suspect we’ll ever get anything like those again from that studio.
Yeah, me neither. I’m just clarifying that it’s not like it’s only available in one place. It’s a feature of Lemmy that votes are public. I want to make sure everyone knows that. It’s not just one rogue place that made it public. It’s just how Lemmy functions.
It’s not just one URL that let’s you view it. Any admin can of any instance. That’s how the service to view votes works. They spun up an instance and made it accessible for anyone.
At scale, yeah, it’s got a lot going on. Especially if you need to ensure a consistent product, there’s a lot of testing and measuring that needs to be done. It really isn’t all that complex of a process though. It was discovered by accident after all. Basically you take grain, cook it to make the sugars available, let it cool, and add yeast. Then you wait for a few weeks while the yeast digests the sugars to make alcohol (and other stuff, like the vaccine in this case).
Different grains/sugar containing material, other products (like hops), ratios, and yeasts will make different products, but at the end of the day sugar + (the right kind of) yeast without oxygen makes alcohol. It’s called beer when that’s wheat/barley and hops usually. It’s called mead when it’s honey, wine when it’s grapes, vodka if it’s potatoes and distilled, etc. Some governments have more strict laws on what can be called what (Germany’s Reinheitsgebot is notable strict).
The process though isn’t that complex. Making a specific thing can be though. A chef at a nice restaurant is going to put a lot more effort in to be consistent than you will be cooking at home, but you’re both making the same thing. It’s the same for beer.
I’m not sure if you know something I don’t, but mead is a fermented honey drink. The process is very similar to making beer (I’ve made both, a lot more beer though). Neither is particularly complex. Anyone can do it if they have a recipe, and even making a recipe isn’t that difficult, if you have the right tools.
Well, it was built for KDE, so I’d hope so.
That doesn’t hurt BG3, and Larian has been adding free content to BG3 over time, so really the longer you wait the better it’ll be. Still, it’s definitely worth the price. It’s a pretty long game, and good for the entire duration. Its also pretty replayable.
You are absolutely incorrect. I have a really powerful modern computer, and I can’t do this. Well, I can, just with low framerate or significant upscaling (the latter I would call not the highest settings anyway). I can run them on higher settings usually, but not maxed. Hell, some of the worse performance ones I need to turn down to get a framerate I find acceptable (at least 60 for most games, usually 100+).
I mostly don’t care to play AAA titles anyway though. Not only are they performance hogs usually, I just don’t find them interesting. I’d almost always rather play an indie game that wants to experiment.
Remember, most of the Germans who supported Hitler didn’t realize the Jews were being massacred.
This is not true. It’s a myth. A lot of Germans claim to have not known, but it was widely available knowledge.
And we didn’t go to war to stop Nazi ideology, we went to war to stop Germany from conquering the entire fucking world through military means.
Eh, some of both. Notable, there was almost a fascist coup in the US, known as The Business Plot or The Wall Street Putsch.
Trying to stop an ideology with force only makes that ideology stronger, gives it validation.
The implication of this statement is that Fascists can never succeed because their method of action is force. If you were correct, anything they do would actually only make what they’re attacking stronger. I think we both know this isn’t true. Nazi Germany didn’t fall from the inside. The Nazis gained almost total control over the nation, through force.
I’m not one to rule out tools. We should ridicule, we should talk, and we should fight. Yeah, the person fighting can’t really talk, and same for the person ridiculing. That doesn’t mean these aren’t tools that need to be used on occasion. They are there more to show not everyone agrees with them. Discourse is to make people who do agree with them change. They have different goals, so their tactics are different.
It’s not a false equivalence. It’s hyperbole. It’s meant to give an extreme example that you wouldn’t agree with, which follows the same logic, to disprove your logic.
I guess you also think it’s cruel to not let children run in the road when they want to, right?
If you’re not providing the right stimulation for your pet, in a safe and healthy environment where they don’t cause issues for others, then that’s on you as a pet owner. Either don’t keep a pet or do your fucking job. They don’t get to make the decisions. You do.
Can you point to some other times in history where the threat of being beaten up has been effective in eradicating an ideology?
WWII?
Yeah, it usually doesn’t eradicate it. That’s basically never how we measure effectivity though. Being nice hasn’t either. Again, the point isn’t to change the person being attacked in these cases. It’s to show others that their views are not acceptable by society. It’s to show others that it isn’t a widely held belief and to not listen to them.
Yeah, unless we go on an all-out war against them it won’t be eradicated through violence. Growth can be slowed though. That’s why I said we need both violence and dialogue. They both can be useful tools.
No more than “you’re a shitty person because you’re okay with throwing trash on the ground outdoors.” Actually, it’s worse than that be cause it’s also bad for the health of the cat and the environment.
It probably won’t change that person (unless you kill them). It’s to show everyone else that it isn’t tolerated. It’s to prevent them from going around doing whatever they want as if it’s normal, which will make other people believe it’s acceptable and may start believing the same things.
I’m talking about you keeping your cat inside, not going to neighbors and telling them to.
Indoor cats live longer healthier lives on average.
Anyway, you’re a shitty person. No one would ever improve anything if everything else had to be fixed first. You can always come up with some excuse for something else that needs to be improved before you hold yourself accountable for your own actions. No, this is all a lame bullshit excuse because you don’t want to do the right thing. It isn’t about other people. It’s about you being a lazy selfish asshole.
Yep. I don’t care if a president is smart. I care if they listen to the experts. I don’t want one who thinks they know everything, because no one can.