Carighan Maconar @ Carighan @lemmy.world

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Difficult to say as that's really not a common case at all. Might just lack evidence for how to understand this.

To me the big drop in noticable internal politics happened somewhere shortly before or around the Overwatch release.

The original design of that game as-released showed a lot of the old design paradigms of Blizzard. But then all post-release direction was the "new" Blizzard, focus on e-sports, numerical balance over gameplay feel, competition over social engagement. The game is an interesting showcase for the fall of Blizzard as a whole in a lot of ways.

IMO the best indie game currently on the market overall, and definitely the by-far leading in puzzle/logic games.

Such an amazing experience. The underlying pacing is so genius, where the game snowballs. Slowly at first, then faster and faster and faster as you finish.

Also, that scene with that music is just amazing when it kicks in, and really threw me for a loop when it happened. "The fuck?!"

Awww, it's trying its best!

Fully agreed! And while we're at it, get rid of Power Pivot!

Probably, yes? Printed paper is quite cheap, compared to sticker material. Negligible as the per-square-meter cost of both is, and how many more stickers you get out of one.

Obviously the former. In fact, it's 1440p/165Hz right now, and I have 0 intent to increase resolution further since modern unoptimized games already struggle with this.

The voting system is so insane. I mean sure, back in the 18th century it made sense due to the travel required, but the fact that americans still use a voting system from that time says it all really...

Pretty obviously false, and I'd genuinely question the social and intellectual capabilities of anybody who truly believes this - originally sarcastic - phrase.

Exactly this.

Indifference is how you know something doesn't matter. I remember this lesson even from game development: People complaining about your game is still alright. When the feedback stops entirely, that's when you fucked up.

Yeah I suspect they own the remaining titles. So there's no cost to keeping them on there. I was also really surprised they keep swinging at the concept, considering how tepid the reception was beyond the original internet hype for Bandersnatch. Which makes sense, people don't watch movies to actively be ready to press a button on short notice, you don't exactly sit down on the sofa to go "Oh I know, how about 1,5h of QTE threat?".

It's a very cool concept, but one that targets the wrong audience, basically.

Yeah but have you seen the cutscenes of DA:V?

If that childish word salad sounds "preachy" to you, you need to go to a different preacher! Yours can't even english.

How can this sound preachy to anybody? Has the fascist right lowered their own standard of education enough to where they think Marvel-style dialogue is normal?!

It's crazy that the vote is apparently close. Really goes to show how many "average" americans have utterly lost any connection to actual reality and have guzzled enough of the kool-aid to believe the weird whacky world of wonders the religious fascists constantly conjure up.

I wonder though, is this ultimately a failure not of the education and internal offices, decades ago? We let schools let people down, leading to them becoming undereducated terrible parents who let their kids down and made them vulnerable to be exploited by republicans and churches and crypto grifters. :(

I mean despite how I feel the linked article's author uses a type of language that makes me wary of them, I kinda agree. The utterly Marvel way the game talks about things combined with the inane inability to ever have any conflict, negatives or issues combines to essentially make a mockery of very real issues.

And I'm sorry, it's one thing to want to use art to showcase real issues and poke at them and shine a spotlight onto them. That's good, personally I want art to do that. But when you essentially use it as a joke piece due to the inherently non-serious nature of all your scenes, it just becomes even worse than not doing it. 😔 Please don't shine a light onto serious topics if the only thing you use the light for is to point and laugh and mock.

Yeah but it's easy to see how they look at their parents who - seemingly - "value democracy" with their voting and yelling and campaigning, and what damage that causes. This causes a general dejection with politics and civil structures as a whole, and hence a disinterest in engaging with it at all.

This is pretty damn cool. Some minor QOL still needed, but overall this hints at improving the address bar UX further in the future, so that's awesome!

Yeah and it seems to be accelerating. I noticed just this week how multiple companies had "We're also updating on Bluesky now, here's our official acount:"-posts.

I mean it makes sense to target these people. If you're stupid enough to believe the shit Musk or Trump spout, you're also stupid enough to not see these very obvious scams.

After my GPS 3 Ultra, never buying MobVoi again, ugh.

Such a sad experience. Started out well, got updates 2-3 years later after apps stopped working due to the old OS version, and then those updates broke the entire experience.

The hardware is really nice. The software is so bad that I go out with a Wundr watch half the time now. A mechanical watch. Yes. Because fuck Mobvoi and their way of making you appreciate non-smart watches.

I love it, but I'll be honest I still use Cura for 99% of my slicing. Just too used to it, and since my printer isn't controlled from the PC and I copy the gcode onto an SD card, it makes little difference to me except that Cura feels more organized in its UI.