DaSaw @ DaSaw @midwest.social

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"Whatever reason" being that without the dumbing down, the NPCs were so murderous that, however hilarious it was, it rendered the game unplayable.

People talk about it all the time. Longtime fans just don't care. I've been playing these since Daggerfall. Bethesda Softworks makes a very particular kind of game this is very appealing to some of us, and nobody else makes them like that, not that I'm aware of. You think Skyrim was buggy on release? It's got nothing on Daggerfall, but I loved it anyway.

Mods make the game better, give them a longevity they wouldn't otherwise have. Skyrim with Frostfall and a needs mod is almost my dream game. But I was perfectly satisfied with the game on Day 1.

You could even do something like snap your finger in the middle of your field of vision, and then use your hand as an interface.

In fact, the only way that you could pray to make impression,
On the era ahead is that instead of being notable,
You make the data describing you undecodable.

MC Frontalot, "Secrets From the Future"

I'm honestly not sure if I mean that as a compliment or not. They're exactly what it says on the tin, but you can't deny they're an effective bunch.

You can't even show genetalia in porn in Japan.

In Street Fighter at least, there's at least as much male skin shown as female... more, really, due to the fact that males are allowed to go bare chested. From Ryu's chest bush popping out of his gi, to Balrog wearing nothing but a pair of shorts, there's no shortage of male skin in those games.

I imagine some are genuinely mad about the nudity, I imagine. Remember "video games are for children" and "if a child sees a nipple (let alone a penis!) the apocalypse will begin". Just because gamers are gamers doesn't mean they're not still part of the larger culture.

It all reminds me of the controversy among older TES fans over the lack of nudity in TES3: Morrowind. There was a lot of European vs. American in those threads (and we had a genuinely cross-pond fandom back in those days). Arena and Daggerfall had nudity, and a few of our European posters expressed indignation over the change.

I'm not saying you are a bot, merely that your argument is weak.

Bots are cheap, and Lemmy is growing. It would be foolish for them not to get in on this early.

You are right, of course, that leftism != liberalism. But just saying that doesn't count as an argument. I haven't yet seen what Menachem is complaining about, but I will be paying attention.

EDIT: On further read, you guys kind of feel at the very least like the left-wing equivalent of somethingawful.com.

I see a different future. The tendency of wealth to be drawn upwards as position comes to replace labor as the primary means of gaining wealth ultimately puts a cap on progress. It's a soft cap, meaning it might happen sooner or happen later, but it will happen sooner or later. Eventually, the imbalance reaches a tipping point, where the slightest jolt to the system sends the entire thing crashing down. Maybe people get pissed enough that general rebellion breaks out. Maybe the population becomes sufficiently stressed and undernourished and, therefore, immunocompromised that a global pandemic goes well beyond COVID into Bubonic Plague territory. Maybe peoples faith in the system becomes so thoroughly damaged that law breaks down generally, forcing those ultra rich to devote so many resources to security the people providing the security become the new elite. Allowing "position" (in Classical Economic parlance, "Land") to be in itself a source of private revenue sows the seeds of destruction for a progressing society.

Of course, once enough people die and enough capital is destroyed, society starts over again, going once again through an age where labor is in the drivers seat, until population and capital base recovers.

The industry can't learn this lesson from their customers, because they didn't get the bad idea from their market. It's a society-wide trend, a symptom of a whole economy under the control of a narrow coproate elite that knows little to nothing about the industries they control or the products they produce. They contribute nothing to the productive process. They only work to streamline the parasitism that infests our society.

I have experienced this on the production end, as well. I used to work in pest control. For a brief period of my career, I was lucky enough to work for a midsized regional company, grown from a small family business, that was focused on solving actual customer problems. We did tons of one shot work. We did do quarterly and bimonthly service, but there was no particular pressure to subscribe, or to cajole customers who wanted to cancel service (because we'd successfully dealt with the problem) into continuing service.

Then the elderly couple that owned the company sold us to a global megaconglomerate (one of the "Big Three"). Over the course of a year, our focus changed. "Recurring revenue" was now the watchword, which is a tough fit in an inherently seasonal industry. And the reason they do this, in pest control, in game development, in every industry that can potentially produce any kind of surplus wealth, is because the owners ("investors") neither know nor care about any of the details of the industries they control. All they want is regular and ever-increasing revenues, in exchange for nothing at all. You can't even say it's in exchange for access to their savings, because though there is a little actual savings in the system, that's chump change compared to the ever growing wealthy elite that controls our society and devours our productivity.

Wouldn't just going straight to the main menu qualify as an "interactive state that accepts player input within 20 seconds"?

Neither of these things can be true, because they've been around since long before Microsoft got into the console game. I'm pretty sure Atari 2600 games had that prompt. I know NES games did.

I don't know a lot of them, mostly just a set of Star Trek ones I heard on Doctor Demento decades ago. But recently I have enjoyed Aurelio Voltaire's "USS Make Shit Up".

Awesome. Now if someone asks if I've played BG3, I can sardonically reply, "Isn't that the game with the bear sex in it?

I once saw a video talking about how the katana isn't the right sword to compare with a longsword. Longsword was a battlefield weapon; katana was more of a decorative sidearm. Kind of like an officer's sabre. Another weapon, called a "tachi" if I recall correctly, was more common in an earlier era when Samurai spent far more time on actual battlefields. It was a longer and heavier blade.

That sounds more like post-post-post-Roddenberry Trek.

Gene Roddenberry: We're headed for some bleak imperialist nonsense, but don't worry, it'll get better.

All companies do bad things. The only question is whether or not you know about them. I personally am of the opinion that not buying particular products is only useful as part of a coordinated boycott. Otherwise, it's just empty virtue signalling.

Perhaps we should have some sort of a gamers consumer organization that coordinates boycotts over specific issues. I would be willing to participate. And it's not like you can't allow the company's reputation figure in to your decision to buy. But no form of absolute morality, divorced from reality, is either helpful, or even particularly healthy.

Yes. That said, can Kaiki also be regarded as "best boy"? Given the way he is depicted in Hitagi End, Senjougahara is able to see him that way.