De_Narm @ De_Narm @lemmy.world

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I honestly can't answer you, I don't know anything about the game besides seeing it everywhere for years. Stuff like: How in your face is advertising? Do season even add anything besides these packs? Are they missable? The only thing I can say for sure: I dislike how they present multiple bundles with varying amounts of DLC on their steam page. Without prior knowledge I'd have to go through everything and check if I'd be missing out on some actual DLC content and I'd assume there are people buying an actually reasonably priced game for over a 100 bucks because they want all DLC assuming it's real content. Sure, that's on them not checking, but also kinda on the developer naming it stuff like "Deluxe" or "Master" Edition instead of "All Cosmetics Edition" or something among those lines.

Regardless, even if it is an genuine exception, they add massive content updates and don't push these packs at all. Do they even make a profit then? Massively successful games like DRG, Terraria or Stardew Valley can do whatever they want - they have funded themselves more or less for life already and probably would still sell anyways. Normal service games need to turn a profit with their updates which still means either having a subscription or predatory mtx.

I don't think every topic deserves nuance. Every mtx shop is predatory, every successful service game lives off whales. You'd just draw an arbitrary line at how aggressivly they hunt whales, but they need them all the same. Even if you can get everything with ingame currency drops, if people wouldn't spend enough, the game wouldn't get new content.

The only fair solution is to scrap mtx entirely and make all service games subscription based. But people aren't ready for that, this conversation often comes down to "as long as they don't exploit me, I'll take my free games".

You know, drip feeding stuff is no fun. Paying for trivial things is no fun either. We used to get full-blown expansions for the price some companies want for a single skin.

Instead of adding stuff to a shop, games could get actual new content. Instead of buying every asset separately, they could all be thrown in with said new content. Like, yeah, they should get paid for their continued work, but that does not mean the consumer should be milked for every penny.

I'd like that, learned something.

Having the option to use real money is the problem. Nothing is stopping them from adding more and more expensive stuff until you cannot grind it anymore. That's how we went free cosmetics to 60+ bucks for skins.

It started with "It's just a silly horse armor DLC, just don't buy it!", continued with "It's just cosmetics bro, just don't get them!", then we got "The shop is fine though, you can get the currency ingame!" and got to "The timed battle pass is fine, you also get free stuff!". You can draw your own line for mtx, but slowly we're both approaching and crossing it if you accept anything before that.

The way I see things, "the least pressured to buy stuff" reads like "the least aggressive cancer". Sure, it could be worse, but like, you've still got cancer. There's still the ideal option of being healthy instead.

It can be the least predatory mtx system ever, being in a paid game is still not acceptable and I'll die on that hill. Never bought anything with a shop or battle pass and won't start now.

I'm around 30, actually. I used to be quite active, yes, but I've been sitting on an injury for almost a year now and even lost weight in that time eating the same amount (I still track every meal, so'll still be in the habit once I'm fully healed).

Otherwise I'm healthy, even got checked for stuff like thyroid problems.

Well... I don't use any apps that show ads. I'd rather not use my phone at all. And if Android adds more tracking itself it may be time to give Graphene a shot.

I'm honestly curious, do you snack a lot or something? Where do your calories come from?

I looked up a few frozen pizzas you can get in my area and they are around 800-900 kcal. Assuming you eat 3/8 per meal, that's 9/8 a day, or up to about 1000 kcal. On the basis that you average a similar amount of calories per meal and consume the usual three meals.

The average man needs between 2000 and 3000 kcal. Woman start at 1600.

Since I gun for at least 2800 kcal and my average breakfast is about 600 kcal, my other meals need to be ~1200 kcal (1.3-1.5 pizzas). I never eat outside of meals except for maybe once over the weekend.

Wait, do people eats less than at least one frozen pizza per meal? Like, I don't get them often, but I need two to feel full.

(I always get shit for writing about portion sizes, I'm only 70kg)

I mean, yes. Why would you share them publicly? You could always send them via a secure messenger app.

Yes, I totally agree with you. Looking back my biggest achievement online is probably not having any hits today when searching my name. To this day you'd only find a rather empty LinkedIn profile with no picture and I wouldn't have it any other way.

I thought about these, but the context was social media. I wouldn't ban shools etc. to post these on their own sites, just not on e.g. instagram.

The problem about any kind of gray area inbetween these two sides is that any sufficiently large social media platform cannot curate them. Either ban all or none of them.

Simply ban all pictures of children and that's it. There is no good reason to post pictures of your child for the public to see. At the very least, you should be required to censor any faces.

Also, you're definitely exploiting your child if you keep some of the money these perverts pay.

Thinking back to my old room, I could just put stuff on top of my closet or bookcase, since I'm the only tall one in my family. I used to store empty boxes up there e.g. from old gaming systems I got, perfect to hide stuff. I also had a large box with Lego nobody ever touched, so I could throw stuff in there too. What I'm saying is, you would need to know a room and its content to find a perfect solutions for shoes since they are a bit too big for most things.

Another idea would be looking outside of your room. Both an attic or a basement could work if you've got access to them

If you've got a lot of black and white cloths, just fold it and put it between them. Assuming your parents don't do a regular inventory check for some reason. If you buy your own cloths, add some extra confusion by adding some new shirts.

As for the shoes... that depends more or less on your room.

I recognize most of these, but what are the purple ring and the rainbow one?

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles. It's the name of an optional NPC that writes you a few letters and then dies. He has no relevancy at all, but I like him. Based on where you are, he may be written without the 'r'.

So... do you clean them every time you get home? Or is there just not much rain, snow or even just dirt in your area anyways?