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Deestan @ Deestan @beehaw.org
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Tumblr says it’s going to “fix” its “core experience” to appeal to new users

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  • I question:

    People who are unwilling to put in a mild amount of effort to understanding something.

    Are they going to improve or impair healthy online discussions?

    • Sega calls video games that use blockchain technology 'boring'

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  • Ah, I see.

    The part about a blockchain that would prevent this cheating are incidental: Its remote nature and unique item IDs, which are abilities it shares with a regular database on the game server.

    • whats a game that you got significantly far into, only to realize you were doing something wrong or missing a key feature/ability altogether?

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  • Ahh, thank you!

    • Creative Good: Why customers don’t want chat bots

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  • Most chatbots are speed bumps. Like phone menu trees and hold times, they slow you down on your way to get actual help.

    Sometimes that means you give up before getting to the real help, which saves money on support.

    Whether it's the intended effect or not, it is so well known at this point that we shouldn't excuse anyone using this tactic. It's malicious.

    • Sega calls video games that use blockchain technology 'boring'

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  • Which type of cheat?

    • whats a game that you got significantly far into, only to realize you were doing something wrong or missing a key feature/ability altogether?

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  • Oh man, it's time to give this game a replay one of these days.

    • whats a game that you got significantly far into, only to realize you were doing something wrong or missing a key feature/ability altogether?

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  • I may have misunderstood, though. This is my vague memory of a friend trying to explain to me how I was supposed to have played the game after I gave up and uninstalled it long ago.

    • What forgotten cult classic games are worth revisiting?

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  • Stronghold, the castle simulator with a lot of charm but a dev team that lost their touch after a few sequel attempts.

    • What forgotten cult classic games are worth revisiting?

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    • whats a game that you got significantly far into, only to realize you were doing something wrong or missing a key feature/ability altogether?

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  • Black & White

    It has a mechanic where you bless a stone, then throw it across the map, and you get to build and influence an area around the rock. Basically it is the only sane way to expand.

    I did not know. I spent painstaking hours slowly growing my village trying to get its area of influence to spread into where I needed to go.

    • A close reading of Twitter’s legal letter to Meta: a guided tour of a weak litigation letter

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  • So in legalese, it basically says "we are scared but not sure why. GRR!"

    • The Story of Factorio, the Game that Only Increases in Price

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  • While we disagree severely, I am grateful to hear the "other side" in a civil discussion. I suspect the no-downvote policy of Beehaw enables this discussion and hope to find more of it.

    • The Story of Factorio, the Game that Only Increases in Price

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  • I did not think that through.

    Oh well, exclusive Lemmy access promo I guess. I'll throw the Escapist an extra $10 on their next donation-enabled stream as an apology.

    • The Story of Factorio, the Game that Only Increases in Price

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  • Well, inflation is real. And they are using sales income to fund current development. That's as fair as it gets.

    Would you be happy if they released it at 60$ and had periodic 60% sales?

    • The Story of Factorio, the Game that Only Increases in Price

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  • Me, I wish more games respected my time like that, instead of costing 40$ and going on 20% sale every few weeks, leaving me to hunt bargain bins to be able to get it at its "efficient" price.

    • Describe a game in 5 words or less, and see if anyone can guess it.

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  • Your soundcard works perfectly!

    • Reddit experimenting with blocking mobile browsers

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  • nail gun noises

    • What are some of your favorite game mechanics?

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  • Oooh yes. I have a switch, but didn't pick up TotK yet. It looks amazing.

    • so, which Big Tech company do you think is going to shit the bed next and popularize its Fediverse/FOSS equivalent in the process?

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  • The day I don't see "join our Discord" where I would earlier expect to find "visit our forums" will be a good day.

    A bloated live chat monolith is not what I want to use to discuss game bugs or podcast episodes.

    • What are some of your favorite game mechanics?

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  • Creative allowance. Even if it makes the game "unbalanced".

    Just Cause 2 with the grappling hook you could attach one end to a statue and one to a truck.

    Grand Theft Auto 3 was the first game where I realized I could complete an assassination by stealing a police car, use the swarm of police cars following me as a "net" to trap my target's car so he couldn't drive away, and then blowing up the pile of cars with a grenade.

    Rimworld where I can create a settlement of nudist vampires trading beautiful wooden sculptures for slaves to feed on.

    The Sims 3 of course.

    From the Depths, Minecraft, Space Engineers, Valheim also to a large degree.