DrQuint @ DrQuint @lemm.ee

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So... a gacha with a mounting odds and a top reward?

I dunno, this kind of stuff is just background noise to me. I ignore all of it.

I, for one, intend on becoming a Cyberghost, should I die resentful enough to cause a curse of undeath.

In 5 years from now, VR will be 5 years away of becoming mainstream. Just like 5 years ago.

And this is yet another reason why the whole reddit app thing has two clear sides, annoyed people and dumbasses. Several apps try to make text boxes slightly more manageable, some padding and whatnot. They store text even if the app crashes. Stuff like thata. And the official one doesn't.

I have thought a lot about the "How do background characters tell if they're in a story?" thing a lot since.

The day the alternate timeline stopped being a meme. The day "we're in too damned interesting times to this not be the end of humanity" became a reality.

If the world burns, whatever. We have had it coming.

Ding ding ding.

Half the cost of the game is marketing. And marketing is an effort that builds upon itself

The more smaller games you have, the more you have to market to niches from scratch. And niches are generally more inclined to be informed users. And it takes a developer with vision to make a satisfying niche hit. Well it always takes vision but...

Meanwhile one big bombastic game will get a bunch of mainstream folks hyped over qualifiers of scope instead of quality. Yes, I am saying hype culture is primarily an idiot's hobby, but idiots still got cash.

Plus, plus, most studios don't really see their junior devs as something worth fostering. Better off burning them out and replacing them.

It's basically money well spent for them.

which are

That's the error. The word "are" isn't even a part of their comment. They don't want people finding the one, singular, that is above the rest. They proposed flipping the competition. Finding the worst. That leaves no top-most judgement for the rest, no hypocrisy with that.

All three lines are incorrect, Amazing.

Somewhere, out there, there's a language that does NOT have any funny details like this. Those who speak it have the maximum enjoyment potential when learning out.

I showed this screen to someone else to make fun of the name and said it the way you did, then looked again and man, what they went with really does sound dumber.

Like, switch the words and it actually sounds like you're giving a certain legacy a qualifier.

but why 30%, why not

To which the response is: I don't care. I would have paid the same amount of money for games no matter which of the stupid funny numbers you picked out.

The beginning and end of how much one should care is "are the devs happy with it? Is that the standard for digital stores as well?". And the answer to both is Yes, so the concerns are abated.

If it opens them to driven out of the market by a more generous competitor: Cool. But that alone doesn't impact me, the costumer. The generous competitor needs to do more. And you know, they know that. That's why Tim gave me so many free games.

No you wouldn't.

Immortals of Aveum cost 70 monetary-whatevers and killed its studio and no one commented on it. It would have cost 60 whatevers two years ago and still would have killed its studio. But if they did 70, they would have torpedoed that price point in the news circles as a death sentence. They only had the gall because literally no one dared release a game for 70 till Activision did it and others like Sony and Nintendo followed along.

Steams share has zero impact on my wallet. The market is dictated by things way more arbitrary. Everyone with brain knows this.

Plus, it only applies to base price, not sale price. If a platform states "you can have your game on sale 100% of the time", and a game undercuts Steam that way, Steam wouldn't do anything about it. Well, they wouldn't have to anyways, it's illegal to have goods on sale 100% of the time, but the point is there.

Why did the genie's eternal suffering include him getting his nipple pierced between panels?

You're literally called the Minecraft's protagonist name. You ain't fooling us. You're just a kid trying to show how much they've "grown"

The +1/-1 rule of immature mockery tells us that you're 13 years of age.

Here's your youngest lemming award.

Yveltal is more a direct win than Xerneas because Yveltal, canonically, can cause a self-feeding Anihilation Event on all life when it itself dies. It's even brought up on the latest dex entry as game-canon confirmation.

So imagine it is fighting and somehow loses, gets crushed by a billion lions - the lions will all then immediately start fading away into a sphere of doom that expands to consume all of then, and then retracts back down to generate an egg. It's a tie. At least, it's one until a short while later when Yveltal births again.

Yes, the ultimate weapon in Gen 6 is basically just a way of using both Xerneas' and Yveltal's powers as one. But for the purposes of beating a billion lions, really, Yveltal is the important component. That was why I only put it up.

Ghost types

Hadn't even considered that. Good call. Ghosts on the whole could also easily be stall wins.

Really?

Because I can't agree. Bluesky is, weirdly, geared around building up custom "queues", and the default queue, called "Discover" has some really niche stuff in it. This is very much so not like the usual Twitter method, and is way less immediate for generating a dashboard with valuable content than Twitter's "Just follow a bunch, the algorithm with add in the gaps".

Like right now the third post ok Discover is a Bara Furry artist essentially advertising his porn.

Bara Furry Porn. The OPPOSITE of mainstream.

I find the app very off putting every time I open it.

This will probably be the era the largest amount of people will experience Amazing Mirror with 4 players.

Can you even run a self-instance just for an account that doesn't actually store anything from the communities? Or does Lemmy not support out of the box?

Like, if you really just want to have your own account, you don't need to duplicate all that federated content. But if there's no way to prevent it, then you're forced to use up all that storage and I can see people just opting to disconnect after a while.

Nah, the problem OP poses was also a major issue with TV ads, specially the kind of ads with that whole telemarketing, "buy now get 2 free, but wait there's more, we'll throw in these accessories all for" vibe. And radio, and magazines. A lot of snake oil and re-branded stuff was sold through it.

The real reason why accountability isn't given to the platforms is because then the platforms would be less sustainable. And for the older media, that might have been fine still. But not so much the internet, which arguably, barely sustains itself on a gigantic ad-based bubble. It would be a death-throw for 99% of what we build and consume online. We just simply depend on ads THAT much.

I say they should try anyways. Absolutely. I do think the internet could benefit from having a lot more, smaller website, like before. We're even popularizing the concept of interoperability again, like, man, we're posting on Lemmy, a platform made to spread platforms. I think we're closers to kill the ad dependency now than we ever been after the death of usenet.

Which ones are you thinking? I had 6.

I thought of Arceus, a fully powered up Necrozma, Yveltal, Dialga and Palkia. All of them could obliterate (or just reap life out of) the lions using nothing but their known innate abilities.

Sixth one is either form of Hoopa, who can just make interdimentional holes of any size even at a range and without being present, and thus can both move themselves and the lions anywhere they want at will (so, lions into the sun, themselves into a real life resort in Miami with self-serve mojitos)

But those are just the "quick" ones. Literally any pokemon who is conceivably immune to the lions wins by default. Just takes a long time. Like, Registeel and Regice are both known to endure absurd pressures and temperatures, so it's only a question of how long it takes for them to punch through the pile.