Our officials have had it in their heads for a while that the American Model was something to strive for.
And as a consequence, they've screwed up a few public services over the years. Non of them have gone away, luckily. But it has caused some problems here and there.
Just potted my new set of chiliplants. Yellow, red, purple and black fruits if all goes according to plan. (It never does. Chilies always get infested with something.)
Hopefully I can save enough fruits to make a few batches of hotsauce to carry me through next winter. ;)
I'm not what one would call a "user" by any means. I was just tired of Microsoft and their practices.
And I've had very little need for any kind of customization as the people behind my distro have pretty much seen to everything a "dumb dumb" like me need it for.
Plus, I like that I can find solutions for most of the small problems I might find with a quick internet search. And if that fails, there's multiple forums where I can ask for help.
The cost of developing games hasn't skyrocketed. Developers have more means than ever. Many things that was handcrafted on crappy slow computers then are auto-generated in seconds now.
There's no massive shipping costs or printing of physical mediums anymore. And no losses if the already printed cassettes or CD's didn't sell.
If a game costs hundreds of millions to develop, in this day and age, it's by design and/or because of bloated companies.
I have no personal vendetta against any of these individual Devs.
My stake in this is slightly different. Like, when I heard about how Blizzard treated it's own staff and then the whole sexual harassment thing popped up, I was done with them. From that point on, that company didn't deserve to exist and I blacklisted them. So i try to keep up with gaming related news.
More studios have joined that list since, for various reasons, and I find myself mostly playing indie titles from small upcoming developers now. I feel better about that.
I do believe we should be(e) kind. But I also believe kindness is a two way street.
They'll still make the Xbox consoles as long as they are selling. They'll hopefully just ease off the "Exclusives" going forward.
It was a shitty way of trying to move consoles anyway.
Although they are late to the party, Sony is also trying to sell on PC and other storefronts. So my guess is that the console market isn't treating either of them super well atm.
Feydaikin @ Faydaikin @beehaw.org Posts 0Comments 591Joined 2 yr. ago
See, that's a problem they always skip in time-travel movies.