Whitebrow @ Whitebrow @lemmy.world

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At the workplace if anybody says “we’ve always done it this way” during a meeting where we tackle a problem, that means it’s time to change the hubris because it clearly doesn’t work for us anymore.

Gonna use this thread as inspiration to piss off people, thank you for your contributions.

Also Gyro is pronounced j-eye-roe.

And thank you for the short version.

Thank you for the full rundown with the terms, appreciate it

Can somebody dumb this down from a triple negative legalese to average Joe, please?

As long as people can host a server instance, does it matter?

Hypothetically, even if it costs 1000$ per hour in AWS fees to get the required hardware to run that, at least you have the option to, alternatively have a peer to peer option to play smaller version on a LAN with a max of however many players your own network can support, there could be many implementations, which at the end of the day would still allow you to play the game when the official servers (authentication or room hosts) are shuttered and inaccessible

The main point of SKG is that currently, we, as customers, are not even getting the short end of the stick, we are getting no stick, despite having paid for it.

And ultimately, at the end of the day, not our problem to try to figure this out, the point is we’re unhappy with the current situation and want things to change.

Also note that none of this is retroactive, will only apply to games released in the future, so having an end of life plan as a requirement from the get-go is pretty simple to work on when nothing was done yet.

“many titles are designed from the ground-up to be online-only”

So change your design? The corporate mind cannot comprehend this.

The next update is going to be interesting…

Before committing to doing a thing you’re conflicted about, brainstorm about it twice. Once when sober. And once when not. If it seems like a good idea in both states, it will typically lead to having no regrets on the matter even if it doesn’t work out like you hoped.

I agree that it’s rather unique blend of a walking simulator and does explore death and loss through an extremely lengthy story that has some touching moments, however the slog of the “meat” of the game is absolutely not worth it to get to the core of it all.

If you’re interested, I recommend watching the “game movie” on YouTube, where they just show the dialogues and skip almost all of the walking, granted even then you’d probably want to skip/fast forward through a massive chunk of it all where it’s the same animations over and over again. (Such as the load/unload/qpid sequence, etc)

The “experts” in this case are 2 teachers assistants in game design in one university weighing in on a whole swath of reasons such as financial impacts and other stuff, on which they are totally qualified to talk about.

We have reached the stage where if my son does his math homework, he should be referred to as a “math expert”, article’s a joke.

Never had a sandwich with baby seals, tho I’m willing to try most of anything once

“Red scare 2” now featuring Canadians, coming to a nazi shithole near you

Necronomicon cover but for pestilence matters only

This is, hands down, the funniest version of this that I have seen.

I even heard it in his voice goddamnit.

This is art.

Chronic? Yes. Pain? No, some other strain

I’m no expert but I heard you can compile the kernels to grow them yourself

Again with the “losing money” narrative. It doesn’t lose money, it costs money.

Now. Does it cost so much more than ever before? I don’t know. And if it does, why is that? Good questions.

But if it doesn’t cost proportionally so much more but we all stopped buying stamps or using the paid services it provides to subsidize its operational costs then that would explain the deficit. Otherwise we’d need to ask more pointed questions, I’m with you on that

But you can’t slap “basic reforms” on something when you don’t see or understand the larger underlying picture past the sensationalist headline and that’s unfortunately the point where most people stop asking questions