bionicjoey @ bionicjoey @lemmy.ca

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Fair enough. I certainly won't pre order this, but if it comes out and it gets good reviews, I may give it a shot

You're comparing apples and oranges. It should be like this:

I sell my apples for $1500

People buy them

I sell my apples for $1500 (but they cost me less to make)

People buy them, I make more money

I'm curious why people assume PM is incapable of delivering on promises. Like, I know he has a history of overhyping games, but surely he must also have some games where he actually delivered an awesome and complete game, right? Like the first 2 Fable games were pretty amazing.

I want to download the app and buy the newer books

I can't imagine still wanting to give WOTC money.

This reminds me of a method of trying to evaluate art in an objective way. Basically you ask yourself 3 questions:

• What is this trying to do?
• Does it succeed in what it's trying to do?
• Is what it's trying to do worth doing?

If the answers to 2 and 3 are "yes", then it's probably a good work of art. This helps remove the subjectivity of "do I enjoy it?" when evaluating a work.

I would say the answers for Desert Bus indicate that it is indeed a good work of art. It succeeds in being a monotonous parody of a video game which makes a political statement about what games would be if they lacked any fictional elements or conflict. And I think the statement P&T were trying to make with this game was definitely worth making. Plus, we know from the amount of people who play it as a streamed challenge game that there is some desire for a game like that to exist.

I think people don't normally mind if you post your own blogposts on a platform like Lemmy as long as you don't spam it and the content is actually relevant

Was your position like an adjunct? I've heard those can be a real scam in the academia world.

No idea where you are or what the labour laws or union situation are. But where I work, a consultation like that is a doctor's appointment and can therefore be taken as medical leave during working hours.

I wasn't there, but my understanding is that Reagan was much more of a populist while Carter tried to be more evidence-based and treat the electorate like rational adults (which is generally a terrible idea for a politician)

Hugo 3>

You might want to see a cardiologist about that deformed heart

Something really weird and interesting is Gemini Gemlogs. Technically not WWW, but still an internet platform.

Something more normal and accessible is Hugo.

Jimmy Carter lost by like 10x Reagan's electoral college votes, and more than 10x the number of states; I'd say he had it worse.

Not even close to the same scale as what Valve and Blizzard get people to pay for skins and hats

Not so crazy, but my high school history teacher was a young man in America when the Vietnam war broke out. He made the wise choice of joining the navy, because Vietnam didn't have a navy. As he told the story, while those other guys were in Vietnam getting torn apart by Charlie, he was on shore leave in Italian ports. Then he would take a dramatic pause and then say to our class "war is hell"

Normally there are audio captchas

caused a massive outburst of productivity

Coffee is a stimulant and can therefore provide a similar effect to actual ADHD meds like Adderall and Ritalin. You may have been unknowingly self-medicating.

It's not a question of demand, it's a question of profit. Multiplayer games stand to make a lot more money than singleplayer. Nobody will spend real world dollars on cosmetic items in a singleplayer game.

Your body isn't a closed system. You are constantly radiating heat away, and you are constantly burning calories to maintain your body's core temperature. So the bladder is a tank full of mostly water inside that is draining those valuable calories and then will just be pissed away.

But the piss will eventually leave your body, so all of the heat energy that went into it is going to be dumped out.