sugar_in_your_tea @ sugar_in_your_tea @sh.itjust.works

Mama told me not to come.

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Then maybe I'll try it sometime. I don't like base building (feels like crafting), but exploration can be fun. But it's pretty far down my list.

My phone has a gesture for back and refresh, I've never used "share" (I just copy the URL from the bar), and I only very rarely use the forward option. To open a new tab, I hit the tabs and then the new tab button (at the bottom). I put the URL bar on the bottom so everything is pretty close.

I find it very economic.

Yup.

It's pretty fun, and I think the studio that made it is located near me.

That's like 4.5 years of labor for $100k!

It's a popular proposal, and gamers like to game the system.

Lol, yeah, that could actually get me to play. "Whose a good hydralisk? You are! Yes you are!"

In game time isn't everyone's metric for a good game. Some of my favorite games only have a few hours of content, but those few hours are really good.

I've watched some let's plays of Starcraft Valley, and I'm glad I did because I probably wouldn't like it, and if I had to give it a rating, it would be pretty mediocre.

I think it being so positively rated is that there are a ton of casual gamers that this type of game really appeals to, not that it has a lot to do.

I just really don't like crafting mechanics in games, and the game seemed very collecting and crafting heavy.

Sure, the US does skew right. I do think Lemmy is pretty far left even compared to areas like Europe that are further left from the US. It's kind of hard to gauge whether people are serious about things like "guillotine the rich" (or Luigi references) or exaggerating, but you don't see that type of talk on popular subreddits (even before the crackdown), at least I didn't, and coming to Lemmy was a bit of a shift left from what I already saw as "center left."

I am a bit left of center in the US and pretty centrist on a global scale, and I lean fairly libertarian. I'm left of most libertarian candidates in the US, supporting things like UBI as an alternative to welfare programs. So I think I have a decent perspective on what's left and right.

Democratic socialism isn't socialism though, it's capitalism with lots of government services.

The authoritarian part is pretty much baked in to "real" socialism since you need something to control the means of production until society is ready, and that hasn't yet happened. Yes, there are other theorized structures, but they're unproven.

Tankies (i.e. many of those on .ml) are into the authoritarian part, whereas people here are more into democratic socialism, which is another thing entirely.

Source?

Pretty much every popular indie game has a publisher. Publishers are great because they provide relatively low cost marketing, the trick is to be careful when signing a contract that you don't sign away too much while still getting value from them.

I'm not ignorant of it, just uninterested. I've watched gameplay footage of the first one, and it didn't look like my kind of game.

He worked at Blizzard, but not as a developer, it’s been likened to someone who worked in the billing department at a hospital weighing in on medical care.

A QA would probably be more involved, since they would be testing the game or something related to the game. How relevant his experience was depends on what he worked on and who he had access to talk to. I learned a lot about electrical engineering while working as a software engineer at a company that built custom antennas because I talked to the EEs a lot. I wouldn't be surprised if he had a similar experience at Blizzard.

preferring the ego boost of being a streamer

And probably the money. With a big enough audience, it pays reasonably well. I doubt his games are selling well enough to live off of.

He claims he was review bombed

He claims the other publisher was review bombed, I'm talking about his studio's games, which do seem to be review bombed (overwhelmingly negative for recent reviews, positive all time).

I think a lot of people who are mad at him were following him

Perhaps. But a lot of people knee-jerk join the bandwagon as well. Look at everyone jumping on the Godot hate train. I refuse to form a negative opinion without being fully informed, because the cult of public opinion can be absolutely reactionary.

So I err on the side of giving people the benefit of the doubt.

And yeah, content creators jumping on the bandwagon isn't my cup of tea, since they have a motivation to exaggerate to get views. I want a pretty unbiased, fair take, not a rage bait take, and that's more likely to be found on a forum like this instead of on YouTube. Hence why I'm asking.

Tankies are pretty close to fascism, and tend to support regimes like in Russia the same as regimes in China. For them, the motivation doesn't seem as motivated by economics as itvi government structure, since modern Russia is very far from socialist ideals. Basically, anything that goes against US interests is the priority, not economics as it would for your average socialist.

Sure, democratic socialism is center left, I'm talking about actual socialism, which gets promoted here quite a bit. Reddit was mostly dem socs and welfare state proponents, Lemmy takes it a bit further.

Right, and that's completely brain-dead. We should be wanting to attract more talent, because more people able to take high-end jobs usually ends up creating more high-end jobs. We want more immigrant engineers, doctors, etc, because that encourages greater investment since the labor pool is deeper.

But no, we'll instead block cheap imports and encourage more blue-collar work, and if we take that too far, we'll end up in a similar situation as we did back in the Great Depression when demand just evaporates.

We should let developing countries develop and focus on what developed countries are better at: innovation. Attract top talent and keep investment dollars flowing so the R&D jobs stay.

Disagree, it's pretty far left. Reddit was center-left, this is where those too far left for Reddit came as it shifted a little to the right with the top-down reaction to the API change.

You refer to .ml, but that's not really left, it's a tankie instance, which is closer to fascism than socialism. I see far more people on Lemmy idolizing communism/socialism than any other extreme ideology.

And if you must, leave it off, ideally in a faraday cage/bag.

Sure, but the US has a lot of well-educated people (e.g. see the Education Index), as well as a lot of opportunities for well-educated people to get in-demand jobs that pay well.

Literacy rates are interesting, but they don't translate to well-paying jobs like education attainment rates.