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    Bring back video games where the developers make them to be fun and players play them to have fun.

    Too many developers are in it for profit and too many players demand optimal competitive play.

    Sometimes I don’t want to conform to the min/max meta, Jason.

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      Been brought up before but the indie market still chugging along.

      Now if you want big expensive AAA “bring my RTX / i9 I spent too much money on to it’s very knees” with that, that’s impossible. Besides, poor optimization will put that stupid expensive rig to the test 😂

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      it sounds like you’re sleeping on indie games. I haven’t cared about AAA games in years bc of the things you mentioned, but there’s thousands of amazing and super high quality indie games out there that are made as passion projects from devs who just want people to have fun. the barrier to entry for becoming a game dev has been steadily lowering since the 80’s, almost anyone can make a game now so there’s really no reason to rely on giant game corporations as your only source

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          If you wanted to eat, you wouldn’t leverage your $40k college degree for a $30k code monkey job at one of EA’s digital sweatshops.

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          I legitimately think they just mean publishers and board shareholders. Most (read most, there are also plenty of devs with retard level hot takes on twitter about their constituents, and their clear jealousy of a better product) devs hate the features they have to implement.

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          This isn’t about somebody “trying to eat”. Devs are being paid by the publishers either way (until they get fired of course). Monetisation and “games as a live service” are implemented to increase profit for shareholders. Gamepublishing is already the largest entertainment industry, so this is just about adding more profits to already extreme profits.

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      This month had two great releases in that regard, Baldur’s Gate 3 and Bomb Rush Cyberfunk. Labor of love games are real and on the rise.

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      Totally agree but in many cases it’s actually the publishers, not the developers. That’s my understanding at least.

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        It’s been happening for so long that if a developer gets into bed with one of the big publishers then they should know what’s going to happen.

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      Pretty sure there are way more games now than they’re ever has been. Look outside the major publishers. Any big company is going to be in it for the money. That’s their main goal.

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          Yep. I know people love to idolize FDR, but the way he got the New Deal passed was with the argument that it was the “bare minimum we have to do to ensure that socialism doesn’t take root in the US for at least another 70 years.” Which is why the politicians started trying to revoke those promises the day after it passed.

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      Fear of communism has fucked up the US in so many ways. Before the 80s, it was McCarthyism and putting “In God We Trust” on our money.

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      If only Stalin were in charge. That guy would have actually built a wall instead of this pussy ass Trump shit. Comrade.

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        Stalin was ruthless, not stupid. He would have looked at the existing barriers and realized that it would be a waste of resources to try to build a wall in the middle of a desert.

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    Wolfenstein The New Order: Nice! Killing knot-zees like it’s 1992!!

    Wolfenstein II The New Collosus: what is this woke anti American shit/why can’t we play as the real “good” guys

    Gee. Somewhere between the release of these two games public opinion changed. The first came out in 2014, btw. The second’s ad campaign had “Make America Nazi Free Again” as a slogan, something that id thought we’d all agree. Nazis were in that safe group of “enemies we can slaughter without guilt” alongside aliens, zombies and robots.

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      I got banned from reddit for saying: Wolfenstein The New Order is one of if not the best game of all time, the only good nazi is a dead nazi. GET HYPED!

      I mean, I’m happy they had an implosion, but it should have been because of the nazi sympathy, not because of their api.

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        Getting banned for being a Basterd is a badge of honor my good person.

        BJ Blazkowicz wants his scalps.

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        Well one cost “the right people” more money than they were willing to give and one didn’t. It’s almost like money doesn’t matter until it matters to the gawd, it sounds crazy to say it, it’s so dystopian, shadow governments’ corporate overlords. Lives otoh… shudder

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      New Colossus came out in 2017. We all know what happened that made being a fascist piece of shit mainstream.

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      The second’s ad campaign had “Make America Nazi Free Again” as a slogan

      Gee, that wouldn’t happen to be a poke at a particular presidential campaign?

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        It can only piss off Nazi sympathizers tbh. I mean If you believed that America was going downhill and wanted to make it “great again” surely making it Nazi Free would be part of that goal right?

        Unless… 🤔

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        LOL you ain’t wrong. It’s definitely very hard for what it is. I beat it in the Normal equivalent and had fun.

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      in Germany the inflationary use of “Nazi” by leftists weakened the term a lot

      Excited to hear more about the big leftist media outlets that have dominated Germany for the last sixty years.

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      Similer circumstance in russia. Where everyone bad and aganist russia is a nazi. Ukraine needing dezafication. Etc since from their perspective its only ever been Nazi’s they had no red scare since they were the red scare

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      I agree it used to mean actual, armband wearing, genocide creating, goose stepping evil people that started WWII.

      Yes today there are still people who somehow support that shit with the books, flags, tats and armbands to prove it. There is a term for it. Neo Nazi. If you want Nazis to punch these are it, though it might not make them any less of one.

      Now by that standard is Trump a Nazi? No. But some throw the term around to essentially mean group=bad. The left crazies do it with nazi, the right crazies do it with communism. Over time it loses meaning to the point where nobody takes it seriously. Boy who cried wolf. The way to stop that is to only use the term on the real people, not the kinda sorta if you squint your eyes it’s similar in a way people. Not to say they they aren’t assholes or don’t deserve to be called out by other terms…

      Anyway yes people hate the real deal Nazis, but probably not every group someone on twitter slaps that label on to. End rant.

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        Trump may not be a Nazi or a Neo-Nazi, as those are extremely specific subsets of Fascism. Trump is an authoritarian fascist. His TV series proved that well before his second or third presidential campaign.

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          I agree. But he’s also not “actual Hitler” as many have said over the years. It’s different levels of asshole and I wish people had more nuance is my point

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            Idk, he wanted to order the military to go in with weapons blazing at blm protesters. Defended those who marched and chanted in Charlottesville that “Jews! Will not! Replace us!”

            He may not have the name hitler, but he seems to love that stuff. Oh yeah and covered up (has something to do with?) Kashoggi being quartered, alive when he himself couldn’t listen to the tapes of the sounds of agony. What exactly would earn him “Nazi” status, in your view?

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        It’s almost as if there’sa term for right wing authoritarianism/authoritarianism, isn’t it?

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      Also terms like “grammar Nazi” is helping to weaken the seriousness of the word.

      In Denmark people sometimes use it to say that somebody is quite particular about something (similar to “grammar Nazi”) like " yeah, he’s kinda Nazi about people not wearing shoes in his apartment" I don’t know if that’s common in other countries too? But it’s definitely weakening the gravity of the word 'nazi".

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      And I’m here wondering if Godwin’s idea came because he saw something like this and wanted to stop it or if he saw an opportunity to silence criticism of Nazi-like strategies.

      And I’m not sure if I should be happy or sad that we’re in a post-Godwin world now. On the one hand, it was a dumb “rule” because there’s certainly times where Nazi comparisons are apt. But on the other hand, we only got post-Godwin because Nazi ideas have regained enough popularity that some are openly embracing the label.

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    I would love old school arcades. I feel like, most people today just don’t know what a wonderful place they used to be.

    No stupid toys to win. No tickets. No tokens or any virtual currency.

    Most games were a quarter with some of the larger ones being two quarters. You just hung out, played games, met new people, got to experience a wide range of games from shooters, side scroller fighters, sports, etc.

    It was truly magical. Was one of the best things at the mall.

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    This entire “ANTI-WOKE” is just some bullshit that the most ignorant bigots hide behind thinking they can be as fucking awful as they want to be.

    They’ve even brought back anti-gay with the anti-trans thing under the old “THINK OF THE CHILDREN” banner which is pure bullshit.

    It really seemed for a good 10-15 years that that shit was conquered.

    These morons hide their racism by scoffing at anything with a non-white person in it with the label “POC”.

    The funniest thing is, they think their fucking clever and they use 1950’s housefrau shit like “DENGENERATE” and other outmoded bullshit words.

    They make fun of the left for being triggered by their own shadows(which does happen) but these morons are scared of anything not white and not straight, it’s really awful but kind of funny in a sick way.

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      It’s almost like a spectrum with anything outside what I’m comfortable with is where I draw the line, especially if I’m dabbling or experimenting with anything that makes me vaguely uncomfortable, because what I’d people get the wrong idea that I’m “that,” isn’t it? The slider moves, everyone!

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      No one relevant is pro-Nazi openly… they’re just quiet when it comes to being anti-Nazi. It’s not meaningfully different when you’re in leadership and have Nazis looking up to you.

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          The caption isn’t “the prevailing belief that it’s okay to be a Nazi”. there are influential people in politics and social media that are open about being a Nazi (or at least poorly veiled dog whistles and a general agreement with Nazi rhetoric) and being openly anti-Nazi causes harassment and being called a groomer.

          “Nazis are bad” is no longer a prevailing belief. it’s still the majority opinion, but now there are “discussions” about the imaginary merits of Nazism and a rapidly growing population openly identifying with the term.

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          Screaming and crying about political correctness, not because I believe politically incorrect things but for a secret other reason.

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          That’s not true. I see everyone around me promoting a lifestyle and ethics as desirable while on the dl living the lifestyle they decay. Which leads me to the conclusion it’s often not about what a thing actually is, but whether i can get orders to play the game of “it plausibly looks like x when it’s definitely y, upon closer examination, but no one cares as long as they can plausibly say it’s x when it’s most definitely y.

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      And he was clearly having a severe manic episode that people conveniently forgot, becuse mobs can’t handle nuance.

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          I love how I got downvoted for saying “mobs can’t handle nuance”.

          Obviously someone considers themselves part of a mob and was offended. 🤔

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            You’re getting downvoted because you’re arguing that being in some sort of manic episode excuses that shit.

            Admittedly I don’t pay much attention to him, so I could be wrong, but I don’t think he’s tried to walk any of that back since then either.

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              I know I am.

              I also know the people who are doing it have no fucking idea what they are talking about.

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    Image Transcription:

    X/Twitter post by user Eric Alper @ThatEricAlpher reading: What thing from your teenage years do you think should make a comeback?

    Reply by user Geraldine @everywhereist reading: The prevailing belief that Nazis are bad.

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    I’d like this AND “Getting banned from a website requires you to draw unnecessary attention to yourself through misbehavior”

    Yes I am STILL salty about the Reddit ban!

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    An overall disdain for anything too trendy or popular.

    My teenage family members live and die by the trend cycle. Teenagers have always cared about what’s cool, but now the trend cycle is so fast it’s impossible to keep up without spending inordinate amounts of money and generating tons of waste. It also just doesn’t seem great for their self-esteem.

    I was a teen in the mid-2000s/early 2010s hipster Tumblr era, which of course came with its own issues. But at least the trend cycle took a few years, and if anything I liked was unpopular I could just roll my eyes and say it’s just too obscure for you normies to understand.

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      I wouldn’t be concerned about trending itself, it’s that people seem to be favoring trends that are objectively bad. The pandemic people kept saying it wasn’t real and would go away when summer of 2020 came… but that proved wrong, and so few seem to want to learn from the lesson of going against science in favor of Fox News or whatever other negative trend that crowds keep following. If we were trending towards building affordable houses for more people and sheltering the homeless and not making rent lock people into jobs they don’t want - I’d thing it was progress. But right now, the crowds seem to be flocking to some negative-oriented Nazi kind of shit.

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        I respectfully disagree. Yes crazies are getting crazier and louder, but overall more young people are trending left – and further left – than ever. I don’t think bigotry is particularly cool or trendy to most teenagers.

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          Yes crazies are getting crazier and louder

          It isn’t just their words, since 2014 they believe all kinds of wild things, and the pandemic was just one example of how they act out on these belief as business owners, neighbors, organizations. It isn’t just politics.