djsoren19

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Cake day: January 13th, 2025

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  • Not at all.

    The idea of “ignorance is bliss” is kinda like relying on herd immunity. You have to hope that everyone else creates a society that is good and just. Otherwise, material conditions will constantly worsen, you’ll just be left unequipped with the tools to know why.

    Such an existence sounds maddening to me, and considering how often ignorant people are turning to hate in the face of drastically declining material conditions, I feel confident thinking that it is maddening for them as well. If you at least know why everything is turning to shit, you can try to stop it.









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    6 days ago

    The thing is, there’s a lot of RPG players who want to see number go up, and enjoy getting into the weeds on how number go up. The San Andreas system is great for a super grounded real-world crime game where the focus is almost entirely on the story, but for a sci-fi/fantasy numbers-focused RPG people want the dopamine hit of a new skill point.



  • There’s two issues with this thinking. The first is the assumption that the additional money is going to the developers. Considering Microsoft continues to layoff developers, I think we can safely rule that out as a possibility. It’s going to the c-suite and maybe marketers.

    The second is the assumption that games are more expensive than ever to develop. This is beyond untrue; games have actually never been cheaper to develop. That’s a big reason why indies have exploded in popularity, and in many ways have supplanted AAA as the primary drivers of innovation in the industry. AAA games are bloated because business executives want to chase infinite money, and put ludicrous amounts of man hours chasing the dragon of graphical fidelity. I strongly believe that more mid-budget titles focused on solid gameplay fundamentals with good art direction would result in greater success, but since that won’t make infinite money I doubt the shareholders will ever take that route.



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    6 days ago

    I know people don’t care for Moffat-era Who, and for good reason, but gd Capaldi had some real bangers. The whole speech is incredible.