Simony, complicate things.

I don’t think I can speak for everyone, but the majority of the games I have on steam that I will never play are older big name titles that I got in bundles on sale with other games I wanted to play.

I have a lot of indie/smaller studio games on steam, and I’ve played all of them a decent amount. I think the reason games from smaller or independent studios do better on steam is because they actually get put forward and highlighted by events. Like, there are mechanisms in place to promote them to people who wouldn’t have heard about them through word of mouth.

I think the larger issue is that other storefronts are just… bad about highlighting games that aren’t from huge studios and massive publishers, obvious exception for GOG who is more focused on game preservation and older niche games, but even there I rarely see new stuff from small/indie studios getting promoted.

Like, sure on epic they’ll get a 80% cut, or what ever it is, but 70% of 1000 sales is a lot more than 80% of 10.

Also, like, the comparison to Netflix is absurd. When you pay for a Netflix subscription, you are paying for literally all of the content they have, and I’m pretty sure it would be impossible to watch everything on there. It also sucks because if I want something niche or novel, there is no incentive for that to be produced because my payment is spread evenly across everything Netflix is producing.

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Pick pocketing does exist in the US but it is much rarer than in Europe. Even if you just compare major American cities to major European cities. Pickpocketing is much more common in Europe.

I don’t think that’s down to a risk of confrontation though. I think it’s down to the fact that pickpockets can’t make enough money to live on in the US.

Cash is less common in the US. A lot of people straight up don’t carry cash on them, and the rest barely carry any. Almost everything has accepted cards for nearly 2 decades here.

Managing to steal a card is much less useful than stealing cash. The card is liable to get canceled the moment someone realizes it’s gone, maybe they can get lunch with it before it’s canceled, but they can’t keep that money around to pay rent or buy groceries with. Phones and other things to can be pawned, but that’s another extra step, and another chance to get in trouble, and most of the time the actual money they can walk away with is much less than the value of the item.

And thus a series of new, passionate and innovative studios shall be born, grow, be bought, and crumble to dust under the foot of corporate ownership, and fertilizing the soil for a new crop in turn.

Frankly, I think the only seats he’d have a snowballs chance in hell taking would be seats that are currently red and upset at the disruptions to business. There are plenty of upset people in blue areas, but he’s not offering a meaningful departure from what they’re upset with, infact he’s probably an escalation of it.

Most likely he would just split the vote in red seats.

played a lot of those.

I remember VtMB particularly fondly.

Generally yes, For me it depends on how significant the discomfort is and how broadly it impacts people, but also, how much doing the thing really matters a lot to someone.

Like, there’s a point at which “ok someone else’s discomfort about this thing is marginal compared to how much it matters to a large number of people” at which point I get annoyed at someone trying to force other people to stop doing something that matters to them, even if I’m not doing the thing.

The new term does derive directly from the old disk game, and the disk game derives its name from a juice beverage that originated the disks as part of the caps.

Pog might be the most diversely derived words in the English language, it being an acronym of the words Pineapple, Orange and Guava. Pineapple being derived from apple which comes out of Germanic languages, orange coming out of the Dravidian languages of south India, and guava coming out of the Arawakan languages of South America. These three language families share no known common ancestry.

I was lucky enough to have played fallout 3 before new Vegas. So the series for me went from “that was fun, interesting setting” to “Wow this is genuinely amazing and feels like a living world that I’m inhabiting and interacting with.”

And then fallout 4 came out, and I was hoping that Bethesda would have learned something from New Vegas. But that was foolish, modern Bethesda doesn’t write stories, they don’t understand characters, they are a software company manufacturing a product, not a studio crafting playable stories. What narrative and story do exist, are the minimal needed to serve the gameplay loops. They make toy boxes, not experiences. Some people like that, but that’s not what I play these kinds of games for.

Going back and playing fallout 1 and 2 solidified this for me further, if Bethesda was going to learn from what made new Vegas great, they would have done so from 1 and 2 and implemented it in 3.

I haven’t even bothered to try fallout 76. I know what it is, it’s a looter shooter live service game meant to Skinner box you in to spending as much time as possible grinding up numbers and finding the best stats on rare drops. It’s not what I’m in to. I’ve accepted that.

As much as I love the fallout setting and the potential for story and world, there will never be another fallout game, just Bethesda products wearing the aesthetic. There are plenty of other great games out there that have story and gameplay working synergistically to create an experience.

You know, I can think of a few other times that people were pushed en mass to unorthodox mental health care.

Scientology for example. The core selling point they had to get people in the door was that they had a cheaper and more easily available way to treat those suffering from emotional issues.

Wild how that ended.

Encourages him to find work as copy writer to pay the bills until he hits his “big break”

“ our business model basically relies on anonymous people on the internet committing crimes”

Hilarious that we’ve reached a point where this is considered good and normal to investors. like, maybe this king of thing should be a pit fall test, like if someone willingly chooses to invest in something like this they should be banned from making any future investments and a lot of their asset seized.

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Maybe because the automotive market is doing poorly at the moment, and gas demand is down as well.

In a lot of mmos, people will farm in game resources and sell them for real money.

Some Youtuber complained about how the wording was to strong and would hinder companies abilities to make games or something.

Lot of people responded with “no you idiot, it’s just a petition it’s not legally binding, also why the hell are you spouting the boot licking arguments”

And more people have responded with “no actually it does legally required the EU to debate the topic at hand”

So now there is a buzzing mailstorm of “discourse” that is generally poorly informed. I suspect that some major media conglomerates might be doing astroturfing inflame the situation and muddy the waters.

Also a lot of this has been with from us Americans and Canadians, which is just kind of funny.

Oh absolutely, the mass produced stuff has just been so diminished in quality by the efforts to streamline, standardize and cost cut.

So much more can be done even with just vinegar pickles at home, using a more flavorful vinegar, using better quality vegetables, or just making some combination that isn’t widely available.

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