God, post-digg era was peak. When subs like r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu were still active. It was just folks talking about their lives and relating to eachother. Then we all grew up, life got serious, and the culture wars started.

It’s two things. Bots, yes, but also the communities have gotten really lazy. Shit was fire during peak culture war because people were actively trying to learn. Now it’s like everyone gave up.

I played the whole thing on controller. It sounds like you’re still early in the game so the combat hasn’t pushed you to play it like a twin stick yet. During certain bosses and especially after a spoiler will the drone become more useful and reveal mechanical depth you havent been exposed to yet. Give it time. That game is a treasure.

It’s always been the goal to get children consuming products. It’s a known function of humans that they usually stick to whatever they were doing when they were kids well into adulthood. It’s harder to convince an adult with pre-established routines and preferred products to switch over.

You’re right though that it’s getting pretty blatant now, but that’s to be expected as we dismantle food and drug regulations.

Just waiting for that one really charismatic Tori to come out and say the NHS is the problem. Thatcher 2 is gonna be hilarious

It’s lowkey true, if presumptive. People migrate here literally for the ability to dictate the lives of others and form their own little kingdoms. They’ll do this even if it pushes them into bankruptcy or death. The promise of being a sovereign is often more alluring than reforming any of these systems for the public good. Better yet, most of them don’t even consider the public good. The world just stops materializing past their fov.

“Has the largest” meaning a 3 comment average per thread. That’s what the OC is talking about. The communities in Lemmy World are really small in a way that makes it hard to hold together a sub. A new movie comes out and maybe one or two people talk about it on Lemmy while Reddit has hundreds.

Then you might say, be the change you want to see, but Lemmy has a pretty small install base. Even if you participate, there isn’t anyone to follow, because the users here are usually white collar tech folk. Hence the interest groups being tech and politics.

Ah gotcha. How are you liking Nier so far? It’s more of a spectical fighter than an open world traversal game.

Nothing that grandiose. Sounds like you’re mostly in it for the traversal. Did you play Mirror’s Edge 2?

What about a system like the Like a Dragon franchise, where it’s a small open area flush with things to do?

We finally found him! John Openworld! The core reason why game devs keep making every game into an open world!

I have a question I always wanted to ask. Is it more important for the world to be deep or wide? More side content or more to navigate?

That’s just, like, your opinion, man…

Not good for capital generation. Media needs to generate revenue like everything else in this system, otherwise it starves.

Dropping all civility, I’ll say; hummuna hummuna, awwwooooga, boiyoiyoing, SCHWIINNGGG

People are simplifying it a bit too much. Take Two is calling it an extended look at the game. Knowing Rockstar, it’ll preview a lot of the story and show off the gameplay adjustments/additions from the last release. Some agreement happened between Take Two and Netflix, understanding that this release was going to draw a lot of attention, so they worked out this timed exclusivity thing.

I’m not sure creating a streaming monopoly is much better as an alternative. I’ve been workshoping the idea that we should have a “public option” for being able to buy and watch shows and movies so that the subscription model would need to become more competitive, but the US especially is just too private enterprise focused support that right now.

Is that Rockstar’s track record now? I remember RDR2 releasing in a pretty stable condition. Regardless, bugs or no, I think people deep into gaming usually see the most important parts as what the gameplay is shaping up to be. So that would be, how has the driving changed, is there more thought and effort put into the non-violent side-content, how intractable is the world and to what degree is the world responsive? Stuff like that. The folks I usually listen to are mostly on that track since graphics are generally irrelevant now and the story is… Gonna be a Rockstar story, and won’t be anywhere near GTA IV, so it’s not that exciting.

It sucks, but GTA is one of our last tentpole entertainment products. I understand people being a little excited to participate, and that also means the corps milking it for every last cent. The Netflix thing makes sense in the same way superbowl commercials make sense. And it does look like this is supposed to be the big gameplay showcase, so wanting to tune in as a gaming insider also tracks. It is what it is.

I like to think I was banned for similar reasons, but I’m pretty sure it was because I was commenting in a gatcha subreddit that was really circling the drain regarding taste. Folk were putting up questionable images of questionable body types and I was getting annoyed that the game was falling so far. Got banned for calling a spade a spade. Ironically, the sub was banned shortly after.

Thankfully I cant have the same issue here because all the niche interest communities are dead, lmao!

There’s a lot here to unpack, and it conflates things that don’t really make sense to conflate. Like, Americans using too many resources being a wealth issue is circular because wealth means resources. Maybe to make the perspective of others more clear, we’re saying that this zero-sum understanding of resource managment fails to account that resources can be recycled, and that their recycling is economically stimulating because it’s a form of resource capture. Manage the resources as necessary for the global population (with slack of course for emergencies) and keeping them on a closed loop. It’s possible, but is not an exploitive practice so its mechanisms arent easily exploitable. That’s the real issue. Humans only seem to gather and work together when there’s a possibility that any one of them can become a god king and get visits to whatever the modern Epstein Island is.

You’re arguing that progress requires death. We’re arguing that it requires effort and intentionality.

Controversial, but I dont think overpopulation is the problem folks think it is. More hands can mean more trees planted and more wind turbines built as much as it means oil refineries. Overpopulation is only an issue if you’re coasting off shared resources.