BlemboTheThird

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[–] BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca 29 points 3 months ago (5 children)

In the absence of any other visible political opinions I dunno what else we're supposed to attribute to him

[–] BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

Agreed. High res is not the same thing as good graphics. The Halo 1 remaster is another great example of that; the og graphics look SO much better

[–] BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 months ago

Too bad the person who'd be responsible for bringing those charges is the one who needs to be charged.

[–] BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (7 children)

I think they're mostly talking about regular video, in which case 60 is generally fine. Heck, 30 is usually fine. But I agree that in video games anything below 120 is downright painful

[–] BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I doubt most of them listen to him at all. They listen to Fox or Newsmax or whatever social media, who only cherrypick the fragments that sound vaguely coherent, and conversely only played the pieces of Biden's speeches that were incoherent. They either don't realize or don't care that they're not looking at the whole picture.

[–] BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca 48 points 4 months ago

There's validity in going after something that specifically symbolizes Elon rather than a random gas guzzler. Though electric cars are (debatably) less harmful than regular ones, Elon has done a lot of work in setting back even better solutions by promoting them over things like trains.

Also he sucks for a million other reasons but he's definitely a sort of wolf in sheep's clothing when it comes to environmentalism.

[–] BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hmm yes because crossing legally is so easy

[–] BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Wouldn't it be better to not record them in the first place instead of encrypting them?

[–] BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If "shouted in Klingon" is redundant, then is "said in Klingon" an oxymoron?

[–] BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca -2 points 5 months ago

That's a nonsense reason to ignore community creations. New players aren't drawn to games because of whether the community is making things; they're drawn because there are fun things in the game, regardless of where exactly they come from. That the community was allowed to contribute is not what drew so many people to Fortnite or Minecraft. Cosmetics make a lot of money, and mods can help with player retention as people get bored of vanilla, but they still need to be drawn in by the base game. That goes for Fortnite as much as it does League.

Besides, creators aren't generally drawn to making things for a game solely based on the tools available for doing so; they do it because they like the game. Even if that were the case, creators aren't a big group of people, nowhere near enough to move the needle on "having enough new players." That isn't part of the calculus Epic did when deciding support them, and it shouldn't be for Riot either.

Attempting to include community content doesn't put Riot in competition with other studios any more than they already are. Again, if they don't think their existing, massive community can make interesting content, that's one argument for not putting resources into it, but avoiding it because they think they'd have to draw people from other studios' communities is silly.

[–] BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Wringing them dry of what?

If they don't think their community would create items that other players want to buy, that's a different thing. The players and creators are already invested in their game; they have a playerbase of millions. Hand picking a few community created things to resell to their customers in the same vein as Valve with CS2 and TF2, or Epic with Fortnite, doesn't make them competitors any more than they already are.

[–] BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca 17 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I don't understand. There's no competition to be had in this space. The people who play your game are the ones who'd be generating the content; those who make stuff for Minecraft or whatever can't be competed over because they already don't play League.

I don't know what alternate reality these people live in where offering their players the opportunity to contribute is some secret sauce that would put them in direct competition with other tech giants.

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