DrQuint

They did market it. A lot.

It's just that the game's trailers were wildly forgettable.

Nah, I've seen hate. But mostly from people who hate Wesdon-Like quip writting and, well, women-haters who can't handle the characters being ugly (and they are ugly, admittedly), so I just dismissed the hate.

Yeah, this headline reads "disappointing single player game somehow stopped selling all that much after 6 months"

Like... Yeah???

then just go inside?

Ladies and gentlemen of the Linux community: A guy telling you to step inside the walled garden. Unironically.

I rest my case.

I don't have the time for this.

That is absolutely not true unless if you have exact word matches, and anyone with half a brain knows it's not about searching within discord, but about searching outside of it.

Discord is a black hole of information. What happens inside is unknown from the outside. This is why every single FOSS project using discord loses the right to call themselves FOSS - an issues page is equally free, has way, way better features to relate an issue to patches and releases, and is actually indexable.

If only there was something called an Issues page attached to every code repository. Oh well, that is an idea that is probably impossible or whatever.

Greatly improved usability, while still greatly hurting searchability, in that common bugs are still hidden away from indexable sight.

MAKE PRODUCT AT LOSS

GET CAPITOL TO MAKE PRODUCT LOOK BIGGER

SELL PRODUCT FOR MORE THAN SPENT

FIRE EVERYONE TO "MAKE SUSTAINABLE" (LIE)

LEAVE WITH GOLDEN PARACHUTE

REPEAT TILL YOU CAN BUY ENOUGH PROPERTIES TO RAISE SHITHEAD KID WHO WILL RUIN YOUR FORTUNE

Don't even need to make it about code. I once asked what a term meant in a page full of a certain well known FOSS application's benchmarks page. It gave me a lot of garbage that was unrelated because it made an assumption about the term, exactly the assumption I was trying to avoid. I try to deviate it away from that, and it fails to say anything coherent and then loops back and gives that initial attempt as the answer again. I was stuck unable from stopping it from hallucinating.

How? Why?

Basically, it was information you could only find by looking at the github code, and it was pretty straightforward - but the LLM sees "benchmark" and it must therefore make a bajillion assumptions.

Even if asked not to.

I have a conclusion to make. It does do the code thing too, and it is directly related. Once asked about a library, and it found a post where someone was ASKING if XYZ was what a piece of code was for - and it gave it out as if it was the answer. It wasn't. And this is the root of the problem:

AI's never say "I don't know".

It must ALWAYS know. It must ALWAYS assume something, anything, because not knowing is a crime and it won't commit it.

And that makes them shit.

The equivalent community seeded on the site that starts with R and ends with eddit recently (a month ago) made it a rule that people can't make "therapy" posts which means people posting topics can't make them primarily about their grievances with personal time or with the industry. And the baseline quality of topics in that place went way higher.

I think there's a lesson to take from that: Try and not give a shit. Just find games you like, and play and talk about them. Make that the top priority, and make these concerns secondary - and you'll have a higher quality time with the hobby.

I personally have 0 idea why the news circles gave two weeks of attention to something like Suicide Squad. Game looked bad, reviewed bad, openly had manipulative features built in AND attached to update promises, and then releases and, whoa, turns out, surprise surprise, it IS bad. And yet, two weeks. Two weeks of random place just bringing up the bad game that is bad with a lukewarm stance. Fucking even Skill Up, which I avidly consume content of, gave it a whole hour of attention split across two weekly roundups. That is unhealthy. Games do NOT deserve attention just because they're marketed. And, in no way I can convinced of otherwise: It's objectively stupid to give it that. I just skipped any discussions related to it, will probably skip any discussion related to turtle rock, the studio, henceforth that doesn't start with "they made a return to form! XYZ is the best game they've made!" and my life feels unsurprisingly unaffected and I feel personally, unsurprisingly, less stupid.

Netorare, Cuckholdery. Basically an entire branch of porn where the plot has one man watch "his" woman be taken by another man. It's overdone in some circles and completely absent in others which makes me think there's some degree of turnoff associated with it that is cultural.

Manic Miner for the ZX Spectrum.

It was shit. And I don't have to tell you why. Just look it up, sound on, that bit is mandatory.

My first ever gamer was a disappointment lmao. I did get super into the Megadrive and everything was fixed. But man.