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Right. I do suspect that this was individual failure, that is, this woman was just lying. Either she wasn't trained or didn't want to do it and just sucked at her job. But it's the failure of the organization that individual failure seems so widespread.

You're lucky if they can read the CRA website to you. I had a woman from the CRA basically harassing my partner to use their official forms to fill out info and upload documents, but the locations she gave us didn't exist on the website. I took over for my partner on speaker phone, because she was in tears, and explained to this woman that this pattern through the website that she's describing doesn't exist, and asked her to try logging in for herself and see where this shit is. She then told me she doesn't have access to the layout of a "My Service Canada" page. Excuse me? You're trying to navigate someone through something you don't have access to? Are you a Canadian citizen? Go make one. And then she refused to answer if she was a Canadian citizen.

Leaving whether or not Canada is outsourcing this kind of work aside, who the fuck tries to run a call center without providing access to the shit you're on the phone for.

The same way the uncentralized conglomorate of people dedicated to standing against fascism is a "terrorist organization."

Makes me think of "the hacker known as 4chan."

Gotta say, he fooled me too. I genuinely thought, "huh, it's been a while since mickey7 graced us with his uncomfortable, sexist boomer humour" only to tab back. Shocked, I say.

While you are absolutely right, that doesn't make it engaging to listen to. Perhaps ludonarrative harmony can go too far.

Fantastic response tbh.

It's a good game, and very unique in what it does, but it's not the objectively best written masterpiece it gets praise for.

My friend who thinks it is also thinks the same o Shakespeare, which I think explains a lot. I tend to be impressed with works that say more with fewer words rather than say little with very many. If the author could pull his head out of his own ass and get to his points, I think it would be a better game, but I suspect Disco Elysium fans would argue that that would ruin the best part of the game, so I just accept I'm not the target audience.

Bless.

Fairly confident I wound up with some malware from a "GOG" download from one of the sites in the megathread. I've already formatted and the files are long gone but I'll tuck this link away for the future.

Fascinating. As much shit as I talk, I did discover a lot of good games via those discs. The Blades of Exile franchise, for example, really stands out as a series of underrated early windows RPGs.

Balatro, Loop Hero, all three of the noteworthy Mihoyo games, Sword of Convallaria - I'm going to get flak for including gacha games, but these ones are surprisingly well designed and written games, despite predatory monetization practices - Stardew Valley, Dead Cells, Vampire Survivors...

I think we're kidding ourselves if we ignore that Among Us was a genuinely good game, despite being notorious brainrot zoomer bait.

I'm not sure why we shifted the goal post to mobile games, but the point stands.

Edit: I had to come back because I remembered how much I enjoyed Monster Hunter Stories on mobile, and the mobile version is actually the most complete version.

Hades 2, Silksong, and the FFTactics remake, all of which came out in the last like 3 weeks.

I'd genuinely call the first two 10/10s, and the only thing stopping me saying that about all three is FFTactics' commitment to staying true to the original, as they kept some features, qualities and even bugs moving forward that are jank in the modern era, but keep the game feeling more authentic.

Ah, I see you have never picked up a "1000 best games for Windows" CD.

There are a lot of low quality games to complain about. There are also a lot of high quality, new games to experience. 10 years from now, the low quality games will be forgotten, while the high quality games will be looked back on, fondly. Posts will be made comparing the "high effort, high quality games from 10 years ago" to the modern slop, and the cycle will repeat..

I don't think this is about enthusiasts buying less games, though. We're not talking about the average number of purchases the consumer makes. This is more evidence that there are a lot more casual players out there, who will make their 0-2 large game purchases a year and play their games over a long time. The college guy who literally only buys a couple sports games that they play online with a friend. The burnt out parent that can only make time for their 2 open world adventure games all year. I know a few people in my life who own a Switch, Mario Kart and Animal Crossing, and that will be literally the only two games they load all year. And this is to say nothing of people who strictly play F2P tirles, which apparently are 33% of players.

"US game players purchase 1-2 games a year on average" is not the same thing as "the bottom 60% of purchasers only purchase 1-2 games a year." This is evidence that, one, the medium is reaching a much more widespread market and, two, the casual market is often more engaged with F2P titles.

I think if we looked at enthusiasts and hobbiests, there would still be a decline in purchases. I don't think this is evidence that games have become too expensive for most.