TwilightVulpine

I did have good experiences with Savage Worlds. It's system is a little strange, but it manages to be simple while still offering a good variety of mechanics for different themes, though it isn't itself narratively-oriented if that's what the group wants.

I still need to try Forged in the Dark, but Powered by the Apocalypse just makes me run back to Shadowrun as it is. It's way too far the other way, barebones and genre-centric to a limiting extent. For all its issues, maybe even because of its bloat, it never leaves you out of options for any assortment of scenario themes.

Yes, unironically. It doesn't stop happening. If we get too desensitized and passive they'll keep inventing more ways to be terrible.

It used to be that any monetized cosmetics were already seen as a gross cash grab, now people are thankful it's not gameplay related. But there is also plenty of gameplay related ones too. The gaming industry is just so bad now.

I don't think so. Even casual players reinstall their favorite games on everything they can manage. Think of Stardew Valley.

Which is why Unreal Engine charges by revenue rather than by sale/install. It doesn't matter if the game if F2P, money earned is money earned.

Maybe it's for the best if they don't incentive the use of severed body parts.

We are seeing it now with them pretending to have been misunderstood but still intending to go ahead with it.

Yeah, these "clarifications" plainly contradict what they had told journalists before. They already had clarified that they would charge for all installations, not just the initial ones.

I also wonder what Microsoft thinks of this talk that they will be on the hook for Game Pass rather than the developer studio.

In the puzzle platformer Braid you can always rewind time, so any failure or minor mistake can be corrected by rewinding a little bit. Technically there is a fail state where you can die, but rewinding is such a basic mechanic, going back feels seamless.

Hopefully Mastodon can gain more popularity now.

Since I know myself as a person, Public Service Announcements and accontability on public media are complelely normal. It's only since the rise of internet media that has been created this attitude that tech companies can't be expected to have any responsibilties.

So, there can't be regulations and public interests because the people opposing these things when they are needed could misuse them? It doesn't seem like the problem is that, but just Republicans being consistently shitty and unhinged both ways. It's not like they need precedent to be terrible anyway, they make and break whatever precedents that might suit them.

Demanding that media cuts off health misinformation during a major health crisis is exactly the sort of thing that a government should do.

Almost like people with more money than sense can outvote everyone else.

How do you even count "people who didn't buy product X"? There could be millions more, either out of revolt or sheer disinterest, but that just doesn't matter for the companies selling a product. The only votes that end up counting are the ones from people buying.

People really need to drop that saying, because the market was never a democracy and it will never be. Hell, companies can even ignore the paying customers to do something else entirely because the ones who have the most money are the investors.