shani66

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[–] shani66@ani.social 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If you want to get to the heart of a terrible practice or belief, look at who is pushing it (not simply buying it) and who is benefiting. This is a very recent idea (like, you might still be able to find a grandma who was raised before that stupid shit took off) pushed to keep people poor and generally weaker than they otherwise would be. If you've got multiple generations, or even families, living together they have far more breathing room economically.

[–] shani66@ani.social 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You find a job in your city, you don't find a city for your job. Usually, anyway.

[–] shani66@ani.social 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

You'd think an agent would do better than to out themselves with things like that, but i guess Russia isn't exactly known for competence.

[–] shani66@ani.social 1 points 9 months ago

I can respect an honest robber or a skilled conman, but they gotta cut this shit out before it affects us decent people.

[–] shani66@ani.social 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I think it's better to look at it as 'it'll never be this good again' instead. Might dull the pain a bit and help brace for the future!

[–] shani66@ani.social 30 points 9 months ago

"we made a mid game and released it at a bad time, we couldn't possibly be the reason it failed, clearly the world just doesn't want single player shooters!"

[–] shani66@ani.social 2 points 9 months ago

You've got some answers as to what specifically it is, but I'd like to chime in and remind everyone that the US tax system is maliciously complex and designed to fuck over people like you and me and help the obscenely wealthy.

[–] shani66@ani.social 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I've never been a super fan of Warhammer, but rogue trader is so fucking good. You can really feel the experience owlcat had built up.

[–] shani66@ani.social 1 points 9 months ago

It's not unbearable as is, but I'm not going back to it for a few more months either

[–] shani66@ani.social 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Dragon's dogma 2 is shaping up to be an absolute masterpiece.

But on topic; i think the usual systems of fast travel undermine entire games and we all know humans are very bad at enjoying things ('players will optimize the fun out of everything'), but people don't usually bring up the impact it has on game design. A simple fast travel system allows for much worse and scattered design. Generally a good game would keep most quests in an area limited to that area, with a smaller number meant to introduce new areas. A fast travel system encourages Bethesda level shit where a quest can leave you going to the literal opposite side of the map and back.

[–] shani66@ani.social 5 points 9 months ago

Much less glowing. It wasn't the game that set SR (and the studio itself, apparently) on the way to ruin, but it was certainly another step down that road. If someone is into superhero games it's got some interesting baggage from when it was a saints row game (like better character customization), at least.

[–] shani66@ani.social 7 points 9 months ago

You mean an event blown way out of proportion to justify draconian overreach? The Republicans trot one of those out literally every week.

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