MolochAlter

All great mechanic driven games do this to an extent.

I had this with Portal and Minecraft back in the day, it’s just because they’re games that force you to think with their mechanics.

My answer to those is always “i code for money, I don’t code in my free time”

No? Https is just the connection protocol? You can do it over LAN only just fine?

For the same reason the USSR did the same shit to subvert countries all over the world?

Power blocks are the basic concept underpinning modern multipolar foreign policy decisions, it’s not rocket science.

The difference is liberal capitalism won eventually, and the USSR didn’t.

Communism didn’t and never will exist in a vacuum, you know?

Sure, bud, that’s why communism worked every time.

Because they’re correct, you’re just being too literal in your understanding of the statement.

Will people occasionally work for free? Sure. For friends, family, friends of friends, hell even strangers sometimes, volunteering is a thing, sure.

Will they work for free reliably and consistently enough that they can be built upon by other people?

Obviously not, they sometimes don’t even do it for money.

Society as it is today, with its insane population count and highly specialised workflows, requires an insane amount of logistics that absolutely can’t bear “random cunt #354 decided not to work this month so the boat is without a captain” levels of random disruption without heavy consequences; this is incidentally also why strikes are extremely effective.

No society that evolved beyond subsistence did so without some obligation to work, whether through monetary incentives or straight up serfdom/slavery; and if subsistence is all you want, I’m sure you can go live in like, some tribal commune on a Pacific island somewhere.

It’s not that, it’s the trade halt that points to something major (and bad for them) happening.

The only streaming services that make sense to me are the niche ones that focus on original content.

Wrestling streaming services like njpw world, trillerTV, or wrestle universe, specialised libraries like Shudder.

Generalised shit for mainstream content is not worth the money.

Noted, I didn’t even know she existed. What are some good articles she wrote for IGN that you’d recommend?

I don’t expect IGN to keep anyone on the writing team but it’s good to know good authors.

My bet is: you can’t reliably fire unionised workers, so you make them want to quit instead.

The IGN newsroom is a joke, name one reputable journalist you are SURE works there without checking first, and I’ll be genuinely surprised, the only value is in the brandname, their coverage can probably be replaced by some LLM horseshit with nobody really noticing.

The higher ups know it, the journos know it (hence why they unionised) and thus they’re at an impasse.

Once they inevitably lose this standoff they’ll be replaced by third-worlder english speakers with chatgpt, mark my words.

I’m sure the fact that Ghibli movies and BotW are best-in-class examples of their respective mediums has absolutely nothing to do with anything.

Looking forward to the metric shittons of open world ghibli knock-off garbage being currently greenlit by frothing execs hoping they have at last found the blueprints to the dopamine machine.

Dragon age 2, Mass effect 3

ME3 is particularly bad cause most of the game is exactly as it should have been, and then the ending is pure unadulterated trash.

MC and Visa are not technically payment processors, that would be stuff like stripe or ayden.

The problem is that cc companies have rules that put the onus of ensuring nothing illegal is purchased with their issued cards on the ones actually meditating the transaction, so it becomes a chilling effect because the intermediaries don’t want to risk burning a bridge with the largest cc networks in the world, and overcorrect as a result.

Jesus that is not a small bug lol

Wtf why?

Nintendo products have their union sale sticker on so I think they met and our guys won.

The exact specifics change country by country, in Italy there are a lot of horseshit rules around it because one of the most powerful unions lobbies (our equivalent of the RIAA) for more exclusive control over media at every chance they get, to the point that you’re not allowed to distribute even your own media through physical sales without paying a cut.

Legend of Grimrock seems pretty close, i haven’t played it in years though so I might be misremembering.

You also said “feel” not “look”. If you exclusively meant aesthetics you should clarify it in your own comment.

Also, responsiveness is not about if something is “fast enough” it’s about making the thought>action gap as small as possible for better immersion and player control. Higher FPS means there is a more consistent time from input to effect. If i press a button in a 30 fps game the input delay can be anything from almost none to 1/30th of a second (30ms, which if you played online games back in the day is not great), and there is no way to tell how much it will be. The more frames the less of a possible variance you experience.

Also all input is tied to framerate, if you have examples of games that have their input loop completely separate from framerate I’m all ears, especially given rendering is not on demand.

Yes but frame rate is primarily about responsiveness, not aesthetics, which is why AI frame generation is a horseshit idea.