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I’ve been saying it for the last decade, there’s no real “games are too expensive to make” problem. There’s only studios choosing the “go big or go home” death spiral where they inflate the budget and need a hit to stay afloat. But then after every hit the budget grows even bigger requiring an even bigger hit until eventually they’re going to flop and the studio goes under. They could just not do that and have a sustainable business. And I get that it’s not only the game developers fault. Part of the blame falls on the publishers who most likely force budgets to balloon so they could make more money (if the game is a success). But when I say they could just not do that I mean both the developer and publisher. Both of them should be smarter than that.

But clearly even with all the major flops it has been a successful strategy, because they’ve been at it since at least mid 2000s. It’s only in the recent years where it’s really starting to strain all the AAA publishers as the budgets have grown too big even for them. These price increases are an outcome of this budget ballooning. They’re feeling their bottom line taking a hit so they increase the price to mitigate the risk.

Personally I said fuck them, let it crash and let’s get more studios like Sandfall, who made an exceptional games for a reasonable price.

Let me spell it out for you : F U C K O F F T H E N. it’s not a hard concept to get. Even for your pickled brain. You are part of the problem and you get no saying who develops plattforms run instances or where people spend their salaries.

As I’ve already told you twice, I have. I wonder how many times do I need to tell you that until you finally get it.

Just like i can’t ban you as much as I would like to, even fascists that haven’t been kicked down a flight of stairs or not can run .world and other instances were they promote genocide and ban any opposing views. Without mine or any other person’s say so.

If you were an instance owner you could ban me from your instance. That is something Dessalines has done to multiple people who oppose and call out the fucked up shit happening on lemmi.ml. And nobody gets a say in that matter. That is part of the criticism people have towards lemmy.ml. Funny how once again you understand the issue people have but refuse to apply it critically because your tankie buddies are the ones being criticized. Hypocrite much?

Thanks to the devs of Lemmy.

I’m supposed to be thankful that they didn’t add such a massive tool of oppression into Lemmy? Was that even a possibility? Do you think that little of Lemmy devs that you think they could’ve done this but chose not to?

Again not a hard concept to get but I see it might be extra hard for a liberal not to be able to set the rules for everyone else, authoritarian as you are.

Funny how you think a socialist wouldn’t have an issue with the subject matter at hand. I guess you’re one of those “if you’re not a Leninist you’re not a socialist” kind of people. Fair enough, I don’t think highly of you either.

So you can understand why people would have issues with fascists running the show but you can’t understand why people have issue with someone doing the same shit fascists would do?

I guess that does require a certain level of nuance that you’ve clearly shown to lack so I’m not really surprised how the entire concept just goes over your head.

In the realm of turn based combat it’s pretty good. It has pretty easy to understand skills and mechanics that make it easy to pick up, but then you also get tons of modifiers (pictos and lumina) where the combinations can significantly alter how your character plays. And the timed triggers removes probably the worst aspect of turn based combat, the passivity. You can’t just sit there and wait while your character does a thing and then the enemy does a thing. You have to time your attacks but more importantly you have to identify what attack your enemy will do so you’d know if you need to dodge, parry, jump or gradient counter and then also time them correctly. It’s far more engaging than your average turn based combat.

The mediocre part of the gameplay are the side activities usually related to gestrals. I’m gonna vent now because my experience popped into my mind and it pissed me off again. Nothing infuriated me more than that stupid beach volley ball. Thank you for putting a fixed camera at an angle where it’s really hard to see the middle gestral throw and also your position in relation to where the gestral is going to land. The amount of times I lost the hard volley ball because I couldn’t see the middle gestral until it was too late really made me question how this even passed QA. And the reason I couldn’t just focus on the middle gestrals was because I had to focus on making sure my attack would actually connect with the gestral. The marker on the ground is just purely decorative as I had multiple occasions where I would attack squarely on the marker only for the gestral to still land and take a point away. AND FOR THE LOVE OF SOPHIE DO NOT THROW OUT GESTRALS FASTER THAN I CAN ATTACK. I almost beat the hardest volley ball match, except I didn’t beat it because I literally could not attack fast enough to send back the last gestral. I would just sit there, in perfect position, punching the attack button like a maniac and then watching how the gestral lands on the ground because the attack simply would not happen. Fuck beach volley. End of rant. Actually no, fuck beach volley again stupid fucking minigame. Now it’s over.

TLDR: gameplay good.

PHP is hardly doomed. It’s still getting new releases (last one being 19 days ago) and it’s still relatively popular for web development, which means it’s going to be support for quite a while. The rest what you’ve said about PHP is more or less just your opinion. As for Rust, Rust is a good language but Rust isn’t very popular at this moment and it’s even less popular when it comes to web development because most of the things that make Rust great are things that are simply not that important for web development. Most web development languages are performant enough, rust being even more performant isn’t going to be noticed. And because social media sites aren’t exactly security-critical Rust being memory safe won’t play a big role. The only clear benefit Rust has over PHP is being strongly typed.

But there’s a very obvious benefit to PHP. You simply develop faster. If you had 2 identical web projects, one in PHP and one in Rust, and you were equally skilled in both languages you’d finish the PHP project faster because PHP is literally designed for web development. Speed is a much bigger factor when developing a Reddit style content aggregator site.

As for the second point. You have an issue with fragmentation, but your solution to Lemmy devs refusing to cooperate is fragmentation? People forking Lemmy will also lead to fragmentation. Fragmentation is bad, but eventually people will gravitate towards one solution and fragmentation gets solved. It there’s very little different between the fragmentation happening between Lemmy forks or Lemmy and Mbin. IMO fragmentation is inevitable and I would rather see it happen right now rather than sit through N different Lemmy dramas until everyone gets so fed up with Lemmy devs that Lemmy gets forked and the fork becomes more popular than Lemmy.

But they usually aren’t big babies making demands and throwing tantrums on those projects.

I’m pretty sure if some other controversial dev at some other FOSS project came out and said “I need money to continue developing” there would also be people “making demands and throwing tantrums”, because people generally don’t want to support assholes. The people throwing actual tantrums are people jumping on their high horse going “Oh, you don’t want to support an asshole. What a freeloader you are.”

Since you’re arguing that we shouldn’t take their politics into account tell me, would you defend them just as vehemently if they were fascists and ran a fascist instance? Or do you make that argument only because your own political views align with them? Because despite clearly different ideological views their actions and support aren’t that far from fascists. Fascists peddle in propaganda, censorship and revisionism. lemmy.ml regularly does propaganda, revisionism and censorship (with one of the main devs being the one doing the censoring). Fascist need an outside group to direct anger at. Lemmy.ml has established “the west” as the outside group to be angry at. And obviously both have a clear affinity towards authoritarianism. We’re only missing terror and cult of personality (And I’m sure this one isn’t far off if it’s not already present but not apparent). So would you defend them if they were fascists?

We want FOSS federated social media and people have jumped ship to Lemmy because it was the most developed at that point. But I will keep reminding people that Lemmy isn’t the only option we have. I jumped from Lemmy to Mbin because I can no longer tolerate how Lemmy devs act and IMO anyone feeling the same way should also jump ship. Lemmy devs don’t own the activitypub and Mbin can federate with Lemmy communities. You can continue using the fediverse as you’ve been using it on Lemmy, until hopefully in the future communities also start migrating to Mbin (and all the tankies can stay in Lemmy). If you don’t like the state of Lemmy, be the change you want to see.

Also worth pointing out that this kind of drama won’t happen with Mbin because the project is community maintained not individually maintained.

You literally have no idea what you’re talking about, do you. Lemmy is not necessary for all instances and I’m on one of those instances that has nothing to do with Lemmy. I could’ve also signed up with Piefed if I wanted to but I feel more comfortable on Mbin. So I am in fact not freeloading. And the idea that anyone not willing to support the development is “freeloading” is completely preposterous. I guess the vast majority of FOSS users are freeloaders then.

And I have no idea why you keep bringing up Reddit, it’s like you have no clue about the world outside of Reddit and Lemmy.

People are free to use their salaries as they wish

And people don’t want to use their salary to support a tankie instance. Funny how that works, right?

The cost of the test instance that lemmy.ml is is negligible in comparison.

Except it’s not a test instance because it’s primarily being used as a propaganda outlet. If the purpose of that instance was to support the development of Lemmy the devs should have no problem cleaning up the instance because the political agenda of that instance clearly works against the development of Lemmy. But Nutomic has publicly said he would much rather keep the instance as is rather than make lemmy.ml into an instance that actually supports the development of Lemmy.

You just moving the goalposts.

Can’t even notice that you’re talking to someone else? Also my point was quite literally explaining how it’s not moving the goal post because what the devs have said doesn’t actually change anything. If you think it does I’m still waiting for that 50€.

But go back to reddit then? Spez is no horrible communist. Must be great for you? Why are you here freeloading?

Fuck reddit and Fuck Spez. And by the way I’m not freeloading, I’m on Mbin specifically because I’m fed up with the main Lemmy devs. I have no issue donating to Lemmy, as long as someone normal takes over the project.

If you donate me 50€ I’ll donate 100€ to them. Would you do that? I doubt it because you couldn’t verify if I actually held up my end and you’re not going to just trust someone.

But somehow you’re going to make an exception in this case and trust that they’re going to keep the finances separate? You really think they would let lemmy.ml die if the donation stream covering the costs of lemmy.ml would run dry? If you do you might as well send me that 50€ because they’re hellbent on keeping their control over lemmy.ml and instance as the propaganda outlet that it is. They will 100% use that money on lemmy.ml if they can no longer keep up appearances of having separate finances.