those gamers wouldn’t be the ones who want powerful women in the first place. The article is imagining gamers who want powerful women AND are afraid of them.

Vince guaraldi trio - Charlie Brown christmas

Brian Setzer orchestra - christmas rocks

bela fleck and the flecktones - jingle all the way

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still looks like old reddit to me.

yes. the point is it doesn’t work well in a video game.

oh good, this reminds me I haven’t bothered to leave a negative review yet. let me correct that.

100%. The best part of Bethesda open world games is exploring the open space between towns, quests, objectives, etc. Fast travel is an option, but rarely necessary. If you rely on it you will miss lots of cool stuff.

Not so in Starfield, the space between objectives is literally empty space.

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I’m not sure starfield can be fixed. the concept is fundamentally flawed imo.

exactly. I gave MMOs a try, I gave looter shooters a try, and eventually I figured out GAAS is just not for me. single player offline only games please and thank you.

really fucked up my fantasy squad :/

Your analogy is a poor one.

1. “you” as an independent developer don’t have a vested interest in selling apple hardware. Microsoft and Sony do have an interest in selling xboxes and playstations.
2. “you” as an independent developer don’t have the resources to fairly easily port an app to another platform, like Microsoft/Sony do. Like other AAA developers have been doing with non-exclusive games for decades.
3. Market saturation for apps is not really comparable to AAA console games.
4. I don’t think piracy is a big concern in console games, but maybe I’m wrong. I don’t keep up with it.

To me, the only reason Sony is doing it with their back catalog is to try to generate new users for their upcoming sequels. The game is at the end of its earning lifespan if they don’t port it, so why not use it to market the upcoming titles?

So you’re saying releasing games on other platforms is beneficial for game sales?

That’s how anti-consumerism works. Corporations abuse their power to force consumers into buying more shit for no reason, and feel good while doing it.

frankly I don’t understand your point. Recently both companies have been porting games to PC, but NOT the other console. If Sony can port Spiderman, God of War, etc to PC there’s absolutely no reason they can’t port them to xbox as well, except to force consumers to buy a playstation. Same with MSFT and Elder Scrolls. That’s why it’s anti-consumer.

nope, both are anti consumer. If you want to make unique games, great. No need to restrict them only to your platform.

all it does is make people buy redundant hardware which obviously costs more money but also creates more e-waste.

also without exclusive games, consoles would have to compete on the actual hardware, price, etc rather than which games you want to play.

consoles are purposefully made to run only the software specifically made for them.

xbox and PS are basically mini PCs that can run the same stuff with relatively minimal tweaking. exclusive games of both platforms are pure anti-consumer bullshit.

I think mainly for collecting resources.

why not both

I don’t think convincing average people to go 100% full vegan is a good strategy. What I would focus on is convincing people to eat less meat, eggs, dairy, etc. It can be a gradual process to even further reduction, or even just a permanent flat reduction is still an improvement.

Convincing two people to reduce their animal consumption by 50% is as good as convincing one person to go full vegan.

I think even users who are still here, like myself, just don’t have the same energy from when I first started. And it’s a snowball effect, less engagement results in even less engagement from others.

They are maxed out on the number of GPs at this point, so the only way they can squeeze in more product is to eliminate the “filler” like practices and replace them with more racing. More racing = more TV viewers, more ticket sales and attendance on Fridays and Saturdays.

But I agree with you, sprints bring nothing new to the table, it’s just quantity over quality.