If you don’t want to talk to someone, replying to their comments is an odd choice…

Not replying is much more effective at ending a conversation, feel free to try it.

This is also pretty standard with propaganda:

The poster insisting people treat it as valid and enter into a discussion about it.

Maybe you’re more experienced than it thought, otherwise it would be a pretty big coincidence

Then you don’t understand anything about propaganda…

The most effective kind is a bias selection of true stories reported in a way to influence the reader

It’s basic media literacy in this day and age.

but they’re putting out one game every generation

That wasn’t as big of a deal when it was a two year console cycle…

But I think for hardware and software, consoles keep wanting to hit metrics, because that’s what the parent company looks at.

The result is usually all flash and every game hitting the same points that were popular 5 years ago when development started

There’s no risks, so there’s no payoff. They have built in audiences so they still make money and keep getting paid.

Shit only changes when an I die game blows up and AAA try to integrate what made that game popular.

Ignorance is bliss…

An intelligent person can see when shit is going to be bad, a moron will just keep insisting everything is fine, especially if their whole lives someone has bailed them out of everything.

A moral person feel shame, and is stressed about the harm he causes others. Somone without empathy literally never thinks how anyone else feels.

It’s not that trump is healthy or made a deal with the devil.

It’s just for stupid self centered people, they don’t care about anything except themselves.

After making such a big deal about Kimmel going away. And he immediately comes back…

If Kimmel goes hard on trump, especially insulting his masculinity for hiding behind the FCC and attacking free speech cuz he can’t take a fucking joke…

He might legit have a heart attack, and that will be effective at chipping away his support.

I wanted to love the original and sunk a lot of hours into it…

But it just never really scratched that HoMM itch like I wanted.

All the “endless” games seem super interesting and I love the never ending lore. It just feels like something is missing from all their games.

The new HoMM still just has “2025” as a release date, no idea when it’s actually releasing

Hc isn’t right wing

https://lemmy.world/post/36295703?scrollToComments=true

I mean, obviously you’re wrong…

I just don’t understand why lemmy.world admins keep federating with troll instances.

All it takes is one other person and you can bring it back.

I’d wager to bet that every single day, someone trades a seashell for something.

And I like being pedantic, so I’d say that seashells are actively currency.

Because that’s really all it takes.

Made up things are consequential.

Sometimes

All those things operate on Tinkerbell logic:

currency, boarders, sovereignty, human rights, and democracy

They can all be thrown away in an instance if people (for whatever reason) don’t fight for them.

There will always be people who fight against those things, and people that don’t give a fuck too. But we always have to have enough willing to fight for them, the % necessary just fluctuates.

No one can know the real numbers of cancellations unless Disney announces them, which will never happen.

Quarterly earnings…

183 million Disney+ and Hulu subscriptions, an increase of 2.6 million versus Q2 fiscal 2025

128 million Disney+ subscribers, an increase of 1.8 million versus Q2 fiscal 2025

https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/the-walt-disney-company-reports-third-quarter-and-nine-months-earnings-for-fiscal-2025/

But internally they monitor this metric on a day-to-day metric, people are absolutely losing their shit over the cancellation at Disney.

Yeah, pressure at all levels.

You can also look at a local station’s website and see advertising partners. Not the little fish that buy 1-2 ads a year for a local business, the ones that get their ads ran the most and in the best timeslots.

That’s where pressure is best applied on affiliates

Only Disney has those numbers, and releasing them would tank the stock that’s already dipping.

There is zero reason for them to admit what is happening.

Also of note, trump is pushing for it to go from quarterly to (I think) annual reports, so companies will be able to hide this stuff for longer, the whole time doing insider trading.

They absolutely think they are doing good…

Pretty unanimously, the most evil people to walk the planet all legitimately believe they’re the good guys.

Almost no one sees themselves as a villain, that’s just how the human brain is wired.

People not understanding this, is why evil shit keeps fucking happening.

If you just keep writing them off as “villains” doing evil for the sake of evil, we’ll never learn how to stop it. That literally why they keep coming back.

That feeds back into what I was saying, it’s the same thing.

The first couple times you dick someone over for money, you’re gonna feel bad.

But everyone at the company is going to pat you on the back and say you’re a genius cuz numbers went up.

Anyone who says it wasn’t worth the numbers going up, gets fired.

The wealthy live in a bubble where the only people they interact with only care about money

Our whole capitalist society is a giant feedback loop that concentrates wealth and strips the wealthy of their humanity.

It’s not like there’s some problem where something is broken, this is the natural and logical result of how we’ve spent the last couple generations

Unregulated capitalism always ends in an oligarchy with most people penniless

But then again, maybe he is just another CEO asshole and has always been lol.

When you fire everyone that disagrees with you, it doesn’t take long to loose the ability to handle criticism.

Like, there’s a very good chance this guy has had absolutely nothing but praise while “working” on this game. So now that people whose job doesn’t depend on making him feel like a genius are giving feedback, it literally breaks his brain.

He most likely genuinely believes the game is perfect and all the criticism is from “trolls and haters” who are just lying because their jealous of his genius.

There’s a reason this attitude is so pervasive among the wealthy.

Apparently the graphics are basically the same as 3, but performance is dog shit on even the best hardware and crashes are unavoidable.

When people complained, he said they need to use AI fake frame and upscale from 720. Which still wasn’t good performance.

It might get fixed later in updates. But this guy is handling so badly he might legitimately be mentally unwell. It’s at the point it’s weird he still has a job

Americans graduate from 12th at 17/18

So I think I’d have been 12, and it was a public generic school

And if that sounds too early, hunting season started like a week earlier than the class and another 12 year old in my class already had his license (lots did) but that kid climbed a fence with a loaded shotgun while hunting and blew off a couple of his toes.

So like, it’s hard to argue it was “too early” because the kids were already running around unsupervised with guns.

Before Columbine people would go hunting before school and if they didn’t get anything they’d come straight to school with their gun in the back window of their truck. After they just stopped leaving them clearly visible.

since kids aren’t usually allowed to train with guns

What?

I went to a rural school, and everyone had a “hunters education” class in like 7th grade. We never touched a gun but we could legally go hunting with a gun after.

A shit ton of kids hunt, and most ranges are fine with kids if an adult is with them too.

Like, it varies state to state, but in lots of areas it’s weird for someone to graduate highschool before shooting a gun.

But besides all that, guns aren’t difficult.

so can any person with no expirience technically just pick up a gun and start shooting people?

So yeah, pretty much.

That’s not how any of this works…

The price point is static, $X for a console game.

It’s weirdly like socialism. A game like GTA knows they’ll sell a shit ton of copies for years after release. Likely on multiple console generations. All those customers subsidize each others portion of the development cost.

It’s economics of scale, the greater expected sales, the less profit margin the corporation will accept.

Niche games come with a niche tax. It’s not unique to gaming.

The performance was held at the Paradiso Grote Zaal. The venue released a statement on Sunday saying it “believed in the power of artistic freedom”.

“Music – and especially punk – is an art form that traditionally magnifies anger, discontent, and injustice without a filter,” it said.

“In a world on fire, artists sometimes choose language that sounds confrontational or violent.”

Addressing the singer’s calls for the death of IDF troops, the venue said it shared “the outrage and concern surrounding the genocidal violence taking place in Gaza” and that “Bob Vylan’s raising his voice against this is legitimate and necessary”.

Punk has always been anti-fascist because fascists and punks compete for the same follower base, and overlap is unavoidable unless one side draws a very hard line about what’s acceptable.

The fascists want to be able to say whatever they want under 1st amendment, but have always lost their shit when people say the same shit about fascists the fascists say about innumerable target demographics.