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I can tell you why I care. Maybe you don't care but I'll tell you anyway. Because this sort of bullshit people lap up blindly and let the industry set it as a new standard. Can we milk users for in-game ships for a game that doesn't exist for a decade? Do I want that for the future of gaming? Pay now for the upcoming necromancer in the upcoming Diablo 6 that's been in the making for 10 years! This funding model is predatory and the game is already primed to be soaked through with Eve-level of toxicity.

You should care. It's your gaming too.

Before reeeeeee, note that I don't attack anyone's enjoyment of the "game".

This type of rhetoric seems to always point at "oh but it's something else that's the problem, leave my airbnbs alone there are too few of them"

https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2021/ph/bgrd/backgroundfile-166717.pdf read some actual studies and see how much of the real estate stock is held by short term rentals and tell us about how those few properties have low impact on property prices. I'd love to see what kind of impact Toronto would have if those 9100 dwellings would be available to Torontonians. That's about 56 dense,mid rise apartment buildings of housing.

Sorry, but the financialization of housing is a real issue that needs to get addressed.

Because you're saying "don't worry about the already built housing people sit on for short term rentals, those don't count" they do count, there are a lot of them. How long would it take to build 9100 units in Toronto vs immediately dumpstering the airbnbs and forcing sale or long term rentals. There's a part of the issue that you just might not be aware of, it's the fucking vacant homes that sit there empty, making loads of cash during busy season.

You're right, building more is good, but without bans on short term rentals and proper regulations around multi home ownership we're just gonna build more units for landlords.

Fresh green energy, straight from the orchard

He's embarassing himself? 😂

I had a boox note battery fail after 3 years and it was replaced out of warranty for 80 bucks without any weird back and forth

😂 what!? I've worked with 11 engineering managers and they've all used emojis. You're either not in software or you work for a bank/insurance.

Finally /s

My god, it's full of stars

I have a job I really love

Iceland is in their own dumpster fire with housing. You're better off in continental Europe if you can get a visa. You also have the New Zealand working holiday option, which is a good time. I toyed with Iceland and have close friends there, it's rough to get housing, cost of living is expensive because everything is shipped in.

Giving government money to muskrat companies is the scam.

Reminder that starfield is playable and enjoyable, with decent performance and a complete game with a shitload of missions. Can Starfield be better? Yeah, and I think it probably will be with a bit if time. Is the space combat a little bit dogshit with really nice audio design? Yeah, it sure is. Is it actually out, playable, with boarding and ship building? Yep, sure seems like it.

I don't even know why you threw this example out there for a single player game that's pretty much what everyone expected from a AAA studio in the current "optimize every dev hour per dollar" bottom line focused game dev style.

I can't believe it's not butter

"yebat' kapat'!" Which it think literally translates to "to fuck, to dig" and in context I think it's just "holy shit!"

Alienate a shitload of gamers in favour of whales and shovel cute trailers. RSI is a joke. People that keep telling others to install and try it are the same people that bought RAGE and thought it was a full game.

The second half I don't dispute, people play it and enjoy it. The first part though I'm not sure about for myself, I don't think I can play SC, certainly not the SC I paid for god knows how long ago. I can play a tech demo right now, and that's just not enough.

I hope I cream my pantaloons when SQ42 actually lands. Until then, SC as a whole is far from what's been promised.

And your love for hot dogs!

Warframe never had this level of bullshit. The ratio of cash:dev lead time wasn't remotely close. I played Warframe for ages and their funding model very quickly crystalized into a very transparent and rewarding model. "Wanna support us? Buy skins, frame slots, gun slots, etc" their early funding didn't even register as a blip on the radar when compared to the sheer millions of dollars dumped into SC just so they can deliver nothing close to their promise.

The "this is the present" schtick is nice and all but that exact same "niche" audience that's waiting for sc is waiting in Eve online, for it's true successor and are getting more and more disenfranchised. That money has a negative impact on me directly because those millions could have gone to a better place for gamer, instead of being in perpetual escrow In a tech-demo-game that is now filled by such zealots that any mention of refusal to accept this so called new dogshit status quo gets their Spidey Senses tingling the same way a Musk enthusiast rallies to defend him.

You care that the bloggers, influencers and convention staff are getting jobs to shovel this game, that's cool, you've spent time in the industry and they're maybe your people. I'm not going to put a gun to my own head and say that giving people jobs is a bad move in trying to counter this point.

All the stuff you're talking about in your last paragraph, SC isn't going to avoid any of it from where I'm standing. It's either going to flame out on launch, or it's going to be jam packed with the original whales that will grief beyond all measure.

I hope I'm fucking wrong about all this and I'm just a jaded lil bitch. I hope we get another NMS that is redeemed to that same degree. Until then, remember, no pre-orders.

Who wants a moustache ride!?

Exactly, not in software as in, not working for a software company.

Hmm that could work 🤔

Seriously does anyone know what they're talking about or is this just marketing bs?

Your devotion to keeping a moral compass is not as strong as it could be, Buddhism and Hinduism are mostly just a curiosity.

Fuck the internet sometimes indeed. https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN12131

I've been playing the newish Wolfenstein games on mine and they run so incredibly well. I haven't played a campaign game before this since Death Stranding.

Sorry! I've only heard that title used in the context of software engineering gigs.

Nice!

Yeah, makes perfect sense!

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People need to fuck off with this "I'm surprised you're surprised" stuff. It contributes nothing to discussion except showing how far superior of an internet user you are, by no longer being surprised by sketchy shit.