Yeah I recently replayed IW. I actually enjoyed it. I felt I didn’t appreciate it for what it was in its own time.

I love the people selling their cars. Why are you selling your car? In what twisted logic does it make any sense? You think Jesus is worried about your cash holdings? Does heaven have an entry fee?

I keep being enticed back to trying the game again with each new release but the gameplay just doesn’t grab me and there’s such a limited amount of story that it doesn’t get its hooks in me. I guess I’m just not a crafting/survival type.

I get what you’re saying…if that were my experience I’d be jack of it too. I’ve got similar spec and am running Nobara which is pretty much Steam OS for people with Nvidia cards. The only thing. The only thing I got really into the weeds on was setting up Plex. Which wasn’t my first preference but I couldn’t work out how to get Jellyfin to cast to my old Chromecast. Other than that though I’ve had a great experience that ‘just works’.

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I discovered Prey (2017) a few years back. It is so my shit.

It’s probably the worst named game of all time. It’s essentially a sequel to System Shock 2 and Bioshock. Should have been called Xenoshock or something because it’s generic name is nothing like the really original game underneath.

You are fully in the driver’s seat, with a crazy amount of freedom in how you want to get from one section of the space station to the next.

The opening scene, once I discovered the reality behind the scenes, I was hooked.

They targeted gamers.

Gamers.

We’re a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.

We’ll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it’s fun.

We’ll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.

Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.

Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?

These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We’re already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren’t shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We’ve been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that’s already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they’ve threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can’t is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.

Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You’re not special, you’re not original, you’re not the first; this is just another boss fight.

I get that reference

I am too stupid. This is true. Too stupid to buy an iPhone too.

Influencer endorsements can actually be even less effective than traditional ads, despite their outsized budgets.

The industry has also been expressing concerns about the validity of social media ‘vanity’ measures, documenting that engagement for most social media platforms and for collaborations with influencers can be very low (Influencer Marketing, 2020)

https://sponsors.marketingscience.info/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/c_pub/2023/03/2023-03-20-A-comparison-of-Social-Media-Influencers’-KPIs-Patterns-Across-Platforms.pdf

You’re not missing anything. You got it right. The entire funding model for tech is destined for a financial collapse that will make 2008 look like child’s play.

https://www.fsgoriginals.com/books/subprime-attention-crisis

From the unreliability of advertising numbers and the unregulated automation of advertising bidding wars, to the simple fact that online ads mostly fail to work, Hwang demonstrates that while consumers’ attention has never been more prized, the true value of that attention itself—much like subprime mortgages—is wildly misrepresented. And if online advertising goes belly-up, the internet—and its free services—will suddenly be accessible only to those who can afford it.

That cope at the end 😂

It’s interesting to me how divisive reactions seem to be on Avowed, some people loving the hell out of it and some being very lukewarm. It’s not even falling along the usual IGN reviewer love vs indie reviewer scepticism divide like Starfield or Veilguard. I wonder what’s driving the difference?

I don’t understand who people they’re dunking on when they mock distinctive indigenous words.

Ballaarat means meeting place. Djilang / Geelong means tongue of land as in the edge of the bay. Wirribi / Werribee means spine, as in the river being the spine of the land. Garidwerd means mountain range created by Bunjil. Wahroonga means home.

Even Humpybong comes from ngumpin bong, meaning empty houses in Ninghi Ninghi referring to the failed colonial penal colony that the settlers abandoned.

All these words have true meanings that connect to the land and our history.

Yeah I learnt a bit about the whole Andalusian penitentes from the Worst of All Possible Worlds episode on Blasphemous II

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2Fj3jrgboVQM1EJK4YsAMz

Catholic fetish?

I played Nier on Xbox so no playtime comparison on Steam.

Lol… How is it similar to these Steam?

This is what a kleptocratic oligarchy looks like folks. Suck up to the big man and he’ll let you fleece the joint.

My favourite part is “challenge” being misspelt multiple times. It’s just chefs kiss