MolochAlter

Of course it was Santa Ragione.

Met one of the founders years ago, acted like he had discovered the wheel and hot water himself when all he did was come up with Mirrormoon, which while good is anything but the smash hit he was pretending it was, it just happened to be the most successful italian indie game at the time of, like maybe 3 of them?

These guys are pathologically auteur, and from everything I’ve seen of them, think they’re way smarter than they actually are.

No? Https is just the connection protocol? You can do it over LAN only just fine?

For the same reason the USSR did the same shit to subvert countries all over the world?

Power blocks are the basic concept underpinning modern multipolar foreign policy decisions, it’s not rocket science.

The difference is liberal capitalism won eventually, and the USSR didn’t.

Communism didn’t and never will exist in a vacuum, you know?

Sure, bud, that’s why communism worked every time.

Because they’re correct, you’re just being too literal in your understanding of the statement.

Will people occasionally work for free? Sure. For friends, family, friends of friends, hell even strangers sometimes, volunteering is a thing, sure.

Will they work for free reliably and consistently enough that they can be built upon by other people?

Obviously not, they sometimes don’t even do it for money.

Society as it is today, with its insane population count and highly specialised workflows, requires an insane amount of logistics that absolutely can’t bear “random cunt #354 decided not to work this month so the boat is without a captain” levels of random disruption without heavy consequences; this is incidentally also why strikes are extremely effective.

No society that evolved beyond subsistence did so without some obligation to work, whether through monetary incentives or straight up serfdom/slavery; and if subsistence is all you want, I’m sure you can go live in like, some tribal commune on a Pacific island somewhere.

It’s not that, it’s the trade halt that points to something major (and bad for them) happening.

The only streaming services that make sense to me are the niche ones that focus on original content.

Wrestling streaming services like njpw world, trillerTV, or wrestle universe, specialised libraries like Shudder.

Generalised shit for mainstream content is not worth the money.

nothing but eyecandy

Not what you initially said.

I love this game so much and I’ll always defend it against all the eye candy accusations.

The implication was that being eye candy at all was in itself an accusation it needed defending from, which is where I extrapolated the rest.

Good if that wasn’t what you meant, but this is an extremely common talking point so I don’t think me coming to that conclusion was unwarranted from the context.

I’ll always defend it against all the eye candy accusations.

Why? What’s wrong with the game being unashamedly eye candy?

ISTG I hate this entirely american puritanical “can’t have fun sexy things” horseshit.

The character design is literally Kamiya and Nakamura’s fetish fuel, they themselves reported vibing super hard on the character design and insisting sexy librarian glasses were a must.

It’s one of the best action games of all time, its presentation is deliberately excessive in every way, that includes hypersexualization, and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that.

you’ll never be able to see Bayonetta other than one of the most badass action game protagonists of all-time.

Also this implication that being a badass somehow overrides being hot? Excuse me? Since when? If there’s anything that enhances hotness, that is hypercompetence.

Being incredible at something so effortlessly that you still look stunning while doing it is a force multiplier, not a contradiction.

Noted, I didn’t even know she existed. What are some good articles she wrote for IGN that you’d recommend?

I don’t expect IGN to keep anyone on the writing team but it’s good to know good authors.

My bet is: you can’t reliably fire unionised workers, so you make them want to quit instead.

The IGN newsroom is a joke, name one reputable journalist you are SURE works there without checking first, and I’ll be genuinely surprised, the only value is in the brandname, their coverage can probably be replaced by some LLM horseshit with nobody really noticing.

The higher ups know it, the journos know it (hence why they unionised) and thus they’re at an impasse.

Once they inevitably lose this standoff they’ll be replaced by third-worlder english speakers with chatgpt, mark my words.

People aren’t exactly ranting about how Winston (a Gorilla) isn’t sexually attractive

Well that’s for 2 reasons:

1. He’s a single character, the vast majority of characters in any successful piece of media are at least somewhat appealing, and this stands true for OW.
2. Winston is a stud

demonizing queer repsentation as ugly.

They’re not, they’re specifically saying Concord’s character design is ugly for a lot of very practical and valid reasons, and also it’s only representing a very specific minority of people who are a spit in the bucket of the total audience numbers necessary to support a paid live service title.

So it’s both doing a disservice to itself by just being incompetently made AND playing into the stereotype that minority rep always ends up ugly (an already very common sentiment due to how often cases of it sucking are spotlit) because it has basically nothing but that.

Ironically had Concord had a more actually diverse cast, and not overwhelmingly represented a handful of pet groups the designers seemed to overwhelmingly favour, it would have not been possible to attack it as “they’re all lame fat and/or gay.”

It still would have tanked, so on balance not much of an issue, but still.

You absolutely can. Something bad and uninteresting is not an improvement on something mediocre and uninteresting.

You don’t get points for the jump if you shatter both your knees on the landing and the kneecaps fly out into the stands killing one of the hotdog vendors.

There’s something deeply funny to me that the same political side that demands representation for everyone in everything is then stunned to know that if EVERY character doesn’t represent something the typical audience likes/wants to see that audience will go elsewhere.

This is not rocket science, and it’s such a deeply american problem it’s honestly hilarious and frustrating at the same time with your culture’s obsession with moralizing media consumption and production only somehow ever registering one way.

If your game’s characters look lame, uninteresting, and nothing like most people would want to be, nobody’s gonna buy it. It’s that simple.

Progressives keep banging on about how people need to be represented to want to partake in a piece of media,* then when a piece of media that represents exclusively stereotypical members of a portland polycule shows up people are surprised if it’s played exclusively by some polyamorous portlanders (not even all of them if you look at the stats).

* which is yet more horseshit america-centrism, the rest of the world is used to not being represented in most media we see since americans make most of it, and i’d rather laminate my own testicles than subject myself at an earnest attempt from an american at representing my demo.

Furthermore:

Overwatch is super diverse, but all their characters (yes, even the fucking gorilla, Winston is handsome as fuck and he passes the harkness test) look appealing.

Their bodies look well proportioned, even Roadhog who is a morbidly obese alcoholic with visible cirrhosis looks more visually appealing than any concord character, because even he looks like an idealised and larger than life (pun very intended) version of a morbidly obese alcoholic.

Meanwhile concord characters look like frumpy cosplayers that wouldn’t qualify for 3rd place at a backwater anime con somewhere in whatever US state has the worst inbreeding rates.

Your example with DRG is very fitting as well because I don’t think most people would call those characters sexually attractive (but trust me, some absolutely do), but they are extremely visually appealing. Bold recognizable shapes that fit their roles, good color combinations, fun presentations.

Concord looks like it’s about to scold you for microaggressing someone, DRG looks like it’s about to attempt to burp another country’s national anthem it hasn’t even heard before.

DRG oozes goliardic fun, while Concord looks and feels like the used dishrag at the bar where that team’s art director will end up working if there is any justice in the world.

ETA: two words, punctuation

Baldur’s Gate got them all, sorry.

I’m sure the fact that Ghibli movies and BotW are best-in-class examples of their respective mediums has absolutely nothing to do with anything.

Looking forward to the metric shittons of open world ghibli knock-off garbage being currently greenlit by frothing execs hoping they have at last found the blueprints to the dopamine machine.

Stop Killing Games can focus on other industry problems later when it has established more of a presence.

Or just not? SKG is a consumer rights and art preservation movement, not a labor rights movement.

None of the people who signed up for SKG should expect it to pivot to something else once the stated goal is achieved, and especially not to legitimise itself as an organisation beyond its stated mission off the back of the support for it.

I guarantee you without a shadow of a doubt that a “Stop firing devs” would not have gone anywhere close to this level of support.

Moreover, it’s basically impossible to unionize any kind of digital asset production work, because with modern internet connections locations are a non-issue, and you can’t unionize across vastly different countries and economies.

Too many people are willing to work in games while being paid breadcrumbs to even make a union possible, even without the outsourcing issue, and frankly if you are that willing to get fucked why should anyone stand in your way?

Lol no.

If you want workers’ rights get your own movement started, you don’t get to come shit up the initiative others have set up for an entirely different purpose.

Dragon age 2, Mass effect 3

ME3 is particularly bad cause most of the game is exactly as it should have been, and then the ending is pure unadulterated trash.