icecreamtaco

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

That just proves they're already willing to make it worse. Dating apps have $500/mo plans now. Snapchat is 95% ads, 5% chat

[–] [email protected] 8 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

Take a look at Snapchat, Microsoft Solitaire, or most dating apps. That's what this usually looks like after 5-10 years.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (13 children)

Discord's fine now but it sure won't be in 5 years. Companies going public like this always end badly

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This drama doesn't deserve to be the top post here. Let those morons have their miserable lives while the rest of the world enjoys a fun video game

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

best game in the series imo

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Maybe you should have watched the reveal video then

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

my steam download speed is so dead right now. rip their servers

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Plastic cases, discs, etc are expensive and degrade over time. Consoles will break down. 50 years from now there'll be too much history to keep making copies of everything worth saving. If we do want a video game preservation law, make it digital.

Emulation and piracy should be legal for games older than ~20 years, or if the parent company goes under. Online games should be required to make an offline mode patch before shutting down.

As a related example, my parents have a bunch of bookshelves packed with everything they bought over the years. And as a kid I never touched any of it because the books had become all gross and yellowed. Physical game archives will last a couple decades longer but in the end it'll be the same result.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

Well yeah used games are always cheaper. These were ~~$60~~ $50 new

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (5 children)

When games were expecting to be rentals, the first few levels would be front loaded with the best that the game had to offer, and then later levels would be more phoned in

Still happens today. First impressions matter, budgets are finite, and sometimes reviewers only play the first few parts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Assuming you haven't ruled this out already, test your plans out now using whatever computer you already own. At the hobbyist level you can do a lot with 8GB ram and no graphics card. 7B LLMs are really good now and they're only going to get better.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-UsM9qaZ5A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r8rDBVCN1A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kum80OStNZY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_betnUPq-uQ

Terra Battle 1, created by the OG final fantasy devs. Best Uematsu soundtrack of that decade and one of the best mobile gachas ever. RIP

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