RedEye9 wrote on Aug 26, 2022, 19:58:

MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Aug 26, 2022, 19:40:
Wow, don't look up what happened with PPP Loan forgiveness then. (Hint, so far, 742 Billion USD was forgiven, to a variety of rich assholes and corporations.)

As others have said, this student loan debt forgiveness is as close as you can get to a direct investment in actual US citizens these days. Anyone with economic sense or anything approaching patriotism for the USA should be in favor of this.

The only other argument is the sunken cost fallacy.

"The trolley already ran over so many people, it'd be wrong to divert it to some other tracks to save these other people now!"

"We spent so much on the war on drugs, and have killed so many people, it'd be a mistake to legalize drugs now!"

We've spent trillions in Afghanistan for zero gains. It would be criminal to end the war now.
Did I do that right?

It's literally this Click Here

And a dash of hypocrisy This Moron

A rising tide lifts all boats.

FYGM is a garbage attitude to have.

It's even worse than Crypto and NFTs. I believe buying an NFT will give you access to the the community and then community members will help steer development of the game.

Every six weeks or so "members" will vote on how the game development will proceed. If it sounds too stupid to be true, that's crypto in a nutshell.

https://twitter.com/PaulTassi/status/1546331243943530500?s=20&t=ftJO8DdQYQc5-JDx5PUQBw

Orogogus wrote on Jun 23, 2022, 12:44:

RedEye9 wrote on Jun 23, 2022, 12:02:
"calling out Epic for what is objectively a terrible, anti-consumer rating system,"

I fail to see what is terrible or anti-consumer about making sure someone has played a couple hours of a game before they post their opinion.
1. It will cut down tremendously having to filter reviews for bombing. Saving the consumer some time.
I don't see how saving a consumers time is anti-consumer.
2. The consumer automatically knows that the reviewer has at least played some of the game.
Not sure how a consumer knowing that a reviewer has played the game is anti-consumer.

Looking at the above 2 points I find it difficult to believe anyone would call it objectively terrible unless they have EDS.

I'm not sure that cutting down review bombs compensates for screening out everyone who refunded their purchase. When asking if a game is worth buying, you're only looking at scores from people who already decided yes. I think if Amazon stopped including ratings and reviews from people who returned their products that would obviously not be good.

It also randomly selects people to leave a review after a play session. So someone whether they had a good experience or bad is going to need to rely on RNG to leave a review. So if the game, as someone mentioned earlier, seems to have issues to have hardware issue with my setup for example I need to hope I get picked to leave a review. The random part is what gets me, why not have the ability to leave a review unlock after X numbers of hours (which causes issue for shorter games)
You're also going to get people that just click away the "Do you want to leave a review option"

Maybe it work out once we've seen it running for a bit, but it still seems kind of half-baked.

You have to link your twitch account (I did it from Twitch, not sure if you can do it from amazon.com) to Ubisoft, so you need a Ubisoft account to grab it.

I mean, dude checks every single box


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It's been on game pass for a bit now, it never showed up on the front page for some reason.

Warning, this contains spoilers if you haven't seen the final episode.

Looks like its free if you have gamepass, just have to link your gamepass to Ubi and it shows up there.

For anyone that wants to complain about Valve, here's Apple's approach.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s7NmMl_-yg&t=802s

I've also heard the gunplay is rock/paper/scissors where you have to kill one enemy with a specific weapon to earn ammo for another weapon to use on another enemy.

I just wanna run around and shoot demons.

I wonder if Tim Apple will be there.

A key would be too sweet if there's any left!

Lovecraftian Steampunk

Generally speaking, the hackers business model relies on them holding to their word after the fact otherwise people in the future will be less likely to pay up.

Supposedly the bust was on loan from a museum and it was being collected and returned.

RedEye9 wrote on Dec 30, 2020, 19:29:

jdreyer wrote on Dec 30, 2020, 19:20:
As long as you keep feeding them money, they'll keep working on it!

Catch 22

It's not a catch 22 it's a Squadron 42

GothicWizard wrote on Sep 30, 2020, 17:07:

El Pit wrote on Sep 30, 2020, 11:58:
2019 - Crunch Can Never Be The Answer!
2020 - Crunch Is The Answer!

This is my shocked face.

Plus crunch for only a month AND get OT? Please, I've seen some studios, games end up in crunch that last 4+ months of development with no OT. Clearly the industry is much better then it was 5+ yrs ago. As long as they are getting paid for the OT this is a non-issue and story.

Wasn't it RDR2 that had like 6 months of crunch.

Looks a lot like Breath of the Wild to me.

Apple owns both the software and the hardware it runs on, furthermore there are plenty of options in the consumer marketplace for cell phones, you don't need to own an Apple device. The real anti-trust action is occurring with Cellular service as the major players keep consolidating, but that is beside the point.

If Apple wants to charge 30% they can charge 30% whether it's moral or immoral, right or wrong, has no bearing it's their product from top to bottom and it has been this way since iOS debuted.