Been brought up before but the indie market still chugging along.
Now if you want big expensive AAA "bring my RTX / i9 I spent too much money on to it's very knees" with that, that's impossible. Besides, poor optimization will put that stupid expensive rig to the test š
it sounds like you're sleeping on indie games. I haven't cared about AAA games in years bc of the things you mentioned, but there's thousands of amazing and super high quality indie games out there that are made as passion projects from devs who just want people to have fun. the barrier to entry for becoming a game dev has been steadily lowering since the 80's, almost anyone can make a game now so there's really no reason to rely on giant game corporations as your only source
Honestly, I got the Xbox and I mostly play indie games on Xbox game pass. And I have had such an amazing time with them. And if I want to play a triple A game I can probably find a used disc somewhere pretty cheap. Indie games are awesome. I loved Hoa, cried so much at the end.
Because it doesn't go to devs it goes to the pocket of publisher's ceos.
I legitimately think they just mean publishers and board shareholders. Most (read most, there are also plenty of devs with retard level hot takes on twitter about their constituents, and their clear jealousy of a better product) devs hate the features they have to implement.
If you wanted to eat, you wouldn't leverage your $40k college degree for a $30k code monkey job at one of EA's digital sweatshops.
This isn't about somebody "trying to eat". Devs are being paid by the publishers either way (until they get fired of course). Monetisation and "games as a live service" are implemented to increase profit for shareholders. Gamepublishing is already the largest entertainment industry, so this is just about adding more profits to already extreme profits.
It's been happening for so long that if a developer gets into bed with one of the big publishers then they should know what's going to happen.
Pretty sure there are way more games now than they're ever has been. Look outside the major publishers. Any big company is going to be in it for the money. That's their main goal.
It was very explicitly and obviously intentional, and began in the mid to late 19th century.
Yep. I know people love to idolize FDR, but the way he got the New Deal passed was with the argument that it was the "bare minimum we have to do to ensure that socialism doesn't take root in the US for at least another 70 years." Which is why the politicians started trying to revoke those promises the day after it passed.
It literally was.
If only Stalin were in charge. That guy would have actually built a wall instead of this pussy ass Trump shit. Comrade.
Stalin was ruthless, not stupid. He would have looked at the existing barriers and realized that it would be a waste of resources to try to build a wall in the middle of a desert.
Wolfenstein The New Order: Nice! Killing knot-zees like it's 1992!!
Wolfenstein II The New Collosus: what is this woke anti American shit/why can't we play as the real "good" guys
Gee. Somewhere between the release of these two games public opinion changed. The first came out in 2014, btw. The second's ad campaign had "Make America Nazi Free Again" as a slogan, something that id thought we'd all agree. Nazis were in that safe group of "enemies we can slaughter without guilt" alongside aliens, zombies and robots.
I got banned from reddit for saying: Wolfenstein The New Order is one of if not the best game of all time, the only good nazi is a dead nazi. GET HYPED!
I mean, I'm happy they had an implosion, but it should have been because of the nazi sympathy, not because of their api.
Getting banned for being a Basterd is a badge of honor my good person.
BJ Blazkowicz wants his scalps.
Well one cost āthe right peopleā more money than they were willing to give and one didnāt. Itās almost like money doesnāt matter until it matters to the gawd, it sounds crazy to say it, itās so dystopian, shadow governmentsā corporate overlords. Lives otohā¦ shudder
New Colossus came out in 2017. We all know what happened that made being a fascist piece of shit mainstream.
In that sense it's a perfect double bind
It can only piss off Nazi sympathizers tbh. I mean If you believed that America was going downhill and wanted to make it "great again" surely making it Nazi Free would be part of that goal right?
Unless... š¤
LOL you ain't wrong. It's definitely very hard for what it is. I beat it in the Normal equivalent and had fun.
when it comes to woke its not what you see. But what you not see.
I would love old school arcades. I feel like, most people today just don't know what a wonderful place they used to be.
No stupid toys to win. No tickets. No tokens or any virtual currency.
Most games were a quarter with some of the larger ones being two quarters. You just hung out, played games, met new people, got to experience a wide range of games from shooters, side scroller fighters, sports, etc.
It was truly magical. Was one of the best things at the mall.
Go to a barcade? This concept still exists. It is just for adults now.
Most of them are free play with $20 entry. There are so many barcade near me - I don't even bother with the ones that charge quarters. It was a rip off back then, and it's still a rip off now
Yeah, the games would allow you to continue from where you died for another quarter, as long as you got it in fast enough
Remember the panic you felt as you tried fishing around for a quarter while watching the timer count down?
Yes. And the absolute betrayal when I got the quarter in a second too late.
I'm old enough to remember when Republicans did an Obama Hitler image mash up to discourage liberals from voting for him.
Already evidence that they didn't understand what Hitler was and just symbolically associated black color with bad things.
They did what now?
Legit "Obama Hitler ad" on Google.
This entire "ANTI-WOKE" is just some bullshit that the most ignorant bigots hide behind thinking they can be as fucking awful as they want to be.
They've even brought back anti-gay with the anti-trans thing under the old "THINK OF THE CHILDREN" banner which is pure bullshit.
It really seemed for a good 10-15 years that that shit was conquered.
These morons hide their racism by scoffing at anything with a non-white person in it with the label "POC".
The funniest thing is, they think their fucking clever and they use 1950's housefrau shit like "DENGENERATE" and other outmoded bullshit words.
They make fun of the left for being triggered by their own shadows(which does happen) but these morons are scared of anything not white and not straight, it's really awful but kind of funny in a sick way.
Itās almost like a spectrum with anything outside what Iām comfortable with is where I draw the line, especially if Iām dabbling or experimenting with anything that makes me vaguely uncomfortable, because what Iād people get the wrong idea that Iām āthat,ā isnāt it? The slider moves, everyone!
Don't know about USA, but in Germany the inflationary use of "Nazi" by leftists weakened the term a lot. So if someone is called a Nazi, you don't have to assume anymore it's a bad person. I believe it will be impossible to turn that back.
See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept_creep and https://www.science.org/...
in Germany the inflationary use of āNaziā by leftists weakened the term a lot
Excited to hear more about the big leftist media outlets that have dominated Germany for the last sixty years.
Ahhh is it a US type situation over there as well? Nothing but right wing media in sight. At least when talking about all mainstream media.
More tolerated? Let me know when the nazi's win an election
Braydox on his way to the camps: "Okay, but they haven't actually killed us yet, so are they really Nazis?"
It's awfully convenient that your criteria for "Are Nazis a problem" is "Have they already won"
Ah yes being sceptical of a random online photo is clearly the same as being skeptical. You need to work on your bots ai as it foesnt seem very good at responding to context
Ah perfect evidence.
By all means a quick google seaech tells me they are cringe but not nazi's
I agree it used to mean actual, armband wearing, genocide creating, goose stepping evil people that started WWII.
Yes today there are still people who somehow support that shit with the books, flags, tats and armbands to prove it. There is a term for it. Neo Nazi. If you want Nazis to punch these are it, though it might not make them any less of one.
Now by that standard is Trump a Nazi? No. But some throw the term around to essentially mean group=bad. The left crazies do it with nazi, the right crazies do it with communism. Over time it loses meaning to the point where nobody takes it seriously. Boy who cried wolf. The way to stop that is to only use the term on the real people, not the kinda sorta if you squint your eyes it's similar in a way people. Not to say they they aren't assholes or don't deserve to be called out by other terms..
Anyway yes people hate the real deal Nazis, but probably not every group someone on twitter slaps that label on to. End rant.
Trump may not be a Nazi or a Neo-Nazi, as those are extremely specific subsets of Fascism. Trump is an authoritarian fascist. His TV series proved that well before his second or third presidential campaign.
I agree. But he's also not "actual Hitler" as many have said over the years. It's different levels of asshole and I wish people had more nuance is my point
Idk, he wanted to order the military to go in with weapons blazing at blm protesters. Defended those who marched and chanted in Charlottesville that āJews! Will not! Replace us!ā
He may not have the name hitler, but he seems to love that stuff. Oh yeah and covered up (has something to do with?) Kashoggi being quartered, alive when he himself couldnāt listen to the tapes of the sounds of agony. What exactly would earn him āNaziā status, in your view?
Similer circumstance in russia. Where everyone bad and aganist russia is a nazi. Ukraine needing dezafication. Etc since from their perspective its only ever been Nazi's they had no red scare since they were the red scare
And what! Is wrong with Zafication?!?! I'll tell you something, if you've got a problem with Zafis, then you've got a problem with me! I suggest you think about that! /j
Damn zafi's
Also terms like "grammar Nazi" is helping to weaken the seriousness of the word.
In Denmark people sometimes use it to say that somebody is quite particular about something (similar to "grammar Nazi") like " yeah, he's kinda Nazi about people not wearing shoes in his apartment" I don't know if that's common in other countries too? But it's definitely weakening the gravity of the word 'nazi".
And I'm here wondering if Godwin's idea came because he saw something like this and wanted to stop it or if he saw an opportunity to silence criticism of Nazi-like strategies.
And I'm not sure if I should be happy or sad that we're in a post-Godwin world now. On the one hand, it was a dumb "rule" because there's certainly times where Nazi comparisons are apt. But on the other hand, we only got post-Godwin because Nazi ideas have regained enough popularity that some are openly embracing the label.
I see facist pedophiles who are also extremely racist against non whites daily in Montana. Is that a Nazi?
Just FYI, it's fascist
Just FYI, it's fascist
Was supposed to be racist child molesters. Will edit. Not that racism and fascism isn't the same.
It's exactly the same here in the US. Anyone right of Bernie Sandars was called a Nazi for a few years there (happens less today, but still happens), so now when someone shouts nazi, everyone just rolls their eyes.
I don't roll my eyes, I just ask what precisely they mean when they say Nazi, and usually precisely what they mean by whatever word they use in that response with a flexible definition. Because it could literally be anything between "murder anyone who isn't straight, white and Christian" and "not as progressive as Biden".
To be fair, basically the best thing we can say about Biden is that he's not a Nazi.
I mean, he essentially campaigned and won on not being Trump. He's been competent enough in office though.
"Inoffensively competent" is about the highest praise I'd give him, and it's deeply sad that that's a substantial improvement over his predecessor.
I'll give Trump that not everything he did in office was terrible - he did sign the FIRST STEP Act which was broadly a good thing, and I approved of the Devos Title IX policy changes, and that's about it.
Ramifications of failures from education systems throughout the U.S.
Can't be surprised that no one articulates themselves properly when the only things most of these people read are less than 150 characters at a time.
Didn't Chris Matthews have a meltdown during the 2020 primaries when Bernie won Nevada, because he thought the DSA was going to round people up and execute them in Central Park?
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Serious question. Who are these transcripts for? I ask because if I can read the transcript, I can read the image
Ahh thanks!
The caption isn't "the prevailing belief that it's okay to be a Nazi". there are influential people in politics and social media that are open about being a Nazi (or at least poorly veiled dog whistles and a general agreement with Nazi rhetoric) and being openly anti-Nazi causes harassment and being called a groomer.
"Nazis are bad" is no longer a prevailing belief. it's still the majority opinion, but now there are "discussions" about the imaginary merits of Nazism and a rapidly growing population openly identifying with the term.
Thatās not true. I see everyone around me promoting a lifestyle and ethics as desirable while on the dl living the lifestyle they decay. Which leads me to the conclusion itās often not about what a thing actually is, but whether i can get orders to play the game of āit plausibly looks like x when itās definitely y, upon closer examination, but no one cares as long as they can plausibly say itās x when itās most definitely y.
Screaming and crying about political correctness, not because I believe politically incorrect things but for a secret other reason.
No one relevant is pro-nazi.
Trump has been explicitly pro-Mussolini in a number of interviews.
And he was clearly having a severe manic episode that people conveniently forgot, becuse mobs can't handle nuance.
I love how I got downvoted for saying "mobs can't handle nuance".
Obviously someone considers themselves part of a mob and was offended. š¤
You're getting downvoted because you're arguing that being in some sort of manic episode excuses that shit.
Admittedly I don't pay much attention to him, so I could be wrong, but I don't think he's tried to walk any of that back since then either.
I would've said Heelies, but I guess that's good too.
An overall disdain for anything too trendy or popular.
My teenage family members live and die by the trend cycle. Teenagers have always cared about what's cool, but now the trend cycle is so fast it's impossible to keep up without spending inordinate amounts of money and generating tons of waste. It also just doesn't seem great for their self-esteem.
I was a teen in the mid-2000s/early 2010s hipster Tumblr era, which of course came with its own issues. But at least the trend cycle took a few years, and if anything I liked was unpopular I could just roll my eyes and say it's just too obscure for you normies to understand.
I wouldn't be concerned about trending itself, it's that people seem to be favoring trends that are objectively bad. The pandemic people kept saying it wasn't real and would go away when summer of 2020 came... but that proved wrong, and so few seem to want to learn from the lesson of going against science in favor of Fox News or whatever other negative trend that crowds keep following. If we were trending towards building affordable houses for more people and sheltering the homeless and not making rent lock people into jobs they don't want - I'd thing it was progress. But right now, the crowds seem to be flocking to some negative-oriented Nazi kind of shit.
I respectfully disagree. Yes crazies are getting crazier and louder, but overall more young people are trending left -- and further left -- than ever. I don't think bigotry is particularly cool or trendy to most teenagers.
Yes crazies are getting crazier and louder
It isn't just their words, since 2014 they believe all kinds of wild things, and the pandemic was just one example of how they act out on these belief as business owners, neighbors, organizations. It isn't just politics.
so true, everyone LOVES nazis now!
absolutely, you can't turn over a rock without hearing a republican talk about how much they LOVE nazis!
"They love what I have to say, they just don't like the word Nazi"
Nazis, I hate these guys. - Indiana Jones
Not sure where you've been but it came back 2 years ago...
Ah, yes. Regaled early adopters of trendy haircuts: the white collar class
idk where you're at but some version of the mullet, or "flow," made a comeback a decade ago in my home city.
absolutely has made a comeback š
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Top comment is about games.
The left is calling the right nazis.
The right is calling the left nazis.
The nazis first endorsed Trump when it was against Hillary, then Biden against Trump.
These are confusing times,but rest assured that the prevailing belief is that nazis are bad.
Low effort repost aside.
That hasnt changed if it had it wouldn't be used as a stick to beat people with.
Problem is the definition of nazi has changed due to said stick beating
It did. White supremacy is alive and well in the US. Yes it always existed, but these days Nazis sympathisers can show their allegiance in public. That wasn't the case 20-30 years ago.
Alive yes.
Well? Fuck no lol. What is your definition of well? You specified the US. What policy,government institutions, organisations,condone white surpremacy? The closest thing you have that promotes white supremacy is critical race theory an idea that white people are inherently superior thus the need to uplift other races. A pretty awful thing to be sure but that is being met with widespread condemnation and active suppression. So another loss for WS.
As for showing their allegiance uh yeah thats always been a thing. You can go back ever further then 30 years when America had an actual nazi party. They didnt get very far cause ya know nazi's
You're proving the point. You're falling for the far right propaganda.
You probably don't even know what critical race theory consists of at all, do you?
What makes you say this?
This post
Can you elaborate?
Yes
If you're being forced to be a thing then you arent really that thing
Why the distinction? Yes if you choose to be a nazi then you're a nazi.
Ummm... all the nazis
its all our problem :/
I'm still in awe this saying made a comeback as strong as it did after 80 years. And somehow a lot of people fail to understand its impact.
I'm only in my late 20's and I'm scared I will have to face more and more Nazis in literally any country I decide to live in/visit. Because let's face it, it's not only Italy, Mexico, Japan and the USA with all time high far right movements.
I donāt think neurotypical is very typical anymore. And rwa can be on either end of the political spectrum. I had to remind myself of this, as I age, rebuild neuronal connections. At this point, basic survival uses a lot of mental resources, which is where a lot of my problem occurs. I may or not be nt, but apparently, trauma, specifically complex trauma, has large symptom overlap with asd. Which leaves me in limbo, often, as evidenced by an earlier thread where you and I interacted. I didnāt know that i could subscribe to other servers via my particular platform, for example, until I got off my default view āall.ā I did get off my default view and within the top five posts, saw an article about being able to subscribe to other instances via my platform. I wasnāt willfully obtuse, nor willfully ignorant. I just donāt spend a lot of time on lemmy and itās my only social media. There are tradeoffs but itās worth it.
"Oh no, I can't believe they're making me do this" the anti-immigrant crusader says as he abducts citizens on the streets of Portland and forcibly sterilizes asylum seekers, "If only the mean ol' liberals didn't call me a Nazi!"
2008 wasn't just a bad year. The job market never fully rebounded after 2008. A big part of this is that a lot of jobs were outsourced and not nearly enough real, lasting job creation occurred afterward. Haven't you heard about the Great Resignation and the Great Attrition? Do you know why two interconnected events occurred? Because ever since 2008, companies have been exploiting their workers by overworking, underpaying, and mistreating them. People got tired of accepting those conditions and the extra social spending allowed them to effectively strike. How were companies able to exploit their workers like that? By not having enough jobs. If there were more jobs, companies wouldn't be able to take advantage of their employees. Bringing in more potential workers would only serve to exacerbate the situation.
Look at what happened in the UK where they "solved" that "problem". Suddenly a lot of jobs are vacated because no local would do any of that shitty work under shitty conditions with shitty pay. The immigrants were the only people that kept that capitalistic exploiting machine running because they had lower standards. The whole country profited from that.
But it wasn't enough to exploit them, they also had to be painted as parasites so the right wing fascit fuckheads could spit on something. And now they have endless holes in their economy. Well done.
What do you think would happen if there werenāt any cheap foreign laborers and local folks refused to work until compensation and conditions improved?
For the record - I donāt hate immigrants. I hate companies for cutting way more jobs than necessary and then using cheap imported labor as an excuse to pay less.
If people accuse you of being a nazi, you either are one or you associate with them
That being said, I wouldn't call present day Republicans nazis. That's a very specific brand. Wannabe fascists and totalitarians on the other hand, definitely. And not because of their stance on immigration.
Some definitely are fascists and totalitarians, like the ones who want to ban birth control. Christofascism isn't just a left-wing boogeyman. It's real. Some Christians are ironically very unchristian.
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Bring back video games where the developers make them to be fun and players play them to have fun.
Too many developers are in it for profit and too many players demand optimal competitive play.
Sometimes I don't want to conform to the min/max meta, Jason.
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