Fuck Ubisoft. For every hour of Ubisoft you play, I’m going to play two hours of indie games.

I genuinely think that money is no longer the goal of the top economic echelon. Techniques for controlling how people spend money can be generalized into controlling all their behaviour; total power.

Did romantic feelings have any place in Max Payne 2?

Money is the old economy. Teens have something that adults don’t have that is infinitely more valuable than money: attention. This is how, despite having no money, teen taste and culture is so over-represented today.

I love his old 16-bit game, Chaos. I have the new remake on Steam, but it stopped working a few years ago and hasn’t fixed itself yet. :-(

Not even considering current politics. Most of the games they are promoting may well have been developed in Canada, but by foreign corporations.

Quebec also has a pretty big gaming presence

Yes, but it’s not like it’s something that any sizeable portion of consumers seek out. The non-indie games have no recognizable Quebec culture, they could have been made anywhere on the planet.

It’s not an accident that Quebec has an outsized presence in gaming. The Quebec government went out and made that happen through policy, taxes, subsidies, etc. They have a budget to promote the industry, and I strongly suspect that some money changed hands for Valve to present this angle to consumers when it is all but meaningless to the consumer experience. It’s really hard to come up with another explanation and I’m not sure you’re trying to offer an alternative or just add colour.

It IS legal to download stuff if you don’t seed where I live. But it’s still not legal to create derived works and then claim copyright on those works.

I wonder if the province pulled some strings / spent some money / offered a deal to get this to happen, or if Valve just thinks its a good marketing angle.

“most users” have gigabit pipes to the internet?

Indie games are a lot more interesting and innovative, but it’s the boot stamping on a human face forever that makes me avoid big publicly traded studios and publishers.

I quite enjoyed Endgame: Singularity and I’ve been hoping for more in the genre

Not with everything. That’s you trying to muddy the waters. They just have to agree that hatred has no place in our shared culture.

Young men have an absurd amount of cultural attention right now. It’s mainly that cohort swinging hard to the right. Some others are even swinging left.

Promises not to include any social or political agendas. Continues to promote carnism.

Paging Amphibian; Ambiguous Amphibian please report.

Rip.

Why do people do this. I don’t think it accomplishes what they intend.

Just use Mumble!!

I really liked Homeworld back in the day. Haven’t tried any of the newer ones.

I am just getting into Beyond All Reason and I am absolutely taken by it

Yeah, if they were serious about this kind of thing, they wouldn’t be on Reddit anymore in the first place.

Epic loses money

If you think Epic doesn’t think they are coming out ahead of this, ultimately at the expense of game-buying consumers, you haven’t thought things through as much as they have.

It’s not free if you have to use Epic

You don’t necessarily start losing people. Every commercial medium is like this. Seeking commercial success comes with an avalanche of self-censorship and cargo cultism. You’re casting the widest possible net and the product that you produce is only evaluated in terms of revenue. Unfortunately, certain kinds of really bad art sell very well.

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Thanks for visiting. Don’t stay so long next time.

Christmas isn’t even still a thing.

Nice job getting Invidious to embed and stream in Lemmy

Isn’t it enough for you simply to not participate? What’s your actual problem with other people doing it?

Ahh, I’d love to tell you, but it would spoil the surprise.

boop, boop, boop, BEEEEEEP

We can be friends.

there are thousands of government-granted monopolies where they are literally the only thing

If you consider X-Plane n as n approaches infinity, it becomes indistinguishable from a subscription model.

Ah, that bastion of social responsibility. If the only thing I know about someone is that they are on Twitch, I’m probably not motivated to learn a second thing about them. One can say Twitch > 4chan > Stormfront, but it’s a pretty shallow gradient.

Whenever I see a pepe, I assume it’s someone who at least doesn’t mind being confused for a terrible fucking person.

I’m not sure why steams VAC ban system isn’t more popular. As in accounts need to be flagged as a whole when cheating in just one game is found.

Presumably because this opens players to significantly damaging abuse from server operators. Players aren’t the only ones who fuck around.

When I was at my peak effectiveness in Urban Terror, I could hold my own against them…

Intel silicon has historically had a lot of “bugs”…

And let all those backdoors just walk away?

So the ledger will continue to grow and grow and grow until it’s so large that it’s unmanageable, slow as shit, and just garbage to try to use/work with.

So, exactly like a physical ledger…

Evert artist’s effort is mostly wasted. Audiences are awful, stupid, fickle, timid people who don’t deserve or are capable of fully appreciating anything beyond New Country.