I knew I wasn’t the only one.

Cool sweeper game tho

Hell yeah Bastion. All Supergiant games really.

Any time I hear “capitalism breeds innovation”, I feel like grabbing a chair and swinging it.

PE is all about that cash, but they have ways of making money that don’t involve strong fundamentals. Direct private ownership, such as with Valve, aligns the owners interests with their customers much more closely.

You can’t trust the reviews, it’s true. But also, it’s very much a buyers market with games in general right now. The headline issue is only a problem if you take the side of AAA studios who have to compete with passion-driven indie projects that aren’t just out to make a buck.

I’m going to spend how much to play a game with an obligatory launcher after I already opened steam? And it’s badly optimised? 100gb you say? And I have to see ads for skins? And that’s competing with a game less than half the price that’s amazing, 3gb, no ads, and it can run on a decade old computer?

This is a big-budget problem. They made their omelette, and now they’ve got to sleep in it.

Duke of York, famous republican

I saw the episode of Dark Tourism where they go to Turkmenistan. It seems like quite a grim and sheltered country. I wouldn’t have thought they sent anyone abroad for education, are you expected to return with certain skills?

Hhhh yes I know some form of anarchism would probably be more egalitarian and just but a society will always have rules and mutual expectations and if we’re being honest no state can afford to let people see anarchism thrive, can they?

Yeah it’s not great the way supers tend to validate vigilantism. Ultimately you can have rule of law or some form of tyranny. There are middle grounds, but those are the options. Also the hero’s journey literary paradigm has regressive aspects. 🤓

I’d love to see you get better sleep and more food security. That’s going to be a game changer. Do your best for now and I hope you will reduce that course load.

You take the rough with the smooth

Bruh I answer faxes and letters, and I actually prefer that.

Damn that sucks, all y’all unemployed?

I open my laptop and answer about six emails.

Do you use flash cards? Anki got me through a lot of uni. Sorry I don’t have any stronger suggestions, lessening your overall work load and getting accommodations would have been my first suggestion. I guess the only other recommendation I could make is troubleshoot your sleep habits. My wife and my kid both have unmedicated ADHD and they really burn out fast on bad sleep.

You’re into an extremely rigorous degree taking a full course load, working, and planning a wedding?

I don’t even have ADHD. I can push myself and focus all day, I can memorise without struggling much - at uni, I could draw you any given amino acid from memory, and that was for an elective. And I’m telling you, what you’re describing sounds like too much for me.

Given the horrific treatment it’s more like the bullet grazed them. What a fucked up thing to experience.

I’m struggling to even write this comment while my family is nattering away in the next room, fuck writing code while people talk

Auditory processing disorder makes it really hard to deal with multiple people talking.

I work from home, so

Maybe he could try to make another TV series.

Variation did begin to pick up once they started making indie games for consoles, but I was referring to games you could find on the shelves for an average home console. And I wasn’t going from memory, I was going off something I read a while back.

https://techraptor.net/gaming/features/cost-of-gaming-since-1970s

Since as long as I’ve been a gamer, the average MSRP of a game has been quite steady despite the fact that the purchasing power of that price tag has completely collapsed.

An average Atari 2600 game cost $39.99 but that’s closer to $170.70 in today’s money. A game for the PS4 had a sticker price 50% higher, but the actual value of that money is nearly ⅓ as much.

If you have better data than the article I’d love to hear of it. I hated how they referred to typical MSRP as the “average” price when it’s clearly the mode and not the mean.

My only point was that the price of these games has been at a certain level without regard for the drastic decline in the value of the dollar. Demand for games should be on the elastic side, so it’s weird that (most) prices have been so steady.