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What are ads?

I haven’t had an ad in my house or on my devices in like 15years. I block all ads.

When I go elsewhere or out and see an ad I literally get confused for a second before I remember people still let them play.

Don’t suffer through ads friend.

Make a torrent, best backup.

If it didn’t have an official demo, I “acquired” it before I bought it.

I don’t buy games unless I know it will be something I like.

I’ll bite. I hate billionaires. Let’s check this out.

Things that hurt indie devs in this article:

• Lack of available talent
• Burnout
• Lack of upfront funding (before a game is ever released)
• Generally bad economy post COVID
• Actual predatory exclusive tactics from epic or gamepad
• The nebulous idea that the entire industry and fans need a culture change

Things not cited in this article as a problem:

• Steam in any capacity. Directly or implied

Now find more metal by a band Kentucky

Not even just game companies. Publicly traded companies are a curse on humanity.

I like Humankind.

I like the civ switch since you can change you priorities each age. Also I like having a leader I actually like with a civ I like.

Let’s me do what I want to do the entire campaign instead of having to be stick with some stuff I don’t like just to play with the things I do like.

I’m terrible at these games so I can’t speak to balance and strategy and stuff. I use lots of auto stuff or relying on suggested choices from advisors lol.

Sounds similar to Humankind. Which is nice cus I like that game.

What’s this picture from lol? Why label the line diameter and not actually have the value?!

Publicly traded companies are a curse on humanity.

This is what I kept thinking about the entire time. The amount of other campaigns I played in NWN was bonkers.

In before next week’s article that the Montreal office is permanently closed and all workers let go.

Was that dev me?

When it was first made available to the public I played about an hour or 2 and then stopped so I didn’t spill the game. My one big take away was that I really hated all the companions, especially sheart.

I’m glad how well written they all ended up.

There fact that I have been told seriously, more than 0 times, to work more slowly in my life is insane to me.

Yayayyayayayyayayayay. I’m excited. The Fable games never felt truly finished and fully fleshed out, but I loved them all and played them so much.

Or Jack Black. I love him, but this dumb Hollywood trend of hiring Jack for anything comical is absurd.

There kinda isn’t really any definitive science that indicates a specific frame rate that the eye can perceive.

There are studies however that show ranges from 30 to 90hz, and studies that show that human perception can detect flicker at up to 500hz even.

The issue is that nothing that happens in the real world is synchronized with what you perceive. So filling in with more Hz means there are more chance for you to actually perceive the thing.

To complicate matters further, our brains do a lot of filling in for us, and our eyes and brains can still perceive things you aren’t consciously perceiving yourself. So again more frames is always nice.

Here are some sources

Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety. (2020). Lighting Ergonomics - Light Flicker.
https://www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/ergonomics/lighting_flicker.html

Davis J, et al. (2015). Humans perceive flicker artifacts at 500 Hz.
https://doi.org/10.1038/srep07861

Mills M. (2020). How Many Frames per Second (FPS) the Human Eye Can See.
https://itigic.com/how-many-frames-per-second-fps-human-eye-can-see/

So… Taxes?

I was booed out of 2 guilds for suggesting the grind is dumb and that real content is better.

Once in WoW years after release when they introduced dailies. Which are a crock.

And once in Conan Exiles where the server owner kept making content, a lot of being amazing, but half of it being pointless getting dailies.

I was kind of shocked at how many people love dailies for some reason. Easy brain shut off tasks I guess?

Love the feel of the new font, the kerning is nice, but it really does have some whack letters. I do really love the lowercase L, I wrote love like that.