Truly the content that I’m here for

Ooof that’s unfortunate for Intel. They were building some momentum and credibility in the GPU market that might have helped the future release of Battlemage, and this could put a dent in that.

He was known as IdolNinja on the internet

https://www.pcgamer.com/saints-row-modder-and-volition-community-developer-mike-watson-aka-idolninja-has-died/

He passed away mid 2021 but had been convalescing for a while before that as far as I know

Great, so no more Saints Row 2 fix for PC I’m guessing, just great.

Which would be kinda fucking wild considering it was literally someone’s dying wish and something they passionately worked on even while they were dying… That project not coming to fruition due to financial quarter this, franchise expectations… that would be absolutely ghoulish.

It’s not possible to go below non-existent

The stack of shame of never-played games is real… Everyone ends up defaulting to the same selection of tried and true games of the group because nobody wants to learn a new thing when you can just get to playing immediately, it’s very unfortunate

I swear I’ve tried to enjoy the European expansion but some of the birds require you to pull some Hannibal Barca 4d chess shit to use them properly

But Doctor, I Am The Friend Who Is Very Into 3D Printing

But you don’t understand, I totally need that 30$ Oceania expansion for my Wingspan that I will play maybe twice a year

3D modelling. It’s impossible to get into 3D modelling and not get eventually sucked into 3D Printing… Which as other people have explained on the thread, is it’s own money sinker.

nooooo I just finished Chained Echoes I can’t get sucked into another excellent JRPG-style indie noooo

Beware my answer is extremely practical and “Vulcan” so to speak. With that said…

My rule for this and other things is “will I remember/care about this in a couple of days?” If the answer is no -and for most, if not all online interactions, the answer is absolutely not- then why let it occupy your mind now if it’s gonna leave it soon anyways. That’s why I don’t bother interacting with any response that is even mildly adversarial… why bother? Both you and the other person will have forgotten about it the day after tomorrow.

Like, try to remember an specific adversarial online interaction you had from like a month ago… it’s probably hard to come up with a particular one. It’s just a matter of looking at it from that future perspective in the present.

But maybe, even when trying to adopt that position, you are still overwhelmed with the feeling that you need to prove that you are right or the other person is wrong. In that case, remember two maxims for internet discussion:
1 - Everyone has already chosen their position, and is not changing it.
2 - There is no price for being right.
So, from a practical perspective, you will just be wasting your time trying to prove anything, since it won’t change anyone’s mind and you will not gain anything from it.

For me looking at it from these perspectives helps me to be “oh well, whatever”

Straight up the same playbook that other entities used in the past to get your grandma to install unwanted search bars in internet explorer. No wonder Windows Defender is so advanced, Microsoft has a lot of experience as the developer of the most popular malware in the world.

Ooooh I’m liking what I’m seeing. Look at the atmosphere, look at the hordes, look at the more frequent presence of groups of allies and larger scale encounters (the scarcity of which was one of my main complaints for the first game). Yes to everything.

trying

That’s the keyword right there. Everyone wants to phase mainframe shenanigans out until they get told about the investments necessary to do it, then they are happy to just survive with it.

I’m currently at a company that’s actually trying it and it’s being a pain

If they need more revenue, I wish they would try console releases instead of deteriorating the value of newer DLC. Company of Heroes did it so it is not unheard of, and surely the hardware of latest gen consoles is enough to run a semi-decent experience of Total War titles.

As much as I love the franchise, I’m kinda concerned for its future if they continue down the current route, not gonna lie.

Wish I could feel sorry, but so much of the NFT audience responded with such smugness and superiority to any warning and criticism, that it is hard to summon any other feeling than schadenfreude

skill issue

Yes, basically. That article and the Kotaku article it links seem to summarize it well. Going through so many instances of thinking you are to close to the finish line, only for most of your work being rendered pointless in a day, and having to go back to square one… It must have been sisyphean.

Not to mention that those issues don’t necessarily get transmitted to the customer, so you end with reactions of the “Eight years for this? What were they doing?” type.

I hope this game does well, it’s really charming