Carighan

Carighan, 2 days ago

Because the indie space is also a graveyard. Investors are increasingly wary of funding anything but a “guarantee” and plenty of studios have had to shutter because the funding they were promised was rescinded.

Maybe gaming has become too bloated as a concept if no company can ever produce a product with their own money any more, instead always listening entirely to investor cash.

Carighan, 2 days ago

but Dishonored, Deathloop, and Prey all did pretty well I thought

I thought Arkane Austin (the closed one) was only Prey of those. Which is a shame, because Prey was utterly fantastic.

Carighan, 2 days ago

Yeah the studio put out nothing but nice games. Sure, Ghostwire in particular wasn’t stellar, but it was also enjoyable and pretty well done. Evil Within was dorky, but in just the right way. Hi-Fi was phenomenal, and that alone should have seen them physically behead every single higher manager at Bethesda before they tough anyone at Tango.

But alas, apparently if it ain’t Fallout: Ghostwire or Fallout: Hi-Fi, then it doesn’t matter. Manager bonuses ain’t going to pay themselves (hrm… come to think of it, they do?), line has to go up!

Carighan, 3 days ago

You either never worked with anything that did actual agile (to be fair, most don’t) or you haven’t done development in a long time if you think that.

Carighan, 3 days ago

[x] Blurgenfurl

Carighan, 3 days ago

If you’re the Consort, that’s an important part of your endgame scoring! (Stationfall board game 😛)

Carighan, 4 days ago

This is just shutting down an already outdated API. Devs should be moving off of it, and now it has a year out set for full removal instead of just being deprecated.

Carighan, 4 days ago

I think the mistake was ever thinking that one company is “good” while the other is “bad”. Companies are just different flavors of bad once they grow above a size of, well, once they are companies.

Carighan, 4 days ago

I dunno, I don’t think the game would benefit from flat combat and meanigless crafting grinds.

Carighan, 4 days ago

Yeah same, bunch of my friends had been playing it for a week or two, but between the in game story, the season passes and the utterly intrusive DRM, I figured I’ll wait for a good sale at least. Well, guess I’ll be saving 100% on this, now!

Carighan, 4 days ago

I still don’t quite get why some people are defending manufacturers which remove the headphone jack on their phones…

Not defending, just utterly couldn’t care either way. 🤷

Carighan, 5 days ago

Also isn’t Manor Lords plodding along fairly well? Who cares if they take a long time, better release done than Ubisoft.

Carighan, 10 days ago

Ah I hate that, too. It speaks of bad abstraction, over eager abstraction or unnecessary coupling that is the hidden behind this. Difficult to fix though without essentially starting over.

Carighan, 10 days ago

Vegetable is probably meant in the culinary use here, not in the biological one. And like with many such terms the two do overlap but not entirely.

Carighan, 11 days ago

It’s pretty late in its life, could be that anyone who would be a potential sale got one at this point? I remember that being, at the time, the reason for the sharp decline in Ocarina of Time sales in Japan, they effectively sold one to everyone who has an N64 so they “maxed out”.

Carighan, 12 days ago

Well yeah it is. It’s also heavy on the mtx, non-pushy as they stay (for now). Compared to something like DRG I really don’t feel the appeal, apart from maybe having overplayed DRG at this point.

Carighan, 12 days ago

unfinished release

I feel “early access” has this implication that it’s not just a product that is unfinished being sold for money with a pinky promise that it’ll get better in the future. It’s better than a normal release that ends up being unfinished, but only by being somewhat open about it.

That being said, game looks fantastic. If they keep at this, could become something really really cool in the future.

Carighan, 11 days ago

Yeah plus from a consumer perspective it’s nothing special.

It’s just a buggy release, only the bugginess and unfinishedness is known and openly announced. Which makes it more earnest, of course. On the other hand just like with any other release you have 0 guarantee or influence over whether missing features get added in the future and/or bugs get fixed. If the content is worth the money asked it’s a buy, if not it’s a wait.

Carighan, 13 days ago

Probably based on the tea.xyz exploit, tbh.

Carighan, 14 days ago

Probably because of lagging behind in something they need to adopt from the mainline Firefox. Just checked in Firefox beta and I can access all of those sites perfectly fine.

Carighan, 16 days ago

And there’s so many new kids entering gaming all the time who have never known a better world.

That’s the real big issue here, IMO: The North Korea approach. Kids are starting to become able to spend money who were indoctrinated with this. Because to them it’s the north. It’s just a part of this entertainment that you continuously spend small amounts of cash. To them it’s normality.

Carighan, 17 days ago (edited 17 days ago)

TL’DW? It’s >1 hour, and would probably be <5 minutes read as an article.

(edit)
Well, got this rather generic description of the game itself out of Gemini at least:

Scanner Sombre is a walking simulator with horror and desolation elements made by Introversion Software, a UK based indie developer. The game centers around exploring caves with a laser gun that shoots in random directions. The laser gun creates a color gradient on the visor to map the contours of the cave and reveal the player’s surroundings.
The caves are shrouded in darkness and the only light comes from the player’s laser gun. The sound design is important to the feeling of isolation as the player can hear their own footsteps and the constant whine of the laser gun. There are also strange apparitions that show up on the visor, adding to the creepy atmosphere.
The player character, Ethan, is trapped in a cave and doomed to relive his journey forever. He descended into the caves to explore ancient ruins but never made it out. The upgrades the player finds throughout the game are actually downgrades that Ethan experiences on his journey downwards.
The story for the game was added after the main development process was finished and some aspects of the storytelling are not well thought out. Scanner Sombre was not a commercial success and Introversion Software did not make another game for seven years.___

Carighan, 16 days ago

Of the alternative is waiting 90 minutes in line, sure, why not?

Carighan, 17 days ago

and what little they did release was insultingly barebones

I mean OTOH for those who bought it, the content there at the time was worth the money asked. Sure it was somewhat barebones but the game is also cheap-ish and if you get a bunch of cool hours out of it with friends, well worth.

Carighan, 17 days ago

I don’t. They have so many great studios in there, and you just know those will be the ones fully closed in procedures.

Carighan, 19 days ago

Can they please not? I’d rather not have Blizzard stay Blizzard, seeing what they did to WoW, SC2, D3, D4, DI, Overwatch and worst of all, Heroes of the Storm.

Carighan, 19 days ago

person behind Overwatch 2

is still held in high regard

Ouff. I guess marketing earned their bonuses, sure.

Carighan, 18 days ago

Oh I had not yet heard that they’re turning the ship around. That’s really really cool. After all this time I just stopped following stuff around it since it got so depressing over the years.

She’s the one from WoWC, right?

Carighan, 19 days ago

Meta is taking over the fediverse now, uh huh. Thought we all blocked it?

Carighan, 19 days ago

Which is kinda the point of the federated stuff: run your own instance.

If we just all pool shit together again, we might as well launch a company and hey, in a few years do an IPO and cahs out. 😛

Carighan, 19 days ago

Or they might just be quite into the open and federated concept, above all else.

It’s not your instance, so what do you care? Again, half the point is that you can run your instance however you want, and talk to whoever you want or do not want. Federated. Mastodon or Lemmy aren’t distributed systems, they’re federated systems.

Carighan, 19 days ago (edited 19 days ago)

But it’s his instance. The whole point is that you run your own if you want a different approach to administration. Like, sure, you disagree with an admin, but that’s the thing about the federation instances, everyone is essentially free to run their instance however they want. You defederate them if you dislike their content spilling into yours, like many do - understandably - with Threads.

And the same goes for the software. Mastodon can federate with other similar microblogging services. Again, the whole point of the federation thing, you’re bound neither by admin nor by specific developer. In turn everyone is free to do as they wish, and you are free to allow or block them as you wish.

Carighan, 19 days ago

With large instances there comes the responsibility of moderation

Sure, so long as it comes with the responsibility of the users to pay, they get to have a say in moderation.

Otherwise, they get to vote with their browser: Use the site if they like it, do not use it if they don’t. And the same for the software. Don’t like Mastodon, use another microblogging software.

This is the key underlying idea behind the federation of activitypub. Do not undermine it. This is not Reddit, or Twitter, or whatever. This is not a central place, it does not need central evolution, vote by abandonment.

(and I’m not saying I agree with Mastodon’s dev, seeing how I couldn’t give a rat’s ass about microblogging in general, but again, it’s his instance, everyone is free to use whatever they agree with)

Carighan, 19 days ago

I don’t get it. By that account, what would everyone… “pooling their resources” do? Nothing, correct.

Carighan, 19 days ago

How so?

Carighan, 19 days ago

Defederating won’t solve anything

[citation needed]

We have to make better apps than facebook so people want to leave from threads to the open alternatives

[citation needed]

Carighan, 21 days ago

Good reminder how confusing Lemmy’s particular markdown flavor is. TY.

This explains why I keep seeing those colons in plenty posts.

Carighan, 12 days ago

Weird Crew reporting in, running up to you using ESDF. 😅

Carighan, 24 days ago

I already got stuck on the name tbh.

I really don’t get how the “Claw” is not a keypad for the left hand or a mouse. Both would be things a gamer might intuitively think of as a “claw” thing. A gaming handheld?! Why? Because you apparently got the hardware out of a claw machine?!

Carighan, 24 days ago

Well yeah, sure, if your target audience is 8 years old. I guess. 🤷

Carighan, 24 days ago

Damn, I thought MSI’s mascot was more or less officially the bluescreen? 😛 Didn’t know they changed that.

Carighan, 12 days ago

Yeah exactly, the middle was always pretty empty and aimless.

Carighan, 12 days ago

You’re new to Ubisoft, right? Ubisoft needs online on installation cm because their shit is so buggy that not even the installer could make it all the way without a crash if not for day 1 patches. No need for DRM if the game doesn’t work!