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LassCalibur, do gaming w The Sims re-release shows what’s wrong with big publishers and single-player games

The old version of The Sims works just fine for me with the widescreen patcher and doesn’t require any app store or online account.

Dimok, do gaming w The Sims re-release shows what’s wrong with big publishers and single-player games

It’s exactly what I would expect from EA. They haven’t got a cent from me in years.

theangriestbird,

As long as FC and Ultimate Team keep being reliable money factories, you can expect them to continue half-assing everything else.

Nilz,

Everything else? That’s implying FC and Ultimate Team aren’t being half-assed.

B0rax,

I expected there would be more „pay to win“ now.

qyron, (edited ) do gaming w The Sims re-release shows what’s wrong with big publishers and single-player games

Can someone explain me what are the cloud saves for and achievements?

What is the point of gamifying a game?

barsoap,

Cloud saves are for playing on more than one box as well as backup. Achievements, from the developer’s POV, give some insight into player behaviour, you can also drop hints there (I would never have tried to pet the manta in Satisfactory otherwise), make suggestions for tasks people can set themselves, etc. Whether you, as a player, cares honestly nobody but you gives a fuck.

I can tell you, for example, just from the achievement statistics, that a metric fuckton, an absolute majority, of Cities:Skylines players play modded. They do track city building milestones and very very few people are reaching anything even close to mid-game with achievements still enabled.

qyron,

Thank you for the insight. I respect it but nonetheless those are features completely indiferen to me.

Hobbes, do astronomy w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032

Is there any way to get it here sooner?

tonytins, do gaming w The Sims re-release shows what’s wrong with big publishers and single-player games
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Not surprised that it’s as bad as when they first re-released The Sims 2.

Thcdenton, do astronomy w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032
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blackstampede,

Unexpected Waterworld dipstick guy

Thcdenton,
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He’s my go-to for posts like these

blackstampede,

Underutilized meme format, honestly. It can apply to almost anything in daily life circa 2025.

llamacoffee, do astronomy w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032
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Wow this is the most depressing comment section I’ve ever seen.

threelonmusketeers,

Yeah, even for Lemmy this is bad. I hope most of them are semi-facetious?

Swedneck,
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it’s just standard “haha self harm funi”, it’s so easy to post and reliably gets a few upvotes, so it’s just a kneejerk response to posts like these.

DragonTypeWyvern, do astronomy w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032

Fucking finally goddamn

Megaman_EXE, do gaming w VGHF opens free online access to 1,500 classic game mags, 30K historic files

This is so cool!

MrTrono, do astronomy w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032

Am I supposed to panic because it’s unlikely to hit? Meanwhile I’m out here wishing for death by meteor.

threelonmusketeers,

Just in case this comment is not a joke, here’s the WHO page on suicide prevention.

Either way, there are a few billion other people on this planet who would rather not die by meteor, thank you very much.

PhobosAnomaly,

I mean, if I was going to go out, then getting my shit mixed by a meteor is pretty awesome. I’m sure I’ll make it on to a few Buzzfeed articles over the next ten or twenty years.

All things considered though, it would indeed be nice if it landed somewhere inconsequential like the ocean; the desert; or Florida.

threelonmusketeers, (edited )

Florida

You jest, but the Kennedy Space Center is in Florida. Putting the world’s busiest spaceport out of commission might put a damper on future asteroid deflection missions…

grue,

Eh, they can launch from Vandenburg if it’s that important. (Or, ya know, Guiana or Baikonur or whatever.)

Mirshe,

Assuming any foreign space agency will work with NASA now…

murmelade,

Hell yeah this would be my choice too on preferred way to die. There’s something beautifully deterministic about it, a random space rock flying around for millions of years and all my lifes choices and circumstances ending up in standing on the exact spot the meteorite ends its journey. Right in my head. Lovely.

ShaggySnacks,

What about hitting the Republican National Conference?

lordnikon,

Not to be a doomer but most of us will be dead by then I just hope the meteor takes out any lucky oligarchs still alive in a bunker.

Omgpwnies,

You think “most of us” will be dead in … 7 years? That’s pretty doomer if you ask me.

lordnikon,

I just read the ipcc reports and if you read those and don’t start a bucket list for the time we have left. I don’t know what to tell you. Trust me I don’t want to be this way I will fight where I can but I’m going to live my life the same time way a terminal patient lives. Cherish the days we got and if I’m wrong I will eat crow happily with a big smile on my face.

llamacoffee,
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Very doomer. Does lemmy have a “remind me in 7 years” bot? 😅

LouNeko,

Yeah I’ll take one for the team. I go to the point of impact and when it finaly hits, I’m gonna try to punch it back into orbit.

You don’t have to thank me.

joelfromaus,
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Honestly, at this point, there might be enough of us volunteering to bounce that fucker back to Jupiter. A lot of us will be turned into jam but I think it’s worth the sacrifice.

MrTrono,

But I’m on team meteor

uxia, do astronomy w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032

Reading this headline instantly brought a huge smile to my face 😁

FreakinSteve, do astronomy w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032

Can we speed that up a bit?

Idea, do astronomy w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032
JohnDClay,

Great video, the probability will keep going up till it goes way down. Unless it doesn’t.

DarkFuture, do astronomy w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032
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Panic?

I’m crossing my fingers for the wellbeing of the universe. We’re awful.

floquant,

Worry not, for we are insignificant to the universe.

Zacryon,
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Right now.

Zetta,

Forever, humanity could only ever conceivably expand so far due to the expansion of the universe, so as far as we know a still insignificant portion of the universe we could colonize.

Zacryon,
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Until we make some scientific breakthrough which might solve that problem. If there is any possible of course. There is so much we still don’t know.

AbsoluteChicagoDog, do astronomy w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032

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  • Xavienth,

    Sarcasm?

    Idk about you but if it levels 1287 km² of forest, I don’t think that would exactly be good news for a populated area. On the upper range, it could be equivalent to a 40 megatonne bomb.

    threelonmusketeers,

    Provided it enters in a similarly uninhabited location.

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