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Contramuffin, do games w What game has a great story and is worth the time investment?

Outer Wilds (not Outer Worlds)

Ori and the Blind Forest

Hollow Knight

chandz05,

+1 for Outer Wilds!

Poob,

I came here to recommend Outer Wilds too

seliaste,
@seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Outer wilds is the best story driven game ever

FooBarrington,

Also wanted to add Outer Wilds. The story is incredibly interesting and well-told, and it’s one you have definitely not seen before!

naticus,

I wanted to say Outer Wilds too simply to have OP join us in our search for that high of another player experiencing this game for the first time. Nothing quite like seeing the game “click” when they finally get those big plot points.

richard_wagner,

Pleasantly surprised to see Outer Wilds here, which I just finished the base game of the other day. Starting the DLC now.

Great game!

boothin, do piracy w PSA: AI can help you decode file names

there's an entire wikipedia article for this that makes it super easy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirated_movie_release_types

AGD4, do games w Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales

I’m not very inclined to take at face value what a studio founder has to say about a service that might make them less money, and might save their customers money.

Nobody is forcing studios or publishers at gunpoint to release on a subscription service.

HK65,

Yeah but on the other hand the dumping business model where you sell stuff below cost to kill competition has been a staple of Silicon Valley.

Amd I’d rather the studio earn more money than the publisher in any case.

villainy,

Nobody is forcing studios or publishers at gunpoint to release on a subscription service.

Except for the hilarious number of studios owned by Microsoft. One would hope Microsoft takes the effect of Game Pass into account when they’re reviewing sales figures and shutting down studios. One would hope…

Plebcouncilman,

The number may be high but it’s an almost insignificant proportion of the industry. There’s no industry pressure to be on Gamepass.

EnsignWashout,

There’s no industry pressure to be on Gamepass, yet.

Microsoft doesn’t willingly lose money on something unless they think they can make it into a market distorting rent extraction hellscape. something very profitable later.

Plebcouncilman,

A) it’s already profitable, as per Phil. Unless you think he’s misleading shareholders there’s no reason to doubt that claim. B) they would never be able to buy enough studios to create industry pressure to be on GP, it’s just not possible and the service would crumble under its own weight

BuboScandiacus, do gaming w [Ended] [Steam Key Giveaway] 3x Stardew Valley to give away
@BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz avatar

Not participating, since I already own the game on steam. Just wanted to tell you that it’s very nice of you. Have a wonderful day !

danekrae, do games w Thank you, Thor! 🥳

Who is this, and why is she so sad?

dumbass,
@dumbass@quokk.au avatar
tja,
@tja@sh.itjust.works avatar

Misgendering people is not funny.

danekrae,
iAmTheTot,

The difference is that 30 Rock is not doing it to be mean spirited.

victorz,

I think the root comment is just memeing? But I see your point, it’s not funny. (Or it shouldn’t be.)

iAmTheTot,

What does “just memeing” mean here?

kamenlady,
@kamenlady@lemmy.world avatar

Oh? You’re approaching me?

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/c0b03102-260e-4833-a3f5-28abc654af68.png

They memed the joke from the show, while i just copied the part from jojo.

I wanted to lure you into revealing your stand.

Default_Defect,
@Default_Defect@midwest.social avatar

No, you don’t understand, misgendering is fine when its someone you don’t like, just like how body shaming is great when its a man.

/s

tja,
@tja@sh.itjust.works avatar

Looking at the upvote/ downvote ratio you might be right

BlackPenguins,

You did not get the 30 Rock quote I see.

StoneyDcrew,

I kinda hate the guy so it’s hard for me to keep the tone neutral but I’ll try my best.

Long story short: He’s a popular streamer that had a few controversies that caused many people labelled him as arrogant or egotistical.

The latest one is his take on the “stop killing games” initiative that he was against. He had a video a few months ago were he misrepresentated the movement and spread misinformation (whether or not this was intentional or misinformed is up for debate) and caused a significant drop in the momentum of the movement, refusing to accept any criticism and doubling down on things. That was until recently were the initiative was in the last month and a half before the big deadline at only around 50% of the required signatures, but then huge momentum sprung up with a lot of people marking him as the “villain” of the movement and because of his controversy before it wasn’t long before word spread.

This has obviously led to harassment of the guy(which I feel is too far personally) which he responded to by tripling down on his opinion causing further being labelled as the villain. Eventually the momentum carried it over the finish and people are happy that he didn’t get his way.

MolochAlter,

whether or not this was intentional or misinformed is up for debate

It’s not, in his response to the initial controversy he cut out the part of Ross’ video that directly contradicted his misrepresentation, he’s a lying piece of shit.

who, do games w We did it! 🥳

Almost, but not quite. A portion of those signatures will turn out to be invalid, so we have to keep going past 1 million if this thing is going to fly. Aiming for 1.4 million might be wise.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmkCQJrc9n4

echodot, do games w Signatures skyrocket for **Stop Killing Games** campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 48 hours. (Details on how to help in text body of post)

I hope the wording of the petition is very clear. The last time this was brought up in the UK the government of the time basically just brushed it off by intentionally misunderstanding the petition. You can’t give them any leeway to do that this time.

ProdigalFrog, (edited )

I suspect they would’ve brushed it off regardless, they didn’t want to deal with it. There’s another 100k UK petition (The one linked to at the bottom of the OP text) that would force them to re-look at it with more depth which is also ending quite soon.

kazerniel,
@kazerniel@lemmy.world avatar

Can you link to that other UK petition too pls? :)

ProdigalFrog,

Already included at the bottom of the text body of the post (though it’s to the StopKillingGames page on it, I’ll swap it to the direct link)

kazerniel,
@kazerniel@lemmy.world avatar

Ah sorry I misunderstood your comment then, I thought there was another one besides that.

ProdigalFrog,

No worries, I’ll edit it to try to make it more clear.

echodot,

Yes I’ve already signed it, and I signed the original. Although even back then I suspected that the petition was simultaneously too vague and too specific.

It was vague in that it didn’t really explain what it was asking to happen, and didn’t really make the distinction between a product being technically still functional and a product not working because the servers have shut down. While at the same time being too specifically focused on games rather than server run software in general. What happens if Adobe goes down, does everyone lose access to photoshop?

I just feel that this has a better chance of succeeding if they were to de-emphasize the games aspect, and allow politicians the wiggle run to focus on the corporate business side of things.

Battle_Masker, do games w A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"?

Yoshi’s Story. Yeah it’s short, and level unlocking is weird as all outdoors, but people really hating on it for being too easy? Bro, it’s a YOSHI game. That’s a quarter of the appeal! It’s a game you can get younger kids involved in, or you can play after a hard day when you want to turn your brain off partially.

Plus almost everything in that game is adorable. And 64 bit sprite art is goated

otp,

I dunno, Yoshi’s Island can get pretty hard…

missingno,
@missingno@fedia.io avatar

Story (N64), not Island (SNES).

otp,

I was referring to where they said

Bro, it’s a YOSHI game

Going based on the expectations set by Yoshi’s Island, one wouldn’t be off to expect challenge in Yoshi’s Story, its follow-up.

whygohomie,

Its the context and expectations. The last “Yoshi” game was a mainline Super Mario World 2, and people expected similar scope and challenge but in 64 bits. Super Mario 64 had further primed people for crazy genetlrational leaps. Yoshi’s Story was a fine game, but it wasnt SMW3 by a longshot.

Zarxrax,

Exactly this. Yoshi’s Story was a follow up to Yoshi’s Island, often considered one of the greatest 2d platformers of all time. I spent weeks if not months completing Yoshi’s Island. Then when Yoshi’s Story came out, I rented it and completed it over the weekend.

criss_cross,

I loved Yoshi’s Story as a kid. Never knew there was hate for it for a long time.

Rai,

I loved it but I was sad I completed it before the rental period was up.

DaddleDew, do games w What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews.

A government that cares for is people would ban this shit and procecute any company trying to find ways around it.

paraphrand, do gaming w Newly open relationship

People always get this wrong. They were cucked by Link.

RowRowRowYourBot,

In this case “Zelda” refers to the game not the character or at least that is how I read it.

OrganicMustard,

Zelda is the doctor, not the monster

RowRowRowYourBot,

Bravo/a

rikudou, do games w STOP destroying videogames
@rikudou@lemmings.world avatar

It really looked like it’ll be signed quickly in the beginning, I was really hopeful.

Now I’m not really sure it will pass.

bjoern_tantau,
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de avatar

Sometimes they still look at a petition even if it didn’t reach the threshold. At least that has been the case for German petitions.

In the end they still get ignored, whether they reached the threshold or not.

rikudou,
@rikudou@lemmings.world avatar

I mean, not even 500k people in the whole of EU care about this apparently, so we get what we deserve, I guess.

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

That’s a bit reductive. Perhaps plenty care but don’t know to even look for this thing to sign, or are too young to know how games used to be made, or didn’t get the message about this petition in their own language. 1M signatures is an absurdly high threshold to clear; that’s one out of every 450 people in the EU.

witty_username,

I think that reframing it in the context of consumer protection for digital planned obsolescence might benefit this campaign. Ultimately, this is bigger than games and I think it could benefit from a broader appeal

sugar_in_your_tea,

Exactly.

And it’s something that only applies to a fairly small subset of people. If we look at Steam users (decent indicator of people passionate about games), Germany has the highest in the EU at 3.6M. 3.6M is ~4.3% of the German population, so if we extrapolate to the EU, that’s ~19M Steam users.

If we assume that’s an accurate measurement of people who would be interested in this petition, you’d need 1/20 of them to sign. I’m not in the EU, so I don’t know how popular these petitions are or what the requirements are (do you need to be voting age?), but if I assume a lot of people who play games are young, and that young people tend to be fairly uninterested in politics, getting 1M signatures would be incredibly difficult even if it’s something that all games agree with (and I would imagine most would care about this at some level).

So yeah, getting >400k signatures for something like this sounds like amazing success.

Aielman15,
@Aielman15@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, under 50% of the required signatures and it’s just a few weeks from expiring, there’s no chance this will succeed unless some big-name influencer gathers support for the petition, which at this point I doubt will happen.

It made some people talk about the problem, though. That’s a step in the right direction.

lowleveldata, do games w What is the best Sea based game out there in your opinion?

Subnautica

bagelberger,

I’ve played Subnautica so much that it’s no longer a challenge, even on hardcore. I installed this mod (Deathrun Remade) to increase the difficulty and had the most fun I’ve had in a while

FancyLad,
@FancyLad@lemmy.world avatar

I’ll look into this! I also love Subnautica

surph_ninja, do games w Should we boycott games with loot boxes?

Many of us have been doing this from the beginning, but it represents a fundamental misunderstanding of how gacha games work.

Most people do not pump loads of money into these. Many don’t pay anything at all. But those people are not the target audience. These companies are going after the whales. Basically gambling addicts who will destroy their entire lives to pump everything they have into it.

Which is exactly why these games either need to be illegal, or the law needs to put caps on how much individuals are permitted to spend on these.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA,
@HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world avatar

Don’t get me started on magic the gathering

Inaminate_Carbon_Rod,

Ohhhhhhhhhh boy

MrFinnbean, do games w 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

Why Gates in the picture tough?

He stepped down as a chairman over 10 years ago and didint he leave the microsoft board like 5 years ago?

Krompus, (edited )
@Krompus@lemmy.world avatar
Digestive_Biscuit,
@Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk avatar

This should be the test all millionaires and billionaires have to take yearly. If they fail, they are no longer fit to own or lead a business.

LeFantome,

I always think the same. But everybody knows Bill Gates by sight. Do you think everyone instantly recognizes Satya Nadella?

CodeBlooded,
@CodeBlooded@programming.dev avatar

Who?

Peruvian_Skies,

The current CEO of Microsoft.

slaacaa, do games w From the trailer of Wolfenstein: The New Order (2014)

Throwing his heart out to Planet Earth, such a beautiful picture ❤️

Tap for spoiler/s

Klear,

o/

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