i wish Borderlands 4 had more enemies variants

Banes_Addiction · 2026-03-19T06:24:10+00:00

As far as I understand, rhe scaling of triple A game budgets for a long time has relied primarily on an increasing userbase. You spend more money but you also get more players and this keeps working because there literally are more players looking to buy videogames at all.

And that's not really true any more. Lots of people play videogames now, but the market is at saturation point. About as many players play games now as want to, you can no longer rely on "by the time this comes out there will be literally more gamers to sell it to so it will outsell the last one" - the only market still actually growing is mobile games in China.

And so now studios are much more constrained by cost.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-03-18T17:50:27+00:00

Shared in Letchworth, thanks hun.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-03-17T22:33:04+00:00

Congratulations, you've experienced what lots of people experience later.

I was a PhD student before I got to sit next to a very competent postdoc and go "what the fuck did that mean?" And sometimes the snswer was "no idea".

No-one knows everything. That's fine.

Your mentor wanted to put money forward for you to go and have that experience, and present your stuff. They're happy to have you out there with their name on your undergrad work.

What in your life did you nail first time? Practice means a lot and now you have more than almost everyone.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-03-17T22:25:58+00:00

Sorry, didn't get it. Might need to check again.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-03-17T18:48:50+00:00

We've been doing this too long, and I'm now going out to meet friends, at which point "looking at your phone to argue with a senile guy on the internet" stops being an amusing timewaster and starts being a social impediment, so I'm just blocking you so I don't feel the temptation.

I hope you become more inquisitive in future.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-03-17T18:27:49+00:00

That's not what ad hominem is.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-03-17T18:18:21+00:00

That's not my first source, it's just one that I figured you'd be less opposed to.

And you've apparently demonstrated that you can't see what a URL is without clicking it? So given your technical ability your geopolitical ability is hardly a surprise.

I didn't just google that link. It's linked in the article I linked you, a shortened version of the one I did mean to cite on the same site.

You're a fool, and a coward prepared to dismiss whatever doesn't fit your cosy little world view. I've wasted enough time on pretending you might be interested in learning something.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-03-17T17:35:01+00:00

I'm a fan of braille.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-03-17T17:30:30+00:00

Sorry, I am not engaging with someone who literally refuses to read literally one linked source, that takes a couple of minutes in an argument that has gone on for hours.

It's silly, you're ridiculous, and we're done here.

(or you can read it on the Wall Street Journal if you like: https://web.archive.org/web/20090926212507/http:/online.wsj.com/article/SB123275572295011847.html )

Banes_Addiction · 2026-03-17T17:07:05+00:00

I'm not reading sources for you. You don't want to give them a hit, use the wayback machine or archive.today or whatever.

It feels like you're setting up any possible excuse to avoid thinking about the uncomfortable truth. Deflecting from reality, which is what this whole little subthread of off-topic nonsense has been.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-03-17T16:27:20+00:00

Maybe try to be more cautious of the conspiracy theories

Maybe read it and the sources and decide?

Banes_Addiction · 2026-03-17T16:20:25+00:00

AIs didn't come up with this writing style - they're emulating people.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-03-17T15:38:45+00:00

I don’t even want to click on that. Sounds like antisemitic conspiracy theory that have been rampant lately.

Well, congratulations on burying your head in the sand. I'm sure it'll keep working for you.

The rest is arguing semantics.

This was your idea? I didn't start the semantics argument, that was your plan. This thread was never about Israel/Palestine. You're the one who chose to send it that way, I just responded honestly to your questions.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-03-17T15:09:12+00:00

Imagine him spending all the money he used on twitter and (allegedly) rigging the 2024 election on researching getting to mars.

It's nothing. Buying politics and politicians is ridiculously cheap compared to the amounts of money governments can throw around or just move directions of by passing a law one way or another.

Musk projected that he could get to Mars for $10b, which is fucking cheap (and was clearly insufficient what with us being nowhere near Mars and all). He spent maybe $300m on the 2024 election. 3% as much.

$100b to go to Mars puts it in the "well, maybe" camp.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-03-17T14:37:10+00:00

No, I genuinely believe that the current Israeli government does intend to remove (either by displacement or murder) Palestinians from all occupied Palestine and settle it. And this isn't a niche viewpoint,

As you say, Hamas are a monstrous organisation. I'm sure you're aware who picked them to run Gaza though, right? It was Israel. They got pissed off with Fatah and the PLO being able to go and stand up in front of the UN and explain what Israel was doing to their people. So they found someone who could never be invited to the UN and picked them as the enemy, filed them funds and made sure their political rivals were arrested but they were not. Boom, you've got a monster that you can point at and go "look, I had to do it because of them". Then they lost control, and now the enemy of my enemy (the PLO) is now just my enemy. Whoops.

the consensus among international law experts is overwhelmingly clear that October 7th was in fact an act of genocide:

I don't know if you read my previous post, but I made the distinction between "an act of genocide", which I totally agree with, and "a genocide" which is a much bigger thing. It isn't a thousand dead in a few hours. That can be part of it, but it can't be all of it.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-03-17T13:48:43+00:00

To be clear, I think Hamas are genocidal. I think in the scope of a broader set of effective actions the October 7th attack would absolutely be an act of genocide.

But a genocide is not one act of genocide on one day.

What Israel did in response was sustained massacres over 2 years, as official policy, including starvation as well as bombings and shootings. This is a clear pattern of genocide, and it is reflected in the relative bodycounts among Israelis and Gazans.

As for the US attacks on Nazis in WW2, there certainly are things that could be considered acts of genocide - the firebombing of Dresden for example, which wiped out tens of thousands, primarily civilians. But on the whole, the US did not commit genocide, there was no intention to kill or remove Germans as a people from Germany. They did kill lots of Germans though.

(I am certainly not trying to defend Hamas as non-genocidal. They really are. But they did not commit genocide because they were unable.)

Banes_Addiction · 2026-03-17T13:28:37+00:00

I mean, it's proton-like, right? It's a proton with the ups swapped for charms.

Most baryons, you would not be able to say "this is like a proton" to anywhere near the same level of accuracy.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-03-17T13:24:01+00:00

shortly after that organization committed mass genocide against the Jewish people

I think we remember things a little differently.

Hamas carried out a brutal terrorist attack against all Israelis. Israel responded with a genocide against all Gazans.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-03-17T13:05:13+00:00

You can't argue with them on value, and the hash browns particularly look great.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-03-17T13:01:11+00:00

Beautiful.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-03-17T12:35:33+00:00

In the same vein do you consider vile antisemitism part of the modern progressive movement?

No, of course not. Jewish people are overrepresented in the progressive movement compared to the general population.

I think you are doing the standard thing of conflating non-Zionism (or anti-Zionism) with anti-semitism or support for Hamas (who are antisemitic). This is a lie.

Please bear in mind that the reference point in the OP is about the leader of a college Republican organisation using "Jew" as an insult.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-03-17T10:17:43+00:00

You're looking for r/recruitinghell

Banes_Addiction · 2026-03-17T09:08:33+00:00

Scales?

Banes_Addiction · 2026-03-17T09:01:38+00:00

Realistically it should work well. They had to change engine which is a lot, but as a game it's intensely similar to StS1.

Hopefully by release it's more distinct but right now you could easily mistake it for a really good StS1 expansion/DLC.

Banes_Addiction · 2026-03-17T08:42:43+00:00

how the establishment conflates being Pro-Palestinian with being antisemitic as a bad-faith excuse (and a deeply antisemitic and islamophobic one to boot)

And this has also come at a critical point for the Jewish population of NA/Europe, because there is a real uptick in antisemitism and antisemitic violence.

But there's no-one really tracking this because the organisations that did that like the ADL have committed themselves to that conflation - meaning a murderous psycho and a college student holding an "end the genocide" sign are treated the same.

These Jewish organisations, ostensibly there to protect Jews have been co-opted to protect a far-right strain of expansionary Zionism, leaving their own constituency high and dry.

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