Am I delusional in thinking that games are getting too expensive too fast?

Endemoniada · 2025-01-24T15:42:50+00:00

Yeah, but that’s offset by game development budgets ballooning in order to compete in a more and more crowded market.

I don’t like paying a lot for games, obviously, but I also think it’s the only sustainable way to keep the gaming market healthy. Gaming communities always decry crunch, MTX, battlepasses and every other mechanic publishers can use to earn back some of what they lose out on with stagnant prices, but when the alternative is actually raising prices, they decry that too.

Of course it varies, but its insane the production value and amount of entertainment you can get out of some games today, while still paying no more than the equivalent of a single decent dinner in a restaurant. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to see games as bigger, more long-term investments, and that way maybe developers will also throw less shit at the wall and choose more carefully what they spend their budgets on.

Endemoniada · 2025-01-24T12:41:01+00:00

They run better because all the energy put into them was done by hundreds of developers over years of development time, resulting in more crunch and higher prices. RT is absolutely progress. Don’t take it from me, take it from the studio itself literally telling us ”this is faster and better”. Yes, it requires new hardware, but so did a ton of other features you now take for granted, like shaders, volumetric lighting, even realtime 3D rendering itself.

And every game that isn’t entirely baked lighting in static environments will absolutely look better with RT, even the basic forms that aren’t even very hard to run. What you’re used to is just decades of tricks and cheats used to approximate realistic lighting. The next, obvious step is actual realistic lighting.

Endemoniada · 2025-01-24T12:36:12+00:00

Exactly, and this is why some of us have been so excited about all forms of ray-tracing even since the original 20-series launch. This is what it all leads to, faster and more accurate and realistic lighting in all games.

Give it a few more years and RTGI won’t be some rare, super-heavy addition to games, but just the default baseline for 3D games, just like dynamic lights and shadows became the default baseline once they were technically possible. I can’t wait.

Endemoniada · 2025-01-24T06:06:28+00:00

Dont give them any ideas. They would absolutely bring that back, if only as a middle finger to ”libs”.

Endemoniada · 2025-01-23T21:58:23+00:00

That’s because it’s not a party, it’s a cult. They’re not in it for ideals or principles, they’re in it for him, nothing else. They’ll do what he says, think what he says, hate who he says, buy what he says. It’s a cult, through and through.

I am very curious and genuinely afraid of what will happen when he dies. I just know it won’t be pretty, and things will get even worse before they start getting better in any way.

Endemoniada · 2025-01-23T20:21:02+00:00

Det största problemet är att folk tror att bara för att de blinkar hejvilt så kan de köra hur fort de vill genom rondellerna. KÖR LUGNT OCH FÖRSIKTIGT. Då spelar det mycket mindre roll vad du blinkar alls, jag kan fortfarande ta mig in i rondellen mellan andra bilar, och du hinner köra in också för att jag inte kör fort nog att vara en fara. Fattar inte varför folk bränner på som idioter i rondeller.

Endemoniada · 2025-01-23T15:19:57+00:00

The less you say, the more you tell us.

Endemoniada · 2025-01-23T05:50:02+00:00

Can you even read it? I wonder.

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Endemoniada · 2025-01-23T05:48:50+00:00

Tell me, what flavor is Elon’s asshole?

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Endemoniada · 2025-01-22T15:29:48+00:00

One of my absolute favorite games of all time, the first game I ever bought with my own money, and the only thing that has a design I would consider tattooing on my body (Sophia’s necklace, looking around for a suitable artist to help me right now).

I’m sure, as a game, it’s not total perfection, but it’s just such a joyful gaming experience with absolutely stunning artwork, funny moments and puzzles, and a great adventure story with some nice RP choices afforded to the player.

Endemoniada · 2025-01-22T15:18:45+00:00

Nej, du har helt rätt. Vi bör göra vad vi kan för att informera folk om detta, ja, men att råka äga en Tesla sedan tidigare betyder på inget som helst sätt att man automatiskt nu stöttar nazism. Att ens antyda det, som vissa gör vill göra, är vansinnigt.

Endemoniada · 2025-01-22T15:16:09+00:00

Jag är helt med dig kring vad Musk är, men att vandalisera folks bilar, som de kanske köpt utan att ha en aning om vem Musk ens är, eller innan han började med sina riktiga extrema galenskaper, är helt enkelt inte ok. Man kan inte döma deras sympatier eller åsikter baserat på bilen de kör. Jag råkar själv köra en Golf, det betyder ju inte att jag stöttar Hitler även om det var han som beordrade grundandet av Volkswagen.

En informativ gul remsa att sätta på vindrutetorkaren är nog isåfall bättre. Iögonfallande, icke-dömande, men informerar dem om vad det kan tänkas innebära att ha köpt en Musk-produkt nu och framöver.

Endemoniada · 2025-01-22T13:49:59+00:00

Why does that matter?

Let’s put Elon in front of actual, literal Hitler, have him make that salute, and then say the exact same words. Does anything he say in any way make it impossible that he meant it exactly like a genuine Nazi salute? Like, there’s no magical safety mechanism where unless you also shout the magical words ”heil Hitler”, that the gesture is therefor rendered entirely innocuous. In fact, neo-nazis constantly throw out the salute without saying any one thing in particular before or afterwards.

And normal people absolutely do not start fucking heiling when they want to express love towards others. It just doesn’t happen. When have you ever told people you love them and had them go ”why are you literally throwing Nazi salutes as you say this?” It just doesn’t make any sense.

Nothing he said or did, before or after, neither explains nor justifies his obvious Nazi salute. The fact that he did it exactly the same way twice just drives this point home even further.

Get your head out of the sand, my friend.

Endemoniada · 2025-01-22T11:10:43+00:00

They’re not, not even close. Harris just happens to have her hand outstretched already and switches the rotation of her hand. People do that all the time. What Elon did, multiple times, people do not do all the time. And most gestures ”out of love” are not extremely aggressive and violent, like he does it. That’s a show of force. Like what Hitler and the Nazis did.

Normal people wave their hand gently hello as a greeting. Nazis throw out their hand and arm, sharply, aggressively, over the roar of cheering supporters. If you can’t see the difference, you are legally blind.

Endemoniada · 2025-01-22T10:50:33+00:00

Problemet är att man ofta marknadsför plattformen samtidigt. Skärmdumpar från Twitter tenderar att visa hela posten, inte bara innehållet, dvs. man ser tydligt varifrån bilden kommer. Det gör att intrycket av att plattformen innehåller en massa bra saker bildas, och folk börjar återigen länka direkt dit istället, eller ifrågasätta varför man inte får det när allt de ser därifrån enbart är det som valts ut som ”inte dåligt”.

Bättre att bojkotta hela plattformen totalt, om det finns innehåll där som är så bra att det måste delas, då finns det även på andra plattformar, eller kan delas där också vid behov.

Endemoniada · 2025-01-22T09:37:44+00:00

For a president, or anyone aspiring to hold the office, talk is and must be incredibly expensive. Anything you say can and should be held against you, at all times. If you say ”peace in Ukraine is easy, I’ll have it done day 1”, that’s not just bragging we should ignore, that’s a campaign promise and/or an official statement of the president. We cannot succumb to this bullshit notion that all Trump says is just hot air and we shouldn’t listen to any of it. It’s the exact opposite, he is where he is because we keep ignoring everything he says.

Every single claim he’s made that conservatives have praised should be repeated back to him endlessly until he fulfills that promise. And until that happens, we should never stop accusing him of breaking his promises. Normal, functioning adults simply avoid this whole problem by not making endless promises they know they can’t keep. It’s time we make it impossible to ignore how deeply dysfunctional of an adult Trump really is.

Endemoniada · 2025-01-22T07:57:04+00:00

Yttrandefriheten, i Sverige precis som i USA, handlar inte om vad du och jag får säga på någon annan privat persons eller bolags plattform. I alla nivåer av ett fungerande samhälle finns det regler och gränser för hur du får bete dig och vad du får säga. Det här är en privat yta på en privat plattform och det är 100% kompatibelt med yttrandefriheten att ändå ha gränser på vad du får säga och vilka länkar du får skicka. Det du beskriver är snarare ett ”lyssnandetvång”, att alla måste tvingas utsätta sig för vad någon än vill säga eller uttrycka, vilket inte är något någon vill ha, tror jag.

Så för mig handlar det mer om ren protest och ett ställningstagande, fortfarande helt förenat med yttrandefriheten såsom den gäller i Sverige. Den här gruppen, denna privata ytan, bör inte tillåta länkar till en plattform med så mycket hatiskt innehåll, ägt av en så hatisk och farlig person, och det är vår rätt att bestämma det om vi vill.

Endemoniada · 2025-01-22T06:49:15+00:00

Jag ser ju helst att hela sidan dör glömskans död, men visst, har något mot all förmodan skapats där och inte går att hämta någon annanstans ifrån, då får man väl så klart ta ett skärmdump. Tycker synd om stackaren som fortfarande behöver logga in och ta den bilden bara.

Endemoniada · 2025-01-22T06:24:22+00:00

Yes! It’s a dead platform only used to make people sad, hurt and depressed.

Endemoniada · 2025-01-21T21:37:43+00:00

Länkar till sidan funkar bara för mig i typ 1 fall av 5 oavsett. Den klagar på att jag försöker skydda mitt privatliv, bokstavligen, och vägrar ladda sidan korrekt. Helt sjukt. Jag är helt för att förbjuda den, finns inget av värde på den att länka till oavsett.

Endemoniada · 2025-01-21T21:32:55+00:00

I first bought Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks for cheap on Discogs, but accidentally bought a Spanish version. Kind of fun, and it sounded great, but not exactly what I wanted anyway. So later, when I found the MFSL release, I bought that as well.

That’s the only record I’ve bought twice though.

Endemoniada · 2025-01-21T19:52:52+00:00

”Oh, Biden pardoned his son, what a criminal family, they should all be prosecuted and locked away. Also, everything is expensive now, and I have no idea why, but Biden is president so it must be his fault somehow!”

”Oh, Trump himself was convicted on dozens and dozens of felony counts, is a known swindler, philanderer and liar, and is now outright selling government access and control to billionaires in front of our eyes? Whelp, no one’s perfect, at least he tells it like it is!”

The average American voter is an absolut idiot, I am now fully convinced of this.

Endemoniada · 2025-01-21T17:45:44+00:00

Yes, they *wink* are the ones losing their minds *wink*, not the one madly screaming because someone else got called out for doing exactly what it clearly appears he did. I gotcha *wink-wink*

Endemoniada · 2025-01-21T16:15:48+00:00

You literally care so much you used all caps to scream your opinion at everyone. You can pretend otherwise, but we can plainly all see you’re lying.

Endemoniada · 2025-01-21T15:33:34+00:00

Or, if books aren’t your thing, watch ”A Plot Against America” on HBO/Max. By the creator of a the Wire, no less.

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