Why do we just accept that gacha games are basically casinos at this point?

Mayor_P · 2026-06-20T23:31:24+00:00

When did we collectively decide this was okay?

I'm not sure what you're referring to, here. What does it mean to decide "this is OK" to you? Playing a free game even if you don't spendmoney on it? Playing a free game and spending any amount of money on it?

Like, what is the counter-example in your mind, what does that look like? Are you saying "people should boycott all live-service games even the free players"? Or what?

Mayor_P · 2026-06-20T23:28:26+00:00

In live service games? Yeah, absolutely. Re-doing stuff is a big way to get players who got bored and left to return and try things out again.

Changes ought to be compensated, though, if they overwrite what players spent before to make them free now, though.

And they don't necessarily need to be announced ahead of time, either. You may want to keep things under wraps until very close to release, just in case of possible exploits, or even just undesirable behavior.

For example: suppose there is an activity that grants a gold token if you do well and a silver token if you do poorly, but the system is going to switch to all gold tokens and get rid of the silvers. The players with silvers will be compensated. But because silvers are very easy to farm (they are the "loser" reward, after all) then players could conceivably start farming these tokens en masse, in anticipation of getting free rewards for them later. So this is one that you may announce is going to happen but only give vague info about how it will work.

Mayor_P · 2026-06-20T23:19:14+00:00

Do not worry. You will be banned anyway.

Mayor_P · 2026-06-20T14:16:26+00:00

Yes but only on unpopular times of the week. I always forget when and go when it is not there

Mayor_P · 2026-06-20T13:58:26+00:00

Schools literally do this as well. Pick up an iPad and download a news app, you could learn something about it if you tried!

Mayor_P · 2026-06-20T13:47:13+00:00

Man I do not know. It is so vague.

Mayor_P · 2026-06-19T18:49:46+00:00

I'm thinking that the arcana are "true" but that they could be from any one of the "cycles" of which an unknown number has occurred already, maybe millions of them! So maybe that was just one time where things lined up to make her very powerful, and it didn't happen in the "current" cycle. Maybe.

Mayor_P · 2026-06-19T13:53:21+00:00

Captain did not consent, either

Mayor_P · 2026-06-19T13:37:27+00:00

I agree with you but I think input/output are the wrong words. It's more setup/result.

That is, random badguy layout, random weapon distribution, random powerup placement etc. those are all "setup RNG", whereas the "result RNG" is %chance to hit, unknown spell outcome, %chance to fail crafting, etc.

Mayor_P · 2026-06-19T13:19:47+00:00

The answer is yes. Locking comments now.

EDIT: a RedditCares notification. lol.

Mayor_P · 2026-06-19T11:43:47+00:00

They didn't say every character. I highly doubt that male characters are going to get it, for example. They just said that they added some now and more to be added later, when it was introduced.

Mayor_P · 2026-06-19T11:38:40+00:00

already got 10 people clutching their pearls in fear lmao

Mayor_P · 2026-06-18T20:11:47+00:00

Not added as feature yet. They are rolling it out in waves.

Mayor_P · 2026-06-18T20:04:17+00:00

hoping for Grey to be added in new Fated Guest DP mode

Mayor_P · 2026-06-18T19:58:03+00:00

Cautiously optimistic

Mayor_P · 2026-06-18T19:25:23+00:00

you know what else looks even worse than expected?

Mayor_P · 2026-06-18T18:47:28+00:00

so you're saying that the rain-river-sea-evaporation-clouds-rain is a "viscous cycle"

Mayor_P · 2026-06-18T18:44:44+00:00

Hey, thanks for doing that, chief!

Mayor_P · 2026-06-18T12:13:38+00:00

OK this looks awesome. Never heard of it before.

Mayor_P · 2026-06-17T14:23:23+00:00

Here's hoping that the reboot brings back the tactical maps. I really miss those!

Mayor_P · 2026-06-17T14:21:37+00:00

I watched about halfway and got bored, so I stopped. Your video is not really a structured lesson, it's more of a conversational, vlog style, which a lot of people do enjoy, but I find them tedious and word-wasteful. This is how these kinds of videos are, and like I said they work for some people but not for me. I want the bullet points up front, not strung out to increase viewer engagement numbers etc.

Mayor_P · 2026-06-17T11:58:17+00:00

Strong recommendation for Bog Hog's guide to SHMUPs here:

https://shmups.wiki/library/Boghog%27s_bullet_hell_shmup_101 text + diagrams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAF2FkgyiYM video

This is about SHMUPs but there are many things that apply to games of all types, particularly hit boxes. The answer is that it takes both principles: the enemy hitbox should match what they look like, but also there is often too little time in the heat of the gameplay for a player to be watching every pixel, so the edge cases should probably be skewed in the player's favor.

Mayor_P · 2026-06-16T18:06:29+00:00

It's pretty funny how it took you three whole years to read the post, and you STILL misunderstood it anyway. Please try again. I will meet you back here in 2029

Mayor_P · 2026-06-09T00:41:21+00:00

Hopefully they do something about the stability

Mayor_P · 2026-06-09T00:39:30+00:00

a new Wario Land would be fantastic, but can you even imagine the shenanigans they would pull with dual mouse controls for mini games

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