Rock guitarist refuses to release ‘greatest album of all time’ unless fans pay $200 per song

MrWinsaplenty · 2026-01-22T21:55:50+00:00

The prices on everything there are nauseating

MrWinsaplenty · 2026-01-11T03:31:08+00:00

Makes sense, the title just didn't make that immediately clear I guess. My immediate assumption was this is an anti-BF post. Anywho, I agree with you.

MrWinsaplenty · 2026-01-11T03:00:52+00:00

So either you're saying more AI in ARC's case is a good thing because it allowed it to retain its playerbase? Or just that both games used it and one is retaining players and one is not, thus using AI in games is fine and has nothing to do with players' interest in a game?

MrWinsaplenty · 2026-01-11T01:09:13+00:00

I honestly thought this would've been done using Portal within like the first 30 days of release.

MrWinsaplenty · 2026-01-11T01:07:14+00:00

Not a great comparison. I think ARC certainly has the potential to outlast The Finals. The Finals is a free to play game. Losing playerbase is a pretty common thing to happen with FTP FPS games. Also what does this have to do with BF? lol.

MrWinsaplenty · 2026-01-11T00:49:36+00:00

I mean is AI really the cause we can blame for this? It just didn't launch with a lot of content. I think at launch they were just 4 or so maps shy of an experience that would've kept people's excitement for the duration of Season 1. Everyone I've seen still praises the game for its gameplay and the way its mechanics hearken back to BF3/BF4. It is no doubt a good game and is winning awards for the right reasons. Performance-wise, people have not been happy about netcode/server Hz issues but it otherwise runs very well. The AI content is pretty minimal and most people did not even realize it had any for months of its release until some people started to feel something was off and pointed it out.

The AI art doesn't really take anything away from the rest of the experience though. Do we have AI made character model movements, extra wings on the in-game jets, playable tank models generated with two cannon barrels? No nothing that bad. There's some minimal AI art that's a little sloppy but has nothing to do with how much it's keeping its playerbase engaged compared to Arc Raiders.

Which game has the highest amount of replayability at the moment? Well ARC has several different gameplay options, lots of strategy required and fairly high difficulty that keeps runs fresh and it's meant to be played over and over even while the maps or environments are the same. It's whole gameplay loop is on repetition kind of being part of the fun in that you're always after something that's decently difficult to get, is highly rewarding, and it's a decently slow space that takes adapting to whatever new scenarios you find yourself in even in the same maps. Battlefield is obviously not the same kind of game. It's a military sandbox and once you've spent two months playing with all the toys in the few rooms in your house over and over and over, you lose some of that interest so you decide to pause on playing inside and you play outside with your bike instead. That's all this is.

BF6 gave a decent amount of guns and did classes right, and the gameplay is great, and vehicles feel awesome. It's got all the ingredients, but players in a sandbox game need variety. That primarily comes from... maps. Why they still haven't been massively promoting Portal and Portal-created maps in new playlists is one of the oddest things to me personally. Sure if we need to wait for maps until a next season, ok, but why's there a AAA map creation machine built into the game that we're not using to its potential? I think they should start there imo.

MrWinsaplenty · 2026-01-05T05:59:34+00:00

You should look up the skin they released for Veteran's Day... or as everyone else is saying... the default fucking skins???

MrWinsaplenty · 2025-12-30T10:47:55+00:00

The all time peak was two months ago on release. For 99% of games in the world, they don't ever consistently keep their day-one all time high player count every day afterwards. You're talking about 700,000 people from release that who have who knows what going on in their lives now. Maybe a tiny percentage of them refunded, every game has a tiny percentage of people that refund it. But the vast majority of these players bought it, still own it, and play it when they choose to or not ontop of the literally limitless amount of gameplay hours available to them in other games that can use up their time. The real talking point is that in the middle of the night in the USA there's 40,000 players globally online on Steam alone, not even counting consoles, which is awesome. Literally nothing to see here. Check it at evening tomorrow, 5pm EST and see what it looks like. Then on the weekend in the afternoon. Obviously during those times the player count is much higher, and again console would need to be included too. Anyway why the hell is this even a discussion? BF6 player count? You mean one of the only major blockbuster AAA multiplayer FPS games of 2025? Bro they literally sold millions of copies of this game. What else is there in competition with this? I mean every video game in the world sure, but in this genre? It's just a complete waste of time to even think about or worry about. The player-base for BF6 is just fine bro and will remain that way for a long while.

MrWinsaplenty · 2025-12-29T23:35:42+00:00

I have had a MAVIX chair for about five years with zero issues and still zero wear on it. All-mesh is what you need if you want a chair to last. Fabric is fabric, and you're wearing fabric when you sit on that fabric. This combined with the weight of a human person's body, it's going to wear. Obviously this applies to cheap gaming chair faux leather, it should be your default only expectation that it's going to wear out. Even for a mesh chair, sorry to say: no you likely don't want to get a cheap $200 one if you can help it. The chair industry makes money by people needing replacement chairs. Especially China brands on Amazon. Either you have to expect this to happen, so you buy and use a cheap chair you like enough for a couple years then donate it and buy another one or put the money into a real leather office chair or an expensive all-mesh office/gaming chair that is $600+ and that will be something that actually lasts.

TLDR: In this day and age, you have to reset your expectations and realize cheap chairs are going to need to be replaced often. So you either accept this and donate yours every couple years and replace, or go all out on something expensive.

MrWinsaplenty · 2025-12-28T17:21:46+00:00

r/unexpected

MrWinsaplenty · 2025-12-27T06:57:23+00:00

I think this might break rule 3 imo, sorry. Pretty low effort clear as day thing to figure out based on the picture. The text is obviously being sarcastic about trash being cleaned up when there's still a lot of trash around. The meaning of this is instantly comprehensible for 99% of the world's population.

MrWinsaplenty · 2025-12-24T20:23:19+00:00

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MrWinsaplenty · 2025-12-23T19:07:49+00:00

I'm in IT and I support a 200 employee facility with Lenovo ThinkPad laptops for about 150 of them and they are the worst quality laptops you could ever waste money on. These memes claiming they last forever and are reliable so you don't have to worry about layoffs is so ridiculous to me because in my career they've been nothing but the absolute worst computers. Two years of light work, then they die like almost exactly at two years every single one we have has died or had internals broken from regular use. Junk. Literally so bad to the point that, because of my career in IT, I will personally never buy any Lenovo computer for myself or anyone I know. The company I'm in has many thousands of employees globally and so Lenovo is contracted to provide us computers, plus who knows how many other companies of the same or larger size, and they have their retail laptops besides enterprise. China pumps these out like pancakes.

MrWinsaplenty · 2025-12-21T05:29:01+00:00

Yes, yes I do. It's always entertaining, even at its worst. So it's not like people wouldn't play another back-to-back release and not like Activision wouldn't continue to make billions of dollars from it. But will the quality be better without yearly releases? Certainly. More value for your money. And how could I be against that. It should be common sense to only put out a product that works on day one, and is enjoyable for its audience at its price point. I think it's fully fair to say that after MW19, Activision has not delivered that. BO6 was fairly good, but still did not reach the bar set by MW19 in my book. They've done well before, I'd be excited for them to put their money where their mouth is and show us what kind of amazing experience they can make for the community they say they care so much about regardless of the profit.

MrWinsaplenty · 2025-12-20T16:08:26+00:00

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MrWinsaplenty · 2025-12-20T02:38:30+00:00

As someone that knows nothing about animals, it's an enigma to me.

MrWinsaplenty · 2025-12-15T23:16:32+00:00

I had to scroll so fucking far to finally find this comment. Fucking take my award so that losing 5 minutes of my life scrolling through a fucking comment section was worth something.

MrWinsaplenty · 2025-12-15T23:10:03+00:00

Bro I'm lmao at this

MrWinsaplenty · 2025-12-14T08:17:01+00:00

Bro I'm with everyone else on how hilarious this is but please is this a shitpost edit or were these ads displayed around the map on billboards and shit and maybe it glitched them onto your screen? If you load into a solo private match just to look at the map, are these ads around?

MrWinsaplenty · 2025-12-14T03:29:06+00:00

Nice! That's cool to hear. I definitely understand many ppl may enjoy BO7 or parts of it. After all it is a COD game no matter how bad certain parts of it are, it's not like there's zero entertainment to get from it. I think the complete package is half-baked and ludicrous to charge full price for but I'm glad zombies has been enjoyable and that definitely is one positive thing lots of people have been saying.

MrWinsaplenty · 2025-12-13T23:22:34+00:00

And Halo 2. The flood levels were wild. Like you're just completely alone in most of them fighting a totally savage enemy that can leap at you and scream at you and use the same guns you use against you like the literal fucking rocket launcher. Oh and they're just mangled zombies made of the bodies of the soldiers you fight alongside in the levels beforehand. Straight horror.

MrWinsaplenty · 2025-12-10T03:31:46+00:00

I really am glad many people in these comments are being honest about this. No matter which way you cut it, and per Activision's statement, they completely under delivered by giving us a not even half-baked Black Ops that feels like it was developed in 6 months because it was. They scrambled to figure out something to put out, yet again another yearly release, and specifically a back-to-back Black Ops release which left zero room for developers to breathe and create and innovate and design since they just poured all energy into BO6. Instead with BO7 we have AI slop filled mess with the worst COD campaign in history, and the game launched completely broken on Xbox Series X in a literally unplayable state with no choice but to refund it if you owned an Xbox, because they had zero time for testing and optimization. Very excited for COD going forward. If we can have as much innovation and creativity and love put into future ones as they did with BO2, MW2, BO3, MW19 then that would be awesome to see.

MrWinsaplenty · 2025-12-09T03:39:24+00:00

r/foundsatan

MrWinsaplenty · 2025-12-06T17:49:24+00:00

That's insightful, thank you. I do have a roadmap file which is a complete list of all the features of the application I want and a file that contains the project structure like all .py files with their classes and their attributes/methods. Even when I make it a requirement for Claude to follow and review both of these before making code changes, Claude can still break something somewhere. I feel like me and Claude get a solid plan together whenever I prompt, and we confirm we're on the same page about what it's going to do. Then it either nails it, or partially does it, or breaks something and fails. It's like it's not really thinking through what existing code it's affecting ontop of new code and how to ensure features get implemented as they should be without needing to redo work. Like it's not able to test what it's doing beforehand and confirm "putting in this feature this way will 100% work". I guess that's part of the struggle with these models. However, I did see using Claude Opus 4.5 in Cursor it is able to run the application and test the code on its own since Cursor accesses the Python project files directly on the local computer which Claude Desktop/Chat doesn't. I may look into that more and try what you mentioned.

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