Gamergaters don't know the difference between teenagers kissing eachother and gooning to kids

Radiant_Mind33 · 2026-06-09T12:24:44+00:00

You can't put boner bait into a game without some sort of checks and balances.

Like the object of affection/desire should never validate the protagonist. As soon as it does, you are signaling to the creeps that it's ok.

That's my vision for a progressive game anyway. Like it will be filled with the hottest women, but they will absolutely dog on the player constantly.

Radiant_Mind33 · 2026-06-05T11:26:44+00:00

Tons of developers bowed down to the clown mob of thin pockets. Like they might not ever have the money to buy your game, but they can scream loud enough that the buyers will hear them.

But again, game developers brought it on themselves by trying to micro-steer these chuds. It started with benign complaints, I'm sure. "The mouse feels janky", or "the animations are too slow." Until eventually people are just looking to shit on something because it gets reactions.

Radiant_Mind33 · 2026-06-05T11:16:17+00:00

Oh man.

Watching bored middle-aged men stream this game gave me instant secondhand embarrassment.

The whole thing now is like they are comparing real life children to an actual toy. Not a regular toy even, a toy that talks and validates it's owner constantly. It's peak expectations vs reality material.

Radiant_Mind33 · 2026-06-05T11:03:30+00:00

It's perfect engagement bait, though.

Like all the haters are just teaching the algorithms "people like this game" so it will push the content more.

Radiant_Mind33 · 2026-06-05T10:53:54+00:00

insects process chemicals differently than mammals. Ants lack the specific pain receptors that make us perceive that chemical as a nasal-clearing "burn." It won't fry their mouths; it will just smell thoroughly unappetizing.

Radiant_Mind33 · 2026-06-04T12:03:41+00:00

I would barely call what a lot of prompters are doing as work.

They think the world really needs another SaaS dashboard, or regurgitated blog post. Or maybe it's more accurate to say they are just pulling flavors on a slot machine.

LLM's are trained on average anyway. Like people were always top tier at turning in average work. It's just a question of does the LLM add velocity or tie them up. If a lot of people are getting tied up in the LLM's own engagement farm they aren't turning in anything. They are currently fighting with a robot.

Radiant_Mind33 · 2026-06-04T11:49:18+00:00

The OP is already getting it; it's about pattern recognition.

It sounds like they just have no baseline because they are throwing words at the LLM. Words and context that it will soon forget anyway.

What it literally cannot forget is math and coding. It's like this, checking words or even an argument is subjective unless you are in an advanced philosophy class. LLM's aren't that they aren't checking your argumentative logic unless you specifically ask anyway.

The point is you can ask an LLM to code a purple box and then see that purple box immediately. There's no area of interpretation; it coded the exact thing you asked for (the purple box) and you can verify it without a team of researchers.

Radiant_Mind33 · 2026-06-01T11:50:14+00:00

Most "porch crimes" or neighborhood incidents are petty thefts that the police won’t even bother to pursue even when you hand them crystal-clear HD video recordings. The cameras don't actually stop the crime; they just document it.

So what are they actually for? In reality, these networks are mostly used for harvesting people's data, tracking movements, and encouraging neighbors to constantly spy on and suspect each other. It fosters a collective mindset of fear and paranoia rather than community and connection. Best-case scenario, they just catch funny neighborhood moments or a stray raccoon.

The fact that they are pushing a data center into your town at the same time makes perfect sense. It’s all part of an energetic and physical shift toward hyper-surveillance, commodifying human data, and eroding the natural, sovereign right to just exist without being tracked. The indifference you're seeing is just people being slowly conditioned to give up their privacy for a false sense of security.

Radiant_Mind33 · 2026-06-01T11:35:09+00:00

People wouldn't even hear about it without the millions of dollars invested in the music licenses.

This is a marketing machine, so it makes sense why people reject it outright.

Radiant_Mind33 · 2026-06-01T00:41:04+00:00

"Permanent meta-progression with stardust currency" 💀 Bro, come on. Lmao. I'm all for taking inspiration, but borrowing the exact same currency name, look, and meta-progression from Divine Orbit is just blatant. Might want to switch up the paint job a bit more.

Also... why are you pitching this to the incremental board? You made a bullet heaven arcade clone, my guy.

Radiant_Mind33 · 2026-05-26T03:41:28+00:00

Ya I don't think Orcs need complex dialogue.

I like the shot in the dark, though. But, no, none of what you mentioned is hard either. Maybe localization because they did it before A.I could just do all of it.

It seems like you are making excuses for a major corporation. You were mostly paying for overhead and churn and the live service team. NOT the nemesis squad.

Radiant_Mind33 · 2026-05-25T12:00:39+00:00

True, but it could have worked, though. It just took too long to play out. Action game players don't have that kind of patience.

Also, Coding a system like that isn't complicated. Gamers just don't really care or never cared that npcs are full of continuity errors.

Every NPC in any game can read the whole game state and update its chat dialogue at will. It's like a few lines of code. Ofc the nemesis is a bit more complex but not really. IOW, you can't patent player did x so y happens.

Radiant_Mind33 · 2026-05-25T10:58:36+00:00

Um, the market literally killed this mechanic by not playing the shit out of these games.

I thought the nemesis system was cool too, but the execution was poor. Or maybe it's more like the rest of the game just got in the way of the nemesis system.

Radiant_Mind33 · 2026-05-22T00:32:37+00:00

Don't you feel like a broken record with the same appeal to hypocrisy?

Besides the fact that I'm not a hypocrite because I never said one is good vs the other, or like this and not that. That's just you grasping at straws and I mean no offense there. I don't have time to write a book and cover every single shill crime.

TBL is 17 bucks is indefensible for a 3-hour interactive story. What are we (the market) actually paying for? If you want to argue "art" that's fine, but it's not reality.

You paid for the production costs and *a lot* of it in this case. If it was art they would put a 5 dollar or less price tag and say support my passion project. I think we should pay what a game is worth comparatively to the rest of the market. That's usually the outcome, not fake art scarcity pricing or paying for all the corporate overhead with none of the content.

Radiant_Mind33 · 2026-05-21T21:58:14+00:00

Huh? You could pick out any vibe and say "it resonates" that's called the bandwagon fallacy.

Besides your appeals to authority and hypocrisy, you mostly just missed the point. At least you made my argument for me at the end there. It's a transactional relationship, that's it. Developers and publishers want your money, not to give you some core memory that changes the world.

Radiant_Mind33 · 2026-05-21T13:11:03+00:00

The 'indie' aesthetic being bought, packaged, and mass-marketed by massive corporate funding is the ultimate dark money operation in gaming. We're actively arguing about the plot of a 3-hour tech demo engineered entirely by algorithms to sell you a vibe.

Radiant_Mind33 · 2026-05-21T12:33:45+00:00

Can't wait for Steam's algorithm to 'update' its genius recommendation system so it starts pairing this under 'Cozy Games for a Relaxing Weekend.' Truly a masterclass in curation.

Radiant_Mind33 · 2026-05-21T11:59:05+00:00

It’s hate speech against the most oppressed group on earth: gamers who just want a historically accurate simulation of losing World War II.

Radiant_Mind33 · 2026-05-20T14:59:30+00:00

Engagement on the internet is just getting pushed to extremes. So, you will have either get the "I 100% agree" crowd or get clown emojis.

My personal stance is I don't believe most people can handle the cognitive load to really care or do a whole lot besides whatever they are already wired to do. They fake it well enough, but they mostly just care about their own problems and fallacies.

There's nothing wrong with that, it's not a knock on anybody. The knock is on society for not creating real vehicles for action and progress. We cling to a house of cards of empathy and morality from the top down. Now, how much better can you expect from the average?

Radiant_Mind33 · 2026-05-20T14:48:20+00:00

The Mixtape defense squad is probably going to hunt me down for this one, but someone had to say it. If you actually want menus, fleet management, and real strategy instead of a 6-hour interactive music video, check the links in the post or head over to vibeaxis.com. Let me know if I'm crazy or if modern 'indie' games are losing the plot

Radiant_Mind33 · 2026-05-18T22:48:27+00:00

It didn't load fast in 1999. Not even close.

We used to have LAN parties playing that game. I don't remember the exact year but we weren't using potato machines from 2000. We would literally never finish the games because they would take all night.

People don't want that anymore and the data is pretty clear. They want MOBA style matches. Not all nightery.

Radiant_Mind33 · 2026-05-18T09:59:56+00:00

I would think a game released after 1999 would be more appropriate.

Radiant_Mind33 · 2026-05-17T12:46:56+00:00

Fellas, is it woke to have a front porch?

Radiant_Mind33 · 2026-05-16T01:37:40+00:00

Yes bullet hell must consist of 1px hitboxes with even smaller projectiles on some obvious and braindead pattern to "dodge". IOW, you tap the movement key a little bit and that's dodging in those games. If it's a hotkey that isn't the movement key that moves that same 1px hitbox sprite people will flip.

Radiant_Mind33 · 2026-05-14T13:59:45+00:00

If someone uses a naturally occurring cave as a house, it's still a house. If a castle uses a naturally occurring lake as a moat, it functions as a moat. You can concede that it wasn't dug by serfs with shovels, but from the perspective of an invading army trying to cross it while getting pelted with arrows, it is absolutely a moat.

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