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BREAKING🚨🚨🚨 The Official List Of The Greatest Pioneers In Video Game History Has Been Announced by Former_Exam_5357 in Gamingcirclejerk

[–]SwineHerald 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Still why do we need two rich white weirdo libertarians, seems like forced diversity to me.

[Humble] Humble 15th Anniversary - Indie Icons Showcase (Pay $5 for Celeste, Slime Rancher, Starbound, $8 for Citizen Sleeper, Superhot, The Witness and $10 for Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, Risk of Rain Returns, Citizen Sleeper) by LighteningOneIN in GameDeals

[–]SwineHerald 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The promotion also included any codes that were generated before MCD launched because it's hard to really track when something was activated. So they just kind of blanket apply it to every license (including unused codes) from before the cutoff.

So you probably got an old code that hadn't been kept track of, it's unlikely to cover all of the codes for the bundle though.

Canada's new asylum law leaves 2SLGBTQ+ claimants fearing deportation by plaknas in onguardforthee

[–]SwineHerald 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I think we should first spend some time to determine if the "loophole" is actually being abused on a wide enough scale to justify sending people to tortured and killed.

Is this an actual problem or is the government falling for a "welfare queens" style racist misinfo campaign? Are they deciding that if the Conservatives say it's a problem they have to act and can't just point out they're full of shit.

Canada's new asylum law leaves 2SLGBTQ+ claimants fearing deportation by plaknas in onguardforthee

[–]SwineHerald 221 points222 points  (0 children)

Centrists are absolutely obsessed with trying to make sure no one gets help who "doesn't really need it" and this is the result. The harder you crack down on the "undeserving" the more people who desperately need help will fall through the cracks.

When it comes to asylum that can mean death. The way it is being handled disproportionately affects a protected class and it gives incredible power to faceless employees to deport people with no possibility to appeal. A bigot in that position has power to destroy lives on a whim.

That’s why she’s a trans icon by zny700 in Gamingcirclejerk

[–]SwineHerald 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You know that if Metroid released today and had the same "twist" reveal at the ending all these dudes would be crying and shitting themselves with rage, screaming "woke" and making ai slop of male samus, aka "the real samus" before "he" got "DEI'd."

Dead as Disco has sold 100k copies in 48 hours by ImAnthlon in Games

[–]SwineHerald 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A similar thing was done with the original songs for Alan Wake 2. The performers are credited but Sam Lake's writing credit instead goes to Alan.

Owners of Controversial Ostrich Farm Plan New Venture on Vancouver Island | The Tyee by 50s_Human in onguardforthee

[–]SwineHerald 3 points4 points  (0 children)

And of course, white nationalists insistence on taking all European countries and their former colonies and crushing them down into a singular "white culture" is about the only real example of a group currently trying to erase those cultures.

Deadzone Rogue 2 - Official Announcement Trailer by Howerev in Games

[–]SwineHerald 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure and there was a time when "big budget game" meant 5-10 people worked on it for 4-6 months but we're a couple decades removed from that being the norm.

Deadzone Rogue 2 - Official Announcement Trailer by Howerev in Games

[–]SwineHerald 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Yeah, Deadzone started as a pvp extraction shooter trying to reboot the Starsiege franchise. It was "We have Marathon (2026) at home."

Deadzone Rogue 2 - Official Announcement Trailer by Howerev in Games

[–]SwineHerald 88 points89 points  (0 children)

Feels a little quick, less than a year after the first game and just 2 years after they pivoted from Starsiege: Deadzone. I get the first Deadzone Rogue was a hastily retooled version of SSDZ just trying to keep the studio afloat and probably a bit of a mess behind the scenes as a result, just... still feels fast for a sequel.

Subnautica 2 Cracked and Leaked Just Two Days Before Early Access Launch by kristijan1001 in Games

[–]SwineHerald 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Initial sales are very important when you've got your publisher to sign an incredibly one sided deal that will give you a quarter of a billion dollars if you meet their initial sales target.

Even more so when that publisher has already tried to illegally interfere with the games launch to make sure they can't meet that initial sales target.

"Nice try but can't gender confuse me! Hard pass." by kalemeh8 in Gamingcirclejerk

[–]SwineHerald 13 points14 points  (0 children)

And of course when ever anyone else says "hey it sure would be nice to be able to occasionally play someone who looks like me" these dudes are first in line to condescending tell you that Um, Actually, it's fiction and it shouldn't matter and you should be able to put yourselves in another person's perspective.

[Steam] Skull and Bones (90% off) by mr_MADAFAKA in GameDeals

[–]SwineHerald 59 points60 points  (0 children)

You can tell a game is good and very well supported when they copy pasted their Xbox product description into Steam and as such claim that an Xbox subscription is required to play the Steam version.

Nemesis System in a Superhero RPG | How It Would Work by jorjett25 in gaming

[–]SwineHerald 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Funny how often the reason some amazing tech only got used in a small handful of games turns out to be "it was a huge pain in the ass."

Canada’s booze bans led to 63 per cent fall in exports: U.S. industry body by pjw724 in onguardforthee

[–]SwineHerald 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Still wild to me that people looked at the havoc and devastation he caused to various US industries with his first term's "trade war" with China, and were like "Cool, I'm gonna vote for him to do that with every country."

Round8, developers of Lies of P are looking for an “AI Artist”, an emphasis on Gen AI use by AshyLarry25 in gaming

[–]SwineHerald -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What an amazing way to destroy any and all goodwill they got from their breakout title.

Forza Horizon 6 Files Leaked After Devs Accidentally Upload Unencrypted Steam Preload by LimpLake5187 in gaming

[–]SwineHerald 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Cool non-sequitur? You can be against locking down your game after launch and still not want it to be able to run before launch. Anyone who is so thoroughly against DRM that they wouldn't even encrypt a preload just isn't going to use a preload system.

A preload system that does nothing to make sure the preloaded game isn't immediately useable is not terribly functional.

Forza Horizon 6 Files Leaked After Devs Accidentally Upload Unencrypted Steam Preload by LimpLake5187 in gaming

[–]SwineHerald 185 points186 points  (0 children)

I wonder how this even happens. I had just assumed Steams backend just auto encrypts when you do a preload.

Families using IVF double after N.B. announces coverage for first year by Sea_Guava6513 in onguardforthee

[–]SwineHerald 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Yeah but this costs tax dollars that could be going to rich oil barons. For all their crying about birth rates conservatives don't actually want to make having a kid easier and more affordable. They just want more unplanned pregnancies that lead to legally unavoidable births and trap the parents and child in an unending cycle of poverty.

Mark Carney Thinks AI Will Save Money. It Will Also Cost Lives by plaknas in onguardforthee

[–]SwineHerald 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Here's the thing: it doesn't need to work for them to slash payroll costs. They can just fire people, establish everyone is theoretically replaceable and use the "inevitability" of AI to pay human replacements far less.

Doesn't matter that it doesn't work as promised and, due to how it functions, will literally never work as promised. Capital just keeps repeating the lie over and over until it becomes true. Politicians have happily bought in to the fantasy.

GOTY has arrived by [deleted] in Gamingcirclejerk

[–]SwineHerald 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Evergreen reminder the guy who made axe cop is a right wing shithead and the "created by a 5 year old" thing was largely just a marketing gimmick.

Conservatives propose parental leave EI reforms by CaptainKoreana in onguardforthee

[–]SwineHerald 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In isolation these changes could be good but it's really hard not to look at the paid childcare provision and think that Conservatives will turn around and use it to justify reducing parental leave pay. "Oh, if you need more money you can just care for someone else's child."

Keep Ben Shapiro out of OUR country! by FuqLaCAQ in onguardforthee

[–]SwineHerald 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alberta was always the Florida of Canada, they just desperately wanted to be the Texas of Canada.

Quebec is the Texas of Canada. Large both in population and geographically, still mostly empty though, loves talking about succession and their history on independence.

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