many of the most interesting games started as free mods or student projects

  • I Cast Fist
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    881 year ago

    The rich can easily exploit the political system and lobby for favorable laws = Not only is it pay to win, the devs suck the dicks of their biggest whales

    • @[email protected]
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      331 year ago

      It’s pay to win, where if you pay enough, the devs will add customized cheats that only work for you.

    • I Cast Fist
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      131 year ago

      Whistleblowing corruption is dangerous and might often end in persecution against the whistleblower = Reporting cheating whales is a surefire way to get yourself banned

      The wealth inequality gap is mind-boggling = You’d need to grind nonstop for a total of 5 billion hours to buy one of everything on the cash shop

  • IndiBrony
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    521 year ago

    I haven’t been here long but I imagine c/outside exists?

      • @[email protected]
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        431 year ago

        I think they meant the sub where life is treated like a game, a very poorly designed game (almost as if there was no Designer, just people).

        Things like, “I’m level 18, should I spec my character into the biochem, robotics, or software guild?”

        Or “What’s the cheat code for an affordable surgery?”

        You get the idea. Life’s a game. And it sucks. Stupid devs.

        • paraphrand
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          281 year ago

          I wish they would properly announce the UFO DLC already. All we have is rumors and hearsay.

          • Pseu
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            151 year ago

            I’m personally of the opinion that the hints aren’t for the UFO expansion, but it’s probably teasers for the World War 3 event, combined with camera artefacts and general player secrecy.

            It’s sad too. Everyone wants some good new DLC. All this PvP shit is getting out of hand. :(

        • IndiBrony
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          101 year ago

          Affordable surgery is exclusive to the European servers, it seems.

      • I Cast Fist
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        61 year ago

        They probably spend too much time outside to bother with it ;)

  • @[email protected]
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    261 year ago

    How could the creator of the image miss the opportunity for it to say “we live in a society”

  • @[email protected]
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    191 year ago

    This thread got me thinking, do we have a replacement for r/outside on Lemmy? That sub was pretty entertaining at times

  • @[email protected]
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    161 year ago

    If the downvoters want to buy more votes mine only costs $500. You can send you money to the nearest food pantry or food bank.

  • Sonotsugipaa
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    121 year ago

    Promises of infinite exponential capital growth => Feature creep

  • Lemmygradwontallowme [any]
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    1 year ago

    This is reformist language at best…

    Edit: Sorry for my harsh words. It’s just … the raw urgency and essence of the original criticisms here have just been squeezed out when converted into gamer-code language…

    • Orcocracy [comrade/them]
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      41 year ago

      Yeah the consumerist rhetoric in game reviews (and the entire technology press more broadly) dooms all of their attempts at analysis to be extremely shallow. Maybe one day a journalist will pay attention in one of their media studies classes and read the fucking Adorno reading that one of their teachers assigned, but that day has not yet come.