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Everything with every Trump-branded company/product. All failures. Though probably most impressive was "Trump University". I honestly don't know if he has more of bankruptcy or felonies. Thinking felonies. But regardless, he's got more of both than like anyone.
This. So much this. And I want to break it down a bit and give my own experiences.
Years ago, I was teaching my then-girlfriend how to change her oil. We were broke 20-somethings, so paying for a place to do it was a costly option. She was kinda "meh" on the idea but went with it. The moment she really got into it, though, was when a random guy walked by and was so happy seeing a woman learning how to take care of cars and how he wished his girl would learn that. She got a sense of pride from it, and afterwards, when she realised she did it herself and saved a bunch of money... she was very proud of herself. Rightfully so.
A (former) friend of mine had bought her first house just a couple of years ago. (Kinda wish she hadn't because the house is in rough shape, but then again, the rental market is maybe in a worse shape... only time will tell). Anywho, I visit her, and she shows me the house. Not a single smoke detector anywhere in the house. No fire extinguishers anywhere. And in the living room, there was this fancy light fixture that was controlled by a dimmer switch... that was extremely hot. I think it was 6-8 bulbs (don't recall) and each was 120w incandescent lightbulb... all through a dimmer. Unsure when the previous owner did that, but that's a decent way to eventually cause a fire. The dimmer switch was literally hot to the touch. She knew it was hot, but didn't really think anything of it. I took us to Home Depot/Menards/Fleet Farm (I don't recall which exactly) and bought her a bunch of smoke detectors, extinguishers, and a new dimmer switch, which I installed, and we removed half the bulbs. Believe I also gave her a GFCI tester and told her to test every receptacle in the house.
Back in high school, I took a small engines course because I wanted to better know how engines really worked outside of a book. My station partner was a girl I knew (who lived a few houses down from me). One day I realised I was hogging everything (teardown and rebuild) and apologised and pushed everything to her. She pushed it back, said her brothers would do anything she ever needed, and she just wanted an easy course. (While this is not important to the story, it was a very unattractive move on her part, which did alter how I saw her, which, a few years later, when she asked me out, I rejected her.) Another course I took, which was an intro to welding, there was a girl who thought I'd do her work for her. I took to acetylene welding right away, which seemed to be the hardest for everyone else (hence why she picked me). Instead, I told her I'd help teach her, which she took me up on. The unbridled joy and pride when she got an A on her welding test... (a memory that leaves with me).
Final story, I was in college, and my roommate was a loser. He had no fucking idea how to cook. He tried to make Mac and Cheese once and didn't know how to boil water. He had no idea how the washer/dryer worked. His mom asked if I'd teach him. And I did try, but he had no plans to learn; he'd rather drive the 2-3 hours back home to make his mom do his laundry. Or if he couldn't make it that week, he'd just buy new clothes.
All kids should be taught all sorts of basic skills. And frankly, a bunch of adults could stand to learn things too. Example, do you know what an anode rod is? If not, I'm guessing you've been skipping out on maintenance. Do you know if your heater is gas/electric? And which one has a pilot light? Do you have a spare tire? Where is it? Have you ever used the jack on your car before? What are jumper cables and do you have some? How do they work and how do you use them correctly? Every adult should be able to answer all these questions and more.
Actually, what you said unlocked a memory. Though I don't know if it falls in line with the Gameranx video (I'll have to go watch that) or your sentiment. But the 'Players need that catharsis and pay off for all their efforts or else it inevitably starts to feel pointless rather than fun.' immediately made me think of the first Shadow of Mordor game. It was a great game, undone by a QTE final boss.
But yeah, so many of these games just don't go anywhere. To your point, the live service games. It's not 100% with what I intended, but I feel it ends up in the same area.... I'm spending all these hours... what am I accomplishing? What's the point of all of this? It's just endless padding with endless travel time, side quests, and anything that requires you to wait real time for the quest to progress. Dailies in WoW, were my WoW killer. Some people saw it as "easy gold"; I saw it as non-content meant to drive daily engagement but not actually accomplish anything in the game. It's all just padding for extra "engagement" or to make a game seem bigger than it is (or should be).
I'll break down some of the issues I had with the games I listed for better context. And I'll front this with, I know you don't have to do side missions. It's more like, you realise instead of giving you a tight, compact story that's well crafted, they spent too much time padding it out so it appears to be a bigger game. CP2077, the main story is absolutely dwarfed by all the side content. The main quest line is like... ~35 missions? There are like 70+ "gigs" and the same for "side missions". The main story is the thing you do the least. With missing mechanics, I can't help but think it would have been more interesting if it were done in a more linear fashion like Deus Ex Human Revolution. Instead of a giant city that's mostly empty boxes (the buildings aren't buildings) and padded out with side quests. Skyrim, the thing that killed it for me, was just how pathetically easy it was to become the leader of the various groups/factions. It felt so unearned. I can only take being handed "wins" left and right because I'm the fucking chosen one... before it's just dull. It was Medieval Idiocracy. I could have just started learning spells and they're ready to give me the college because I'm the smartest person they've ever seen. Brawndo, it's what Dragonborns crave. And Hogwarts, walking around the castle, was the best part. It felt magical and alive. Some of the puzzles were fun. But the classes were boring tutorial sections, and the main thing you do in the game is LEAVE Hogwarts to go do unspeakable things in non-descript burrows and dungeons scattered all over the place. That game has 15 main quests, 21 side quests. 95 Merlin Trials....
The tl;dr: An easy way to look at it, CP2077, Hogwarts, and Expedition 33 have similar playtime for just the main quest (per howlongtobeat.com, ~26-28 hours). But how it feels to play the game is drastically different. One had a story to tell and a point to get to, and it does that. The others made a world with a whole bunch of other stuff to do.
Alright, I'll limit it to just pet peeves.
Tutorial sections that just suck. Some don't explain enough, others treat you like you've never played a game in your life. Or, when they interrupt you to explain a mechanic in great detail, but it's too much of an info dump, and you're just left wondering wtf they just said. One game that I really liked how they did it was BG3. There's a tutorial, but you can also turn it off on future runs. Worst tutorial I think I've ever seen was Xenoblade 2.
Games (and really any consumable media) that just don't know when to end. There are very few games I've completed, mostly because I get bored. The game overstayed it's welcome and I'm done. The grind isn't worth the final boss fight or whatever is at the end. Generally, it's because games (especially RPGs) think grinding is a "fun" mechanic when it's more of an imbalanced game. Take, for example, Expedition 33, not once in that game do you need to run around grinding levels. You can successfully go through the entire game, only going to each stage once. Fucking fantastic. But then you have games that just went too far with things. Some games, like Skyrim, CP2077, (especially) Hogwarts Legacy, I only know the ending to those games because other people beat them. Ex33 I got 52/55 achievements (just need to win the gestral games and find whatever record I missed). I beat that game entirely in 74 hours. My first run of BG3 (53/54 achievements, only missing the bard one, because I think it's boring), first playthrough was maybe 120 hours (currently over 700 due to multiple playthroughs). Skyrim... 146 hours... 27/75 achievements. CP2077, 133 hours, 18/57 achievements. Hogwarts sits at 50 hours with 19/45 achievements (that game should be a 20-hour game at most).
Games that don't really respect your time. This one, Nintendo does a lot. Actually perfect example is Breath of the Wild. It's a giant fuck off world that's mostly empty, peppered largely with the same enemies throughout the whole thing. You have a weapon mechanic that encourages you NOT to fight (just get some good weapons and head off to exactly where you need to go). The cooking is bullshit, no recipe book, no making a bunch of something, a stupid cutscene every time. And the entire poop joke... like getting 20 for a poop joke would already be too much, but collecting 900 with (IIRC) no fucking way to track them.. Or the fact that the way Nintendo expects you to get arrows is to grind out rupees to buy them. And the exploits used to get arrows or rupees quickly, in a single player game, they actively tried to patch out. That's just one game, Nintendo does this on SO MANY GAMES, which actually pushed me to "fuck Nintendo" and I didn't buy and won't buy a Switch 2.
Some games are combos of these. One game I really like, but I always hit a wall is Satisfactory. Once I get to trains/aluminum, it's just not fun anymore for me. I work 40-80 hours a week (sometimes I work 5x12s and 8ish hours Sat/Sun)(only sometimes, usually closer to 50 hours a week)... so all the extra planning and time to making a factory... like I just don't have the fucking time. Same thing with Dune Awakening. The first zone was the best. Getting your first Orni wasn't too bad, but it was already starting to push it. Having to fucking pay taxes in a game... Oddly, it was about the time I was farming up aluminum, I quit that game too. Maybe I have a pet peeve with aluminum in video games...
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This is why we emulate
Wait, Super Mario Galaxy came out almost two decades ago!? Fuck me. I need to just stop using the internet, this shit just makes me feel old.
It's a bad label that.
Taking two words and just ramming them together, instead of using the plethora of words are our disposal, doesn't really work in English and probably translates poorly to other languages. All of a sudden, vegan doesn't mean vegan anymore. Dictionaries and thesauruses exist. There are thousands of people who have degrees in English, in writing, in journalism. We don't need to reduce the English language to clickbait words. Because "AI" and "vegan" sound like SEO terms.
At best, if someone hears that, they're going to think, "What, they don't like AI-generated cows?". They'll write it off as stupid. And then you have folks that just see the word vegan, and then they're just done listening. It muddies both terms. And in both cases, it'll largely be viewed as a fringe trend that people who spend too much time online are doing, and it'll likely die off as trends do.
It becomes less a movement/stance/voice, and more "that thing kids put on their social media for a few months because they were all about it for that one summer". It's like if someone said "I'm a racist vegan"... Has a lot less punch than "fuck racism"
And with the help of Valve, it'll continue to get better. Hoping companies like EPIC also take note and really start adding things to Unreal to really push Vulcan and Linux. Like, I don't want a monopoly or anything, but if big companies make big moves towards supporting Linux, others will follow. ( I know Unreal supports Linux, I'm talking like actively pushing tech, support, pushing for games to be compiled for linux, pushing for native code and not needing compatibility layers, etc.)
you can fail upwards, con people and still get out filthy rich.
Only if you con the poors. If you con someone who's rich or "powerful", then you get punished.
I have the absolute most respect for any whistleblower. I dread to imagine what kind of world we'd be in w/o them. Example, Snowden.
You didn't really offer any insight as to why you moved on...
In "all ways" also appears to include any age (with a preference for the younger). And the comments he's made about his daughter, incest might also be on the table.
I hate this mentality.
"You did a thing, you knew what was going to happen" is victim-blaming. It's increasingly hard NOT to buy a device that has some bullshit tech pushed into it, or AI pushed into it. And I'd bet there was nothing on the sales floor about eventual ads.
I hope they win the lawsuit.
I have a feeling it was the oh-so-popular "0 tolerance" policy that she was punished and he wasn't. Because the policy didn't cover what he did. And schools these days love to avoid accountability or being adults when it matters.
It's saddening to me how many times I've actually come across this in production.
Just because the code works doesn't mean it should ship.
I'm not going to apologize or feel bad because of your weak blood. I'll wear shorts until it's actually cold.
I played this with two friends. The progression system is just awful. So we got through the full campaign once and it was fine honestly. Then we were kind of hyped to try going through it again, it was all right definitely harder. And then the third time around we just gave up cuz it was clear that they're just wasn't that much game to play, and the enemy is just become bullet sponges and you either grind endlessly to try to level up and gain unknown amounts of power if its power at all.
Intermultiplayer sessions we did have a few epic moments won't lie. But the cost just wasn't worth it. And those thin offset the issues that we had.
Did you play it solo or with people? I found the game to be fairly dull solo. It was better with people but the loot system still allowed a lot to be desired especially if you played with greedy people.
I was going with Beetleborgs
I'll take the blood one.
I think it'd be fun just to freak out some people. I would have gone with the eye one but I'm always wearing sunglasses, so would be wasted on me.