If a random visitor visits your website and they see a weird anime girl drawing talking about security, what is the chance of them just bouncing away afraid that it is a virus or an unsafe website? I’d say it’s definitely higher than 0%.

I’d say this game will be dead in less than a year. Reasons being:

1. It was stuck in development hell without a clear vision for 5+ years. I had playtest access since 2021/2022, and from the few times I bothered checking it out: It was originally called project fate, and it was originally supposed to be a moba. Then it pitched into a pvpve match based game with random maps. Then it shifted into fully pve for a bit, then it shifted again to a battleroyale-esque extraction game (and that’s what it is today).

2. I last checked the game after they had decided on its current form, and it’s at best an okay game. There’s nothing even remotely unique or new about it. There’s no creative vision, there’s no soul. The team behind this set out to make a live service game (probably f2p as well), and were triying to follow market trends for years.

3. There was a similar game with 10x popularity, marketing and polish, it was called Supervive. Developed by ex-riot devs, hailed as the next big thing before it truly came out. That game died in a year after release. There’s just not enough interest for this style of game, and this one goes a step further by being an extraction looter on top of the moba battleroyale. It’s a mish-mash of genres looking for an audience.

4. There’s another similar game that’ll be coming out soon that seems way better managed and developed, with a clear vision: Arkheron. That game will probably eat away all of this game player base once it comes out. Although Arkheron is not an extraction looter at all, but it still is a moba style arpg battleroyale game.

5. The game barely has marketing and reach.

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Oh, I know that. But that is more of the upper-middle class people, and they’re just a fraction, less than 5% of the population. A lot of people who see themselves as middle-class (but are in reality just poor as well), especially those that have a car and an apartment and think that this means they are middle class, actually fell for the whole propaganda machine. They have been made to believe they have things to lose if “”“communism”“” wins in Brazil (where in reality they’d stood only to benefit). And they’re uneducated enough to see the reality. As someone who taught at private schools, it’s insane that people pay thousands a month for a shitty education that only teaches their kids to be mindless drones working for the corporations. Entire generations paying to learn how not to think for themselves, they are taught to repeat some patterns like a monkey. These are also the ones voting for this shit now as well. And their parents who had no proper education either.

The craziest part is that if it was the left that was pushing for the son of a former-president as the new president, they would all be going crazy saying that “they want to turn the country into a monarchy again!!!”. But I guess not expecting double standards from the far right is truly pointless.

One of the best comedy animes, but the manga became more about romance later down the line. Still good though.

People have already given you good advice, so I’ll give you a less than stellar advice: don’t become statistics, every year lots of people kill themselves due to their work or die of overworking in Japan and nobody gives a fuck. You’re not the wrong person here, so why would you suffer by yourself? If you’re fucked either way and has nothing else to lose, do something real about it. I saw your comments about getting sued, does it matter? Bro, you were considering taking your own life, justice matters more. If you think you still have shit to lose, then don’t even entertain taking your own life.

With your backend skills in golang, is there any business you can start on your own? Do you guys have savings that would allow you to live for a while without your main work? Don’t give up, bro. As long as there’s still some alternatives, keep going. And, please, if you and your wife truly do love each other, go talk to her about this.

That’s the future of Latin America under the USA. If Flávio Bolsonaro wins here in Brazil, we’ll be the next ones on the chopping block.

Most people don’t truly want the far right agenda. However, the right controls almost all of the media. The biggest master play of the right was realizing early that shit like Facebook had a lot of potential for propaganda. While the biggest fuck up of the left all over the world was not banning foreign-owned and controlled social media before it became too big to just block it. China did the obvious correct thing: don’t allow foreign powers to control the media in your country. Since then, we have been fighting a losing war.

I still have windows on my work computer, it prompted me to install 26h2 yesterday, so I did. Immediately, windows explorer started showing buggy behavior. Win+tab flickers on and off repeatedly, explorer restarts itself… Fucking hell, and then they say AI code is good.

I always wonder what they mean about personalized music. Is it like “I’m in the mood today to listen to a dark blues song… Make the lyrics about my dead dog ben in the style of _”?

Is there anyone who’d prefer that than to listen to real music made by another human that had similar feelings (of grief maybe) as you are feeling right now? To me, at least, a big point of art is being able to share and connect with others.

As someone from a tropical climate area, every time I read this I chuckle. Mints will die if you look at them wrong for a split second here.

What would you like them to do about your personal problem? Veto games? Curate only the most hyped of games and give no chance to smaller devs or crazy niche projects? Choosing what to buy is your problem, their problem is making sure that games that might interest you (and other consumers) get the visibility they need. Bad games still fall into genre, and it’s the consumer’s responsibility/right to decide for themselves what is a good or bad game.

Millions of kids love Roblox, to me, that game looks and is utter garbage. But would I want Steam/platforms to say what is good? Not really.

This looks ass (and not the good kind). It has AI slop all over for me, that first line by the girl driving the bus is uncanny. Honestly, this looks so bad that I’m not even sure if it’s AI.

Your memory is limited, things that are not essential will get thrown away. Books you’ve read as a child are core memories, things that shaped you up to be who you are today. Something you’ve read as entertainment/habit the last few months is just not as important. The plot? Yes, important, so your brain keeps it. Names? Nah, that can be forgotten most of the time. It’s a “perk” of being a biological entity of blood and flesh, with a brain that works in mysterious ways, but can somehow store huge amounts of information.

It’s a giant crosswalk… It’s at least twice the size of the planter.

There’s a somewhat blurry line between freedom and responsibility, but allowing for the exploitation of your fellow humans is clearly not a freedom we need. This is not a ban on gambling, it’s a ban on gambling websites that only exist to exploit people. If you want to gamble in the bar in front of your house with your mates, you’re free to do it.

Um dos maiores crimes que a direita fez contra o nosso país. Viramos um antro de viciados, e vai demorar décadas para esse vício ser revertido mesmo com essa legislação passando. Isso se não vier mais um maluco da direita e liberar as bets de novo. Tô esperando pra ver quando os tais dos predictions markets, que já são populares lá pelos EUA, vão chegar por aqui disfarçados de “não-bet”.

Edit: esqueci de terminar o raciocínio rs

Yeah, I don’t blame the biker, but I was very surprised how he didn’t react at all to the guy, not even grabbing onto him so that he couldn’t easily throw him down.

Oh this explains a lot. Recently Wuxia World announced that its original founder bought back the company/website from Tapas, and I was wondering why considering it seemed to be doing fine (ww was doing fine). But it seems Tapas might not have been.

A few years ago I used to read TBATE on tapas, and even regularly spent some money on Ink, and it was fine because it was a first party publishing directly to there. But then I later tried to read a manhwa (Lightning Decree) and they managed to have a far slower update rate than the unofficial translation. Like, several dozen chapters behind. And also the translations were not that good, clearly made by someone who had no context of what they were translating, just a general knowledge of the language.

Murdered*