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Games you've given honest tries for and just don't find fun
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Captain Aggravated @sh.itjust.works 8小时前
Granted, Obra Dinn's pacing problem wasn't about dialog. It was...You find a corpse, click, a musical sting plays, you get a few seconds of audio play, and then you see in glorious monochrome dithering the aftermath, and then you're stuck there for the exact amount of time that some music plays. If you immediately learned something, you can't do anything about it. If you learn a piece of information that puts something you saw earlier in a new context and you want to go back and look at it, you can't do anything about it. If you're not done looking when the music is over, you'll clunkily have to come back in here. And woe betide you if there's another corpse in that scene and you end up doing like five of them in a row.

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Captain Aggravated @sh.itjust.works 8小时前

I discovered it through its soundtrack. I was listening to West of Loathing's soundtrack on Youtube, which was partially or entirely done by the same artist who did WTWTLW's, so I got recommended some videos, looked up what it was, decided to give it a try, and...maybe if someone implements it for Apple II or some other machine that physically cannot support voice acting so we can dispense with the pretentiousness.

To port over a semantic argument from elsewhere on Lemmy:

You know the phrase "own the means of production?" A phrase I've been taught to associate with communism is "the workers shall own the means of production."

Well, 'the workers' means 'the people', and 'the people' means 'the public', and anything owned by 'the public' is actually owned by 'the government' and 'the government' is controlled by 'the elites.' Which is why any communist nation falls immediately to despotism, the instant you actually form your communist government the elites are in 100% control.

I've argued with someone on here before on the difference between a free market economy and capitalism. I was taught in a free market economy, private individuals own the means of production. An individual has his tools, he works, and trades goods or services to others at prices set by the laws of supply and demand. Under capitalism, capitalists own the means of production, a capitalist is a wealthy individual who invests that wealth - or capital - in ventures with an aim to make a profit. The boss owns the tools and pays workers a wage. The American system has sloshed around between those two extremes since the industrial revolution, periods like the early 20th century trusts and robber barons and...now, where large corporations headed by a very few very wealthy individuals own basically everything, and periods like the 50's and 90's when smaller startups in exciting new fields were springing up. The former are the closest we come to the elites owning the means of production, and it tends to be a terrible time to be alive for the average citizen, the latter are the closest I think humanity has come to "the people" meaning individuals at large actually owning the means of production.

Neither system "lifted millions out of poverty." Neither capitalism or communism has the means or motive to do that. Industrialization did that. Turns out, improving the reliability and quality of food, water, tools and medicine increases the population's standard of living.