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Honestly to me it seems like nothing has actually changed, except the names of the teams behind critically acclaimed games.
Like, your point about being an indie developer being hard is, well, just ask anyone who was making indie games 1, 2, or even 3 decades ago. It's always been a lottery where 1-3 games a year hit it big and the rest can only barely fund themselves.
Though I do think you have a good point about asking what PP considers AAA. Something I've noticed is that there's a bunch of people who, for whatever reason, see some big AAA release and act like it's not AAA because it's the first time they've heard of the studio / publisher. BG3 is the most obvious example of this (~400 people from my search). Expedition 33 also outsourced a ton of it's work so it also gets paraded around as "only 30 devs!". It's especially frustrating that people will call these games a "wake up call" for AAA studios as if it's not a huge risk.
Though I don't think EA (and from what I've seen Ubisoft) dying this slow death is a herald of the industry at large dying. We're seeng a lot more publishers that try to carve out their own little corner of the industry, such as NewBlood, Iron Gate, Hooded Horse, and as you mention Kepler. They're funding and releasing plenty of successful titles. I think there's space for, and already space taken, for various publishers to fill the same position as EA did in it's prime.
You also seem to take this argument that these megapublishers are a prerequisite to having people with proper gamedev skills? As I see it, that's either not changing, is effecting nearly every industry in NA & EU, or just not a thing. Valve, for example, when making Half Life, realized their game sucked when they were most of the way through development because they were learning as they went. So they scrapped most of what they built and what they remade is what we know as HL1, and that's well over 2 decades ago. To my understanding Sandfall did a similar thing with E33 but what I saw on the subject might have been embellished and/or I'm misremembering.
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Expedition 33 is a game I finished a couple weeks ago and have continued to be obsessed with since. Not really patientgamers material seeing as it's pretty recent, but I'm so glad I made an exception for it.
Funnily enough the lyrics for that menu music is basically a plot synopsis that spoils the whole story in poetry, but it's fine because it's in a mutated medieval french. A lot of the game's music is like that, actually.
To me it looks very strongly like what they used is one of the models that is specifically for iterpolating frames to splice takes together, and (maybe) the one of the ones that "cleans up" speech.
What this reminds me of though is when kamala did an interview with 60 minutes, and for whatever reason a ton of conservatives kept shitting on them for not releasing an unedited version... as if she said something scandalous or extremist in the cut out portions. This strikes me the same way because if you actually consider what you'd do with full proof this was mostly or fully AI generated, there's not much?
- it would reveal he's too sick to be in office
- I don't think this would be the tipping point for anybody. You're either already aware / care or in denial / don't care
- it shows trump doesn't actually care
- I don't think he ever really did with any of the previous times. the trump statement with or without AI would look exactly the same in this regard
- it shows they're willing to sacrifice [issue with AI] just for a press statement
- they'll say this themselves happily
I would agree if we were in a Hollow Knight or metroidvania community, but as it appears to me this thread visited TheBat just as much as they visited this thread.
What could they have done to not see this thread? Keyword blocking won't work, because skong is only referenced in the image, unfollowing / blocking the community has a huge blast radius because it's the highly generic /c/memes. Etc.
At some point you just exhasperatedly blurt out that you don't care as much as people are assuming you do. I agree that it's annoying to hear that too, it's a bit hipsterish, and it's mostly unwarranted given the low stakes. But I sympathize with it.
Is that not a relevant thing to say?
Not OP, so I don't necessarily feel this way about skong, but have you ever had your feed filled with discussion of something that you just don't care about? And then you go talk to your friends and they're also talking about it? Then you talk to a relative and they're asking you what all the fuss is about? All while you give 0 shits about it?
I've been there, and it's easy to just get plain annoyed at the subject coming up, even if innocuously. It's the real life equivalent of squidward tuning into boxing because it's not about cardboard boxes, only to be greeted with 2 cardboard boxes going at it.
And if you're somehow in doubt that skong has satuarated discussion everywhere
To me, "visceral" is actually a pretty apt word to describe the feeling. A visceral feeling is one that isn't arrived at through deliberate thought, rather something that our brain / body just decides on it's own. I think it's fair to say that people's sexualities on the grander scale are largely out of their control, i.e. you don't "choose" to be gay / straight / whatever, which makes sexuality inherently visceral.
Based on that, I don't think anyone should be ashamed for being disgusted by otherwise tame sexual behavior, especially if they have a higher level awareness of what's going on (as OP & PP appear to). Where it's a problem is if that's used as justification to be hateful or -phobic towards other people, because that's no longer visceral.
One of the most annoying parts of online dating is the fact that there are a ton of profles that treat the textboxes as though their ordering pizza (mataphorically). Like they'll use the first box to say that you must like cats, the second to say that you should have a moustache and the third to say you need to be adventurous, as if the point is to type in your ideal mate and have them materialize at a local park for you to meet.
I used to do it with a pair of headphones as a teenager. There was (and still is, thinking about it) enough of a gap between my first and second premolars to fit a cord. It's like the same appeal as a fidget cube, only not healthy.
edit: premolars not molars
Oh I definitely notice. When I try to suck up the buccatini like it's spaghetti it'll make some disguting mouth noises and I'm left with full lungs and half a mouthful of pasta dangling out of my mouth.
I'm curious what games you're playing. Back when I started using linux regularly (~2017) this was absolutely the case, and even for a few years after proton first released it still was. But my experience now is games fall on either two extremes of working out of the box or being completly unplayable.
I'm curious what games you're playing. Back when I started using linux regularly (~2017) this was absolutely the case, and even for a few years after proton first released it still was. But my experience now is games fall on either two extremes of working out of the box or being completly unplayable.
I believe AI is going to be a net negative to society for the forseeable future. AI art is a blight on artistry as a concept, and LLMs are shunting us further into search-engine-overfit post-truth world.
But also:
Reading the OOP has made me a little angry. You can see the echo chamber forming right before your eyes. Either you see things the way OOP does with no nuance, or you stop following them and are left following AI hype-bros who'll accept you instead. It's disgustingly twitter-brained. It's a bullshit purity test that only serves your comfort over actually trying to convince anyone of anything.
Consider someone who has had some small but valued usage of AI (as a reverse dictionary, for example), but generally considers things like energy usage and intellectual property rights to be serious issues we have to face for AI to truly be a net good. What does that person hear when they read this post? "That time you used ChatGPT to recall the word 'verisimilar' makes you an evil person." is what they hear. And at that moment you've cut that person off from ever actually considering your opinion ever again. Even if you're right that's not healthy.
Of those that remain, those who disapprove of erotic furry content that features species-accurate genitals, which is the threshold VISA was in, and is too spicy for some lemmings. I don't fully understand why this is a subcategory.
This one actually makes the second most sense to me out of the ones listed (first being explicit sex of course). To a lot of people who aren't furries, at least in the horny sense, the emphasis put on making the genitals resemble those of real animals is a clear connection to bestiality. In order to care, you have to know, and to know you have to spend a lot of time looking at animal dicks (or spend time with people who do).
To make my point, ask yourself how you feel about other fetishes / kinks with similar properties. For example, consider ABDL. It's a fetish that uses fairly direct references to being way too young for sex despite being adults, much like the animal dicks directly invoking, well, sucking animal dick despite not being an animals. There are tons of people who see that and immediately think it's for pedos. Though, weirdly enough, many those same people don't have nearly that much of an issue with various more mild but more realized forms of neoteny in porn (the industry's obssession with 18-19yo girls springs to mind).
For what it's worth I'm not really in that group (consentual adults yada yada), but I did have that gut reaction when I first encountered it.
I'd have to subtly disagree with this. It is really good advice, especially when the scope of your game is larger than what one could reasonably finish in a game jam; If you can't get to a fun game in a couple of days or less, you need documentation as to what your plan is to get there.
The problem is that this is the best advice for someone who has the technical "hard" skills to make a game (compsci, digital art, etc.), but lacks the "soft"er skills (software eng., scheduling, etc). To be fair that is super common, but the OP implies to me they're not confident that they have the technical skills either yet.
Without either of those skills you can't know what'll take a couple of days or what's actually weeks of work, and the value you get out of design docs becomes effectively random.
The common advice that I'd have to agree with is that your first few games should be as small of a scope as you can make them. Other comments to this post already go into detail, but the jist is that when you're starting the amount you learn is more per-project than per-hour, so get out as many small things as possible to get your bearings.
Once you've done that, this is really good advice for your first sizeable project.
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Uhh... I think we might be reading different posts? OP has stated he's already separated from his wife, not that he's considering doing so. Also the thing about romantic/sexual exchange thing seems unlikely to me from what's been said; men who think like that tend to not stay in one relationship for 3 decades.
I'm pretty sure that form of meta doesn't actually have anything to do with the prefix/adjective. In games it's just an acronym for "most effective tactic available" i.e. in your example the first strategy would be called "the meta" until the second one came along.
edit: I realize you kinda mention acronym thing at the end of your comment. Not originating from the prefix "meta-" is my main point though.
From seeing discussions among those Zelda fans (which to be clear I am not one), the issue is that the mainline games are now a completely different genre, but treated as though it's the natural progression of the series.
The classic zelda games are primarily puzzle games, with a little bit of combat and intricate hand-crafted exploration to spice it up a bit. The modern zelda games (BOTW & TOTK) are exploration games with puzzles to spice it up. If you were a classic zelda fan, the niche genre you loved used to have regular releases by a major developer and now doesn't.
Plus, there's a "all my homies hate skrillex" effect here; the series is massively more popular now, but the newcomers have a different idea of what makes a zelda game a zelda game. By sheer numbers they dominate a community that is now reshaped by their presence. In other words the zelda fan community is itself a different genre.
For what it's worth, I haven't played that much of the series. Link to the Past I didn't care much for, Links Awakening (new one) I honestly hated, and BOTW I liked but had a couple issues with. All I've written above is based on passively seeing a bunch of discussion.
Gotta turn it into another king. Double protection, double liability!