> write successful game

> get laid off

Then look at the other sources.

Are you seriously using alts to cross-post?

And so we find ourselves in the absurd position where Democratic leadership, in the form of Jeffries and Schumer, treats an ongoing coup like an inconvenient scheduling conflict. Their response to democracy’s crisis amounts to little more than checking Robert’s Rules of Order to see if authoritarianism requires a two-thirds majority.

Sick burn. And a bit depressing.

This feels like a generational gap, but I’m not sure if progressives have enough power to fight it. And in our current age, the only ones with the appetite to fight with more violent means are on the side of the authoritarians.

The disconnect is real between the games “journalists” and the YouTubers who actually played the game:

• GmanLives
• JuiceHead
• ACG
• Luke Stephens
• MrMattyPlays

What the fuck is up with all of these glowing opinions, just from the large games “journalists” sites? Are they getting paid by Obsidian?

This is looking like another Outer Worlds or Starfield situation. Hype the shit about it, make sure the major sites give it high scores, and then months later, when people actually play it, the scorn and mid-ness of the game is too hard to ignore.

we are dealing with an administration that thinks an ethnic cleanse of Palestinians to set up a resort city sounds like a safe idea

Right. Psychopaths.

How do you force psychopaths to care about somebody else’s POV? You can’t!

WE LEAVE X! WE POST MESSAGE! YOU READ CONTENT!

Yo, verb conjugations are a thing.

Even if it was a huge protest, the psychopaths in charge will walk over their backs and casually walk into the capitol.

Protests don’t do shit because you cannot convince people who don’t feel emotion to suddenly care about your situation. They only care about self-enrichment, power, and self-preservation. Do you have enough political capital or leverage to influence a politician?

Maybe if you threaten their sense of self-preservation, you might cause them to notice.

World of Warcraft has battle pets that you can capture by throwing cages at them and then train and fight them against other battle pets.

Which is arguable a more realistic representation of what Pokemon represents: slavery.

You implied it with the phrase “when Google can’t pay for YouTube anymore”.

You honestly think a massive corporation that can’t afford the costs of its own operation could be replaced by a couple of scrappy individuals who absolutely, definitely cannot afford the costs of its own operation?

This is an incredibly condescending headline, directed at the wrong party. They had every right to blame Funko.

AI could have been a decent bridge for indie developers to fill in holes in their talent pool with something that was halfway decent. After all, if you have two developers, and none of them are good at art or voice acting, maybe they can put enough time and effort to produce actually good AI images and voice work. It wouldn’t be a substitute for real artists and voice actors, but at least they can have something where they previously had nothing. Or artists that use the tech for getting a starting design, and use their own talents for producing the final picture. Or musicians getting a starting idea, etc., etc.

The problem is that all we seeing are billion dollar companies spending even less effort to save money. These companies think they can rush their people into spending five minutes on an AI image, and whoopsie, there’s an obviously bad AI image with 6 fingers and weird background objects.

This technology is not for them. They have the money to spend on this shit. It should be for the people, but now there’s so much bad rep from corpos that it’s ruining it for everybody.

The actual CCG they had was miles better than the one in Witcher 3 as well. I miss that game.

Because it’s true.

is that it’s a video (and that long) when the information could have been more succintly and practically displayed in a text tutorial or a blog format. Basically “this could have been an e-mail”.

Or it’s a lot of information to digest and an “e-mail” or blog article would have been too long and visually-unappealing to properly convey the information. Videos have words, pictures, and sounds. Even if it was in article form, they just want it so that they can skim parts of it, and pretend to read it, while not digesting a damn thing. Why bother with actually reading anything when you can shove it in an AI summarizer and get the best possible summary that takes 5 seconds to read?

Not to mention that way people avoid having to go to YT which is yet another cesspit community-wise.

It entirely depends on the channels you watch. All of the comments I read on the channels I follow are fine. I don’t know what other people are having a problem with, but maybe they shouldn’t be following Mr. Beast or Logan Paul bullshit.

The problem is the lack of auto-hiding of comments like this. Normally, on a Reddit thread, this would be buried and shunted to a “click here to read the stupid ass bullshit that one idiot wrote and got downvoted into literal Hell” link.

Please, give me that in Lemmy, instead of having to always look at the abysmal score at every comment.

On one hand it’s nice that Mastodon doesn’t have ads, and people usually don’t share bullshit, but does that logically result in attracting users who shit on someone for sharing a YouTube video, because sometimes other videos on YouTube are bad?

I have lost count the amount of times I’ve shared a YT video on Lemmy, and people bitch about the fact that they have to spend 15-60 minutes watching it, or immediately ask for some TL;DR about it. Like, I’m curating content for you, sharing a video I liked among the other videos that you probably didn’t like, and people just want to universally shit on the format because of that one bad experience from two years ago when they dared to go to the web site for 5 minutes.

People love to shit on TikTok, but secretly, that’s the length of content a majority of this audience wants, and it’s dumb. If you don’t want to devolve into a TikToker, then watch longer videos and don’t bitch when somebody asks you to watch a video for 10 minutes. If you don’t like it after a few minutes in, fine, go watch something else.

That seems less than ideal. And yet, here we are with it being way more popular than Mastodon.

Were people really that damn confused over “which instance do I join”?

They tried. Starbound didn’t do all that great. Granted, it’s been 10 years.