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I don’t believe they will even release SQ42 by that date, less alone the MMO. I knew the online part has ‘issues’, to put it mildly, but I really thought I’d live to at least get a decent singleplayer game out of my passionate backing more than a fucking decade ago

I mean 50% off and still being $40 still sounds like a terrible deal

I tried it a few months ago but had issues with various games and lowered performance in almost all of them. I still don’t know if I will just cave in and upgrade to win11 or try linux again, i’ve got a free partition waiting but the issue is lack of time and motivation to dive into troubleshooting the OS on a daily basis

Oh I empathize with that. I tried unity/godot and code part would always be fun and easy, I love that… models, assets, animations break my brain however. I wish I could just not bother with them but it’s such an important part of the experience, arguably the most important one

Making a system like this one day is my dream. I’m not in game dev and I’m probably never going to make a playable game but I naively believe that if you organize this well enough in advance, the moment it starts clicking together would be amazing. If you define all the individual actors in a flexible enough way, eventually the simulation should just ‘click’ and start functioning on its own, right? :P

For example, you dont need to code the specific wolves+rain interaction - you just need to code “if vulnerable/tired - find shelter” and have rain affect the living creatures in that way. It doesn’t matter if there are deer or sheep in the area, “if wolf hungry” logic should just say “find something with meat to eat nearby”.

Then again I know enough about programming to know this is extremely naive and it’d probably be a million times more difficult if I ever got around to doing it. I don’t even know where I fall on the dunner-kruger graph yet, but it’s an interesting thing to think about for me.

Really good game, I just wish combat were better

I remember reading that tailscale can’t be used for sharing media, was that wrong?

Not necessarily true, I think most of those votes would go to the most popular populist candidate or the one with a better PR team, it wouldn’t be truly random distribution.

That’s a lot of assumptions that I can’t agree are inherently true. Forcing people to participate might not make them think at all beyond fulfilling the duty and not paying a fine, and random votes might not balance out the charismatic leaders at all - if anything the charismatic populist leaders that focus on good PR over substance will probably gather up more of these uneducated “just circle something” voters than the others. It is where/why marketing and commercials work so well in the first place and I’d rather not give even more power to this type of brainwashing, it is a popularity contest enough as it is.

If anything, I’d make it so in order for people’s votes to count they need to show at least a very basic understanding of what they are voting for and what are the implications of it.

How is it better if someone just goes and circles a random name on the list because its mandatory? If someone doesn’t follow politics and isn’t educated enough to pick a good candidate, or motivated enough to research them, I think it’s better to not vote at all than to give it up to either chance or a superficial gut feeling based on constant propaganda barrage. A person that votes like that just makes your vote less impactful, statistically speaking.

Valheim was one of the best selling games and is still a huge success. Indies are getting better and more popular to the point that even big companies like Nexon are indiewashing their studio and pretending that Dave the Diver is an indie game with pixel art instead of a work of one of the biggest publishers there is. In my experience most of the gamers nowadays are people that grew up on minecraft, terraria or probably more likely today - roblox.

So basically no, I don’t think so. Maybe big studios want you to believe that and it might be true for a casual FIFA or CoD gamer but for anyone else, there are more options than ever and the supply of good smaller simpler games is just overwhelming, the days are too short to even keep track of them anymore.

It is getting more present at work every day, I keep having to hear even seniors how they “discussed” something with chatgpt or how they will ask it for help. Had to resolve some issue with devops a while back and they just kept pasting errors into chatgpt and trying out whatever it spewed back, which I guess wasn’t that much different from me googling the same issue and spewing back whatever SO said.

I tried it myself and while it is neat for some simple repetitive things, I always end up with normal google searches or clicking on the sources because the problems I usually have to google for are also complicated problems that I need the whole original discussion and context too, not just a summary that might skip important caveats.

I dunno, I simultaneously feel old and out of touch, angry at myself for not just going with the flow and buying into it, but also disappointed in other people that rely on it without ever understanding that it’s so flawed, unreliable and untrustworthy, and making people into worse programmers.

There will only be an exodus if there is a better alternative than Lemmy/kbin. Remember that twitter was still going strong despite mastodon existing until bluesky won the race and became the new twitter. If reddit somehow manages to collapse one day, most of the people won’t go to lemmy because it’s already been shown it’s not an attractive or equivalent replacement for it, so either something new reddit-like appears or nothing changes.

Bsky has actual people from twitter I wanted to follow that never bothered with mastodon