He / They
if people can be happy and fulfilled
Except a lot of them aren’t happy and fulfilled, they’re opting out for the same reasons young people in the US are:
they can’t afford homes, can’t find decent jobs, and don’t see a future worth bringing children into.
That’s not “happy and fulfilled outside the rat race”, especially since their solution is closer to hikikomoris. They’re not out there building self-sufficient communes.
Every derelict I salvage has so much crap I have to compulsively clean up, including my starter ship…
Keep in mind that these mostly aren’t direct analogues, and not all in the space genre, but I can think of:
Cleaning games: +
Detail-driven puzzle or deduction games: ++
Crime going down and society becoming more violent are different things. “Crime” is only a measure of illegal violence.
I think right-wing ethno-nationalism has made society more violent. Violence by agents of the state like ICE also isn’t being included in those stats: we’ve had more assaults and abductions this year than in decades thanks to ICE, if we are counting honestly.
Yeah, I refuse to call anything ‘indie’ that is not in fact independent of a publisher. We already have A, AA, and AAA to denote budgets and scale. Rebranding ‘indie’ to mean ‘A’ or ‘AA’ games from third-party studios under a publisher is drinking the publisher kool-aid. Sony especially pushed this angle.
“We needed some more Lebensraum” - Israel
Valve has hundreds if not thousands of highly and expressly pornographic games on its platform, so I don’t think this can be chalked up to the Collective Shout folks’ spectre somehow looming over Valve. As another commenter pointed out, according to the devs’ own timeline, Valve’s rejection happened prior to the recent successful Collective Should payment-processor targeting.
I suspect that EGS and Humble probably halted sale at the last minute due to the added press naming them as distributors prior to launch, often in articles that included Valve’s response asserting that it contained questionable content related to minors, and them going, “hey what? Hold on a sec, we don’t know anything about that.”
If you were about to sell a bunch of cars, and a major dealership announced they wouldn’t sell them because their trunks were all full of cocaine, a couple days before launch, you’d probably delay your launch to double-check as well.
Unfortunately, the developers’ own initial press statements where they sort of feigned innocence ignorance (after they had already changed the scene presumed to be in question, meaning they at least had some idea that was likely the issue) probably didn’t help their credibility in other platforms’ eyes, as far as being business partners goes.
I never got the PS5 because the PS3 -> PS4 jump was too underwhelming, when PC is pulling away so many games. And it’s not about or solvable with exclusives, because there are literally no games I can think of that would make me buy a whole console just to play. Imho PC gaming, especially in the Golden Age of Indies, is just too strong an argument unless you are a console-only gamer.
To be fair, the original Deus Ex is more anti-authoritarianism than it is anti-capitalist in the motivations of the villains. Grey Death wasn’t done for economic purposes, it was literally a means to kick off a worldwide eugenics experiment. They used the Ambrosia vaccine to select who lives, not really to make money.
Any work that satirizes wealth or corporate greed, made by a public company, is almost definitionally hypocritical.
Outer Worlds has this same issue.
Relevant, and super awesome comic.
If we’re talking in very general, “wishlist” ways, I would hope that a lot of the present cancer and vaccine research might make it possible in the future to correct birth defect prenatally. Things like congenital heart defects being fixed via gene editing during development versus surgically afterwards. Ditto for things like autoimmune or other inherited diseases.
They were always known as being a crunch-heavy studio. The only reason they weren’t pulling their current mtx-riddled, always-online modal before is that the tech wasn’t there.
“Well, in my research in which I went over 12 pages deep in Google results…”
/s ;P
Arma is pretty cool… despite BI. DayZ has been (for me) a continual disappointment. I don’t have any particularly strong feelings about Dean Hall, but I don’t get the impression he knows what’s wrong with DayZ, or how to fix it.
Hilarious that Scott Manley was one of the first to figure it out.
My experience is that OSS security scales upwards based on increased contributors, while commercial software is the inverse.
A small git* repo with a couple contributors is likely very insecure compared to one with 5000+. An enterprise tool from a company with 70 devs is probably far less bloated and insecure than one from a company with 1000 devs.
My 2 cents.
Why is The Ascent not included? Thats the game that gave me the most Nihei-esque megastructure vibes.
Card games are classed as tabletop games due to the top of the table being the place where they’re played.
Crazy, but it makes sense to re-invigorate the fanbase a bit before TW4 comes out (and maybe they’re even setting up villains for it?).