If you refuse to pay teachers right, you're not going to attract top talent. I don't make the rules.

Yes

I had you figured for a rather down to earth sensible sort

I see now I underestimated your silliness

I would just about tolerate the fuss of a resin printer if I didn't have to think about fumes. That alone puts it out of reach for me.

I might actually press the button zero times. Genuinely. I am pretty well convinced by now that being a billionaire is a mental health disaster, and I'm cis.

But being thin again would be nice...

Bestie, I use this handle and people still don't leave off about obvious sarcasm around here. Lemmy is serious business.

I barely have the energy to deal with such objections anymore. You're spot on, and it's unsatisfying, but when you're faced with playing a rigged game or losing everything, the best you can do is ante up and plan your escape.

I agree. It does seem like media literacy vis a vis video games is not as generally strong as it ought to be, and if people did have a deeper understanding of game design, art, and writing in general even a brief look at gameplay would be enough for most people to make up their minds. If you have an even somewhat strong understanding of games I think it's not too hard to sense at a glance how the game you're seeing is trying to contribute to the conversation in game development. Between that, weighted reviews, and even the thumbs up or down from one familiar reviewer is usually enough for me to tell if I will get my money's worth. I almost can't remember the last time I bought a game on this basis and wasn't happy - it was Nier: Automata actually, and that was basically because I didn't like the feel of the combat, which is hard to spot. Didn't even get to all the bleak philosophy stuff I was looking forward to, I just bounced off it hard.

Haze them, I beseech you

Couldn't you have just fucking killed me instead

Indie games have never been better, there's no problem here that doesn't solve itself if people just stop buying bad AAA titles

I miss the days when Europeans would justly laugh in our faces about the size of our trucks.