Well, rioting is obviously expecting some sort of state response when you engage in it. But you don’t want to get arrested unexpectedly.

TO’s comment truly is a mélange of victimhood and jingoism that, curiously, is as American as apple pie.

As if a joke more dated than boomer humour is a concerted psyop to discredit French people in “the marketplace of ideas.” Not to mention the myopic view of America in the second half. Baffling.

Anyway, hope the bundle helps those devs hold on and push through some positive change.

I’m confused by this comment. “The original is even better” reads like you are informing TO about the original. But you’d expect them to be aware of it, what with them referencing the joke nickname and saying “a new variation”.

It’s mostly confusing because there are clearer ways of posting the original comic for the uninformed than referencing the only person certain to have seen it.

I find it as funny as the original post

I wouldn’t even really call this recursion. This is closer to a wrapper around the enjoy function to set variables so that “enjoy” doesn’t throw an error.

What’s the problem with staying in early access? It’s not like the games are squatting on welfare. Do they get anything from Steam beyond a placard that says “my game ain’t finished”?

The only thing is people deflecting criticism because of the “early access” tag. But if you want to introduce arbitrary term limits so you can win internet arguments about video game developer malfeasance, then you’ve lost me.

I don’t understand why we let Civ get away with amputating gameplay from the end-of-lifecycle previous game to repackage as new DLC again? If they hit upon great ideas in an expansion, why is that not folded into the core product like most decent games do with sequels?

They started with a triangle for 6, slowly carved it down to a semi-smooth, functional circle, then turned around for 7 and said “how about a cube this time?” Stop reinventing the wheel and finish refining it.

Honestly, the development mirrors my playthroughs of 4Xs: start with something funky and a lil different, struggle to make it work, and then restart when I’m close to done.

You just voluntered to be mulch for the spore beds.

I think after it’s born, it’s just a murder.

And, honestly, calling it “the experiment” is pretty rough.

If these hypothetical developers are waiting for cash infusions to “fix” the finances of thesw disastrously managed companies, then they’re pretty naïve. Successful games are making multi-millions, even middling franchise games can pull that. More than enough to sustain a normal sized development team.

I imagine maintaining a reasonable team would result in fewer unemployed developers than overbloating the team thinking “more is biggerer is more money” and then cutting tens of thousands of positions for “costs.”

I enjoy the meme content.

I enjoy the appropriate inversion of the meme format more.

I may be on the wrong side of history but I can’t see what other role a car could get in the film industry except vehicle.

I very slowly zoomed in on the actual words in the post.

Started off processing “molecule” as “mole”, “solar system” as “galaxy”, and thinking “ha, don’t know if that’s true but it sounds both plausible and neat”.

I’m doing a temperature check: name a game with good lore.

But what’s even stronger than a gorilla? Two gorillas??

If you love the jankiness of Morrowind, then I would say you’re not looking for a Morrowind remake. Without specific examples, all the jank I’m remembering is fondness for weird design and/or unbounded behavior like weird spell-hacks.

Because that’s an easier cash flip. They’d have to do actual design to update Morrowind to modern gaming sensibilities without corroding it. Oblivion just needs a facelift and some number tweaks (and a whole suite of bugs fixed as usual).

They’ll slap sone UE5 lights and filters on and charge 70 dollars for it, I’m betting.

It looks like it was made in Spore

What the fuck kinda Hannibal Lecter cat…

I don’t want babies to punch, screaming, out of pregnant women. I don’t know why the comic artist is pro-chestbursters