i like your positivity. it’s true, except that the landscape for indies is also v grim rn. The kind of investors that fueled indie games of the past have dried up. Kickstarters for games still happen, but it isn’t the like the glory days. And discoverability is a nightmare, releasing an indie game these days is a bit like playing the lottery. But I’ll tell you, when a $20 or under indie game catches my attention, i’m pretty inclined to impulse buy. They are more enticing than the $80 games, for sure.

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Excited to see a new game from the Mario Odyssey team, and excited that this one seems to have turned out well! I wish i had anything else to say about this game, but it literally just came out today. I usually don’t play new releases and I never buy a console in the first year of release, so…I look forward to playing this on a Switch 2 or emulator in 5 years. lol

key excerpt:

Most 3D printers work by heating up a filament—often, but not always, plastic—and extruding it through a metal nozzle. The nozzle puts down hundreds, or even thousands, of layers of the heated plastic to form a solid object. Each individual level of the print is called the print line. “So on the firearm, I’m seeing from the trigger guard—maybe print line 200—and the top of the magazine well—print line 400—the marks are staying consistent,” Garrison said.

It was an exciting discovery but it also wouldn’t be admissible as evidence in a criminal trial. Despite the promise that we may one day be able to match a printer to the object that made it, Garrison stressed that the work was in its very early days and that it would take years, perhaps even a decade, of science to work out the truth of toolmarks and 3D printers.

where do we think we would be at at this point if electronic payments were handled by government entities? Not trying to defend Visa or Mastercard, just genuinely curious what others think.

really didn’t appreciate that last paragraph

Now, it’s very easy for me, someone who is not building a political action campaign around this topic, to tell someone like Scott that he needs to do better this time. But I’m going to do it anyway. I want this to work. I want the needle to move faster towards preservation of our gaming culture and towards the fulfillment of the copyright bargain with the public. So, please, let this go better this time around.

Ross devoted a year of his life (so far) to making this thing happen, purely out of his own passion for games. He gave it his all and the thing almost failed due to factors outside of Ross’s control. And then you want to turn around and tell him “that wasn’t good enough, do better next time” while sitting on your ass writing your shitty little tech articles for your shitty tech blog? dude even acknowledges how cowardly it sounds, and then proceeds to say it anyway. fuck all the way off.

boooo typical nintendo casting L. They could have cast Hunter Schafer, the literal perfect Princess Zelda. I mean… look at her!!!

use Socks5 if possible

Not possible on ProtonVPN, unfortunately. They say that a SOCKS5 proxy is just a VPN without encryption. I’m not smart enough to tell you if they are wrong…seems to me that a user could use BOTH and enhance their privacy, but I have no clue.

The saga continues. Fame always came with the curse of knowing there were weirdos out there that fantasize about committing sexual violence against you. This new reality is just…something else, man. Pervs cooking the ocean to see counterfeit nudes of famous actors, when there are 10s of thousands of models on the internet that will show you their tits consensually. What is wrong with people.

interesting, i don’t remember the feedback being quite so…mid. I remember this game getting pretty positive reviews, but maybe i’m muddling it with my memory of the other “hex” games.

I don’t think “destruction vs. licensed cars” is the binary in racing games. NFS3 Hot Pursuit had licensed cars, and that probably added to the fun of the game. I think we def need more games with destructible cars and destruction-focused racing, and I agree that you need unlicensed cars to get the most out of that these days, but there are plenty of other ways to make a fun car game. Beam.NG is there for the people that want truly next-level destruction simulation, and it has multiplayer support via mods but we could use a more mainstream version of that. Wreckfest is out there, but maybe that is too “demo derby” for die-hard burnout fans. We had games like OnRush and NFS Unbound come and go, and those games were probably the closest we got to Burnout in recent times, but audiences didn’t show up for those games so they have all but died.

Forza Horizon (which I mention all the time bc it is the only modern car game I have played) is plenty fun and arcadey with a whole smorgasbord of licensed cars. The cars get smashed up a decent amount, though it obviously isn’t quite like a Burnout game. Tweaking the driving settings can make the game feel even more arcadey, if that is your style. If you want the destruction to affect how your car handles, that is a setting you can turn on. If you want a more simulationy driving experience, you can tweak the settings to turn that on, too. It isn’t Burnout exactly, but something about it scratches a similar itch for me. I know the Horizon series is one of the most popular racing series in the current scene, I wonder sometimes if its popularity and live service model are eating the lunch of those other, smaller arcade racers.

I love this. Out of curiosity, do you play any modern racing games, like maybe the Forza Horizon series? If you’re still buds with those buds, no reason you couldn’t be having this kind of experience online (assuming y’all can find the time). I am curious what all the former NFS fans play these days. There isn’t anything QUITE like it but a few modern games get close.

finally, the line went up enough! they have achieved the golden number! Now they will chill and stop hoarding all that money! Or stop laying off thousands of people a month! . . . Right?

well, who@feddit.org already covered it, but i added an archive link to the body.

is sign-up wall the same as paywall? don’t think that’s the same thing.

Lollll I edited the headline for clarity. I felt that the base headline didn’t make it clear enough that revenge porn was the focus of the issue. AI porn in and of itself is a separate issue. And all AI is exploitation, so I’m not sure what you are trying to get at. My preference would be for real people to be paid for sex work, rather than tech companies.

They can call it what they want to deflect scrutiny, but the fact is that it mirrors breeding mechanics from other games, like FF7’s chocobo breeding. So calling it “breeding” as a joke is not really that wild or unusual.

I think you’re laser-focusing on a weirdly specific thing, I think it’s just a joke. Gita clearly enjoys the game, the subheader is just a funny elevator pitch for the game.

Did u read the article? Gita seems to be in love with the game, I wouldn’t say they were shaming it at all!

That makes sense actually. I’m guessing they have been sued for similar stuff in the past and as you said, the small revenue stream is not worth the cost in lawsuits.