TwilightVulpine

@TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo shuts down Ryujinx⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Those are two different situations.

  There isn’t enough paying for shit that’s gonna make a mod run in an unmodified console. You can find people who have bought every single Pokémon game ever, and they still want to play romhacks and randomizers and such.

  There’s something to be said about how willing people are to pay and whether they admit it or why. But sounds more like you don’t want to believe there’s any other reason to do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo shuts down Ryujinx⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of people resort to emulation simply so they can play mods too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Crash Bandicoot Hacked The Original Playstation | War Stories | Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Their engineers were crazy good to pull off this sort of stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation Portal review: impressive hardware but is Remote Play itself good enough?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The good people seem to have left, maybe as a result of the reddit people coming in?

  Or maybe as a result of poor moderation. The way how other instances defederated from lemmy.world comes to mind. Compared to the other instances I am in, this one seems more belligerent, and that’s not a matter of up or downvotes.

  I have to admit I did come from reddit, but if there was a moment of pure, 100% jerk free discussion here, I must have entirely missed it. Then again I was on reddit before people started saying circlejerk took over, and in retrospect that was an entirely idealized memory. If anything, it overrepresented certain viewpoints far more before the “circlejerk took over”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US kids want games subscriptions and virtual currency more than games this Christmas⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When I bought dice sets there was never the risk of missing out on the Ultra Rare d4 and being unable to use Magic Missile because of that. I might not have always gotten everything I wanted, but I got what I needed and I didn’t need to pay a subscrption to continue playing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US kids want games subscriptions and virtual currency more than games this Christmas⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I see what you mean. Far from me to want to blame the kids for it, but I don’t think we can just overlook how corporations are deliberately funneling them towards these models through marketing and manipulative design. The kids’ perspective is one of just being excited for things they want in these games, but this happens due to habitual conditioning of a neverending threadmill of virtual rewards and Fear of Missing Out. Not to mention semi-organic peer pressure among kids, over who has the fanciest or default cosmetics. Which wasn’t deliberately created by the corporations, but they are definitely benefitting over it, and nobody is dissuading that from happening.

  The kids are not at fault, but I don’t think this is a “just let kids be kids” situation. They are being exploited.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US kids want games subscriptions and virtual currency more than games this Christmas⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My parents refused to enable me to get into the glorified gambling of trading card games and frankly I was better off for this. I’ve seen people waking up realizing they had spent hundreds to thousands on cardboard designed to be replaced and deeply regretting it. That is while having cardboard to regret buying. Imagine what happens to these kids if the game they spent all their gift cards on closes down and takes it all down the drain.

  Meanwhile there were gifts like games and D&D books that let me have fun for a long time as complete packages without needing additional expenditures to enjoy.

  There are things kids can like and dislike, and we should keep that in mind. But as adults we should also take some responsibility for cutting through the bulshit of manipulative marketing. They aim these things at children because children only see their immediate excitement and wonder, but not the sleazy business behind it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US kids want games subscriptions and virtual currency more than games this Christmas⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Putting it like that makes it sound that this is incidental, but the conditioning techniques baked into the design of these games are included for the sake of selling battle passes and virtual items. If they didn’t have subscriptions and virtual currency, they would have been built entirely differently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation Portal review: impressive hardware but is Remote Play itself good enough?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Both of you had too lofty dreams for social media. Reddit itself used to be like that too, by convincing themselves that this sort of idealistic attitude could last, or that “circlejerk”, that is, the influence of majority opinion, was ever not present. This is a place for discussion among regular people, not a philosophical symposium of specialists, as if those environments were truly neutral and universally accepting either.

  As platforms grow beyond the most invested niche users, most people will not put more energy into any discussion than a general agree or disagree. The tendency of downvotes is always to become a disagree button, no matter how much one might insist otherwise. In such a semi-anonymous platform, a modicum of politeness is already an achievement.

  Really, if you do want to have such a perfectly open and supportive discussion group you might want to select particular people to create a small forum. But by doing that, it’s pretty much guaranteed that you won’t escape some form of circlejerk.