Ptsf
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- Comment on Cloud Imperium quietly steal Star Citizen developers' weekends from under them with mandated overtime in the lead up to Citizencon 1 month ago:
Seems fine. They’re providing food, overtime pay, and pto for use at a future date. That’s a better deal than a lot of employees get.
- Comment on Valve released Windows drivers for Steam Deck OLED but no official support 2 months ago:
Official support implies that they will do whatever necessary to take the device from an unworkable state to a workable one.
- Comment on I’d love to explore more of Fallout London’s brilliant world, but it keeps crashing every few minutes 3 months ago:
"I’d love to enjoy this free thing, but don’t feel at all like contributing in a way that would actually move the needle towards that goal and have gotten impatient with making any progress towards assisting with bug fixes or anything valuable I could contribute from my end. Instead I’m going to shit post and complain for adviews. " - Rock Paper Shotgun.
- Comment on At least 500 people will trounce you in Space Marine 2’s multiplayer at launch, because they’re already playing a torrent of the entire game 4 months ago:
Eh, they’re going to get banned on launch 💯.
- Comment on Valve faces a £656 million lawsuit in the UK for 'overcharging 14 million PC gamers' 5 months ago:
Allegedly.
- Comment on Larian have two new games in the works, "fueled by the very same fire" as Baldur's Gate 3 6 months ago:
Your original comment does not align with this correction, so I think it’s important to take my view with that context in mind. I cannot read your mind, only what you write, and so yes I do hold you accountable for a crass statement and as far as supporting a company I do believe that’s the root of the problem, companies should not be supported, the people who make up the company should. As far as trusting your intelligence, I do, but I think Agent K said it best years ago. “A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it.”. You may believe yourself immune to manipulations; but life will quickly disprove that assumption if you pay attention long enough. We’re all human.
- Comment on Larian have two new games in the works, "fueled by the very same fire" as Baldur's Gate 3 6 months ago:
Blizzard at one point in time walked the walk, but aside from just pointing that out I’d like to point out that what was said is that they’d buy anything the company released. That’s an uninformed choice based on toxic brand loyalty. We need not be so crass and careless when engaging with any company. All you’re doing when you do that is opening up yourself to the possibility of being financially exploited when it eventually happens. It may not, and I hope not (especially for Larian. I do adore the work they’ve put into one of my top 5 all time favorite games), but that has historically not been the case and when all these companies make decisions based on quarter to quarter revenue I’d wish you the best of luck spinning down the “hype machine” should they change the standards they previously held themselves to. Imo it’s just a recipe for disaster. You’re much better off spending your fan energy following the people that make up the companies you love.
- Comment on Larian have two new games in the works, "fueled by the very same fire" as Baldur's Gate 3 6 months ago:
That’s not a good stance to have. They’ve earned plenty of trust and love, but so had big names like Blizzard at one point in time. Brand loyalty is toxic to consumer culture.
- Comment on Roblox Studio head: 'you can say, okay, we are exploiting child labour'... 7 months ago:
Capitalism working as intended. He just said the quiet part out loud.
- Comment on Paramount, Citing Experiment During Strikes, to Cut Costs Per Title For Films, Series 8 months ago:
"They haven’t noticed we’re grifting them. Time to crank up the heat. " - Bob Bakish probably