Evilsandwichman

@Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New York's case that Steam lootboxes are "gambling" is a free speech violation that "will have an impermissible chilling effect on protected videogame design", argue Valve⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree and this is why the solution is that steam should give players the funds to buy these loot boxes themselves; create a fictional currency (lots of these games do that anyway) and give players the power to just play the game for that currency, or better yet just give them that currency so they can buy them; you maintain the lootboxes and their random nature and players get to avoid spending real world money buying them. There’s a lot of games today that already incorporate that mechanic where you can earn in-game currency to buy lootboxes. As for players then turning around and selling their accounts or items for real world money, the buyer is not getting a CHANCE at that item, he’s buying something he knows he’s getting for certain.

  To avoid turning killing bosses in WoW into gambling, the game can make it so you can fight those bosses for free, and instead incorporate costs into the game via (again) a fictional currency that allows you to buy consummables to make the fight more manageable. This way the player avoids spending real world money on this boss, and then whatever he gets, he can sell as a concrete item that the buyer knows for certain he will get.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG's new stretchable display can grow by 50%, bendy panels can be deformed into new form factors⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s okay I guess; when are they planning on making products that don’t suck?

  I got five air conditioners from them years back for an old house I lived in, and they all busted at the same time. I got a DVD rewriter from them which also busted. I got a TV from them a short while ago and it’s also busted. Literally the only product I ever got from them that didn’t bust (yet!) was a fridge. I wouldn’t have bought the TV either if it wasn’t somewhat cheap, well-sized and 4K (8K?).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hasbro CEO Says AI Will Become Core Part of Dungeons & Dragons⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  When it’s not a marketing team bumbling things up, you instead surrender the creativity to someone’s fickle whims.

  I’m sure this is going to go about as well as the star citizen’s devs (or owner) choosing to go with the crysis engine for their massive game on a whim.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netris is an open-source cloud gaming platform with Stadia-like features using Proton⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Any chance their name was inspired by that famous game, Nacman?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A bot in Tekken 8 is demolishing players by only pressing one button over and over⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Just saw a match between the bot and someone who made his Feng character look like Hitler, and I was glad to see at least the viewers wanted the Hitler looking Feng to lose; gamers possibly getting better?