Murse

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This may be the best way to play 2D games*⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s wrong with “non VR”? It’s concise, and specific enough that it doesn’t overlap with other concepts in the context of gaming. 2D and 3D both already have an established meaning: both can be experienced with or without VR.

  …in any case, whatever catches on for “non VR” (to include “non VR”) is kinda moot: it just shouldn’t be term that’s already established in this context, or we’ll get confusing loops like “2D games are best experienced in 2D” or conflation of VR with 3D and vice versa.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This may be the best way to play 2D games*⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a bit confusing

  It’s objectively wrong. Satisfactory is played in 3 spacial dimensions, making it a 3D game. Displaying it with a vr headset doesn’t add a dimension, it just changes how you experience that 3D space.

  As another example, chess is a 2D game. Whether it’s played on a screen or in VR or with real pieces that take up real 3D space, the game itself is always 2D. If you made a that uses a chess board as one side of a cube, and the same on the other sides, and then use your pieces to navigate what is now a volumetric matrix and not just a grid: now it’s 3D… but also no longer chess. …kinda sounds fun though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Think outside the AAA box⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What are your favorite indie titles?

  Enderal takes my vote.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Salem Brought a Guillotine To Oppose New Data Center. Company Reps Left, Feeling 'Unsafe'.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess the silver lining to all of this is

  the blade of the guillotine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Salem Brought a Guillotine To Oppose New Data Center. Company Reps Left, Feeling 'Unsafe'.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s a different D word. Some kind of French haircut if I’m not mistaken.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Being Proud of the Thing We Made Did Not Give Us the Right to Make It' — Dbrand Cancels Its Steam Machine Companion Cube⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The most simple explanation is usually correct

  In most contexts, yes.

  and never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity, lol.

  The problem with that rule is most malicious people are well aware of it, making the appearance of stupidity a tool to free them from accountability. Look at politics - we (collectively) give Trump the village idiot pass, ogling at someone could be so stupid as to blunder their way into the absolute worst economic, tactical, social, etc outcome possible. He’s not an outlier in that behavior, and corporate reps / CEOs often do the same shit.

  I don’t have the insider knowledge to say with certainty that any one instance is an example or not, but I definitely reject the whole ‘never attribute to malice’ spiel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Being Proud of the Thing We Made Did Not Give Us the Right to Make It' — Dbrand Cancels Its Steam Machine Companion Cube⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  like they claim they did

  Am skeptical.

  They might just sincerely be stupid, but this all carries a strong scent of bullshit.

  My money’s on a calculated PR move, with almost no investment made into leading up to the action from Valve, culminating with a woe-is-me to stir up some community support.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Being Proud of the Thing We Made Did Not Give Us the Right to Make It' — Dbrand Cancels Its Steam Machine Companion Cube⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not that rare, considering they did the exact same thing already.

  Kinda looks like they’re doing it on purpose so that the following apology gets them some free publicity and reputation for being honest… which is manipulative and shady.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG apologizes for emailing people Nazi symbols⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thought the headline said “GOP apologizes for emailing people Nazi symbols”… Only thing that stood out as odd was that they’d apologize: I mean, that’s their brand.