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@DestinyBulletn What’s the point of these petitions? They don’t have to listen to anyone. It doesn’t matter if you get 500,000,000 people to sign it, doesn’t mean they’ll do it lmao

🚨The "Develop Destiny 3" petition has reached 80,000 signatures in a day. change.org/p/petition-son…

@SynthPotato They tried the free path before. Not only was it unsustainable, it also means funding for security is very difficult since it isn’t generating any revenue. Hence why the major hack happened in 2011.

Hot take: Online gaming should be completely free, this is a completely arbitrary price with no real benefit. There is no "market condition" that should result in what is a free service on PC, to consistently increase in price just because you're on console.

@Evilxxbunny @Aaron_Kiely88 @oliver_drk Not on Xbox they don’t. The console sales were so pathetically bad in the mid 2010’s, they almost shutdown Xbox for good. Gamepass was an effort to keep an audience on the hardware and attract newcomers. It didn’t work. You HAVE to sell software and on Xbox they aren’t selling.

@Aaron_Kiely88 @oliver_drk Gamepass is used because they removed everything else. They literally consolidated all online sub tiers into gamepass. We don’t have a choice. Plenty of people buy their own games.

Jez Corden asks why Xbox should abandon exclusivity when Nintendo and PlayStation don't. youtu.be/TPIkDYx9yDc?is…

@octopuscaveman Why is it so hard for people to understand that agreeing to being recorded while having sex and posting it on the internet forever is, in fact, different than working at a gas station. Idk why it’s so hard for people to understand lmfao

We only do this shit to porn stars. If I spent my whole life being called a “retired gas station employee” it would PMO

@Driskal @iShieldMaiden_ Very true. But the main question: Is Bungie/Sony okay with an exclusively hardcore player base? If so, they have to be okay with relatively mediocre sales and player numbers. If not, they have to make a change.

I love this game, I’ve sunk a shit ton of hours into it, I’ve been locked in some first announced, but here’s the thing. Bungie had to have known this wasn’t going to capture the casual audience. I’m pretty sure they’ve been told all throughout testing that it wouldn’t either. It wasn’t built for casual play. It rewards the players that have stuck around and grinded it out. Not sure what the fix is, but they have to do something. I want this game to stick around for a long time.

This is what's hard. Im genuinely asking the pvp sphere - how do you keep casuals interested in a game where the rich get richer? The better you are, the more you win, the more you win, the better the gear, where do casuals fit?

@giancar73012035 Sounds like you’re taking this to the extreme. If they don’t do something to attract more players, the game will shut down. Simple as that.

Basically, the feedback I'm seeing is that they want to turn Marathon into Hello Kitty Adventures so that dads who play for an hour a day have a chance to beat Cryo Archive. Sacrificing the game's entire identity just to keep extreme casual players happy is a terrible idea.

@AmazingP18614 @RealZacharyRoy He should die. Fuck that piece of shit hope he gets skinned alive.

@RealZacharyRoy I dont think we should ruin a man's life over a wolf. He got fined, its over

It would be a shame if this sick fuck’s business address was out there… 12970 US Hwy 189 Daniel, WY 83115   Oops. Sure hope nobody does him any harm.

@fromsoftserve Bc it needs an update lmfao

but 60fps on modern consoles should already be a thing. fucking bizarre that it's not.

please seek help immediately if you actually think rdr2 needs a remaster

@GuapoGary_ I generally don’t, but the fact that the threat is there is what makes extraction shooters so fun. They’re not for everyone, but that tension is what makes it so unique.

Do people just play arc raiders all day and not pvp? Not trying to be mean just curious. Like if you are mad at pvp in an extraction shooter why not play like helldivers?? Maybe I just don’t get it.

@oliemack GPT and all these other generative AI models (either through text or images) just scrape whatever info they can find on the internet and regurgitate it to you in a way that seems familiar. It’s like jingling keys in your face and YOU fall for that? Fuck that tech. Total waste.

People have lost sight of what an amazing accomplishment LLMs are. When I first used GPT-3, I had a moment of wonder: a computer is responding intelligently to natural language in natural language. And I was using the original Curie/Davinci model variants that weren’t even instruction tuned - they functioned primarily as autocomplete. These models fundamentally changed how I thought about technology from that point onwards. If we keep up our guard and only look for failures, we can lose track of how amazing the technology is, and how striking its pace of improvement has been. Capabilities acceleration that would be stupefyingly fast in other fields is often brushed off. Just this week a model that is arguably superintelligent at computer security research (and likely many other tasks) has been announced, a difficult-to-fathom development that many people are a bit dull to. We are currently possibly in something that looks like a singularity - AI models accelerating AI development - and it hasn't been remarked on widely outside of specialist press. Have people lost their sense of how ridiculous this is? Or am I mistaken? It sometimes feels like in trying to slot LLMs in the same bucket as a crypto token or new phone, we dramatically undersell their significance. For good or for bad.

@Midvsmi If it were rockstar it would absolutely be infinitely better in every aspect.

se fosse da rockstar estaria todo mundo mamando esse jogo

🚨 Do you understand what this actually means.. Gen Z and millennials aren't burnt out because they're weak.. they did the math.. your dad bought a house at 24 on one salary.. a 40-hour week and a pension waiting at the end.. here's what changed.. in 1970 the median home cost 2x the average annual salary.. today it costs 6x.. and that's before the interest rate.. > Boomers graduated with little to no debt into an economy with employer pensions, cheap housing, and a job market that rewarded loyalty.. > Gen Z graduates with $30,000 in student debt into an economy that replaced pensions with 401ks where YOU bear all the risk.. replaced job security with "freelance opportunities".. and replaced affordable housing with a market that requires two incomes just to rent.. the work ethic didn't change.. the math changed.. > Boomers didn't build that economy.. they inherited it.. built by the Greatest Generation after the war, funded by government programs, subsidized housing, public universities, and infrastructure they didn't pay for.. > they rode the boom, extracted everything, gutted the pensions, made the houses unaffordable, defunded the universities.. and then told the next generation to work harder..

@zorbiqq69 F2P would have made it an MTX hell. And Marathon is fucking great right from the start. Fucking tourists lmao

Marathon being a free to play game would have made it MUCH more popular. People don’t wanna pay 40$ to “try” out a game that gets good 10 hours in

@longislandviper Can’t wait for another photo from @mamamicah93 of you staring at flora

I love this time of year. The lawn is roaring back. Trees and flowers are starting to bloom. It's fun putzing around the yard; trim this, water that, mow, plant. I spend hours out there. This will be my uninterrupted daily regimen until the oppressive heat arrives. (Then, pool.)

@GwenpostingTTV With all due respect that’s just wrong lol R6S sold over 21 million copies before going f2p, has an all time peak of 200k on steam alone, and consistently gets over 80k a day still. As of writing this, Marathon has less than 30k playing rn. I love Marathon, and I’m worried

No disrespect to Paul. This is a good article. But, I just can't bother to care about whether a thing I am enjoying is popular or not. I know that has long term effects on support for the live service, but I played R6S for 10 years. That game wasn't a "hit" either.

@_TeLoo Hard disagree. The beginning has the worst quests and you barely have any combat moves. Not to mention that your stamina is base level. Traversing the world, combat, and story are all lame at the beginning, but get good/great about 5 or so hours in

@squared_nation -97 on metacritic (one of the highest rated games of all time) -4th best selling game of all time

@kiwitalkz Probably because they needed the game out so the can make money on it. They were probably running low on budget and couldn’t afford a rework of controls at the time. Now they can.

I don’t get these devs, at demo events the feedback was largely that the control scheme was archaic and unintuitive and they ignored the feedback and doubled down and now they are fixing it. Why not just fix it then and save yourself all of this trouble lol Increasingly I dont buy games Day 1 unless I plan to review it with game devs as part of my sub series as it’s not worth it a lot of the time. It’s like you are punished for buying games Day 1 as you pay more and get a lesser experience than someone buying it a year later

@Waynesep1 Are you slow or something? You don’t see the difference in a mediocre copy cat and the innovative inspiration from nearly a decade ago? CD copies BOTW in many ways and does that significantly worse than Nintendo did in 2017.

Sinceramente, difícil entender os dois pesos e duas medidas da comunidade gamer hoje em dia hein... se é a Nintendo que traz o Zelda com historia meia boca e foco em exploração do mundo e mecânicas complexas é GOTY, Crimson Desert faz isso e é alvejado de todos os lados! 🤷‍♂️😂😅

@GenePark @YaBoyRoshi I’m getting more used to it, but it’s the strangest feeling game I’ve probably ever played. Might just stick with Marathon until Lego Batman launches.

@YaBoyRoshi i wasn’t talking out of my ass right it feels weird lol

Yeah Crimson Desert is not for me at all, tapped out after 2 hours. Im sure there’s tons of people that will have a great time though!