People with jobs that aren’t playing video games.

Even taking hyperbole into account, this is not a great metric and has not been bourne out in my experience.

What’s a suspiciously high and low score?

The post only says they’re “Anti-American”. It never said they were anti-American for any of the good reasons.

I don’t like losing but I’ve been doing it my whole life, so I’m pretty good at it now

They mention it’s from a franchise in the first paragraph.

Have you considered that everything you like is just some level of sci-fantasy (an existing genre[-fusion])?

They are both under the umbrella of “speculative fiction” but they go in different directions.

What was different in the spellcrafting system from Oblivion to Morrowind?

If a cannonball just sprouted in a gun barrel, the gun is gone and the hands that held it probably are too. There should be so much shrapnel

What’s the problem with staying in early access? It’s not like the games are squatting on welfare. Do they get anything from Steam beyond a placard that says “my game ain’t finished”?

The only thing is people deflecting criticism because of the “early access” tag. But if you want to introduce arbitrary term limits so you can win internet arguments about video game developer malfeasance, then you’ve lost me.

I don’t understand why we let Civ get away with amputating gameplay from the end-of-lifecycle previous game to repackage as new DLC again? If they hit upon great ideas in an expansion, why is that not folded into the core product like most decent games do with sequels?

They started with a triangle for 6, slowly carved it down to a semi-smooth, functional circle, then turned around for 7 and said “how about a cube this time?” Stop reinventing the wheel and finish refining it.

Honestly, the development mirrors my playthroughs of 4Xs: start with something funky and a lil different, struggle to make it work, and then restart when I’m close to done.

The only concern is how much the cost of training the model changes if it got a significant kickstart from previous, very-expensive training. I was interested because it was said to be comparable for a fraction of the cost. "Open"AI can suck sand.

If these hypothetical developers are waiting for cash infusions to “fix” the finances of thesw disastrously managed companies, then they’re pretty naïve. Successful games are making multi-millions, even middling franchise games can pull that. More than enough to sustain a normal sized development team.

I imagine maintaining a reasonable team would result in fewer unemployed developers than overbloating the team thinking “more is biggerer is more money” and then cutting tens of thousands of positions for “costs.”

I enjoy the meme content.

I enjoy the appropriate inversion of the meme format more.

I’m doing a temperature check: name a game with good lore.

Why would you come to someone’s question, not engaging with the question in the slightest, to say “my thing is better”?

“stout” is the first that comes to mind and isn’t immediately discarded. But because those other forms are so easy to call to mind I’d rather describe the power-lifter as they differ from those norms.

“He was no body-builder. Powerful, yes, but he had traded aesthetics for even more strength. Muscles built upon muscles like layers of a brick house, and nearly as solid.”

GPs were probably getting inundated with requests and asked to get removed from the list.

Don’t threaten them with a good time.

I’ve been told I have ADHD by my friends with ADHD, so apparently I’m spec’d deep into anger. Kids, it works!

That’s not peer pressure, that’s cultural osmosis. If other species tried to force them to have nipples, then they would resist