[-] Ashtear@lemm.ee 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This is a dimension of the conversation I wish was talked about more. By linking strict norms to behavior in public, we're telling petite women of the age of majority that don't have curves that they can't ever be sexually attractive because it's extremely immoral and taboo. It's especially a problem for trans women who can't afford/don't want breast augmentation surgery or otherwise can't develop biological markers that we code as adult. Being told only pedophiles will be attracted to you is harmful to everyone involved.

[-] Ashtear@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago

With today's news that a licensed song is being removed in a future update of Alan Wake, I'm reminded that television shows have also been getting similar "updates" for a little while now. The staggered release schedule of television shows makes it the only medium off the top of my head that does anything similar. Pilot shows were generally unpolished products, often followed up by recasting or other major changes. Abrupt cancellations also could mean unfinished stories (no, I'm not still bitter about Stargate Universe).

Game development is an iterative process, so as soon as I first started seeing open beta testing come about as a part of digital distribution decades ago, I figured it was only a matter of time before profiteering got us to where we are now.

[-] Ashtear@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago

They were that style of sprite derived from prerendered 3D art that was popular in the late 90's/early 2000's.

It's unfortunately looking like ports of this game are going to come later.

[-] Ashtear@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago

Calling out the Jenis Academy stretch would be bold in the fandom, lol. I mostly agree with you though, I think that whole chapter was a low point for the series.

Sky SC in particular has some brutal pacing, so it'd be reassuring for the future remake if they shuffled up this game a bit.

[-] Ashtear@lemm.ee 11 points 4 days ago

This point is premature for Wukong until we see some data that this was anything more than a domestic market success. Steam data scrapers speculate that China sales are over 80%, so we might be looking at (an optimistic) 1-1.5 million sold in the US so far. Not amazing numbers for a AAA project.

The real story here is that this game's success is the clearest sign yet this vast market has been activated. I'm sure Japanese, Korean, and Western AAA publishers--especially those with a console focus--are very interested.

[-] Ashtear@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

That's exactly the issue here. ChatGPT's current training set ends right around the time the Meta Quest 3 came out. It's not going to have any discussions in there of No Man's Sky with tech that wasn't out yet.

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I'm hearing the marketing for this one is on the spoilery side (as is frequently the case with Falcom), so beware.

[-] Ashtear@lemm.ee 206 points 2 months ago

It's hard to top the inkjet printers I've owned. I still can't believe 30 years later home printer tech is not only unimproved but worse between lower quality production and squeezing people on ink costs.

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[-] Ashtear@lemm.ee 97 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Can't help but wonder how much of this is due to Hasbro's mismanagement.

As much as I'd love to see more content from them on BG3, seeing what Larian can do now that they have scaled up to being a major studio is exciting.

Edit: Swen said on Twitter today that it's not on WOTC.

[-] Ashtear@lemm.ee 51 points 6 months ago

The wild thing about last summer was it revealing how remarkably stable their unpaid labor pool is. Take away their tools, mock them in the national press and on the site, and the worst most of them will do is participate in a perfunctory protest. They weren't willing to go to war or even organize in a meaningful manner.

It makes me think of how nationalism has sent millions to their deaths. Who needs money? People will put themselves through hell just to protect an identity.

[-] Ashtear@lemm.ee 57 points 7 months ago

"We know, stop writing us."

[-] Ashtear@lemm.ee 47 points 8 months ago

Grave of the Fireflies, a Ghibli film. Stopped it a couple times. Ended up finishing it eventually, wish I never had.

[-] Ashtear@lemm.ee 198 points 11 months ago

Archived link so we're not sending any traffic Reddit's way.

I love the "if you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about" admin response downthread, too. They've really gone full mask-off over there, haven't they?

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