is this praxis?

free game giveaways have no appeal to me when they're for a game with a bajillion DLC, because I still then have to pirate all of the DLC anyway. shame, because the steam deck did make me preference actually owning games on steam, but I also get a bit irked if I'm not playing the complete package

It's a topic I had to catch up with after catching up on the thread, and that makes it all click into place a bit better for me. Still, there's about 200 people at Warhorse Studios, according to a brief Google check, up from about 70 prior to the launch of the original game. There's a whole lot of collective love poured into this game concept that not many people under current economic incentives would be prepared to make. I would personally find it a shame if someone was otherwise interested in this game but was put off, solely, by that bad press (which is incredibly bad press, don't get me wrong there.)

It wouldn't surprise me if the company attracted other chud-like workers based off the founder's views, but as a casual fan of that original game, all of the content and intent seemed fine to me, and you're flat out not going to get another game like it on the market.

yeah and I don't actually have an issue with that, I was being a bit glib for effect. even if one doesn't find them inherently depressing, though, i don't think 'commie blocks' break up the typical skyline of a city enough to be the deciding factor on if a city is 'attractive' or not

yes, for sure. I think we all do.

I think it requires a reframing of the mind. The 'smart-dumb' scale is an oversimplification of human intellect. It was never entirely accurate. Ignoring intellectual disabilities, every human is equally as capable as being as smart as any other human. We're the same kind of animal.

The true factor in intellect is your curiosity. Some people are naturally curious of different subjects and will learn more about those subjects. Some people are incurious about most subjects and won't learn much at all. Most of the traditionally 'smart' people you think of were just sufficiently curious in whatever field they're qualified in. None of the traditionally 'smart' people you think of were born smart.

Foster your curiosity. If you know what excites you, you're already half way to intelligence.

Subscribed, new, posts. I will shitpost on the ground floor of your post.

I've started reading 'Behind the Urals' and the one thing that struck me immediately is that, despite the described working conditions being pretty depressing and dangerous, everyone was just vibing? Everyone hung out together, chilled out to music, swapped stories about their lives and past homes, and even had energy after all of that to go off to night school to learn, driven by possibility to be anything they wanted.

You can be feeding people half of the rations they were promised, be unable to supply them all the tools they need for work, and have them sleep in barracks - but if they're working towards something tangible, both for themselves and for community, and in good company, their spirits will remain very high.

i think the current wave of live action anime stuff is better than in the days of dragon ball evolution in any case

i actually really like bizarre out there takes on existing properties. i know hardcore anime fans want adaptions to be loyal to the source material but, for example, i love how off the wall netflix's death note was precisely because it was as far away from the anime as you can get

it's cool to see two different takes on the same property imo

Sweet, time to finish some of the horrible projects 14 year old me started

HogLeg's success is pretty crazy if you think about it. Ignoring the sales we've looking at today, take yourself back to the launch of HogLeg. It kept up pace with Fallout 4 in terms of active players and achievement completion rates. This is huge to me. They're both singleplayer RPGs, so they're both vying for the same type of audience.

But.

Fallout 4 was a hugely anticipated sequel to one of the most renowned series in all of gaming. Harry Potter had almost no presence in gaming beyond nostalgic shovel ware titles.

Fallout 4 was developed by gaming darlings, a company known for producing huge open worlds with strong volumes of content. HogLeg was developed by shovelware developers with no major releases in their history.

Fallout 4 is a first person looter shooter, one of the most ubiquitous and successful genres out there. HogLeg is an action roleplaying game, still admittedly a safe genre but doesn't have the genre conventions that makes it possible for anyone with FPS experience to pick up a Fallout.

And finally, Fallout 4 targeted gamers. It's a gamer's game, you know? It's for lore nerds and RPG fans and tacticool nuts and all the rest. HogLeg was for Harry Potter fans. It needed to drag fans across media types to secure a big enough audience.

I truly, truly did not expect HogLeg to find the success it has. And to be honest, it's quite a mid game! It's a visual accomplishment and adherence to the universe means that it's a treat for any Harry Potter nerds, but the rest of the game is as close as generic as it could get.

We put ourselves down the path of endless speculation and jumping at shadows if we just automatically assume any and all data provided by China is outright falsehoods. There are people in China employed to track these statistics and there is material benefits to having these statistics available to the public. There's even incentive for this information to be true.

If the information simply coming from China is enough to dismiss them as China spreading their agenda, then the same could earnestly be argued for any other country on Earth. This kind of logic is the same logic QAnon types use to immediately dismiss evidence.

"The vaccine is causing people to die in huge numbers. What do you mean you disagree? I've seen it, and my family has seen it. Those statistics saying otherwise? Let me guess, they're provided by the vaccine companies?"

I'm building up to doing the same. Already using Protonmail and Kagi. Looking for a less Google-dependent phone to switch over to and then I might pull the plug myself.