that’s just simply not true. if you look at the project lifecycle for a game very little resources are spent in preproduction, the bulk of the time is in production. preproduction usually has all of the core mechanics and ideas implemented by the end, then it’s just about executing on that plan. there’s not a lot of experimentation and iteration once you are in full tilt production mode

much of a game’s development time is spent creating assets, using a new engine doesn’t mean your existing low fidelity assets suddenly look better, just better lit

yes and if human well being was the goal over profit. profit benefits the few, and it’s an amoral driving force. unfortunately it’s been conflated with freedom and fairness.

If your goal is to achieve realistic looking city streets the best way to do that isn’t an expensive online infrastructure and much more advanced simulation.

If the developers had the skills and time to do that they could more easily have more dense NPC crowds and richer local simulation.

The reason the games aren’t already like that is likely just cost, talent, and target performance, which you’d need a lot more of to execute your plan.

there are lots of systemic forces that incentivize being an asshole as well

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My man is trying to make a point about gender equality in a genocide. People should be killed equally in genocide.

Too bad the campaign is over they could have paraded him around

Fair enough, I felt it important to clarify (and check) so these developers and Team 17 aren’t unfairly punished by the general state of the industry.

It doesn’t seem like you need to worry here.

Can you explain to me how you’re supportive of Israel’s government and its actions without it being from a conservative or fascist perspective?

What do you identify as?

I never called you antisemitic, I don’t conflate opinions on Israel or Zionism with people’s Jewish identity. There are many anti-Israel and anti-Zionist Jews.

That’s giving the algorithms too much credit. They don’t encode user desires they encode user engagement bait. Like everything under our capitalist system the motivation is profit: in this case ad revenue. Sometimes positive things or agreeable things drive engagement, sometimes negative or divisive things. As long as users spend time scrolling on the platform they’ll both be given equal weight.

As with anything profit motive driven it’s just about what makes more money not what makes more sense or what makes better outcomes. The core assumption of capitalism (at least how it’s sold) is that profit causing activity correlates with improvements to human well-being. How anyone still believes that, I’m not sure.

This is consistent with your fascist mindset at least, and it’s the exact attitude that led to interment camps. Congratulations.

Conservatives can’t see shades of grey and they’re too fragile to let them be so a black and white worldview is forcibly imposed on everyone.

You’re everything wrong with humanity.

Yes the acquiescence of all editorial and publishing decisions by these tech companies to “the algorithm” (which somehow absolves them of responsibility) is the main culprit there.

These platforms are more like radio infrastructure or TV infrastructure than any particular channel, and for the most part anything they specifically promote and fund doesn’t tend to be that alt right content which is completely algorithm driven and ad/sponsor/dark money supported.

We need to employ nuance when discussing these platforms.

What an easily manipulated little fool. Fascists are just reaping and reaping what they’ve sown. Reducing words to simple labels for “us” vs. “them” without looking at how those actions compare and contrast.

By definition I’m the good guy, by definition you’re the bad guy, anything else is too hard on my feeble brain.

It’s not your fault, you might forget to breathe if you try to apply that thing.

When you strike people arbitrarily with booby traps that tends to happen.

American soldiers go home too, is it ok to blow up their families?

“Embed with children.” It’s an interesting way to describe being with your civilian family while not actively engaged on the battlefield.

When soldiers get to board my plane early I’ll be sure to expect it to be shot down, since I’m just a human shield in that scenario.

did the children that were killed operate those pagers?

if I booby trap something intended for someone else but your son or daughter is in possession of it when it triggers, is that precise?

How about the fact that this appears to have been an intent to maim (despite also killing children).

Are these the types of tactics we want to normalize? Or is it just ok when it’s used on brown people.

Would Russia doing this to Ukraine count as a well executed precise attack? Vice versa?

It’s a coop game and what they’re describing sounds more like “progression” than microtransactions. Unlocking new things is a core gameplay mechanic going back to before the Internet. Did I miss where it implies anything about microtransactions or pay to win (again: coop game)

There are tons of highly educational YouTube channels, and traditional media has completely abandoned that kind of content. The average YouTube video has more educational content than “The Learning Channel.” And you are more likely to get accurate information about history than “The History Channel”

This is a boomer take.

they’re so quirky let’s normalize their rhetoric, those weirdos are so silly. you wouldn’t wanna be seen as lame by voting for them.

I’m so glad Democrats pulled out all the stops