Oh yeah I never accused it of being a good deal. But I also try to avoid microtransactions as much as possible in general. I would say to justify $30 you need to add significant new maps, enemies, maybe even some new systems to justify something that costs almost half the price of a new AAA game. Or if it is just cosmetics, charge in the $1-$5 range for those.
It’s almost as if the economies and balance of single-player games are different from MMO’s.
So you’d rather be spies on by the formerly largest panopticon ever created AND not be able to side load?
If you think Apple is some paragon of privacy you might want to do some research on that lol.
This article really reads like an ad for this GigaCopper product rather than actually giving much real info.
They claim that the way the house was wited necessitates this, but don’t really go into details about how the house was wired or how this product overcomes that.
I did something similar to my own house several year ago- without buying a product like this. I had existing Cat5 cable that was originally installed for phone service. I cut the lines near the box from the phone company and terminated them with RJ-45 connectors then put my router there and plugged them in. Replaced the face plates with RJ-45 ones too. I didn’t have any daisy chained lines, but even if I did a simple and cheap switch would solve that problem AND give you some extra ports you probably need anyways.
Maybe there’s some other esoteric way of wiring phones that was used. I’ve heard of cases where they split out wires from the Cat5 (phones can get by with just 2 wires, but Cat5 has 4 pairs). Even then I’ve only heard of that being used for stuff like more than one phone in the same room, or having phones on either side of the same wall.
I’m sure there are some scenarios where this product is necessary but the article doesn’t really explain why it was in this case.
I’ve noticed a ton of these too: it seemed to have started right around New Year’s.
As someone who typically scrolls All, I’m not even sure if it’s specific to this community. There are a lot of Comic and Meme communities where these things are getting posted across various instances. I’m still not sure whether this is nefarious or someone trying to grow Lemmy. Could just be some college student trying to test out making bots, posting things they genuinely like. Though I have noticed most of the comics tend to em have divisive elements or say things that are obviously wrong. It seems like their goal might be to drive comment engagement.
So I’ve been marking them with UserNotes as “Comic Bot” and usually just do voting and moving on. Occasionally commenting to draw attention to the user history for others.
And OP is yet another account that was created incredibly recently just to post a handful of comics.
It started happening with the new year. Tons of account getting created, in various instances, and posting comics to a variety of different communities.
Idk maybe it’s someone trying to boost Lemmy’s rate for content and just drive the growth of the platform, but something about it just doesn’t smell right.
They make some good points about how we view “classic” games too.
A lot of 16-bit games are remembered fondly because of things like “look at how many colors are on the screen at once! Look at how big the sprites are- they’re almost as big as the arcade version! Hear how there are 4 separate audio tracks that kind of almost sound like real instruments sometimes!”.
Mario 64 is a great example for me. I hear other people was nostalgic about how incredible it was to be able to move in 3D space at the time, and how they spent hours just wandering around levels and marveling at the technology. For me, I did that with Crash Bandicoot (which came out a few months earlier in the US). And shortly after Spyro blew them both out of the water with its incredibly smooth controls and, imo, better graphics and sound. When I’ve tried to go back and play Mario 64 I find it a clunky mess of a game, more of a tech demo than anything else.
On the one hand I can respect the pioneers. The original thinkers who push the frontiers of what art can be. On the other hand, those games that rely so heavily on being “revolutionary for their time” often don’t hold up well decades later when tons of games have done what they did better. I think it’s possible to appreciate those games for what they did without enjoying going back and playing them.
When I look back at what I’ve played the past couple years, games like Control and Horizon: Zero Dawn stick out. I don’t think either one of them had anything particularly innovative or new. I see any games coming out today where I say “wow that’s a Control-like” game. But what they did do was execute on a high level, with a lot of polish and very few flaws. I think that’s the biggest strength of AAA games: execution, not innovation.
OP’s account was created 4 days ago and has only posted comics that clearly have controversies baked in tk make people mad and generate a lot of comments.
I’ve noticed a huge influx of accounts exactly like this in the past couple weeks. I don’t know who it is or why but it’s weird.
I hereby grant you the title of “Gaytekeeper”
Oh look another account a few hours old spamming a bunch of comics, usually with controversial inaccuracies or divisiveness.
There’s been a huge influx of these accounts lately. Add this one to the pile.
IUD’s can be great too. My wife has used them for years. Reduced period frequency and severity, higher effective rate of contraception, no need to worry about taking a pill late or missing one. Her gynecologist said it will probably reduce pre-menopausal symptoms too when she gets older. And it’s pretty easily removable.
There was a couple of weeks when she was sore from the initial placement, and the same whenever it gets changed. They keep on getting approved to last longer and longer- the most recent one was good for 8 years, but there’s a good chance it will get extended before it needs to be replaced as more research is done.
Not for everyone, but great for a lot of people.
Subjective opinions are not part of the validation process.
It’s a shame how many people here are willing to just pretend those statements don’t exist and handwave then away because they like the game.
Also, the game has never gone on sale, and in fact saw a price INCREASE years after launch. $30 was already a bit steep for a game like this when there are tons of similar indie RTS’s for $10-$20 that go on sale, and they increased it to $35. And then added a $30 DLC on top of that. If you’re looking for a good value RTS- Dwarf Fortress is free, and if you want you can pay $30 for the nicer version and support devs who, afaik, do not have such controversy attached.
Midsommar sure was terrible.
That I don’t believe in a magical man in the sky?
Ah Ladybutterfly… the first user I ever added a positive usernote to, but then stared posting anti-men content and also flooded the autistic communities with ADHD memes, so I had to downgrade the usernote to “meh”. Shame.
I don’t think Ladybutterfly is related to this recent influx though.
Oh look another one, made 15 minutes ago and also posting these same comics.
Another 2hr old account posting nothing but low-effort divise rage bait.
Morrowind only sold ~4 million units. I think you’re overestimating how big the fan base is. The fan base is loyal, opinionated, and vocal, but small.