As a consumer we can use our choices where we spend to lead companies one way or the other. Spreading the word to not buy something is “doing something about it”. How effective it may be here in Lemmy, probably not very much, but it’s something.

The issue is that there is only 1 industry. And the end goal of ALL developers and companies is making money. The more the better. When other pools start seeing that pissong in the pool leaves them more money, than they ALL will start designing their games around this. It is this design choice that will infect pretty much all other games. The precedent it sets affects the whole industry.

And like you said before, the only way this is not an issue is if it does not generate additional money for them so that no other pools try to imitate. And this will only happen if nobody buys them. And this post is trying to dissuade those buyers so that this does not become rampart and then all games have it.

Extra credit for correctly using affect!!!

I think the analogy is that it sets a precedent. Now the other companies see how you can pee in the pool and folks are either cool with it (buy) or are on the other end (not buy but meh). Now the pool standard is piss filled pool and we will never have a chance to get into a clean pool anymore.

If you want to take a swim you have to do it in a pissed soaked pool because we never complained or did anything about it.

That scene actually looks very real.

Here is a video on how they made it

Making of Flashback scene on Terminator Dark Fate

OMG. I got 8.95% for a 25yr mortgage and it was an awesome deal. Market was about 13.5%. Your numbers are really just free money from where am standing.

This looks really cool. A proper metreoidvenia + prince of Persia action. Let’s wait for reviews, but keeping my eye on this one for sure.

So I used bings chat bot to summarize the article to the same length as the other bot and this is the result (you be the judge) :

!Carlos Vasquez, also known as Rattlehead, is a professional gamer who relies on sound to play Mortal Kombat. Carlos, who is completely blind, started playing video games at the age of six in 1992. He was diagnosed with a type of glaucoma when he was 11, which slowly took away his sight. Carlos relies on hearing the specific sounds of the characters to make his attacking and defensive moves. He is able to pick up on the distinct sounds of the characters and use them to his advantage. Carlos found that most mainstream games were almost impossible to play without gaming accessibility features. Back in his 20s, Carlos was able to play some fighting games, and in particular Mortal Kombat, because he was able to pick up on the distinct sounds. For example, he recognised that the character who started on the right side of the screen would grunt at a slightly higher pitch than the one on the left. This allowed him to work out which character he was playing¹.

Source: Conversation with Bing, 12/12/2023 (1) Blind Mortal Kombat Pro Explains How He Plays Using Sound - TheGamer. https://www.thegamer.com/mortal-kombat-11-rattlehead-blind-player-pro-accessibility/. (2) Best Gaming Headsets 2023: Wireless, Budget and More - Tom’s Hardware. https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-gaming-headsets,5499.html. (3) The 7 Best Gaming Headsets - Fall 2023: Reviews - RTINGS.com. https://www.rtings.com/headphones/reviews/best/by-usage/gaming.!<

• Alan Wake 2,
• Armored Core 6,
• Yakuza: Like a Dragon,
• Like a Dragon: Ishin,
• Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name,
• Hi-Fi Rush,

1. Humanity,

• Jusant,
• Lies of P,

1. Resident Evil 4,
2. Resident Evil 4 Remake,

• Tchia,
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom,
• Final Fantasy XVI,
• El Paso Elsewhere,
• Call of Duty: World at War,
• The Darkness,
• Marvel’s Midnight Suns,
• Killer7,
• Silent Hill 3

1. , No More Heroes,

• Manhunt,
• Plumbers Don’t Wear Ties: The Definitive Edition,
• Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora,
• Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria,
• Marvel’s Spider-Man 2,
• Viewfinder,
• Goodbye Volcano High,
• Iron Lung,
• Tetris Effect,
• REZ
• , Scavenger’s Reign,
• How To with John Wilson
• , Across the Spider-Verse

Weird list…

This is an awesome tutorial. Thank you for sharing!

I have been working on a flask app that over 600 employees are now using. I am very new to the whole thing and have been able to put it together with help from tutorials and online documentation. This will fill some of the gaps I have been having.

Nice! This looks really useful. Saving it for later.

Thanks for sharing!

I hate that when I click on the Settings for a Notification I do not get any information on the category of the notification. You have to go into 3 settings to get to your notification history and there it shows the category. Bad phone!!!

My money is on Baldurs Gate. Haven’t played it but the hype is real. And this is a public vote so…

My Samsung phone does have that feature in the My Files app that comes pre installed. I don’t use it because File Manager+ is so much better. And I have access to my SFTP, LAN and NAS. I am not associated with the app. Just enjoy it and recommend it because I find it very useful.

I just built a laptop and I always choose Mint. I used the XFCE spin and it failed me. Everything worked well except the second monitor screen. I just could not get it to display proper 1080p. I tried forums and changed a bunch of configurations.

I ended up getting Fedora on it and it worked out of the box. Oh well. Fedora it is then.

What is ML?

Every single person I know or meet uses WhatsApp. About 90% of the businesses I interact with use WhatsApp Businesses. My whole family uses WhatsApp.

Moving to another system is going to take a lot a lot of work.

Say it with me… M O N O P O L Y