yawntastic [he/him]

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Cake day: September 25th, 2020

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  • yawntastic [he/him]togames*Permanently Deleted*
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    4 years ago

    I think gacha games are fine when the endless grinding is the whole point of playing, like I'll just mindlessly spam a few levels during cardio to distract myself from the even more mindnumbing task of running on a treadmill for an hour. It's a total dealbreaker in games large and involved enough to get me to care about succeeding, like GI looks to be. Constantly updated and iterated online RPGs, MMOs and otherwise, are one of my favorite genres of all time - new stuff comes out and if you've been playing you just jump right into it with no learning curve - but it's pretty much unassailably proven at this point that a subscription fee is the best way to do it and I always have to wonder why people are so resistant to that fact.

    Also, the only genuinely great gacha model, like, "this is a great idea and other games without this loot system should consider it," was Mass Effect 3 MP where dupes upgraded the item and eventually you wouldn't get the dupe anymore so every pull represented actual progress.







  • yawntastic [he/him]toMainOh thank god
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    4 years ago

    And even if we did, it wouldn't be these lawyers! A president ignoring election results and performing a coup isn't a civil liberties issue!


  • yawntastic [he/him]toMainOh thank god
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    4 years ago

    I was trying to decide what bothered me about this, and I think it's that it's fundamentally trying to soothe; it's trying to give you confidence that the ACLU is actually an organization in any way equipped to address a president who decides he's not going to step down, particularly when a huge minority of the country would prefer he do exactly that.

    deadass: the only organization you should care to hear this from is the military




  • I mean, it's complicated. The energy companies really would like to move towards renewables and IIRC are continuing to move more and more money into it, if not because they care about the environment then because they know everything's going that way anyway so they can either be leaders now or give up the field to someone else in the near future.

    That said, they can't just drop fossil fuels in the short term and expect to stay in business. Ironically, the more money they invest in renewables, the more fossil fuels they need to sell in the short term to break even on it.