No one is ever ready to accept that perfect matchmaking would mean every player has a 50% win rate. 😅

I’m guessing it’s at the start. Cool visual but weird phrasing.

I had no idea people lived in Petra. I thought it was just a ruin

I hope they expand the quick play to all difficulties eventually.

I haven’t tried it yet. Do you know if it’s all the different bosses that can spawn or is it just some of them? Pretty neat idea for an event honestly.

Ah, I see. I wonder how convoluted that’s going to be in a few years 😅

I didn’t know people could post on defederated instances

I think it’s great they’re charging such a reasonable price, but I hope people don’t hold other smaller devs to this standard and compare them one to one. It’s a lot easier to charge $20 when you’re about to sell a bajillion copies of something. A solo dev making something way smaller might charge $20, too, but they may only sell a few dozen copies.

In other words, celebrate the pro consumer decision but please don’t use it as a cudgel against other indies in the future.

As much as I like this platform, there’s a lot of this kind of thinking on here. People with niche opinions acting like they’re a worldwide fact.

I don’t care about hyper real graphics either, but many, many, many people care about it a lot. The reality is indie games are quite niche compared to larger games even during this time of increasing spotlight on them. Hopefully that will continue to shift but we aren’t there yet.

Never played it.

I’d say based on his last 3 songs he is now fully political. I mean we’ll see what he does next, but Hind’s Hall 1 and 2, and Fucked Up are all super political and powerful songs.

I’m too old to say what anything this generation is, but look up “fucked up” by Macklemore. Came out at the start of the year and it’s the most rage against the machine esque thing I’ve heard in years. Got me riled up.

Edit: I see you literally called him out in the post, so this is old news to you I’m sure. I’ll leave it for others to find!

Is there much depth to that? I’ve found in the past they keep adding new systems, and each new one has exactly the same issue of being another thing that’s not super deep. And by deep I mean full of surprises and things to learn, not you can technically do it for a long time.

I’ve tried to get into it periodically. I like aspects of it, but it’s also very bland in some ways I find. Like there are infinite cool planets to discover, but the resources are more or less the same on each and across the whole thing. There’s so much to see, but so little meat on the bones I guess?

I need a bit more pulling me forward than what that game gives you I think. The phrase “wide as an ocean, shallow as a puddle” has been my experience with it unfortunately. I know a lot of people like it these days, though.

GTA. I’m a SciFi and fantasy guy so it just doesn’t do anything for me.

I’ve been playing Elden Ring for the first time (also my first fromsoft game). Yeah…

Yeah why is there a 180 ton pile of wipes in the first place 😆

So in my opinion ai gen images are basically the opposite experience of looking at good art.

A good piece of art has loads of details and nuances that came from the artist’s taste and vision. The longer you look at it the more there is to appreciate. You keep finding new details you missed as you study it.

Ai gens are the opposite. They look fine and competent at a cursory glance, but the longer you look the less meaning you find, and the more defects you discover. Personally I believe this is why they feel so wrong to look at for any length of time.

Saving that infographic for later!

Are you a Spanish speaker? That’s an interesting insight.

That’s a really cool way to think about it! I’m a career graphic designer so I work with color all the time, but I hadn’t really put it in those terms before.

Yellow is such a tricky color. I’ve also run into the “dark yellow” issue many times. I’m sure you know this already, but it’s the thinnest band of color as well, meaning it stops looking like itself sooner than any other color as you shift through hues.

Have you heard about how language can affect color perception? I’ve heard that some languages don’t have a word for orange. Something would either be red or yellow. Not only do they not have a word for it, it actually changes those native speakers perception of where a distinct color begins and ends apparently. So where we would see orange as its own band, they don’t. I wish I remembered which language I heard that about, but I find it really fascinating.