It is crazy. Reason why I never do it. I can’t find a single good reason to use gift cards instead of money.

And for digital game preorders? That’s even dumber. The publisher is not going to run out of bits, if you purchase after the launch, your digital game will be delivered all the same. But I guess corporate shills need to feel that they are helping the poor multi million corpo…

Fun fact: cucumbers and watermelons are actually part of the same family: the cucurbitaceae.

And not only iPhones, the orange cunt is about to find out how much of the stuff the US buy is made outside and can’t be done inside.

Considering the amount of people that either voted trump or not voted at all, I’d say that there’s a portion of americans lying.

They what!?

How can they end such a nice initiative? What was the problem with secret santa?

If you want a big open world game, I can recommend Mad Max, you can find it in fanatical (a legal and trusted store) for $2.49. I had a lot of fun with it and it will give you tons of hours of fun.

https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/mad-max

I actually recommend you that site for steam keys since they often do bundles very cheap to help your library grow without spending a fortune.

Oh well, I’ll keep “borrowing” my ebooks from other librarieZ.

Well, you are assuming a lot of things I haven’t said there.

First of all, I said that in the AAA world, original games are rare. They exist, but they are rare. And there’s a reason: an AAA game is made by a company that has a stakeholders board deciding what has to be done and what not (which is the reason why people say BG3 is not an AAA game but an indie). Since those boards want their money and only that, they don’t care about innovation or anything else.

This doesn’t mean that AAA companies don’t make original games, it only means that they rarely experiment and tend to focus on already succesful formulas.

Second, I never said that AAA games are just “big games I don’t like”. As I said, sometimes they do good games. But seriously, how many times have you seen an AAA company take a serious risk in what they do?

Also, I don’t think it’s just the usual three. I think GTA is doing the same. What are they gonna do with 6? Just GTA V but bigger. That’s exactly what I mean when I say that they don’t innovate.

For the record, an AAA game is a game with a big budget from a big studio. I think everyone can agree that an Assassin’s Creed is an AAA game while shovel knight isn’t.

I agree with the sentiment. People think that non 3d graphics should be cheap because they don’t understand the amount of work that can go behind them.

Take chained echoes or sea of stars, two modern pixel jrpgs with “premium” prices. If someone thinks those games shouldn’t cost their full price, they are out of their minds.

Same with shovel knight. I bought the treasure trove and the amount of fun it has give to me puts so many 80€ games to shame.

That’s the problem with many modern AAA games. They lack innovation. Since they only look to maximize profits, they stick to reliable formulas that are known to be profitable.

This is the reason why I only play indies nowadays. How many AAA studios have new ideas? Sure, we see, every now and then, a new game that really feels new, but they are rare. Meanwhile, the indie sphere cooks new things constantly. Sure, not all are pretty or good or polished, but at least they try new things!

Proton.me is their real url, but is that link taking you to proton.me?

You need to treat them like a religious sect. When you include the “faith” in the list of reasons why they do shit, it becomes easy to understand.

They are religious fundamentalists and are to be treated like such. Same way people don’t need proof to believe in their god, magas don’t need it either to believe in trump.

Didn’t the 2k sports games have ads of real stuff included for “immersion”? Never played one, so I wouldn’t know, but I heard about them.

No, that xkcd is relevant because that’s exactly what free speech means. Your government won’t arrest you for saying stuff, but for the same reason you are free to speak, we are free to act within law against you.

And there is no law forbiding people from boycotting or unhosting or simply not listening to what you say.

You are free to speak, we are free to listen.

So you are a racist. Got it.

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You are not going to find “free speech” instances federated with everyone, because what you are looking for is an instance allowing bigotry and racism, things that most of lemmy don’t like.

Move to a red state. Put up an activity as harmful as possible to humans while keeping it legal and making sure to remember everyone at every moment that you are doing this because there are no regulations.

You can’t convince a maga to stop voting trump with words, but you can force them if their only other option is dying for the lack of regulations.

Unaliving a nazi who wants thousands or even millions of people death is unethical? I’m going to disagree.