I hate that you were down voted but you are absolutely correct.

There’s no agreed definition of indie.

Back when I worked marketing and would attend GDC conferences, there were awards for “Indies” that had 30 people teams financed by major companies, competing against 1-2 people teams who took a loan against their house.

It’s stupid and frustrating.

And now, with Dave the Diver, it’s just highlighting the truth - Its always been a vibe, a aesthetic. You just have to make it look indie, and call it that.

Whatever definition you hold personally doesn’t matter.

Yep. Nobody cares. Having been to nude beaches, nobody really cares.

The small fraction of people who do judge are reflecting their own insecurities.

30yo kind of have their lives together.

Have a coffee. Just chat like people. Expand your network. The worse that can happen is you shut it down.

From my own perspective, there will be a generational gap. I’m 40, and I can connect with someone around that age. But lower than 30 or older than 45, the connection is platonic.

The worst part, the demo was actually pretty good.

They literally could have released this game with mod support, and sold it for $20 and it would have been a fun party game.

Instead, they kept going on with BS games as a service.

You will.

We’re a gateway drug.

brand new X-wing or lightsaber or landspeeder isn’t all that different from one that was built 50 or even 100s of years ago.

If you want to get extremely weird… The Old Republic takes place 3600 years before the original trilogy.

Tech is mostly the same.

Compared to 3600 years in reality, we went from pooping in a hole to pooping into a magic toilet that sings you songs while spraying you with water.

Or… Here me out, don’t do that.

By giving them money, from their perspective, you’ve accepted their t&c. If they get data or not, that’s just icing on the cake.

Is there a scene where Frasier acts a fool and then excitedly talks about how he voted for Trump?

I was an elementary school kid, having a meltdown at my uncle for not getting me Mario Is Missing at Blockbuster. I was crushing a bunch of Mario games thanks to Super Mario All-star + Mario World, and even SM games on the Gameboy.

I think in college, I finally got a chance to play Mario Is Missing.

Yeah, he made the right choice.

Cherry pick and move the goal post.

For example:

University-level essays? You know for-profit universities exist, right? If you don’t have a masters degree on the subject, then you have no right to speak on the topic.

Yeah I never took anything that made me confuse one thing for another.

As a introvert, I do.

I call their loudness out. Tell them to fucking chill.

You can be introverted AND direct.

The more I think about it, maybe it’s for the whales of PC gaming.

Let the streamers, YouTubers and FOMO folks pay a premium to do all the bug testing.

Then release a polished version for half the price.

A person like me with a massive backlog is absolutely going to wait until this hits less than $20 anyways.

I bought Borderlands for like $30.

I bought BL2 for $20.

I got BL3 for free. (Which in kinda glad. The story was so ass.)

Then I got Tiny Tina’s for like $5 from a bundle.

Borderlands series hasn’t earned the $80 price tag.

It’s hard not to be jaded. I bounce between both sides constantly.

Either way, this guy did an incredible thing.

I like to imagine in another reality, we ride lions and Panthers. And also for some reason have miniature horses.

Yep!

Every person I knew who was into the Switch 2 complained about the price and then pre-ordered.

In over here chilling with my Steam Deck playing a TOTALLY LEGAL VERSION OF A RED MAN IN A JUMP SUIT.

Oh, the dream of earning crypto while I chat with AI chatbots to maybe one day buy NFTs.

Same. But not like anything popular/visible.

I found it while sorting by controversial. Then when I got banned for some BS, decided to finally figure this whole “Lemmy” thing out.