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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Completely unrelated, but...

What the hell are those controller buttons?

One looks melted, the other 3 have weird shading like they're partly hollow. Super Famicom and EU SNES (the ones with colours) are smooth and round.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Another generic live service bites the dust. Sure, keep trying for the formula that only works for about 5 games in the whole world at any given time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I like how it thinks it is likely from a videogame, but somehow, it's absolutely certain it has the character's name.

And then a bunch of facts about famous videogame character Lemmy Kilmister.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I've only experienced LBP3 (which I understand was probably not the best part of the series) and found it just okay...

However Dreams is the one I wish Sony didn't abandon.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

That paper lantern monster design feels familiar. I'm wondering if I've seen that asset somewhere else..

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah, it stinks. Another thing that makes me wish we'd got that Dreams PC port that was apparently considered at one point.

Very cool platform, powerful yet (somewhat) easy to use, and no other incentive than creating and sharing cool stuff. It's mostly dead now , but PC would have given it the critical user mass it needed.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

A good deal of people making ~~games~~ experiences on Roblox are minors. They're being promised revenues, but of course they're paid with bogus money that they're encouraged to spend back on the platform, since cashing back is subject to an absolutely ridiculous rate, and to a minimum amount. Only the very few at the top can pretend to get anything back as real money. But all of the games, even the ones that never makes a cent for their creators, are the content Roblox milks indefinitely.

Roblox development is a jungle, completely unregulated and managed outside of the platform by design, since they want to deny all responsibility for any of that shit. They kill the platform forums so dev teams are being formed outside, on discords and stuff. Teams with minors working with adults. Yes, there were cases of exploitation, and worse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

That, and also possibly a mod. With procedural show descriptions like other art forms.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

On the subject of entertainment, I'm always wondering who the hell makes TV programs and broadcasts them to the Rim. Are those local? I can't really imagine a distant extra-system world having an interest in an audience from the Rim.

So who? Bored Archotech with inscrutable reasons? Propaganda from the fallen Empire? Art projects from other colonies?

If so, why don't I have weirdo colonists that start filming themselves and improvise a late show?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

8 (DX but really my favorite parts of it were already on Wii U). 8's tracks are incredible (not the booster packs one, those are a mixed bag and none really reach base game/Wii U dlc level).

Wii comes very close though. It's the first to have good item balance IMO, it gets rid of the left-right bullshit to drift, and circuits are quite fun too. And some bikes are a blast, though to the point of being overpowered.

I just think of 8 as "we took everything good in Wii and made it a bit better".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Guy didn't get the memo and only signed for Valhalla expecting booze and hot Valkyries.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I don't know, that little guy looks like it has guts. Maybe it earned its place in Elysium.

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