Another next-gen witcher 3 update? Not to look a gift horse in the mouth but the last one was both underperforming and kind of underwhelming. Why not do a witcher 1 next gen? The old goose desperately neets a graphical and/or combat update.

The game is notorious for having a slow, boring start and it's a turn-off for many. Not sure why, but white orchard always feels like a slog. It usually clicks ( it might not for you, but it usually does ) 10-ish hours in, once you get deeper into velen/novigrad.

Plenty. I don't imagine ads cover the huge cost of hosting video in this day and age, especially with all the adblockers running around ( saw an ad revenue number in a study a while ago, google supposedly makes between 100s-10000s dollars per person, depending on their "value" ).

I for one am grateful to all the paying subscribers - it means google will more readily tolerate my shiny freeloading adblocking ass.

Afaik this a fairly standard software licensing model. Pretty much all paid videogames are like that, physical or not. Sony just started to act on it in the hopes of making even more moneyz

Nah, I'm standing by this conspiracy as well. Something is off about it - the timing, the fkn amateur "hacker" etc

Plus rockstar have drummed up drama in the past to promote their games

Remember the days when microsoft would get slapped with an antitrust lawsuit for simply preinstalling a browser? Pepperidge farm remembers.

They're not exactly hidden these days, but I agree. And they also happen in paid games. Guessing a separate pegi category for all games that offer in game spending, regardless if its outright gambling, season passes or dlc, and for both free and paid games. They should not be allowed to tug at your strings, at least in-game.

It looks like for complete context there's a miniseries, Alan Wake+DLCs, two comics, AW American Nightmare, Quantum Break and only then Control. I don't really do horror so Control is gonna be the first and that's that lol

Do wired usb-c headphones not exist? Don't get me wrong, I hate that everyone has dropped the jack and buds can fuck right off, but they're just advertising those buds as an adjacent product, they're not locking anyone in.

Is there a recommended order to these games? I started Control and it just throws words at me like I'm supposed to know. Combat is decent tho, and while I hate navigating it, the old house has fantastic architecture

Yea rockstar has figured that they don't even need to show official gameplay - they can pretend to be secretive and reveal stuff through leaks and drama. They're overdoing it and won't be surprised if it starts backfiring.

This whole lemmy tankie dev thing has been discussed ad nauseam here for the past year or so. Not sure what solutions you suggest, but if I were to filter my software by who's an asshole dev and who's not, that list will end up really short.

As far as the ml instance goes, I don't agree that we should start defederating left and right with any and all undesirables, but to each their own. At least people now will be in the know, and it might take some weight off lemmy.world

Exploit it you say? Please get in line behind the russians, the chinese snd pretty much all arab countries

Goddamn it. Lobbying wins again

That moment when you're too far right for the far-right.

Discord probably did the math and are willing to take a hit to the user counts (much like reddit did when they closed the apis), as the vast majority will stay and keep "threatening" to leave. There's at least the hope that the ones who quit now will establish communities elsewhere, on a (hopefully) better server platform.

Can't wait for that LLM to become a reddit-hating bloodthirsty linux obsessed furry femboy communist tankie with a weird fondness for beans, star trek and sturgeon

Interesting. I thought companies usually waited until they at least had a good product or cashflow before going for enshittification.

Its fascinating to see that a chinese state controlled app has the power to potentially destabilize small economies. Also fuck influencers, they are a plague on this world.

The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.