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People who get video game burnout or say gaming is dead or whatever are victims of AAA marketing.

Most of the time I see posts like this they complain that they bought all the newest games with great reviews and aren't having any fun. Normally it's Sony games and other cinematic experience kind of games. Or they are games that they put 100's of hours into. They are doing the same stuff over and over and getting bored.

Unfortunately critics care more about production values and polish than novel game mechanics. Plenty of interesting games get overlooked due to being a little weird or not fitting in modern game conventions. If you only play the big budget AAA stuff you are going to get burnt out because they all copy each other trying to be the next "big game". If you play games that get bad reviews, have weird mechanics, or do something different you won't get burnt out. I like to recommend the Gravity Rush games to people who have a playstation and are burnt out on the "cinematic" games. They typically have never heard of it and end up having a blast with them. Makes me sad when I see people still buying games based on metacrtic scores. They miss out on so much.

Yes, DeSantis schtick is getting old. It's not a real policy. Most people don't even have a clear view of what woke is even supposed to mean.

Even Trump doesn't care for it.

“I don’t like the term ‘woke’ because I hear ‘woke woke woke.’ It’s just a term they use, half the people can’t even define it, they don’t know what it is,” Donald Trump

I agree. I don't really consider social media "technology" anymore. I mean yeah it uses technology but so does everything else. I don't think technology is the right community for this kind of post. There should be an enshittification community where we can see all the Twitter, reddit, and meta stuff.

In fact a lot of "technology" companies are just regular companies with an app. Netflix is a media company, Uber is a taxi company that somehow skirted regulators, and Airbnb is a hotel company that also skirted regulators.

I know there is some controversy with the ads and that it's closed source but wow this app is really nice. I never used it for reddit I used rif so I didn't understand the hype but I get it now. I'm holding out for an app with multireddit though. That's the one feature I really want.

Got to hand it to Sony for not falling for the create your own streaming app trap. Everyone else tried to battle Netflix and they are all losing even Disney. I think there will be at least 3 dead apps by the end of next year. MGM+ being an obvious one. I can see Disney+/Hulu, Max, Netflix, and maybe one other one coming out of this alive.

Getting closer to "you die in game you die in real life".

People have been saying this game is exciting because of the lack of mtx, but it seems to me that any big rpg gets a lot of attention. Eldan Ring got similar praise last year. Bioware was making these kinds of games fairly consistently about a decade ago and then stopped to make shit like Anthem. It's a design decision not a budget problem.

More tech to change things in post. I feel like Hollywood is relying too much of this kind of technology to fix poor planning and writing. Look at all reports about marvel films being radically changed in post. You can tell when a film is a patch job.

If this picture is legit then it's just a confusing rebrand. You now have 2 plans both about 10 dollars but one can't use multiplayer and one has a much smaller selection of games. That's confusing and lame imo. They should merge them into one.

Flatpacks give me the least trouble so I guess those. All though appimages seem alright too. Snaps however seem to never want to install. I like the idea of easy one click installs for every distro but I think we are a few years away from that.

Lemmy feels like the first real alternative to reddit. Everything else was a ghost town or had no moderation so only banned subs would move. This recent exodus won't kill reddit but it created a viable reddit alternative for when they inevitably do something worse. Reddit ran as a number 2 to digg for years before digg screwed up. I can see the same happening here.

Hope the lemmy devs find a way to import and export communities to other instances. Would make these transitions easier.

If you like action games

Vanquish $5.99

Bayonetta $5.99

Devil May Cry 5 $10

Sekiro $30

Are you seriously upset that they are allowing people to watch for free rather than putting it on Netflix? That makes no sense lol. Anyone interested just has to go to a website. Remember when the internet wasn't completely corporate controlled and the best way to share content was on your own site? NASA isn't going to get defunded because people can't see it on Disney+.

NASA is a critical part of the US government it's not going to get defunded ever. Even the most hard conservatives who want to kill a ton of government agencies see the value of NASA and don't touch it.

Birria tacos are amazing. I've noticed every taco place has gotten them in the last 2 years or so lol.

I don't know what you mean. If Sony doesn't make money porting games they will stop doing it. They started doing it as an experiment. They don't need the PC market.

I've heard this conspiracy a few times but I don't buy it. DeSantis got big headed during COVID and thought he could win the presidency. A few republicans told him he could be the more "reasonable" option compared to Trump. Because he has no real policies he's latched onto whatever culture war is relevant. He's a hack plain and simple. I doubt he will even make it very far in the primarys.

Get ready for more unhinged shit like this soon because the only reason this show exists was the 2007 writers strike. If it weren't for them introducing the financial instinctive of golden stars I'm pretty sure it would have turned into Lord of the flies. The first episode they were all at each other's throats and the dynamic changed after there was a prize to be won by working together.

I'm expecting more crazy reality and game shows soon. And maybe AI tv too. Either way it's going to get weird fast. The studio executives all think of themselves as creatives and they will throw out every insane thing they can think of to get your attention.

When they first announced backwards compatibility the only thing I wanted was ninja gaiden black and 2. I'm glad both are on there.