MisterFeeny

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Genres are confusing af sometimes, and Brown Bird straddle a lot of them, but your initial post hit enough flags for me to immediately think this person would love Brown Bird, whether they are country or not, frankly. Personally I think of them as Southern Gothic, but that's kinda getting in to the nitty gritty super specialized genre-ing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Brown Bird. Start with the album Salt for Salt, in my opinion. It's got some gothic to it, some bluegrass to it, and it's amazing.

Here is the first track of that album for ease. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2H8bSba4JU

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not sure if you're just arguing semantics here, but just for clarification in case you, or anyone else, is unsure why the other person might have said "accused felon", it is because Paxton was indicted for felony securities fraud back in 2015. He has used his political office to delay the trial since then, and has yet to be tried. 8 years and counting since the indictment without a trial. Hence, "accused felon".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Incorrect. Sony owns the Spider-Man IP movie rights, this is not the case for video games. Marvel's Avengers would not have been able to put him in the game if that were the case.

edit: Maybe wrong on the Marvel's Avengers game front as I forgot he was a playstation exclusive character for the game, but Sony still does not own ALL spider-man rights, but specifically movie rights.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

The title of your post begins as "Controllers are good for FPS games, especially on PC".

Now it's about having fun and a lower barrier of entry, not competitiveness.

It's fine you prefer controller, but you're moving the goalposts here. The title and body of your initial post isn't about having fun, it's about what is "good for fps games." K&M is, I'm sorry to tell you, objectively better in that sense.

Side note, as for your "lower barrier of entry" for a controller part, you also specified from the beginning, "especially on PC". If you're playing on PC specifically, you already have a K&M. A controller is not a lower barrier of entry on that platform, it's an additional purchase vs. something everyone on that platform would already own.

You're using a list of inconsistencies to deny why you are "objectively wrong".

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago

I may not agree with satanist

You may not, but also, maybe you do! Cuz the rest of your comment seems to fall in line with their values of empathy and compassion, and they don't worship or even believe in satan to begin with. They're a secular organization that tries to promote various freedoms for everyone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

In this case, I am almost positive Larian just isn't providing those sales figures. Before I didn't spend more than a minute googling how many copies sold, so 22M may definitely be too high, but I would honestly still be surprised if Starfield outsold BG3 at all, even if 11.5M of Starfield's 12M players were purchases, and not game pass, which is a super generous estimate.

But I have more than a minute now, so let's look at steamdb. There are 4 analytics things that provide owner estimations there. The spread on these estimations is insane, ranging from 5.5M to 27.7M. But the two middle ones estimate sales at 13.3 and 14.9M. Both are higher than the 12M players Starfield has reached through both sales and gamepass. But. These are steam specific numbers for BG3. It also launched on GOG, though I'm sure those numbers are nowhere near steams numbers. More importantly, it also launched on ps5, and who knows how many copies sold there.

Or maybe the achievement extrapolation method is the most accurate and it's between 7 and 8 million copies sold. There is still a very good chance even those lower numbers are beating Starfield in overall sales.

Regardless, this is all some nebulous as fuck guesswork, but I feel like it's more likely than not that BG3 straight up outsold Starfield. And even if it did not, Starfield had years of hype behind it, and Bethesda has been one of the biggest names in gaming for many years now. Larian was a niche studio making niche games (yes, the D:OS series was quite succesful, I would stay say they were niche though) so the fact that they're even in competition with the Bethesda juggernauts these days is quite impressive for them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Dunno if this is the case for wherever you got your sales figures from, but a lot of the places that track best-selling games only track physical releases. Or they might also track digital releases if the publisher provides them to whoever is doing that tracking, but they often don't. BG3 does not have a physical release (yet).

And a quick google seems to back that up. According to Phil Spencer the other day, Starfield has had "over 12 million players". I'm assuming this is a combined figure of sales and people who downloaded it through game pass. So, less than 12 million copies sold, and probably a good deal under that cuz I assume game pass would be a pretty decent chunk of those players reached. If the top result when googling is accurate, BG3 has sold 22+ million copies. Prolly enough to crack that top 20, I'd guess.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I grew up in Chicago area. Out of curiosity, I looked it up on the Jewel Osco website and a dozen normal eggs is 2 bucks a dozen, currently on sale for $1.79.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (10 children)

Might be the store you shop at is to blame. I can get a dozen cage free eggs for $2.49 at my local Safeway. I feel like some stores just refused to lower their prices back down after that bird flu panic. They're all greedy, some just greedier than others.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

It's dated June 22, so pride month. Seems likely they were just doing all the strawberry frosteds this way for pride. Bigots go through drive-thru, order a strawberry frosted, and then take it personally that their donut says it's okay to be gay.

Unfortunately, people like this will never STFU.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

It seems to be a direct response to your paragraph about your dad telling you to move to a city in Texas. I don't think they're trying to be confrontational, I think they're just saying those cities in Texas that you just said were recommended to you, are also expensive.

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