Ah yes, in-game currency is fiction. That's why it costs real money, and publishers mandate developers lock down the game as much as possible to ensure no one circumvents the 'fiction.' The mind boggling profits they bring must also be fictional.
Fuck, I hate GaaS.
99% of the time Australian's get into the workforce through entry level casual jobs, which absolutely ruins their perspective of their own labor rights. If your first experience with working is a job where you can get fired for any reason and cannot reasonably refuse shifts, with no sick pay or personal leave, then you're going to continue through the workforce feeling extremely disposable and subservient to your job.
Haha, online games licensing sucks. It's almost as if, when we discovered we could distribute media freely and infinitely by digital means, we should have restructured how media and licensing works for these products. but we didn't, and now we have bizarre situations where publishers try to delete their own games from existence rather than spend some upkeep for music licensing
'Cuz you ain't been doin nothin', if you ain't been called a red, if you've marched or agitated, then you're bound to hear it said...
Yup, and in the re-release for the gamecube, you could pop the chao in your copy of Sonic Advance 1/2 or the GBA to emulate the effect.
blessed image, i loved raising chao, but i never had access to online guides as a kid so i never bred the rare ones. hell i never really saw a chao die to begin with to know they reincarnated
also, just to be a dick, my sister told me they were pronounced "k-o" and not "chow," so I spent a lot of my childhood being confidently wrong
HogLeg's success is pretty crazy if you think about it. Ignoring the sales we've looking at today, take yourself back to the launch of HogLeg. It kept up pace with Fallout 4 in terms of active players and achievement completion rates. This is huge to me. They're both singleplayer RPGs, so they're both vying for the same type of audience.
But.
Fallout 4 was a hugely anticipated sequel to one of the most renowned series in all of gaming. Harry Potter had almost no presence in gaming beyond nostalgic shovel ware titles.
Fallout 4 was developed by gaming darlings, a company known for producing huge open worlds with strong volumes of content. HogLeg was developed by shovelware developers with no major releases in their history.
Fallout 4 is a first person looter shooter, one of the most ubiquitous and successful genres out there. HogLeg is an action roleplaying game, still admittedly a safe genre but doesn't have the genre conventions that makes it possible for anyone with FPS experience to pick up a Fallout.
And finally, Fallout 4 targeted gamers. It's a gamer's game, you know? It's for lore nerds and RPG fans and tacticool nuts and all the rest. HogLeg was for Harry Potter fans. It needed to drag fans across media types to secure a big enough audience.
I truly, truly did not expect HogLeg to find the success it has. And to be honest, it's quite a mid game! It's a visual accomplishment and adherence to the universe means that it's a treat for any Harry Potter nerds, but the rest of the game is as close as generic as it could get.
Modern For All Mankind plotline? Can we get some global communist community too?
This is so cool. Like, just such a good vibe to be in. I love ~~plastics~~ novel entities plaguing my environment.
I never really 'clicked' with working until I worked from home. Like, this entire huge part of me, my connection to my labor, was just not present. When I started working from home I got it. Like yeah, I'm still doing mindless corpo shit tasks and I'm completely alienated from the results of my labor, but I at least know how it feels to sit down, work hard, and feel satisfied after.
In the office, I was just coping with too much anxiety, dread, and frustration.
We put ourselves down the path of endless speculation and jumping at shadows if we just automatically assume any and all data provided by China is outright falsehoods. There are people in China employed to track these statistics and there is material benefits to having these statistics available to the public. There's even incentive for this information to be true.
If the information simply coming from China is enough to dismiss them as China spreading their agenda, then the same could earnestly be argued for any other country on Earth. This kind of logic is the same logic QAnon types use to immediately dismiss evidence.
"The vaccine is causing people to die in huge numbers. What do you mean you disagree? I've seen it, and my family has seen it. Those statistics saying otherwise? Let me guess, they're provided by the vaccine companies?"
Back in the day I used to waste time after school making levels in hammer or the creation kit, but otherwise the most modding I can do is like, swapping textures and stuff.
Now installing mods is my weakness. Can't get enough of that.