I see what you did there.

So do we, like… swallow them, or what?

In this same vein, Backpack Hero is quite good, too! If you like one, maybe check out the other.

It’s worth noting that Risk of Rain 1 and 2 are very different games (3rd person 3D vs. 2D side scroller), and both are good - so if 2 didn’t grab you, maybe check out 1 and see if that’s more your thing. (The remastered version has a lot of nice QOL stuff and some new game modes and items.)

Strongly suspect that “a % of the overtime rate” is a lot less than 100%, too.

I got you, fam. It’s not exactly the same - more narrative focused, and slower paced - but it will scratch that same itch.

I’m here to make your life on Lemmy a fucking nightmare

Good luck.

Why on earth would we want to see this?!

Even if there weren’t a million examples of prior art, the fact that patents on game mechanics are even allowed is just awful for the industry as a whole, and we as players should absolutely rail against this. Every game borrows from other games’ ideas and mechanics - I’d bet money that there hasn’t been a single fully “original” game in 20+ years. If companies are allowed to patent every little mechanic (even ones they didn’t come up with), the industry as a whole will just become impossible to operate in.

My wife and I actually did this, sort of. Not a completely new name, but we took her grandmother’s name, rather than either of ours. Or, her great grandfather’s name, I suppose.

You’re thinking of the Winter Solstice, which was on Dec. 21!

Well, this all but guarantees that we’ll see more ridiculously high priced consoles in the future, too. Good going, folks!

I think this is really situational. In a store, I’d say you should pay the list price, but it’s more nuanced with other types of businesses. As an example, what if your friend is a contractor, but they’re a bit more expensive than a competitor, and you need work done?

If you hire the competitor, it creates an awkward situation, but you don’t want to pay more. The conversation can easily go:

• “I need someone to do this job.”
• “I’m a contractor, I can do it.”
• “Money’s a little tight right now, and you’re a bit more expensive than your competitor.”
• “We’re friends, I’ll do it for their rate.”

You haven’t asked you friend to give a discount, nor did you ask them to do it for free. You both did each other a favor - you got the work done at the cheaper rate, and your friend got the business that might have gone to their competitor. If the friend doesn’t want to give the discount, they have an easy out: “Oh, no problem! [Competitor] does good work.” On a similar token, they don’t feel like you went around them.

We did get a dead CEO, but that feels weirdly like a much more Shadow thing to do. Maybe Luigi isn’t the guy after all.

All the fucking time. This shit is infuriating.

But instead of giving up, we should be trying to fix these issues.

Genuine question - how long do you think we should try to fix the issues before coming to the conclusion that they can’t be fixed through conventional means? Do you think we should resort to nonconventional resolutions at all, if the conventional ones cease to function or don’t yield results? If not, why not?

it is literally illegal for a CEO to do the right thing if it will cost shareholders

Source?

Here’s a great article about the nuances of various options.

That smug apathy where you giggle at other people’s misfortune because they might have had it coming is the one that horrified me and I think is the unpopular opinion I have.

Ah, got it, I misunderstood what you were saying initially, I think.

I certainly don’t giggle at other peoples’ misfortune… but in the voting instance, I certainly don’t feel bad for them.

It’s pretty neat to me that we’ve created this weird language around laugh onomatopoeia.

There’s a very different tone and meaning between “ha”, “hah”, “haha”, “hahah” and “hahaha”, and I think most people can pick up on it with very little exposure without ever actually being told the difference, or even being able to explain the difference in words. I’d be willing to bet that 30 years ago, it would have been far less of a ubiquitous experience.