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God I hate this type of argument about arts and entertainment. The logical conclusion of “this can be unhealthy for some people so nobody should make it” is “dumb everything down for the lowest common denominator.”

I mean, being the cutting edge turn based JRPG that’s on par with the most impressive AAA titles if not an industry leader itself was historically Final Fantasy’s place in the market, in contrast to Dragon Quest’s traditionalism.

Hell, I believe Expedition 33 is popular because it more or less filled the spot that Final Fantasy forfeited when it went action.

Do local LLMs really consume much more than a task like, playing a video game?

You can vibe code assets?

The problem with the US EV market is that pretty much all EVs you can buy in the US are mid range or luxury. So, if Ford and Toyota don’t want to fill that gap, and Tesla already cancelled theirs, BYD should be able to.

I’m a boy and…you need to learn how to cook.

If that were true, Japan would’ve killed American cars a long time ago.

We’re less social, drinks in public spaces have gotten too expensive, weed

Xbox 360 is easier to emulate than OG Xbox or Sega Saturn last I checked.

A lot of it isn’t an “insistence” per se as much as it’s company founders who did have some kind of connection with the product the company makes dying or retiring and getting replaced with people who don’t.

Ironically, the MBA was originally created as a way for people with degrees in more “boots on the ground” positions to learn about business so they could more easily move into management positions. What it’s morphed into is unfortunate.

Tell me he’s not a Russian asset again, campist. And no, the fact we always had a racism problem isn’t proof he isn’t.

The teachers union is most likely part of the opposition to the current regime, which hates both education and unions

They were there before all that, and network effect.

I really don’t think that the prude left is as un-prevalent as this comment wants to portray. They get what they want quite a bit in the UK and Australia (often by finding allies with the prude right tbf,) and even outside of that, they’re not particularly hard to find, and perception matters. And to someone with no strong political convictions, they could easily see a ton of leftists advocating censorship of some boobs in some game and take that at face value as “leftists are prudes.” I can’t even say it’s unjustified, Trump has tons of policies that I was told not to worry about because they were fringe. They’re more serious than boobs in video games, but the principle still applies.

And to be honest, I really do think a visible amount of people on the left really are uncomfortable with depictions of sexuality and even just romance appealing to straight men. It’s like, a sizeable amount of people on the left have this strong fear of anything giving men “unrealistic expectations.” And sometimes it’s not ecchi booby gags, sometimes it’s shit like “women having common interests with you,” as if not being heteropessimistic is now misogynistic.

I feel like people’s perception of what “open world” means has drifted. I see people claim that GTA isn’t open world because it has linear progression, or games where the world isn’t particularly big aren’t open world. Like, they think BOTW defines what “open world” means.

Do you have a seamless, interconnected world that is the primary place the game takes place? Open world.

I would bluntly state that Metroidvanias are open world, and also aren’t the only open world games that have been around since the NES.

I know Quake was originally planned as an RPG, and became an FPS because they had to ship “something” and they knew how to do FPS

Emo literally stands for “Emotive Hardcore”, i.e “Hardcore Punk”

Goth music is rooted in Post-Punk.

I will never get why, for so many, to be sexually attracted to a person or type of person is to want to subjugate them.

Is it just because I’m submissive?