Yeah, but their battle passes never expire, and you don’t have to spend real money to get one.

They never expected it to go viral, they budget to go at least a year of story driven campaign and they probably made enough to pay for that times 10 already.

They don’t need to nickel and dime the user base, if anything they can sell less premium shit.

So?

I hate how every game want to compete for current playtime.

I got way more than money’s worth out of this game, but I haven’t played in over a month. I hope that when I go back to it, there’s still a playerbase.

But like, the developers planned for at best to get 10% of what they did…

If they dropped that extra 90%, I don’t see why that should spell the end of the game. It’s the playerbase the game was designed for.

There’s just this weird “first or worst” mentality with a lot of studios. I hope this game is just given the room to stretch it legs over a decade or so. Something people might not always keep installed on their console, but still download once or twice a year to get some games in.

Games like that can be a success. Just because a lot of people burnt out doesn’t mean they’ll never play again.

It’s just games like that don’t maximize investor returns. They want to churn out hits that people play exclusively for 3 months then drop, only to buy the new one next year.

I envy woman for being able to walk around with a bag the size of a phone without looking stupid.

Bruh stop caring what people think and carry a bag if you want.

I’ll never understand why guys bitch about not being able to do something because it’s not perceived as “manly”.

If you’re secure in your own masculinity then you wouldn’t give two shits what other people thought about carrying a bag, what you drive, what kind of dog you have, or any of that stuff.

Don’t worry about projecting the appearance of a confident man. And just be confident in yourself bro.

They don’t have access to price paid tho…

So like, where are they getting the price? A game that was $60 on release 5 years ago might have been bought then or for $5 on a sale.

That’s not even getting into Humble Bundles from back in the day.

What’s crazier is the Twitter guy acting like he was taking a risk…

If I was the applicant and I found out about this, I’d 100% start applying to a new company.

You might get the job, but no one is going to listen to you.

Edit:

Or does LinkedIn look like Twitter now? I never used it so assumed it was Twitter and the screenshot was linked in profile

They hit Murfreesboro, Tennessee,

For those unaware (probably all you Limeys) that’s where Bonnaroo is. It’s one of the biggest music festivals stateside, and probably the closest to what you all have. Although I haven’t been in years or really know what Glastonbury is like these days.

But its in a very rural area with very conservative locals.

But the festival itself is obviously very liberal and LGBT friendly.

Not sure if this is live or very recently filmed, but it’s currently happening right now.

I know PS5 controllers work better with PC now, I think even natively on steam.

I don’t know why adaptive triggers wouldn’t be supported, but I haven’t heard one way or the other

Maybe it’s fine for people with big hands, idk

That might be it.

I’ve never been described as small, and my hands are pretty proportional. Even with one of those “back button kits” I’ve never noticed the weight.

I’m definitely for them offering controllers in different sizes though. Like, especially for videogames where children to grown adults use the same controller, there’s no reason to only offer one size controller.

You’d think they’d be all over that as controllers have a pretty good markup compared to the actual console.

I’m just saying that few games implement it

You didn’t say that tho?

A different account did, and I disagreed with them.

and the reputation it has in competitive games

…

And it’s also better to turn every graphical option down to zero to max frame rates…

Realism and “most competitive” rarely go hand and hand.

It’s like buying a Bentley and complaining about the 0-60 time, what’s “best” depends on what you’re going for.

While lots of the kids are obsessed with rankings, they don’t actually matter. Matchmaking is going to throw you against people with similar stats, so you can sacrifice realism to be up a little higher, but it doesn’t really matter.

So lots of older gamers stopped trying to cheese ratings and just play how they enjoy.

If I have adaptive triggers and maxed graphics at 50 fps, and I’m playing try hards with the graphics of a PS1 and 195 fps, but even with all that they’re playing at my level…

What changes?

If I was playing with potatoes graphics and insane fps, I’d just be playing people as good as me that’s also cheesing.

Hell, if we’re talking "most competitive " why are you even using a controller?

You’re already sacrificing peak performance if you’re not M&kb

Using adaptive triggers and good graphics is just an extension of that decision. If you don’t want to, that’s cool. You’ll play slightly better players and get the same w/l record.

There’s no point in maxing w/l, k/d, or any other stat over someones enjoyment of the game.

You don’t understand how much green sucks…

An intellectual disability is 2 standard deviations from the mean (that’s 30 points).

For someone that’s 100, about 2% of humans are 30 points lower than them.

If you’re at the tail of the green?

Congrats, about 84% of the world’s population is at least 30 points below you. For bonus points, you won’t even know your IQ because it’s like measuring a mile with a foot long ruler. You can get a guesseatimate, but to really measure it just isn’t worth it. A Wechsler would already take 4+ hours to get that high of a score.

It’s basically Idiocracy. And just like the movie, a lot of the time when you try to explain stuff that sounds basic “don’t use Gatorade on plants” you only get insults and get told plants crave electrolytes.

Like, people say people in green like drugs because of “novelty seeking behavior”…

It’s not that, it’s because living in Idiocracy fucking sucks, and there are a couple things that can be done to level the playing field, and most of them are pretty enjoyable too.

And it’s not even rare. A 145+ IQ is about 1 in 1200 people, that’s about as frequent as people who are trans.

Eh, I’d argue that controllers are part of a console, and often the most important part.

Interface is a huge deal, Xerox giving Gates the computer mouse is what led to PCs becoming widespread.

And it’s used in like, every PS5 game…

The issue is there just aren’t many real PS5 games. It seems like the majority are just “next gen updates” these days, but I’m not aware of a single game designed for PS5 that just ignores adaptive triggers…

Maybe some that released day 1 of the console.

I mean, he kind of have to say it…

What I don’t get is the biggest innovation by consoles in decades just never gets talked about.

Adaptive triggers is something you get used to very quickly, but the immersion of it is fucking insane, and once you play something without it after getting used to it, it takes a while till it stops feeling weird.

He went around Congress to provide munitions to Israel to avoid a short delay to them committing genocide.

But wouldn’t do it to help Ukraine

Why Netflix is doing it:

HDR video streaming can also consume 5% to 10% more data than SDR streaming, according to a Dolby executive (h/t: Pocket-Lint). That means there are potential bandwidth savings on offer by switching to SDR video, although this isn’t a given for every platform.

They serve less data for the same price

Like Nicholas Cage, made more money than most people ever see in their entire lives 40 times over, but spent more than he had. And therefore must do films. His burn rate is quite high. If you were to stop working, he could not maintain his lifestyle.

Right…

Dude can’t stop working, because he can’t stop buying literal castles.

If he stopped, his lifestyle would change greatly.

But hed still be considered upper class to 99.999% of people by modern definitions. Because to a normal person owning triple digit castles makes no sense and they’d just sell them and retire.

It’s lifestyle creep to an extreme example.

Most people, can leverage that, to make enough money to support their lifestyle, but there are ones who can’t.

I really had high hopes for that Gentleman show, but it just wasn’t that great.

Exactly what you’re talking about about though.

The way upper/middle/lower gets split up depends where you’re at on the spectrum

Pretty much everyone (even Blanchet) view themselves as “middle class” because no matter how much wealth/power they have, chances are in social situations the people they interact with are half higher and half lower.

Even world leaders spend a lot of time with other world leaders.

Most powerful person in their country, but spends time with people in the same position but for a larger/wealthier/more powerful country.

It’s just basic psychology, we evaluate if we have “enough” by what the people next to us have. Give a kid a candy bar and they’re happy till you give the next kid 10, suddenly the first stops thinking of themselves as “candy rich” and start thinking theyre “candy broke”.

We look at Blanchets haul of candy and think it’s insane amount, but we have so little shed never even think to compare herself to us. We’re outside her frame of reference for what “enough” candy is. And she assumes it’s just a little less so we’re kind of close.

It’s the same way the bourgeois were “middle class” before the French revolution.

They were the 1%, just not the 0.1%

Everyone else was so much poorer, that they got lumped together whether they lived on the streets or had steady work and a home and could support a family comfortably.

So in a way, yeah, she’s right.

She’s the 1%, but because wealth inequality is so out of hand again, that’s kind of middle class again.

When people hear “middle class” it’s easy to think “average” but that’s not how it’s being used.

It’s more about wealth distribution when used like she’s using it.

When you start bringing “royalty” into it, no amount of money gets you into that demographic. You could have more money than a duke, but you’re still not a duke. At least unless the king/queen starts selling titles again.

At that point it becomes less about wealth, and more about legal power.

She bougie as fuck by any definition, but there’s a way to view what she said as rational, you just got to think of it like you’re a world famous millionaire who still isn’t at the top of the food chain. Miles ahead of any random person, but she doesn’t hang out with random people, in the crowds she runs in, she’s middle of the pack.

Nah.

There’s people pulling in over a million a year, and just blowing it all almost immediately.

They’re upper class, but they can’t live that life and not work.

There’s people with millions in the bank, but live a middle class life and never stop grinding.

“Class” isn’t just about wealth. You need a minimum amount of wealth to move up, but there’s people who live a lower class life with the money to move up if they wanted, and there are people with an upper class lifestyle but it’s because they make terrible financial decisions and everything is overleveraged and they have a shit ton of debt.

Lifestyle creep is a real thing.

But it’s not just tariffs…

BYD electric cars can’t even be sold in America…

Because they’re not expensive enough.

Solar panels have flipped from banned to tariffs multiple times off the whims of American industries.

So…

You agree with me that we should let people buy Chinese products while we build up our own infrastructure?

I’m just having trouble following you, your comments aren’t really consistent