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  • How do you even begin to care about anything in that game when you are basically mashing buttons for hours and just listening to people complain about how shit life is?

    I get its an art piece of living the existence you are thrown into but it feels like a confusing mess even gameplay wise for the starting hours that people that have finished it I feel miss how unfun it is at first.

    I didn’t even know why I was now stuck on the other side of a wall in a union dispute and I just couldn’t be bothered to restart the game to try something else after how long it took to get dressed the first time.




  • Krauerking@lemy.loltoGames@lemmy.worldWhat games are just objective masterpieces?
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    So I think it’s actually really important that the games that would be considered objective masterpieces would have to overcome any language barriers and be an experience approachable by anyone. You can learn the mechanics to enjoy the gameplay without words
    So:

    • Portal
    • Journey
    • Binding of Isaac
    • Shadow of the Colossus
    • Metro 2033 (which I have sat on and I believe even if it was entirely in Russian you would still get it )
    • DOOM (original you don’t need words you shoot)
    • Super Mario Bros. 3
    • Katamari Damacy

    Then there are dialogue option stories that are fantastic stories that I could consider greats but shareable masterpieces is hard to say as they rely on you speaking the language both literally and then gameplay wise:

    • Stanley Parable
    • Outer Wilds
    • Tales From the Borderlands
    • To the Moon
    • Talos Principle
    • Golf Club Wasteland
    • Dead Space








  • Autocorrect used to be so good. All I want is a fricking a lookup table for number of letters and with the combination of letters what the most likely options are to be.

    Its been ever since they added Auto-Finish, that I think it has become so absolutely terrible. This idea that the phone can predict for you and type out your sentence for you.

    A: it makes everybody the same and kills individualism B: It implies the company is stalking you enough to know you and that’s creepy and not what I want in a product I should be choosing for myself.

    And now we just have the bigger version of autocomplete that now is being sold as some genius answer machine when we know the default human is most certainly not.


  • The top 10% of the population now accounts for over 50% of all economic activity. They have a level of income and reserved cash that is hard to comprehend and that just starts at $250,000 US salary and goes up from there.
    Those people are spending so freely and so completely it’s practically the entire economy and we are forced to compare ourselves to them.

    The extra annoying part is that in a population of 350million people in the US, 10% is still about 35 million people. So there is more than enough of them to compare to and for companies to aim at.

    The 90% of us are the working poor and it’s not that others are stretching their money more they either just don’t notice or care to look or have decided they have enough to spend freely without any consideration of whether they can afford it.