I think if the combat in Wanted: Dead was just a little bit smoother you could recommend it as a B-Movie type “so bad it’s good” game to people. The biggest issue for me is the finishing moves. They do look awesome and there is a surprisingly huge number of variations, but the transition from combat into a finishing move animation is super janky, often involving your character model sliding or snapping into the new animation in a very unnatural way. They also take a little too long, and getting back control of your character afterwards feels… laggy? Best way to describe it.

Otherwise it’s the most random ass game I’ve played. Also has the worst voice acting I’ve ever heard. Microsoft Sam would be an improvement.

Remedy making a CAG is going to seriously test my patient gaming principles.

Yeah, the only reason I consider the DF64 is I only brew V60. If I was an espresso drinker I’d go with that as well.

Wanted: Dead is probably the best 3/10 game you’ve never played. Absolutely bizarre game in every way. I wish the combat was smoother, it’s so close to being good.

That would never have happened. Epic was the only publisher wanting to touch the franchise with a ten foot pole, and this was the stipulation. Thanks to them, we got a wonderful and unique work of art. I would rather the game exists in its current state even if it means fewer copies sold, than it not exist at all or in a lesser version. I’d wager Sam Lake and Remedy feel the same way. This was their baby, their passion project.

I’m playing Wanted: Dead currently and am seriously considering this. Am I in my trash games era?

Should have been three times that, but I’m glad it’s making profits at least.

Is there anything wrong with !shortstories@literature.cafe that I’m not aware of?

Keep us updated on the research, those two grinders are exactly what I’m looking at as well. Although now I’m probably at least going to wait for Black Friday just in case, considering how close we are.

Doesn’t appear to be anything close to those in the same price range.

Ah I see. I don’t think so, unfortunately. Something like that would definitely be useful, I guess as a browser extension? I wonder if something like that exists…

I guess I just value the small and direct positive impact preserved information can have on the lives of others, and in this case I consider it a bigger gain than what the deletion would bring in the tradeoff. Maybe that’s evil, I don’t know.

Voting in elections is the exact opposite to that, at least in my eyes, and I always vote in state, local and legislative elections. In fact, I’ve been looking forward to this current election period for years now as maybe the tides are finally turning in Sweden and we can enact some change. Maybe.

It’s just sort of prisoner’s dilemma. Lot’s of people won’t do it. I’m just being realistic. And in the reality where the percentage of people who are likely to attempt to delete or “poison” their accounts is as miniscule as it is, it will have absolutely zero impact on the traffic Reddit receives. Yes, even if each of those accounts produced hundreds of Google hits. But maybe I am more concerned with preservation of information and helping people than spiting Reddit. What would be great would be for people to replicate the useful answers they made on Reddit on here so we can show up in searches and actually provide a valid alternative. In general I think we would be better off trying to build this place into something better than caring too much about our old Reddit accounts.

Its impact on Reddit’s business is absolutely negligible. A handful of people "poisoning* their accounts will not even register on their traffic monitoring. But the answers to questions or solutions to problems they may have posted over the years could help dozens or even hundreds of other people.

To me that tradeoff isn’t worth it. It’s throwing rocks at the armoured car driving past just to feel like you are doing something. The only one you have a chance or hurting is your neighbour.

Beautiful.

What’s stopping you?

Inertia is a hell of a thing. Also TikTok has one of the most efficient algorithms of any social media, and I doubt it would be easily replicated. Especially if you’re doing it in the classic Fediverse spirit of trying to be non-invasive, non-addictive, caring for the users’ privacy etc.

Yeah, and that’s really the crux of it. To 90% of people, the content is all that matters. That’s why comments like: “hey, you like TikTok? Why don’t you try Loops instead?” or “Check out Pixelfed, it’s a bit like Instagram!” are unlikely to work. For most people, it’s just a strictly worse version. The same thing but without the content. Why would they downgrade for no reason?

You have to care about something external to the core experience of consuming content to actually be here. That’s why our population at the moment is, well, just us here *gestures around.* You have to care about FOSS, or decentralisation, or anti-corporatism, or really value the more human interactions you get in a smaller setting with fewer bots, or actually enjoy putting in more work and get less served to you by an algorithm.

Most of the people with those values I believe will eventually trickle over here naturally. The rest though, this is a really hard sell for.

If anyone knew, you wouldn’t have to ask. Everyone’d already been here.

It’s very difficult to commit the time to a legitimate game knowing that option is on the table and has zero downsides

I guess that depends on the reason you play. I just thought Blitzball was kind of fun to play 🤷‍♀️