kartoffelsaft
joined 2 years ago
Here in the US I've gotten a lot of pickled herring over the years, and "mild" is NOT how I'd describe it. It's super sour and sweet (and creamy if you get ones with sour cream, which I usually do) One of my favorite foods, but now I'm worried that I've been eating something else lol.
incidentally had some in my fridge for reference
I've had a similar experience, but mostly figured I was falling either side of an A/B test. Though one time I resized the window and it went from the current to the new one, for what that's worth.
I posted a negative review of kithack model club over this exact issue and got 50/50 clown to other awards on it. When I also talked a bit about it on the steam forums, I noticed there's a guy who clearly isn't working for the dev and goes to every post to tell them to go to the discord. I'd be fine with that if he didn't also argue with anyone who doesn't think that's good. Some people man.
My body forces me to wake up at 6am and I hate it. The only classes I could take to fill out my degree mean I get home at 9, barely enough time to make dinner / clean the house / have free time AND get 8 hours of sleep. Doesn't matter if I go to sleep at 2am, I'll still wake up at 6 and feel like crap. Everyone I know acts like I'm a weirdo for hopping off a group chat to wind down at 9. The times I've been lucky enough to have a schedule that works for me it becomes clear that I'm the only alert person in the room at noon.
Y'all complain that you can't do anything in the morning without sacrificing your health. I wish I could take that instead of losing my evenings. Grass is always greener.
Who knows!
Gotta turn it into another king. Double protection, double liability!
I am circumcized so I know foreskin is not a prerequisite for that.
Honestly to me it seems like nothing has actually changed, except the names of the teams behind critically acclaimed games.
Like, your point about being an indie developer being hard is, well, just ask anyone who was making indie games 1, 2, or even 3 decades ago. It's always been a lottery where 1-3 games a year hit it big and the rest can only barely fund themselves.
Though I do think you have a good point about asking what PP considers AAA. Something I've noticed is that there's a bunch of people who, for whatever reason, see some big AAA release and act like it's not AAA because it's the first time they've heard of the studio / publisher. BG3 is the most obvious example of this (~400 people from my search). Expedition 33 also outsourced a ton of it's work so it also gets paraded around as "only 30 devs!". It's especially frustrating that people will call these games a "wake up call" for AAA studios as if it's not a huge risk.
Though I don't think EA (and from what I've seen Ubisoft) dying this slow death is a herald of the industry at large dying. We're seeng a lot more publishers that try to carve out their own little corner of the industry, such as NewBlood, Iron Gate, Hooded Horse, and as you mention Kepler. They're funding and releasing plenty of successful titles. I think there's space for, and already space taken, for various publishers to fill the same position as EA did in it's prime.
You also seem to take this argument that these megapublishers are a prerequisite to having people with proper gamedev skills? As I see it, that's either not changing, is effecting nearly every industry in NA & EU, or just not a thing. Valve, for example, when making Half Life, realized their game sucked when they were most of the way through development because they were learning as they went. So they scrapped most of what they built and what they remade is what we know as HL1, and that's well over 2 decades ago. To my understanding Sandfall did a similar thing with E33 but what I saw on the subject might have been embellished and/or I'm misremembering.
Sea Salt & Caramel Ice Creamius
Expedition 33 is a game I finished a couple weeks ago and have continued to be obsessed with since. Not really patientgamers material seeing as it's pretty recent, but I'm so glad I made an exception for it.
Funnily enough the lyrics for that menu music is basically a plot synopsis that spoils the whole story in poetry, but it's fine because it's in a mutated medieval french. A lot of the game's music is like that, actually.
I don't play hollow knight, but a friend who does told me there's a line in the game that strongly implies she's a lesbian. Methinks that implanted horny bug smut into many a gamer.