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  • Gondor, stop burninating the countryside!

    Ok fine, I'll give you a cookie too...

  • Their existence doesn't negate the people who enjoyed Minecraft. You basically said "the people who bought a hyper realistic sim expected hyper realism". Yes, a tautology is a tautology.

    Again, plenty of people find non hyper realistic graphics satisfying. An entire Indie catalogue proves this. Games like Lethal Company or Among Us or Terraria or Stardew Valley are huge hits with pixel graphics or graphics from 1995.

    Your argument is boiling down to "well someone will complain, so might as well not even try". It's very cynical and defeatist. Acting like hype against Arma means no one else enjoyed anything. You take too much from other people's opinions. Enjoy what you enjoy. Stop basing your opinions on what others on the Internet say.

  • Just doing my civic duty

  • I gave 'em a cookie. Now they're happy :D

  • I disagree and counter with Minecraft. Art styles don't need to be hyper realistic to accomplish immersion.

  • And? Look, it's cool what they were doing, but THEY WON. They got awareness out, got it legislated, and now it's being done on a scale that is more sustainable than tiny Mom and Pop businesses can manage.

    They literally got what they were asking for, but... checks notes they're upset because their capitalistic dream part of it is being crushed? That they didn't get to become the kingpins of this particular industry? Oh no. Heaven forbid we do what they wanted to such a scale that they couldn't keep up anymore.

    You just can't win.

  • I think your point stands well. You're playing an older game despite less fancy graphics because the gameplay itself is engaging. 2010 counts as "old" in my book. Anything previous generation and beyond definitely isn't "modern".

  • It feels like old cartoons(Tom & Jerry/Looney Toons era) where they drew the background as a muted static cell and only freshly animated things that moved. Objects in games are either entirely real, or just a painting on a texture. We're still at "if I can touch it, it's probably important. Otherwise ignore it".

  • I still blame the advent of graphics. Look at final fantasy: up until 10, everything was simple graphics for the most part and storytelling was key. Then graphics began to explode and everything became about the visuals. One of the more modern Final Fantasy, 13, was basically a 30 hour tutorial in the beginning. Just stuck on rails getting cutscenes after cutscene. The same thing happened with other games around that time(roughly when the ps2 launched). Now everything is raytracing this, lighting that, dynamic shadows this.

    Don't get me wrong, it's all very cool. But it feels like the AAA focus went towards graphics and it's taken the Indie scene (and Nintendo, love them or hate them), to keep pumping out creative and "just fun to play' games.

    ETA: To be clear, I'm referring to the ratio of games. I know AAA masterpieces still exist. But games like Crysis used to be the exception, not the norm. Bleeding edge, test your hardware games used to be more rare and now almost every new AAA game is a hard drive, ram hogging behemoth for the sake of its graphics.

  • Sounds like a lot of people in Florida are about to become homeless too.... I dunno, I say they completely, 100% enforce the laws right now. You didn't fight against this bullshit because it "doesn't affect me"? Well now it can affect you. Ticket everyone. Waste everyone's time. It was so important to do this, then fucking do it. Be the fucking clowns you are. Ticket people who lost their home, who are camping in their front yard. What, they're having a bad time right now and we should be generous? That's homeless people all the time.

    Suspending the law because it's a weather emergency is bullshit. It's being suspended because it might affect voters. Just trying to cover their own ass when they need it and shafting anyone else when it's convenient.

  • There was an old YouTube series about this called Chad Vader: Day Shift Manager

  • make a voting plan

    You keep glossing over that part. That's the problem part.

    And literally nothing you posted corroborated your statement that they were asking people to state Trump/Elon's actions are illegal. "A human toilet" is what's used.

  • The difference is they follow the law to show it's absurd logical conclusions. This is just breaking the law as well. This is not the same.

  • Lol

    They have a team of lawyers

    Y'all are over thinking it

    In the same breadth you dismiss everyone else as not lawyers and not knowing and then claim you know better.

    Are you 12? 😂

  • So again, in your prefered version of this, Elon AND Cards Against Humanity are punished for breaking the law.

    I'm advocating for a version of events where CAH doesn't face penalties because they don't commit a crime themselves. Want to advocate? Sure. Pay everyone who writes to their senator/congressperson about what Elon is doing and demand action. Something that's legal. Get the same point across while not dragging the bar ever lower.

    James Cameron can only dive so low to retrieve it again.

  • "He did it too" is on no law book as a credible defense anywhere. It's basically just self incrimination.

    Remember, you're arguing for the Rule of Law, which states that no entity is above the law and it applies equally to all. In an ideal world, Musk wouldn't be getting away with this. But in an ideal world, CAH will also face scrutiny. As they should. Though I agree they are only asking for a "plan to vote" and it's vague enough to probably be fine.

  • Yeah, I get it's a counter protest, and it's probably supposed to feel slimey and manipulative, but that's all I feel from it. I don't see some good side to this. I just see an overall destruction of our ideals.

    It's a sad state of affairs when the jesters are the only ones left speaking the truth. Satire has become reality.

    It's exhausting.

  • Cat8 here. Do I necessarily need that much? Probably not. But is my cable a bottleneck? Hell no.

  • Lol that's how I cast Annoyingly Slow Wifi in the first place. If I don't limit my download rates, I easily throttle the connection due to wired preference.

  • How is saying it's not the same game mechanics "judging it by different standards"? That right there is the problem: this idea that everything modern is better. Not everything needs all the same features tacked on.