well, at least the office will be cleaner and better maintained now

All Captchas Are Bastards

I’d be willing to wishlist this game if they ripped out the grind (there’s no financial incentive to keep it if it’s no longer a gacha) and used proper English translation. (Lack of voiceover isn’t that much of a deal-breaker.)

That’s a good point.

I don’t have a gacha itch. Genshin is my exception to the “no gacha” rule for one big reason (co-op that isn’t region-locked) and I’ve just gotten some grasp on my time management. So describing Dragonsword as a single-player gacha isn’t really making it appealing to me, and I really shouldn’t be picking up a new game right now. (Not to mention that after looking it up, it doesn’t seem to be a gacha, which is a big plus in my book.)

I was going to still wishlist it, but unfortunately, while reading the Steam page and reviews, I noticed a few major deal-breakers:

1. Incredibly repetitive and exhausting combat
2. Bad AI-generated English translation
3. No English voiceover

And that in a game that prices itself above Deltarune.

(To be fair, I also think Genshin shouldn’t be considered a free game weight-class-wise but a 40-50ish Euro game at least since that’s probably the approximate average revenue per player Hoyo gets.)

The PlayStation network is boycotting itself.

Hey, I tried playing that demo! Will give it a try again soon. Also, wishing you best of luck!

Doki Doki Literature Club
I didn’t know it was free to play, so I ended up spoiling myself on the plot before finally playing it.
Still got caught off guard.

If Genshin Impact was a Steam game, it would be the game from the screenshot for me (and if anything, 1.4k hours is a lowball - I’ve racked up over 500 hours this year alone on PC, not to mention the years before on mobile).

It would have been goated if it wasn’t a gacha game and battlepass timesink, but now I can’t recommend it to anyone, at least not if you’re strong-willed and can resist the gacha and fomo or willing to try setting up a private server … which I imagine people here on fedi might be more likely to be, now that I think. (The private server thing, that is.)

I guess some kind of option to help fast-track user verification as an alternative to waiting the trial period?

Good. The multiverse stuff got overused and needs to be shelved for a while.

Some quick ideas I have for mod tooling:

• limit posting ability of new users
• allowing new users to use their old social media profiles to prove they’re not alts or something, idk (shouldn’t be required, tho)

Not to mention this is fedi and we can say “murder”, “kill”, “rape”, and all of the other words corpo social hates here (feel free to add more in the replies)

Yeah, and we shouldn’t push too hard before the devs make the experience easy enough. But the worst that I see coming from it is a slower adoption rate.

I’d guess there is a balance to be struck.

It’s always worth pushing for the fediverse.

I’d say the fediverse is somewhat protected against the drawbacks of growth in a way Reddit isn’t.

That sounds awesome!

It also gives me some mod ideas like virtual parents telling you to turn the console off if you play too long :P

I mean that if it’s allowed at all legally, it should only be licensable under GPL. Or something like that, idk, I’m half sleepy right now

All AI generated code should be GPL. It was trained on all of us, and its output belongs to all of us.