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Nintendo made a very smart business move that is extremely anti-consumer:

They removed themselves from competing with Sony and Microsoft.

People don't think "Should I buy Xbox, Nintendo, or PlayStation?" They think "Should I buy Xbox or PlayStation, in addition to Nintendo?"

Great business move, because consumers are buying Nintendo up more than before. Extremely bad for consumers because now we are seeing how Sony acts when they have only one real competitor: keeping console exclusives, raising prices, and enforcing PS Accounts for offlline singleplayer games.

If Microsoft drops Xbox hardware, PlayStation will have zero competition and gain a monopoly on the console hardware market. Then they can raise the prices to be whatever they want. What are you gonna do, buy an Xbox that doesn't exist?

Honestly, I don't see any real reason anyone should be able to see anyone else's votes that isn't nefarious. The only reason people would want to see how others vote is to be able to call a hate mob to harass someone for "voting wrong."

Regardless, people should be allowed to vote however they want, even if that means its not the way you or I would have voted a comment or post. People vote on posts and comments for a trillion different reasons. Someone might agree with a comment but they feel it is off-topic or de-railing the conversation so they downvote it, and then you get terminally online serial harassers attacking them because "they don't agree" or some other awful reason.

Ultimately, this ends in posts getting no more down votes, except for maybe spam posts, and then upvotes also being low because nobody wants to get attacked for how they vote on posts. Certainly a great way to ruin engagement in an online platform, IMO.

Like, just remove votes entirely at that point.

Let's not weaponize people's votes, thanks. Probably the single worst "feature" added to Lemmy.

If I had more disposable income I would probably get one, but the global economy is so garbage right now I can barely afford my basic utilities.

Z-up is really only common among architectural or engineering type software. CAD and other types of software, for example.

Y-up is common among basically all other types of software. DirectX API is Y-up, for example. Which means anything that interacts with DirectX that has Z-up needs to convert the axes first before doing its calculation (a literal nothing cost microoptimization, but could be big depending on the software and platform).

It's probably fine to leave as is in the long run, but its just annoying to me that I need to convert between the axes in Blender export settings, and would be more convenient if all the software I use used the same system, which is now Y-up. Blender is literally the only one. Honestly, I agree that it should be a user setting in Preferences, but I dont know if Blender is programmed to handle this or if it would need to be entirely rewritten.

Again, Sony is NOT participating in the ending of exclusives and continues to push timed exclusivity.

Extremely anti-consumer and anti-gamer.

I sure hope Blender does this soon. Very annoying workflow using it with Y-up software.

Galactic Genocide never looked so juicy before...

No seriously, you might want to get on that. End game lag is atrocious with more survivng civs.

"Grand Juror" paid armor an obvious "Judge Dredd at home"

I bet it's probably still slower than running Switch games on an emulator.

Roger Wilco, lol.

I actually got Conan for my dad, he enjoyed playing it, but now he is into Helldivers 2.

It was an okay game, but not my cup of tea personally.

Okay, maybe I am interested a little bit. Private servers are always a welcome addition to a game, especially online only games. At least if official servers shut down, I can run my own server and keep playing.

You would be very surprised at the lengths some people will go to in order to weaponize the way someone else votes on a comment or post online. People really couldn't be any less petty.

Does Vagrant Story count as a JRPG? Or is it just an RPG with Japanese developers?

After dropping Final Fantasy X a while ago (I regrettably played for like 30 hours or something, up until the Seymour wedding part in wherever that was, just wasn't having fun with how grindy it felt and how the choices some characters were making in the cutscenes felt wildly out of character), I decided to pick up Vagrant Story. I know nothing about the game.

The opening cinematic was very impressive considering the time, very clever way of faking rim lighting. The facial animations are also quite good for a sub 200 meg game. I played about 15 minutes and it seems interesting enough, we will see how long I continue to play it. The rotatable perspective seems like it could be easily frustrating for platforming, so I hope that the platforming in this game doesn't get too technical.

My singular complain so far is I think lack of voice acting really hurts this game. It feels like they probably didn't have voice acting in the budget and spent whatever extra on art direction, but if they had been given extra for full voice acting I think the game would have been vastly more captivating.

Out of curiosity, did you not like the images before you read that they used AI? Its pretty obvious that it was used as a tool by human artists from the write-up, in the same way that a human artist would use Photoshop.

Both the developer, Pivotal Games, and global publisher, SCi Games, of Conflict Desert Storm are British. Pivotal Games closed in 2008 and SCi is a shell subsidiary of Square Enix. The publisher for the American release was Gotham Games, a subsidiary of Take Two Interactive, which closed down in 2003.

AFAIK, the Conflict series was not developed or funded by the United States government. To my knowledge, only "America's Army" is a game directly funded and developed for the US government's military branch. It also is published by the US Military.

Would you still love me if I was a turret?

Just get an artillery gun. Bigger shells, tanks not scary anymore.

Nah, the yellow text with black outline was the gold standard. Literally. Very easy to read without the high contrast that is harsh on the eyes.

Wait... was this a trap to get me to date myself?

EDIT: Whoever decided to make this meme with white text and yellow outline deserves jail time.