For years I’ve been warning whoever would listen that XboxGP, much like any other content subscription service owned by a public company would inevitably lead to a massive consumer squeeze. Fortunately it happened before MS managed to metastasise into a monopoly in gaming too. Good riddance.
This thread is the most dystopian #firstworldproblems I’ve seen recently. Especially considering hunger is still (and back to increasing) a significant burden on the global south.
*X Elite opens browser windows faster under desktop cooling.
FTFY
It’s an analogy, just because you’re in an alliance with an imperialist fascist state, doesn’t mean you can’t do the right thing.
I worry for the reading comprehension of our US brethren although it does explain a couple of the recent world events.
After that UNGA address by Pres Lula and their reaction to their own Jan6 one can only hope Brazil steps up to lead the BRICS in the right direction.
BRICS peace force enteting Gaza would be a wild timeline.
Ah yes, Russia…
OK boomer
Edit: (while deeply downvoted) the vote tally on this thread is the prime example lemmy. world has a bunch of nazi snowflakes going around manipulating votes.
Same can be said of the US, however that’s no reason to think the other NATO members should not help Ukraine. BRICS is an umbrella term for several countries.
That’s like saying Estonia wanting to defend Ukraine is worthy of a LOL because NATO invaded Iraq steered by the US and UK… The BRICS represents many countries, this whole BRICS = Russia is downright white supremacy.
Let me guess, US American…
BRICS peace force enteting Gaza would be a wild timeline.
I’m sorry, I refuse to continue engaging with bad faith arguments.
Have a nice day.
It does shift review coverage, generally, toward the ones with the most advertising
but that doesn’t mean that Redfall and Suicide Squad still can’t happen and review poorly
Thank you for arguing in my favour. Both Redfall and Suicide Squad reviewed well above 50%. For people on Lemmy arguing about statistics it’s obvious the mean is shifted so anything around 75% is mediocre, however, to the average consumer, that is not the case. Furthermore, I mentioned Kane and Lynch because that game was the reason giant bomb exists and everyone nowadays knows big publishers strong-arm outlets.
I’m sure Kane and Lynch are audience favorites. No reason not to think only the best games get reviewed and thus, shifting the mean 25% in the favor of the companies that just so happen to be the ones paying for advertising. It’s more likely outlets, on average, only review good games, that sounds more reasonable.
Statistically, if more than half of a random sample of steam games are rated to be good, the standards for evaluation are shit.
And the people that were supposed to let us know if a game is good or not, the “professionals”, have a median score around ~75% according to open critic data, otherwise they wouldn’t have a job because sponsors would gfo.
We’re on our own shifting through a pile of de facto shovelware to find anything of worth nowadays.
It’s a problem not exclusive to games, mind you. Music, scientific publishing and other content for profit industries have the exact same issue: Vetting quality requires work so for profit institutions offload the vetting to the user.
Thid is great, from English speaking channels I only know AncientGameplays doing linux benchmark comparisons to Windows on gaming. *Spoilers: If you use AMD you’re not leaving performance on the table, if you’re team green… it’s a work in progress.
RT is currently still shit on Linux, but I don’t use it anyway.
Look at the leadership and you have the answer. These are ostensibly absolute imbeciles. They kept failing upwards and even with an infinite money cheat, they managed failure at making anything good.
This guy politiks
Too much money for the extra ink /s
Hollywood gaining 10kg per capita in a month. Welcome back Jonah…
Call of Duty