Absolutely loving it so far!
Absolutely loving it so far!
To be fair, there was a lot of pushback from religious communities against violence in video games as well (i.e. “video games cause school shootings”), so I wouldn’t say Christian influence would favor one but not the other. Mainstream games like GTA V also show that sexual themes can be present in video games and still be immensely popular.
I think it’s more so a matter of mainstream high-budget video games portraying (and relying upon) graphic violence more often than sex. There’s countless video games with graphic violence, ranging from Doom to CoD, and the similarity I see is that the graphic violence is integral to the gameplay itself. Removing the violence from these games would be tantamount to removing the game entirely.
With sex in video games, Witcher 3, Baldur’s Gate 3, and the aforementioned GTA come to mind- all of which took off and became very successful, with the former two afaik being praised by many for the sexual content available. A lot of games that “rely” on sexual themes though, from what I’ve seen, tend to be porn games (not intended to be an insult), which at least from what I’ve seen, tend to not have as enthralling gameplay as other popular games. There’s good ones, no doubt, but far fewer in number than the Dooms and CoDs as mentioned before.
At least that’s my take on it, as lengthy as that might be lmao
Damn, the stick drift as soon as you got it is unfortunate- I’m also surprised an open box product managed to be that defective. I remember getting a gaming laptop open box around 5 years ago, and from what I remember, it looked pristine and operated without any issues. I’ve recommended getting tech open box since, though with an experience like yours, I should probably temper my expectations and advice in the future.
But wow, I didn’t even know Razer had a controller selling for that much. That’s really steep. And yeah, I’m surprised as well more options don’t exist, though I suppose it makes sense that the top brands like Microsoft and Razer dominate a market that (from what I imagine) is rather niche, as most people stick to standard Xbox/PS/Switch controllers. It’s a shame modularity isn’t more popular when it comes to controllers, or other pieces of tech for that matter. It’s a real shame products like the Google Ara didn’t take off, since those are the kinds of modular devices I’d absolutely love to see setting a mainstream trend.
Lemmy got more than just “marginally” popular. It saw the biggest boom within its entire lifetime and became a viable alternative for anyone seekong an alternative to Reddit. We both still use it.
The article proves that enough noise was made to catch the attention of the biggest news publications, which remember the protest to this day. In other words, people still remember what Reddit did.
As far as online protests go, that was more successful than any other coordinated online protest in recent memory. Gotta start somewhere.
My thoughts exactly. If it’s making finding solutions to problems worse for the end user, that’s obviously bad for the end user, but it also means it’s affecting the reputation of the site in some meaningful way- even if it’s as simple as inconveniencing a guy looking for an answer
Oh yeah, new or even used most of the time is pretty pricey. I think I got mine (series 2) for 44 bucks, with the case, accessories, and all that. The grip was peeling off the front, but thankfully it was only on the front panel, so one I had some spare change from Amazon gift cards, I got the replacement cover for another 10.
All in all, I think it was mostly luck on my end and not the norm xD
Very much agreed there. I still play Civ V to this day largely because I couldn’t stand the art style of VI. Here’s hoping VII tries something different.
If modern social media trends have shown us anything, it’s that content quality could be shit and it doesn’t matter if there will be thousands - if not millions- of people swarming to view it.
Nothing against you btw, it’s just a general frustration I have with trying to move focus away from these sites
I found a cosmetically defective Elite Series 2 controller on the cheap on eBay, so I’ve been rocking with that with zero issues.
Definitely beats buying one new that’s for sure
LMAO
I work with C# daily and even I didn’t realize I made a pun there xD
Maybe it’s just embedded in my subconscious at this point…
Godot is a good example of a free and well-developed open source game engine. It’ll probably see a sharp rise in adoption following this controversy from Unity.
It’s still bad for their profit margins when their stocks fall by 8% in one day, when major indie developers announce they’ll be moving their current projects off of Unity and future developers are deterred from using their software in the first place.
Whether they care about money or care about public relations, their shooting themselves in the foot on both counts.
I already hated Android 12 for overhauling the aesthetic for the worse: making volume sliders obscenely wide, making the notification shade just an over-enlarged mess, and the half-assed implementation of Material You. On my Pixel 3 that I used at the time, this change alone made me root a phone for the first time just to fix all of it.
Two updates later and once again Google fucks up something that was perfectly fine before and turns me off from their operating system yet again. While I’m nowhere close to using an iPhone, I may just use GrapheneOS if I have to switch to a phone that comes with Android 14+ out of the box.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but from what I’m reading online, Proton doesn’t “market” or “advertise” discounted plans beyond what you’ll save by purchasing a longer plan for their VPN. They do have a page on coupons here: https://proton.me/support/coupons
And based on what it says, as well as other tweets and reddit comments I’ve seen from their official accounts, they grant these coupons on a case by case basis. So forgive me for being skeptical, but I don’t believe it was false advertising, nor do I believe it was presented as a plan to begin with.
Unless you have a screenshot that shows them blatantly telling you it was a plan, I think you probably misread what they said, and that it “suddenly a coupon and not a plan anymore” isn’t actually truthful. Though of course, you could very well be right, and I might just be skeptical for no reason
I imagine spreading out across instances, and having accounts in instances beyond the biggest one helps, as it reduces traffic and strain on lemmy.world and its servers.
lemmy.world still deserves support, like with donations, though helping reduce the strain is something anyone can do, albeit small, though free of charge.
The first week or two of ditching the habit of opening reddit is the hardest, but speaking from experience, it gets easier with time.