Oops, read my dates wrong it seems.

You mean the CEO gets to suffer before they die? Bonus points!

Who says the sworld is spherical?

The planets are obviously swords themselves

This is exactly what they are doing, too. They are comparing a game from 2011 to games that came out 4 years later (Witcher 3 in 2015) and over a decade later (Elden Ring in 2022)

Skyrim released alongside the OG Witcher and Dark Souls.

Comparing Witcher 3/Elden Ring to Skyrim is just doing it a disservice. Skyrim released in 2011 alongside the original Witcher game and the first Dark Souls.

This. The game only seems dull on the surface but the more you dig into the text and the background the lore is just sprawling.

And yea, Elder Scrolls are as replayable as your imagination while Witcher is only as replayable as the different dialogue options you pick from. Every game you still play “a Witcher” and there is only so far that can take you

Our societal issues started far longer than a century ago.

No we really aren’t. We are still decades to a century at the least from anything even resembling actual sentience.

“A.I.” is nothing more than a scaled up, fancy autocorrect.

Then coming across a knee high wall or something you can easily just walk over blocking progression but, nope, can’t jump and the game isn’t treating it like stairs.

It’s such a small thing but can completely take the wind out of your sails when playing.

Oooh these are good pet peeves. Photo modes can be hit or miss.

I love the ones in the Spoderman games. Got some amazing screenshots from all 3

That’s normal. The brain isn’t able to process multiple sources at the same time, it has to bounce around and eventually too many inputs means nothing gets processed.

For those with APD, even a single input is a struggle.

Not really. It’s less to do with hearing/perception and more how the human brain processes regular speech; neurodivergent people, like those with ADHD and/or autism like myself, process these things differently.

The brain processes singing differently than regular speech and the issue with audio processing disorder is that how we process regular speech makes it hard for us to hold conversation. Like I need people to repeat things a few times occasionally and if I’m not paying direct attention to the person speaking then voices are basically like “whomp-whomp” from Peanuts, so if someone calls for me while I’m doing something I straight up won’t know I’m being called for.

So needing to listen to an audio log takes forever cause I need to replay it a few times to fully process the words being spoken. Especially if they have audio effects like distortion added over the voice.

Too bad PS5 doesn’t have steam.

Audio processing disorder (AuADHD) so being narrated at is pretty much white noise for me; so can’t relate.

Aww, someone learned therapy speak and thinks they are smart.

They had game stations before even in the play place days.

They couldn’t even bother to at least keep it similar to those where they at least looked whimsical for the children. They were just colorful stands with 3 or 4 screens and knockoff looking controllers. Some had chairs or you could pull one up but others you had to stand because the controller height was weird.

These corpo twits are so out of touch with reality.

Games (and really any consumable media) that just don’t know when to end.

Watched a gameranx video the other day about this. It’s the lack of closure. Players need that catharsis and pay off for all their efforts or else it inevitably starts to feel pointless rather than fun.

Even MMO’s had a closure for their main story arcs and you played the end game content. The new Live Service model though doesn’t like that cause it means they can’t milk it for eternity. They’d have to keep making new stories and actual game content but that is time consuming and meticulous for creative industries. You can’t pump it out like you can cosmetics and battle passes.

It’s honestly a huge issue in the industry. The gameranx video goes much deeper into the topic.

Edit: I should have finished reading before I posted this. Now I look dumb for jumping the gun

Chasing people to pop their balloons around the multi-tier, colored blocks level was always a great afternoon.

These screenshots slapped me back into 1998. I loved that river level. Jumping the boat felt so fucking cool.

Reducing it down to a vague concept of “human nature” is shortsighted and ignores the science into environmental factors that affect human behavior on a societal level. There is no one, singular “human nature”. We are products of our environment and our upbringing.

They never said assholes don’t exist. They said there were more cases of violence and serial murder due to the increased level of lead exposure.

You don’t have to look further than the surface, no, but neglecting to do so is just myopic and willfully ignorant behavior. It’s hilarious that you then end it by saying we can’t fight it if we don’t understand it. We can’t understand it if we don’t study it and the factors that influence it.