Chailles
How about discussing a specific game or series? A post wholly dedicated to people discussing one single game, whether mechanics, people's memories or opinions of it, and so on. Either you know of it and have something to say about it or you don't and now have a post with reasons to probably go and try it out.
Not totally clear on how we go about picking, maybe a poll or survey for the next week's game.
Schematics or die
Surely if we get the schematics, we would need a die of some kind as well, right?
Jokes aside, what do you expect is the alternative to licenses? You don't "legally own it" because it's an endlessly duplicatable infinitely durable item. There's literally no way to enforce ownership the same way with actual physical objects outside of keeping track of who owns what (and unsurprisingly, that's what a license is).
You're attacking the wrong thing here, licenses aren't the problem. It's the revocation of them that is.
What exactly are we counting as independent? Like a developer whose game is published by a publisher, but they aren't like one of the REALLY big publishers. Or is it just purely independent, self-published studios?
Dwarf Fortress, technically speaking, the Steam version isn't independent, but it seems ridiculous to not include them here.
It's not just a matter of convenience, with new TLDs, people have less of an innate bias towards them and it makes it easier to establish a certain identity.
I'll be honest, I would never buy something from a .biz TLD. I don't know why, it just feels sketchy and out of date to me.
Isn't that just GregTech in general?
If I had to guess, it's because gamers are often more tech-oriented, likely younger and impulsive, video games are more and more popular every year, and also based on your presence here, I'd say you're more likely to be aware of game-related news in general?
If knitting were more popular, had a greater online presence, and you actively followed knitting communities online, I'd imagine you would probably feel like knitting culture is such a toxic cesspit as well.
It also kinda shows they don't really know nor care what a moral compass even is. It isn't a magical thing that lets a person know right from wrong, it's just a set of beliefs to dictate what that person believes is right and wrong. I know what principles guide me and it doesn't matter whether other people think it's flawed or inconsiderate, it is exactly what it is, a guide, a compass.
Everyone has one, it just doesn't necessarily fit within their standards.
You're probably more right than me here, but I'm just not following. Does it matter whether or not to pick 1 from 10 sets of 10 or to pick 10 from a single set of 100? We don't care about what set each individual item came from, just that it's unique and the number of possible combinations.
Edit: Probably just best to dismiss this. I clearly have no idea what I'm talking about.
I'm not entirely sure why, but I don't think that adds up. 10 companions with 10 different endings is a total 100 endings, however there are apparently 1.7x10^13^ combinations if you were to pick any 10. I don't entirely know if I did the math right there.
So you don't have 1000 endings from the 100 total companion endings and 10 main endings, you have 110 total endings.
Either 17,000 is a figure from the various combinations (compare that to Fallout 3's purptorted 300 endings) or there are 17000 total ending "slides." The former is much more likely.
Mods are definitely a part of the success, but yeah, it's likely not the biggest reason it's so popular. Their games are popular and console mods didn't even exist until 2016 and I don't doubt you'd fine people who loved the games regardless on consoles prior to that.
Bethesda, back in 2015, during the Steam Paid Mods fiasco, released a quote stating that "Only 8% of the Skyrim audience has ever used a mod." And some time before either Legendary Edition or Special Edition released, I had done the maths on the number of copies sold of Skyrim and how many unique downloads the Unofficial Skyrim Patch had. Seeing as Nexus is the only official way to get the patch, I figured the number is decent enough and I got around 10-12%. If you're going to use mods, there is no reason not to use it. If people really think that mods, at the time, were so widespread, then you'd have to believe that nearly 90% of users who modded didn't use the Unofficial Patch.
Yes, such that they'll bounce back given a few days, weeks, months, years tops.