By now, everyone in the world knows that American tipping culture is getting out of hand. That doesn’t mean you can’t introduce another way of “supporting” creators. Mike Ybarra, the former president of Blizzard, shared his desire to tip developers of especially enjoyable games....
“When I beat a game, there are some that just leave me in awe of how amazing the experience was. At the end of the game, I’ve often thought ‘I wish I could give these folks another $10 or $20 because it was worth more than my initial $70 and they didn’t try to nickel and dime me every second.’”
Telling that he doesn’t think that paying higher wages is an option.
In my opinion, everybody who is over 13 and hasn’t grasped that AAA-gaming is not about good games anymore, is a fool.
Cain appreciated the performances and storytelling, but singled out how the show nailed the Fallout “vibe” as its biggest achievement. “I was just looking at all the props,” he said of one scene. “I realized after a few minutes went by that I had not followed the dialogue at all, because I was so engrossed by it...
Me helped it to make different usernames and playing roles to try out different things. Then the reaction was against that role and not myself.
It also gave me time to come up with good reactions to reactions. And everything that worked, I adapted for my “real” self. Like social interactions with training-wheels.
Learning to not let it get to you or even see some humor in it was one of the greatest feelings in my life and I wish you the same feeling.
The feed default sort options list is missing “scaled” and “controversial” options. Would be great if those could be added. Thanks for the great app!...
transcriptScreenshot of github showing part of the commit message of this commit with this text: Remove the backdoor found in 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 (CVE-2024-3094). While the backdoor was inactive (and thus harmless) without inserting a small trigger code into the build system when the source package was created, it’s good to...
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No spoilers...
Former Blizzard President Thinks Tipping Game Creators Is Great Idea (80.lv)
By now, everyone in the world knows that American tipping culture is getting out of hand. That doesn’t mean you can’t introduce another way of “supporting” creators. Mike Ybarra, the former president of Blizzard, shared his desire to tip developers of especially enjoyable games....
Original Fallout lead Tim Cain loves the new show, but remains baffled by how 'destructive' fans can act toward 'people who are trying to create things' (www.pcgamer.com)
Cain appreciated the performances and storytelling, but singled out how the show nailed the Fallout “vibe” as its biggest achievement. “I was just looking at all the props,” he said of one scene. “I realized after a few minutes went by that I had not followed the dialogue at all, because I was so engrossed by it...
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Missing default sort options
The feed default sort options list is missing “scaled” and “controversial” options. Would be great if those could be added. Thanks for the great app!...
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transcriptScreenshot of github showing part of the commit message of this commit with this text: Remove the backdoor found in 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 (CVE-2024-3094). While the backdoor was inactive (and thus harmless) without inserting a small trigger code into the build system when the source package was created, it’s good to...
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