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  • Toxic empathy...?

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  • Couldn't what we typically call concern trolling be a type of toxic empathy? Of course you could make an argument that concern trolling is entirely removed from empathy, but then things like toxic positivity tends to only be positive at a very surface level view.

  • Upcoming MMO 'BitCraft Online' will be open source

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  • Security through obscurity is generally considered terrible practice in the cybersec community. It's much better to actually find and fix the flaws than just put your head in the sand and hope no one notices the issues.

    Exploits in games and the exploits used by hackers for various other purposes are very similar in nature if less often in effect.

  • No Rest for the Wicked - The Breach | Official Trailer

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  • I bought this on a sale last month, then heard there would be a full progress reset with this update so I held off on playing. I look forward to digging my teeth in at last!

    Hoping for multiplayer soon.

  • Games can no longer use virtual currencies to disguise the price of in-game purchases in the European Union

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  • These seem to be the four major points: 

     
            clear and transparent pricing and pre-contractual information;
    avoiding practices hiding the costs of in-game digital content and services, as well as practices forcing consumers to purchase virtual currency;
    respect of consumers' right of withdrawal;
    respecting consumer vulnerabilities, in particular when it comes to children;

    First one actually seems pretty well covered by Warframe already. Second point can be met just by displaying the real currency price next to the plat price, calculated based on what people on average give per plat when purchasing through the Warframe website. Third point... Yeah that's going to be a point of contention for sure. That'll require a redesign of the plat system. Fourth point I'd also say Warframe does. Their 'oh shit' moment when they ended up creating a slot machine with, what was it, kubrow skins? Demonstrates them actually caring about this already. Basically they saw people interacting with a new mechanic much like one would a slot machine, and then soon after rolled it back and refunded everyone who had spent money on it.

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  • If they don't then they might lose the Brazilian market and who knows what comes after. It's less about what Apple wants to do and more about what they might be forced to do.

  • Massive botnet that appeared overnight is delivering record-size DDoSes

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  • Nokia is a mobile infrastructure giant. They are just mostly business to business, so like Texas Instruments they are rather easy to mistake for being small.

  • You'll need to pay to edit your Monster Hunter Wilds character beyond the first free redo

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  • Live service games are not only balanced around tedium, they are designed around tedium. Without it people wouldn't buy boosters etc.

    Adapting the meta faster than people can catch up and letting people pay to keep up simply switches the game from balance by tedium to straight up pay to win. Or pay to play optionally, at least, which live service games heavily push you towards doing.

  • You'll need to pay to edit your Monster Hunter Wilds character beyond the first free redo

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  • People will chase the meta regardless. Balancing a game by introducing tedium often results in people merely finding the game tedious.

  • You'll need to pay to edit your Monster Hunter Wilds character beyond the first free redo

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  • Why the fuck would that be understandable lmao

  • Russia must withdraw its troops to February 2022 line, Zelenskyy says

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  • Make your products in America or pay tariffs, Trump tells World Economic Forum

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  • Lol

  • Germany and France warn Trump against use of force over Greenland

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  • So far Trump is all talk, of course he hasn't yet been sworn in, but until the invasions he threatens about become real he is not worse than Putin.

    Here's hoping he's all bark and no bite.

  • Nintendo 64 vs PlayStation graphics

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  • Didn't some early 3d pc games have this effect as well? I vaguely remember the wobbliness from the first Quake (or was it unreal? Can't remember).

  • Elon Musk asks court to block OpenAI conversion from nonprofit to for-profit

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  • Yeah it is kind of dumb that you can turn from being non-profit to for-profit if it turns out you've struck gold. Cheapens the value of non-profits everywhere if they can turn that around whenever they feel like it.

  • The world is ending but here's a side quest - will RPGs ever solve their urgency problem?

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  • In Skyrim the main quest constantly tells you about how urgent it is for you to do the next steps. You must heed the summoning of the greybeards, you must hurry along to the dragon graveyard. Time is constantly of the essence.

    And then every other part of the game encourages you to goof around.

    Oblivion is the same with this. Morrowind went the opposite direction with the story at times pretty much telling you to goof around for a bit before continuing the main quest (probably because people were less used to open world games maybe?).

    I think daggerfall had you on actual timers so if you weren't at the correct locations in time the game would be impossible to complete. Which sure is a way to resolve the false sense of urgency lmao.

  • Why video games exist after all?

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  • To provide entertainment to the user, mostly.