I wouldn't call it pretending but... Yeah, no shit.
this post was submitted on 11 Jan 2025
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Guys it was just a prank. I’m not really fascist, I was just pretending. I just gave money to the fascists as a joke, isn’t that funny?
If you want those things then you are a republican, there's no pretending.
If the democrats would have given them those, they'd have continued their "woke capitalism" arc...
Fascism and capitalism go hand-in-hand because their goals align almost exactly. I also read or heard that fascism is the enforcement arm of capitalism when the peasants become unruly (ergo regulating enterprise and the leverage of tax in the rich). I'll see if I can find the quote or video I saw about the comparisons between capitalism and fascism. It was a really interesting read.
Do you have an example of a political system that can somehow handle "peasants" becoming unruly without turning into some sort of fascism?
God damnit sweeny. You have had a visit from the ghost of Christmas past or something?
Don’t make me agree with you.
Broken clocks
Eh? I think they're trying to prevent Musk from becoming an AI god.
More like some kind of sad joke/curse god that thinks its all knowing but really sources all its knowledge from reddit meme threads.
The "All-Knowing" Know-It-All, less rare than you'd think.
Epic got so much bullshit for - reads annotation - making platform exclusives that were only temporary and helped developers with stable financing with better terms.
After pulling those games off other stores, some of which refused to refund pre orders
Epic halted development of UT4 for Fortnite. They are dead to me.
Blame market demand. Quake was also halted. UT4 was halted 3 years before Fortnite was out. Fortnite wasn't even supposed to be a battle royale, it just coincided with the popularity of one. The original game mode Save the World that it implemented wouldn't even had had any crossover with the fps multiplayer deathmatch shooter genre. Even games with novel mechanics like Titanfall have struggled and failed to survive in it. I think the generation that never got into Minecraft and think of it as just as a joke kiddie game is still resentful of the types of games it encouraged and continues to do so.
They didn’t even make things exclusive
There were no clauses saying you couldn’t release on mac/linux/ps/xbox/switch
They just only carry games for the Windows platform. They did buy EAC and make a Linux version as well as gave all devs the ability to implement crossplay regardless of engine
Beyond a bit of annoyance about Borderlands 3 being temporarily exclusive, I think the only thing I minded about Epic Games Store was a lack of user reviews, but there's the metacritic embed now so I'm not sure was the issue should be.
User reviews are almost impossible to get right. On Steam and GOG, they are easily and routinely abused. Steam took some steps to tackle review bombing, but even when it detects it, there's no protection against marking reviews as helpful or unhelpful, which is sometimes used to the same end as review bombing for reasons that have nothing to do with the game content or technical aspects. There is also no active screening for hate speech and things of that nature, with the word filter often bypassed.
Epic supports user ratings and offers the players to rate games at random as to prevent abuse.
Review bombing should be a thing.
As long as they own the game, coordinated review bombing is good and right.
Reviews for a Free to Play game are less important. Maybe it makes sense to have a default filter where reviews from anyone who played less than 1 hour don't count towards the main total.
One of the only CEOs speaking truth.
If only they can focus on making good games instead
zzt was pretty rad
Emphasis on games, plural. Make something other than Fortnite!
other than all the spinoff titles you do realize that Fortnite is a platform right?
Have you played it recently? It's not a single game anymore but basically a launcher containing many games of all kinds - quite a few of them from Epic. You may absolutely hate battle royale but find Rocket Racing or Lego Fortnite very enjoyable and different from Fortnite Battle Royale.
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