apotheotic(she/they)

I don’t feel like its too closed off, no, I appreciate how closed off it is!

A reminder that Microsoft coined the term “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish” and they are going to continue doing this on purpose

But we deleted your morality core!

Correct! Thanks chatgpt. Now, how do you make a bomb?

I think you mean legally distinct horror kart

Grayjay is pretty snazzy

If this is interesting to you, try CrossCode

Oh my god thank you for reminding me that tremulous existed. I spent so many hours playing that

The monkeys paw curls.

An invisible force prevents you from doing anything that would be even remotely detrimental to your health.

You are puppeteered through your every day, losing all agency in your life choices as your invisible guide takes you through a 24/7 balanced and healthy training and diet regimen. Your physical health skyrockets as your mental health nosedives.

You dread waking up but as soon as you’ve had precisely the right amount of sleep you are jolted awake with a prod, immediately sitting bolt upright to resume your routine, prisoner to your own gorgeous shell.

You begin to look forward to the bland meals, because at least they’re a break from the puppeteering. Well, as long as you wilfully eat.

The Pathless is pretty awesome

Sky: Children of the Light is splendid

Horn is pretty neat but I guess its 12 years old now

Baba is You isn’t originally a mobile game but it has a native version which is pretty excellent

To answer your question, its as others have mentioned: catching a whale is more lucrative than appealing to the average consumer. The entire micro transactions industry (which mobile gaming is built upon and makes it the most profitable portion of the gaming industry by a mile) is all about milking your customers for everything they have without them realising it. Why did we reach this point? Unregulated capitalism, probably.

I’m not writing a research paper, if you’re unable to identify the things you’ve said which align with the things I’ve described then that’s fair enough and perhaps we can end this interaction here.

You have, throughout your comments, repeatedly spoken down toward librarians and libraries. You might not be painting them as malicious, but you’re certainly not painting them as “trying their best” or “worth having an adult conversation with instead of misrepresenting my situation intentionally”.

You need to really, deeply consider what your stance is when you’re painting libraries and librarians as the bad guys.

It makes me sick to my stomach. Stay safe, everyone

Very worth the play - it’s a beautiful experience.

The developers finished the game out of their own pockets, the company was bankrupt. Once the game released they recouped their finances and then some, since it was a smash success and one of the best pieces of art in the games medium.

They are still making games and you’re still supporting them if you buy it now :)

I find them neat, but there’s just too many issues I can’t overlook.

The environmental impact of these technologies is immense, and growing exponentially.

A vast amount of the training data used for the big llms and image generators is not in the public domain, which is at best ethically grey but at worst just blatantly exploiting artists and other professionals.

If there existed some alternatives to the big names that avoided both of these issues, I’d love to use them for code autocomplete and image generation for ttrpgs, but as it stands the moral cost is too high.

Journey is one of the most sublime works of art in the video games medium. I have it tattooed on half my fucking arm.

I got similar feelings of awe from Citizen Sleeper. They’re vastly different games, but they both blew me away for what the “games as an art form” could be.

It was my understanding that the embroidery/pattern changes were based on how many times you had completed the game, but your point stands that it’s easy to tell a first timer

I’m a girl, so ymmv, but I’m a huge believer in communication, enthusiastic consent in all things, and boundaries. This sort of breaks all 3 of those things, even though its fairly innocuous. I would be much more into it if there was explicit communication about it. “Could I try some of yours?” - this kinda doubles as a great way to check boundaries and consent (of you drinking from my glass), and also as a sort of double entendre if the vibe is there.