As I understand it, it's "what if instead of the gacha system being attached to a 2D tactics game, RPG, or visual novel it was a fairly high-budget 3D open-world action adventure game?"
Gacha generally need something to grab people and keep them in the ecosystem beyond just the gacha itself - some games try to do so through strength of story (e.g. Fate/Grand Order, which definitely isn't winning any awards for its serviceable-but-mid gameplay), and Genshin tries to do so by just making a fun game and then sneaking the predatory bullshit in.
Back when it was released I think the common comparison was something along the lines of "what if Breath of the Wild was on your phone, and also a gacha game". Not quite an accurate description, as I understand it, but close enough that you'd get the gist of it.
The lightspeed, no-hesitation pivot from his cultists has been to, "Wow, look how humble he is for apologizing after making a mistake, he's even better than we thought, anyone who stays mad at him for this is just a hater"
They will resist any and every offramp from "Cheering on a dipshit asshole," it's truly incredible
I swear to god, it’s like there’s this whole thing where you base your entire personality so fully on one thing—a movie, a comic book, a video game, a dipshit billionaire who would step on your face without a second thought—that you eventually feel like you have to constantly shift your every opinion to line up with the thing you like or you’re somehow a fool. You have to be all in or all out. With us or against us. You can’t just say “yeah, Star Wars is mostly cool” or “Billionare X seems pretty smart”. You have to be a take-no-prisoners hardliner and don’t even think about nuance. That shit is for losers. And if that means your own internal consistency is shot to Swiss cheese because you’re constantly mirroring someone else, well, at least you’re consistent in how much you love Dear Leader.
The real shitty thing is that's everyone, everywhere, about everything they care about even a little. You don't have to be a zealot, your brain is spackling over cognitive dissonance all the time, and knowing it's happening does absolutely nothing to make you better at resisting it. It might even make it worse, according to some studies. Being wrong hurts, in a very real neurological sense, and the more you know the better you are at plausibly massaging the pain away with questionable logic. Changing your mind about something you've already learned is not a selected-for cognitive trait.
Sorry, I'm currently reading another book about how everyone's brain is completely untrustworthy because it's all a bunch of kludged-together electric jello trying to keep us away from snakes. I'd read a book about how our brains are fantastic logic machines, but at this point I'd probably hate it.
As I understand it, it's "what if instead of the gacha system being attached to a 2D tactics game, RPG, or visual novel it was a fairly high-budget 3D open-world action adventure game?"
Gacha generally need something to grab people and keep them in the ecosystem beyond just the gacha itself - some games try to do so through strength of story (e.g. Fate/Grand Order, which definitely isn't winning any awards for its serviceable-but-mid gameplay), and Genshin tries to do so by just making a fun game and then sneaking the predatory bullshit in.
Back when it was released I think the common comparison was something along the lines of "what if Breath of the Wild was on your phone, and also a gacha game". Not quite an accurate description, as I understand it, but close enough that you'd get the gist of it.
Genshin Impact is a suprisingly good Breath of the Wild knockoff, but you should absolutely not go near it if you have issues with lootboxes or gatcha systems.
The scariest part of Genshin Impact is, well, the impact it will have. Who knows what horrors western publishers are cooking up to get their slice of that pie
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The scariest part of Genshin Impact is, well, the impact it will have. Who knows what horrors western publishers are cooking up to get their slice of that pie
Really makes u genshin.
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They're really not. They find it easier to shit out things like Clash of Clans and other cheap mobile games to get money because they've learned, since several attempts have already been made, that Genshin is an actual open-world game that required effort and skill to develop rather than just a Breath of the Wild clone with gacha.
The scariest part of Genshin Impact is, well, the impact it will have. Who knows what horrors western publishers are cooking up to get their slice of that pie
wait until you hear about loot boxes
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Apparently this guy founded something called "Revue" which was acquired by Twitter in 2021, presumably in same manner that Halli's company was.
I'm going to really enjoy it if Halli has inspired all the other acquired founders-turned-employees to goad Musk into embarassing himself into potential millions of dollars in damages or keep them on at exorbitant salaries after he tried to quiet-fire them as a cost-cutting measure.
If my job randomly locked me out of the building for 9+ days, there is no chance I would risk that sweet setup by asking to please be allowed back into the building
Apparently this guy founded something called "Revue" which was acquired by Twitter in 2021, presumably in same manner that Halli's company was.
I'm going to really enjoy it if Halli has inspired all the other acquired founders-turned-employees to goad Musk into embarassing himself into potential millions of dollars in damages or keep them on at exorbitant salaries after he tried to quiet-fire them as a cost-cutting measure.
I would assume that even Musk isn't stupid enough to slam his dick into the same door twice in the same week but man does this just paint him so thoroughly as a person unable to run a company of this size. If you had any doubts about the claims that tesla and spaceX work around him as much as they possibly can it's hard to argue with now.
The lightspeed, no-hesitation pivot from his cultists has been to, "Wow, look how humble he is for apologizing after making a mistake, he's even better than we thought, anyone who stays mad at him for this is just a hater"
They will resist any and every offramp from "Cheering on a dipshit asshole," it's truly incredible
I swear to god, it’s like there’s this whole thing where you base your entire personality so fully on one thing—a movie, a comic book, a video game, a dipshit billionaire who would step on your face without a second thought—that you eventually feel like you have to constantly shift your every opinion to line up with the thing you like or you’re somehow a fool. You have to be all in or all out. With us or against us. You can’t just say “yeah, Star Wars is mostly cool” or “Billionare X seems pretty smart”. You have to be a take-no-prisoners hardliner and don’t even think about nuance. That shit is for losers. And if that means your own internal consistency is shot to Swiss cheese because you’re constantly mirroring someone else, well, at least you’re consistent in how much you love Dear Leader.
...the extent to which this civilization transforms the object world into an extension of man's mind and body makes the very notion of alienation questionable. The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment. The very mechanism which ties the individual to his society has changed, and social control is anchored in the new needs which it has produced.
Marcuse was talking here of alienation and commodities, and idk about you but I've never recognized myself in a blender so it didn't really hit for me. That is, until about a week ago when I thought about the conspicuous consumption that is fandom- it just clicked into place. People deciding to make their interest or enthusiasm about a thing into their personality.
I'm not saying Herbert Marcuse predicted Twitter or internet fandom, but I am saying there's a lot of dope shit in The One Dimensional Man that just feels very applicable to now.
If my job randomly locked me out of the building for 9+ days, there is no chance I would risk that sweet setup by asking to please be allowed back into the building
They're really not. They find it easier to shit out things like Clash of Clans and other cheap mobile games to get money because they've learned, since several attempts have already been made, that Genshin is an actual open-world game that required effort and skill to develop rather than just a Breath of the Wild clone with gacha.
When the maker of Vampire Survivor looked into making a mobile port of the game there was a number of companies who offered to handle it.
Until they found out there was to be no exploitative monetisation, and they all bailed. Eventually it was just done in house.
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So I've been thinking about Halli and the way Musk responded and wanted to verbalize something that is just so wild. Halli's job as described was in leadership. Direction, allocation, and advisement. Musk insulted him, and all his little parrots were happy to repeat, that he clearly couldn't code so of course he should be fired. Why would he be expected to code? Why is someone who is not coding(and doesn't have the ability) deriding someone for not coding? Either good leadership is useful or it's not and if it's not what the hell do you do, Elon?
Like it's so stupid. I know everything is stupid but
So I've been thinking about Halli and the way Musk responded and wanted to verbalize something that is just so wild. Halli's job as described was in leadership. Direction, allocation, and advisement. Musk insulted him, and all his little parrots were happy to repeat, that he clearly couldn't code so of course he should be fired. Why would he be expected to code? Why is someone who is not coding(and doesn't have the ability) deriding someone for not coding? Either good leadership is useful or it's not and if it's not what the hell do you do, Elon?
Like it's so stupid. I know everything is stupid but
The dissonance is part of the point. It’s why the right only respects hard working gruff coal mine workers, oh and also the owners of the coal mine who have never done a days worth of physical labour in their life. They’re used to this contradiction, it doesn’t phase them
Also why musk is so intent on cosplaying as a coder
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Isn't this Twitter's problem, not Musk's? I don't see why he'd personally need to spend a cent of his own money, he'd just let Twitter go down in flames
Isn't this Twitter's problem, not Musk's? I don't see why he'd personally need to spend a cent of his own money, he'd just let Twitter go down in flames
I think it's because Twitter is 100% privately owned by Musk.
Would he? He seems to have invested a lot of his personal feelings of self worth into owning and running twitter, on top of any actual personal financial liabilities he might have to creditors.
Isn't this Twitter's problem, not Musk's? I don't see why he'd personally need to spend a cent of his own money, he'd just let Twitter go down in flames
I think it's because Twitter is 100% privately owned by Musk.
The whole thing about corporations is they shield the individual?
Isn't this Twitter's problem, not Musk's? I don't see why he'd personally need to spend a cent of his own money, he'd just let Twitter go down in flames
I think it's because Twitter is 100% privately owned by Musk.
The company's finances are wholly separate from his: the severance comes out the company's coffers, not his pocket. If the company can't pay, he's not going to gift the company money to do so, he'll just ignore it. And if the company gets sued for not paying up, is summarily then forced to pay, and they can't afford to, I think he'll just have the company declare bankruptcy before he spends a cent of his own money.
Isn't this Twitter's problem, not Musk's? I don't see why he'd personally need to spend a cent of his own money, he'd just let Twitter go down in flames
I think it's because Twitter is 100% privately owned by Musk.
The whole thing about corporations is they shield the individual?
Ok, but what is supposed to be the process of events in this specific case? Twitter is already in massive debt and its not making anywhere close to the amount needed to become profitable. Musk's choices are to prop up the company with his own money or let it die. both of those things are a massive loss for Musk.
Isn't this Twitter's problem, not Musk's? I don't see why he'd personally need to spend a cent of his own money, he'd just let Twitter go down in flames
I think it's because Twitter is 100% privately owned by Musk.
The company's finances are wholly separate from his: the severance comes out the company's coffers, not his pocket. If the company can't pay, he's not going to gift the company money to do so, he'll just ignore it. And if the company gets sued for not paying up, is summarily then forced to pay, and they can't afford to, I think he'll just have the company declare bankruptcy before he spends a cent of his own money.
He has already spent his own money to prop up twitter.
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We're also getting dangerously close to a Honkai Star Rail over here..
Typical spend ingame/real currency on wives/husbands but now with Breath of the Wild gameplay.
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As I understand it, it's "what if instead of the gacha system being attached to a 2D tactics game, RPG, or visual novel it was a fairly high-budget 3D open-world action adventure game?"
Gacha generally need something to grab people and keep them in the ecosystem beyond just the gacha itself - some games try to do so through strength of story (e.g. Fate/Grand Order, which definitely isn't winning any awards for its serviceable-but-mid gameplay), and Genshin tries to do so by just making a fun game and then sneaking the predatory bullshit in.
Back when it was released I think the common comparison was something along the lines of "what if Breath of the Wild was on your phone, and also a gacha game". Not quite an accurate description, as I understand it, but close enough that you'd get the gist of it.
Is that anything
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The real shitty thing is that's everyone, everywhere, about everything they care about even a little. You don't have to be a zealot, your brain is spackling over cognitive dissonance all the time, and knowing it's happening does absolutely nothing to make you better at resisting it. It might even make it worse, according to some studies. Being wrong hurts, in a very real neurological sense, and the more you know the better you are at plausibly massaging the pain away with questionable logic. Changing your mind about something you've already learned is not a selected-for cognitive trait.
Sorry, I'm currently reading another book about how everyone's brain is completely untrustworthy because it's all a bunch of kludged-together electric jello trying to keep us away from snakes. I'd read a book about how our brains are fantastic logic machines, but at this point I'd probably hate it.
Genshin Impact is a suprisingly good Breath of the Wild knockoff, but you should absolutely not go near it if you have issues with lootboxes or gatcha systems.
When you impact someone’s face with a super kick?
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Really makes u genshin.
wait until you hear about loot boxes
I'm going to really enjoy it if Halli has inspired all the other acquired founders-turned-employees to goad Musk into embarassing himself into potential millions of dollars in damages or keep them on at exorbitant salaries after he tried to quiet-fire them as a cost-cutting measure.
I would assume that even Musk isn't stupid enough to slam his dick into the same door twice in the same week but man does this just paint him so thoroughly as a person unable to run a company of this size. If you had any doubts about the claims that tesla and spaceX work around him as much as they possibly can it's hard to argue with now.
This is what you get when the man is in charge.
Marcuse was talking here of alienation and commodities, and idk about you but I've never recognized myself in a blender so it didn't really hit for me. That is, until about a week ago when I thought about the conspicuous consumption that is fandom- it just clicked into place. People deciding to make their interest or enthusiasm about a thing into their personality.
I'm not saying Herbert Marcuse predicted Twitter or internet fandom, but I am saying there's a lot of dope shit in The One Dimensional Man that just feels very applicable to now.
presumably they are also not being paid anymore
When the maker of Vampire Survivor looked into making a mobile port of the game there was a number of companies who offered to handle it.
Until they found out there was to be no exploitative monetisation, and they all bailed. Eventually it was just done in house.
Fucking hell
Like it's so stupid. I know everything is stupid but
The dissonance is part of the point. It’s why the right only respects hard working gruff coal mine workers, oh and also the owners of the coal mine who have never done a days worth of physical labour in their life. They’re used to this contradiction, it doesn’t phase them
Also why musk is so intent on cosplaying as a coder
I think it's cute. I know it's sexy.
Context: Tesla stock dropped by billions today out of fear that Musk will have to dump more of his stock to pay back Halli.
Everyone (except musk) at tesla builds cars
Everyone (except musk) at spacex builds rockets
Everyone (except musk) at twitter writes code
I think it's because Twitter is 100% privately owned by Musk.
TSLA being down 2.28% is just noise. This is someone making up a story.
The whole thing about corporations is they shield the individual?
The company's finances are wholly separate from his: the severance comes out the company's coffers, not his pocket. If the company can't pay, he's not going to gift the company money to do so, he'll just ignore it. And if the company gets sued for not paying up, is summarily then forced to pay, and they can't afford to, I think he'll just have the company declare bankruptcy before he spends a cent of his own money.
Ok, but what is supposed to be the process of events in this specific case? Twitter is already in massive debt and its not making anywhere close to the amount needed to become profitable. Musk's choices are to prop up the company with his own money or let it die. both of those things are a massive loss for Musk.
He has already spent his own money to prop up twitter.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/qai/2022/12/29/elon-musk-sells-another-36-billion-in-tesla-stock-to-prop-up-twitter/?sh=65d78cbd6993
But yeah maybe he'll just sink the website. That would still be a massive loss for him and also be very funny.