“No, maybe that wasn’t it. Words precede and surpass me, they tempt and alter me, and if I am not careful it will be too late: things will be said without my having said them. Or, at the very least, that wasn’t the only thing. My entanglement comes from how a carpet is made of so many threads that I can’t resign myself to following just one; my ensnarement comes from how one story is made of many stories. And I can’t even tell them all— a more truthful word could from echo to echo cause my highest glaciers to crumble down the precipice.” - Clarice Lispector
I would pay more more money for most of Ubisoft’s games than what Ubisoft currently sells them for if Ubisoft wasn’t associated with them.
Imagine if Steep was developed by an indie company!?
Oh wait that is Shredders… except the damn mountain design in Steep is gorgeous, it is such a waste that Ubisoft strangled that potential.
For an alternate stealth agility game I recommend the Styx series.
For sailing and bashing heads I recommend Valheim.
For actual sailing and trading I recommend Sailwind.
For another singleplayer pirate experience I recommend Salt 2: Shores Of Gold.
Windrose also looks promising.
Blazing Sales looks like a blast of a PvP Battle Royale pirate game.
Blackwake is a free and straightforward pirate ship PvP game. Very fun but low server population numbers at odd hours.
The profit part is when you crash the industry and all the smaller studios go out of business… you can weather the collapse and they can’t.
Then nobody has a choice but to deal with you, consumers and developers both.
Why do we tolerate this as fans?
Psychgeist is a great video channel by a Psychologist named Rachel Kowert who is a genuine video game fan, she should be WAY more popular!!
Her coverage is refreshingly nuanced and often brings an inspiring angle to things you might not have thought about with video games.
https://nurture.is/academy/games-vs-videos-for-kids-exploring-active-vs-passive-screen-time/
Remember in Reaper you can change the theme and menus around all you want, so you can make it look and behave however you want if certain things annoy you.
FL Studio is great, it isn’t fair to compare other audio software to Reaper lol.
Sytrus is an amazing design for a synthesizer and Harmor is fascinating too.
Reaper works great on linux.
Lame take on an awesome list that must have taken a lot of effort to make, like sure it is annoying but just skip through the video, the segments are named…
There is also a list of all the games in the video description…
edit I am sorry I got frustrated, but if you watch even a little bit of this channel’s videos you can see this person is genuinely passionate about indie games, they aren’t just trying to scam you into giving them their email. I do understand being frustrated by being asked to give your email, I didn’t see that when I first posted that you couldn’t directly look at the pdf so my bad, but I do want to emphasize that this is a very high quality channel. Among all the high output indie gaming video channels I know, this channel is one of the best. This video is no different, it is an awesome list full of games that make me think “wait, why I haven’t I heard about this game it sounds awesome!??!?”.
You are the thing and the two men carry you forming a triangle.
I love Man Carrying Thing and this might be one of his most important performances yet!
It is rare for an actor’s work to completely capture my attention from beginning to end in a performance without my tastes becoming bored or the emotional heart strings the actors crudely pluck in me becoming tired and drawn out, but Man Carrying Thing had me paying attention for virtually his entire performance on this one!
AI is the worst kind of bullshit fantasy because it convinces people to dehumanize themselves and others with a condescending sense of inevitability for a future that the technology does not provide any hard evidence for being inevitable.
Human artists are supremely valuable, fuck this “rational” economic system that pretends otherwise.
There is a clear difference here between discussing the accepted business culture in large corporations which is toxic and hostile to a work life balance and the physical employment structures, in terms of opportunity and length of employment, that large companies can gurantee in a way smaller companies cannot.
The reason people tolerate corporate bullshit is because of the fundamental advantages that come from being employed by a big large thing that isn’t blown around in the wind as easily as a small operation.
Yes but this is how “disaster capitalism” works, the entire industry gets burned down periodically and the result is that so much latent need for larger companies builds up that it becomes trivially easy to maintain a decisive leverage over the entire industry if you can consolidate and push out a critical threshold of competitors at the same size while running a larger company than anyone else. Well, in practice it is more likely for “cartel” structures to form where a handful of companies carve up the pie into a handful of big pieces and mostly agree to not fight over it past that.
My point is that a set of conditions are maintained at the cost of actually functional large companies that treat their workers well so that when a large company does form again in the rubble and ashes of the industry crash investors can easily and reliably pile on to establish effective capture of the industry and extract maximum profit.
In both cases it ignores the deliberate, pervasive, and frequently toxic efforts of the platform curators to maximize “engagement” with their audience in pursuit of ad revenue.
We are on social media right now, this is not inherent to social media it is a choice forced on it by corporations.
Social media is humans being social through media, I am sick and tired of it being categorically villainized especially because the scientific evidence for it being inherently bad is laughable.
Honestly a big part of me thinks “good riddance, let these big corporations trying to enshittify the video game industry all die” but then I think about how no matter how cool indie game companies are, they can’t fulfill the same role for entry level video game developers and artists or for video game developers and artists who want the consistency of a stupid large game development company so they can start a family…
I find it really frustrating most video game fans are naive as hell about this shit and only seem to react with “Yeah, let them all collapse, fuck them!” like yeah I get the vibe but look at the impact it is going to have.
I love indie games, I really really really really do I am such a weirdo finding weird video games makes me feel human and grounded, but I can also see how the boring, predictable consistency of large game studios play a different vital role in the video game industry even if I don’t buy games from these companies myself.
Microslop is incapable of not strangling the things it acquires impulsively and obsessively, there is no plan just chaos with cycles of culling.
I agree, for multiplayer video game design I think this is where the most difficult kind of artistry comes in.
What about JK Rowling she seems like she would get along with Trump?
Also do something about it Japan, empty words mean nothing to useless babies.