Orly? Cool, thanks! E: curse you! Now I need to find and play this!

https://archive.org/details/dune-mr-abandonware

I present to you, dune.

I only know about this because I am old.

I needed this amusement. Thanks PH!

Its right next to his “broken rocket”

I think the best way to put it is that a game at release today is more like a game in beta in the 90s.

A game in beta at the 90s would mostly work and would probably be almost thoroughly playable, but the difference is here you don’t have a cartridge that you can’t update. You have a piece of software that’s sitting on a hard drive anyway and is fully updateable after launch. And so they’re pushing the production further and further down that line, right? The enshittification comes where they push it further and further towards Alpha so they can cut their losses if the game doesn’t turn out to be all that profitable or interesting to the players.

Or 100% solid-state, if you know what I mean.

I’d argue that there is appetite and that those skills have not been lost forever and while there are those that would have use only play and consume, to assume that this is the only thing happening is a bit of a reductio ad absurdum.

Guess I need to re-read my shit. Lol.

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That’s so disappointing. I loved their games. 🥺

For me, the cost benefit is about entertainment. I recognize there have been studies that supposedly show that games can help develop or maintain certain skills, but for me it’s more about learning the skill to experience the in-game reward. That’s just for some games. For others, that element exists but the game is telling a story too. One that is punctuated by struggle, maybe battles, and the overcoming which leads to power ups and more story.

So the cost-benefit is that it costs time, but it pulls you out of end-stage capitalism and puts you in flow state, engaging in another world.

I would suspect, though, that if you’re seeing video games through the lens of cost-benefit analysis, you might have trouble relaxing. People need rest.

Thanks for the reply. I did indeed pass TF out, but will look for it later today after the seasonal festivities.

Will take a look tonight if I don’t pass TF out. 🤒

Wife and I are playing Borderlands 4. It’s a fun romp of a game!

Nice. Thought they wouldn’t put this on switch 1. Looks like they might actually take my money after all.

Interesting point.

Counterpoint: it’s good to get people used to doing it by practicing before they do the real thing. …also all the other reasons you see in the thread.

Interesting. I saw it was free, clicked play now, and it didn’t work. Just took me to the list of other free games excluding immortals Fenix rising.

Hmm. Will have to try later on pc

Next up: hundreds of Rockstar employees that signed letter to management, summarily fired…

And the cynic in the back of my head is saying “oh, just you wait! You’ll love what’s next!” while another finger curls on the monkey’s paw.