Ok, now compare the populations of both places for the category of ‘mammals with chlamydia.’

If you need to be able to do unions and you are doing it in javascript, you are being absurdly inefficient compared to setting up a postgres db, but i wont be able to convince you of this because of basically nonsense brainwashing from your corporate conditioning.

EDIT: Note to self, do not use lemmy while hangry.

Yep Im wayyyy off base here.

Ah yes, javascript, the database language.

Jesus fucking christ I am so glad I don’t work in the corporate tech sector anymore.

(nevermind)

Oh dear lord, bwahaha!

God I still cannot believe how obviously bullshit that all was and how many fucking idiots parroted it hook line and sinker.

Wait, so, the Cloud is actually just a bunch of other computers, called servers, and the only real innovation is basically a load balancing system?

Next youre gonna tell me I wont be able to stream lagless video games and also do competitive multiplayer on my Google Stadia, pff, like youre some kind of expert or something.

/s

Yeah, this is pretty funny from that perspective.

Hah, Ive gone uh, full tilt, and actually am working on making a game myself that will hopefully /actually have meaningfully innovative and compelling gameplay/, and i dont plan on or seem to have any real need to fall into the kickstarter/early access trap.

From a developer standpoint, both those approaches mean deadlines and managing expectations, which is basically maddeningly stressful and soul crushing.

From a gamer perspective, more often than not that means throwing money at a promise that at best will not live up to the hyped experience you have generated with the fandom, and at worst is just a total bust, failure, or scam.

So yep, my plan is tinker away for a year or two until the fundamentals are technologically sound and the actual gameplay is unique and compelling.

Then, only then, would i maybe release a demo or in depth teasers or testing session footage.

Yes thats right. Testing. Remember when games used to actually be playtested, not just for bugs, but for actual gameplay experience?

Many of at least my favorite games and mods were hugely shaped by tester feedback that radically reworked certain game elements to solve unexpected gameplay problems, or to further an idea that the testers found fun or useful that tje devs didnt even realize was really possible in the world theyd constructed.

Anyway… woo video games, shit sucks mostly these days but there are some notable basically niche exceptions, and hopefully i can make something thats at least niche successful.

In the words of a person i truly do think is an actual genius of game design:

These things, they take time.

Time where no one has any real clue wtf youre actually doing, haha.

First off, dang thats a pretty good username, second:

sigh yep, youre right.

I am the only avid video gamer I knew who actually refused and refuses to buy anything ever again from Bethesda after FallOut 76.

I personally know a good deal of gamers who said theyd do the same… and actually did not, some even pre ordering Starfield.

Gamers are basically hilarious hypocrites from the standpoint of market research, public sentiment analysis and actual dollareedoos.

Which is why i would have been an actual idiot at this point to think that an actually significant number of gamers could actually successfully pull off a boycott as a means to influence the overall market conditions.

This is not /that/ complicated.

Who plays video games these days?

Children, and adults who are basically working shit jobs and have little disposable income, but theyre generally likely to get hooked into a game that offers microtransactions of some kind.

Ok, so, we all know AAA studios are more or less led by extremely money hungry bullies who see games as a product to sell to consumers for the purposes of maximizing shareholder profit, and they know they have to mainly compete against other games, and movies and tv (netflix hulu fucking whatever).

Gamers also basically expect high quality graphics and the production value of basically a blockbuster movie, if you go by sales data.

Sure, other games with less astounding graohics and actually unique or novel gameplay exist, thats neat, they have teensy tiny draws, excepting the essentially totally unpredictable break out hit thats popular for maybe a month, maybe literally days.

So, we need huge studios for huge production values, and then the only way to possibly make profits on that is exploitative games as a service with microtransactions and season/battle passes.

Their brains are stuck in a loop state basically, and going by their logic, it makes sense from their position and with their motives and personalities.

Theyre following corpo logic basically perfectly.

You can say theyre the bad guys, and I can say go rewatch V for Vendetta and replay the part where V says ‘you only need look into a mirror’ multiple times.

How does this situation actually change?

Either, somehow, not one but a number of basically indie games somehow become huge successes with massive regular player counts, and most importantly they somehow have to draw people away from the mostly unoriginal schlock that is most AAA money printing games these days…

Or, basically, a significant number of big name studios/publishers need to basically just go entirely bankrupt.

Are either of these likely to happen?

Probably not, not soon, barring an extremely serious basically global economic downturn.

The fact that there is this much uniformity in strategy means that there will be sort of attritional damage done to the less successful, but that… might result in a sea change of market strategy to some other basically fad for AAA game studios… or it might result in even further buyouts and consolidation of once great IPs and studios.

Welcome to video game hell, nearly no one is truly innocent.

Presumably our paraplegic hero would at some point scurry away with his arms so as to avoid incredible pain and avoid rapidly bleeding to death, but sure, pennywise can get some ass chomps in, as a treat.

But then he still eats his legs, leaving our hero wheelchair bound with the perfect ass for twerking, alas, no legs.

A /truly/ maddening fate.

Some pigs are more equal than other pigs.

Im glad you are really taking the time to intellectually engage with a complex topic instead of dismissing it casually.

Oh. Right.

And I have seen societies that have bucked a less equitable system, and meaningfully and materially change things for the average person.

Kind of a core part of the concept of democracy is that it is meant to continuously have a feedback mechanism, continually allow for… you know, change.

It is often when societies become significantly less democratic that this change stops and things ossify…

…until the situation is so untenable for so many that they functionally revolt, often violently, though not always.

Does this always turn out well? Sometimes yes, sometimes no.

This is all a very general overview.

Your view of the world amd of the history of human societies is fatalistic, self perpetuating, dismissive, and overly simplistic.

In other words, you are nearly certainly a conservative.

Your statement is simply objectively false. Almost no social system in history that has attempted to redistribute wealth more equitably and then backslid on this has /reverted to the same system/.

They are nearly always different in substantial, complex and meaningful ways.

An example, a prominent one: Russia. Russia was a feudalistic/monarchical society, things got spicy, wealth was redistributed, a lot of people died but a lot of people were a lot better off in a lot of ways. Obviously this was not perfect and had many flaws. Eventually the ‘communist’ system collapsed into more or less a corrupt weird sort of blend of capitalism, lots of social programs, similar amounts of oppression, lots of authoritarianism.

Not exactly ‘the same system,’ different in many complex and meaningful ways.

I am extremely tempted to make a dingo ate my baby joke, but in fairness many of the Australians Ive known actually do find that offensive, so I wont.

Anglicans are a… sort.of a branch of English Christianity founded when an an English King wanted to divorce wife, but the Pope would not authorize this.

His solution was to basically tell the Pope and all of Catholicism to get rekt, and he basically founded his own religion by splitting Christianity away from Catholicism, naming this Anglicism or the Anglican Church, and this new branch of Christianity he basically created allowed him to divorce his wife.

Then there were like hundreds of years of wars and basically what we would now todag call domestic terrorism between various versions of Christianity in and around England.

Pizzashire.

Eeeeyyhh oooh eeeyyy look at this faguzi, drinkin his tea /pinky gripped/ like its gonna get away from you or somethin’.

Now come, come, over here and tell me what you think of this blood pudding and beans pizza.

What? Yeah, seriously. Its very important you tell me, I’ve been working on this recipe for months now.

Ahh, ahh, yeah, whatchu think, how is it?

(Then an Anglican hit squad bursts through the door, surprise this is somehow a movie about a Catholic Italian Mafia family in hiding that made one too many somewhat stereotypical enemies.)

EDIT: To the single person who has downvoted this: Dont worry, its ok, Im of Italian heritage and a good number of us think these stereotypes are hilarious.

I ask only that his grace fill my empty cup, fill my mortal soul with his divine marinara sauce, for I am a penitent man wronged, an honorable man falsely besmirched, and a faithful lover of too many a woman later to fall into accursed witchcraft, madness and debauchery.

I ask only for some tangible morsel of proof.

Some… tasty meal, for my impoverished stomach.

I wont believe in FSM unless he personally appears to me and presents me with a Teapot that can verified scientifically to have been exposed to radiation effects only possible from extended duration in a close Solar orbit.