oscarlavi 10mo ago • 100%
Insomniac, the dev team behind the wildly successful Spider-Man games just had a leak. In the leak, it's discovered that they were strong-armed by Sony (who owns Insomniac) to downsize staff despite exceeding sales targets and hitting goals. They needed to downsize to help balance Sony's books, who have acquired a slew of failing or underperforming studios.
Sony owns Studio A, and Studio B. Studio B have underperformed for the last few years, whilst Studio A has outperformed their targets. Because of the shortcomings in Studio B, Sony are now out of pocket, even accounting for the earnings of Studio A. Studio A are forced to eliminate staff roles to make up for Studio B's mismanagement. A well oiled and well performing Studio have to butcher their teams to balance their parent entity's books. It's so fucking short sighted and stupid.
This isn't just a Sony/Insomniac issue either, I guarantee this goes on throughout the industry whenever there's a parent company. It's just how it will always be in those circumstances.
oscarlavi 1y ago • 90%
Seems patently anti-player, but pro shareholder. It's so clear cut.
oscarlavi 1y ago • 96%
I tend to be pretty pessimistic about these cases. Even if the UK Govt win, Google won't change anything, or if they do the change will be subtle enough to not have any impact
oscarlavi 1y ago • 100%
Thing is, Trump didn't actually have a vision. He didn't think he was going to win, and he was using the whole election as a way to enrich himself. There is no Trump vision, he plans nothing.
oscarlavi 1y ago • 100%
I'm glad this game is still getting regular support even though I've stopped playing. There aren't enough games like this that stick around
oscarlavi 1y ago • 100%
I enjoyed Frasier, but not because of Frasier himself. I really enjoyed seeing the interaction between him and his brother Niles, along with Roz, Daphne etc.
So if this is just a show about Frasier, then I'm out.
oscarlavi 1y ago • 92%
I was thinking "what the hell does social justice warriors have to do with this" and then I realised ಠ_ಠ
oscarlavi 1y ago • 100%
He goes back to Emerald Grove, and he'll be at the bottom of the stairs where you had the encounter with the theiving tiefling child's parents
oscarlavi 1y ago • 97%
Nobody has trust in our government. The way they've treated immigrants (both legal and otherwise) is abhorrent. I'm not surprised that nobody wants to come here.
oscarlavi 1y ago • 100%
Break the task down into bitesize chunks and then just do the first one. The dopamine hit from completing the first part will help your executive dysfunction.
Example (do the dishes):
- Move dishes out of the sink
- Fill sink with hot water and soap
- Wash one plate
- Wash one set of cutlery that goes with the plate
Once you do 1, you'd be surprised at how easy 2 is, then 3, then 4 and then the rest of them.
It's a skill, so it's not something you can just click your fingers and do, so work on it, and develop the skill over time. It's tough, but doable
oscarlavi 1y ago • 100%
Please get some help. Go somewhere, anywhere to get out of your housing situation. There are shelters, parents, relatives go stay with anyone until your back on your feet. It's never too late to start over
oscarlavi 1y ago • 100%
I enjoyed playing a bit of Paladin. It's got some great role playing mechanics too where you can't break your oath
oscarlavi 1y ago • 81%
It's a joke
oscarlavi 1y ago • 91%
There was a controversy a couple of weeks ago where some AAA developers were saying things like "don't expect our standards to rise now that this game is out" and generally being salty about how good BG3 is
oscarlavi 1y ago • 100%
Yeah I agree that's rough, and probably an unexpected interaction. That being said, other than that, I've played pretty much all Larian Games (even Divinity 2: The Dragon Knight Saga) and I've never felt like the game is working against me, but I have felt like the game is of punishing difficulty in some unexpected ways. When you make a game with so many permutations, there are bound to be issues with some of the edge cases. Not defending them, I'm happy you shared a legitimate complaint, unlike the OP review which isn't a legitimate complaint, but is clearly just salt.
oscarlavi 1y ago • 100%
Oh yeah, couch coop, I think you're shit out of luck
oscarlavi 1y ago • 100%
Amazing!
Sidenote though, unless you're both in the same room, it doesn't show the other player your sex scene if I recall correctly. Or maybe that's just a setting?
oscarlavi 1y ago • 100%
Happened to me, lost a good few hours of gameplay from last night. I was signed into a Larian account, but with OPs method, it's functional again (though I had to restart because I had no saves from yesterday)
oscarlavi 1y ago • 100%
Holy shit, I forgot this channel existed, I loved Primitive Technology a few years ago. Thanks for the reminder!
I'd love the ability to change the settings of a specific account. For example, I'm able to switch between lemmy.world and lemmynsfw.com accounts. When I'm logged into my '.world' identity I want to blur NSFW images, but when I'm logged into my 'nsfw.com' identity I would like to have them marked as 'Always Show'. Also I would like the flexibility of changing the display settings (card, full-width etc.) on a per account basis. Do you think this would be possible in a future update? Thanks for all your hard work so far, I'm loving the app!
If I've got an account on multiple instances, where one of the instances is NSFW, is there a way for me to stop this instance from appearing in my main 'All' feed?