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There’s this concept in game design called game flow, which in simple terms is essentially what happens when a game is both engaging and challenging at just the right amounts to the point where you get immersed in the experience. You can’t have good flow without both some challenge and reward.

That’s why games that are too simple and/or easy are boring. I feel like that’s a very fine line you have to walk if you want to make a “cozy” game. How relaxing is relaxing enough without being boring? You need a minimum of challenge and stakes, because that’s makes good games good.

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Yeah, I’m not clicking that, dawg. This whole post is sketchy as fuck to say the least.

It was only a matter of time, especially for Nintendo.

I don’t know much about Martinique but from what I gather at least they seem to treat them better than the U.S. with Puerto Rico, so that’s something…

Kind of crazy that in plain 2024 France still has fucking colonies in the Americas. Jesus Christ…

This is less a sign of “the devs don’t trust the player” and more just plain out bad game design. Maybe the game itself is very obvious (I don’t know, i haven’t played nor do I intend to), but this kind of thing is usually done when the game is obtuse and the developer wants a quickfix instead of actually reworking the entire thing. Then again, if your game is for little children and they can’t figure out how to play it, then there’s something fundamentally wrong with it and maybe you should go back to the drawing board.

Anything multiplayer, free-to-play and/or gacha. Nowadays I also avoid FromSoftware and anything trying to ape them, I used to love these kind of games but I just don’t have the patience and fortitude for them anymore.

Oh and Nintendo, then again it’s easy to avoid them considering I haven’t owned one of their consoles since the Game Cube.

Used to be that… Now it’s just whatever the fuck the head designer dreamed up while on mushrooms.

Gold Apollo denied producing the devices and instead pointed the finger at its Budapest-based partner BAC Consulting KFT.

Took them a while. But like clockwork, Nintendo never misses a chance to be the villains.

I wish. He’s an asshole TV host whose show thrives on sensationalizing crime and tragedy. The other guy is also an asshole and a massively controversial noveau riche who, in the past, said Datena wasn’t man enough to hit him… So he had it coming lol.

… Had to be Datena.

Ah now that’s a trick question, because the Abrahamic god is in fact an amalgam of both, which is why he’s so derangedly bipolar in the Old Testament!

Either dead or a niche as it is now.

True, but otherwise I just type faster normally.

Tried using swipe typing before and honestly I’m just faster typing normally.

Are you really surprised these gachas attract tons of horny teenage coomers with waifu baiting as a business model?

It’s both. The western economy is in a slump, people are getting disillusioned and that creates the perfect environment for populist ideas like Fascism to pop-up. The right has wisely noticed the power of social media and they’ve been flooding the web with propaganda, couple that with bad-faith actors like Russia taking advantage of the situation and you’ve got yourself a bunch of young, gullible people with no positive outlook for the future being dragged into all sorts of extremism with false promises of change for the better. Not to mention all the boomers coming out of their closets as full-on fascists now that the right has been extremely vocal in favor of said views.

I’m guessing they mean regional subsidiaries, Brazil is big, but not that big.

I usually leave them. Not really sure why.