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Arglebargle III posted:16% female user base might be record breaking for the FPS genre, but there are plenty of genres that are overwhelmingly female Neat survey: https://quanticfoundry.com/2017/01/19/female-gamers-by-genre/ 7% for FPS and 10% for MOBAs so 1/6 is pretty solid.
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Dylan16807 posted:The bill of rights is supposed to be a non-exhaustive list of inherent rights, not a grant from the government. That's why the Ninth Amendment is there. Correct. I don't know about other countries, but in the US the Constitution is a grant of authority from the people to the government. At the time, one of the counter arguments against a bill of rights is that it would seem to much of an exhaustive list of rights of the people, rather than an explicit proscription against restricting a particular set of inherent rights.
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My experience has been with women who were fiends for puzzle games and would be really pissed if you spoiled a solution.
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VideoGameVet posted:Want some rye?  This lurker gets your joke and would buy a VR setup JUST for that game.
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VideoGameVet posted:Want some rye? I'd like to buy you a drink
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Steve French posted:I'd like to buy you a drink People have, although it was Eddie Dombrower who came up with that line. The bra-box puzzle, the swamp, the sliding tiles ... that was me (and the game engine and most of the UI).
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Odds are people agreed to the harvesting too. (In the same way they authorized android apps to collect everything on their phone)
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Trabisnikof posted:That $6B figure either includes shark cards or assumes everyone who bought GTA paid at least $66 for it. It is based on an analyst quote and not a statement from the company. GTA V has sold over 90 million copies across Xbox 360/PS3/Xbox One/PS4/PC releases: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/gta-5-players-are-spending-lots-on-microtransactio/1100-6456644/ So even beyond the transaction revenue that is huge, it is the 2nd or 3rd best selling video game of all time. Ahead of it there's Minecraft on all platforms at 144 million copies (plus the paid skins and other assets and services like hosting from Microsoft on some versions adding money on top) and there's Tetris at "170 million" depending on how you add up paid versions over the nearly 35 years it's been around.
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Continuing with the Facebook/CA lunacy:quote:Guardian Australia can reveal just 53 Australians used the quiz app. That means the vast majority of the 311,127 Australians affected were simply friends of others who had used the quiz app, whether in Australia or abroad, and gave no real consent to the harvesting of their data. quote:Ten New Zealanders who downloaded an app on Facebook could have exposed up to 63,714 of their compatriots to the data mining tactics of Cambridge Analytica. From and from, respectively.
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fishmech posted:GTA V has sold over 90 million copies across Xbox 360/PS3/Xbox One/PS4/PC releases: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/gta-5-players-are-spending-lots-on-microtransactio/1100-6456644/ After 14 different Angry Birds games, Angry Birds 2 is announced as the first official sequel in over six years. The first Angry Birds game was released on an unsuspecting world in 2009. Of course it stormed to the top of the charts and has since then been downloaded more than 3 billion times.
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VideoGameVet posted:After 14 different Angry Birds games, Angry Birds 2 is announced as the first official sequel in over six years. The first Angry Birds game was released on an unsuspecting world in 2009. Of course it stormed to the top of the charts and has since then been downloaded more than 3 billion times. and ... Candy Crush Saga: 2.73 billion downloads in five years and still counting https://venturebeat.com/2017/11/17/candy-crush-saga-2-73-billion-downloads-in-five-years-and-still-counting/ Although that's more of a cash-extracting Skinner-Box than a game.
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boner confessor posted:oh for sure - the sims off the top of my head It's kinda weird how the Sims didn't turn into a genre - why aren't there more dollhouse games out there? Meanwhile, you can play a simulation about shooting people in a muddy field in 20,000 different ways.
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hobbesmaster posted:Odds are people agreed to the harvesting too. (In the same way they authorized android apps to collect everything on their phone) How about that option not be allowed by law instead of expecting everyone to be perfectly rational consumers?
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ryonguy posted:How about that option not be allowed by law instead of expecting everyone to be perfectly rational consumers? And I’m sure that’s exactly what will happen in Europe. In the US however...
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VideoGameVet posted:After 14 different Angry Birds games, Angry Birds 2 is announced as the first official sequel in over six years. The first Angry Birds game was released on an unsuspecting world in 2009. Of course it stormed to the top of the charts and has since then been downloaded more than 3 billion times. Yeah but those are free downloads, they won't even let you buy the game direct to not see ads anymore. Those GTA V and Minecraft downloads are paid for, not ad supported free games. Similarly tetris would probably be in the billions if all the free versions were counted.
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BarbarianElephant posted:It's kinda weird how the Sims didn't turn into a genre - why aren't there more dollhouse games out there? Meanwhile, you can play a simulation about shooting people in a muddy field in 20,000 different ways. Why would you need more dollhouse games when The Sims franchise is so good though?
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eschaton posted:Why would you need more dollhouse games when The Sims franchise is so good though? Why would you need more FPS games when the Call of Duty franchise is so good, though?
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Well, there’s something similar going on in flight simulators.
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hobbesmaster posted:Well, there’s something similar going on in flight simulators. What was it that happened a few months back where some $100 flight sim skin came bundled with malware? That seemed like such a disproportionate response to piracy in a very, very small pond.
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Paladin posted:What was it that happened a few months back where some $100 flight sim skin came bundled with malware? That seemed like such a disproportionate response to piracy in a very, very small pond. Doesn't the sims also have paid add ons?
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hobbesmaster posted:Well, there’s something similar going on in flight simulators. Aren't flight sims broken up into 2 completely discrete categories, the arcadey fun action games like Ace Combat, and then the extremely technical ones that people buy the $500 cockpit simulator key board and will post furiously online if the in game planes lack the real world technical specifications?
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Uber: hey let's try something simpler than self-driving cars that we have less of a chance of loving uppentyne posted:Aren't flight sims broken up into 2 completely discrete categories, the arcadey fun action games like Ace Combat, and then the extremely technical ones that people buy the $500 cockpit simulator key board and will post furiously online if the in game planes lack the real world technical specifications? I read some dude somewhere who did call center work for one of those games and he had one regular who would complain that an airport in-game did not match the one he had flown into in real life. I'd mock, but having a relative who recently lost their pilot's license due to health issues I feel a little sympathy for some old dude who just wants to relive his flying experiences.
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BarbarianElephant posted:It's kinda weird how the Sims didn't turn into a genre - why aren't there more dollhouse games out there? Meanwhile, you can play a simulation about shooting people in a muddy field in 20,000 different ways. there were numerous knockoffs http://www.virtualfamilies.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singles_2:_Triple_Trouble and then you've got like, animal crossing i think it's just that the sims was so genre defying and such a colossus in terms of sales and clout that you either clone it and get sued for infringement, or end up taking a different angle on the game such that it's not a dollhouse game any more (animal crossing) or it becomes explicitly a creepy sex game boner confessor fucked around with this message at 20:22 on Apr 10, 2018 |
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boner confessor posted:there were numerous knockoffs animal crossing isn't a sims-like, it's more descended from harvest moon than anything
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I wish there were more simulation games like the Sims, it's by far my favorite genre. Someone reanimate Will Wright and get him doing Sim <Thing> games again, I can forgive the hype deflation of Spore.
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Animal Crossing and The Sims both descend from Activision's 1985 game Little Computer People (which proved very popular in Japan particularly after its ports to the Famicom and to the PC-88 systems there). In the Sims' case, Will Wright even sought out advice for refining the Sims from the creators at Activision. Animal Crossing in particular was started as a project in 1998 or 1999 with Nintendo trying to make a game that would capitalize on the N64 DD (semi-failed N64 addon) real time clock, though it then had to be moved to a regular N64 cartridge with modifications for a 2001 release, so it wasn't attempting to clone The Sims which came out in 2000.
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Condiv posted:animal crossing isn't a sims-like, it's more descended from harvest moon than anything i just mean it as an alternate take on the people simulation genre. like, you're either going to be ripping off the sims or animal crossing
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Pied Piper alum in legal trouble: https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/celebrity/t-j-miller-former-silicon-valley-star-arrested-over-fake-n864466
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Payday 2's not quite a killer app for VR, but by most accounts it's getting closer.
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Mercury Ballistic posted:Pied Piper alum in legal trouble: Seems like an overreaction for handing out his resume.
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JawnV6 posted:I don't think that was the point. It counters this specious argument from SH: This is something that's been known for literal decades and is not changing any time soon. Women are just more prone to nausea, vomiting and motion sickness as an adaptive trait against toxins and no amount of technological advancement is likely to fix it beyond diphenhydramine.
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T-man posted:I wish there were more simulation games like the Sims, it's by far my favorite genre. Someone reanimate Will Wright and get him doing Sim <Thing> games again, I can forgive the hype deflation of Spore. He's not dead though?!
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boner confessor posted:i just mean it as an alternate take on the people simulation genre. like, you're either going to be ripping off the sims or animal crossing Or Creatures, maybe.
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Paul.Power posted:Or Creatures, maybe. Creation: Life and How to Make It was a good book, and I managed to get the original Creatures running under modern WINE. It was qualitatively different from The Sims though, in lots of ways.
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Still surprised we didn't get any high-budget Minecraft knockoffs that I know of given how the game was record-smashing.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Still surprised we didn't get any high-budget Minecraft knockoffs that I know of given how the game was record-smashing. Linden Labs (2nd life creators) tried with blocksworld. I was almost going to work on that project. https://play.blocksworld.com/play?world_id=2145321
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Still surprised we didn't get any high-budget Minecraft knockoffs that I know of given how the game was record-smashing. roblox? dragon quest builders? Everquest next?
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 America’s Shareholder Meeting with Steve Ballmer
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Still surprised we didn't get any high-budget Minecraft knockoffs that I know of given how the game was record-smashing. High budget minecraft knockoffs miss the point of minecraft. On top of that, how do you really compete when you're going up against a game with more paid players then most countries have people, and God only knows how many more people who play on someone else's copy or in school settings etc.
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