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Oh 2:15 Spillways bass line were really in it now
I have an opinion about the Switch 2 price but y’all aren’t gonna like it bc it’s more nuanced than just Nintendo bad greedy
Since someone actually asked
Like corporations are bad, but there’s a bigger reason that games cost so much. I’m actually okay with mainstream games getting more expensive bc it helps raise the floor on indie game prices (which should all be higher, Stardew Valley being $15 is actually bad for indie devs everywhere bc everyone compares your indie game to SV and is like why can’t you have this much content and be this cheap. SV should be like $40-50.) bc then me an indie dev might get paid more and not be starving.
The nuance is that twin evils are at work here: 1. video game costs have kept up with inflation (as they should to pay for the higher fidelity gamers demand and to pay the bigger and bigger teams) but wages have not. Ppl should be asking why isn’t our minimum high enough I can afford a game with a few hours of work (the equivalent of less than half an extra shift if you wanted to take it once a month)?
Essentially: please gain class consciousness, bite every billionaire, demand minimum wage and thus all other wages be raised to keep up with inflation and suddenly you will have money for games and consoles, and game devs will be able to make quality products that allow them to feed their families.
Evil #2, (this evil is also why AI has gotten so big) is that art has been even further reduced to things that are solely meant to be consumed, spit out and then immediately forgotten for the next item of consumption. This conflating of art (and video games are art!) with products and consumption is the other half of the nuance here. It’s not wrong for people to ask, hell even to demand they get paid well for making good art. They should be getting paid well for it.
Either that or gamers need to lower their impossible standards.
Anyways. Corporations are evil and not your friend, that includes Nintendo, but please consider using this anger to gain class consciousness and realize that the real thing to be mad about is not that games and consoles are more expensive, but that you are not getting paid enough, are being exploited, capitalism is a failed system and all billionaires are evil and need to be forcibly divested of their money.
Where did you come from, magic style
Ring of mushrooms
Pried open from a tree/fruit
The sea after a tide
The other side of the mirror
Manifested by a wish
Under the bed/inside the closet
Dragon's hoard
Pulled out from the corpse of a sacrifice
I've been here the whole time
The realm of nothingness
A barn that wasn't there before
Out there in the sky a hundred miles away
wish silver the hedgehog was real and my friend. hed study geology with me, hed support my shift to a stem degree
It's called hard sci-fi because it's not as easy
I thought it'd be fun if I made aliens that respirate CO² into O² like plants but I started thinking about how I'm not actually sure how exactly those chemical processes work and now I'm on the wikipedia page for nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate
I feel like the media literacy ogre for biochemistry
have you guys done that “what kind of reader are you” quiz and if so what did you get
NEVER get into anything thats heavy on color symbolism bro . for months you will not be able to look at the color blue without instantly thinking of Squingle Dinglus
I love how in the second Land Before Time movie one of the villains specifically refers to himself as a struthiomimus in his villain song. Everyone else calls themselves longnecks and threehorns and spiketails and this absolute chad knows his own taxon
