p03locke

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[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 months ago (5 children)

In my opinion ~~game studios~~ companies should not sell out to investors and/or have any stocks as it will lead to profit making the calls eventually.

FTFY.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

WTF is this whole thread?

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Yes she does sex work, but she’s also a great streamer in her own right and is actually playing the games on screen.

That's like saying the porn stars are actually acting. Nobody watches porn movies for the acting.

She constatly holds a chat of like 4k people and streams for HOURS.

Those are her "m'lady" fedora-wearing parasocial white knights, willing to give her all the monies.

You can only horny watch for so long, at a certain point people are staying because they just enjoy her personality and stories.

No, at a certain point, they are going to her OnlyFans page to whack off for 5-10 minutes and then returning back to her stream. She does this to popularize herself for her real sex work, which pays real money.

Subjectively ofc, but If my owlverweight man ass were to do the same thing, everyone would just be laughing at me.

That's kind of the problem, and it's a big reason why male streamers are annoyed by how female streamers present themselves on Twitch. Hell, even female streamers who just want to play games are annoyed at this shit.

Keep sex work at the sex work web sites.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 8 months ago

Shorter guy just sitting on nothing.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Consoles themselves are a source of microtransactions. Just look at how much money you have to spend to have online play.

Guess how much it costs on Steam. Come on... guess!

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 8 months ago

Yeah, it's called Path of Exile.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 months ago

I'm disappointed that Minthara is the only evil companion in the game.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

It's an incredibly oversaturated industry because of that.

Don't want to be shafted and taken advantaged over? Don't jump into industries that has 10:1 ratios or more between the number of people wanting those jobs and the number of jobs available, aka "dream jobs". Don't be a video games developer. Don't be an actor. Don't be a musician. Don't be an artist. Don't be a streamer or YouTuber.

If you manage to land good gigs with those, great, but don't be surprised when the bottom falls out all of a sudden because of some shift in the industry, like, I dunno, AI suddenly gets better at producing tools that make it easier to do your job.

What's a real dream job? The one where your employer treats you with respect because you're valuable and hard to replace.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It’ll never be widespread until it’s mandatory because it’s asking the company to do work to allow players to continue playing a game when the company would reaaaally like it if you were just playing something else they make instead, something you might spend money on.

Then sue the shit outta them until it's mandatory.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 8 months ago

Hasbro has been a shit company for the public of both MTG and D&D for years now. Even before the buyout, WotC was a shitty and greedy company, but Hasbro turned that dial up to 11 afterwards.

Here recently, they had all of those layoffs, but they were also trying to "de-open-source" the D&D 5e license agreement, which put most of the D&D community in a tailspin. The community revolted and fought back, and Hasbro/WotC caved. But, the fact that they tried something so brazen shows just how desperate for money they are.

Hasbro/WotC has also been making some terrible, terrible decisions with MTG, releasing way overpriced "anniversary" packs, messing with the frequency of standard rotations, putting out all of these pop culture media cards (LotR, Dr. Who, Warhammer 40K, etc.) with their Universes Beyond series, digging into older planes like Ravnica and Phyrexia waaaay too often, etc., etc, etc. Not to mention that they are finally at the point of porting older cards and formats from their extremely outdated MTGO client to MTG Arena, but their corporate greed is so great that they expected you to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars to shift those card collections over there.

Now, they earn a profit from the biggest series they never created, and wonder why all of those other bad decisions didn't pay off.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 8 months ago

The problem is that I could legit see this sort of thing at a fashion show. This is just a preview from a 60 second search.

It just keeps going...

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