mrmacduggan

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, at least these dominant corporations are now being forced to compete and become profitable without the advantages of free financing. This process is revealing the ghoulishness that their exaggerated ability to outspend their competition via borrowed capital had been hiding from the consumers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I've been using directly negative adjectives like "bad" or "unsatisfying."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

This, and the higher interest rates also mean that capital isn't "free" anymore and so their horizons before taking profits from any given investment have to be shorter to make the same amount they used to make.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This reminds me of the art style found on modern Magic the Gathering cards- maybe this would make a nice Plains land art for a set with the proper theming.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Except that time they unironically drop the f-slur... 🙊 but their hearts are clearly in the right place.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It's still true that a deflationary economy would be a mess though. If we had deflation, the rich wouldn't even bother investing and would literally just sit on a pile of gold like Smaug. I know trickle-down doesn't work but an economy where nothing circulates would be hellish.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't this just World of Warcraft? It's practically a co-op ARPG at this point.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

In my Call of Cthulhu campaign, a character received a cathartic, romantic love letter from his long-distance sweetheart NPC. And then the PC was killed in one shot by a sniper in the next episode before being able to write back.

It's a lot. The dice are cruel sometimes in high-lethality systems but it's made a great tragedy for the other party members- they have to share the bad news when they get back to town, and that's some juicy horror/drama roleplaying.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Miserable game design for something that is trying to get players to come back every few months for content releases. "You can't play the new hero until you grind for it until you burn out or pay" is just not a compelling pitch to get people to resume playing your game.

It's only going to get worse over time as the proportion of premium characters grows... 😐

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Great idea! I subscribed.

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