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  • What is a better outcome in your mind? If this base wasn’t bombed, it would continue attacking Iran, so the total amount of bombing would increase. Should they ask them to stop through diplomacy? USA cancelled a scheduled negotiation to launch the attack. But you still think they would be willing to stop the attack with nothing in return? Would USA pay reparations for the people they already killed? Should Iran have offered something to appease the attacker? Even if they had stopped for free, that would’ve been in essence paying with the lives of those the USA murdered. Do you think that would be a good outcome?






  • male only spaces could be a clutch until men get better at talking with women.

    You’re not really making a good case for the inclusion of women in those sessions.

    non-judgmental, but by women and men alike.

    But it’s understood that the men in these spaces are already non-judgemental, or they wouldn’t work. But your comment makes it very clear who you put the blame on. As long as men right now are able to feel safe among other men and not in mixed groups, men’s groups should be encouraged.

    Yes, the support group teaching masking is teaching a toxic culture, but if it’s necessary, it’s also teaching survival. It’s okay for any individual man or group of men to want to keep their head down and not be the driver of societal change.



  • We could stick with cheaper graphics and reusable assets while focusing on stories and designs.

    I wish we could. But there isn’t evidence that anyone can make a living doing that. The handful of mega hits that people use as examples of successful cheap games isn’t that evidence, it’s just anecdotes.

    Instead my hope is that as AI can automate much of the work and raise the quality floor of the parts that aren’t unique, the parts we actually don’t care about but expect to be there, that it’ll start being possible to spend half a year, a year on something, and then earn the equivalent of half a year or a year’s salary in sales, and have also made something that is actually able to speak for itself, to show the unique part without the jank and missing features dictating the conversation.


  • My example was a modern B game. AAAA games like Cyberpunk have 4986 people in the credits. Code Vein is at the lower end of what modern audiences will tolerate. I picked it because it came out this week. The top review presented to me by Steam right now complains about: Technical competency, frame rate, and missing high end visual features. These aren’t things you can fix without man-years of engineering time. The review calls the game cheap several times. They also call it rushed. The person praises the story and the characters and the designs. Things that are actually cheap, but get locked in early and then take armies and years to be able to present to audiences to see if they resonate.

    A title that had everything it needed to succeed, but was buried under greed, rushed development, and technical incompetence. Final verdict: Do I feel cheated? YES. Do I recommend the game right now? NO. Do I recommend it at this price? ABSOLUTELY NOT.

    The user explicitly says they want the game to have cost more to make, and that lower budget games shouldn’t can’t justify full-price. “229 people found this review helpful”.