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Quoting: StoneColdSpiderWhat are they scared off???...... Bin Chickens?????

Quoting: Purple Library GuyCane toads.

And Drop Bears.

Dont forget the Stick Insect....... [External Link]

Gah. Isn't that more of a Stick Scorpion?

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Quoting: StoneColdSpiderw00t!..... :tongue:

Now I can kill heretic scum on a device I cannot own because Valve still wont sell the Deck to Australians........

What are they scared off???...... Bin Chickens?????

Cane toads.

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Yes, well. As with the MS acquisition, it sucks. Way too much of this kind of thing going on.

I just hope that ultimately it turns out that new studios come up faster than the big boys can cannibalize them.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: Purple Library GuyIn general, the idea that just individually behaving well can create change is overblown. And in fact, it has often been pushed by large corporations precisely because they are aware it will not work; so they invented individual "carbon footprints" to divert people's attention away from regulation or creation of different infrastructure, emphasize recycling plastic so people won't think about mandating alternatives to plastic, and in general emphasize individual action as consumers so people won't think about political action as citizens.

People shouldn't lean too far in the other direction either, though. Some people think we cannot do anything because The Markets or The System... In the end, it all consists of humans. Though some way more powerful than others, obviously.

True enough. If there was no way for people to change things, there would be no need for propaganda. And a lot of our "leaders" obviously aren't very bright.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: GuestI strongly trust in the power of the final user

Oh, hey everyone, a time traveller from the early internet!

Why just the internet.

"Be the change you want to see in the world", altough not the exact words, the base concept stays still.

The early internet was a very strong bastion of the idea that independent individual choices all by themselves could create and defend an excellent space, albeit based on the idea that the very design of the internet itself gave great power to that ideal. That turned out not to be the case; the internet now is dominated by a few small players, and content is dominated by push (by those dominant players and their algorithms) rather than pull from individual internet denizens. Pull hasn't disappeared, but its impact has shrunk a great deal, and it gets shaped a whole lot. The final user has turned out not to have that much power compared to the corporate dollar.

In general, the idea that just individually behaving well can create change is overblown. And in fact, it has often been pushed by large corporations precisely because they are aware it will not work; so they invented individual "carbon footprints" to divert people's attention away from regulation or creation of different infrastructure, emphasize recycling plastic so people won't think about mandating alternatives to plastic, and in general emphasize individual action as consumers so people won't think about political action as citizens.

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Quoting: benstor214I’m really torn about it.
First the facts: There are 5 DLCs. 2 free and 3 paid.
- a story/art book
- 4K texture pack
- a soundtrack (paid)
- an avatar asset flip, anime version (paid)
- another avatar asset flip, furry version (paid)

Personally, I don’t consider 5 DLCs as ‘spamming’

I don't think free DLCs count. I mean, the idea behind complaining about DLCs is that although you think you bought a game, in order to get the game to work well and give you good content you have to spend a bunch more money on extra bits. If it's free, that concept is not applicable.
And sound tracks don't count either, because they are something you buy if you want to listen to it outside the game--in the game, it's already playing.

So we're left with the two actual paid DLCs that do something in game. That's not a lot even if they weren't amazingly optional.

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Quoting: GuestI strongly trust in the power of the final user

Oh, hey everyone, a time traveller from the early internet!

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Beep!

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Isn't there another game that's basically like this, right down to the retro-ness?

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I don't wish to win one because I already bought it. I like it, at a sort of instinctive level (the big guy's so cute!), but before I dip into it again I think I'll wait for that improved villager AI. Gets frustrating when they just flat out refuse to build the thing I've made a massive priority because it seriously needs to get built.

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