Pretty much what I've been saying for almost a decade, mostly in response to "game development is expensive, that's why AAA games need *insert extra revenue streams*". My response has always been that games are bloated with feature creep and if there was an actual issue with development costs the first thing you can cut are features that don't really add to the game. Not only do you cut development costs but you arguably make a better product.

Nice to get some validation because it's been a rather controversial opinion. People have argued nobody would buy AAA if it's not an open world with XP, skills and crafting. Or a competitive hero based online shooter with XP, unlockables, season pass and 5 different game modes. I guess now people don't buy those even if they are all those things

Wait, it's all socialism?

Always has been.

Kinda but not quite. The fluid buffer isn't necessary and it's just one pipe going up and down. The idea of a water tower is to pressurize all your pipes with just one headlift pipe. Let's say you need 1800 cubic meters of water to go up 40m. How many mk 2 pumps do you need? Three? Actually you need just one. You take one pipe, add the pump to it and bring it up to 40m, then bring it back down. That pipe is your "water tower". You then connect it to the three pipes you want going up to your factory and all those pipes will move water up to the water tower height. The best part is that you can connect however many additional pipes to that water tower and they all will flow up to the same height without any additional pumps.

Here's a quick 2min video explaining the concept.

Everybody doing it doesn't change the fact that it's a bad thing for customers and a reason for piracy.

But that's on Nintendo. For those people the game doesn't cost $70, it costs $200+ even if they buy a used Switch lite. Nintendo is deliberately leveraging their games to make people buy their console when those people just want to buy the game.

They want to have their cake and eat it too, and that is most likely one of the biggest reasons people pirated TOTK.

Whenever I need headlift on a lot of pipes of the same fluid I build a "water tower". Built properly it should cover all your headlift needs.

Reviews definitely don't paint a good picture of it.

For movement I would take something like a HOTAS over keyboard. For example in games with multiple movement speeds finding the right speed is rather cumbersome on keyboard because the key press is an on/off and not a scale.

Similarly on keyboard movement is restricted to 8 directions. If you need to move in some other direction most people actually use a mouse to compensate for the lack of movement options because it's too cumbersome with a keyboard.

There are benefits to using keyboards but there are places where you can use something better. Analogue input simply gives better movement options.

It’s. just. That. Simple.

Walk away. That’s all you have to do….

Just… walk away.

You really that oblivious to your own actions?

• You butted yourself into this discussion by literally spamming me. Asshole behavior.
• You then insulted me every chance you get. Asshole behavior.
• You then act like I strawmanned your argument. Disrespectful behavior.
• You literally said someone is not a musician if they're too lazy to play an instrument. Asshole behavior.
• And your whole argument is about trying to dictate what is or isn't art which by nature is asshole behavior.

Your decision to not argue with me has had no impact on you being an asshole, you were one before and you'll continue being one afterwards.

There are some exceptions but I generally agree. The keyboard isn't anywhere as precise as an analogue stick. Ideally I would use something like HOTAS for movement and mouse for aiming.

I love how you strawman your own argument to pivot your point when you get called out. No I didn't consider only guitar, but I did the cut off point at electronic instruments like synthesizers, sequencers, samplers etc. because they often end up "hitting the spacebar to start the digital track". But you tell me, do you consider this music? because Aphex Twin was the first artist that came to my mind when you said what you said and he's pretty influential.

Give it a rest man. You’re not an artist in my mind.

I love how you think I'm defending myself here. I'm not an artist in my mind either, in fact I don't even do art. But unlike you I have enough respect for art to know that even if I personally don't enjoy something it doesn't stop it from being art.

It takes zero art school knowledge to create art using AI.

But it takes knowledge of art to know when a good image is generated vs any random image. The same way it takes knowledge of how to fertilize the soil, but it takes almost no farming knowledge to hop on a tractor and till the soil.

What I’m doing is taking a huge shit on people who pretend to be artists by using AI. Actual artists won’t need to use AI because they have actual skill.

Same with music. If you’re too fucking lazy to pick up a guitar and play- you’re not a musician.

No, you're clearly taking a shit on all the artist, especially after that last point about music. You pretty much said some of the greatest and most influential artists in the last 50 years are not actually artists.

Do you honestly think a farmer’s knowledge of crops, seasonal growth rates, harvesting times and techniques, using the right tools to promote growth, nitrogen/PH content of soil, and how to properly avoid blight is somehow the same thing as some kid knuckling a few adjectives into a computer and creating a pretty picture?

That's all knowledge you need to produce crops and not fuck it up. By saying you can't "fuck up" AI art you're saying that the years of art school learning about composition and all other stuff is worthless because a talentless pleb like me has the same aristic vision as someone who spent their life studying art. Way to take a huge shit on all the artists.

Are you okay?

There's also FAQ that on the initiative page but the video is more comprehensive (43 questions instead of the 17 on the site) because it's made after the initiative FAQ and goes more in-depth concerning the specific grievances people brought up. And I didn't expect anyone to listen to the whole video, the video is timestamped so you could find whatever specific grievance you might have.

I second Shadows of doubt. I haven't played the release version yet (I'm still building factories in Satisfactory) but I can give my most memorable detective work from early access. I was doing side jobs because my murder case had gone cold. I had a gig where I needed to find proof that the clients partner is having an affair. The information I got about the potential lover were some vague physical traits like eye color and shoe size. But the key information was that the lover's partner worked as Wait staff. So I

1. went through every restaurant, bar, diner etc in the city.
2. Got a list of every wait staff member.
3. Found out where they live.
4. Broke into their house.
5. Found their partner information.
6. Found the potential lover.
7. Started looking for key evidence to tie them to the affair.

The last step is where my gig ended up in a roadblock. I'm not 100% sure but I think it was bugged because I did everything I could come up with. I went through the clients partner personal stuff and found nothing. I went to their work and found nothing. I went through the lovers personal stuff and found nothing. I went to lovers work and found nothing. I even planted a tracker on both of them and followed them around to see if I missed something and I still found nothing. I even checked the mailboxes. So the key evidence was probably bugged and I couldn't find it.

Despite that I haven't had such a unique experience in any other game. It's up there in my backlog waiting for me to return, but first the factory must grow.