Beemo Dinosaurierfuß

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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • You comment and comment and explain and explain shit that everyone already knows.

    It is like you just recently learned what marketing is and now you feel like you know some big secret.

    Just to make it short.
    Every product in the world is marketed in a way to motivate consumers to buy.
    That is not inherently immoral.

    You said every successful game monetizes by maximizing addiction and frustration.

    I have proven you wrong by naming games that just DO NOT MAXIMIZE FRUSTRATION.

    Yeah off course even those games dangle stuff in front of you that you are supposed to buy.
    That’s the whole business model of f2p games.

    But there are different ways to get to the players money.

    There are those that indeed trigger responses to frustration.
    This is absolutely prevalent in mobile games or even those million deckbuilder games.

    But there just are also games that use other ways to make players buy mtx.
    Again, you can play PoE, LoL, CS and many other games for literal thousands of hours without ever getting coaxed into frustrating barriers like a Diablo Immortals would do to players.

    You said there aren’t. So you were wrong.

    So have fun running around with a goalpost in your hand, I am done.



  • right?

    No, still wrong.

    Obviously it is something that is not given to you for free.
    It is a product and the developers/publishers are doing business after all.

    And yes Sherlock, it is qol functionality that people playing the endgame might want and that is not included in the free version of the game.
    But every functionality that any player ever needs is available for far less than what any other AAA title costs up front.

    PoE is mainly financed by purely cosmetic supporter packs and whales.
    Is that much more ethical than what you described? Maybe not.

    But it sure as hell is not banking on frustrating the average user and thus a completely different form of monetization than the one that you just doubled down on insisting is the only one there is.
    So again as I said, you are just plain wrong.

    Oh and in CS I don’t think you can buy any functionality at all.
    Only cosmetics, that don’t do anything for you in the game.



  • Not that my opinion matters any more than the next person’s, but I also can’t recommend Celeste enough.

    It does so many things so very right.
    The pure gameplay is crisp and responsive platforming.
    Like any good platfmorer it has some specific mechanics that make it unique, but every one is intuitive enough to pick up easily enough. I have heard it called something like “the hardest platformer that everyone can finish.”

    And it is true. I could never finish some of the harder SMB levels but I never got too frustrated with Celeste.
    And if I were, there would have been accessibility options to make the game more approachable.

    But it also caters to the hardcore crowd with completely optional collectibles that are organically included into the gorgeous level design.

    It is speedrunnable for those folks.

    And as if that wasn’t enough to make a good platformer it also tells a heartwarming story supported by a beautiful soundtrack.

    Sorry I am rambling, but Celeste is fucking awesome.





  • I know it’s trendy to shit on Germany rn (and Isreal obviously and for good reason), but 90 year old holocaust survivors surely aren’t the ones commiting genocide.
    And they very well might have had to relive a trauma that Germany rightfully feels a responsibility for.

    So what is the problem with giving those old folks that really had to endure some of the worst things anyone ever had to endure a symbolic sum to show them that they are not forgotten?

    This is in no way defending Germanys support of Israel, while it is committing cruel war crimes.
    But let’s be real here, is this gesture really that outrageous to you?




  • Well the stock rising does generate money for Trump no matter if anyone shortsells it.

    If you shortsell, you position yourself against the stock.
    If it rises Trump wins and you lose.
    If it falls Trump loses and you win.

    But neither way is it you shorting the stock that makes Trump win.
    He wins if the company represented by the stock actually grows in value and the stock price rises or if idiots buy his stocks and make the price go up. But I predict that after a brief rush on the stock by his gullible idiots in the beginning noone will want to buy his stock anymore.
    That’s why I would consider shorting it, because I predict the stock to keep falling.
    This I predict because I think the company that is represented by the stock is shit and basically worthless, which the stockprice should represent in due time.

    A shortseller thus wants to profit off of Trumps losses.


  • Also, I don’t quite remember what happens if shorting fails, but it benefits the stock, doesn’t it?

    First things first, I don’t really know how to actually shortsell stuff. My portfolio is super basic and my original comment was only half serious.

    But I think you have the causality the wrong way around.

    It’s less that the stock profits if my short fails.
    It’s more that my short fails (in that I lose money) if the price of the stock goes up.

    A single small shortsale can’t really affect the stock price in a meaningful way, but if it could it would generally lower the stocks price since it is a signal that the market (which the shortseller is a part of) has no trust in the stock.

    That said I am by no means a trading expert myself and could possibly miss some effects on the market.
    I only invest long term in broadly spread ETFs (think MSCI World and similar).