Death_Equity @ Death_Equity @lemmy.world Posts 0Comments 2,565Joined 2 yr. ago
They are wanting to raise new game prices to $90-100 because prices haven't kept up with inflation and dev costs, which will push more people to game streaming or subscription services.
Avowed could have been $30 and still sold the same because a $30 game is priced like a mediocre or shit game when you are talking open world ARPGs not made in Asia or offered as early access. I don't even think the nothingburger controversy did anything to the sales of meaning, it just doesn't seem like an interesting game from the announcement trailer to the launch trailer. The coolest thing in the trailers was the magic and that is a pretty disappointing aspect of the game.
Gamepass numbers are unknown, but steam had a peak of like 19k players. Estimates on ownership is around 200k units.
Monster Hunter Wilds had 1.3m peak, unknown sales estimate because it is too new. Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, 256k peak, over 2m sales estimate.
Understand that is all PC Steam stats.
Avowed may only be a financial success thanks to gamepass because nobody is buying it.
Local grocery stores. There are mom and pop type ones in some places, but most are going to be chains these days. In a nearby town was a single location family owned grocery store that was very popular despite being just down the road from a major regional chain, it failed because the real estate market and shopping trends in COVID made it impossible for them to stay open; it is now a very busy Whole Foods. So small family owned grocery stores are dying.
The thing is that shopping entirely local is very hard to do and even harder to do if money is a concern. You have to make compromises like driving twice as far or spending twice as much.
Those boutique stores are often failing because they can't compete unless the town is a tourist spot or there is a wealthy enough population for bored housewives to have their operating costs subsidized.
If you really want to go local, meaning locally produced products, then you will have to do your shopping online or contact the company to see if their products are in any stores.
I would have loved it if he did that.
Spanish is the most common in big cities, especially in certain neighborhoods. Along the southern boarder there is a lot of Spanish spoken. Most services have Spanish as an option for things like paperwork and phone services. You don't need to know Spanish, but it can be very helpful depending on where you live or what career you have.
Some facts:
About 13.7% of the population speaks Spanish at home. Spanish is the 2nd most spoken language, infact there are more native speakers of Spanish than all other languages combined. Spanish is the most common second language learned in school.
The client list is only a starting point for investigating.
It would take getting ahold of Epstein's blackmail on people to actually get convictions.
Even if someone was in his client list and had multiple trips to his island, that still isn't enough proof. You could easily assume the individual went to the island for illegal activity because illegal activity was known to go on there, but that does not mean that they did anything illegal.
Innocent until proven guilty, the blackmail is the evidence of guilt. It is likely that Maxwell has access to the blackmail, but that much dirt is very valuable as a leverage tool that nobody would want to give up. She probably won't give up the blackmail to avoid being Epstein'd.
We will never get the outcome we want because the blackmail is missing.
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Naming nefarious things to make them seem good is pretty much par for the course. SAFE Act, Patriot Act, Protect Kids Act, etc.
The Murder The Homeless Act would never pass, but the Eliminate Homelessness Act definitely could because citizens don't read more than the headlines.
Surely the SafetyCore must be essential to protecting my phone.
Check all the wires to ensure they are all connected and have clean contacts. If your grounds are bad, it can cause all the issues you describe.
It may be something else, but checking grounds is the first step with the issues you have mentioned.
Check grounds.
Knifesharp.co.uk is a knife sharpening service by mail. 35 dabloons for 3 knives. Turn around is about a week all in.
At that price they are probably having someone who knows almost nothing about knife sharpening send it through a machine.
If you can accept that type of edge, fine, but I can do the same thing and do a better job.
Nearly beat it, not a great game 5/10.
The environments are nice and fun to explore.
Story is mediocre. Dialog is tiresome, I started button spamming to get through a lot of the conversations that didn't matter. Combat is nothing remarkable, no matter the weapon combos, and the enemies are just damage sponges with no real tactics necessary to defeat a given enemy. Magic is kind of cool but you have to really spec into mage to get there. The immersion is about as deep as a puddle on flat concrete.
It is one of the games of all time, a game you could not play and miss out on nothing.
Edit: Just beat it, terrible ending that feels like it was tacked on last minute to provide some sort of conclusion.
Making it is easy. Making it good, conveying enough of the lore, and it making money would be hard.
I would prefer it to be with a silent protagonist waking up to a new reality in which they just keep stumbling into brutal fights until they reach the end.
I know they will put too much Hollywood into it and the protagonist will remember their previous reality and they are fighting to get back to their love interest or some crap like that.
I have reasonable expectations based on the hubris of people ignorant of both AI and what they use it on.
Anybody that cocky and stupid would never present a simple test of concept as evidence.
They 100% asked AI to make an E commerce or company page.
Mine is definitely a junk drawer of random nonsense that is tens of gigs in size.
I wanted to recover files from an old hard drive for a Linux install I had for about a decade, it was not fun to look through for the handful of files I wanted.
That's a given, but now he has an entire website in his download dir. So all the scripts, images, child pages, directories, etc. are all over the folder's contents.
If he tried to publish, he would have to find every single dependancy and upload them, which would then require somebody competent to figure out what he missed.
What I am saying is web devs are safe from AI taking their job, for now.
The cherry on top is that he just made the website in his downloads folder and not a new folder for the project.