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TIL the dev of Iron Lung, an acclaimed indie horror game, faced significant backlash over increasing the price from $6 to $8 in c/til@lemmy.world
[–] Minotaur@lemm.ee 0 points 7 months ago

Yes. And the original commenter was giving his opinion. This is really not a deep or complex conversation and it’s profound that so many nerds are intending on making it one, presumably just because they at their core disagree with the guys opinion.

TIL the dev of Iron Lung, an acclaimed indie horror game, faced significant backlash over increasing the price from $6 to $8 in c/til@lemmy.world
[–] Minotaur@lemm.ee 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I mean yeah sure man if you want to make utilizing basic phrases and concepts into a “normal people vs pussies” type of dynamic where you are putting yourself in the latter camp sure dude, go ahead.

Whatever helps you

TIL the dev of Iron Lung, an acclaimed indie horror game, faced significant backlash over increasing the price from $6 to $8 in c/til@lemmy.world
[–] Minotaur@lemm.ee 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It does change. But it doesn’t change when a subjective statement is a subjective statement. “This movie is 4 out of 5 stars” “this game isn’t worth $6 or $8” are never ever going to be objective statements regardless of if it’s 1150 or 2991

TIL the dev of Iron Lung, an acclaimed indie horror game, faced significant backlash over increasing the price from $6 to $8 in c/til@lemmy.world
[–] Minotaur@lemm.ee 0 points 7 months ago

I don’t ignore it. You’re just wrong lmfao. Objectively so. Not an opinion.

Goodluck out there kid. You’ll need it

TIL the dev of Iron Lung, an acclaimed indie horror game, faced significant backlash over increasing the price from $6 to $8 in c/til@lemmy.world
[–] Minotaur@lemm.ee 0 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Because there are multiple ways to say a particular sentence and some people opt to not use the most passive voice possible when speaking (taking an active voice).

Try it out sometime.

Never forget in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
[–] Minotaur@lemm.ee 43 points 7 months ago

Sometimes you just gotta check shit out

TIL the dev of Iron Lung, an acclaimed indie horror game, faced significant backlash over increasing the price from $6 to $8 in c/til@lemmy.world
[–] Minotaur@lemm.ee 0 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Yep. The intended meaning of the original comment is a subjective opinion. There is literally no way for it not to be.

Hope this cleared things up for you. Really hoping you’re not a computer programmer or like… someone who has to talk to people in your day job.

Never forget in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
[–] Minotaur@lemm.ee 72 points 7 months ago (8 children)

Honestly one of the more relatable things he’s done

Police spammed with complaints by neo-Nazis under new Scottish hate crime law in c/world@lemmy.world
TIL the dev of Iron Lung, an acclaimed indie horror game, faced significant backlash over increasing the price from $6 to $8 in c/til@lemmy.world
[–] Minotaur@lemm.ee 0 points 7 months ago (8 children)

So under your grand interpretation, you should default to just saying “no, when they said that they actually meant it in the wrong way”.

You might just be too cynical and online to read man

Police spammed with complaints by neo-Nazis under new Scottish hate crime law in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] Minotaur@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Ok. Sure.

https://kfor.com/news/local/oklahoma-city-man-arrested-for-concerning-posts-made-on-social-media-following-maine-mass-shooting/amp/

https://criminaldefensetucson.com/people-whose-social-media-posts-got-them-arrested/

https://www.wdhn.com/news/crime/auburn-police-arrest-and-charge-man-with-making-a-terrorist-threat-over-social-media-posts/amp/

I found that in about thirty seconds of googling.

Are you like… do you not read the news much man…? This is like if you got confused because you had never heard of a shooting taking place at a school before

TIL the dev of Iron Lung, an acclaimed indie horror game, faced significant backlash over increasing the price from $6 to $8 in c/til@lemmy.world
[–] Minotaur@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Yes they literally did. “This is not an $8 game” means “I don’t think this game is worth $8” when talking about a game that is in the real world price at $8.

No offense, but if English isn’t your second or third language or something you might genuinely have a reading/cognition problem. This is not like a strange use of language, this is just basic sentence structure that should be easily understood by middle school. It’s like the easiest question on the SAT

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Super good video regarding the Monkey Island series (youtu.be)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/23125646

Just figured I’d share. Regardless of if you’re a big monkey island fan or not (and you should be, in my biased opinion) you’ve almost definitely played games made by people inspired by it. Good video!

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Super good video regarding the Monkey Island series (youtu.be)
 

Just figured I’d share. Regardless of if you’re a big monkey island fan or not (and you should be, in my biased opinion) you’ve almost definitely played games made by people inspired by it. Good video!

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Has anyone been watching the Rings of Power show? Does anyone expect to watch it in 2024? (lemm.ee)
 

Just wondering. The show seems to be in kind of an… odd state. I only watched the first episode, didn’t love it, none of my friends expressed positive feelings..

… but it’s got pretty good critical reviews, it’s getting a second season this year, and honestly it often “looks good” from promotional material.

Is it worth giving a second shot? Is anyone looking forward to the second season?

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Gabriel Knight Books (lemm.ee)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by Minotaur@lemm.ee to c/sierra@lemm.ee
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There's no one in this community yet other than me, but I just figured I'd write a short little post just to start things off.

As a big Sierra fan, especially of the Gabriel Knight (and Quest for Glory Games), I only recently found out that two novelizations were made of the Gabriel Knight series! And well, I also like to read, so I briskly read through them.

The books are Sins of the Father and The Beast within, the first two games respectively. And they're... pretty good! They're essentially a beat for beat telling of the games, with only very occasional detours to say whats on Gabriel's mind, or maybe provide just a little more context and logic to make a video game mechanic make more sense in a written narrative. If you've played the games they're also incredibly fast reads - being basic in their prose and easy to visualize from the game.

Anyway. They are a bit hard to find these days. Sins of the Father goes for $20-25 on secondhand markets, and The Beast Within often has an asking price of $70! I'm guessing the vast majority of the books are largely just seen as pulpy fiction stories to the vast majority of people, so I can imagine that they're quick to get binned and otherwise neglected.

You can still read them online quite easily, and it's well worth it if you're a fan. Might be a good replacement of replaying the games!

I only wish they had made the third game into a book - seeing that it's nearly impossible to run and experience first hand these days.

Let me know if you've read or heard of them!

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