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No really drama but I get an LOL at freelancewriters crying about not making any money. Then some gems turn up and thought this is funny since it's likely one of these stories got posted to rdrama. He wrote some on AITA too.

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Player Expectations - Alpha Testing (Free/NDA) - core systems are not complete, test what is done so we can tweak things mid-dev.. also we want feedback on how we could dev thingsBeta Testing (closed)(Free/loose NDA) - core systems are mostly in place but we need to find bugs.. so many bugs.. also we want feedback on how we decided to dev things.Beta Testing (open)(Free/Pre-order/no NDA) - network stress test, random bugs we missed, system dev is mostly done for launch.Early Access (Paid/Pre-Ordered) - We dont have all the stuff we wanted for launch fully done like some end-game content or stretch system goals (new systems that aren't core AND/OR vertical dev of existing systems).. The game is mostly nearly all playable but we need a cash infusion to hit all those last launch checkboxes.Launch - Last bits were polished up, here's the official, now we start working on updates/expansions/next title. Dev Expectations - Alpha Testing > Early Access > 3 years later > Launch > LamboDev ex... (5)

BG3 was in EA for almost 3 years, worked out ok for that game. (-1)

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Maybe not so much “not ready for EA” from a gameplay perspective (which is still completely debatable), but price for games going into EA is a different story. (2)

The price is a little steep, but it pays for your box price when it launches. So it's not like you're only paying for EA access and have to pay the box price again later. So whether you play now, or play in 1 year+ you'll have to fork up the $40 🤷‍♂️ doing it now just lets you experience the development cycle. If that's not your cuppa tea, and only prefer to pay for finished products, then you can wait. All up to you really (-1)

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one game out of how many? Unicorns are not a basis for expectation. (1)

Unicorn? Yeah, that's what the AAA Devs want you to believe it is, "Don't judge us by that standard". BG3 is how it should be done, without having to cut corners just because the publishers want to hit deadlines. (0)

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Hi, you're incorrect. If a game hits EA in a state which players deem "unplayable" it's going to get flamed with down votes cause people don't fully understand the point of testing. PD is currently still in an alpha state imo with a lot of its systems unpolished, combat being a big one. I'm personally a bit nervous that the game is going to get hurt because of this. I have played so many early access games as well as closed alpha and beta tests and the amount of people who don't understand the purpose of these phases is vast and have hurt a lot of games. I'll be there for the EA test and give feedback, help find bugs and all that, but the people who don't buy an EA game with those intentions, the ones who for some reason want to give bad reviews to a game just cause they "cannot recommend it in its current state" are cancerous. (2)

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Player Expectations - Alpha Testing (Free/NDA) - core systems are not complete, test what is done so we can tweak things mid-dev.. also we want feedback on how we could dev thingsBeta Testing (closed)(Free/loose NDA) - core systems are mostly in place but we need to find bugs.. so many bugs.. also we want feedback on how we decided to dev things.Beta Testing (open)(Free/Pre-order/no NDA) - network stress test, random bugs we missed, system dev is mostly done for launch.Early Access (Paid/Pre-Ordered) - We dont have all the stuff we wanted for launch fully done like some end-game content or stretch system goals (new systems that aren't core AND/OR vertical dev of existing systems).. The game is mostly nearly all playable but we need a cash infusion to hit all those last launch checkboxes.Launch - Last bits were polished up, here's the official, now we start working on updates/expansions/next title. Dev Expectations - Alpha Testing > Early Access > 3 years later > Launch > LamboDev ex... (5)

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I really really miss the old way steam used to do it. The Green Light system was so much better. The games had to be vetted and meet several requirements before it was allowed to be green lit. But now people argue over what early access is, what the requirements should be, and games fail before they were even meant to be released. Furthermore, every day there are at least a hundred trash games that just appear out of nowhere with zero vetting... (3)

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Fr though, the first part could be funny. They're all leftoids who probably think climate change will kill us all in 2 weeks.

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!bookworms !classics come check this out

Plato. Not particularly fond of him.

Lmao

Freud, Sigmund. A figure of fun. Loathe him. Vile deceit. Freudian interpretation of dreams is charlatanic, and satanic, nonsense.

Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind? I may have aired this before but I'd like to repeat that I detest not one but four doctors: Dr. Freud, Dr. Zhivago, Dr. Schweitzer, and Dr. Castro. Of course, the first takes the fig, as the fellows say in the dissecting-room. I've no intention to dream the drab middle-class dreams of an Austrian crank with a shabby umbrella. . . . The Freudian racket looks to me as much of a farce as the jumbo thingum of polished wood with a polished hole in the middle which doesn't represent anything except the gaping face of the Philistine who is told it is a great sculpture produced by the greatest living caveman.

Also @JimieWhales someone agrees with you on Hemingway and Conrad

Hemingway is certainly the better of the two; he has at least a voice of his own and is responsible for that delightful, highly artistic short story, “The Killers.” And the description of the iridescent fish and rhythmic urination in his famous fish story is superb. But I cannot abide Conrad's souvenir-shop style, bottled ships and shell necklaces of romanticist clichés. In neither of those two writers can I find anything that I would care to have written myself. In mentality and emotion, they are hopelessly juvenile, and the same can be said of some other beloved authors, the pets of the common room, the consolation and support of graduate students, such as—but some are still alive, and I hate to hurt living old boys while the dead ones are not yet buried.

Or

As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 40s, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.

Then on Dostoevsky

Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Dislike him. A cheap sensationalist, clumsy and vulgar. A prophet, a claptrap journ*list and a slapdash comedian. Some of his scenes are extraordinarily amusing. Nobody takes his reactionary journ*lism seriously.

The Double. His best work, though an obvious and shameless imitation of Gogol's "Nose."

The Brothers Karamazov. Dislike it intensely.

Crime and Punishment. Dislike it intensely. Ghastly rigmarole.

Then Camus, Sastre and Faulkner

Faulkner, William. Dislike him. Writer of corncobby chronicles. To consider them masterpieces is an absurd delusion. A nonentity, means absolutely nothing to me.

>Camus, Albert. Dislike him. Second-rate, ephemeral, puffed-up. A nonentity, means absolutely nothing to me. Awful.

Sartre, Jean-Paul. Even more awful than Camus. Nausea. Second-rate. A tense-looking but really very loose type of writing.

on the last one, but I like Camus.

What about the authors he likes?

He likes James Joyce, Kafka, Tolstoy, Borges and Bely.

He names “Ulysses”, “The Metamorphosis” and “Petersburg” as the greatest pieces of literature of the 20th century. “Petersburg” looks quite interesting by the way.

Pasternak, Boris. An excellent poet, but a poor novelist.

Doctor Zhivago. Detest it. Melodramatic and vilely written. To consider it a masterpiece is an absurd delusion. Pro-Bolshevist, historically false. A sorry thing, clumsy, trivial, melodramatic, with stock situations and trite coincidences.

!anticommunists thoughts on Dr. Zhivago? Even if only the movie?

I've seen a lot of posts lately about people talking about their NextFest or Summer steam event experiences. The vast majority of people saying it does nothing, but when I look at their game, it legitimately looks worse than the flash games people were making when I was in middle school.

This (image) is one of the top games on a top post right now (name removed) about someone saying NextFest has done nothing for them despite 500k impressions. This looks just awful. And it's not unique. 80%+ of the games I see linked in here look like that have absolutely 0 visual effort.

You can't put out this level of quality and then complain about lack of interest. Indie devs get a bad rap because people are just churning out asset flips or low effort garbage like this and expecting people to pay money for it.

NextFest is a Steam event where they highlight upcoming indie games and devs release demos of their games so people can try them out. Every other post on the subreddit has been "why isn't my shitty game getting any attention" and their game looks like this:

!eurochads

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