the_dunk_tank

Haven't played 3 but I reinstalled 2 again recently and it still rocks

It ran extremely poorly when I tried it, like an inconsistent 40 on the first bank map. I tried to look for fixes but on top of there not being much I didn't really want to do the developer's work for them. It's also online only. The core game loop seemed good but I didn't get far enough to see how the progression worked. Also the nebula site that's needed to play was outright broken for a full day when I tried it at the end of november.

I'm going to check on it in again in a year and see if it's worth playing.

I think that's where they started using the word wrong all the time or deceptively. Although in this case the deception is in the entire premise, they'd be using the words ethics correctly if the whole sentence wasn't a lie.

They either know what they're doing or are just bad with words. They're commonly turned into synonyms, and it bugs me cause of what I posted above. Not knowing about words makes you more susceptible to propaganda, knowing the precise meanings of words let's you know how dumb marketing is

I mean, prescriptivism in technical terminology is good IMO. We need consistent definitions to discuss technical subjects, and people who study and discuss the technical subjects should be familiar with the prescribed definitions. Like, you’ll have a difficult time understanding theory if you think “materialism” is used as “driven to acquiring material goods”

In general conversation, prescriptivism is shit and should be avoided

I genuinely wouldn't be surprised, a big part of the marketing of the original GTA back in 1997 was leaking information about how you can kill cops and pedestrians to conservative morality crusaders and right wing rags like the Daily Mail. All of the "Ban this sick filth!" tabloid headlines were apparently celebrated by the dev team because they knew every British (and soon after international) kid would desperately want to check the game out lmao

Alex's point has really nothing to do with cops, he's talking about crime in general. In fact he makes a very unique one. This seems like a bad example of the sentiment to be criticized.

Your loss, it was pretty good (he states he will play the game so he obviously doesn't have that strong of a condemnation)

In my experience most popular games encourage you to make a moral choice versus immoral, even when killing it's usually in war or isn't explicitly required if its actually murdering innocent people. When a game does make you an immoral character it seems to be even more controversial than GTA, like the Postal games. Or there was an indie game long ago where you played as Lee Harvey Oswald recreating the JFK shooting, it was seen as a pretty offensive thing.

I mean he doesn't actually tell you that it's immoral, he says "maybe it's immoral" and then says "I'll play it" so he obviously doesn't hate players, he just gives some interesting thoughts.

I think the moral part of a game would be what choices it encourages the player to make. Has anyone seen enough of GTAVI to know or is he talking about GTA in general? I feel like a major theme of the series is that average people commit crime and get into violence because of conditions they are in already. The player character in my view isn't evil or malicious (except maybe Trevor at times? But he does a lot of meth or whatever), I admit I didn't beat GTAV though but I've played through a good portion and all other GTAs. Missions in GTA don't tend to be like, "rob all the old people because it's fun", it's like, your homie is in trouble, you have to help him by shooting the rival gang, which in the situation isn't necessarily immoral. I think that's part of the huge popularity, it doesn't make you feel bad for doing things that are seen as 'bad' like robbery and murder, it doesn't make it seem like something you are supposed to do either really.