Have Videogames Run Their Course?

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Re: Have Videogames Run Their Course?

Post by Smitty-48 » Sun Nov 24, 2019 9:25 pm

TheReal_ND wrote:
Sun Nov 24, 2019 9:17 pm
Smitty-48 wrote:
Sun Nov 24, 2019 9:07 pm
Apparently these gaming companies are like sweatshops of computer nerds,

they just work them into the ground for no pay
That's all programmers. They want to import a slave caste of shitty programmers from India and pay them peanuts. Innovation is starved by greed.
Good. I hate computer nerds, burn them all.
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Re: Have Videogames Run Their Course?

Post by clubgop » Sun Nov 24, 2019 9:27 pm

Never got seriously into another major game, though I did like little games like World of Goo
Of course you did.

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Re: Have Videogames Run Their Course?

Post by TheReal_ND » Sun Nov 24, 2019 9:33 pm

Smitty-48 wrote:
Sun Nov 24, 2019 9:25 pm
TheReal_ND wrote:
Sun Nov 24, 2019 9:17 pm
Smitty-48 wrote:
Sun Nov 24, 2019 9:07 pm
Apparently these gaming companies are like sweatshops of computer nerds,

they just work them into the ground for no pay
That's all programmers. They want to import a slave caste of shitty programmers from India and pay them peanuts. Innovation is starved by greed.
Good. I hate computer nerds, burn them all.
Could be true. Idk. As something that Americans have led the world with thanks to things like Bell Labs it's sad to see.
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Re: Have Videogames Run Their Course?

Post by The Conservative » Sun Nov 24, 2019 9:34 pm

brewster wrote:
Sun Nov 24, 2019 9:10 pm
The Conservative wrote:
Sun Nov 24, 2019 8:45 pm
TheReal_ND wrote:
Sun Nov 24, 2019 8:21 pm
No I think Bethesda is just suffering from shitty programmers.
It's not the programmers, it's the lack of ability to go in the direction they need to by upper management not getting out of their way. Just like Activision and MS did with Bungie.
That just says there will be a paradigm shift, new ideas end running the dinosaurs. I don't game but I think it will be persistent, it's part of human nature. In Iain Bank's classic Culture SF series he has godlike AI's who spend much of their time in their equivalent of SimCity.

FWIW my 17 year old daughter plays retro text based games, and my 20 year old son never really gamed, he does extreme sports like mentioned above. We never had any console but a 1st gen Wii. I had one true love, in 1982, Gravitar. Never got seriously into another major game, though I did like little games like World of Goo and Contraptions.
I play them all, in my case I play retro text base, indi, as well as a FPS, RPS, race games, sports, etc... all I can tell you is that the future is not in AAA, but indi games.
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Re: Have Videogames Run Their Course?

Post by Smitty-48 » Sun Nov 24, 2019 9:35 pm

TheReal_ND wrote:
Sun Nov 24, 2019 9:33 pm
Smitty-48 wrote:
Sun Nov 24, 2019 9:25 pm
TheReal_ND wrote:
Sun Nov 24, 2019 9:17 pm


That's all programmers. They want to import a slave caste of shitty programmers from India and pay them peanuts. Innovation is starved by greed.
Good. I hate computer nerds, burn them all.
Could be true. Idk.
I just don't like nerds, gas them and put them in the ovens. Nerdocaust
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Re: Have Videogames Run Their Course?

Post by The Conservative » Sun Nov 24, 2019 9:45 pm

Smitty-48 wrote:
Sun Nov 24, 2019 9:35 pm
TheReal_ND wrote:
Sun Nov 24, 2019 9:33 pm
Smitty-48 wrote:
Sun Nov 24, 2019 9:25 pm

Good. I hate computer nerds, burn them all.
Could be true. Idk.
I just don't like nerds, gas them and put them in the ovens. Nerdocaust
Nerds aren't the problem; they are the ones if given free reign are the ones that innovate.
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Re: Have Videogames Run Their Course?

Post by Smitty-48 » Sun Nov 24, 2019 9:47 pm

The Conservative wrote:
Sun Nov 24, 2019 9:45 pm
Smitty-48 wrote:
Sun Nov 24, 2019 9:35 pm
TheReal_ND wrote:
Sun Nov 24, 2019 9:33 pm


Could be true. Idk.
I just don't like nerds, gas them and put them in the ovens. Nerdocaust
Nerds aren't the problem; they are the ones if given free reign are the ones that innovate.
Nerds are the problem because they are vast majority urbane leftists

Antifa is all nerds, that's what you get from nerds.
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Re: Have Videogames Run Their Course?

Post by The Conservative » Sun Nov 24, 2019 9:50 pm

Smitty-48 wrote:
Sun Nov 24, 2019 9:47 pm
The Conservative wrote:
Sun Nov 24, 2019 9:45 pm
Smitty-48 wrote:
Sun Nov 24, 2019 9:35 pm

I just don't like nerds, gas them and put them in the ovens. Nerdocaust
Nerds aren't the problem; they are the ones if given free reign are the ones that innovate.
Nerds are the problem because they are vast majority urbane leftists

Antifa is all nerds, that's what you get from nerds.
Those aren't nerds. Those are parasites.
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Re: Have Videogames Run Their Course?

Post by Smitty-48 » Sun Nov 24, 2019 9:56 pm

The Conservative wrote:
Sun Nov 24, 2019 9:50 pm
Smitty-48 wrote:
Sun Nov 24, 2019 9:47 pm
The Conservative wrote:
Sun Nov 24, 2019 9:45 pm


Nerds aren't the problem; they are the ones if given free reign are the ones that innovate.
Nerds are the problem because they are vast majority urbane leftists

Antifa is all nerds, that's what you get from nerds.
Those aren't nerds. Those are parasites.
They are nerds, they're all fuckin' dorks, nerds are lefties, fuckin silicon valley is all lefties

The Fash cannot abide nerds, they have to go
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Re: Have Videogames Run Their Course?

Post by The Conservative » Sun Nov 24, 2019 9:58 pm

Smitty-48 wrote:
Sun Nov 24, 2019 9:56 pm
The Conservative wrote:
Sun Nov 24, 2019 9:50 pm
Smitty-48 wrote:
Sun Nov 24, 2019 9:47 pm

Nerds are the problem because they are vast majority urbane leftists

Antifa is all nerds, that's what you get from nerds.
Those aren't nerds. Those are parasites.
They are nerds, they're all fuckin' dorks, nerds are lefties, fuckin silicon valley is all lefties

The Fash cannot abide nerds, they have to go
All nerds can be dorks, but dorks cannot be nerds.

I'd revise your statement, because some of the smartest people out there were considered nerds in their time.
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