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[–] RealM@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I recently watched the documentary this article talks about on why Gollum had to fail the way it did. It was a very informative piece, questioning a lot of the devs and the company in question, and receiving in-depth answers from them (sometimes anonymous).

It boiled down to exactly what you would expect. Overworked developers and artists, who regularly were subjected to crunch, while also being criminally underpaid (some of them even weren't considered real employees and just voluntary interns, so the company could dodge german minimum wage).
None of them made a bad videogame on purpose, they were just insanely underfunded, not experienced enough in this new genre and the new engine and on top of that, the rights to the LotR IP were time-limited, so they had to release it sooner or later.

The "apology" that was tweeted out, was actually sent out without any of the devs input or knowledge, by their parent company "nacon". And yes, ChatGPT was likely used for it.

Source here (it's in german, but english CC are available)

[–] RealM@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Maybe we could have read the text on the door if the image had more than 3 pixels.

[–] RealM@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago

Ohhh that's so cool!
Wish more people used signal instead of ~~WhatsApp~~ Facebook in disguise.

[–] RealM@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

No thank you, AITA is a toxic guilty pleasure, that I want to seek out actively if I'm in the mood for it, not see it on my feed regularly. It is the worst kind of form social media can take. If I see it anywhere on the fediverse, I'd immediately block it.

[–] RealM@kbin.social 18 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the heads up, good luck!

[–] RealM@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Actually, this bug is the reason I started upvoting my own posts in the first place. However, I THINK it's been fixed for some time now though. I can see my posts sorted by hot on the magazine I post to without upvoting them.

Lemmy also has the automatic upvote? That is so interesting to know! Maybe there should be a standard protocol for this behaviour.

[–] RealM@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

It's an advertisement, it's specifically designed to make you associate positive thoughts with a corporation.

Can't find a lot of wholesomeness in that personally.

[–] RealM@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

Actually the old Moderna was having such a harsh reaction on younger people, Germany changed their recommendations to not allow anyone younger than 60 to get moderna.

I also had Moderna back then once and can only confirm, it knocked me completely out for a whole day with harsh fever like symptoms, really wasn't fun.

Haven't really been vaccinated for a year now, so can't talk about the new moderna.

[–] RealM@kbin.social 63 points 2 years ago (2 children)

finally a decent use of this dumbass meme format.

I hate how the majority of the time this is used, it can be summed up with "girls boring, boys fun haha".
Thought we left that sorta thinking behind in elementary school?
Anyway, fuck gender stereotypes, we're all just humans trying to wing it.

[–] RealM@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago

welp, hope they can sort everything out and find a workload that the production team can handle.
I'm surprised this anime has such big production issues, because it actually started out with an extremely polished episode 1.
But in the most recent episode, even I saw some production problems (shizukas shirt around her neck having the wrong color for a few moments)

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