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Hey man, you might have been around a while- a lot of us have- that clearly doesn't make you an expert.

They were all considerably lower quality, cheaper, and easier to make than AAA games.

You are confusing 'production value' with 'quality'. Being 'easier to make' (if that were true) and costing less to produce are both objectively good things, the only way that someone could remotely think they were bad is if they confuse 'production value' with 'quality'.

In 1992 a crime film was released called "White Sands" having a budget of $22 Million. That same year an indie film was released called "Reservoir Dogs" with a budget of $1.2 – 3 million. White Sands had great production values and 11 times more budget than Reservoir Dogs had.

Both films had very good actors, but ironically the Tarantino film was the one that didn't star Samuel L. Jackson. The 'production value' of Dogs is quite low. There are only a handful of locations and the majority of the film is shot in 1 room of 1 warehouse.

Reservoir Dogs is to this day hailed as one of the best films of the genre and a 'masterpiece' and White Sands is... I've honestly never even heard anyone mention it even once in the last 33 years and had no idea it even existed before googling 'Crime films from 1992'.

See also "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", "Halloween", "Trainspotting", "The Evil Dead", "Night of the Living Dead", "Memento"...etc

Having a huge budget and high production values clearly don't make a film good or lack thereof a film bad- same goes for video games.

There are plenty of "AAA" games that were turds you've just forgotten about them. And there are still plenty of AAA games being released so saying that we've " been conditioned to accept (indie games) now." is just wrong. People don't play indie games because they've been 'conditioned to accept' them, they play them because they are fun.

Well it's kind of proof that the opinions of haters don't meant shit. If both good/successful games and bad/unsuccessful games have them and they don't affect the outcome at all, they have no value.

I am sure you are right, but r/gaming is a general gaming board. It's not really focused on game creation/development.

Now I'm starting to think that maybe Ray Cronise's "potato diet" aka "Nutritarian diet" might not be so insane after all.

It certainly seemed to work for Penn Jillette and Kevin Smith. It's extreme, but might work for certain people. I don't know if I would have the discipline personally.

I've never done that myself, but after looking it up it doesn't seem like it would be extremely difficult, but I've gotten used to making things from scratch though so ymmv.

I don't want to hype it up too much, If I'm being honest the first slice of Pie I will get at thanksgiving is usually a cherry pie, and I'll get Pumpkin if I left room for seconds. That being said it's just not fall/ thanksgiving around here without at least one slice of the stuff. I like it but I imagine the brown sugar, cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg probably has as much to do with it as the pumpkin itself.

One thing I do know about baking them is that, unlike the ones you buy to make into Jack-O-Lanterns, you want to get a relatively small one- they actually grow varieties of pumpkin specifically for cooking with here, but I doubt that you could get one down there if y'all aren't used to eating them. I think you would be fine just getting the smallest ones you can find. (2 Kilos or less preferably).

I'll make you a deal, if you do it I will do it too, and post pictures of the result :)

If you do, make sure to retain the seeds and toast them. (It's tradition, and they’re known to be a good source of magnesium, fiber, zinc, iron and a whole host of other nutrients and antioxidants.) Note that is the basic bitch recipe and you can do a lot of fun things with them. I like tossing them with Cajun seasoning as an example.

Or by telling him to make a decision, she’s giving him more autonomy than if she just left. Like she’s saying, “Look, we need to commit to a decision, no more up and down, which way would you have it?”

I can see that, though it feels to me like from the context of the song they have already had that discussion at least once before.

I know that it hurts when you feel a certain way about someone and they don't feel that way about you- it can hurt a lot and it can take time to come to terms with it- and I don't' think removing yourself from their lives is an unreasonable solution if you are having trouble dealing with it- so I definitely feel empathy for the singers pov as well.

I would love to have an 8K TV or monitor if I had an internet connection up to the task and enough content in 8K to make it worth it, or If I had a PC powerful enough to run games smoothly in that resolution.

I think it's silly to say 'nobody wants this' when the infrastructure for it isn't even close to adequate.

I will admit that there is diminishing returns now, going from 4K to 8K was less impressive than FHD to 4K and I imagine that 8K will probably be where it stops, at least for anything that can reasonably fit in a house.

This is probably a controversial opinion, but Ive always felt a little bad for the guy this song is about.

I think it's unfair for her to say he doesn't care a thing about her. He obviously does. If he didn't he wouldn't want her to still be a part of his life.

This song is just about two people who want different things out of their relationship, and the singer is just unable to accept it.

She has the ability to cut him out of her life if that's what she really wants, same as he does. She should cut herself free if it's too painful for her to be his friend.

Leonardo, meet Michelangelo.

It would improve society in so many ways. The only people it wouldn't benefit are the ruling class, and by harming the ruling class to benefit society, you benefit society. There are literally no downsides to it.

Creation can easily be art as well though. A lot of creative endeavors require you to be artistic on some level. I don't think the two things are as easily separable as people think.

I think even the manner in which you go about creating things could be the way you express yourself artistically in some cases.

It seems to me like being able to choose to be an artist when rent is due IS what being Privileged means. Yeah, a lot more people probably would choose to express themselves over being a wage slave.

I'm not even sure what this post is trying to convey. Is there a definition of Privilege that doesn't include having opportunities that a lot of other people don't have?