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pikakaeru posted...

its reasonable from a personal perspective, not from an opportunity perspective. there are still a lot of nerdy girls who arent super attractive that might be viegos

How many do you personally know?

pikakaeru posted...

I'm just saying calling it a fantasy is demeaning because its a reasonable desire

Let's say I want to be a successful actor.

If I do absolutely nothing while daydreaming about it that makes it a fantasy.

If I am taking acting lessons and going to auditions that is now a goal that I am actively working towards.

A 'reasonable desire' is something that can be realistically accomplished. Wanting a relationship and person that hit very specific criteria while doing absolutely nothing to meet that type of person never mind get into a relationship with them means doesn't sound reasonable to me.

pikakaeru posted...

wanting to share an experience with someone mutually isnt a "fantasy"

It is if the person you're wanting to share it with doesn't exist or if you're making absolutely no effort to meet a person who could potentially meet it as close as possible.

I think that's how it should be really.

Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins and Randy Orton are likely all winding down or doing their own thing away from titles. I'd say Gunther is now making his way to the upper card main event level.

If I think back to 2002 when I was actively watching that was when Stone Cold and The Rock were winding down or leaving while Chris Jericho and Brock Lesnar were being elevated to the main event. Undertaker, Triple H, Kane and Kurt Angle were being utilized where needed. Then not long after that you saw guys like Eddie Guerrero and Chris Benoit having an opportunity too.

I think they're pushing Gunther hard and it won't be too long for him. He established the Intercontinental Title to a level that Triple H wanted so now he's onto the next thing.

pikakaeru posted...

a person is entitled to their conditions. doesnt mean theyll get their wish

If someone thinks of potential relationships with people as wishes to be granted then it's not going to happen.

It's fine to have fantasies but that's all they are. Nobody is really entitled to a fantasy.

Life, relationships and experiences aren't always about what you want. Nobody has everything ideal and planned. That's not how life works.

CrimsonGear80 posted...

the insomniac leaks showed that most Sony games still sell more physically

Sony is also on record saying this;
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/jim-ryan-i-would-love-a-world-where-hundreds-of-millions-will-enjoy-our-games

"We're talking about games stacking up against music, we're talking about games stacking up against movies. Music and movies, they can be enjoyed by almost limitless audiences. And I think some of the art that our studios are making is some of the finest entertainment that has been made anywhere in the world. And to kind-of gate the audience for the wonderful art, wonderful entertainment that our studios are making... to gate the audience for that at 20 or 30 million frustrates me. I would love to see a world where hundreds of millions of people can enjoy those games."

Which is why they're porting their games to other platforms like PC.

If you look at specific things yes you can find examples of physical being important. But what you're looking at is a specific part of the video game industry that hasn't grown in over a decade that is gradually being chipped away by digital sales on top of everything else.

I thought of the funniest episodes like Marge vs the Monorail, Homer at the Bat and Homer Goes to College but I think those might be more effective if you know the show isn't always that surreal and over the top.

So I think something like Lisa the Vegetarian might be better. Something that has both the laughs and the heart.

I know what you mean but yeah like others say it's not a big deal. I think there's a part of our brain that is always a bit wired to think 'what am I missing out on' and the desire to have sparks with someone new.

But I think about what that life would practically be and it would be a massive downgrade compared to what I have now. I overall am an introvert and loner and my wife (and now my daughters) are a consistent factors who give me the motivation to always be a better person.

I am also very aware of the people who I know that are single or divorced at my age. Not envious of them in any way whatsoever.

I'm not arguing that it's good or bad. It's just what it is.

It's leaked into the console and PC gaming space because that's what people are deciding to spend their money and time on. Which is why these stats are the way they are.

We can argue for regulations or whatever but chances are it would just lead to people spending less but still playing the same games. If people wanted to buy $60-$70 single player physical games that's what they'd do. But most would rather play the hot multiplayer games with their buddies.

These stats came out recently too.
https://www.gameshub.com/news/news/six-year-old-video-games-study-playtime-2024-2638826/

According to Newzoo, the biggest competition that publishers will face going forward will be Fortnite and Roblox, thanks to their unique content pipelines. With both games relying on audiences to create new experiences, both games remain fresh and consistently engaging for their players.

Fortnite and Roblox allow creators to build unique content, resulting in players getting new experiences on a consistent basis, Newzoo said. This third-party strategy lets gaming platforms like Fortnite and Roblox stay ahead of the content treadmill Its essential for studios to remember that they are competing with these platform behemoths for a share of limited player hours.
Shockingly, the Newzoo report also outlines that new, non-annual titles only made up 8% of the total video game playtime in 2023, with the top five new titles played being Diablo IV (1.4%), Hogwarts Legacy (0.8%), Baldurs Gate 3 (0.6%), Elden Ring (0.3%), and Starfield (0.35%).

There is hope for those looking to launch a new game in this environment, but Newzoo notes that publishers and developers will need to be aware of current market conditions, and which games are dominating the space, before they lean into new forays.
Whats most clear from Newzoos report is that gaming habits are currently shifting dramatically, with various factors contributing to older games being more popular and appealing to the current market. Any new games will seemingly face an uphill battle to find and establish their potential audiences in the coming years.

It is what it is. I mean what people here consider the peak of video games is now over 20 years ago. It's inevitable that the way consumers spend and interact with games will change as we age up. No real point worrying about it as long as there's still stuff we like to play.

Yeah video games as a whole are booming.

They just happen to be booming in the places that people here want to argue shouldn't count.

If we are restricting it to the traditional video game consoles and the major games that people here care about have then overall all we see is stagnation at best.

Note that this does not mean that specific companies and games aren't booming within that space. There's just less of them compared to how it used to be. The bigger fish in the smaller pond are swallowing up the rest. GTA sells more than ever but nobody is making GTA clones anymore. Stuff like that.

Video games have always had that element of disposability to them. Before the rise of digital distribution people would often rent games for the weekend or trade them in for discounts. A lot of people were fine with arcades.

It doesn't help that platform holders like Sony and Nintendo don't value the historic purchases people have made and would rather sell their re-releases of a limited selection games over and over to you again. So it's not like you are rewarded for holding onto them.

I think most people these days don't even care about owning a game. They would rather it be free so they can compete or play with their friends.

hereforemnant posted...

Yet it remains the largest industry of entertainment in the entire world now, even more so than music/movies & TV combined. They(gaming publishers) sold the lie that moving to digital would reduce costs & save customers money & it doesn't unless you just wait for the normal fall off in price that's been happening for decades. Opening a store with a single font of income is a bad idea for an item depending on if the good is elastic or inelastic as well obviously.

Video games are incredibly elastic, you're asking for losing money which is why most today split between media, consoles, toys & extra add-ons, plushies & things like that alongside it.

How large is it if restricted to consoles and physical video games?

hereforemnant posted...

It's the entire culture of gaming & movies/social media that has moved us to quick consumerism & consumption of products that has pulled physical media into a more niche area.

PC gaming started the trend that began to doom us, old people will remember when you could go into stores & buy physical discs for WoW, PC games & lots of stuff. Then when disc trays started to get phased out of laptops & such, tower PCs began doing it as well. The console market is pretty much all that keeps physical media alive, & far too many people don't understand right to repair or ownership of physical media.

I'm just surprised that the people complaining about big tech & big corpo the most, never mention video games when they complain about the WEF or "you'll own nothing & like it" crowd. Not even a dismissive wank of acknowledgement about owning what you buy, just nothing. People just want to consume & move onto next item, so ownership of what we buy has fallen to the wayside.

Video game console hardware spending also peaked in 2008.

I wonder how many people who think physical game sales are still good would open up a video game store.

I'm more lazy and introverted than the average person. But the thought of being in a house for two decades only talking to my parents sounds ridiculously depressing to me. Having the only fond memories being something I watched or played on a screen? No thanks.

s0nicfan posted...

Agree to disagree. They could have broken it down by category if that were the case. IMO presenting the data as "Physical software accounted for approximately 10% of all US video game content spending", effectively putting disk sales on one side and literally every other game expense on the other, is clearly meant to imply physical game sales aren't what people want.

You don't think the other 95% has any other influence on this 5% figure that is constantly shrinking? Is physical going to grow anytime soon?

It's like saying that Netflix subscriptions shouldn't count and you just want to base it on DVD vs YouTube purchases. These things are all connected. It's all part of the same industry competing for dollars. A person who spent $200 on Fortnite in a year did not spend that $200 on other games. Any amount of time they spend playing these games is time they don't play other games. Any time I look at the top played games on PlayStation and Xbox it's free to play games. Of course we can't just ignore how this impacts everything else.

Funnily enough games like Baldur's Gate 3 and Palworld aren't tracked by Circana. So at that point you'd only be basing it on games that have both physical and digital releases that are tracked by Circana.

s0nicfan posted...

Wouldn't really be relevant to how this is being presented as a consumer preference for buying digital vs physical.

It isn't presented as physical vs digital sales. It's presented as the proportion of where consumers are spending their money on video games.

Unsuprised_Pika posted...

That isn't what that means.

This counts microtransactions, sub services, and shit like mobile.

s0nicfan posted...

"All content spending" potentially includes dlc, season passes, battle passes, cash shop purchases, monthly subscriptions, and f2p gatcha games.

Show me the percentage of just game purchases.

What if there's a growing population of people who don't buy games at all anymore

Beveren_Rabbit posted...

people making comments about how they are reminded of big enemy bosses that have to be defeated by tricking them into charging at a wall are being unnecessarily mean. This is a human being that got hurt. She wasn't being toxic. be nice.

I love everything about this post. Well done.

Limp Bizkit is one of those bands where I don't think I could tolerate an entire album of them but they certainly have a few bangers I will always be fond of. My Way was my absolute jam back in 2001 lol

Master_Kazuya posted...

I don't really buy this because even people who get laid or into relationships still have plagues of life that exist for them.

He shouldn't have to be some divine monk to get laid, prob is easier than he thinks.

The experience could help, it's not a contest.

I think he means more that the issues as to why he can't have a relationship won't suddenly go away after he has sex.

Sure maybe it'll change his perspective of things but I think some people do think of a potential relationship as someone who will magically fix all of their problems and issues for them when that isn't a fair or realistic expectation. If anything a relationship puts more pressure on a person to improve and be better.

Having a relationship is a constant and major social activity.

If there's no social skills and no social life there's nothing for anyone else to notice or want to be a part of.

The reasons for that can be numerous but that's what most of it comes down to.

The internet gives people a convenient outlet that gives people an excuse to never leave their comfort zone. Unfortunately most success happens when you make the effort to leave it.

chukklez17dc posted...

I like Cody but I don't like him this much, I don't get how he became the top babyface of the entire wrestling industry I just think he's one of the corniest dude in wrestling

Will Damien Priest get one of these on Smackdown

The kind of necessary gut punches that are needed. Hypotheticals, headlines and statistics are easy to ignore. Hearing the heartbreak and emotion from someone who has personally experienced hits that deeper. That's putting yourself or someone you know in that shows which makes it more confronting.

That's the sort of useless pedanticism that would feel right at home in a CE topic.

Taker lost to Roman right? I guess maybe he was more tied to the saga than Stone Cold who hasn't interacted with the Bloodline at all.

But still feels kinda weird that Wrestlemania 40 had no Austin. So can't help but wonder if something didn't work out.

Optimistically they know he's a draw they can use later.

I think Roman and maybe Heyman will get thrown out of the Bloodline by Rock.

Maybe at Survivor Series there will be like a Rock's Bloodline vs Team Stone Cold or something.

Gunther will be a Cody Rhodes opponent soon. I think they'll distance the championship stuff from Bloodline if that continues and they'll try and set up more main eventers around the title. That seems to be what they're implying will be a major difference under Triple H's leadership.

I like that Reigns lost the title overall because he never got over Seth's betrayal. If he decided to use the chair to hit Cody instead of Seth he could have won.

Seems inevitable that they're going to have one last Mania match together at one point. Maybe as a send off for Roman or even both.

https://twitter.com/reigns_era/status/1777165336862687382

Would have been a satisfying ending for Roman too. Can only imagine what they were saying during this hug.

DarthDemented posted...

Yes he is. I don't think he comes out til after the arena is empty or the cameras turn off. I know as soon as the show is done they drop character. Of course I've never been to a televised show, so I can't say for sure on that.

The hilarious thing is he had an out to celebrate or stand around for that celebration and he still didn't take it.

So did Taker hide back under the ring. Is he still there

You know I can only believe so many times that Triple H doesn't want this constant recognition he is getting from everyone lol

Is it time for him to do a heel turn?

Yeah there was no way Austin wasn't asked. Or maybe they're saving him for something else.

30 was when they bring back as many oldies as possible as well though.

Haha yessss.

Now are they gonna bring in Stone Cold for maximum shenanigans.

Haha that flip reversal at the end from Ayo was wicked. Everyone has really brought it tonight.

Seth is gonna fued with Cody for this I'm guessing.

ironman2009 posted...

they are making it a point to bury vince lol

Yeah you could see Paul Heyman planting some of that with his speech. This is sending it home.

I think there's a lot of potential for an internet troll Drew McIntyre champ reign.

I'm guessing either they'll go all out with interferences and it'll go out of control or Rock betrays Roman Reigns for the face pop. Either way Cody will win.

I wonder if Hogan, Cena and Stone Cold will pop round for something since 40 is a big milestone.

Wouldn't surprise me if he runs as a Republican politician in a few years. Perhaps even President.

deoxxys posted...

Like if I think of exaggerated proportions I'm thinking of a woman with massive milkers.

I didn't ask what you think.

deoxxys posted...

The above is not exaggerated but pretty common and you can find thousands of women with these proportions in everyday life just with more clothes on.

So they're not examples of anything.

deoxxys posted...

Pretty sure I heard that the point of giving these developers these guidelines is to start transforming the companies at their core to do the job of consulting firms like SBI so they don't have to pay them but can still get funded.

Where did you 'pretty sure you heard that' from?

Revelation34 posted...

You mean like when a troll who never played the game tweeted at Ubisoft over Assassin's Creed Valhalla about a bandit burn victim?

I'm not really sure what an internet troll has to do with companies making these decisions on their own accord

What if the entertainment industries are aware of the potential negative impacts and are making changes on their own accord in an attempt to make a more positive impact from their work.

deoxxys posted...

That'd be okay if it weren't for the fact that their idea of exaggerated proportions are delusional.

Do you mean Microsoft?

What's an example that their idea of exaggerated proportions are delusional?

Cynrascal posted...

They can both exist. Just don't act like you're doing the world a favor when you do.

Who is doing that

I'm not sure how advice advising designing characters without exaggerated proportions means that attractive video game characters can't exist.

The sheer drama and outrage some people feel at a list of suggestions that were written in an attempt to see more diverse characters on their platform is pretty sad but also predictable.

For men it's hard to avoid being self-conscious about balding. Is it really hard to believe that media has impacted this perception?

Politically Correct/PC
Social Justice Warrior/SJW
Woke
Now it's DEI

Irs funny how they all unanimously move on when they realise they eventually make themselves look stupid by overusing the word so much.

The final badge challenge in Super Mario Wonder is even worse.

But yeah I prefer a fun final level than just a remixed challenge thing.

The weird entries would make sense if they were restricted to British and European video game characters but they didn't so....