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Do you think those games wouldn't have been made without capitalism?

All of those examples are driven by people wanting to make a good game because that is their passion.

If they were given infinite resources to make a game, and would gain nothing else beyond just a decent standard of living or whatever, do you think they wouldn't made them? Because I think they would.

We don't exactly have many non-capitalistic economies.

But we have games that people made outside of the incentives of capitalism. i.e., because they wanted to make the game they wanted to make. This is what has created the absolute best games in existence. Not the incentive of money.

Was terraria made for the purposes of money? Was outer wilds? No. They were passion projects. Of course they had to earn money, because you need to earn money to survive, but that wasn't their primary goals. Contrary to games such as call of duty or whatever. Which are just incredibly bland in comparison.

I mean see how much microtransactions, loot boxes, etc. Is ruining the atmosphere of games and exploiting the hell out of people and kids. Don't tell me devs are putting that in because that is what their dream game would contain. No, they put it in purely because of capitalistic incentives. Would you argue that that is good?

AAA games are very rarely as innovative as indie games, it's all just the same rehashed stuff I feel like. Just whatever is "safe".

So, I very much agree, the typical AAA stuff from studios like EA, Ubisoft, etc. Don't interest me.

Although maybe Starfield will be interesting, we'll see. I didn't really like Fallout 4 though, I wished the RPGs were a bit more like the more old school ones lol.

Put on a maid outfit and you have a chance

Because at some point we will automate people completely out of jobs, and then they will have nowhere to go. Our system isn't set up to handle that.

People are already struggling to find jobs with a liveable wage.

Semantic versioning isn't useful for all kinds of software. Plenty intentionally choose to not use it. Look at the Linux kernel, for example.

And that will push capitalism to the breaking point. We'll see what happens then, although many very bad scenarios are possible.

This is tabletop RPGs, which, yes, do have DMs

They are, well a specific type of reaction anyway. Combustion is defined as a "high-temperature exothermic redox chemical reaction between a fuel (the reductant) and an oxidant, usually atmospheric oxygen, that produces oxidized, often gaseous products, in a mixture termed as smoke." According to Wikipedia.

Not to mention, why is the assumption that a diverse team doesn't have merit?

If you're not careful, not caring about diversity might unintentionally put people with merit out of the team, because they might feel unwelcome and as outsiders, making them leave or not join the company. It's a problem many, including me, have faced.

In addition, there is an inherent benefit in having a more diverse team, especially on creative pursuits. You have more lived experiences to draw ideas, and stories, from.

Okay but lots of other autistic people I know really appreciate tone indicators so you cannot really speak for everyone. Not to mention, why does knowing that something was meant to be sarcastic hinder learning instead of essentially guessing?

Neurodivergent people exist, and they deserve respect too.