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  • I don’t think the game is particularly more difficult in terms of mechanics.

    It just has more enemies that deal more damage per hit.

    However, I’ve hardly got any extra hearts, but the game never 1-hit-kills you. So as long as you eat plenty of food, you’ll always be okay.

    Enemies can be very spongey if you don’t engage in the fusing mechanic. I’ve found crowd control weapons to be the best. Topaz, opal, ruby and all those are great. Combine them for bonus elemental damage. Freeze this biggest baddie and kill the fodder with some generic spear you made.




  • The cynic in me says nothing significant enough changed.

    Not all Unity devs are small. Especially the ones Unity is prominently targeting this for. A good example is Niantic. They made 650 million in revenue last year.

    Unity has a market share of 75% in mobile. Many major mobile titles with hundreds of millions in revenue are Unity. Plus a vast number of big publisher funded “indies”, however the revenue to gain there is chump change in comparison. Ranging anywhere from 0-200k depending on annual sales and number of installs.

    Unreal’s business model is taking 5% of your revenue, which is more than Unity’s new cap of 4%. Which only activates at 1 million in annual revenue.

    One might argue even that small indies are not small if they reach 1 million in annual revenue. While not neglible, it’s still just 40 000 if you managed to get like 200 000 installs.

    Obviously it’s understandable why devs would rally to the barricades. It’s their money to lose. Unity’s value proposition is in how much development time they save. Which is often than not worth a lot more than 40 000 dollars given the amount of time it takes to develop an engine.

    I think Unity also offers a wide array of added value services compared to Unreal in the form of easy-to-implement IAP and ads. Both are the cancer of mobile games, but also the de facto business model on the platform.

    Their initial plan was poorly communicated and shit, but the adjustment is fair.








  • Yeah. They ran a social media influencing campaign based data aggregated from approx 270 million people. It’s debated on the degree of influence this data had.

    One thing is certain though. Around 800 000 people had surrendered their data (admittedly through a seemingly benign Facebook app) to an app posing as just one of your usual fun personality quizzes. This data opened the floodgates through association to about 269 million other people due to the way FB APIs were set up.

    This data was then used to create psych profiles that got utilized for targeted advertising.

    Two of the biggest campaigns that used this data were Trump 2016 and the Brexit referendum.





  • Dewded@lemmy.worldtoStar Wars Memes@lemmy.worldDon't fuck with Obi-Wan
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    The more things are added in the continuity, Obi-wan becomes a weirder character.

    Episode 5’s retcon of Anakin Skywalker turns him into a liar. 6’s retcon of Leia makes him into an even greater liar. Maybe he had his reasons to lie that hard, but yeesh.

    Then we get to the prequels. He is warned that the senate is led by a sith lord. Pretty much ignores it. Our dude also trains space Hitler despite initial protests on picking up “another pathetic lifeform”.

    Episode 3: He is given the chance to kill him, can’t do it. Yet in episode 5 and 6 Obi is egging Luke on to kill his own father.

    With the Obi-wan series we are given even more meat to this with him once more backing out from killing a defenseless Anakin/Vader.

    With all that said, Obi remains my favorite. There is some dissonance in the story, but I like to think that we are viewing the history of Star Wars through several accounts, which lends to different perspectives.