@sim yes

@matrix That explains everything.

@sim @matrix yes

@PurpCat @matrix @sim It's funny because every single market research venture I've seen shows data contrary to what actually fucking sells.

@justnormalkorean @matrix @sim the Atari lynx was so big because focus groups said big sells
https://web.archive.org/web/20050227035910/http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3133762

@PurpCat @matrix @sim THe OG Duke Xbox controller was so big because of focus groups too.

@justnormalkorean @PurpCat @matrix @sim I keep feeling like I'm the only person in the world for whom the Duke felt comfortable in my hands

@justnormalkorean @PurpCat @matrix Makes me wonder who they are asking because they don't seem to be asking the actual audience of these products.

@PurpCat @matrix @sim
Please tell me this game is actually any good and you all aren't posting about it only because some artists got butthurt about characters generated by a neural network.
If it weren't on Fedi and I didn't know you guys, sure as hell I'd think it's being astroturfed.
I get flashbacks to the time when Harry Potter game came out — also myriad of related posts, but nothing about the game itself, unlike e.g. the Cat Game™ — which was also insanely popular on Fedi (and probably everywhere else), but posts about which had screenshots, videos, discussions about the game itself, etc.
This… is McDonald's family ad over again: "Oh, look, someone got triggered by family not being black, ha-ha!". This time it's about the game being good, is it? Is it? :cat_peek:

@m0xEE @matrix @sim >generated by a neural network
I had no idea computer cargo cult worship has gotten to this point

@PurpCat @matrix @sim
Well, at least I've seen some post about it, accompanied by screenshots (probbly from Twatter) of artists accusing devs of stealing — you know, the usual
Considering that artists who worked on the game worked at some diner before that — I won't be surprised they did indeed use a NN to generate some of the game's content

@m0xEE @PurpCat @sim Nobody has presented any proof so

@m0xEE @PurpCat @matrix I'm sure there is footage out there already to see how good it is from streamers. I don't have the game so I can't tell you how bad or good it is, but it reminds me of pokemon so it will probably catch quite an audience based on that. I didn't know there was a lot of drama behind it. Just seen people mention it. I guess the memes are coming out now too.

@PurpCat @matrix @sim SHEEEP GO RUTUTUTUTUTUTUTUT

@PurpCat @matrix @sim and beautiful characters

@PurpCat @matrix Damn. I didn't realise just how starved people were... but then again, any western media has been suffering as of late.