TIL the dev of Iron Lung, an acclaimed indie horror game, faced significant backlash over increasing the price from $6 to $8 - eviltoast
Iron Lung Dev Says 'Go Pirate It or Something' in Response to Price Rise Backlash - IGN
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The developer of hit indie horror Iron Lung, which mega YouTuber Markiplier is turning into a film, has told those who don’t agree with the game’s recent $2 price rise to “go pirate it or something”.

Then, responding to those who have said he’s “only doing this for the money", Szymanski tweeted: “Yes, no fucking shit. I make games for a living. If I didn’t want to earn money from them I wouldn’t charge money for them.”

The game follows the premise of being trapped in an underwater submarine out of necessity to capture deep pictures.

  • Minotaur@lemm.eeEnglish
    11·
    7 months ago

    Yep. The intended meaning of the original comment is a subjective opinion. There is literally no way for it not to be.

    Hope this cleared things up for you. Really hoping you’re not a computer programmer or like… someone who has to talk to people in your day job.

    • Aatube@kbin.melroy.orgOP
      31·
      7 months ago

      you think we talk earthlingspeak?

      Anyways I agree with howrar, and all the downvotes on your thread show how many people also do. Language isn’t something that College Board can really regulate. They can punish you for not following their rules, sure, but the thing about language is that it changes.

      • Minotaur@lemm.eeEnglish
        11·
        7 months ago

        It does change. But it doesn’t change when a subjective statement is a subjective statement. “This movie is 4 out of 5 stars” “this game isn’t worth $6 or $8” are never ever going to be objective statements regardless of if it’s 1150 or 2991

        • Aatube@kbin.melroy.orgOP
          41·
          7 months ago

          I see that you have been inspired to downvote. Interesting.

          This is a pretty silly-cal conversation. “Facts and opinions are different things.” was only a minor facet in circuitfarmer’s reply anyways. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjectification_(linguistics) literally turned many sentences into opinions. If we’re really gonna look at these from a lingusitics standpoint, there’s nothing that indicates if it’s an opinion from just syntax analysis. It’s only because we often associate “5 stars” and “worth” with opinions that it looks like an opinion.

          • Minotaur@lemm.eeEnglish
            11·
            7 months ago

            Yes. And the original commenter was giving his opinion. This is really not a deep or complex conversation and it’s profound that so many nerds are intending on making it one, presumably just because they at their core disagree with the guys opinion.

    • howrar@lemmy.caEnglish
      31·
      7 months ago

      https://lemmy.ca/comment/8470067

      I’m not going to repeat what I’ve already said. If you choose to ignore it, then so be it. There isn’t really anything I can say to convince you that this is true. You just have to go out in the world and experience it for yourself.

      • Minotaur@lemm.eeEnglish
        11·
        7 months ago

        I don’t ignore it. You’re just wrong lmfao. Objectively so. Not an opinion.

        Goodluck out there kid. You’ll need it