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Today, Canada are the violent gun people.

I cannot afford to be dead inside for another, checks calendar, 12 years. Then its double middle fingers while spinning in a circle time!

Has @Commissar SFLUFANblocked @Keyser_Soze?

Microsoft has unlimited money and resources but continues to fuck up.

Jon Stewart mocks “anti-woke” comedians: "Are you that f*cking unimaginative?" CONSEQUENCE.NET Jon Stewart has clapped back at “anti-woke” comedians: "Honestly, are you that f*cking unimaginative that you can’t figure it out" But but but I was told in this very thread that Stewart is anti-woke, basically a republican, and practically Bill Maher!

I’ve been following this for a while. I love that in his 80’s he said fuck it, if nobody will give me the money to make this, I’ll sell my winery and pay for it myself. It’s got a wild cast and premise, and Coppola is having trouble finding a distributor willing to put up the massive marketing budget he wants. Sounds like it might be too experimental to be a mainstream success, but who doesn’t love a really fucking big swing?

This was almost surely a game the developers were told to make and to check a bunch of boxes marketing thinks are necessary, rather than a game the developers wanted to make.

Lolololol ain’t no one in charge of the Xbox Titanic.

I keep coming back to the fact that Spider-Man 2 cost over $300 million and Insomniac themselves wondered whether it would be noticeable on-screen. Does the game look/play better than the original? It sure does! Does it look/play $300+ million better? It sure doesn't!

Definitely the $4 boat!

From IGN's Simon Cardy:

As much as it sucks to see devs get close, it just highlights how tough it is to make it in the industry. If you want to build an AAA game, it is expensive and needs to be a mega-hit. Miss by a little and have it just be a good/average game and you're going out of business. If a team makes a great game, the stakeholders at the top can cash in with an acquisition which they typically end up leaving when they lose the ability to make what they think is best vs the acquiring company wants, which is sustainable profit. The only way that I can see around it is to significantly increase prices (which gamers would hate) or release games in smaller chunks as episodes, which can make failure more sustainable. BG3 and Hades are examples making this work.

The games business can generate massive revenue but also have poorly mismanaged cost structures, and pricing that has not kept up with the increase in development costs, which will ultimately result in the need for massive cuts to increase the efficiency of capital. It is unlikely that Microsoft needs the number of studios it has acquired over the last 8 years, and now is probably a good time to pare down the portfolio. They can reassign good (and competitively priced) talent to other studios, and move any valuable IP as well. But none of that is really good for consumers. Consolidation is never actually good for consumers. It is better for one firm to fail through competition and the other to succeed than it is to simply allow one entity to purchase the other. Having these massive portfolio companies like MS has become with game studios means that MS themselves attempt to avoid their own titles from competing with one another. That is bad, especially at the scale MS is doing this now. I would hate for my livelihood to be reliant on these megacorps in the gaming space, because I think this mess is years from truly being sorted out.

If you also feel dead inside please post and let’s be dead inside together.

From the "Poorly Aged Stuff" Xwitter account:

Quote from Phil ~2-3 years ago: If Games Pass isn't growing, that mix isn't so magical, so out comes the axe. Really interested in how they address this going forward. Killing Tango doesn't fit into their historical narrative of what Games Pass is about.

Which ain't exactly a great position to be in.

Well that was fast lol

I know we are kind of past the need for these types of videos ITT but I thought this was a well put together video about the whole thing

As expected, TikTok is suing to stop the law from going into effect. I'm no lawyer or expert, but I don't think they have a great case here. It seems like the real thrust of their case is that divestiture is impossible, therefore this is a ban, therefore it's unconstitutional. The logic of banning a specific speech platform being unconstitutional could hold up, but it's very dependent on proving that this is an outright ban. The first argument put forward that this is a ban is that a US based TikTok wouldn't be commercially viable, which seems laughable on the face of it. The argument seems to be that this would isolate US TikTok and it would therefore lose it's appeal, but that feels like it falls apart really fast. I don't imagine there would be a limit on US TikTok operating in those other countries, but even it it does it's hard to deny that a business with 170M users is potentially viable. I don't really buy the technical arguments either. Yeah, it might be difficult, but it seems far from impossible for a Microsoft or someone to figure out how to operate TikTok if they needed to. The US is already home to basically every tech company that could potentially afford TikTok as well as the social networks that currently surpass TikTok in users. The idea that the Chinese wouldn't let the source code go is an interesting argument, but it also kind of feels like it falls into the category of "not my problem." The Chinese government pushing back against this sale only reaffirms the position that they're either in control of the platform or benefit from it, both cases that would further justify this law (as far as congress is concerned). There's also the issue that it's perfectly plausibe that TikTok survives despite all these challenges. They need to prove that this is an absolute ban in order to make this a first amendment case. All of their arguments amount more to "TikTok might be harder to run" or "TikTok might make much less money" or basically "TikTok might not as wildly successful" none of which equate to a ban. An isolated US TikTok that is run by engineers that are unfamiliar with the code and without the recommendation algorithm might not be the same mega-hit that it currently is, but it could still exist, and potential existence means it isn't a ban. It's like a car company arguing that saftey or emissions laws are too strict and that they wouldn't be able to profitably sell their car in the US. There are a ton of regulations in this country that make it so that plenty of car companies can't be profitable here, but they're not banned from the US. TikTok is essentially arguing that a far lesser set of regulations is equal to an unconstitutional ban, and I just don't see it working out for them.

You don't have to be an artist to use the pencil. You can just use it as you normally would to touch the screen or play games or write.

I’m choosing violence this afternoon:

And, boy - are there ever a LOT of those articles!

I'm completely dead inside. Working on getting off my medications so that will help significantly.

Social media only becomes stranger It probably wouldn't have even registered as a "thing" if you played the game in a vacuum.

Same.

There is definitely some humor, though not quite as much as Ready or Not.

I almost feel kind of stupid for supporting Xbox the last few years

Well, someone posted something in the Vesti the other day that got me to check this place out. I like it here already. You won't get rid of me that easily. Anyone remember Sargasm?

I also like how so many of these intellectual dim bulbs are constantly pushing the narrative that the democrats are behind all these protests. Yes, all of the young people who are super pissed about Joe Biden and are chanting Genocide Joe and tanking his position in the polls in what has become a huge problem for him to navigate and walk down the center of... yup, it's the dems. They're paying these protesters and organizing them, you sure got it figured out. Buncha Mensa candidates up in here, playing 12D chess.

I like how this was the party that bitches and moans like big dumb diaper baby losers about how there is no free speech on college campuses and everyone is a snowflake and also bitches and moans about cancel culture. Fuck these people. Like, seriously. It's just, I can't even anymore. The funniest part of all of this is the comical idea that a single one of these people actually truly cares about anti-semitism. Stop the fucking act you clowns. We know who you are and who you stand with. We aren't buying it. It's just all noise and nonsense.

We did all our IGN recruiting like 10 years ago.

I guess. I just ike the leisurely pace, and the space to really write something. Texting is all abbreviations and emoticons.

I might pick up the steam version and play it. I have the Switch version. And there's cross save so maybe that's my way back in. I will also say I find the discourse around the "sexiness" of the game to be weird. The game itself doesn't bother me but the articles about it I just found off putting.

This did not age well.

MS ruins far too many devs they acquire. They're no better than EA. I'm really worried for Obsidian. MS could be good -- giving them more budget -- or they could ruin them like so many other devs.

Ooof At least Toys for Bob made it out alive.

The base model WILL be the discount.

I'm really excited for it. An aging auteur going out with a wild, self-financed picture? Sign me up.

Thank you!

I haven’t cared what happens on a college campus* since I graduated a decade+ ago and it will be a cold day in hell before I start giving a shit again *sports don’t count

I couldn't name a song by either of them.

Post-9/11, I remember that small towns in my province were worried that terrorists would fly planes into their grain elevators. Rural folk are the most paranoid people around.

The craziest thing is that it was such a round number, 50,000 bees? What are the odds of that.

If it’s Boeing it ain’t going.