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  1. The weekly churn can be pretty brutal. Eiichiro Oda may be famous for One Piece, but his real claim to game should be his unnatural ability to keep it's weekly chapter pace with barely any breaks. A lot of my RSI in this bunch, a lot of sleepless nights. I'm pretty sure Oda still sometimes sleeps at his desk while working on One Piece. An average mangaka's schedule is working on storyboards over the weekend, followed by meeting with editors for tweaks on Monday before spending the rest of the week to work on rough drafts, lining, filling, and final pass sometime around Friday before starting all over again. If you're lucky, maybe you get some time off on Friday. Mutsumi Inomata probably didn't work that crazy schedule, but she still did a lot and has been in the industry for decades. It'll be weird for be future Tales games to not feature her character designs.
  2. First thing I thought of was those transformers. Thanks. Nostalgia wave hit me and now I went and spent $20 on eBay to buy a few of them.
  3. Hey, for some wild life hit me reason, I missed No More Heroes 3 on the Switch...but now it's on Game Pass, so that's what I'm playing. A ton of fun so far.
  4. Easy Wordle 1,003 3/6* 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Also easy Connections Puzzle #281 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟦🟦🟦🟦
  5. Easy Wordle 1,002 3/6* 🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟨🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Also easy Connections Puzzle #280 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ
  6. What does "making more than enough money" even mean here? That Zeekerss should be happy he took less money home than he would have if there were actual real competition among store fronts? That's silly. He did more to deserve the money that game brought in than anything Valve contributed. This whole conversation is silly, though. I'll repeat myself. Gamers don't want competition in this space. They're happy with Steam and want nothing else. Epic can throw free money at an indie devs and, even here, you'll find folks upset that came with an exclusivity window instead of being happy for a monetary windfall for some small-time developer. I recall when they paid Ember Labs for Kena Bridge of Spirits and people were upset because they didn't want a second store front installed on their PCs.
  7. The companies making record profits and then laying off a bunch of workers to squeeze their execs a larger bonus are the same ones Apple and Valve give sweetheart deals to where they don't charge their typical 30%. Nobody is talking about them.
  8. Well that took a while Wordle 1,001 5/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ 🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Well, this one was easy Connections Puzzle #279 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟦🟦🟦🟦
  9. It's very unlikely Epic could do anything to move people off Steam. Gamers just need to be honest and admit that even if Epic brought EGS to feature parity with Steam they'd still choose Steam because that's where all their games and friends are. Like I said earlier, this is the same as rooting for AMD to get Nvidia and Intel to lower their prices. Gamers "want competition" only to maybe lower prices and convince their current champions to make better products.
  10. If Valve could get away with it, they'd charge 60%. Of course I understand why they charge 30%. They're raking in money hand over fist. I'd love to double my salary for no additional effort. It's still bullshit for devs. I don't really care what Epic's interest is here. They only care about making money. I only care about the folks making the games I love and I'll do what I can to support them. If that means I buy their game on EGS or even itch.io or directly off their own webpage, that's where I'll go. I don't feel any allegiance to a store front when the important part is the games. The big publishers are a big shrug to me, but there are so many indie devs out there feeling the crunch just as badly as all these gaming companies firing people left and right. Why should anybody go to bat for Epic or Valve or Nintendo or Sony or Microsoft or Apple? They're all vultures, but at least the console guys provide more value to devs for their 30% than Valve does. Hell, even Apple provides more value to devs than Valve does; even if that value is artificially inflated due to Apple's overly draconian developer tools and agreements.
  11. Easy Wordle 1,000 πŸŽ‰ 4/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟨🟨⬜🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 That works Connections Puzzle #278 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ
  12. Valve isn't a console manufacturer nor does Valve offer the same level of assistance to game developers Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo do. There's a reason Valve makes more money per employee than just about any other tech company out there. In 2018 a group of Valve staff tried to figure out just how efficient they were beingβ€”and found they were making more money per head than Apple, Facebook, and nearly every tech giant out there | PC Gamer WWW.PCGAMER.COM A well-oiled Steam machine. Either Valve is magic compared to Sony and Microsoft or they run wildly high margins thanks to their 30% cut. The only games company I know of that makes more money per employee than Valve is Nintendo and it is very much because they own the platform while also selling the largest volume of games for said platform. It's the biggest reason why people arguing Nintendo should put their games on PC store fronts like Valve's are crazy. No serious person is going to try to argue that Nintendo makes its off the party game sales, especially when this has been the case for Nintendo since way back on the Wii. Nintendo makes more profit per employee than Goldman WWW.FT.COM
  13. 100%. Valve just has no incentive to unless the publisher is large enough to realistically not need Valve. That's why it would be nice to have more competition, but gamers really are set in their ways. It's like all those folks wanting AMD to succeed but only to force Nvidia to drop their prices. All I want in a store front is cloud saves, easy choices on where games are installed, and some reassurance the store front isn't going to disappear on me a year from now *cough*stadia*cough*.
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