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Easy Wordle 1,000 🎉 4/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟨🟨⬜🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 That works Connections Puzzle #278 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪

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 being—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

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*.

Yeah, that looks like fun. I'm in.

It's not crazy. However, I will say that for Valve it's a combination of things. They offer those sweetheart deals to keep the bigger publishers specifically to keep them from going their own thing while also being perfectly happy taking the full percentage from mega indie hits like Stardew Valley. Does anyone expect Valve to float a sweetheart deal over at Concerned Ape ahead of Haunted Chocolatier or Team Cherry ahead of Silksong? Sweeney isn't wrong for calling Valve and Apple out for buying publishers this way. The only reason it doesn't bother PC gamers is because so many of them desperately want all their games in one location.

I mean, I'll say it. He's not wrong. Apple and Valve, both, giving some major publishers sweetheart deals and others not is bullshit. Especially when others includes ALL the indie devs.

Easy Wordle 999 3/6* ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Oof, this one just didn't click with me today Connections Puzzle #277 🟨🟩🟩🟨 🟩🟨🟩🟨 🟦🟨🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟦🟩🟩

Easy, but too many steps to get there Wordle 998 5/6* ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟩🟨🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Not as easy, but not too bad Connections Puzzle #276 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟪🟦🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪

I'll take it again Wordle 997 4/6* ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Easy, though I had no clue on the purples Connections Puzzle #275 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪

The thing is DBZ ended in 1995/96. What's wild is how enduring its story has been. Like if you go back to 1995 you can find Spider-Man games, but they aren't telling the same story the recent Spider-Man games are telling. Go back to 1995 and you can find a game where you can replay the fight with Frieza on the SNES and then fast forward to today and you can replay that exact same fight on the PS5 with DBZ: Kakarot. No changes. No update to the story. No update to the characters. Just the exact same fight with the exact same characters on the exact same planet, just updated with modern graphics for a new generation of players. I can't even think of anything else with such a lasting legacy. The original Star Wars trilogy and then...ummmm... The gathering in Argentina was something else.

I'll take it Wordle 996 4/6* ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟩⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Easy Connections Puzzle #274 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦

I was just thinking about this. Miura shared his vision for the end of Berserk, so Berserk can be completed. I'm sure Toriyama shared the ending of Dragon Ball Super with Toyotarou. Not that hard to guess, since DBS should end with the start of the 28th Tournament where Goku continues his terrible father streak and takes Uub on as his student. Toriyama also probably shared the conclusion of Dragon Ball Daima with the studio, but that one is easy since it finishes where Dragon Ball Super begins. The real mystery is what happens after Dragon Ball Z. I don't know if Toriyama has ever shared that with anyone.

They actually got into trouble over this, but Mexico didn't really care. Just look at that crowd.

Looking for more short, story-centric games to play and noticed I still had Stray Gods installed. I bought it a while back after playing Mario Wonder because I wanted a musical game that wasn't a rhythm game. Not much in that department. Stray Gods lists itself as an RPG, but it's really a visual novel. I, quite liked it. Good music, good voice acting, an engaging story, and your decisions feel like they matter. Very happy I played this. Now to find my next short game ahead of Horizon Forbidden West hitting PC.

Really thought I had it sooner Wordle 995 4/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟨⬜🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I wasn't wrong with my one miss, but blah Connections Puzzle #273 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟪🟦🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨

I know state politicians are already crazy, so their proposed bills should be considered insane and not taken seriously. Still, this is a wild proposal... Missouri bill would convict teachers of felony, put on sex offender list for trans support - ABC News ABCNEWS.GO.COM A new Missouri bill would make it a felony offense for school teachers or counselors to support or contribute to the social transitioning of a transgender...

Easy Wordle 994 4/6* 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬜🟨🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 That purple category nearly got me Connections Puzzle #272 🟪🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟩🟦🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟪🟪🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪

Nope and it's really not going to help that the Sand Land series starts airing later this month, the game comes out next month, and Dragon Ball Daima lands later in the fall anime season. That's also ignoring that the most recent chapter of the Dragon Ball Super manga came out nearly a month ago so Toyotarou should, by now, be finishing up chapter 103 based on the final notes and comments he got from Toriyama. There was a decade or two where the only thing Toriyama was doing was character design for Dragon Quest. Until now, he was as busy as he had every been. This one is going to suck for a while.

Or every Dragon Quest.

Easy Wordle 993 3/6* ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Close Connections Puzzle #271 🟨🟪🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪

It's really hard to explain how DBZ really became such such a part of the black and Latin American 90s zeitgeist. As a Puerto Rican kid born in 82, growing up in a largely Hispanic community, DBZ and Neo Geo arcade cabinets were my childhood. I remember in the early/mid 90s asking my parents for a VCR for Christmas specifically to record the Spanish dubs of Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z airing on Telemundo.

Well, fuck. I just saw this news as well. He just started working on Dragon Ball Daima and he also has his old passion project, Sand Land, finally getting some attention. I can't even begin to describe his influence on the shonen action genre.

Finally an easy one Wordle 992 3/6* ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 No way I was going to get blue on its own Connections Puzzle #270 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦

Supposedly WB is looking to sell RWBY. However, can't help but imagine they suck at selling things and there's a chance nobody would be interested at the asking price. Also, rumors are they're looking to sell the IP, not Rooster Teeth Animation.

I'll take it Wordle 991 4/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟨 🟩⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Easy...except for blue because I had no idea what it was even after I got purple Connections Puzzle #269 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦