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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene bluntly warned Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday that moving ahead with an aid package for Ukraine would be one of “the most egregious things he could do” as she said...

Crazy is fun until it bites you back 

I don't like discord but I have it because some ppl insist it's the best and won't respond anywhere else.

I need a new 56kbps modem, any recommendations?

jfc

55 minutes ago, LazyPiranha said:

I plan on running my Mazda until it dies/I suddenly come into a ton of money for some reason.  I’m hoping that by that time the Rivian R3 will be out and vaguely affordable as my kids will be old enough that I won’t need a car seat or stroller anymore and I’ll need way less specialty crap when traveling.

 

 

 

That one looks incredible 

Damn bish a picture is worth a thousand words

Congrats 

I'll probably actually play this shit 

Just now, MarSolo said:

*rubs Wade’s temples*

3 hours ago, Dodger said:

 

Phil found out the hard way you can't get a $70 billion investment into your division  with a massive M&A headache without the company wanting immediate returns. The original plan must have been to keep everything exclusive, because they could have saved millions in attorney fees and gotten this done a lot faster if they told everyone all ABK games will remain multiplatform. 

Also keep in mind COD was the mover of the Xbox 360. Buying COD exclusivity was probably the dream. COD 360 titles are still no1 even on current gen(gamepass):

Phil is like Dak Prescott, a symptom of a larger issue that can't be fixed. 

Just now, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

Sbl made more money than Trump last year guaranteed

hahahaha

15 minutes ago, Ghost_MH said:

 

Someone who better understands the TSE and Nikkei, please chime in, because I have wondered if Nintendo not being listed on the NYSE gives them a bit more freedom to be try for more long term and sustainable practices over the more infinite growth and short term success Sony and Microsoft are trapped in.

This is what major third party publishers (all of them) would tell employees anytime anyone asked about making something original.

They'd shut down the conversation saying being a Public company meant they couldn't and so we had to create sequels. (I think it's bs from unimaginative people that can't envision trusting someone else or don't understand creativity.) When they made an effort they'd grant the permission to buddies they trusted who also lacked imagination but loved being camera facing and power. Then flop flop flop the workers would get chopped. 

11 minutes ago, Dodger said:

Why buy an Xbox when I have a high end gaming PC. 

That's what I thought was weird when Xbox Original came out.. I was like... but you already have a gaming platform monopoly, why are you trying to compete with yourself? Imagine if they had made a Steam before Valve? Instead we have the lol Windows store way too late. 

On 3/29/2024 at 1:33 PM, ort said:

There's this new thing that's going around where everyone is dunking on Jon Stewart because he sold a condo for more than the state said it was worth and the dumb stupid idiot moron dipshit loser squad are all tugging each others semi hard micro penises in a collaborative celebratory online dunking party saying he did the exact same thing Trump did

The same people who think a publicly traded company is Publicly owned lmao

3 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

I mean this isn't just reserved for game companies it's any major company. I worked for Callaway as a temp. Supposedly after 9 months they were supposed to bring you on full time or let you go. So they let me go then hire me back like a month later, this was like for 4 years. Eventually it got to a point where they didn't even do the laying off after 9 months. Then eventually they discovered Mexico and laid everyone off temp or otherwise and moved the jobs to Mexico. This was 12 years ago, things are exactly the same now as they were then in terms of this stuff.

Yeah 100% 

The Seattle comment is there's a culture there or promising FT to people but they have to "prove themselves" as Temps first. Then they just milk people until you're one of the lucky ones to make the cut or you leave. They hardly ever hire anyone before making them do the temp bs regardless of seniority. (Exec/Sr Management excluded.)

7 minutes ago, Spawn_of_Apathy said:

being temps training temps who then have to leave so the past temp trains the next new temp.

Not to give too much away but I worked with a Sony... place and everyone was a temp (I wasn't). It felt like a herd of cattle with everyone keeping their heads down/afraid of giving an opinion for fear or getting sent to the meat grinder. I hated we treated people that way and bailed 8mo later. I saw all the people like me yukking it up having a great time being the bosses of scared people. Fuck that. Disgusting. 

17 minutes ago, Spawn_of_Apathy said:

much long time MSFT studios relies on temporary contract employees that can’t even finish their work

Btw this stems from the Seattle tech culture, it relies on temp roles. There are people who work for companies like Microsoft (doesn't have to be games) for a year, the contract expires, they take 3 mo off and come back year after year. No retirement plans, few health benefits, etc. 

6 minutes ago, Spawn_of_Apathy said:

Something that took 5+ years to make, but feels like it was rushed out the door after 18 months. 

A consistent theme across Microsoft studios! What could it possibly mean!? 

7 minutes ago, Spawn_of_Apathy said:

what I want to know is, what is Phill’s plan then? Do nothing but blame capitalism while people below him pay the price for the greed at the top? 

Imagine blaming yourself! 

1 minute ago, CitizenVectron said:

Make games more interesting and more engaging. I'd take 2 AA games and 5 A games that all try new things over 1 AAA game that costs the same to develop and is just the fourth iteration of a franchise with better graphics (and now has paid microtransactions

Sounds risky, our shareholders won't like that. We have a duty and are regulated to be consistent. That means we can't invest in new IP or ideas without shareholder approval. 

Neither here nor there but I get headaches from construction 3 blocks away when the vehicles are moving around/digging. It isn't audible but it's a low humming bass in my ears that works it's way into my brain. As soon as they're done for the day it's gone. My wife doesn't feel it at all. 

I'll just leave it at a certain type of personality tends to promote a certain type of personality and it's endemic.

If you say so. 

36 minutes ago, AbsolutSurgen said:

There is a pretty strong argument that AI can simplify the process of asset generation.

From what I've read, a significant challenge in modern game design is the amount of assets needed -- if you get AI to do much of the "grunt work", and have it finished/tweaked by humans, I would guess there are significant savings that might be realized.

Over time game dev has gotten more and more specialized and complex. The only ones who haven't evolved are project management/executives/directors. Games don't take forever because of slow grunts, they take forever because of visionless management & leadership. My prediction is ai just creates more opportunities for these people to waste resources and time.