I dunno, I can't think of any leaked nuke codes but I can think of a ton of leaked game information. Sounds like Survivorship Bias lol

I just poked around their privacy policy and they say they do not sell/share “personal information” with 3rd parties other than the stuff to keep the game running, more or less. Excluding the fact that they do specifically state they use your location for sponsored gifts/messages, per what you said.

Shouldn’t the title say “after 2 years”?

Oh boy I can't wait for the Order to return and then be destroyed again or become corrupted or whatever. 

Well that’s the thing, I’m not necessarily saying it needs to be a Citizen Kane level of polish or a LotR level of depth. The plot can be a fairly paint by numbers adventure story. There’s an ocean of difference between just making a movie that can be entertaining and engaging for kids and adults and being True…

Pretty much every Shrek movie and spin off

Didn’t want to clog up my original comment with my thoughts regarding this. I hadn’t really thought of anything regarding a Mario movie before so this is all off the cuff.

It sounds about exactly what I expected between Nintendo’s “find the safest, least risky move possible and somehow go even more safe than that” approach to Mario and choosing to work with Illumination of all studios.

I never noticed it until reading this, but Rowling really did just give half of the anti-semitic stereotypes to the goblins and the other half of them to the Slytherins, didn’t she? One group are hook-nosed treasure loving bankers and the other group’s sole driving purpose is using cunning to gain power and control.…

Definitely agree. If anything, Slytherin should be representative of some of the very best wizards in history as well as the very worst. The entire framing of it could have been “Drive and ambition and thirst for power and glory can lead to great success, but it can also be the most corrupting.” Instead you get a…

I’ll start by saying a believable pretend mugging should be treated as a real mugging in regards to what a person can do in self defense, at least in terms of the law.

There actually totally isn’t, compared to the number of situations where shooting someone is completely inappropriate. 

There’s a tiny number of acceptable reasons to shoot anyone, so while it’s not outside the realm of possibility it’s pretty unlikely that the prank went to that extreme.

That’s true, due to a “perfect storm” of different issues that have caused those issues, including COVID, chip shortages, etc. there was a lack of PS5s for sure.

We’re 2.5 years into the new console generation and with most gens lasting around 6 years on average, I’d say that all the justification they really need at this point is “we don’t want to develop for the previous generation anymore”.

I think that’s part of why that doesn’t work the same way though. Games are announced with such frequency, often with nothing more than a 30 second teaser (TES:VI as an example), and then a 2 minute trailer 6 months later, then a 15 minute gameplay video a month or so before release.

Seems like too far for me. Based on this, the following games would be classified as M if sold today (some may already be M for other reasons):

“As someone else pointed out, they advertise the difficulties as hard mode being for those who have played the original. Yet everything has changed so much, I don’t really understand that logic.”

Yeah exactly. I'm not against breakable weapons as an idea, I just think they implemented it really poorly. And combined with the lackluster menu design instead of making combat frantic and exciting when weapons break it makes it tedious and pretty much every fight ends with you checking cycling through your inventory…

Oh man those poor worthless Beanie Babies. Wait... What decade is it again?