Except the actor for Ward had no idea he was going to be a villain until he got the script for Turn, Turn, Turn. So this is all metatext. He FEELS like a better character when his narcissistic douchebag Bond archetype with no charisma that everyone wants to sleep with and who talks constant crap about everything is…

Kotick has been winning while losing for twenty years. He’s too big to fail and shareholders choose CEOs based on how much they get away with ripping off workers and consumers. That’s the whole business model.

Nintendo and Sony aren’t consumer friendly. They’re also much smaller companies and they actually built their “indie” studios from scratch long before those companies had any market share or had even published their first games.

They’re still shoving them into videogames, so we must stay ever vigilant.

I found it on a playthrough where I never had Astarion travel with me. I think it’s just a “they thought of everything” situation.

Much earlier than that. I stumbled on it accidentally on my second playthrough after ignoring Halsin’s warning not to take the Long Road. It’s late in Chapter 1 but accessible at any time before the point-of-no-return in the Shadow-Cursed Lands. You don’t technically need to solve the puzzle, but there’s a clever one…

Lower Decks would have done this as a snarky comment by Mariner, Boimler would start a condescending speech, and then she’d interrupt with, “God, Boimler... it’s a joke. We’ve all licked our share of eyeballs...”

This is a thing I love about Lower Decks. Your typical hour-long has an A story, B story, C story, and maybe a runner bouncing along through the plot. I’m amazed that Lower Decks has managed to cram an A, B, and C story into every single half-hour episode. They are functionally (but not technically) writing a…

It would be Lower Decks. Which we have now.

The thing is, the more she gets away with it, the more people you have in the comments section assuming she never did any of it. Which is how we end up with the media environment and entitlement you expect from narcissists.

Ross may get a dopamine hit for her 15 nanoseconds of attention, but then what? Sure, speak your truth, etc., etc., etc., but have a plan in place for the day after.

You know... I’m starting to think capitalism was a mistake.

Nintendo is a reliable wash-out in home gaming to be honest. Even the Switch is only succeeding because their handheld market is always reliable and they just started pretending that their latest handheld is a home console while not releasing a home console into the market.

Nintendo made 1 billion less than Microsoft in 2021 (I don’t have 2022 numbers), and Microsoft only did so by releasing games on PC. We’ve now seen God of War and Horizon and The Last of Us and Uncharted all also release on PC despite Sony making twice as much money in its gaming division as Nintendo did.

“Consistently” is a stretch. Microsoft has outsold Nintendo’s home consoles two of the last four gaming generations — in the previous one Microsoft sold 400% as many systems — and while Nintendo is beating Microsoft’s Xbox division in “the console wars,” that’s always been a marketing gimmick. They’ve done so by…

Adjusted for inflation, it’s still well ahead of Barbie. And this is just domestic box office.

300,000 tickets is... like 2 million dollars domestically, closer to 1.5 million dollars by international measurements. A fraction of a percent of their box office.

Game Pass is ten dollars a month. If you finish a AAA game in half a year you’ve broken even.

If I didn’t have Game Pass, PS Plus might make more sense. Right now I’m kind of just riding out my pre-purchased subscription though... it’s just not on par with what MS is doing.

Streaming’s turning back into cable.