If the business isn’t worker owned, then the purpose of the business is to take money from workers and give it to shareholders. Insofar as that works, firing workers is just an asset relocation since having no workers is the ideal business model.

Starfield built a bunch of ancillary mechanics solely to incentivize you buying skill points and leveling up by engaging with its central mechanics — shooting people and flying in your spaceship.

There’s a balance in there. Each planet has its own collection of resources for crafting and they’re not all available in every galaxy. This is where fuel costs for travel, outposts, and environmental hazards all come in to play.

Inflation-adjusted rent used to be A LOT cheaper in most places, and that’s what people spend most of their money on in any city.

If the market wasn’t increasing to match the cost of development, then profits would go down.

Nintendo’s profits went up almost 25% last year. Lockdown ended two years earlier. Those skyrocketing profits aren’t related all that much to people being locked inside.

There are literally THOUSANDS of games released in a generation. So ToTK only sold a couple million copies? Cool. Nintendo’s profits went up 28.41% from 2022-2023 for a total in final profits of 5.23 billion dollars from revenue of 15.09 billion dollars.

I’m just happy someone’s using the Force and not throwing around lightsabers. Seeing Ezra vaguely flail about using the force in hand-to-hand combat made me mourn that Kung Fu Force show they had lined up they eventually scrapped.

“Welcome to this new galaxy. Here’s the moors of Ireland that you saw in The Witcher and some turtle people.”

Several of these directors have Emmys and Oscars. This is not a director problem, this is a showrunner problem.

While there is a small but common medical reason to perform circumcision, it’s not necessary with attentive hygiene.

Disney and Netflix are the two largest streaming-only services. Amazon is a contender for 2nd place but it also includes fifteen-finity other things that have nothing to do with streaming in its subscription fee.

“We need to raise game prices to the highest they’ve ever been non-adjusted for inflation because we’re making profits higher than they’ve ever been adjusted for inflation and we’re not paying our workers any more than we did 10 years ago!”

I still remember the first time I heard about that fascist I was like, “NO!!! NOT THE GUY FROM UCB!!!”

Gaming profits went up 11.9% in 2023. Profits in the AAA market have seen record highs every single year for over a decade. And now game studios are just deciding “it’s time” for a 15% increase in the price of games.

The game really insists I deliver this letter to an empty black expanse of stars above Paradiso and I’m starting to take it personally.

I think what’s interesting is that Boy Meets World was an excellent show that understood its demographic and its politics and had deep empathy for its characters and the process of learning through failure. Girl Meets World was condescending and arch.

Trigger capitalists without mentioning capitalist challenge: Story Mode.

I really hoped they were going to create something closer to Fallout 3, or at least 4, but they really did just take Skyrim, rip the world navigation out of it, shove Mass Effect’s in instead, and then cover it all in a thick layer of No Man’s Sky busywork. Bugs aside, it really does feel like an iteration of their…

The game’s trying to be open world Mass Effect. Mass Effect pioneered the lens flare that the JJ Abrams Star Trek movies later adopted.