It’s time we make cops write checks from their personal accounts.

Don’t worry guys, media consolidation is actually a really great thing overall and is beneficial for consumers and creators. We swear! Please be excited about Microsoft consuming Activision, too! It’s for your our own good! I mean, your own good! Believe us!

Finally! We can see Barbie the way Nolan intended!

Ultimately an increase in pay isn't a huge concession. The studios are rich and a small decrease in profits is a pretty easy pill to swallow, especially if it's only for the short to medium term. It's the parts about how the industry is controlled that are the bigger issue for both sides. If the studios can get away…

In the proper 4:3 aspect ratio.

Then why did you click on a non tech story and even comment on it? The answer is because you don't come here for tech, you come here to bitch about things in the comments. At least that's what your actions say. You'll probably say something to the contrary but you know the old expression about actions and words.

I got some bad news for you about Roddy. 

You’re right an avowed bigot with apartheid money probably wasn’t being anit-semitic when he called out MAGAs favorite Jewish punching bag and alluded to the New World Order shit that’s been around for decades.

Yeah I have a hard time imagining MS would be the ones pushing Arkane to make a co-op vampire shooter, especially since it’s not in their wheelhouse and they have other studios more suited to something like that.

This tracks with what I have read from other developers that have been acquired by Microsoft. Microsoft wants to take a more hands off approach. I wish I could remember what dev it was but I recall an interview this yeah with someone saying they wish MS came in harder to help clean up some management issues. To take a…

Seems to be implying that Redfall’s, erm, “creative direction” was entirely internally motivated. Nobody told them to make a co-op looter shooter, they just wanted to try to flex themselves creatively.

Which is very plausible! A lot of bad games that people wanna pin on clueless executives were actually just creative…

Not only that, but it’s perhaps one of the worst, most convoluted, and most confusing user interfaces of all time. It’s also a medium you never need to use in your life, ever. You miss nothing by not using it.

Recently I finally broke down and jumped into Discord to see what all the fuss is about. I don’t get it. It’s basically just a chat room and one that’s kind hard to follow along with too. I guess I’ve just been on the internet long enough now that there’s nothing new under the HTML sun.

I can tell you how it’s gonna go. It’s gonna go to the courts where it’ll get bogged down in endless legalese, until DeSantis gets termed out and fucks off, and whoever his replacement is quietly drops the matter entirely.

Live service is a bane.

Truck “design” has gotten world-class stupid lately. It is the reason used and classic truck values keep climbing.

If they want to make a Quidditch video game they’ll also have to fix the game of Quidditch on a fundamental level lol. Even reading Harry Potter as a 3rd grader I knew the game wasn’t quite right, the scoring is completely broken.

The difference is that Lovecraft is dead and his works are out of copyright. No one’s enriching him by engaging with his stories.

Between none of the reporting describing the “prank” and a cursory view of their channel, in addition to their statement that they’ll continue “pranking”, I’m more than inclined to believe that there was no actual “prank” and it was likely just straight up harassment at the minimum.

Its the natural evolution of doing absolutely jack shit when it comes to developing public transport.