I wouldn’t say scam, as ground beef is primarily byproducts of meat that can’t be turned into a steak or cut. The left overs have to go somewhere. For Wagyu, marbling is a big factor, but different breeds/diets also influences the meat itself in flavor and texture.

This is definitely part of it. Despite the fact that a majority of sales of anime, Manga, and video games happen outside of Japan, your typical Japanese person STILL doesn’t understand that their products and culture are super popular worldwide. This extends all the way up to company leaders as well.

According to inflation and income distribution, 59% of people in 2006 made more than 66.5% of people in 2020. Costs are going up and the vast majority of people are....more poor? So they’re going to be a little pissed off about arbitrary price hikes.

Nononono. See, David Cage doesn’t make games about political issues. He just makes games that ask questions. A story about marginalized people, forced into the back of the bus, writing “I Have A Dream” has nothing do with Civil Rights, he was just writing a story about robots.

There’s a lot of reasons to not move to another game outside of a hardcore, dedicated TTRPG group. The setting, the BRAND, the familiarity. This is where I feel it’s the DM’s job to step in and help streamline things. I first encountered partial successes/failures reading rules of Star Wars and Eclipse Phase and…

This is one of the big things people don’t notice when they scream “KoF13 was soooo pretty! Bring those sprites back!!”, Or when people compared street Fighter 3rd Strike to the more stylish and higher res/detailed Guilty Gear sprites: The Animation.

The thing is... Derivative works, fair use, all the things Streamers and Content creators use as legal shields are fairly flimsy and limited in scope. It’s not illegal per say, mainly because no one has drawn the line and properly defined those terms, especially with how much money Streamers pull in while performing.

And, as hinted in the deep lore, Kirby himself is an eldritch being that might’ve been responsible for the near destruction of the entire universe...

I saw some impressions earlier, and all accounts say the Giant’s Archstone is still broken. So it’s likely no.

despite Gamers spending the 7th generation going “60 IS TOO MUCH FOR A GAME! I WILL NEVER BUY FULL PRICE!”, the industry hasn’t just grown, it’s BALLOONED. Record breaking profits year after year showing that the majority aren’t just happily spending $60, but are also spending extra on DLC and MTX. Considering the…

To be fair, I doubt people realize that PS4 (Pro/Slim and OG) had inter-changeable faceplates. I only ever saw OG face plates on the official Sony store, and I just learned today that Japan has PS4 Pro/Slim faceplates for sale. If they actually produced a variety of them and marketed them, I could see it being a…

I feel the series as a whole was slept on by a larger audience. In part because of its ambitions of being a proper trilogy, as in each game is an Act rather than an entire arc. It made the first game a hard sell and made jumping on at the second game (which is how most series grow) impossible.

That’s one of my big “Oh shit” realizations about the Xbox. It’ll have a library in the hundreds stretching back to major/popular titles from the last 20 years of gaming. There hasn’t been a BC catalogue that ambitious since the Wii Virtual Console.

The best part? In an interview after the Series X reveal, they said “This generation is just called Xbox, because we want people to go into the store and be able to say “I want the latest Xbox”.”

Because in the decade+ since the 360 days, Digital purchases have become the majority of new game sales. It failed to catch on before because people were still “MUH DISCS” at a time when digital was <10% of all sales. Last year it was 50%, with COVID era sales hitting as high as 80%. Discless IS the future, the PS5…

Gears isn’t Native (true) 4K. It’s frequently upscaled to 4k, with post processing added after the upscale. Next gens could be trying to push hard for native 4k (or 8k for Xbox), but also RayTracing. RT fucking murders performance. I wouldn’t doubt if the main difference between 4K/60 and 4k/30 is RayTracing off/on.

It’s a 4....wheel? tread based tank. That Dom runs off the road with wheel spikes, driven by a goon that’s part of a 10,000 year cabal of ancient highway robbers.

I guess the loot cycle? At first I thought it was going to be another grindy MMO wanna be like Destiny and other GAAS’, but this video makes it seem more like Diablo.

Not to mention that a recent industry forcast from the last few years stated that there are WAY more people going to college for game development than what the industry is projected to have in the coming decade. You think this is bad now? It’s going to get worse, because soon there’s going to be legions of desperate…

I remember the first time I had real Starbucks. I drank the Frappuccinos from the glass bottles for the longest time thinking “This is half decent, the real thing can’t be bad...”, and came away surprised at how it’s probably the best Coffee they serve. Since then I’ve discovered a small coffee shop that has probably…