Back when I played CoD online (whatever years MW1/2 were new) it was just full of screaming, racist 12-year old boys.

If somehow we start to mitigate climate change, you know they’ll also be the first ones to propose cutting down those trees for lumber.  There’s money to be made!

Nailed it. “Manifest Destiny” is exactly what he was describing.

These breathless articles about “losing value” after certain decisions need to die in a fire.  Shareholders are not freaking out over single digit percentage movements of stock price, at best they are frowning slightly.  Get a grip.

Damn you, autocorrect.

I’m old enough to remember the chatter about Playstation being hard to develop for.

I have built plenty of PC’s in my day. If I can get someone else to assemble the parts I pick, I do that these days and focus my side project energy on coding and soldering.

But I honestly don’t see how this strategy could possibly work.

I think you’ve literally used the wrong metaphor to describe a social faux pas on a science journal.

This is very much Techbro CEO behavior. There may be an aspect of marketing it as “experimental” and cool and sexy because it is using this novel miracle material. Although the CEO is dead now, and maybe we’ll never know where his head was at.  (I mean, I know where his head is at now - dissolved in seawater)

That’s a conspiracy theory actually floating around.

Wii and PS3 both outsold the 360 worldwide. The 360 was a massive success in the USA though - outselling PS3.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_game_consoles

So - that’s broadly true, but not always.

I would watch that slap fight.

Having a map to wander around in doesn’t negate the linearity unless there are actually things to do within all the open space from point A to point B.

I don’t get the claim that previous FF games were the same - they weren’t. You could go up, down, left, right. Yes, you go from point A to point B, but there’s still like A MAP to wander around in. You find keys which open doors you couldn’t immediately open. You talk to people. Sometimes you steal shit out of their…

There’s a wide gap between “linear plot” i.e., you only have options for the plot happening in X, Y, Z order, and what this game was, which was literally running in a straight line.

Bye, Felicia.

Hey man. Don’t doubt the spite of people on the internet.

Wayyyy too much credit was given to XIII. That was the only FF game which I got frustrated, quit, and threw the game away out of spite.