It’s best to remember Japanese Board rooms are sort of an island unto themselves. They generally don’t “hear” what the fans want or if they are aware, generally don’t care. Culturally consumers don’t really drive those decisions b/c, for lack of better way to say it most Japanese firms especially in this space depend…

The problem is there’s no winning. Tightly controlled MMR matchmaking will result in everyone’s matches being extremely sweaty which actually is what killed a lot of the buzz surrounding the game the first time and it will greatly increase queue times.

I’ll say the usual thing I always say with these- I don’t see why they bother. They always have 3 problems:
1) Anime fans will fillibuster them on principle so you don’t get people who are stoked about the IP. They will also not give credit that it’s harder to nail a scene in live action than it is in Anime so they’ll…

The reality is the balance of power has shifted considerably and no one is really fighting it.

Here’s the problem with that and its one that has decades of internet to demonstrate it:

I don’t support these people, but any time you give people the freedom to have custom lobbies you’re going to see stuff like that.

So your options are only:

I mean - Sony knew a large number of their customer’s couldn’t GET the product short of paying exorbitant markup.  Had they done this sooner, the reaction would not have been as kind.

It’s an old trope. It also goes with “someone with a father wouldn’t spend money on this” etc., etc., or a bunch of other ideas that somehow the consumers are inherently wrong.

No - but it did prove that she was not an innocent participant and it’s easily arguable she was equally culpable in their dynamic. I think this is where the left (as has the right) has lost the center in general.

It’s not - but it’s an easy trick because it wedges an employee into 1 of 3 scenarios:

I mean, no one had that award show anyway. Those people are all shunted to the technical awards no one watches. Honestly, if a drunken electrician or carpenter or focus puller showed up on camera “to tell us all what’s really up”, that might actually disrupt the public’s current relationship with those award shows…

The modern movement against the Oscars and film awards is really a modern phenomenon you didn’t see until maybe the 2000's and really when everyone and their mother started having an opinion on the host. They were an artistic analogue to Sports events and you don’t really see the anger towards them until Fox News…

The complaint about CGI in Animation is pretty much the same one you have in real films. It’s cheaper to do (in some cases) and it tends to kill a lot of professions to the point that only CGI remains (because it’s cheapest).

There’s a lot that goes into the politics of the body though. For a while, the Senate has at least had some level of civility in it with the House mainly consisting of Republicans playing to a base that didn’t want to see any bipartisanship whatsoever.

It’s weird McCarthy would think he would get the same treatment…

Probably the issue there is teaching itself is a discipline in and of itself and just because you could teach in the 90's doesn’t mean what you did works in 2020 and vice versa.

I suspect - no he didn’t.

This mostly -

I basically stopped waiting for Sony and just bought an Xbox Series X. I’m sure I’d like the PS5 as well as my last devices have been Playstations, but I’ve been fairly unimpressed with Sony’s attempts to keep the market stocked and I’ve gotten the distinct impression that sort of like their exclusives, leadership…

I think you can pretty much give Cameron the benefit of the doubt that he isn’t an idiot and read it more as a story writing joke.

I read the original, not the edit.  So yea.