In the same vein, the Comcast/NBC Universal merger never should have happened either.

Disney already dominates the box office every single year and is engaging in exactly the kind of aggressive predatory practices that got the film industry in trouble in the Studio Era. Them buying Fox gives them most of American adult animation and several more film franchises, to wit: eight of the top-ten…

The Disney/Fox merger shouldn’t have happened either. Just because our antitrust laws have been ignored for so long doesn’t mean we should just do away with them. I’m happy to see this merger be stopped, and am really hoping to see something similar with the Kroger/Albertson’s merger. The consolidation of corporations…

I find the “Microsoft is just a poor little company. There’s nothing wrong with the merger” talk so, so weird.

While I know everyone is on that CSM shit (including myself), man Akiba Maid Wars might be the most fun I’ve had with an anime in years. Getting past the edgy shock humor of cute anime girls massacring each other in gangland hits, what works for me is how much it lovingly references the Yakuza films from the 60s and…

They just need a name change to sell well (better) in the US. I would bet if they were called something simple but explanatory like Coffee Cookies instead of Digestives they’d find a better reception.

(The industry has also done everything it can to get more people to spend money on games even if it’s at a lower price, including the rapid price drops and the rise of free-to-play games, so it’s not like the industry hasn’t been doing lots of things to adapt to this change in consumer behavior.)

Not every game has to be a AAA blockbuster and maybe it’s time to rein in development costs (because lord knows that extra $10 isn’t going to employee wages).

It amazes me the regularity that bootlickers and paid shills come out immediately in these articles to try and blame inflation instead of corporate greed and marketers justifying their salaries.

You’re alone on the ship, you’re out of fuel. You desperately search around the few asteroids in the system scavenging what little you can find. But you’ve stayed too long. You hear the footsteps, he’s here. And all that fills you is dread as they speak.

Get a PC instead (or Steam Deck if you want handheld), can still play Switch games...

Nintendo is to video games as Hitachi is to "personal massage devices" 

I’m all for it, though I kinda wish they just went full Auto Modellista and even cel shaded the cars and some of the environment. From what I hear, the handling is a lot better than before, and Heat was already pretty good imo.

the problem is that all of our real world communism examples are not transparent. This tends to breed corruption.

That’s exactly what defunding the police actually means.

Once again for the people in the back

Can’t wait to read followup reporting on how this person had previous run-ins with the law, but it was swept under the rug. Or that his co-workers witnessed him saying or sharing some awful criminal pedophile shit that went unreported.

“As the rewards contained within these loot boxes can offer competitive advantages within the game, they carry significant value for players”

They don’t need jobs with their PRIVATE wealth levels. They don’t need the public money either. 

“This is yet another horrific reminder of the predators existing online in police forces who prey on our children,” the Riverside police chief said. “If you’ve already had a conversation with your kids on how to be safe online around membres of law enforcement and on social media, have it again. If not, start it…