I mean Kottick was pretty open about it on the 360 that they only wanted annualizable franchises.  Acti used to have a bunch of licenses, they put out the Xmen Legends/Ultimate Alliance games, tried some stuff...but just went with milking Tony Hawk to death, Guitar Hero to death, pumping out CoD...the minute Blizzard…

not a monoploy, but yeah, consolidation is typically awful for everyone other than shareholders and execs.  With Activision bought...EA is the largest publisher (non platform owner), and we have what...Ubi, Capcom, Square, Bandai Namco, Take2 (which technically isnt a publisher but owns Rockstar and 2K)....and am I…

i find celebrity/actor/athelete/etc worship sickening.  Like people attach their identity to that shit.  

They arent a new version. Its the same group. The far right came together because people like Bannon and high ranking neo-nazi white supremacists (the guys who fund Jordan Peterson, Milo, and other pseudo intellectuals) realized they needed to be smarter about using their brown shirts, that simple thug tactics wouldnt…

bet the ardent supporters of Depp includes a nice overlap with 4chan and magats.

a cerebral d&d movie wont work. Though I am generally surprised they dont just adapt ice wind dale.

yeah, grill stuffed was what i switched to when the queserito got cancelled.  

This.  The ArchDeluxe was their attempt to get grown ups eating more fast food.  The McDlt got discontinued specifically because of the packaging, after McDs stopped using styrofoam.

Taco bell discontinues everything I like.  Chili Cheese burrito, double deck taco, queserito.  Fuck the bell.

Wendy’s Chili isnt underated, its more they dont push it anymore.  I lived on that when i was commuting to college.   A wendys chili, a side salad, and a five piece.  Load up the chili with the chili sauce.  I dont care that they use day old burger meat.  Its not just great, it is easily the best value they have on…

yeah, im really curious to see the numbers on gamepass.  There is no way that it is cost effective to put out 3 or 4 AAA 80 million plus dev costs games on a service that people pay 120 a year for.  Not when at least half, if not more, of the subscribers would likely have paid for those games in the first place.  Then…

Think that is a boomer thing.  You never heard US execs speaking japanese.  Boomers in all countries seem so tone deaf to the changing world.

There was also a massive change in how games were made at that time.  PS made gaming adult.  It made it a much bigger business.  I mean EA was around for years, but until the PS2 era...madden and fifa werent the juggernauts they are today.  Activision has been around forever, but it was Tony Hawk, then CoD that made…

Square didnt make Xenogears, that was monolith, they just published it, they didnt have much to do with development.

FF games have been a mess since 10. 10 isnt my favorite FF game (probably tied with 7, and i am not a huge 7 fan), but it feels like an FF game. I like 12 as a game, but it is a bad FF game. They could have tweaked it and called it FF: Tales of Ivalice and had it be a spin off and it would have made more sense, and…

You have to look at the japanese games industry in japan. Square is very japanese company. Domestic AAA games sales on ps platforms have tanked since the ps2 as things have shifted to mobile. Dev costs for switch and mobile are just much much lower. So they can crank out mobile bs riding on ff or dq or other…

ok.  by 2025 a ps5 will be easier to get, and cost less...but geez, its a game, calm the fuck down son.

Hey, you cant squeeze every last dollar out of an IP if you arent milking every property right now with zero concern for how it affects sentiment about a franchise down the line.  Disney has fucking zero clue how to properly use video games to push its IP forward.  Zero.  They have lucked out with insomniac on…

Im on the old edge of millenials, born tail end of 80, but most kids i graduated hs with were born in 81.  Its only anecdotal, but of my close friends, only one is a car guy, and he leans in to german cars.  .  I know another car guy but he is closer to 50.  There arent enough gen xers to make a big impact on the car…

yeah.  Typically expensive cars have high margins, but then you have to look at sales velocity.