motherfuckers

If you are 45% short of your forecasting, that isn’t “people leaving our game” that’s “people are fleeing in droves and we should consider shutdown”. This is primarly about poor management, though I have no doubt they though interest leading to Final Shape would be higher.

The live service model just... Kind of sucks. Eventually, you are going to run out of quality updates to make and the shtick is going to get old. Destiny 2 started to feel too much like homework for me after Foresaken.

Plus, there was just too many plot threads that don’t go anywhere. Dozens of mystery boxes without…

To be fair, other reporting on this has sources saying devs have been begging higher ups to listen to feedback and let them make changes needed to improve things for a long time, but they’ve been consistently roadblocked.

Hey,  you forgot the glorious brownstone architecture of his right shoulder. I was wondering where those filthy New Yorkers stole the idea from!

Credit where it’s due, they effectively shelved most of this “mechanic” earlier this year. If you were at the top equipment power level in March (with Season of Defiance, which dropped concurrently with Lightfall), you were still at that same max equipment level when Season of the Deep and Season of the Witch rolled…

All good points. I really don’t know if there is a line. This process has repeated itself and affected numerous industries over decades, so while it sucks to me personally, it is a reality that civilized societies have had to grapple with time and time again.

Honestly, there’s nothing I can do. Pandora’s box is open, and it’s never going back in. Hell, all of the tools I already use daily (Adobe Suite, Unity, etc.) have all integrated their own AI tools into their suites.

Missing projections by 45% is not the same as revenue being down 45%.

They listen to almost no feedback, keep the same systems going because they are already baked-in and easy to update at low cost, then act flummoxed when players eventually bail.

Will admit, their player loss is slower, because the game is good at the heart of it. Makes players really really slow to ween off it,…

Beautiful, but it ain't happening. Corporations will use it to maximize profits, jobs will be cut, as usual, individuals will suffer.

A corporation literally only exists to make money. Nobody is putting money in their 401k and selecting the “don’t grow too much so you leave some money on the table for other people” fund. If you want companies to do things that benefit the collective good over their own self-interest you should be looking to…

As a working artist, illustrator, and designer for 10 years, I don’t see AI as anything other than a threat to my line of work, and a major cost cutting measure for those who run companies. It’s essentially negating the need to hire people who posses certain skills.

Ah yes, late Renaissance-era Florence, Venice, Rome, and Istanbul... All famous for their wood plank architecture and gas streetlamps.

The Monster Squad was my gateway to horror as a kid, and for the most part, I would say it serves that role well for kids who are intrigued by but a little too scared to watch real horror. (My parents had previously tried to show me The Lost Boys, and that did not work out well at the time.)

Probably a little too gruesome for scaredy cats. I was a huge horror coward as a kid, and it wasn’t until I was in my early 20s I was able to watch those movies. I love them now, but I had to build up my gore tolerance to get there.

I’d go heavier than a 2 on Nightmare before Christmas.  Oogie Boogie’s scenes are pretty damn scary.

I just rewatched the kitchen scene from Gremlins for the first time in 30 years. It’s just amazing how heavily that movie was marketed to children.

Trick R Treat is a lot of fun but way more gory and disturbing than this suggests. Multiple on-screen child murders, to start.