I imagine any choice to keep sublight speeds low is less a question of whether ships can technically fly faster, and more what speeds make sense for visually interesting combat. Nobody wants the ship they’re fighting to be a pinpoint until they’re one second away from colliding with it.

The reason given in the video is that she had to take it into a different room, and control it via a streamed screen.

...What new model of Russian troll farmer are you? This is fascinating.

this is a nuts take. you’re inserting your own manufactured outrage where it has no business. You’re literally equating being DTF with harassment or worse. That’s absolute nonsense.

“consent be damned” is a *really* weird thing to have imagined and added in there yourself.

They lost NOTHING. There was a chance they might be handed some more money. They didn’t get it. Oh well. That’s a net change of zero dollars.

The publisher’s financial health took a particularly hard hit early this year when CEO Lars Wingefors revealed that a $2 billion deal the company had planned on suddenly fell through at the last minute.

It’s more likely that they figured that any other publisher wouldn’t be interested in buying Volition without also acquiring the IPs that Volition is known for, and since Embracer is more about IP ownership than they are about studios they’d be unwilling to part with those IPs.

I’ve just recently started playing through Saints Row(2022) after all the patching and tweaking has been done to it, and it’s a decently passable game at this point. No, it’s not the old Saints, but it’s perfectly fine.

I actually like some of the new characters, and enjoy that The Boss remains a complete force of…

In theory yes, but in practice it still tends to end the same way.

It’s not a major difference. I wouldn't even say it's a meaningful difference

There’s a major difference between a major gaming publisher and platform acquiring a developer and publisher, and what amounts to a VC fund buying them up.

Don’t worry guys, media consolidation is actually a really great thing overall and is beneficial for consumers and creators. We swear! Please be excited about Microsoft consuming Activision, too! It’s for your our own good! I mean, your own good! Believe us!

Fuck Embracer.  Fuck megacorps.

The Snyder cut taught all the wrong lessons and fed his cult of followers. I still can’t believe there are people who think the Snyder Cut is what we would’ve gotten if he hadn’t had that tragedy occur.

Given the runtime it’s less that he mashed them together and more stapled them together end-to-end and then glued Dune on at the end.

Rogue One didn’t have gratuitous amounts of slow motion, washed out colours, and deliberately artificial looking CGI sceneries.

Star Wars already is Star Wars mashed together with Seven Samurai. Seven Samurai heavily influenced Lucas ideas of Jedi and their Order.

You’re just saying that because it’s supported by facts.

I’d say “impossible” is probably apt as it applies to mere mortals.