In terms of Marvel games, they’re almost all (besides the Lego games and updated Marvel Heroes) on phones. Because that’s the platform where there’s still any real possibility of making a profit. That’s especially true if one is also paying a licensing fee - though Disney was also very casual-focused. AAA development…

“we’ll have invested $30 million into virtual reality games. And we’re just about seeing a path to break even...”

We’ll see Marvel and Star Wars games - Disney simply won’t be the one to make them. It’s safer for them to license out the properties. The advantage to consumers is that you potentially get more games that way than what Disney could produce in-house, the disadvantage is that you get games that had a chunk of their…

“Have they ever heard about the Streisand effect?”

They were right!

Except, if you’re an indie developer, you don’t get to do graphical sheen. So crude 3D gets used now for the same reason it was used in the ‘90s - because it’s a benefit to developers. Granted, the reason it’s a benefit is different - back then, it was easier to create a simple 3D model than to create a complex 3D…

“Pixel retro can look charming.”

I find it interesting that these nostalgic games manage to have cruder graphics than the 20 year old games they’re inspired by.

Boy, I thought these guys were sleazy just because of their games*, before any of the legal threats. I did kind of feel sorry for them, because they so obviously are trying to make a living as game developers, and not doing so well at it. But these lawsuit threats - it’s taking things to a whole new delusional and…

It’s because a) these people don’t think. At all. and b) ultimately it wasn’t because of his parent/place of birth that they said he “wasn’t American” but because he’s black. To these people, to be black is to be fundamentally “other” (i.e. “not American”).

People have been joking for a while that if Trump loses the election (please, by all this is holy...), it’ll only be a matter of time before he simply claims he never actually ran for president. I’m now convinced this isn’t actually a joke.

Considering he didn’t so much “come to reality” as become even more delusional on that point - “I’m not a birther! I never was! That was Hillary! I resolved the issue five years ago!” I don’t think it’s an issue.

Framing this as Trump “acknowledging reality” is still dangerous bullshit. He didn’t - he exchanged one lie for multiple lies (that Clinton was the birther, not Trump, that Trump caused Obama to release his birth certificate and that the certificate settled the issue). Moreover, if we accept all this nonsense as true,…

“Even if this young man pulled the fake weapon on police, I would prefer officers risk their own safety in an effort to confirm the weapon in question is real before opening fire.”

Yep, and they were the rootstock off of which the modern American Christian conservative movement grew. It’s racism all the way down.

I can see it. Besides the obi, the hat strikes me as referencing the ubiquitous geisha parasol (as well as the traditional East Asian rice farmer hat or Japanese conical “kasa” hat). Although on the whole it’s less a “geisha” connection and more general Japanese traditional clothing similarities.

Well, I do always see the police down at the local 7/11...

“march in the Klan rally”

Yeah, there are two issues - the machine that developers are optimizing for (which may artificially limit the quality on more powerful platforms), but also a larger issue, which is that adding more processing power (and therefore more polygons, higher res textures, etc.) has a very small impact on visual quality at…

It sounds like the plans are all up in the air right now - and the studio knows what her contract does (and does not) cover. I doubt anyone on the development side is making any assumptions. (Her response makes her sound pretty disconnected from the whole thing - as if, potentially, no one had even approached her…