Yeah, I saw the developer first and was immediately open to letting them take a chance on something. I am absolutely not a Marvel comic guy, and even less of an MCU guy. But, my cold heart was thawed by Eidos’s Guardians of the Galaxy, so I am open to the schtick when it’s handled well. At worst, I bet this is a…

You mean like everyone thought of Mario and Rabbids?  And that series kicks ass.

My only guess is that people just read “marvel X-com style game” in the headline assumed it was a weak cash grab and ignored that it was being developed by the ACTUAL X-Com developers.

I am genuinely curious as to why so many people were agianst this. It’s like a fantastic idea mixed with a super fantastic team who have more than shown their pedigree with strategy/turn-based games, all wrapped in a Marvel wrapper.

Something would have to go terribly wrong for it to ruin the game, and even then on…

I already know whose side I’m on in this (Luiga, Kurvitz, Rostov, and Hindpere), and I don’t expect that to change. A person who has committed business fraud (Haavel) is liable to do it again, even after being caught.

“we aren’t technically in recession” is a depression, just because the news don’t say it doesn’t mean firing thousands everywhere isn’t it.

Wish I had a Shivers-like ability to know what the hell is going on.

Well isnt that a coincidence. The day after a damning report SUDDENLY theyre deciding to say the person they fired sexually assaulted someone.

This is a silly take. We aren’t technically in a recession because we are still adding more jobs than we are losing and the GDP numbers are still going up. If it wasn’t for inflation these would be considered boom times.

Tech companies are firing people because they’re all built on cheap debt instead of profitable business models. Debt is no longer cheap, but those workers will probably land on their feet because everybody needs coders, cloud architects, etc. now. Granted it may involve a pay cut, but probably not much of one.

I’m no fan of Zuck or Meta, but let’s not be alarmist here. They are in no way “fucked.”

He’s the controlling shareholder — the only way he can ever take responsibility is by losing money. Him resigning wouldn’t change the fact that he retains de facto control of the company. Facebook is Zuck’s toy to screw up or not, and everyone who works there should be crystal clear that they are placing their…

““I got this wrong, and I take responsibility for that.””

No, Mark, you are making 11,000 other people take responsibility for that. You are taking no responsibility.

(deadpan) Who could have possibly seen this coming?

In reality they did because people migrate; by choice or otherwise. They seem to be implying that this place is (possibly deliberately) cut off from the outside world. Thus, no migration. You can’t develop a diverse population if there’s no way for other people to move into it.

This. Lived experience is something of a double-edged sword in some instances.

I am not gonna get caught up in this until the game releases but that quote was limited and the full quote makes a bit more sense

While still disappointing, I don’t find it very surprising that a developer from a country in which 98% of the population share the same ethnicity and culture struggles to grasp the depht and importance of representation issues.

Multiple Man + Hulkbuster + Dr Strange/Heimdall

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