The difference is that there’s no Oscar category for “Best Indie Film.” That’s because “indie” isn’t a genre or specific element of filmmaking. That’s why “indie” shouldn’t be an award category. It doesn’t have any specific criteria and is absurdly broad.

Did this come out late cause reviewing it was some sort of punishment? lol

I don’t know how Bethesda’s internal reviews decided that Redfall was going to be well-received. Immersive sim fans weren’t going to like it. Loot shooter fans weren’t going to like. Survival horror fans weren’t going to like it.

Do you have the same problems buying American games knowing that the money could end up paying for a drone that blows up a car full of children?

Lol go fuck yourself, Russophobe.

Frankly I think the big make or break issue here is the funding and exactly how much is going to Russia (remember, Saudi Arabia owns a slice of Nintendo, it’s difficult to buy things today without some of that money going to truly awful people). That I would love some clarity on. What’s the investor breakdown and how…

I think that idea comes with age and experience. Especially when and if you have kids. There is a time in your late teens though mid 30s where maybe you believe knowing something that someone else doesn’t makes you more interesting or better but, like the comic shows, you find eventually that someone saying “I never…

Those 3 talking heads are Jay, Mike, and Rich from Red Letter Media. I love them.

A friend once described it to me as “The Jetsons, with Flintstones animal-based technology, living in a lightless underground hell” and yeah, that’s basically the movie. Last I checked, the whole thing is on Youtube, but the pal I was watching it with made me turn it off after the scene where the little boys pluck…

Sounds like the AI might take jobs away from real, hardworking assholes. 

Eh, it’s been done.

Its not a tool if it replaces the whole pipeline and people use it to present the pure outputs as their own “art”. Its not made by you, but rather the 100% of the people that had their images in the datasets, which means it has 0% creattivity and is merely a mashup.

And sadly, many will dub you a philistine for your opinion. Though I agree with your latter statement.

It’s really interesting seeing creative types come to grips with generative AI and learning algorithms and their output. It’s the impact of open source images.

Yeah, and if you just pretend the story in Wildlands is a satire ala Team America, where the americans are gonna liberate the smelly brown country with some good ol’ freedom, it works quite well. I mean it’s honestly pretty hard not to read it that way already: it’s so up the ass of the american exceptionalism concept…

For someone who claims not to know how to get into that church, sadfutago surely often manages to get into that church.

‘“Borderlands is all about chasing that piece of rare loot, and getting it is extremely exciting,” Moxsy said.’

This person is going around in this world, in their 30s or 40s, with a brain that works like this. I’d say people like this shouldn’t be allowed in public, but I suppose he probably doesn’t leave his basement all that often anyways.

I mean, to me it looks anything but “fresh”. It looks very 5-10 years ago. There have been quite a few games with vaguely similar styles, including Costume Quest (2010), Broken Age (2014), Guacamelee (2013), Runbow (2015) and so on, and indeed this would have fit in well with the era in which Indie games really became…

Video games are great. “Gamers” are fucking trash. Makes me embarrassed to admit I love video games sometimes.