No, I noticed the difference. I’m saying MAGA types think they all look the same - I’ve had them tell me Danny Glover and James Earl Jones are indistinguishable.

Russia will do what it always does with computer technology:  steal something, rebrand it, and call it Russian Technical Might.

That was back before the MCU was such a big deal (only Iron Man 2).

Just for pedantry, ‘web3' is the cryptoscams but there is something legitimate called ‘web 3.0' - it’s Tim Berners-Lee’s Symantic Web concept. On the other hand that web 3.0 never really went anywhere, and the cryptobros don’t know the difference either so they also end up referring to ‘web 3.0' as well.

You can’t blame QA for a f@#$up of this magnitude. QA finds and reports problems (it always finds the problems) and it’s up to management to triage them and decide which ones to work on and which ones to ignore.

It’s always one of the same two methods (just mentioning them here isn’t going to be enough to figure out how to actually do it for this game):

Monroe@Steam: ‘This is how the original game looks like when your eyes are full of tears in the rain.’

I still feel the most prescient movie was Idiocracy. With the funniest thing about it being that everyone mocked it for being too cynical and ridiculous, but then Trump came along and he and his gleefully ignorant asslickers actually make Idiocracy look relatively optimistic (in Idiocracy the idiot president at least…

This is the same garbage they pulled with Warcraft 3 remake - releasing an inferior version which completely trashed the old superior version so you couldn’t play it any more.

At this point, given the success of XC2 I can’t see them changing the formula.

I really liked how FF XV was all fun and games... until suddenly it went completely off the rails, goodbye open world, hello eye-rolling overwrought plot and teen angst, just let me go back to driving around in my 1950s convertible dammit!

Please don’t call it ‘Cheat Mode’ and further stoke the sneering ‘true gamers’ contempt for people who haven’t bothered mastering a useless skill. And someone using this against someone expert at Classic Mode will still get destroyed, which makes it not so cheaty.

It’s not a cheat mode because if you try to take this into a tournament with someone who knows what they’re doing with Classic mode, you will get demolished. It makes some moves very easy but also limits your moveset and your control over chaining.

Given that they’re a shadowy government agency, it makes perfect sense for them to expand from reactive damage control (cleanup) to pre-emptive ‘damage control’ ala Minority Report. Even in Homecoming they were already shady AF.

We absolutely need studies on this, the more the better about how shitty it is. Because bosses want to do it.

Bosses won’t care. Decades of studies show that open office plans are complete shit for productivity and mental health. But they’re cheaper and look nicer in photos, so bosses don’t care.  They still have their retreats.

Why would anyone even trust anything Blizzard says at this point? Diablo IV might indeed have 50% fewer microtransactions than Diablo Immortal, which will still be 1000% too many.

I kind of draw a line between games that you can potentially spend thousands of dollars in but can reasonably still play free, and games that pretty much require you to cough up to have a good time in.

This is what has happened to every project I’ve been near that management stupidly decided to outsource to India.

Given their track record I would guess that it will not actually manage to launch in Summer of 2023, but at least it’s getting closer.