Yeah - there’s a way for Sony to somewhat make their customers “whole” in this situation and a model for how to do it. I’m not holding my breath, though.

After reading his tweets - erm... X’s? Posts? Musky word droppings? I don’t know what they’re called now - after reading the thread and some comments, my biggest takeaway is... Kotaku won’t pay for LinkedIn premium for you guys? That’s some bullshit. Your job is literally to reach out and communicate with informed…

Don’t crack open that bottle of schadenfreude just yet. He could simply walk across the street to literally any major tech firm that has an interest in AI and say “give me all the things and I will work here.”

You used ellipses to remove the most important part of what I said. I’ll emphasize it for you: “Smoking, as promoted by Big Tobacco, has no benefits whatsoever...”

That’s the same issue, though. Someone calling it a “feminist walking simulator” as a pejorative implies more about that person and their audience then it does about the game itself. It’s like using “liberal” or “conservative” as an insult - neither of the words are inherently negative, and so their use in a negative…

I appreciate you saying that.

The misinterpretation is that it’s a pejorative, instead of simply descriptive. You say yourself, a walking simulator is “not necessarily a bad thing.”

I agree with the underlying sentiment - regardless of what a company may claim regarding their “official” intended audience you need to consider who the product could be reasonably expected to appeal to and who actually uses the product - but it’s a little disingenuous to conflate video games with smoking.

And ultimately this goes back to personal responsibility, which is at the heart of any addiction.

It’s performance art. MWIII (2023) is a meta commentary on the current state of modern media, and it’s quite clearly a criticism of the presumptuous assumption by increasingly out of touch AAA studios that modern attention spans are so microscopically short that the most cost-effective “solution” to the “problem” of…

It’s a shit way to abuse developers, customers, and business partners, but I completely understand the perverse pride that comes from working through sucky conditions. It’s an ugly baby, but it’s theirs.

The problem is that the overlap between all three isn’t impossible, it’s just highly, highly, improbable. That’s what makes shitty managers the world over pull a Lloyd Christmas, “so you’re telling me there’s a chance! Yeah!”

It’s fine when it’s used judiciously for things that reasonably require some amount of confirmation but that wouldn’t benefit from an “Are you sure? But for real though, totally sure?” pop-up, like overwriting an existing save. I’m also OK with it as an alternative to a layer or modifier, especially on controllers.…

Anakin’s gonna hate this.

Oh no hate on the cars! I love the Z3 as well - but a Beamer isn’t really a Bond car.

“Internet awesome”? Is that something you consider a good thing? Jeez. No wonder you’re desperate for the validation of your video game tastes by strangers.

Ugh, sorry - dismissing would have involved not responding. Man, you were so close to being internet awesome. Well, chin up kiddo, you’ve possibly still got time to amount to something! You’ve clearly got loads of potential!

It’s probably more accurate to say that they spent the money saving CDPR’s reputation.

First of all, I’m not your friend. Nor am I seeking that friendship.

I think the point is that this isn’t actually meant for people who are able to buy the car, because it’s not about this car at all. What’s important is that the car being revealed is real and not just a “video game BMW.” That validates the platform, and thus the validates users of that platform. In a decade those kids…