there are very real legal implications for overpromising something without being able to deliver once money has been exchanged...

Looks like a bad, boring game.

They wouldn’t be the first company to make some money and then go out of business by selling lousy products to people who fell for obviously inflated marketing. They wouldn’t even be the 10,000th.

You’re still conflating “grossly underwhelming effort” with “deliberate scam.” By all accounts, everyone knew what this was at the time of release. The marketing was wildly puffed up, sure, but gamers here are being asked to be treated as babies.

From what I’ve seen, I think people started playing dumb about that at a certain point. No one should have been surprised by what it really was based on what was known at the time of release.

Agreed. The only character that indistinct blob of a movie really did dirty was Wanda (and also Wong a little bit).

Does it mean anything? Maybe not

Can someone explain to me how this is a “scam” and not just a really bad product that didn’t live up to the marketing hype?

Really enjoying the walk back from “gamedevs are all fuckin’ uncool dorks” to “it’s all good, be yourself, we’re just havin’ fun here!”

The problem is that people rarely take the next step, which is to say “hey maybe ‘because I like it’ is not actually a good reason to objectify women in a game.”

1. Turn your fan off and wait for it to come to a complete stop.

I’m not too bad at the missing vowels round (really depends on the category), but I don’t play along because I think it’s a stupid round that has no place on what is otherwise a brilliant format. 😆 When it comes up I literally stop watching the episode or skip to the end for Victoria’s end-of-show joke.

If I get just *one* sequence question right on Only Connect I feel like a genius. And if I get it one clue before the contestants, that feeling can last for days.

The point of harder questions having higher dollar values, that the player selects, is that it’s a risk/reward thing.

You could try to take out the subtle sequencing of question order

Yeah, their “heel turn” happened decades ago.

I think that they are always trying to find a unique angle

all I had seen was people parroting him as if he was some kind of parody to be mocked.

Yes! That’s exactly the kind of lazy pandering that Turbotasic was talking about. Excellent imitation, very funny.

I got my updated vaccine a few days ago, and the pharmacist told me that they weren’t allowed to update the original cards anymore.