Absolutely, but the initial idea was anything but mediocre.  

I hope it goes up in their face like a Super Banana Bomb instead.

This reminds me of the time I hosted a chess tourney at my house during the Christmas holiday. Lots of folks showed up but they just stood around near the front door talking about how great they were at the game.

I was going to comment the same overall thing but in a broader sense! I don’t know what is up with the snark in this article at first about the franchise as a whole...

Thank God he’s not pulling an RBG and believing in his own legend of the bigger picture.

Frame rate discussion is weird because unless it's like Hard Drivin' on the SNES (which I think was running at SPF instead of FPS) I typically don't notice at all, but other people act like 30 fps makes a game basically unplayable.

Game Pass is the ecosystem they are cultivating in gaming. If GP ever hit Playstation, that would just be a play to get more people into their ecosystem.

Its laughable to believe Microsoft wants anything to do with Bobby Kotick or honestly the vast majority of staff at Activision.

Wow, they could have at least given them a decent claw. This is scientific research, they’re not trying to scam kids out of their quarters on the boardwalk.

No need for the “I’m sorry” here, the take was absolutely wild

Yes, that is balanced correctly, the timeline is just compressed.

I’m here to add to chorus of people saying that setting it up beforehand is a terrible idea. Setting up your new... anything, is half of the excitement of getting a new thing. It’s part of the process. Maybe you like to just have an opened box ready to play, but you shouldn’t recommend that people do it as standard…

✍️ Find some friends

Unions typically only negotiate *minimum* salary. It doesn’t make sense, and would be wildly unpopular with members, for them to set *ceilings* on what you can earn, and I’ve never earn of a union doing that. Performer’s unions like SAG, AEA, etc, actively encourage individual negotiation above the minimum.

That’s the thing about a collective bargaining deal: it can be whatever the union negotiates for. SAG, for example, establishes certain minimum levels of pay, workplace safety, benefits, etc, but obviously the average SAG member is not making, say, Matt Damon money.

Nah, don’t sweat it. Personally, I’m more into the hobbying aspect of it - building and painting - but the cool thing is there’s all different parts to latch onto. Some are more into the lore, some folks are all about hyper competitive gameplay, other people just want to hang out with buddies and throw some dice for…

Press X to Jacen.

Really not a fan of these gameplay trailers that are 99% quick cuts shot from angles the player is never going to see when they’re actually playing the game.

See ya’ next week!

Is this Kotaku or R/Halo?