So let me get this straight: they just had Hogwarts Legacy, a best-selling game of 2023 that’s single-player with no microtransactions and no live-service component to it, and Suicide Squad which is a GaaS disaster (in a successful Arkham series that was single-player up to this point) that went as low as 250 players…

Japanese devs in general understood the idea of ignoring social media. Switch off YT comments like they do in Japan too. I don’t know why western devs like talking so much online. Gamers are parasites, invite them in and they’ll ruin you.

A Wendy’s Baconator costs $12.24 in New York City

Nope. I’ll take my money down the street, thank you very little.

Take a lesson from Fromsoft. They do not give a shit about fan communication. They do note issues the community is complaining about for patches but there’s almost never statements, and definitely no conversations. They do things their way and let the chips fall where they may.

Of course you won’t know the price till you’re in the drive-through line with no way to escape.

I’ve really had just about enough of late-stage capitalism – I wish more people felt the same. 

This would simplify the process of deciding where to eat.

i honestly think listening to the internet ruined the entire industry.

Sure, every community has vocal assholes, but it seems like “gamers” have taken that reality as a challenge and then went the wrong way with it. “Every community has assholes? Well then we’ll win by having the most, biggest, worst assholes! Assholes that shit on everything! We’ll win at assholes!”

Oh relax. Anglophone and Francophones picking on one another is a national past time. Nearly half my blood relatives are Francophones and we poke fun at one another constantly. That said, I have two family members who work(ed) at Eidos Montreal and it had it’s fair share of French Canadian employees (not a majority…

In “defense” of Eidos Montreal, being an asshole to other people is a very French Canadian thing to do, so it’s not like they were singling him out.

Cloud understood the importance of keeping his work relationships strictly professional after the last time he tried to make a friend ended with him waking up in a field of grass surrounded by bodies.

“I come before you today with an indie game! Perhaps the greatest indie game of all... nah, this indie game isn’t for you. It’s more of an itch.io kinda indie game!”

Respectfully, maybe 2009 was better depending on nostalgia, but I reserve worst for Into Darkness. Portable transwarp beaming, Khan without context, and everyone on the promotions side saying “no, he’s not khan, he’s a brand new character we made up named John Harrison” to the point where we accepted it and then…

JJ Trek doesn’t count.

pre-Starfleet.

The grifters have moved on to “AI” “art” and “writing.”

This is an experimental plane. You can model it till the cows come home, but nobody really knows what to expect until it actually flies. One goal is to make commercial airliners that can fly over populated areas faster than the speed of sound. A human pilot can react to unexpected events in ways remote piloting or a…