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- Comment on ‘We tried and it didn’t work out’: CDPR co-founder says it shouldn’t stray from AAA open-world RPGs 21 hours ago:
It was still a really good game by the time they stopped working on it, and one of the least greedy CCG I’ve ever seen. Hearthstone was already starting to lose players, and they had a shot at being a replacement, even if the mechanics of the game were rather different.
And then Marvel Rivals came out and the CCG landscape was just overpopulated.
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- Comment on Alf Clausen, Emmy-Winning ‘Simpsons’ Composer, Dies at 84 3 days ago:
Fun fact: he gets more money from that theme than anything else by far, in part because he sings “The Simpsons” at the beginning of the theme, which counts as performance royalties.
- Comment on Dave2D - Windows Was The Problem All Along (Lenovo Legion Go Windows 11 vs. SteamOS) 1 week ago:
Kernel-level anti-cheat can go fuck itself.
- Comment on ‘The Wheel Of Time’ Canceled By Prime Video After 3 Seasons 1 week ago:
They kinda did, if you think about it.
- Comment on ‘The Wheel Of Time’ Canceled By Prime Video After 3 Seasons 1 week ago:
Say those words in the spoiler out loud, and you’ll see how silly and ridiculous the concept was, especially to modern audiences.
- Comment on What Are People Still Doing on X? 1 week ago:
Only the Sith believe in absolutes.
- Comment on Big Plans For ‘Love, Death & Robots’ Volume 5, But Viewership Drops 50% and Ratings Plummet 1 week ago:
I agree that there were some duds in the bunch, but not everything in LDR was a hit, either.
Most of them told a good story, though, even for games that I would never think were story-oriented (PAC-MAN, Crossfire, Unreal Tournament, Honor of Kings). Honestly, I think they put more effort into Secret Level than this fourth season of LDR.
- Comment on ‘Doctor Who’ Ratings Dive, Supercharging Uncertainty About Future Of Sci-Fi Series 1 week ago:
I’ve just noticed you think Dalek is a bad episode, and therefore your opinion is objectively false. Dalek is a top tier episode
Look, you can have your opinion, but I really did not like how the episode was trying to make me feel pity over a fucking overused and single-minded Dalek, when they could have just left them well alone. ST:TNG’s I, Borg expressed the concept of a robotic enemy adapting to the side of good way way way better than any Dr Who episode could.
Most of the RTD era, while it had some standout episodes, were way too campy for my tastes (Love & Monsters, Fear Her, that fat blob episode, the incredibly shitty ending to the Master). Matt Smith’s first two seasons were peak Dr Who, and it’s a shame Moffat couldn’t figure out how to write stories like that after those seasons.
- Comment on Big Plans For ‘Love, Death & Robots’ Volume 5, But Viewership Drops 50% and Ratings Plummet 1 week ago:
Really? I liked most of Secret Level, except for that Sony advertisement at the end. Even the Concord episode was really good.
- Comment on ‘Doctor Who’ Ratings Dive, Supercharging Uncertainty About Future Of Sci-Fi Series 1 week ago:
And they do this same thing every new Doctor. They just front-load the first few episodes with the same tired tropes and enemies we’ve already seen, as if we need to be re-introduced to the same bullshit.
Eccleston - A Dalek appears in the sixth episode in one of the worst episodes I’ve seen, and they make them a primary element of the last few episodes of the season David Tennant - Cybermen in the sixth and seventh episode, and they make them a primary element of the last few episodes of the season Matt Smith - Daleks in the third episode Peter Capaldi - Daleks in the second episode (hey, can’t be worse than Kill the Moon), Cybermen in the last few episodes of the season Jodie Whittaker - Daleks in the New Year’s special (I guess they tried to delay it?) Ncuti Gatwa - No Daleks or Cybermen, so maybe they learned their lesson?
- Comment on ‘Doctor Who’ Ratings Dive, Supercharging Uncertainty About Future Of Sci-Fi Series 1 week ago:
Unfortunately, like many companies chasing after trends in shitty ways, BBC really fucked up Jodie Whittaker’s reign by trying to jump on this woke bandwagon by hiring some of the shittiest soap opera writers they could find, to push every kind of topic around racist, sexism, etc. in the most heavy-handed and clumsy way possible.
And before you start downvoting me for somehow being some right-wing hack just because I said the word “woke”, let’s not forget that Jay Exci, a trans person, wrote a five-hour rant shredding every single episode of that season in detail.
- Comment on ‘The Wheel Of Time’ Canceled By Prime Video After 3 Seasons 1 week ago:
I think the Watchmen movie is the only example I can think of where deviating from the source material was actually a good thing. Even then, it was a tempered change that still captured everything else about the comic, and they didn’t try to “fix” anything else.
You don’t make a successful book-to-movie project that makes millions of dollars by shitting on the source material that also already made millions of dollars. Hollywood writers are egotistical assholes that do not make millions of dollars. The book was successful for a reason. Don’t fuck up a good thing.
- Comment on Warhammer 40,000 Maker Games Workshop Is Doing So Well It’s Giving $27 Million to Its Staff 1 week ago:
I don’t think it has anything to do with their physical media, and everything to do with their successful video games sales over the past few years.
- Comment on After a lengthy legal battle and billion-dollar loss, 'Fortnite' is back on iOS 1 week ago:
Especially when Apple is the one who dictates what is “perfect”.
- Comment on Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected from 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet 2 weeks ago:
We’re talking about software engineers, not plumbers.
- Comment on Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected from 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet 2 weeks ago:
Then don’t live there.
I’m sorry, but I can’t sympathize with normal people with normal salaries that choose to live in the most expensive cities in the world, and then discover that they can’t afford shit, especially when they find themselves out of a job.
Move out, find towns that are affordable, go work for employers that embrace remote work, get a normal salary, and enjoy a low cost-of-living.
It is 2025. The job market is global and remote work is now. If you’re relying on salary to be magically tied to where you live, then you obviously don’t know how capitalism works.
- Comment on Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected from 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet 2 weeks ago:
Shitty media’s greatest trick is cherry-picking and anecdotal “evidence”.
- Comment on Max changing name back to HBO 2 weeks ago:
No. That would cost money.
- Comment on Death Stranding 2 preview: how a big dollop of Metal Gear is expanding Kojima's bizarre epic 2 weeks ago:
I’m sure there’s plenty of fans, and you guys and gals can enjoy your sequel.
But, I’m just not down with Kojima whipping out his Kojima and Kojimaing all over the place. The man cannot write a cohesive story that makes any amount of sense if his life depended on it, and the absurdity has gotten even worse over the last few games. He has nobody to tell him “no”, so every shit idea and thought in his head ends up in the game.
- Comment on After saying negative reviews 'might just cause our death' and 'we've got a few months left in the oven', No Rest for the Wicked CEO claims he never said they were in 'immediate financial danger' 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Ori studio in crisis: No Rest For The Wicked could be their final game 3 weeks ago:
That’s what the pre launch marketing campaign is for. Getting on YouTube and Twitch channels is just to get the snowball rolling.
Right, and that’s what this game didn’t have. You have a trailer and some people who happened to discover this game and decided to play it. No real marketing campaign push to get indie streamers to play it. The name makes it even worse because it’s not a unique phrase.
- Comment on Are there any TV series you gave up on, or just forgot about due to insane gaps between seasons? 3 weeks ago:
It was only 6 episodes for the last season. I truly believe that they were trying to save as much money as possible for their LotR series, which is a shame because that series didn’t fair so well, especially with the billion or so dollars they spent on it.
- Comment on Ori studio in crisis: No Rest For The Wicked could be their final game 3 weeks ago:
It’s not one you should rely on. People don’t stare at their Steam page every day.
This should have been promoted through the usual YouTube and Twitch channels. Find all of the YouTubers that review indie games and start sending emails.
- Comment on Fallout TV Show Could Run for Six Seasons Says Aaron Moten 3 weeks ago:
Not at the rate they are releasing new seasons.
- Comment on Ori studio in crisis: No Rest For The Wicked could be their final game 3 weeks ago:
I think NRFTW is fantastic, and it’s exactly what I was expecting it to be. However, people saw it at the same “style” as Diablo or Path of Exile and expected the game to be like those… except they’re not. And for those that do realize that, you have the other idiots that refuse to accept that it’s an EA game that still has a long roadmap until completion and bitch about the lack of an “endgame.”
Honestly, I think trying to compete with Diablo and PoE2 is already too much, even if it’s trying to say it’s not those. Those games are huge, with long-running, dedicated fanbases, and they do enough to oversaturate the market just fighting amongst themselves.
This was the wrong type of game to be trying to dive into the first time they cut themselves off from Microsoft’s financial cushion.
- Comment on Ori studio in crisis: No Rest For The Wicked could be their final game 3 weeks ago:
It’s always lack of advertising. The unfortunate fact of life is that 99.99% of indie studios have no clue how to market their game. They think they just have to make a good game, and boom, people will flock to it.
Steam is there to make sure users have a platform to download their game. It’s not there to market it.
- Comment on Nintendo Anti-Piracy Policy Device Lock Update Warns of Console Bricks for Unauthorized Use 3 weeks ago:
At this point, I’m just calling this an excuse.
I mean, fuck Japanese IP laws, but also fuck Nintendo for trying to gaslight us into pretending everything is normal and standard. Nintendo of America is not in fucking Japan.
- Comment on Whoop backpedals on its paid upgrade whoops 3 weeks ago:
Awesome, a smart watch with no display. Very cool!
- Comment on Alabamians Want Answers About a Four-Million-Square-Foot Data Center Coming to Their Backyards 3 weeks ago:
A city with 70% black people, and they find the one white guy to put on the front page of the article.