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- Comment on Someone made a Rock Paper Shotgun game. Well, pistol anyway 22 hours ago:
“someone”
RPS is the early BuzzFeed of the game industry.
- Comment on Trump says Hollywood 'dying' orders 100% tariff on non-US movies to save it 2 days ago:
More like one bad shit and ten different types of delicious snacks…but you’re only looking for something to eat in the toilet.
Just because you get all your media recommendations from ads on social media doesn’t mean good films aren’t released all the damn time.
- Comment on Trump says Hollywood 'dying' orders 100% tariff on non-US movies to save it 2 days ago:
Media from [era when I was a teenager and had a lot more time to explore different media] is objectively better than the shit they’re making today!
- Comment on Trump says Hollywood 'dying' orders 100% tariff on non-US movies to save it 2 days ago:
No amount of tariffs will make me interested in watching the stuff that American companies have been putting out since 2020. I’m not even looped into the movie industry enough to care which ones were foreign in the first place.
Like exclusively listening to top40 radio and claiming all modern music is shit
- Comment on Netflix's CEO says movie theaters are old news. Director Rian Johnson says his next movie belongs there anyway. 5 days ago:
I’ve seen hundreds of movies in theaters and can count the bad experiences on one hand
- Comment on Oscars’ New Rule Requiring Voters to Watch All Nominees Could Reshape Awards Campaigning, but Academy Members Already Found Loopholes 1 week ago:
Crash won 3 awards in 2006 including Best Picture and Best Writing
- Comment on Cities Skylines 2, Kerbal Space 2, Planet Coaster 2, Frostpunk 2... What Went Wrong? 1 week ago:
Frostpunk 2 is great. I think it’s way harder than 1 but maybe that’s just because I haven’t sunk nearly the same hours in
- Comment on The Fantastic Four: First Steps | Official Trailer | Only in Theaters July 2 2 weeks ago:
It doesn’t! But Marvel has been putting out boilerplate slop for awhile now so it’s surprising to me that I actually want to see an MCU film again
- Comment on The Fantastic Four: First Steps | Official Trailer | Only in Theaters July 2 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been off the superhero train since before End Game but these Fantastic Four trailers are really doing it got me. It feels a lot more “grounded” and I like the setting/aesthetic a lot.
Can’t believe I’m saying it but I might go see a Marvel movie
- Comment on women are the devil 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I wouldn’t even care about the publicity that comes with it.
- Comment on women are the devil 2 weeks ago:
Not a fan of her or her music but publicity aside, I’d jump at the opportunity if I were in her shoes!
- Comment on $666 edition of Doom includes game box that, itself, plays Doom 3 weeks ago:
Limited edition stuff like this is never priced for the masses
- Comment on YouTube age gating an Onion video 4 weeks ago:
Well…the title
- Comment on How Ubisoft spent $2.1M on influencers to secure the launch of Assassin's Creed Shadows 5 weeks ago:
Shill has primarily been used as an insult for the past 50 years in the way I’m defining it here. I don’t believe you’ve never heard it used to mean that.
one who acts as a decoy (as for a pitchman or gambler)
Literally on that same page.
a person who poses as a customer in order to decoy others into participating, as at a gambling house, auction, confidence game, etc.
www.dictionary.com/browse/shill
a person who publicizes or praises something or someone for reasons of self-interest, personal profit, or friendship or loyalty
www.dictionary.com/browse/shill
someone who helps another person to persuade people to buy something, especially by pretending to be a satisfied customer
dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/…/shill?q=…
shill n informal, US (person planted to lure customers)
- Comment on How Ubisoft spent $2.1M on influencers to secure the launch of Assassin's Creed Shadows 5 weeks ago:
A shill, also called a plant or a stooge, is a person who publicly helps or gives credibility to a person or organization without disclosing that they have a close relationship with said person or organization, or have been paid to do so.
- Comment on trapped in the middle with u 5 weeks ago:
Big Bang?
- Comment on How Ubisoft spent $2.1M on influencers to secure the launch of Assassin's Creed Shadows 5 weeks ago:
If someone starts off saying “this is a sponsores stream” then yes, that is correct. It’s illegal to not disclose when media is an advertisement in most of the world. I’m pretty sure it’s against the TOS of most streaming sites, too.
- Comment on START STOCKPILING 5 weeks ago:
Moon’s haunted.
- Comment on How Ubisoft spent $2.1M on influencers to secure the launch of Assassin's Creed Shadows 5 weeks ago:
A shill doesn’t disclose that they’re being paid to promote a product. The secrecy is what makes them a shill
- Comment on How Ubisoft spent $2.1M on influencers to secure the launch of Assassin's Creed Shadows 5 weeks ago:
Yes, someone who promotes a product while hiding the fact that they’ve been paid to promote the product. Streamers generally say “this is a sponsored stream” to avoid lawsuits.
- Comment on How Ubisoft spent $2.1M on influencers to secure the launch of Assassin's Creed Shadows 5 weeks ago:
Plenty do, yeah. Though to the marketing team, all streamers are influencers
- Comment on How Ubisoft spent $2.1M on influencers to secure the launch of Assassin's Creed Shadows 5 weeks ago:
Sponsoring streams isn’t even close to the same thing as hiring shills
- Comment on Michael Mann Says He ‘Just Finished’ ‘Heat 2’ Screenplay and Handed It to Warner Bros.: ‘Any More Than That, I Can’t Talk About’ 5 weeks ago:
I just looked it up - Heat was completely original but then Mann collaborated with another writer on a novel called Heat 2
- Comment on Millie Bobby Brown, the Netflix algorithm queen who lives on a farm far with more than 45 animals 5 weeks ago:
YES. Tales From The Loop nailed the vibe. This movie does not
- Comment on Millie Bobby Brown, the Netflix algorithm queen who lives on a farm far with more than 45 animals 5 weeks ago:
I cannot believe they turned Simon Stalenhag’s beautiful art into generic Hollywood action slop
- Comment on Please let Pillars Of Eternity's surprise turn-based mode spark a wave of turn-based updates for all other games 5 weeks ago:
Turn-based games are incredible when you frequently have to pause. When it’s slow at work I’ll occasionally play a turn-based game (Cobalt Core most recently) because I can walk away any time if I get a call. It also makes me feel so bad when I’m playing an unpausable game and my dog waddles up looking for attention. Not a parent myself but my dad friends had to put real time games down for awhile when their kids were born.
- Comment on Ubi, it's $70 and people are vary of your mile wide puddles that drop 75% in price after half a year 1 month ago:
“doesn’t have to be downloaded” is a basic requirement of a game for you in 2025?
- Comment on Here's a free lo-fi Prince Of Persia game with bonus Nazis from the maker of Canabalt 1 month ago:
“lo-fi”
- Comment on In Warning Sign for Hollywood, Younger Consumers Are Choosing Creator Content Over Premium TV and Movies 1 month ago:
They’re long, formulaic, and somewhat predictable because of that
Watch better movies lol
The length of movies isn’t what’s wrong with most films, bad writing is. And there’s tons of movies with great writing out there. They didn’t just stop making good movies when Disney started dominating - you’ve just become less exposed to them
- Comment on Good to exercise at home instead of gym? 1 month ago:
I have a friend who got VERY fit mainly with Beat Saber.
I have another friend who did the same with Supernatural (the game, not the show)
Weirdly, they’re the only two people I know who got in shape with VR…and they have the same first name.