Sam

How about YOU take some responsibility for YOUR promotion of gambling, including fucking KALSHI, which is just on its face evil.

Donated, please join me if you can!

It has all the ingredients for it! Hell, Platinum has even made games with good combat. I wonder if it was a budgetary thing.

not a fan of remasters/remakes personally, but the business case is there. this is bad business and bad leadership, and once again it's video game workers paying the price for dipshit executive decisions.

This is the thing that’s getting me to pony up for premium, I’m so glad you’re bringing these kind of shows back.

Yes, but there are way less now (as a percentage) than ever before. That’s the good news. Most people are good, that’s why they’ve been trying to take away money, access, and power from most people.

of course, so am I!

I think I know what you’re saying, and I’m half tempted to get that game on Switch 2 even though I’ve got a powerful pc just to see it in action.

I got Street Fighter 6 and Tony Hawk Ps 3&4 remake, which both run at 60fps and look great. Always loved the original Switch’s concept but it wasn’t really viable for modern third party games, Switch 2 is (outside of UE5, they’re gonna need to fix that engine up a bit to support Switch 2 lol)

I know there’s been a lot of grumbling about the Switch 2 but I fuckin love this thing. I can’t believe how good some of the ports looked even when docked on a 4k tv. Been playing this cute little Lego co-op game with my gf

That’s amazing, congratulations!!!

I imagine this is something that even hiring managers have to be aware of at this point. It’s happened so frequently to so many talented studios that I have to think hiring practices are changing.

At this point everyone in the media with access to officials not directly asking representatives of this govt why they protect pedophiles more stringently than any other country in the world should simply be considered a collaborator

So indies are the industry now, huh. It’s kinda been happening under our noses but I think it’s going to be even more apparent here pretty soon.

The AAA industry is in the midst of a collapse, but the good news is games are better than ever. Indies are the industry. Live service stuff is its own thing, Fortnite is an industry unto itself, but indies of all sizes, budgets, and genres are going to continue to dominate the traditional industry

Holy shit, this is uhhhh weird

Me too, sadly. Having Fultz and Simmons during that era was just… tough lol

it’s really annoying that the ‘defund the police’ conversation in the mainstream is only ever “should we have more or less police officers?” and not the “police officers shouldn’t be armed with riot gear and tanks and also can kill people” conversation

why does this have nu metal music video vibes

They know that a friendly, even familial tone improves engagement metrics. The fact they’re sacrificing that in advance of being forced to by legislation is pretty telling, their internal risk management departments must be sounding the fucking alarm lol

They’re doing this because lawsuits are starting to progress and they don’t like their odds of winning some of them. This is them acknowledging that they fucked up really bad. Will it have any material impact on OpenAI/Google/etc, doubt it, but they wouldn’t be doing this if they weren’t concerned.

nothin good I’ll tell you that

It’s really bad. I don’t think I would’ve been as offended by it if it were some random dino movie, but as a reboot/successor to the best blockbuster ever made it was pathetic.

lmao some of the replies to this have disabused me of the notion that I’m one of his biggest haters. But yeah I’ve always thought his shit is super overrated. A lot of the misanthropic comedies of the late 90s/early oughts don’t hold up, but Family Guy was never great even in the context of its era

I’m 90% in this camp. We had the first season of Family Guy on dvd growing up and I think there are some funny bits sprinkled in, it’s not like Big Bang Theory level bland and unfunny. But a lot of it was bad even early on, and even the parts that worked got old quickly.

I remember the bear doing cocaine and fucking, that was when I tapped out

I walked out halfway through (didn’t have a smartphone at the time and my friends drove, so I just sat in the lobby bored, which speaks to how much I didn’t enjoy it). I don’t remember a ton of specifics, I just remember being really annoyed with how smug it felt. Like it was constantly nudging you

sounds like a plan. I really like the internet, and these community driven efforts get better as more people get on board, so I always like nudging people who are frustrated with the corporate computing/internet ecosystem in that direction, but plenty of other great things to spend your time on