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Heard something about this recently and wanted to check it out.

I know everyone loves making fun of Randy and Gearbox, but credit where it's due, especially in this climate. Fingers crossed they keep doing well.

But, understanding the property on a deep level and having a passion for it means you know what you can and what you shouldn't change. You know what makes the property you're adapting special and what people come to it for.

So does that mean you shouldn't change anything and just provide fan service? Absolutely not, it's a different medium and some changes will always need to be made.

By comparison, what do you think folk that googled TLOU series saw after the first episode or two was out? Understanding the property matters a whole fucking lot creatively, but also monetarily if you want to see it that way, I just don't think studios are taking this into consideration yet.

It doesn't matter if you know the fans personally, a paramount space series based on halo is out, and you've never played Halo or know anything about it you're gonna go Google it. And the only people that are talking about it are saying it's shite, well, you see where that goes. It fizzles out.

So getting the fans on board, should be your first line of marketing. They will start talking about it regardless, and because they're the only ones that care, they will be the only ones that are talking about it. So do you want them to be on board? Or not?

With that I mean that at ground level, when something like a Halo TV series is announced, the only people that care are Halo fans. I god damn guarantee you, not a single person cared about a Halo TV series that was not a Halo fan beforehand when that was announced. Zero.

And while this is a creative failure, if we also want to talk business, this is bizarre as fuck as well. Why, you say? Because Halo, like most video game properties (there are exceptions) are relatively niche in the mainstream.

Jumping off this, my favourite example of utter ignorance is Halo. The fact that there was someone with the double whammy ideas of "Let's take his helmet off" and "let's have him shaggin" is wild to me. Like clearly, even without having watched it, you know nobody has any clue what Halo is.

Movie and TV making is hard fucking work and if the passion is not the driving force behind it, it will be shite. Sometimes that's the case even when there is passion behind it, but if you start without it there, you're fucked.

And then we're back to "see, you can't make a good video game adaptation, they don't work" because of course most of that shit will fail. You can't make it good without the passion behind it I'm sorry.

Back to who, what, and how they're made though, and not necessarily by untalented folk, but clearly a combination of recognisable name/want to make a bit of cash/whatever. The main issue with that is that it will get thrown to people who have no idea what makes that property what it is.

Man we're in that place where any fucking video game IP is getting grabbed and developed into a movie/TV show without a care in the world of who's actually developing it. All because there was a handful of commercial/critical hits in the past 5ish years (mario, tlou etc).

Some part of me wants to take a break and come back when 2.0 launches, if that's like March-ish next year.

But I like this dumb game and my character too damn much, so that's probably not going to happen.

Don't know what the next few months look like. Will try to do Oktoberfist, but also got so so much work in the coming months that I don't think I'll have time to practice much. I have already been quite slow to adapt to this patch because of this.

Home from Inverness, good run and first top 8 that's not a small local tourney. Yippee.

Happy enough on paper, but also feel like I didn't play as well as I could. Long travel right before and not great sleep might have had something to do with it.

Wanted to say hi but didn't realise that was you until after you left, sucks to hear about your controller issues!

Silver linings, you somehow still made Top 8

And no fucking AI 🤌

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Hey arcsys, is this correct?

YO WHAAAAAAT

@nightdivestudios.bsky.social just killing it as usual

Doom

Get past the main menu and it literally becomes one of the greatest games ever made.

I consider Ozzy and Sabbath as influential as the Beatles, or Beethoven. In the way that they shaped so, so much of what came after them. Even a lot of artists and bands that might not think they were influenced by them, yes. Yes you were! Even if it's not directly, but still.

RIP Ozzy. Feels unreal, he was one of the people you thought would be around forever.

It's staggering to think back on his (and Sabbath's) influence in music as a whole, I don't think it's too much of a stretch to say that every single rock and metal band would sound different today without them.

After hundreds of hours and thousands of games of Guilty Gear Strive, I have arrived at two truly revelational conclusions.

1. I tend to win against players that are not as good as I am.

2. I seem to struggle against players that are better than me.

Who knows, it might apply to you too.

Genuinely thought this was @theonion.com or @hard-drive.net jfc does no one read this shit before posting?

The answer is who the fuck knows. This whole statement was probably drafted, or entirely written by AI.

Get in the fucking bin with AI.

This all felt too familiar, and I just realised we had this exact conversation on the other site 3 years ago 🤣

BENEATH THE REMAINS 🤘🔥

And that just means we practice, we adapt, we improve.

Next stop probably No Man's Land 3 in Inverness in September. Hopefully some smaller local brackets before that.

Onwards!

I'm happy with how I played, I feel I did as well as I could, lived up to my seeding, and played fairly consistently throughout.

I do wish I could have pushed a little further, it's the second regional (?) after MIG Feb that I finished just outside of Top 8.