@EzriMuldoon @SneakyBeaver You realise concurrent players and total players is not the same thing right? I bet you felt smart pulling that number out of your ass
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DeviantStrain
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@SneakyBeaver And yet it's in game player count remains disastrously low, especially if the 1.1 million total sales rumours are to be believed.
Marathon is a game with a 95.1% abandonment rate
I can see a few gamers trying to get a free $3.
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I'm going to say this as nicely as humanly possible.
If you think any brand on this planet, or anyone in general for that matter, is going to pay $3 for REDDIT COMMENTS you genuinely might be the most gullible idiot on earth.
Emerald Apple@AI_EmeraldApple
The "popularity" of Marathon may have been astroturfed. Evidence from the leaked Discord thread shows they were allegedly paid $5 per main Reddit post and $3 per comment/reply. There is no confirmation yet whether this is true or not, but it could signal Bungie's desperation to combat the negative press the game is getting... because 19K off peak and barely over 40k on peak hours is not gonna be enough to sustain this game long term, due to the costs and budget of the game. Steam review manipulations have also occurred in the past with games like SKIBIDI BACKROOMS, Monsters Domain, Lonely Knight, and Blue Archive. But the disconnect between high steam reviews and the rapidly vanishing playerbase is real... and some people are saying that the positive Marathon reviews are allegedly coming from low-playtime accounts. Even recently, Bungie was accused of scrubbing negative feedback on the Xbox store, where the ratings jumped from ~2.5 to 4+ stars after negatives vanished...
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@Verazin_Epyon @KanikouEstellia @Avronaofficial @supermariomovie Aight but fzero 99 is an actually new game put out by Nintendo for us to show love for. There is no such equivalent for star fox. I'm a huge fan of both series but other than a crossover in a random ubisoft game star fox fans have been starving for content almost as much as fzero
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@DeviantStrain @KanikouEstellia @Avronaofficial @supermariomovie Series that exist to this day do so because they sell. Nintendo isn't going to push out games for series that are essentially dead, no company does, so yes it is on us to aid in its revival. The love shown for F-Zero 99 may grant us a new game, for example.
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Let's rock and roll! Fox McCloud joins The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, only in theaters April 1. Get tickets now.
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@HanYolo21 @Edgeupgx @GwenpostingTTV I most definitely am not, you're just a shitty bigot who thinks posting this under every trans woman's post will get you online internet points from your shitty bigot friends
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@Verazin_Epyon @KanikouEstellia @Avronaofficial @supermariomovie It is on Nintendo to revive it considering they make it? Especially since the last game is on a now defunct platform and isn't available for sale new, and again, wasn't very good. There's plenty of demand for star fox, there's like 3 SF64-like indie games in development
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@DeviantStrain @KanikouEstellia @Avronaofficial @supermariomovie I think their point is gaming companies look at sales and hype to see if people want more games. Using your words, it's not on Nintendo to "revive" the franchise if you aren't buying it. The last game bombed, so why would they make more?
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@KanikouEstellia @Avronaofficial @supermariomovie This is a silly point, star fox zero was a game with an overly complicated control system that rightfully bombed, and Nintendo have made no effort to revive the franchise since. That's on Nintendo, not Random Twitter User #6185
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@Avronaofficial @supermariomovie Did you buy the last game? Hype it up? Get millions to buy it to show we want more games?
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@EvolveESP @GwenpostingTTV They do know that they're a woman though. You're the one that's confused.
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@GwenpostingTTV Why you put your opinions in the internet about something if you dont even know if you are woman or man?
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@Edgeupgx @GwenpostingTTV Woman* and what about this is shilling, she's just saying that not playing a game "because it might die" is dumb
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@GwenpostingTTV This dude is exactly what you would expect to be shilling for Bungie
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“No child put on puberty blockers at the earliest stage of puberty, who has their natural puberty blocked, will ever have an orgasm or be fertile.
For anyone in this room cheerleading on this trial, this is what you are supporting”
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@Phanatic1a @HMBohemond The size of the explosion is also random. The only certainty is there will be an explosion along the beam which will also negate the effectiveness of the beam.
Also they are fantastically expensive and illegal.
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@DeviantStrain @HMBohemond Again: gun on a timer, you're not near it when it fires. And for a high-value target, it's easily worth the chance unless lasguns are fantastically expensive.
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The Hotlzman Shield in Dune is one of the perfect examples of adding a tiny thing to a setting to get a vibe you want out of it.
In Dune's case:
- Holtzman Shields stop fast moving objects.
- Lasguns (particle beam guns in Dune) can cause a nuclear explosion if they hit a shield, so they're not commonly used.
- Melee is the dominant form of combat, trying to strike slow to penetrate the shields.
- Projectile weapons exist but they're designed around boring through or disrupting shields, but a skilled combatant can deflect the slow moving projectiles.
- Heavy artillery can still kill shielded humans through sheer transfer of force or heat, which the shield can't block.
- Anti-vehicle weapons are built around these principles because the vehicle might be shielded.
Dune codified the idea of high tech sci-fi where you still have melee and the idea of "oh here's this piece of technobabble that let's me have what I want in my sci-fi setting." Gundam's Minovsky Particle and Mass Effect's Element Zero owe the Holtzman Shield their existence.
Zack Stentz@MuseZack
A hugely underrated aspect of the Dune universe's appeal is how Frank Herbert built a world where people zip around the galaxy in spaceships but then fight each other with swords and knives. It makes everything 50 percent cooler than a world of ray guns and robots.
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@monsterr_party @vergil223 Isn't this a 50+ hour RPG? Just because it doesn't have a post game doesn't mean it's half baked.
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@vergil223 yeah this game and wilds when it first released felt really half-baked in a way
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youre fucking joking.
♠️ Seven/Raiden 🫧 Simon’s husband and bf@monsterr_party
just beat stories 3 holy shit that was a masterpiece
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@Saint_Pootis @ivybnnuy This is just false. Have you ever actually held a switch 2 yourself? The magnetic lock is WAY more stable than the old slide in, there's basically no movement
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@ivybnnuy Yes, however the main problem is how the joy cons wobble as the connection is not nearly as solid as the slid in metal Switch 1 design.
The thing is harder to break because they *designed it* being able to wobble, as in they knew the primary problem with the new sockets anyway.
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so did anyone end up breaking this thing or was it just dumb mass panic
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@Phanatic1a @HMBohemond The nuclear explosion happens at a random point along the beam. You're equally as likely to blow yourself up, or just detonate a nuke inbetween you and the target
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@HMBohemond "Lasguns (particle beam guns in Dune) can cause a nuclear explosion if they hit a shield, so they're not commonly used."
That doesn't make sense, though. I can destroy a high-value shielded target with a lasgun connected to a timer? Everyone would be doing it.
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@ClownOnAThrone @KyleDWilson1 @LexiTalksComix He's mysteriously gone fucking quiet now hasn't he
God, they could literally start wearing swastikas in front of him and he'd try and deny it.
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The situation with mutants Post-Ultimatum feels more relevant than ever.
If you see something like this happening to kids in real life and you think it’s a good thing or necessary collateral damage, congratulations, you’re the bad guy in like every X-Men story ever.
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@KyleDWilson1 @ClownOnAThrone @LexiTalksComix Only one link was tiktok the rest were the legitimate sources you asked for
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@ClownOnAThrone @LexiTalksComix If I see someone using a legitimately awful source, yes, I call the rest into question, especially since places like the ACLU don't have a spotless track record either.
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@ellelledeell @kenshii_ai Honey I’m not a communist… I’m a gay republican but human knowledge should be made accessible to everyone despite monetary gain.
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Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam Webster have just sued Sam Altmans OpenAI.
These legendary publishers accuse OpenAI of stealing nearly 100000 copyrighted articles and dictionary entries to train ChatGPT.
The AI now copies their content freely while crushing their website traffic and revenue that built centuries of real knowledge.
This is not innovation or progress. This is blatant industrial scale theft from the guardians of human knowledge.
Sam Altman preaches ethics and safety while building his empire on plagiarism and lies.
The lawsuits are only getting started.
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What's the term for an American who's like... a weeb for Ireland? Like there are so many yankoids that actually know jacksht about Ireland and think it's all leprechauns, four leafed clovers and this sht. So many who claim Irish heritage but have never known an Irish relative.
The Conservative Alternative@OldeWorldOrder
In some cultures, women get down on all fours & twerk while throwing up gang signs. In Irish culture, women dance through the forest like angels. WE. ARE. NOT. THE. SAME.
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