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@TheRealDarkCaos @GPrime85 Nah fam this ain't it. Friendly fire. He's about the exact opposite of a flag bearer. Check out his comics, they're pretty great, you've almost definitely seen them before shared about.

@GPrime85 Let me guess, because it isn't a they/them game?

Fully agree with Mack. As with books, movies, and comics, the first two hours of a game are critical. If devs can't be bothered to make it interesting, players won't bother with the rest. Still mad I spent 70 bucks on this trash instead of seeing Project Hail Mary.

@GPrime85 His comment on MMO-like quests is interesting because apparently it WAS a mmorpg until very late in it's development.

Look man as a guy whose favorite game of all time is literally Assassin’s Creed (2007) can we NOT shit on a guy who’s making locomotion tutorials in UE5 for aspiring game devs and also SHARING THESE RESOURCES ONLINE Like holy fuck this guy is getting roasted for nothing

本日はPS2『ウィザードリィ エクス2 ~無限の学徒~』が発売されて20周年です。おめでとうございます！

@m3_melody Of course not. They're the prompt jockeys. When the various Enterprise LLMs we got a flood of requests to enable it across all of the offshore teams. Every single team. They couldn't wait to have the computer do the job for them. Plays into chaalaki and jugaad mindsets.

From Apollo/Slok's The Daily Spark "We are monitoring the unemployment rate in the Philippines and India for any signs that AI is reducing the need for outsourced workers in corporate America. So far, there are no signs of AI replacing offshore workers"

JUST IN: Explosion reported at Valero refinery in Port Arthur, Texas. Nearby residents told to shelter in place

"Sorry President, you can't launch the missiles to divert the meteor from striking our planet, there's an endangered frog that might be affected by the missions in 30 years and we require environmental impact studies and 5 billion in kickbacks. Also midterms are coming up and the other side and the traitors in your side don't want you to have a win."

You know, satire or not, I actually could see this being an interesting game. Be a leader of industry or someone trying to save Earth from some huge disaster, like a Kaiju or Meteor, only everything you do has to go against the stream of your political and cultural opponents.

“You will live to see manmade horrors beyond your comprehension”

@Variety Go fuck yourself

Inertia is a real force of the universe, and this is just as true in business. The Concords releasing this year started development in 2019-2021. GW's releases this year were decided upon years ago. Beyond that, the woke people that infested these companies, like the rogue intern that snuck FemStodes into 40k and the clown Social Media Intern that forced GW's hand afterwards, aren't just going to poof out of existence. They'll actively fight things being returned to normal, and if they have a choice, they'll destroy the company / IP / fandom / industry on their way out rather than allow it to fall back into the hands of "chuds." Their interest was never AOS or 40k or Tabletop or what have you, it was "fixing hobbies" so the "chuds" can't enjoy them. If they can't fix them, they'll destroy them.

@eldarmark @HMBohemond Blackrock and Vanguard dropped the DEI stick when it wasn't turning a profit (which was about 2 weeks after the south park episode) But they're still majorly responsible for why AOS is the way it is and why the OG creators left

You know I called Age of Sigmar being squatted a long time ago, and have insisted it was inevitable. I was always told, "IT SOLD BETTER AND IS MORE POPULAR THAN OLD WARHAMMER FANTASY EVER WAS! YOU'RE COPING!" A healthy game doesn't get blown up in order to be remade into another one. Warhammer Fantasy was not in a healthy state when Games Workshop pulled the plug. Never denied otherwise. The cope from AOS fans comes from insisting AOS ever succeeded. It's limped along for four editions now. Only "outselling" Warhammer Fantasy Battles in so far as WHFB sales went to zero before AOS came out. Of course you're going to sell better when the competition doesn't exist anymore to sell anything. But what we're witnessing is a glimpse into the true state of things at Games Workshop. Financial reports mean nothing. You don't hard reboot whole fucking settings because they're selling well. Because they have bright futures. You do it because you're desperate. Shoving more partisan political bullshit into it (Sigmar dying, humans split into "evil conservative" and "enlightened progressive" factions) just makes the situation look worse. Age of Sigmar was the already just Warhammer but woke. Tripling down on it won't make "The Last World" sell well. Mixing it with The Old World won't make it sell well. You're just going to alienate both groups. The Golden Mean Fallacy exists for a reason. Now we have to ask ourselves: How long before it happens to Warhammer 40,000? How long before the rot becomes terminal and everything that remains of what we loved is burned down to appease the modern audience that every other company is now aware doesn't exist? Games Workshop nuking AOS to reboot it into a freakish hybrid of TOW and AOS is missing the point in a spectacular way only Games Workshop can. Perpetually out of touch with customers. When, not if, WHEN it happens to Warhammer 40k, it'll be even worse. The clock is now ticking down on the end times. Back up everything from old 40k you love. It might end up being gone before you know it.

@kenshirotism Like many things, there's a @Stonetoss for this.

I'll legit never understand FGC types that praise changes like this when the whole "community" is full of sexual predators.

I’m sorry but the black dude being the first to figure out how to make kool aid in the game is so fucking hilarious

Ryan Gosling Tells Fans It’s Not Their Job to Save Theaters—Hollywood Needs to Make Movies Worth Seeing "It's not your job to keep them open; it's our job to make things that make it worth you coming out."

@fruit_watcher @HMBohemond Both can be true. Blackrock, for example, with their infamous "forcing behaviors" comment was all about using their influence to push DEI, which is the mythological "modern audience." Blackrock and Vanguard IIRC are the minority-majority stakeholder in GW n ow.

@HMBohemond Its not "modern audiences" it's rich assholes who are out of touch with reality who are making decisions based on demands from interest firms rather than listening to the fans

I wonder if this is similar to "safe horny." Zoomers and Alpha men are allowed to express heterosexuality, but only in longhouse approved ways. If they violate ever shifting unwritten rulebook from the "denmothers of the longhouse" (your bog standard 300 pound shreaking cat ladies in HR), they'll be canceled, and their social lives are precarious enough that they can't risk it. So they can't say "no fat chicks" -- so instead they instead claim to be into Muscle Mommies, for example. It's not a preference AGAINST the denmothers, as you aren't allowed to exclude them, no, it's a fetish for something that just so happens to ACCIDENTALLY exclude them, and that's technically ok. Millennials can't admit they crave nostalgia (cause if they do, that means time has passed them by, and they can't admit that), and they can't admit liking things the zeitgeist considers problematic or they'll be canceled. So they cling to nostalgia with an ironic post-modernist lens. "Ha ha ha this thing I love it's SO stupid anyway I love it despite it being soooo stupid. Please tell me you love it too because if you find it problematic I'll have to toss it aside and hide an entire chunk of my soul from your view rather than risk you destroying me for being nazi." The most transparently terrified insecure mindset you can imagine.

It's funny how dysgenic millennials on the one hand crave nostalgia but only in so far as they can use it as a springboard for post-modernist criticisms and ironic jabs about how "silly and stupid this all is." Part of why Gundam tourists hated GQuuuuuuX. It was too reverent for your average contemptuous millennial. If Machu or Nyaan had turned and looked right at them to say, "This is so silly and stupid" they would have clapped like seals.

@HMBohemond But this isn't to say woke doesn't exist. They clearly do. Just that they're either useful idiots for some very powerful people, or some very powerful people are also woke. Remember, the traditional fate of commies is to be tossed into a mass grave once the revolution comes.

@HMBohemond Yuup. "Shareholders" were replaced with firms like Vanguard and Blackrock back in 2013 and they've been on the record smugly explaining they're using money to "force behaviors." GW's majority-minority shareholder is Vanguard and Blackrock IIRC.

"I've been asleep since 2013" ass post.