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Stealing a page from the @nickmon1112 book, movies watched this weekend so far: King of Beggars: imdb.com/title/tt010096…

@CovertQOS @erikkain But I lack the credentials (Not a journalist, not in the industry, etc) to probably receive copies or access to the original data and usually paying for the data is not in a price range where it makes sense for some lone consumer to fork out that amount of money

@CovertQOS @erikkain Yeah, the parts they report on for public consumptions is very lacking in the details. And because of that, they can paint the picture they want, by cherry-picking what they do report on, which has it's pluses and minuses. Personally I like the details behind the summaries.

Honestly, the thing about these "statistics" is all games are considered equal. Someone who plays ten different games a week, someone who plays 100 hours a week and someone who plays a mobile game for an hour a day are all considered a "gamer" and that fundamentally misses the point.

@erikkain *at least an hour a week.

@erikkain Yep, the numbers in the esa report are based on anyone that played video games for at least an hour. There is a difference between doing something for an hour a week vs 5 hours a week vs multiple hours a day, and that's even ignoring what is played during that time

@ColdDeath @PP19204 @erikkain Yep, at least one hour a week is a big umbrella too.

@PP19204 @erikkain Has less to do with ego, but with numbers that generalize the entire mass vs numbers that go into more detail. The more people are sweeped under one umbrella, the less useful it is

@PP19204 @erikkain So you don't understand

@erikkain Ego's such a fragile thing. x.com/PP19204/status…

@SchmimHolly @thekhemistlives @micah_erfan This.

@thekhemistlives @micah_erfan You seem to be conflating classical liberalism with progressivism.

CNN = Owned by a right-wing billionaire. CBS = Owned by a right-wing billionaire. FOX = Owned by a right-wing billionaire. WaPo = Owned by a right-wing billionaire. WSJ = Owned by a right-wing billionaire. Ah yes, tell me more about how the mainstream media is “far left.”

City of God imdb.com/title/tt031724…

Chappie imdb.com/title/tt182367…

Stealing a page from the @nickmon1112 book, movies watched this weekend so far: King of Beggars: imdb.com/title/tt010096…

@troybrow2113 @WolverineCD @insomniacgames Also, do you know what the f in LMFAO means? And you're worried about Jesus. How about you let the big man do the judging.

@troybrow2113 @WolverineCD @insomniacgames What are you, stuck in the 90s?

Hey everyone, See ya Tuesday. Thanks!

@Shadow_ofaDoubt @Pirat_Nation Can companies switch the game to F2P midway through the games life-cycle and then become exempt? Or can they claim the base game is F2P and then just charge for DLC/season passes on top of that? Is the season pass model considered a subscription? I wonder if they thought of these

>Does not affect subscription games, free-to-play titles, or games that are already permanently offline/single-player.< So nearly every game anyone cares about will be exempt, and any future live service games will be either free to play or subscription. Sounds about right for California lawmakers.

Huge win for gamers and consumer rights! The California State Assembly just passed AB 1921, the Protect Our Games Act. It passed on the floor by a vote of 43 to 16. The bill would force video game companies to give players a heads-up before they shut down the servers for a game. It would also make them provide a way for people to keep playing afterward, like adding offline mode or letting community servers take over. Quick recap of what the bill does: >60-day advance notice before any server shutdown or major service change that would make a game unplayable in its “ordinary use.” >Companies must then provide a workable solution so players can keep playing, usually an offline mode/patch, community server support, or (in some cases) a full refund. >Applies to digital games first sold or substantially re-released in California after January 1, 2027. >Does not affect subscription games, free-to-play titles, or games that are already permanently offline/single-player. >Enforceable by the Attorney General or district attorneys. In short: If you buy a game, you should still be able to play it even after the company moves on. No more “purchase” turning into a rental that expires when the servers die.

@TimSweeneyEpic does this ever end well for you?

Everyone’s being too harsh here. There has been a significant rise in the cost of components that Steam customer spending ultimately funds, and economic trends have created severe disruptions in the component parts supply chain for megayachts.

@snootch1982 @aakashgupta so that agrees with what he said?

Mexico paid $20 million for eight minutes in this movie. Then those eight minutes forced them to invent an entire cultural tradition. Before Spectre, Mexico City had no Day of the Dead parade. The holiday was celebrated at home, at cemeteries, with family altars. Quiet, intimate, centuries old. Sam Mendes fabricated a massive street parade for the opening sequence, shot it with 1,500 extras in skeleton costumes across the Zócalo, and audiences worldwide assumed they were watching a real annual event. Mexico's government had negotiated hard for the placement. Leaked Sony hack emails showed officials offered up to $20 million in tax incentives for four minutes of positive portrayal. Sony was drowning in a $300 million budget. The deal included script changes: the Bond girl had to be a Mexican actress, the villain could not be Mexican, and the city's modern skyline had to appear on screen. Then the movie opened in 182 countries and tourists started booking flights to Mexico City for the parade. The parade that did not exist. Tourism authorities panicked. Visitors were arriving expecting the spectacle they saw in the film and finding nothing. So in October 2016, the government spent $500,000, hired 650 volunteers, built dozens of floats and giant skeleton marionettes, and staged the first real Día de los Muertos parade in Mexico City's history. 250,000 people showed up. They openly called it a "Spectre-style parade" in press materials. Ten years later, the parade draws millions. Anthropologists call it the "pizza effect," where a cultural element gets exported, transformed abroad, and reimported as authentic. Mexico's most famous public celebration of its most sacred holiday was invented by a British director shooting a $300 million spy movie. That tracking shot is doing more for Mexico City's economy every November than the $20 million they paid for it.

@Grummz Bungie was working on it before Sony bought them out. Sony didn't do this, they did it to themselves

Sony: "Yo, Bungie, Destiny 2 is a banger, how about we buy you for 3.6 billion dollars?" Bungie: "Hey, love it! Come buy us!" Sony: "DONE! But shut it all down and have you work on this game in a dying genre and revive a 20 year old IP nobody remembers." Bungie: "LOVE IT!" Does AAA even have half a brain left anymore?

@MABstar7774 @EpicNNG This existed long before Sony bought them out.

@EpicNNG That's Sony for yah. Make a deal with the devil, eventually it's going to cost you, your soul.

I simply cannot fathom pouring my soul into a project like Destiny 2 for in some cases, 10 years, only to find the plug has been pulled on it out of nowhere. That's gotta be absolutely soulcrushing.

@EpicNNG It's not out of nowhere. It is sooner than expected, but the writing has been on the wall, especially since the final shape.