For real.

In NV it’s a life-changing experience when you see a Cazador flying at you at Mach 2 for the first time.

Ah, I see. GitHub reached out to Daniel saying “hey we’re actually doing that” not because it was a reaction to the post.

This appears to have prompted GitHub to warn on ambiguous Unicode characters in diffs like other source control programs (namely Gitea from the article) already do. Love it.

That is what my analogy suggests and I suppose how you define wealthy matters, but that’s not strictly what I mean. I just mean prices are starting to striate.

AAA game devs are spending more on games every year and then suddenly finding out their market isn’t as wide as they hoped. High upfront cost + low demand sounds like a luxury product then, no? In the before times, they would release for $60 and squeeze hard for money. They can still do that, but now - since the price dam has broken - they can release for $80-100 and get more cash per super fan and then drop price aggressively to catch others who balked at the initial price.

I’ll be clear that the problem is the AAA industry spending too much on games when they don’t need to.

Nobody rightfully complains when Lamborghini sells their luxury car for hundreds of thousands. Gamers have been conditioned for far too long that indie games cost less than 60 and everything else costs 60. This was the fault of the industry to be sure, but it’s clear the barrier is being broken by necessity and expensive-to-make games are going to climb the price ladder and prices for games overall will stratify like many other markets.

Interestingly, that’s all Shuhei is saying here. Pay for the games you think are worth it. Games still provide a significant amount of value for their cost, even at higher price points. This is obviously true as we’ve had a decade of base game $60 and ultimate edition $90-100 with people purchasing ultimate editions and such.

Maybe, but I really doubt it. The only reason his ideas even remotely work is because he has a history of wackjob narratives inside otherwise (metal gear) solid games + complete authorial control over the entire product. Give one of his games to someone else to produce and they need to be exceptionally strong and resilient in the face of a team and investors that will naturally - as a part of development - be asking “what about this, people won’t like it, or it doesn’t play test well.”

The “why” for every little part of the game concept needs to exist or whoever is left in control will have a very difficult time explaining what the value is when that question is raised.

All this is perhaps superseded if Kojima names an heir in addition to passing along a bunch of ideas.

If he thinks any studio is going to pick up his ridiculous ideas for a game without having Hideo can-do-no-wrong Kojima at the helm of the studio, then he’s as self-absorbed as I think he is.

Cuz it’s egomaniacal behavior. He thinks he’s so cool and unique and innovative that his ideas are worth something even after he perishes, sometime in the next TWENTY or so years. It’s not like he’s bedridden right now.

There are like 3 to 5 multi-episode arcs that aren’t really necessary, but having watched almost all of clone wars, it’s very good - especially at the end - and recontextualizes or adds context to a lot of the stuff in episode 3 that seems odd or is unexplained. Anakin is a better character for it. The same goes for Rebels once you get past the first 1-2 seasons. In general, it’s worth your time. Go find an essential watch list online.

Console exclusivity of games is a way to provide an incentive for purchasing your console.

Imagine you’re a business and you spent millions on the R&D, manufacturing pipelines, shipping logistics, marketing, etc for this cool new console but you’ve got nothing on it by default that people can’t get elsewhere. In this situation, the first console to launch in a given generation would win. If you profit off of the console (you should), any exclusive that converts a user is price of console + price of game gross revenue.

This helps explain why we’ve had exclusives, but the winds are changing. These game companies which make both games and consoles see the short-term profits from your aforementioned wasted opportunity as more valuable nowadays while largely ignoring the fact that a lack of exclusives will make their consoles less desirable.

IMO the PC is going to basically cannibalize the console market (everything goes there and goes on sale, emulation included) and PC hardware can be made to last for a very long time despite a higher initial investment. If Valve can get a Console-like experience that’s plug-and-play with a TV, then Sony and Microsoft are in a bit of a bind.

Makes profit or they’d stop doing it.

I’d argue this could be true but it heavily depends on the type of monarchism a state has, how nationalist its peoples are, how militant the state is, and if there’s a strict order to society that is trying to be imposed.

Obviously, being a proto-fascist state, it wouldn’t need to have all of these at once and not to the extent they would be if the state was fascist but if enough of these indicators appeared to exist, I think you could make an argument in favor.

I would doubt the efficacy of watching stuff on their account to try to shift the algorithm. For one, the algorithm appears to naturally select for controversial (and more likely right-leaning) content on its own when left unchecked and without significant history to the contrary. Secondly - and this is the one I can’t help with - your parents are selecting that content. The root problem is there. You can watch all the left-leaning stuff you want but they’re going to counteract it and the algorithm is going to back that up. To the algorithm, what’s more important, a small and recent interest in content entirely unrelated to what it’s accustomed to, or hundreds of hours of watch time on accounts the user is still subscribed to and also watches?

Thanks! I said in the posts something about the editing expressed the feeling of the aurora, which I had never witnessed before, and which was quite strong for how far south it was.

This one:

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…and, yeah, the photo is definitely over-brightened and saturated.

Either they juiced that fireball or they were nearly dead and cast it as a last resort and hoped to just not die.

Which is amusingly also what Xbox and PlayStation had before everything started coming to PC.

Apparently they do! Look at that market surge! (Don’t worry, it won’t be a problem later)

Wiimmfi distributes those events periodically. You just need to get them in HG/SS and then you can select them.

Would love to see more of the developer providing good information for those laid off so other companies can more easily ingest possible hires.