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This indie team is making a fighting game where you play as 80s/90s inspired action figures
- Air combos, launchers, EX moves and super attacks
- Rollback netcode for smooth online play
- Nostalgic stages packed with retro easter eggs
It's called Knock Off. Would you play this?
The Star Wars Jedi Knight series was absolute PEAK gaming.
From Kyle Katarn’s transition from Stormtrooper to Jedi, to the legendary Quake III engine physics that introduced revolutionary combat physics that still holds up to this day.
A pure, unadulterated masterpiece.
@bigjgleez@CAMIKAZE78 If you are truly in the highest skill level then it shouldn’t matter what changes are made to accommodate lower skilled people. If you can’t adapt, then you really aren’t that good. You’re just also carried by accommodations.
Every couple of months I feel contractually obligated to remind you why I hate Dragon Age: The Veilguard:
• Three games worth of choices? Basically irrelevant.
• Your world states from Origins, DA2, and Inquisition? Decorative.
• Years of carefully built lore? Compressed into “the elves did it.”
• Except wait! Not even the elves, because now the Executors (a secret Illuminati faction we’ve never heard of) have apparently been manipulating events behind the scenes the entire time.
So congratulations:
Illusion of choice ×1000.
But wait, there’s more:
• The Chantry/Maker mystery—one of the most interesting religious conflicts in the setting—basically sidelined.
• The Old Gods/Archdemons lore thread that fueled the entire Blight storyline? Suddenly background noise.
• Decades of political tension between nations like Orlais, Ferelden, and Tevinter reduced to set dressing.
• The morally gray world that made Origins special replaced with something that feels way safer and flatter.
• Characters constantly explaining the lore instead of letting the world breathe.
• The tone shift that makes the setting feel less like dark fantasy and more like fantasy theme park dialogue.
Ten+ years of buildup and mysteries and it all boils down to:
“Actually there was an even more secret secret group controlling everything.”
Amazing. Glad the last three games were basically optional reading.
i know its delulu of me but i still yearn for a dragon age trilogy remasters…. i wanna be able to play da:origins and da2 like i can da:inquisition and da:veilguard :((
Paramount just bought a $111 billion media empire with a $12 billion market cap.
Read that again. Paramount’s market cap is roughly $12 billion. Warner Bros. Discovery’s enterprise value in this deal is $111 billion. David Ellison is buying a company nearly 10x his own company’s size.
How? Larry Ellison’s net worth: $201 billion. He’s personally guaranteeing the equity commitment. Bank of America, Citi, and Apollo are providing $57.5 billion in debt financing. Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, Abu Dhabi’s L’imad Holdings, and the Qatar Investment Authority are providing equity. The combined entity will carry over $90 billion in debt.
This tells you everything about what actually happened. Netflix offered $83 billion for the studios and streaming (the good parts). Paramount offered $111 billion for everything (including the dying cable networks nobody else wanted). Netflix looked at the math to match Paramount and said “at this price, the deal is no longer financially attractive.” That’s Netflix-speak for “we’re not overpaying for linear TV in 2026.”
Netflix stock jumped 10% on the news it lost. Paramount rose 5%. The market is telling you which company made the better decision.
What makes this really interesting: Paramount promised $6 billion in cost synergies. That’s code for mass layoffs across two studios, two streaming platforms, and overlapping cable networks. CNN and CBS News under one roof. HBO Max and Paramount+ merged. They’ll need those savings because the debt service on $90 billion will be brutal.
David Ellison attended Trump’s State of the Union as Lindsey Graham’s guest on Tuesday. Ted Sarandos was at the White House Thursday afternoon. Both were lobbying. Ellison won. And his father’s close ties to Trump will matter when DOJ reviews a deal that puts CBS, CNN, HBO, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV, and TNT under one owner.
The real story: a 42-year-old with a rocky box office track record just assembled the largest media conglomerate in history, financed by his father’s fortune, Middle Eastern sovereign wealth, and $57.5 billion in bank debt. Netflix walked away richer. The question is whether Paramount can service the debt load while linear TV revenue keeps declining or whether this becomes the most expensive content library acquisition ever assembled on borrowed time.