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"No final, não nos lembraremos das palavras dos nossos inimigos, mas do silêncio dos nossos amigos."
- Martin Luther King
Basta assistir ao episódio Backrooms de American Horror Stories pra perceber o quanto o filme das Backrooms poderia ter dado errado. Somos afortunados por terem colocado isso na mão do Kane Parsons.
Backrooms (2026)
The Brazilian Portuguese title is Um Não-Lugar which translates as 'A Non-Place', referencing the neologism coined by French anthropologist Marc Augé to refer to anthropological spaces of transience where human beings remain anonymous, and that do not hold enough significance to be regarded as 'places' in their anthropological definition. Examples of non-places would be motorways, hotel rooms, airports and shopping malls.
Augé's 'Non-Places:An Introduction to Supermodernity' (translated by John Howe) is available from Verso Books.
Big Tech will absolutely destroy our drinkable water supply to advance their AI products and increase their profits.
Just like the health insurance industry lets people die to increase their profits.
Just like Big Oil destroys the planet to increase their profits.
Just like military contractors donate millions to politicians to start wars to increase their profits.
Just like polluters poison our air to increase their profits.
Just like food manufacturers add poisons to our food to increase their profits.
Billionaire and trillionaire greed is killing us.
Jeff Grubb put out a video titled "Xbox doesn't deserve your trust anymore" listing reasons, predominantly around Ninja Theory and Senua.
1. The #Xbox Showcase was deceptive now we know games like Senua were announced despite the studios potential planned closure.
2. Xbox is now using showcases and gamer hype not to sell games, but drum up investor interest for studios they want to shutter or spin off.
Go to point 7 on why he is strongly against this, even if Ninja Theory agreed.
3. Ninja Theory was indirectly celebrating their own demise. Xbox being a "used car salesman talking about all the great features of this thing. And in this situation the used car is a bunch of people."
4. Calls into question all the other decisions around Ninja Theory and Project Mara.
5. "Damages the credibility of any time Microsoft talks about selling games in future."
6. "It makes Xbox leadership seem completely incomprehensible from the outside. Probably because internally they don't have a coherency between their decisions."
7. "Treating the studio like a meat market for the studio is insane." Believes they should have taken the loss and given the studio the resources to go off on their own, to find their own partners and funding.
Full video link. Mine is slightly edited.
https://t.co/F0n9fyJUsL
Requirements for 'Halo: Campaign Evolved' split screen on PS5 🎮
"Both accounts will need to have PlayStation Plus and be linked to a Microsoft account. Having these active PlayStation Plus subscriptions will also provide access to online co-op play"
Gaming budgets over the years:
- Gears of war, 2006: 12 million
- Mass effect 2, 2010: 40m
- Last of us, 2013: 70m
- Witcher 3, 2015: 81m
- Spider-Man, 2018: 100m
- Last of us part 2, 2020: 225m
- Spider-Man 2, 2023: 315m
- Gears of War E-day, 2026: 400m
Not sustainable...
The Xbox Series will be the only modern console where you'll be able to play GTA III, Vice City, San Andreas, GTA IV (and both expansions), GTA V, and GTA VI.
Kind of like how it's the only modern console that you can play all of the mainline single-player Final Fantasy games on.
Funny how that turned out.