Seeing a weird amount of people suddenly just throwing shade on Pokémon because designs aren't the originals
Of course they're all just card flippers who don't actually care about the franchise so their opinion is worthless, but urgh.
Shark Tank Billionaire Kevin O'leary says 2 people fighting data centers in Utah are Chinese agents. Turns out its just 2 local girls in Utah, they make a hilarious video calling him the fuck out
This administration refuses to take responsibility for any of their actions. Spirit specifically cited why they couldn’t stay in business: skyrocketing fuel costs due to Trump’s war. And the Trump admin is still trying to blame Biden for everything. Biden?! You could maybe get away with that if it were February 2025, but it’s May 2026. Trump was the “I’ll make everything cheaper on day 1” guy. The “no new wars” guy. Own your actions.
> becomes president of Blizzard
> removes almost all quality assurance
> quality declines
> leaves Blizzard
> “wow this game sucks”
Yeah you did that, dipshit
It’s clips like this that completely shatter red-pill man-o-sphere rhetoric for me.
From both sides of this interaction, THIS is what it means to be a man. John Cena (having been diagnosed with skin cancer twice himself) meeting this fan’s vulnerability with kindness and grace.
You put up a challenge, now you moving the goalposts. I’ll whoop your ass in a church parking lot. I don’t even want your money no more stop ducking smoke. I’ll fly out on my own dime to fight you or your clown ass brother. Let’s see how strong that jaw is.
The idea is good but the text itself was rushed and not thought through. It violated a lot of standard practices to protect survivors and due process:
1. It also released documents related to allegations found to be false or unsubstantiated, not just verified violations or settlements. So innocent people would get lumped in with violators.
2. To our knowledge, there was zero victim consent or consultation on this text. That is very different than with Epstein, where victims are centered and consulted at every step. Here, victims offered all their statements with the promise of protection and anonymity. The text gave them no way to have a voice in what information of theirs or their accounts they wanted public or keep private. That is important because…
3. Although there was a throwaway line about redacting victim names, I do believe full witness or victim statements would have been released. With the way employment at the House works (offices are small, time periods of staff employment are publicly disclosed, etc) it means that even with names redacted you can definitely track details in witness statements and use that to ID victims without their consent. And there was zero mechanism for victims themselves to assert their privacy.
Originally we were supposed to debate the details of the text over two days but for some reason they rushed the vote so we couldn’t iron out any of these details to get this information properly disclosed in a way that guarantees victim safety.
If the text was clean I think you’d get a lot more support. As a survivor, I know why the vast majority of women never report at all and a lot of those reasons, even if unintentionally or inadvertently, were included here. For me at least, guaranteeing the safety and agency of victims and survivors would get me to a YES.
The free to play live service gaming industry is damn near impenetrable.
The most successful genres are dominated by massive companies with ridiculous budgets and SO many new Live Service games die because they can't find their footing. It fucking sucks but on a positive note we are currently in an era where games made by very small teams are going head to head with titans.
Mewgenics, Peak, Slay The Spire, Balatro, REPO and so many others are proof that budget is not king and all that matters is making a fun game.
While it is depressing that the vision of hundreds of people will never see the light of day, I hope that companies see the power in creating for players instead of optimizing purely for microtransactions and highest possible return on investment.
Highguard isn't the first to fall as hard as it did and it definitely won't be the last.
Make good games and stop trying to monopolize player retention.
I’m finally experiencing Cyberpunk 2077 for the first time, and already I am in absolute awe at how much of a monumental achievement this game is in the way of art direction.
As I walk through Night City, every single last square inch of it is so meticulously crafted that it crumbles my mind even attempting to imagine how many man hours must have went into it.
Every single building, every light, every neon ad, every logo of every single shop on every single street, every vehicle, every piece of clothing, every interior space, every gun and weapon, all of it is teeming with detail, built from human hands with human imagination, and all from scratch.
It makes me sad thinking about how we’re so oversaturated with ambitious pieces of art and human creativity that we’ve begun to take for granted how utterly, gob-smackingly miraculous it is that an endeavor like Cyberpunk 2077 can even exist. And now, as we stand on the precipice of an AI takeover of human expression, future generations will see future CP2077s, and instead of being humbled by the unthinkable level of human collaboration it took to bring it into existence, they will instead be wondering how much of it -wasn’t- made by humans.
In that sense, it seems fitting that CP2077 — a cynical commentary of the late stage capitalistic, anti-human hellscape we’re living in that’s propelling us into dystopia — is one of the final swan songs of human creativity before the era where artistic expression became permanently and irrevocably tainted by AI.
anyway cool game, tell me if you dig it chooms