John Bowser

Software Developer
IN ➡️ UT ➡️ ?
lover of rainy days
out of shape hiker
sci-fi / fantasy nerd

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@Rightanglenews She looks like a fucking face transplant patient…

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@elonmusk I registered to vote yesterday. I’ve been sitting on the sidelines for too long

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@DestinLegarie Ive been getting ads for it all day on twitch

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@DustinCanFly No. All papa John’s are bad. Dominos is sooo much better and cheaper. Win win

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@XboxP3 Well, as an Xbox one x owner that was just about to make the leap to series x, I don’t think I’ll be making that purchase anymore. Honestly I think this whole fiasco has made me realize it might just be time for me to bow out of gaming in general. -1 console gamer from the market

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@DMC_Ryan @insomniacgames You think the employees had a say in whether their personal info got leaked, or was it just the insomniac/sony execs not wanting to let go of 1/100th of a future game’s budget?

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@DestinLegarie https://t.co/aObzKYhlYD

[3Bit @iThreeBit]

Xbox Tax?

Internally it's known throughout several studios to prioritize Playstation versions of a game first due to its overall popularity which can lead to performance disparities depending on time in development & priorities.

It's commonly known throughout many third party studios that Playstation is the priority, then porting versions of their game to an xbox. Which can leave out key graphical and optimization features in its dev kits.

I believe that priority sentiment carries throughout the industry in my experience...And carries through a bias mentality.

The Playstation 1st mentality is also seen with review copies, with most reviewers preferring or having a preference to playing or reviewing a game on PS 1st. An xbox game can review well intially but receive negative coverage for months afterwards (Halo, Starfield, Cod, Sea of Thieves) or be opted out of categories of conversation.

Multiplatform games tend to also have more reviews in general on PS, even more favorable outlets choose to sometimes opt out of xbox coverage or copies OVERALL. I've personally seen outlets REJECT xbox copies of a game.

It's not crazy to me to equalize Playstation's popularity to favorable bias, it has more users and a bigger fanbase and generally gets more favor for anything negative due to "premium games" and as I mentioned most reviewers choose to not even have an xbox copy of a game.

And in my honest opinion....You do not see that same energy with PS products or games in terms of negative articles. No multitude of articles asking about where TLOU Factions is, or asking about the players dropping in a game months after launch (like starfield - a single player game). No asking about Kotor's status; multitude of studios that have had layoffs of 100+ people, their pipeline/lack of showcases, or any hint of negativity toward a portable device that isn't great at being portable getting higher review scores than devices like the Steam Deck? (Something made to be portable),

No series of articles about upcharging for a service without any improvements. Or if there is an article it's buried with a multitude of articles about why you should forget about a game like Starfield. Barely a peep throughout many industry outlets on a variety of topics of anything thats negative about PS.

So, Imo there is a bias and I don't think it's a bad thing to point out that the media prefers PS and it reads that Xbox can be a hindrance to these people in alot of scenarios.

#xboxtax

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@ThePrimeagen

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@BrendaBlanco @emilychangtv @sama @adamdangelo @eshear Yeah that checks out.

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@eastdakota @kevinroose You really think the “advanced AI RESEARCH team” is going to be working on excel integrations? That’s not how that works…

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@karankaria_ @griswold @elonmusk Well, I found my way here because @elonmusk posted it 🤷‍♂️

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@TheOneGringos @dancohen3000 @TheOmniLiberal He was fucking unhinged lol

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@MicahRumsey @DestinLegarie Yeah, Jim Ryan is gone already… and everybody still thinks he just “retired” without any sort of succession planned. Yeah right

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@flyingblue90 @AsadAliRamay @MarioNawfal Oh didn’t you see? Hamas released a spread sheet with names and ages. Undeniable proof right there… 🙄

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@MarioNawfal BREAKING NEWS: in 10 minutes I will be releasing an absolutely not fabricated list of the 7000+ sexual partners I have had in the past 3 weeks. There is no way this list of names could exist if it wasn’t true, trust me.

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@vicious696 Weird, I can’t seem to locate your post where you condemned the terror attack that killed 1400 innocent people that started all of this….

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@All_in_1_One @sentdefender I’d gladly have Israelis as neighbors. Now, Palestinians…..no thanks

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@RiderBnb @MarioNawfal They also said 500 dead when “Israel bombed a hospital” 🤦‍♂️

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@hackerswagger @AdamRackis Eh, seemed like a perfectly good sarcastic post without out haha

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@MarioNawfal What do genetics matter? You could be 100% genetically identical but if someone’s belief is that you shouldn’t exist you’re gonna have a problem