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♚ @meezeeeee is my father ♚

[lonesity @lonesity]

november 16th is out on all streaming platforms now 🖤 https://t.co/VsbV199exu

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Activision paid $99.9 million for Guitar Hero's publisher in 2006, made over $2 billion off the franchise, then killed the entire genre in four years. Today that publisher's name came back from the dead to sell plastic guitars again.

RedOctane was two brothers, Kai and Charles Huang, who started out selling dance pads. They published the first Guitar Hero in 2005 and it hit $1 billion in North American sales in 26 months, faster than any franchise before it.

So Activision did what Activision does. Annualize.

In 2009 alone they shipped Guitar Hero 5, Band Hero, DJ Hero, and Guitar Hero editions for Metallica, Van Halen, and Smash Hits. Six music games in twelve months.

That playbook works for Call of Duty because a sequel only asks for $60. A Guitar Hero sequel asked you to justify the $100 plastic guitar already in your closet, and every new SKU competed with the last one on the same shelf. Genre revenue went from $1.7 billion in 2008 to about $300 million in 2010. Activision shut down RedOctane, then the whole Guitar Hero business unit.

They strip-mined ten years of demand into three.

Now the Huang brothers are back as advisors at a revived RedOctane, the studio head is a Guitar Hero veteran, and Stage Tour launches December 10 with 90 licensed songs and 180 real Gibson guitars. Fifteen years of untouched demand, and the people who invented the genre finally get a second run at it.

[Lissa♥️♥️ @lizzkelly7]

The fake urgency created in corporate life for absolutely no reason is one of the worst things humans have invented.

[໊ @faewings]

driftwood sculptures made by nagato iwasaki

[𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐩𝐚’𝐬 𝐖𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐡 ™️ @fatherwashcloth]

putting pinecones in places you would never imagine

[soli @solisolsoli]

Pencil drawing by Fábio Gonçalves

[Leading Report @LeadingReport]

BREAKING: Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau to resign this week.

[Redman @therealredman]

MUDDY WATERS TOO

12/24/24 !!!

[soli @solisolsoli]

Prince of Darkness by Leoncio Harmr

[soli @solisolsoli]

Mermaid by Grafit Studio

[soli @solisolsoli]

Allegory of Death, 1895, by Maximilian Pirner

[Shadz @Shadzey1]

20 years.

Remember what happens when good men are pushed beyond their limits.

[lonesity @lonesity]

@lordmindtrip alexa play welcome to the jungle by guns n roses

[Big 🐰 @FreddieGibbs]

Hell yeah bitch.

[lonesity @lonesity]

@lordmindtrip would ease up rush hour traffic too if things were more staggered

[juju 💰 @ayeejuju]

someone check if this guy is okay… 😭

[lonesity @lonesity]

@JOZIEHAZE don’t u mean tyre?

[kira 👾 @kirawontmiss]

this one is easily the biggest downgrade in history