Garrett Grant

[Garrett Grant @RabidGGrant]

@UpholdInc

[G&A Reviews @GA_Reviews]

If Mixtape wins a single awar no one should ever take the Game Awards seriously again. Really, in a year with RE9, Pragmata, Nioh 3, Mouse P.I. if this industry plant ass game steals a single nomination I'm rioting.

[Epic Mike @The_Epic_Mike]

This is a huge problem in gaming right now. A bunch of theater kids who couldnt break into Hollywood got jobs writing for game studios.

But they dont give a shit about video games, they wanted to make movies.

There is nothing wrong with games wanting to be cinematic but it has to be combined with good gameplay and most of these games are unplayable or glorified cut scene simulators.

[Neko Unix 🐾💾🌐【PARTNER PUSH】 @NekoUnix]

Hey remember this? I said this almost a year ago. Told everyone this was exactly what was gonna happen. Even Dan told me I was wrong at the time lol. Now look, I was right all along.

New info drop:

There are apparently massive private Discord groups with some of the biggest streamers on the platform, the ones that’ll never get capped anyway, already talking about ways to abuse this system.

One group with bot owners is allegedly discussing selling “services” to companies/game owners where they bot competing categories on purpose to get people capped and kill the visibility of an entire category.

Like seriously, you think big companies wouldn’t abuse that? Big event coming up? Want people off another game? Just bot the category and let the system punish everyone in it.

There’s also apparently another group planning coordinated attacks on smaller streamers. If you’re under 50 viewers, the plan is basically to mass bot small channels on purpose so a huge chunk of Twitch gets capped all at once.

I said from day one this system would get weaponized. People laughed. Now here we are.

[Perma Banned ထ🔨 @GiveMeBanHammer]

Schizo time: This just seems odd to me...

There's more positive reviews, than maximum players for Mixtape. Around over 1000 extra positive review.

This is not unusual in itself, but its only a pattern you see with much older games, at least 3 years or older...like Skyrim, Left 4 Dead 2 or Elden Ring - because good reviews accumulate over the years.

Mixtape just came out, 4 DAYS ago and already it shows a pattern seen almost only from games that are older than 3 years?

This just seems out of the ordinary for me...

[Moritz Katzner @Moritz_Katzner]

The industry is lobbying against @StopKilingGames again.
Entertainment Software Association (lobby) is opposing AB 1921, California’s Protect Our Games Act, with the usual arguments: “games are licensed,” “servers are complicated,” “security risks,” “too expensive.”

[Rock Solid @ShitpostRock2]

Terry Davis spoke of this

[Sterling @SterlingTheDev]

I hate to my negative about content here but this is an actual industry plant. It’s ok to like this sort of game, but how it’s presenting itself hurts actual indie games.

- real licensed music
- massive array of custom assets and cutscenes, fully voiced too
- insanely pricey press kits sent out to small and big CCs
- presents itself as “indie”.

This is not “indie”. This is a refined product that was made for millions. Most likely a medium sized team of 12-30 full time for years. This kind of low hanging fruit stealing + indie labeling hurts actual small dedicated teams of real game devs. There will be actual indie devs that miss out on awards this season because of this extremely well funded AA title masquerading as an indie.

[Kabrutus @kabrutusdeid]

There’s nothing more anti-gamer than a games journalist.

[Designated Kitty @Designatedkitty]

People really trying to spin this as some culture war bs and getting people that weren’t alive in the 90s all mad. I just think it’s kinda funny this is the type of game that gets 10/10s out of games journalists while games where you actually have to play the game gets like a 7.

[Designated Kitty @Designatedkitty]

How are you gonna make a nostalgia bait game and get basic shit wrong.

[Joe 🍒 @Ascots_Funk]

Finding out the woman behind this is the daughter of the billionaire founder of an Ai company suddenly makes shit like this and the double ended garage make sense

[Patrick @PhillyPMC]

Great nugget from @JFowlerESPN on SportsCenter: “I'm hearing the two have hit it off, and Jalen Hurts likes how Sean Mannion structures the offense, how he talks about how they're going to attack things because it's going to look different. It's going to be more under center for Jalen Hurts, more play-action than he had done in the past. So, our sources have told us that he's at times been reluctant to some of those changes but right he's as open as he's ever been to some of those."

[Thomas R. Petersen @thomasrp93]

"I enjoy being under center, being able to compliment things... It's not being under center or shotgun or pistol. It's about what you’re doing when you're under center"

Hurts was never against playing under center. He was against coaches who didn't know their shit.

#Eagles

[Idle Sloth @IdleSloth84_]

ICYMI | You can see your wishlisted games on the Xbox app. Use filters and sort by "on sale."

Sort by:
• Price (high to low)
• Price (low to high)
• Discount % (high to low)
• Title (A-Z)
• Title (Z-A)

We need this feature on the console.

[Patrick @PhillyPMC]

If you go back and look at Russini’s reporting on Brown to the Pats, two things are inarguable: (1) the constant reports throughout the season, while true, had a destabilizing affect on the Eagles season; (2) the reports were leaked in order to generate leverage in trade talks. I’m not here to pass moral judgment; I think we would all be better off extending people grace. But my biggest issue is the blatant conflict of interest that people are ignoring. Russini obtained this information from a coach who she was (apparently) engaged in an affair with, and then used those reports to Vrabel’s benefit.

[EJ Smith @EJSmith94]

Seeing this quote from Nick Saban circulating about Kadyn Proctor not being a “self-starter” and thinking back to what Howie Roseman said earlier this month when asked about the player development staff:

“We think we have the right people in the building to get them there.”

[Patrick @PhillyPMC]

You mean cheating for an extended period of time and when you’re finally caught the NFL sweeps it under the rug? That is precisely the Patriot way.

[Andrew Fillipponi @ThePoniExpress]

What a quote from a Steelers insider:

"You know when the clock runs out on you in a fantasy football draft. And it auto picks a guy you don't want. That's what happened to the Steelers tonight."

🙃

[Jeff McLane @Jeff_McLane]

A.J. Brown's exit may be an inevitability, but my educated guess here is that the #Eagles trading up for WR Makai Lemon was more about value than need. They saw a first round talent fall in a weak draft class and took action ... especially after some of the tackles they targeted were gone.