All for the service of a Live Service Game seems like such a waste of effort.

edit: To anyone that takes issue with my cynicism, can I play the Destiny 1 and 2 campaign from start to finish today?

I thought Gimp was a kink thing.

Cloud tech is still bad, but even that wasn’t pushed as hard as AI is being pushed.

The Cloud Is Just Someone Else’s Computer

You’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy.

Now if only Google would ban their own ai summaries.

I shifted to that view a long time ago. I have a selection of “classics” I play on rotation and I add a few indies or modern ports every now and then.

The multiplay scene went in a direction I don’t intend to follow. Some old friends are thinking about hosting a retro lan party, but I’m going to make it clear that I’m walking if they try sneaking in any modern shit.

1. If the DLC is permanently owned and pays to the artists who made the map, that’s fine.

2. Even if it is “permanently”, but tied to a server that could be shutdown, it’s not permanently owned. Fuck that

3. If the DLC isn’t permanently owned, but “rented”, that profit only goes to the executives that probably fired the artists. Fuck that.

I don’t know why EA would be relevant to anyone for the past 20+ years, but here we are.

Ratchet & Clank had it’s first three games released in three years. Same graphics and no one cared.

Saudi Arabia or Sexual Assault?

The games I played didn’t have ranking. It was better.

I don’t think there’s any reason to find a replacement for Epstein. There’s almost certainly other people already running those sorts of events. Jared Leto has a sex cult island. I think they’re all consenting adults, but you know he’s trading favors to producers that want to visit so he can keep getting movie roles.

There were also single contact people that can be explained by Epstein operating a honeypot. If he couldn’t work with you, he would get blackmail on you. And then you get scenes like this in The Simpsons after Matt Groening’s name appeared on the flight list.

https://www.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/f69c968e-00c8-4835-b87c-22679aa214ba

And a Mac client.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CIywiz8I1s

Bungie had always been a Mac first, PC/console later game dev up to that point.

It wouldn’t be the first product that started advertising the concept art as the finished product.

I stopped buying anime when they bought up all the major NA distributors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnBtIaMnkTQ

You underestimate my level of cynicism at this point. You also underestimate my disrespect for the average gamer. If they’re not lapping up one form of propaganda, they’re lapping up another.

I’m not sure how much I should care. I haven’t bought a Ubisoft game in decades anyway. They don’t make anything I need, so it’s not like it’s an inconvenience to boycott.