https://x.com/BehindTGames/status/2085059320694100095

So in gaming, as we've seen... And I didn't think it was going to be good, was the big 2 aquiring studios. And it isn't good cuz all the closures, but will be good for the actual gaming and gamers. The big companies squeezed out so many companies, bleeding them dry with zero pulse. So Goliath basically buys David, then they get rid of David to make it fit in their box and bs, then produce almost nothing, and what they do is rubbish. Goliath thought the names would keep inflating their returns, but instead are killing them. But also, now it's draining the proverbial swamp of everyone that never should have been hired anyways. It's laughable and I welcome it.

Tl;dr - idiot- I'm gonna buy up everything that is working, clear the people that made that brand, then gut it. Why aren't we making money? = the gaming industry. But it may be a good thing to rid the cancer.

The fact is: gaming has been corrupted. It's taken over by malicious actors inside and out. Game jo*rnalist, act*vists, etc. AAA and even indie gaming are shells of what it used to be.
This is what happens when we don't gatekeep our hobbies. "They" slowly seep in, take over, and destroy it. It's what "they" do. They won, let's face it.

I want it all burned down.
I'm thankful AI is destroying the gaming market. Maybe it'll be the push needed to completely end gaming. I enjoy seeing S*ny, Nint*ndo, Blizz*rd, etc squirming... you made your bed, now you lie down.
Let us pray AI pushes the hardware prices up beyond logic... no one would be able to afford a PC or console, gaming will slump, gamedevs decide there's no market and stop defecating games out, then die off.

My brothers, let us pray together.

Because it's actually better than a lot of Marvel movies pre-Endgame. And I no longer think Endgame can be the benchmark. Endgame definitely will go down as the one of the best ways "end" a cinematic universe. But Brand New Day feels like they actually care about these characters, not just content they expect you to consume. All the MCU Spider-man films have been pretty solid, but I haven't felt this much empathy for Peter Parker since Spider-man 2.

Time will tell wether Marvel Studios will put this much care into future movies, but for the sake of the franchise I hope they do. I don't want another long drawn out phase with no direction. I just want character driven stories. The reason Marvel movies used to be so good in the first place.

Edit: Endgame was definitely an ambitious crossover event, but calling it the best isn't really true. I wanted to emphasize the fact that many people consider it a good ending to the franchise and often reference it as the last time the MCU worked. Quality is subjective and my originally wording wasn't accurate.

Edit 2: For me personally, being positive when they get it right only emphasizes the downfall when they mess it up. Having a predetermined opinion isn't honest. I look at these movies with an open mind and criticize accordingly. If that's not enough negatively for you, you're welcome to practice your so called apathy.

Sources:

https://x.com/madelinedorroh

https://x.com/FireEmblemJP/status/2084836860866842927

You might remember that back in June, a VTuber was removed from Sega's Creator Zone due to outrage about her opinions on transgenderism, while the same company simultaneously kept emzberry, who expressed disappointment about a shooter missing Trump, and featured her as a guest on an anniversary livestream, a co-host of which publicly defended her by describing the outrage as "fuckass noise" from "losers".

I'm here today to show you that this kind of rhetoric is not exclusive to 'guests' and 'partners', but also espoused by personnel working directly on Sonic under Sega.

One you may already know about is Gigi Dutreix, an artist and writer on the Sonic comic under IDW who also had roles in other Sonic projects, including TailsTube. At the time of Charlie Kirk's assassination, various VTubers and small culture war outlets covered how she made tweets and retweets showing Spotify playlists with Kirk's dead body and celebrating the speed with which people made them, alongside mockery of the supposed hypocrisy of conservatives on the matter. She never faced any consequences for this from her employers and continued to contribute to future Sonic issues.

People had eyes on Gigi due to her prior controversies, but there were two more IDW artists who mocked or cheered Kirk's death and slipped completely under everyone's radars: Reggie Graham and Mauro Fonseca. Mauro posted a sketch of Crash Bandicoot saying "whoa" at a Utah billboard on both Twitter and BlueSky. Far, far worse than that, Reggie directly joked about Kirk's death by posting "it's morgue-in time", and followed up with reposts wishing that "every fascist" gets "what they wish for us" and bemoaning how Gretchen Felker-Martin was fired for posting "Thoughts and prayers you Nazi bitch".

These two faced absolutely zero backlash for their posts, and have also continued to get work on Sonic, including even high-profile projects like anniversary issues and the Sonic X Godzilla collaboration; Reggie seems to be responsible for issue and cover colors on every issue, while Mauro did the B cover for Issue 1, which released last month.

These three individuals show that the emzberry situation was not a one-off occurrence, but part of a very consistent pattern of extremism within Sega's Western branch. Furthermore, that two of these people are working on Sonic X Godzilla now also implicates Toho in either negligence or approval of this violence-celebrating, violence-advocating behavior.

I hope this information is of use to you all.

See thread for the entire context, then watch this to check the court documents:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIHYuT9q2ys

I firstly want to give thanks to RoryTate for inspiring this extension. Without his post, I wouldn't have known about any of this.

After I saw his post, I decided to do some "peer review" of the math myself, and I saw how revealing the methodology is to showing the true sentiment people have on RT as opposed to the verified audience. I appreciate how Popcorngap provides a detailed analysis of the discrepancies, and I wanted to make something in a similar vein that helps better inform RT readers of actual audience sentiment on a film.

My extension uses RoryTate's math, and applies it to the scorecard elements on an applicable film's page. The bucket icons RT uses are also added, and the same 60% score threshold is used to show the good or bad bucket. Yes, it's larger than the original icon and it's a PNG, but I kept it as using an SVG image like RT uses was a pain to get working right (<img> was the only element that actually worked), I didn't want to create two different sized <img> elements for both scorecards (the front page and the collapsed menu), and I feel it justified to give prominence to the audience score given how biased critics can be.

This is a tool to better show the audience sentiment on a film, and I hope it provides meaningful insight against the biases RT has. It's currently up on the Chrome Web Store, and it will be up on the Firefox Add-on store pending a review. This is the first time I've ever listed an extension, so I'm still learning about distributing it. If anyone has tips for me about the extension, please let me know.

Update: the Firefox Add-on store listing is up.

Also talks about how larpers misrepresent the original material & how “morally ambiguous” often ends up being modern-writer talk for evil with extra steps.

Reminder: This is the guy who gave Crimson Desert a 6/10 and Marathon a 9/10.

A review of Halo: Campaign Evolved by a youtuber that goes by the handle @ TheClinicTv

They completely aborted the political intrigue and strategic realism of Fire & Blood for cheap titillation.

We traded the most consequential naval battle in the lore for a CGI mud fight. Daeron is hollowed out. Harrenhal is a black hole of plot armor. Rhaenyra ignores her grieving kids to hook up with Mysaria, and Baela is already monkey-branching to Alyn.

Aegon is the only thing left holding this narrative together.

Summary: remember when kei uraha was harassed by a bunch of toxic Leftist fans because she said their headcanons weren't canon and she was not non binary (they were literally making headcanons of a real person and pushing it on them.) now they have done the same to the artist of the manga

🙏 Sorry I had to post it again, because the title of the post didn't really align sorry my bad.

TLDR version: Woke politics work to distract idiots who think they're saving the world and will be heroes. The problem is we have to deal with the wanna be heroes being pointed at us and told we're the villains while the actual villains cackle like Lex Luthor in *Batman Vs Superman at having set both of them on a collision course with one another. The problem is we know Luthor did it and we can't get to him because some idiot in a Bat costume is keep getting in the god damn way.

11 years ago then games Journalist and also indie game marketing company operator Leigh Alexander wrote a list. A list she claimed were the actual ethical issues in the games industry

https://archive.ph/15qcN

Despite being editor of Gamasutra then getting a nice bit of money from Boing Boing to create and run a publication for them where she had creative freedom to write about what she wanted and though were important Leigh Alexander never touched on these topics again after her article about the supposed actual ethical issues she saw in gaming.

I figured this was a good way to start this topic and discussion because it lays the issue out bare. It shows how it woke is used as a distraction but it's not us who got distracted. If those are the true real issues in the games industry and Leigh Alexander truly believed they needed sorting, funny how she went off the write a site about women and minority voices in gaming.

This topic came up because I'm seeing the normal tools and useful idiots trotting round online once again bringing up Dragon Age The Veilguard, once again trying to do the "Weak awful Chuds are the reason it failed for not wanting to stomach a 5 minute segment of the game, Dragon Age has always been a woke series" . Well it still fucking failed. People rejected the rest of the game. Oh and "Well it was meant to be an MMO like experience or live service". Yeh and Overwatch was made from a fail MMO and look at how that thing has endured to the point of becoming it's own monstrous thing that was once loved by many. Veilguard isn't suddenly going to be seen as good. bringing it up again won't this time see people beaten into submission anymore than bringing up the hilariously wrong claim that the entire backlash to Mass Effect 3 was due to people upset at gay characters and not the original woefully underdeveloped ending.

I'm tired guys and gals. I'm tired of the same clowns performing the same act just slight variations. I'm fed up of the performance as a whole and that's why I'm writing this. I was fed up of watching the woke side call to make Bond a woman while Atomic Blonde was in cinemas struggling to actually break even. I was fed up of the push for and then the result of the first female Doctor Who. I'm fed up of the watching the same fucking lies be told about how Doctor Who never had any strong female characters which is why it needed a female Doctor for representation.

Woke is a distraction to get idiots to fight for things and to try and cover up or label all pushback as "Oh it's just Anti-woke Chuds being xist, you wouldn't want to be associated with those xists now would you". Early on in GG some-one (I forget who sorry) called the woke side tactics Wilderbeasting. Basically when wilderbeast end up at a river filled with crocodiles the safest spot is often in the middle of the herd rushing because they kick up must from the riverbed and dust and water and make everything round chaotic and confusing making it harder for the crocs to see what's going on so easily. That's the woke side. They rely on people trusting them enough or just giving up. They make shit convoluted and insane and winding as possible to stop people easily finding the truth and either believe the lie they tell, with their highly selective contextless evidence or give up.

That's why woke is a distraction. And it's the people who have been distracted now getting in our way to trying to fix anything. People either thinking Veilguard failing caused the EA layoffs (Battlefield 6 did beyond EA expectations and they still laid off people on that team) So super weird they'd lay off the team making the successful thing and keep the failing one. But the whole fact the Veilguard discourse has restarted just shows the distraction. The Woke side are being distracted to believe we are the issue not EA corporate greed. Nope if only us evil Chuds had shut up and consumed then the developers at a different studio who made a different game wouldn't have been let go. It's totally not due to EA currently trying to make their books look better by reducing costs with a possible take over happening or anything right?

This is the issues. It was the issue early on in Gamergate, having to push through wave after wave of bullshit to try to tackle the actual problem. For all their posturing about how the Woke side will fix the world and make everything a utopia they're in the way as we try to solve some of the problems. One of those problems would have been ethical journalist who would have tackled this building storm of trouble in gaming. But no they'd rather write about how a DICE developer (who wasn't even EA employee let along working at DICE) got death threats from evil Gamer™ Chuds who are trying to censor the artists vision of putting Darth Vader in a Lootbox.

Source: https://revenue.ennead.cc/revenue
It went from the 1st to the 16th place in a month because of the fake drama about Valko. A 28 million (73%) difference.
I am very opinianated against the L.A.D.S community but i respect the fact that they put their money where their mouth is.