The reviews for the game are wierd. Many of them say the game is bad but recommend it anyway. They all mention the lack of the ea launcher as a huge positive (who even cares? How many steam players know about the ea launcher). They all say performance is good. None of them talk about the tranny stuff. They don't sound remotely like other steam reviews
Seems like it wouldnt be hard to buy a bunch of fake reviews from India.
The big publishers rarely spend anything on marketing for most authors.
The most likely scenario if you get a tradpub deal is a $5k advance, an editing pass, and a cover. Considering those would cost you $1-2k do to yourself, that's not nothing. But they still pretty much expect you to spend your own time and money marketing. The exceptions are the books they try to force into being popular which are usually DIE garbage.
The real problem is the Big 4 editors have become totally ideologically captured and completely lost touch with the market. They have no idea what sells anymore. The publishers just put out flop after flop and hope one of them somehow becomes a hit. That's why Barns and Noble stopped stocking debut hardcovers. None of the trash sells. https://www.reddit.com/r/selfpublish/comments/wxl645/barnes_and_noble_makes_it_harder_for_debut/
I have spoken with multiple editors who always say that because the fiction market is 60% female, ALL books MUST target a female audience. The male audience is deemed irrelevant and doesn't matter. and they still say the industry is misogynist.
Furthermore, when books do sell to men and become popular, the big publishers essentially abandon that market to indies. I've had multiple authors report being told by editors that their male-focused story was great but because it was an indie-dominated space the mainstream publishers wouldn't touch it.
Apparently some random Twitch nobody said she was trans and non binary and got a key, lol.
If you give a girl a solid dicking she'll accept whatever politics you want.
I mean, I wouldn't expect a company to give review keys to someone they know is hostile to their brand. The pathetic part is the pro game journo shills. Does anyone remember the Kane and Lynch Gamespot fiasco? Is there anyone left like that in the industry who calls a turd a turd?
They're clearly shilling this because it's a tranny coded game and they don't want to "let the chuds win." They couldn't care less if the game is actually a good value or not.
Getting the .005% market locked in
Bunch of RP fags.
Mana cost + damage = win game, fuck off
HItler was also shocked at their brazen lies and propaganda.
Important to understand that gangsta rappers were mostly LARPers and theatre kids. Ice Cube was middle class. Plenty of black artists resisted the rise of shitty rap and decried it's crass content and lack of musical aptitude. Not like there aren't endless examples of white kids idolizing retarded shitbag musicians too.
RRR was cool though. There should be a redo of the classic Eddie Murphy bit about Italians who watch Rocky and think they're badass.
"Take that white devils!" plink. plink. "Oh you must have just watched RRR."
Not sure if rings of power is considered a flop since they are still making it
They're like 4 feet tall. Enjoy it while it lasts.
Reminder that he never got his day in court, he was railroaded into a default judgement.
The court asked for Google analytics data. Jones could not provide that info because Google banned him from the service years prior, and ignored his request to privde the data to the court. So the court ruled a default judgement against him for failure to provide discovery. This is normally only for people who fail to show up. He's the only person who showed up for every court appointment and received a default judgement against him.
Pure corruption and malice. The courts are evil and enemy operated, stay far away if you can.
Important reminder that Asmon is not an organic success, he's not even a twitch partner, his money comes from a streaming agency that promotes him. He is more like an employee than creator.
Nothing is going to forestall western financial collapse.
He really just stood there while she came at him with a knife? Lucky to be alive still.
The amount of on the nose, men describing her feelings to her dialogue, no one talks like that. A woman definitely wrote this.
They did her so dirty. That's a man, baby.
My red flags went up when I saw all the usual suspects giving it glowing marks.
I mean, at least it's a quality game? They didn't fill it with ugly characters, Atlus has an established style and quality and, they didn't gut an existing franchise. If it sells, good for them, but I wonder how many people are aware it's a DEI fairy tale? Besides the name being overly on the nose, I never heard anyone say what the content was really about.
Just funny how the japs are even doing better than the west at making woke trash.
I interpreted it as anti religion.
Although the funny thing is audience participation has more effect on wrestling outcomes than any spectator sports. If a wrestler gets a good response from the fans, they will win more matches.
The Scouring of the Shire should have been removed from the book too. Does nothing for the story and kills the ending. His books have so much unnecessary fluff and distracting crap in them, any decent editor could take a hatchet to them and lose nothing.
Rowling usually maintains pretty tight control over her work
I've heard conflicting stories on this. Every author I know gives up all creative control when they license their work. This is required by the studios, they don't make deals with authors who try to retain control. They may make a separate deal for the author to write the screenplay but even this doesn't give control over casting or other production.
Good studios will try to work with the author if they are helping the project. The author can often prove useful in visualizing characters, scenes, settings, etc. where the text is lacking. Rowling is said to have demanded the films include all British cast, to what extent the studio was obligated to listen or simply agreed with her idea is unclear. Rowling is rare in that her name was a marketing asset so having her directly involved in the project was seen as a benefit.
Kamala Harris with 250% of the vote. I'm completely serious. They will just dare anyone to stop them.