I'm worried about the girlboss thing too, but I haven't heard anything out of Team Cherry to warrant it. It is just from the state of the world. I am just hoping it lives up to Hollow Knight.

I was right there with you about it being vaporware too, but if the ESRB has given it a rating, something must exist for them to have looked at.

I was reading and reading, and it was all stuff I have never heard of and don't really care about and then...

Silksong

Now you have my attention. As soon as there is a release date announced, I will be scheduling a vacation for a few days starting on that day. I absolutely can't wait for that game.

Indeed. Stock up on guns and ammo. Things are going to get wild in our lifetimes.

I have been waiting for Arkane to be shut down since they brought Anita Sarkeesian in to consult. Good riddance.

How does VATS work with multiplayer? Is it just disabled?

You will suck the girldick and you will like it, peasant!

I can't say I blame any dev if that is the route they want to go. Competitive multiplayer is cancer thanks to all of the cheaters, and cheaters are inevitable as long as Chinese cocksuckers have access to the internet.

If we are lucky, maybe this will kill the whole matchmaking fad and let us host our own servers again like the good old days.

And this is why capitalism is the best system for commerce. The market will always correct itself eventually. If the higher ups at Microsoft refuse to learn from their mistakes, then Microsoft can die too. Good riddance.

That's where I'm at. I don't care if they ever turn it around at this point. That company is dead to me.

They never would have been able to mandate it if our "free press" like Cuomo had actually done their job rather than using their bully pulpit to beat the citizenry into compliance. I will never feel any pity for people who end up eaten by the monster they decided to feed. I dance a jig every time I hear about one of them catching the "died suddenly".

but they have to tiptoe it super hard to avoid the whiplash from 180ing that hard on it and losing their paranoid base.

Unfortunately, no they don't. Liberals will switch from a position to its polar opposite the very next week when ordered to without a care in the world. Hell, they can believe both sides of a position simultaneously. Their only actual principle is to acquire power and use it to destroy their enemies at any cost. They are petty tyrants by nature.

That's why they freak out when the right gains any power. They believe the right is doing the same thing. Meanwhile, the right is also projecting and believe the left is acting in good faith, but are simply misguided. Both sides are completely wrong in their assumptions.

well that game is tainted and i wouldnt touch it.

Same here. Unfortunately, people like you and me are in the vast minority. As the HD2 fiasco shows, gamers are always looking to throw their money at companies that hate them just to be a part of current popular thing. They are worse than tween girls when it comes to FOMO.

"We pwned them guyz! Arrowhead and Soyny are giving us just the tip now. Who wants to kill some bugs with me?"

Fucking pathetic. They deserve the current industry. They have been voting for it with their dollars for decades.

AHPRA said in a statement that the regulator had “been clear in all of our guidance about Covid-19 vaccinations that we expect medical practitioners to use their professional judgement and the best available evidence in their practice”.

Unless that judgement or available evidence was deemed to be misinformation by bureaucrats. Then the regulator would pull their license.

So then you have a video of the encounter, but how do you plan on getting it covered? Unless you are lucky enough to have it retweeted by Elon or Tucker, nobody is going to see it. You are much better off telling them to go fuck themselves and not playing their game.

This is all that needs to be said really.

That was what got me to stop giving Sony money. I haven't regretted that decision once.

"Tingles" is standard red pill terminology.

I agree and as bad as things are I don't accept the black pill

Let it all burn to the ground, I'm very much an accelerationist nowadays.

Make up your mind here. Accelerationism is the black pill (and probably the only realistic option at this point).

I just wish archived posts loaded faster than if it were over dial-up. I would bet their use would greatly increase if that was fixed.

So then you don't buy the next game at all and they learn their next lesson. The only reason shit like this has gotten as far as it has is because weak willed gamers have rationalized giving into their FOMO under the guise of "rewarding shifts toward our side". That's how microtransactions went from outrage over horse armor to complete acceptance of "cosmetics".

Have some god damned principles and actually stand for them for once and maybe things will actually start shifting toward our side rather than just shifting away at a "more acceptable" rate.

I haven't once said that Arrowhead is entirely to blame, so I don't know why people keep responding to me as if I did. Go read the responses that Arrowhead employees were making to angry gamers on Twitter over this and see if you are still so willing to go to the mat for them.

Arrowhead knew this was coming since before they launched and didn't say anything about it to warn their customers. And then when customers were upset, they laughed in their faces and told them to go fuck themselves. They have plenty of responsibility for the problem that has absolutely nothing to do with Sony. So once again, they are equally responsible here, and no amount of "bu bu but Sony!" is going to convince me otherwise.

A lie of omission is still a lie. Arrowhead is equally guilty, just like Shift Up is for their mess. "Just following orders" will never earn any sympathy from me.

The damage is still done. People know that the sword of Damocles is hanging over their heads now. I'm sure some will go crawling back, but their success will never be what it was before all of this.

The fact that Arrowhead knew all of this was coming six months ago and didn't say anything is absurd. If these AA developers are going to act no differently than the AAA studios, they will be going down with them in the coming crash. Fuck Arrowhead. Fuck Shift Up. Fuck Sony.

None of them enforce the law. They enforce the wishes of the establishment, law be damned.

Black bears are skittish as hell. Loud noises is usually enough to run them off. The only time you will have to fight is if there are cubs nearby.