I also think I heard a while back that EA was looking for a buyer, but they were having difficulty finding one. It would be poetic justice if Disney ends up shutting down EA like they did to so many other companies before them.

I agree. I miss those days. Is it possible to get PCs made using Legacy OSs? I would pay for one.

Short films sound like fun! As pie in the sky as it is, I actually want to try making a movie myself in a game engine like UE5.

Yeah. I feel the same about Ron Desantis and Trump to some extent - they do bad shit at times, but they've done good shit as well.

Elon, if there's one thing I am glad for him about, it seeing him at least cause some actual damage to the woke mob, hampering twitter's influence to the point where I don't need to make an account or dropping shitposts to make my day a little brighter, even if it's unintentional due to his WEF ties. Not that this spares him from criticism (I feel he likes NFTs a bit too much) like the other two, but at least it's good to see something good come.

I'm half wondering how loud the screeches would be if we did the opposite of the "Herman Cain Award".

I agree, it does suck. I keep feeling like things that look like easy wins for us keep turning out to be otherwise.

I think it may have had to do with the relatively recent ruling that AI work cannot be copyrighted. That probably kept them their place.

Does this include crypto? It seems to me like it would - I think that it seems like now is the time for major companies to make microtransactions more appealing via it.

If there's enough of a backlash against Starfield (Say, the amount that cyberpunk 2077 got), I think it might also pay into dragging down TES6 - I wouldn't be surprised if this game fails to make a franchise as it's a new IP and I still remember that there was already a lot of people who were pushed away when it was heard that they were using the buggy old creation engine rather than getting a new one, on top of the announcement being right on the heels of 76.

Me personally, this just isn't my kind of game at all. I think it will be another release that I find more joy in talking about than actually playing. Maybe if TES6 builds the same modding community skyrim did, I could give it a shake, but right now Bethesda's reputation precedes that.

I still remember how suspiciously timed the ending of the restrictions in the UK were, given they were around the time of partygate. If they tried to defend themselves by saying "You're pulling a Tu quoe/Whataboutism!" they'd have been digging themselves deeper.

If they get caught doing it again, I think the pattern will be the same. Enough public coverage will unravel the entire thing.

Ah, that's interesting.

Me personally, I am just glad that this shit is at least on track to bomb. I was (and to an extent still am) kinda worried that this is going to succeed, especially after seeing Velma getting a second season for the same reasons TTG lasted as long as it did. I just don't think I can guarantee any successes for us in this endless mess.

Yeah, you're right. I do see the odd right winger who unironically likes modern China every now and then (Vox Day being a notable example) for reasons like that, but I think there's lots of good reasons why we don't like them.

Disney seems just to be making this movie for the American woke audience first and foremost, as a possible explanation, so I don't know if they are relying on the Asian market for this to make it big or not. I don't know if the backlash will carry it to box office success or not just yet like how Velma got a second season, but let's keep our heads low about it and pray it flops.

I will take any responsibility if this was a bad source to pick up on (I have an odd feeling I'm going to get downvotes for it), but I saw this on boundingintocomics.com and thought I might share it here, since I feel it shows just how much goodwill disney is blowing with the chinese market they are pining for, like Blizzard before them.

If they do succumb to WOTC, then I think they will blow all of the goodwill they have made by providing the number one alternative to 5E, now that I think about it.

I wonder how much of this is driven by Pathfinder 2E doing better than them? I mean, I did hear the news about Paizo adding a bio-essentialism errata like Tasha's Cauldron of Everything did, but I can just tell anyone who wants that errata used to go screw themselves, hopefully enough.

Speaking of, is Paizo going to get caught in this mess if this goes ahead?

Honestly, I think wokeness in companies is frequently comorbid with scummy business practices like this one, now that I think about it.

Popups. Popups Everywhere. I still have some memories of the days when popups were along the lines of "Congratulations, you won!" and with adblock it seems like a long time ago.

I also remember talking to a guy on the chat protocol Matrix (It's a great one, I must add!) and he made his hatred of Javascript pretty clear to me.

And it didn't work out that well for them, judging by the fact that because of the stink they made, Reedy Creek has a year left before it's dissolution.

It would be amazing to witness the fall of Disney if it happens soon.

Yeah. I think he did go to a jail for men, though. And he is probably sterile too, so I don't think that calling it "The Chris-Chan Method" would be accurate.

I feel that if there is a silver lining, maybe they will finally stop blaming everything on covid and using it as an excuse for general bullshittery.

Oh, who am I kidding? at least one of them will continue to. Hopefully it's just the one.

He did it after he got arrested and started believing he is Jesus Christ, apparently. If you asked him, he would claim the the Russo-Ukraine war is all hasbro's fault because MLP:FiM didn't get 5 more seasons involving the cast becoming alicorns.

I've been reading the CWCki since about mid-2019, just to give you an idea as to how learned I am about him. It will be wild seeing what happens come July.

Not to mention that SMTV has been running fine on my switch, too.

Pretty cool direct, even if I have decided not to buy any games released after 2021. Kirby seems to be continuing the long line of games getting new ideas in the switch era, along with other cool franchises joining the lineup.

I feel like the selection on the switch is so good that I don't want it's lifespan to end. It's going to be hard as hell to imagine where Nintendo will be able to go after the switch... I'm almost tempted to say as much of a pie in the sky dream as it is, Nintendo should make specialty PCs that can play switch games after the switch starts to be phased out.

Oh man, if they need the boot they lick to say yes to them, we are going to have a hell of a greater time!

I have sometimes entertained the pie-in-the-sky thought of Twitter or Google shutting down overnight and what would happen, but from what you are saying it doesn't sound like the death of Paypal would do anything. I might disagree as there are a few tiny storefronts I know who only accept Paypal.

I said the metaverse would disappoint in previous posts on the gaming subwin. And now it is even disappointing me.