I liked Shift, actually. Shift 2 was a shitty Forza clone that was stupidly complicated and just really bad.
Need for Speed really went retarded with Payback, where there was a literal feminist racing crew. Unbound is such colossal crap in mechanics I don't even know if it's woke because I quit really early. The handling reminds me of mobile games.
Although I shouldn't be surprised. One of the handheld ports of Need for Speed had a plot where, honest to God...you killed your own brother to simp for a girl. I think it was Own the City?
which game or series has stuck with you, rattling about in your mind?
Counter Strike Global Offensive made me a lot of money, but I got bored of it and went back to Xbox for good when Forza Motorsport 7 came out. The main push that made me jump ship was the allowing of porn games, which just filled the new releases tab with total shovelware VNs.
I guess it helped me build up my initial investments, because I cashed out most of my items. I learned some market basics, that I built on over pandemic times until I started managing a portfolio of my own.
As for a plot that stuck with me...I honestly don't know. The only plot I really remember from a kind of old game is Black Ops, where you find out Reznov died when you were fleeing the gulag, and he had reprogrammed your brainwashing that you got to make you want to kill the President, so you'd go after the actual targets instead because your brain told you he was there telling you to.
It was the most basic twist ever, but it reminds me of when games with a plot were actually exciting and not just being hit with a pink sledgehammer over and over again.
Part of me is glad Black Ops 4 didn't have a campaign. At least they didn't get to retcon everything to be "a woman did it".
They're harder for women to ruin. Also, big fan of cars and racing all my life. But a big part of why I retreated to them heavily recently is that women can't ruin them as much.
Sure, they can add cutscenes with their annoying, screechy voices, and have female AI voices read the tutorial.
But they can't make driving a car a statement of their non-existent superiority. They can't write kill all men all over it like everything else they touch.
They can only shit out propaganda like F1 23's story mode (that a tiny percentage of players have played) and Grid Legends with the female-named AI being faster.
Having said that, they're pushing to ruin IRL motorsports, under Lulu Hamilton's desperation to not be linked with FTX, and they ruined driving movies by casting Brie Larson in the Fast and Furious movie that doesn't exist...at least in my head.
F1 23.
It taught me that there's nothing the enemy won't politicise. Thanks Game Pass Ultimate!
I just watched the reveal show :
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All the new features are women's leagues. There are less men's leagues than FIFA 23.
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Women and men will be rated on the same scale and play together online. The best player will be Women's Ballon D'or (worthless) winner Alexia Putellas, not Lionel Messi.
This has to bomb. There's no way that football fans will actually buy a women's propaganda game.
It's a joke of how certain parts of this site will call you a pedophile if you call it a shit movie.
Apt, isn't it.
Two on the left of Marcus Rashford, one either side of Ronaldinho, one on the right of Didier Drogba, two on the right of Erling Haaland, two on the left of Van Dijk, and the last is on the right of Heung-Min Son.
I counted 10.
Because they need to prop up Indiana Jones 5.
I'm going to say this very quietly because people will get mad at me.
Sound of Freedom is a cynical cash grab funded by DeSantis backers and marketed with reverse psychology from the media.
Emma Watson being a feminist is evidence she's a pedophile.
There's no real need to prove it, feminism is inherently pedophilic.
The enemy are getting smarter.
I tagged you in my other comment so I don't repeat myself.
This is why.
I think you're underestimating Watson's influence. She was a part of the UN at the point this was sent.
She would never be a sex toy for some random. She would be the one raping and murdering kids.
Laura Miele is EVP and Chief Operating Officer of Electronic Arts, where she is responsible for developing EA’s company strategy and leads the day-to-day operations of more than 14,000 global employees. She is a seasoned technology and media executive with 25+ years of leadership across development, marketing, commercial, and data/analytics in the operation and strategic guidance of interactive entertainment
I'm suggesting that Mack was a pedophile who somehow knew Watson was a pedophile and invited her to become a high grade NXIVM member.
She turned it down and ended up at Balenciaga.
Balenciaga had a big pedophile scandal, remember?
I'm suggesting maybe they had a little collaboration/Watson was contacted because she's a pedophile.
Don't give them ideas.
Now you have combined men and women teams.
Kering = Balenciaga.
I think it's too obvious.
She went from fringe comedian with a spot on late night British TV, to a main character in Indiana Jones who (supposedly) nearly got to replace Indy.
There's not very far for her to fail upwards.
It's interesting that the linked article appears to have a self-destruct feature when it's archived.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230528095318/https://techcrunch.com/web/20230528095318/https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/21/unlocking-the-trillion-dollar-female-economy/ (Stays alive for a few seconds before dying)
https://archive.is/FAtcf (Completely dead.)
They're up to something.
Startups Unlocking the trillion-dollar female economy Monique Woodard @moniquewoodard / 10:30 AM GMT+1•May 21, 2023
Monique Woodard is the founder and managing director of Cake Ventures (A Pivotal Ventures Partner)
As women have gained economic power, their economic influence has expanded. Women long held primary purchasing responsibility for everyday household items, but today, they control or influence 85% of consumer spending.
Fucking tradcons caused this one.
I founded Cake Ventures as a venture capital firm that invests in technology companies that address our world’s rapidly changing demographics.
My thesis is made up of three layers of demographic change: aging and longevity; the shift to “majority-minority” where the internet is driven by a population of tech adopters from Asian, Black and Latino backgrounds; and women’s increased earning and spending power.
Many investors evaluate opportunities to invest in women exclusively through the lens of female founders (and we can’t talk about the opportunity in female consumers without acknowledging the dismal investment numbers for female founders), but there is a parallel opportunity in the female economy — investing in technology that solves the problems and meets the needs of female consumers.
Women should no longer be thought of as a niche. In fact, they’re one of the most significant growth markets we’ve ever seen.
This cohort is already driving companies to multibillion-dollar outcomes in women’s health, e-commerce, the care economy and other categories. The decacorn valuation of SHEIN and the billion-dollar (or more) valuations of Maven Health, Faire and Incredible Health are just a few examples of the enduring power of the female dollar.
How did women become a growth market?
Today, women make up roughly half of the U.S. working population and, when adjusted for self-employment, are the new workforce majority.
It's amazing how much you can achieve when you cheat your asses off, you fucking demons.
Much of this growth was driven by gains in the retail and healthcare sectors, industries that employ more women and are heavily influenced by female spending power.
The rise in female employment is also inextricably linked to education: As of 2019, almost half of the employed female population ages 25-64 held a bachelor’s degree or higher — representing a quadrupling of women with degrees since 1970.
Today, women make up 59.5% of college students and even as enrollment in U.S. universities is declining, men account for 71% of that decline. If this trend continues, soon two women will earn a college degree for every one earned by a man.
Even with a persistent wage gap, these factors have led to a dramatic increase in women’s financial power. American women control more than $10 trillion in assets (an amount expected to triple over the next decade), driven by a steady upswing in workforce participation, education and wage growth.
Women are increasingly likely to be the primary bread-winner, financial contributor and head of household, making 85% of day-to-day spending decisions and 80% of healthcare spending decisions for the family.
Four key investment themes The pace of women’s economic activity has increased across every category. This impacts not just consumer categories like beauty, apparel and household goods, but is also changing who becomes primary purchasers of housing, users of financial products like credit cards and mortgages, and decision-makers in the workplace.
There are four major categories in which the needs of women have driven the acceleration of their consumer dollars:
The “super consumer” Women have long been a target customer for retail and e-commerce, but the modern female consumer — a “super consumer” — exerts far more influence over the economy than ever before. A number of privately held unicorns and multibillion-dollar market cap public companies can attribute their growth to a powerful and engaged female consumer base.
Many would place billion-dollar beauty and fashion brands like Skims, SHEIN and Savage x Fenty into the category of companies driven by female consumption. Dig deeper, and you’ll see the female consumer dollar drives both the acceleration of new consumer brands and associated activity around creators and influencers, e-commerce enablement and supply chain.
The influence of the female dollar can be felt in consumer-facing categories like education, healthcare, food and financial technology. When thinking about the female consumer, it’s more appropriate to ask, “which industries are not influenced by the female dollar?”
Women’s health and wellness Women are the biggest consumers of healthcare based on both their own health needs as well as their role as primary healthcare decision-makers for their families. “Femtech” is now a widely recognized category of healthcare innovation, reaching $16 billion in investment as of Q3 2022, and is estimated to be a nearly $1.2 trillion industry by 2027. Companies like Tia Health and Kindbody have changed the user experience of healthcare for women, and others like Alife and Gameto are fusing science with AI and data to modernize in vitro fertilization, ovarian disease and menopause.
The opportunities extend to maternal health, mental health and at-home diagnostics — all areas that will see accelerated innovation in the coming years. In a post-Roe world and one in which women want to take more control over their healthcare, women’s health is poised to be one of the most active areas of innovation.
The care economy As women have taken on more professional responsibilities outside the home, their caregiving responsibilities have not decreased. Dismissing caregiving as “women’s work” has allowed the category to go ignored and under-invested even in the wake of rising numbers of male caregivers and the flood of aging parents who will make new caregivers of many of us.
Caregiving became a political talking point during the 2020 election and the Biden administration put forth a 2024 budget proposing $750 billion in federal support for caregiving. Alongside this federal focus, there is significant market opportunity for technology that makes this care more accessible and affordable.
Companies like Mirza are helping employers support working parents with caregiving subsidies that decrease childcare-related absences. There is a massive opportunity to build solutions that alleviate the financial burden of caregiving, support both professional and family caregivers, and make care more accessible and affordable for everyone. As women become our most highly educated workforce, we have to figure out how both care and work get done.
Women at work
During the pandemic, women in professional careers took up the tools of hybrid and remote work that have since reshaped the modern workplace. It is these professional women who have been driving the demand for emerging technologies and platforms fundamentally shifting the return to work. The future of non-white-collar work is particularly relevant to women in categories like education, service jobs, healthcare and professional caregiving. Labor marketplaces like ShiftMed and Vivian Health emerged to fill healthcare job shortages, focusing on different aspects of the skilled clinician job market. As technologies like artificial intelligence force the evolution of white-collar work, the non-white-collar jobs where women are concentrated will find AI to become an accelerant to training and the elimination of some of the more tedious tasks and reporting requirements in these jobs.
Looking ahead: Investing in women
Today, women are more educated, active in the workforce and more likely to start companies than ever before. Still, there is much progress to be made in harnessing their economic power. This gap is the alpha opportunity for investors. Investing in both women-led companies and commercial areas where women’s needs have yet to be met has the potential to unlock billions of dollars.
Women should no longer be thought of as a niche. In fact, they’re one of the most significant growth markets we’ve ever seen.
I'm surprised they didn't install Phoebe Waller-Bridge and complete her trajectory of failing upwards.
Society is cruel to men.
Or rather...not society. Blaming society is a cop-out beloved by people who desire some kind of reconciliation without penalty for the transgressions made.
No...no. Women, as a class, have acted in a way that is extremely cruel to men, and the safeguard of "good women" monitoring and calling this out has failed harder than the brakes on a train in East Palestine.
I don't even have to accuse you of being deliberately malicious. Even if you only desired to advance yourselves, the outcome is still extremely malicious.
I don't have to bring up the many things I've previously posted, from woman-led ESG boards voting to push reducing male hires, to all the women who magically realized castrating kids was wrong when those castrated kids wanted to be treated like women.
Everyone reading this knows I'm right, deep down.
That was his face when they told him he'd be paid based on how many people buy the game instead of a flat rate.