No creative brilliance or exciting game to hype? Have you tried virtue signalling?
BioWare can't die soon enough. Any extra day it is around, shames the good stuff they did in the past.
Product managers ruin everything creative. They need to be reined in. Restructure these orgs to how it used to be. The product managers used to be more of a specialist/consultant. They'd show up and ask for stuff to put in the manual. Make sure the different teams and departments were syncing where they needed to. Somewhere around 2009 they were put much higher on the totem pole. Directing the creative process so it could better integrate into the monetization model. Whereas before, the monetization was integrated into the creative.
Each year after things got shittier. They all share their runbooks and best practices (I'm sure they are both called something different now). Examples like every game has a battle pass, popups, FOMO, seasonal, obvious pain points like inventory space and crafting tied to time / logins etc.
Make better games on smaller budgets. Not everything has to be a live service behemoth. Stop buying studios. Stop hiring product managers instead of designers and artists. Product managers can't create shit other than monetization models.
Release smaller titles, more often. Invest in your talent, that's equally as valuable as your tech. Talent is the reason, the value, that they snatch up so many studios. Mentor your own fucking talent, pay them so they stick around, and you'll create your own value and growth. Make a new Bioware or Blizzard in spirit. All it takes is a gamer first attitude and getting a few based recruiters. None of this HR slop.
His long time friend / YouTube partner Jim Rugg abandoned him and did the disavow social media tour. I would wager that is what put Ed over the edge. Ed was a cancel pig. His suicide note was revealing, insight to why so many people are like this. He outright said he couldn't take being on the wrong side of the mob. He knows it's vile, but self-admitted too weak to be independant.
So, he joined in the dogpiles with the rest of them over the last decade. I wonder if they all know that it will eventually come for them?
I think he shoulda just taken some time away from the internets. Travel or be a hermit. Make a plan, and come back. No need to end it all. So, either he was 100% truthful and just couldn't take being savaged by the Twitter mob, or maybe way worse shit was going to surface? I don't like the guy, but can we at least wait until someone is arrested? Or.. better, convicted? I'm guilty of forum rabble-rousing on shit like this, but I don't go after people directly, at least until shit is sorted out.
The usual suspects he named definitely delight that he did. This is why they do this. It's not for an apology, or to get your job, it's to get you to suicide. It's so they can feel powerful and relevant.
They are self-hating, self-sabotage incarnate, and the flailing drowns you with them if you can't get away. So many seem to be craving a violent death that they are goading you towards delivering. Mentally ill dudes do suicide by cop, BPD chicks do suicide by partner, and try to take you with them because of galaxy level co-dependance.
BPD girls are undateable. Unmarriable. They will always flip out and go self-destruct whore mode. They have to be an exceptional person to not only seek help, but to keep their shit together for more than 6 months.
It's viewed as one of the tougher disorders to treat. Even woke as hell doctors will grudgingly concede to calling BPO girls 'unstable' suffering from 'instability'.
This chick is a mental case. There has to always be an external reason for her self-loathing.
edit Life expectancy among BPD women is 20 years less than average.
You already are not allowed to collect rainwater in California. I'm sure in other places as well.
Isn't there an entire manga industry devoted to gay stuff? Yaoi and yuri genres? Like, 10's of thousands of comics they could read.
Further evidence that they don't want gay stories, they want straight stories stuffed with gay. Just another power grab.
I think it shows forum bots being paid and re-activated. Money is being spread around, but the boomer op behind it hasn't updated the messages yet. Still figuring out what gets the most traction. Little mini BrooklynDad_Defiants flooding the internets.
Unironically if the US turned against Israel, the US could state one of their requirements to the Arabs, is that they be allowed to build/rebuild/maintain Christian temples in Jerusalem. They went for it 1000 years ago, I'm sure they'd agree now if it meant getting rid of Israel.
Slaanesh is in charge.
It's the same as when an atheist tries to argue the real meaning of the Bible against a Christian. Maybe they've got it memorized, but they don't believe it. So, why should that sway anyone's faith? You know they have an ulterior motive, same as this Christ is King backlash.
If they want people to believe God told them to bite foreskins off, then they can let Christians have Christ is King.
Community Manager - Hates Gamers. You mean the customer?
When I worked at retard EA, even Zynga, (2001 - 2013) they'd be axed. But, that was when sales actually mattered. Not this weird nebulous shit where message is more important than entertainment, because it raises your borrowing amount.
Yup. All it would take is a few soldiers/mercenaries/private security, whatever the choice of the corporate elites is, to see their families starving, and you've got a long night of assassinations when sympathizers let you into the bunker.
I would do the 'When you are used to special treatment; Equality feels like oppression' but SBFro got a VERY light sentence. He stole billions. He's reverse Robin Hood. He stole from the poor and gave to the rich.
Harshly punished? It's not even equality in sentencing.
He will be home and on house arrest in 18 months. They'll say he has medical issues or psychiatric, and it's cruel and inhumane, yada yada. He'll never have to pay a dime. He'll hire some lackey to be his proxy and get around the bankruptcy laws. He'll be donating to the uniparty again in no time.
Maybe this guy is just mad that SBF wont be donating this election season?
It's not just immgrants. One of the 2030 agendas is to buy up all single family homes. It's the usual big dogs through shells and proxies. Blackrock, Vanguard, etc. The goal is to turn everyone into a renter.
They are trying to eek the economy just on the edge of the shitter, so people can't afford to upkeep their properties. Re-mortgage, selling to downgrade, or move cheaper. All results in inflating houses. WEF Agenders get to pump their assets up and make everyone a renter at the same time.
It's why so many people are getting text spam and phone spam from 3rd world call centers, asking if they want to sell their home for cash.
Diddler Mansions were a mirror of Epstein's operation. I bet both kicked their blackmail materlal to the same masters. "Star Island" was just a more crowded Epstein Island.
We need some of these celebs to start snitching on everyone. I bet there's a lot of crossover to Maxwell's global clients.
He'll do 18 months, max, before he gets to be on house arrest or some bullshit. This is why they should have given him the full 110 years, so it wont be so easy to explain softening it down to < 5.
I'm not sure how one weasels out of such a stiff fine though. Bankruptcy I guess? He'll just have 'a friend' found his next business.
Because Israel is losing the PR war, even on shored-up sites like Quora and Facebook. They are prob blowing the influencer dradle. Making sure all shills double down. Maybe even flexing some kompromat to get more frequent acts of groveling.
Yep. Gotta shake the tree for some more money. Ukraine is run by Western banks, politicians and corporations now. Their local government just divides the bribe money. They are never paying off that 'rebuilding' debt. It's Blackrock's country now. Russia is just helping them flatten all the land for extra agriculture and automated prison space (inadverantly I woud think).
Yeah most NPCs think this entire Ukr v Rus shit started with the 2022 invasion. They don't know about the Ukr shelling of the Eastern 1/5 of Ukraine since 2015. The ethnic cleansing gangs and all that. Same NPCs don't know about the Holodomor either. There's ancient beef here.
We never should have gotten involved to begin with, but.. who else would have laundered all that money? Somebody think of all the politician's children those kickbacks feed haha
The diverse Maryland governor's speech at the site was the usual leftist identity drek too. All emotion, no plan.
AGP soy perverts who are gaming the system to leap to the top of the virtue pyramid. It's like that meme where the dude is over celebrating his Olympic win. Congrats, you're an alphabet person. Another reason why pride shit is so stupid. Maybe 20 years ago it was at least.. uncommon. It's like celebrating you like Ethiopian food or something. Nobody cares anymore. We just want you to shut up. That's real equality haha! Shut the fuck up! Nobody cares about you equally, perverts. Vegan pride month! Wooo! Look at us, we eat tree bark. Black trees matter! Vegan rights are under attack!
Every insurance agent knows that Asian women, and dudes under 25 are the highest risk drivers. I don't know the black v white stats for dudes, but it's a lot of accidents. I mean, it's probably more white dudes as there's more of them to own cars.
But any sane person who watches this ad knows that they were either 1. Broadcasting THE MESSAGE or 2. Too cowardly to show anyone but a white dude fucking up. Bottom of the progressive stack and all that.
Excellent point. Schools are run from top to bottom to cater to girls. How they learn and study best. K through University are antagonistic to boys. Now we got problems because an art teacher dared to praise a boy's drawing.
Stop making the rules based on the most insecure creature's feelings. This goes for all of society. Making rules and laws for the exception is so fucking feminine. Make the rule. If there's an exception, that's what judges are for. This morass of bullshit is drowning everyone.