There's only like 200-ish 'comic shops' in the US. (maybe less now)
If the big 2 were serious about making money, they would have sales reps call the shops and glean demographic info. They aren't serious businesses though. They have been in the movie/Netflix pitch model for too long, or the even lazier 'we sell ads in our comic book shaped pamphlets' model.
Forgetting that they need to get pamphlets into houses for the ads to hold their value.
Bad management. Weak editors. Activist writers. No coming back from this.
You are probably right. I was just trying to brainstorm for some IP crushing activism. It's already infected. Gotta purge the whole thing now and rebuild.
I think it was just a cultural vandalism flex. Whomever the writer was, thought they were currying favor with some activist coworkers. Classic male feminist move so he can bang his coworker.
Now we gotta plant the accelerationist seed that Sisters of Battle needs trans-women in their ranks. Why do the Sororitis exclude trans? Are they phobic? Seems like GW is doing a hate speech.
It's an election year in the States, so YouTube is not gonna let any right-leaning channel go anywhere. Either death from -10000 algorithm cuts, or constant naughty bans.
Declare a fatwa on journalists.
We are already in WWIII. It'll prob be in the history books that it started in 2014, with the CIA coup of Ukraine government, or 2022 with the Russia invasion of Eastern Ukraine. Though.. I guess it depends on who wins. If there is a winner.
Right now we're in that phase of escalatory events, until full, overt conflict breaks out.
She's 37. So, reasonably good genes.
They want all of the virtue bucks of turning Tomb Raider into an activist platform, but they aren't quite brave enough to drop the actual name: Tomb Raider. Performative fuckery.
How can they spin RAIDING into anti-colonialism? Does Lara only raid national museums and capitols now? Is she an insurrectionist? Even just setting foot into a tomb would be seen as an aggression by the culture the tomb belongs to. There's no way to virtue spin this, so WHY mess up the formula?
Can we expect Link to respect the dungeons in the next game? Instead of using the boomerang, he'll return it to the rightful owners? Dungeon & Dragons will go even more Panderers & Pedestals.
She got that sugarfoot! Dass racisss!
Leftists harbor the most internal guilt of any modern human. This is ridiculous apology pandering.
That doesn't lend any credence to the assertion at all....
Fuck it. I 100% believe Macron married a pedo and a dude now.
They should have just let it go.
They probably asked him to trans, and he wasn't ready to take that step yet.
So employers will only seek 14% black, and 3% LGBTOUOUR+ and staff the rest with other and white? Because that would reflect America.
Deport illegals, so they stab and rob each other instead.
Conquered by the WEF, and it's not even 2030 yet.
Every college grad is an acolyte of this DEI shit. So as soon as they get a new corp job, they transform it to what they know.
Look at the Bud Light marketing VP, and Kelly Lombardi head of Xbox global marketing. They don't like, or even care about the brand or games. The only thing that interests them is their activism religion, because it gets them the most accolades at brunch.
Start hiring talented people again. They never do, because HR is always the first department that is infected.
The indie scene is going to devour the bloated mainstream in the next few years. This shit is not sustainable. Some will get bought up and strip mined, but homeruns are gonna keep popping up on Steam.
Who will start selling off their properties first? Maybe Embracer selling off Gearbox is the start of the flood.
It is not that boys receive more recognition is that girls "believe" boys receive more recognition.
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.
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.
Some big clues in the social media presence over the past couple years. That whole Warhammer is for EVERYONE! Post, and all of the 'We demand Nazis leave our tables' blah blah. Because of that cosplay bro at a con.
Now, this could just be activist community support employees. But, all the places I've worked at over the years, if you have activist female CS reps, you've got lonely, simp employees trying to impress them.
That's just one small facet. GW's SJW defenses are probably a sieve at this point. From Blackrock/Vanguard to any university hire from the past 8 years.
Their kit / model photos and some sculpts have been highly diversified. 2020 Londonized. Even though these chapters are from the same bloodline, all of a sudden there's POC marines and officers everywhere. From what I hear the novels are falling over themselves to add GLBTAER+2S characters. Maybe pressure from publisher or DEI shit, I dunno.
This is two years outdated already, but you can see how they are celebrating the conquered territory. Then those book characters make it back into the main branch or side projects.
Reddit post collecting rainbow victories
Here you can see the usual, the formulaic 'Ok, it's happening, but it's a good thing!' cope article. These kind of articles exist in many different forms. Some coordinated invasion to get the NPCs to just bite the pillow and accept it.
Wargamer dot com activist spin - So what if it's happening!