Yeah I don't think thats it. I think if you're gamer gate proper or even adjacent it's easy to overestimate how many people are in it.
Even if nobody on this site bought a game again, it wouldn't bring any studio to its well deserved end. Nobody would even notice a change.
I've told this story before. My dad played every far cry game... at least 2 years after release because A. He doesn't pay full price, and B. Story doesnt bother him because he skips all cutscenese and mutes all dialogue.
He's been playing video games for decades now.
His Xbox One gave up the ghost about a month ago, and his response was "Oh I guess I don't play Xbox anymore"
There's a class of consumer that doesn't care about any of this, not even for "consume product" reasons, but because gaming isn't their favorite hobby, of even one of their main ones.
Considering I caught the reference can you blame me for reading them the same way? ha ha.
You cant unhear them?
You're saying..
Its.....
Impossible?
I think the down vote was because you tried to rhyme "subtle" with "noodle"
Irrelevant.
"But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist."
There's a reference I did NOT expect to see here.
Bull fucking shit. I built my rig 6 years ago now, and I've yet to actually check a settings requirement before buying something. I spent a grand.
And I'm lazy as balls. I did it all at once. No shopping or waiting for deals. It emulates every console through ps3/Xbox 360 Era and has yet to have a problem running a game on at least high.
Plus I run blender on it when the mood strikes.
There is zero reason to buy a console anymore. The only wins they used to ha e were plug and play and couch co-op. Both of which are gone and buried
Additionally every person who was tried and escaped from McCarthy ended up being a literal spy. Including the investigation that led to his fall from favor. McCarthy was a hero.
That's what I've done. I play a 40k based game with a set of additional and variant rules of my own devising.
Ultimately taking what I like and eliminating what I don't.
It's... playable with official units, but a great deal of it relies on our own custom factions. I don't mean to say it's not balanced against official, I mean that there's a few stats that work differently and would need converting. But it isn't hard to do.
The upshot is that we can hotfix whatever we like, the ruleset is devoid of bullshit because we kill it, and the game is by and large better in my opinion.
I've always said the way to do it was to have broad continuity on the flagship titles (amazing, uncanny, adjectiveless, invincible etc.) And then have the ultimate universe which would have a mandatory reset every 5 years. Do "new stuff" and reimaginings as desired, knowing you're not ruining anything or writing yourself into a corner.
You can end the world as often as you want to scratch the cosmic itch. And do all your "What if Betty brant was iron man" stories too and nobody could get too mad.
I would agree that the rot began far earlier than we'd like to believe. But I think it's a function of human evil, rather than a concerted movement so to speak.
I suppose the difference is that back then things were bad on their own terms. A hack gets a gig or some executive shits his pants.
Now it's completely intentional
Fair enough.
I suppose I am more just surprised about how intense it was. It could have been written a week ago.
Doesn't Cavil play Custodes? That socks lol
The existence of Warhammer Adventures too
As with everything. Look for who pities the ox instead of the donkey.
I didn't come out bitter like the above guy, but I came out with a superiority complex the size of Santa's naughty list filtered to Google employees.
My college peers were pathetic. They wrote like shit. The standards were pure unremitting garbage. And the professors were complete idiots. They couldn't catch subtext for one, and read so haphazardly that started replacing whole pages with spaghetti logic and still passing.
Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? Inflation and MMT with zero jargon.
Freakanomics. About unintended consequences and incentives.
The latter for an advanced kid. The former is written for middle schoolers and hits everything easily and simply.
It's also literally the only economics book I've read that defined inflation correctly.
It isn't ironic. Because you're retarded.
That was the point of my comment. To call you retarded.
I should have realized however that you'd be too retarded to figure that out, and so I should have done it more explicitly.
So with that in mind.
You're retarded.
Man if you were being ironic this comment would be unadulterated genius
I seem to be in the minority but I loved the taker spot. Sure I wish he had the hat, but he's always been the Judge and equalizer. He serves justice, and it's his own inscrutable justice.
That's how he's always been best to me, and I liked seeing itm
Not to powerlevel. But when you're that kid... you know it. It'll take you YEARS to understand it. But you'll know.
I knew when I was 7. It's just the way of things
Thats... not what irony means.
Your comment may be one of the stupidest things I've ever read.
First paragraph begs the question so hard it hurts.
As does the second. Because being responsible for something quite litteraly has nothing to do with being able to affect it.
Third begs the question AGAIN by ascribing meaning exclusively to free choice which... is retarded. "Making God look worse" is nonsensical. God is, regardless of how an idiot feels about it.
It absolutely does if coupled with omnipotence as choosing not to act is to permit what happens.
Even if that wasn't logically obvious to any body who took the time to think it through. God's Will being ordained long before creation is well established biblically, both in the old and new testament.
Regardless of anything else. God sets every atom in place in perfect systematic understanding of their interactions. To introduce randomness to his perfect system with some sort of "free will" wouldn't even work, since the consequences of Free will would already been known to him, and alterable or avoidable at his pleasure.
Even the act of granting free will is by definition deterministic for an omnipotent omniscient being.
It'd shifted fully now too on the EU. I read an article a couple days ago where the premise was unapologetic "I'm a star wars fan who never liked any of the EU because it sucked so I'm glad Disney swept out the debris and started really CREATING"