BG3 took 6 years to develop and because of all of that time spent on enhancing the quality, it was the most-hyped game ever in 2023, winning all of the awards and making a shitton of money. A corporation that is only focused on quarterly profits would never go for long-term planning like that.
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The goal is not to check the work deeply and the tilt is to allowing and also trusting the authors.
That sounds like the wrong fucking goals then. I push for detailed code reviews all the time, and encourage my peers to ask questions.
Privately-owned companies with no ties to venture capitalists are just plain better than corpos that worry too much about "line go up".
Facts.
It's also a shame People Make Games lost the plot on telling that story, too. The worst thing you can do is push this false equivalency on what is obviously a rich-people-fuck-over-the-poors story.
People seem to forget their gaming history. William SRD has an entire channel dedicated to incredibly broken, brain dead, pushed out the door for a quick buck D&D games.
Honestly, Jon should start taking lessons from Seth Meyers. His "A Closer Look" series have been killing it for the past few years.
It's not about screaming about how Trump is the devil. It's about making him look like an absolute, total idiot who can't even tie his own shoes.
Indeed; you can’t win people over by punching down at them, which establishment Dems and their supporters have done for the past several election cycles. They never seem to learn.
Are you asking me to respect Republicans for voting for a treasonous, backstabbing criminal that tried to usurp the 2020 election by inciting a insurrection? No, sorry, I'm not going to respect them and I will never respect their decision. They can go fuck themselves.
I don't want to "win over" those people, just as much as I don't want to "win over" Nazis during WWII. They are evil, brainwashed, and beyond saving. The best we can hope for is to outvote them and wait for them to see reason themselves. If they have the foresight to actually remove their blinders and understand the GOP for what it actually is, which is a cult, then I can respect their decision making again.
If the people in charge have the ability to end democracy, how can democracy be claimed to exist in the first place? Democracy is supposed to be our capability as individual citizens to regulate the people in power, but if they can turn that switch on or off, we don’t actually have that capability except as they choose to allow us to.
It's never a binary on/off switch. Democracy dies through slow corrosion. If we let Trump off with all of those crimes he committed, and allow him to get re-elected, all of those crimes are now unenforceable.
Well, unenforceable for the rich and powerful. The poor has a different system of justice.
Republicans literally have been splitting in half ever since Trump lost in 2020. They ousted their own Speaker, and are now trying to oust McConnell via public opinion. They had 2 primary candidates (DeSantis and Haley) who actually got national attention, and a decent-ish number of votes. What part of that is “in line”?
DeSantis, Haley, and all of the Speaker nonsense has been infighting with old-guard rich assholes who want to break government more subtlety than how Trump and the rest of the Tea Party idiots do things. The GOP has been trying to steer out of this Trump trainwreck ever since it's started, and they don't have the control over their own populace than they used to. But, that's not a good thing because everything that the GOP represents has been going even further extremist.
But, do you know what happens when these candidates drop out? They immediately fall in line. They kiss Trump's ass so hard that no callous insult he made at him is unforgivable. Hell, Trump accused Ted Cruz's father of helping in the JFK assassination, and Ted was like, "Yeah, we should totally vote for this guy!"
I didn't like the false equivalency that was oozing from this episode.
“It actually makes him more subject to scrutiny,” Stewart said.
This is why liberals lose. Democrats fall in love, Republicans fall in line. Democrats take a tiny issue and use it as an excuse to not vote. Republicans vote to a fault.
Come Election Day, Stewart said, “If your guy loses, bad things might happen, but the country is not over. And if your guy wins, the country is in no way saved.”
When a fuckhead who tried to incite an insurrection, fan the flames to murder the VP, steal boxes and boxes of classified documents, leak classified information that got CIA agents killed, along with the 150 other high crimes, is still trying to run for president, it isn't a matter of whether "your guy" loses.
This is a question of whether democracy dies in America.
If Jon has lost sight of that, he doesn't deserve an audience.
Yea, it makes me miss /r/itsaunixsystem a bit. We would make fun of bad TV computer hacks, but Mr. Robot was the one show that stayed true to actual hacking and social engineering. Every time somebody tried to post a screenshot from the series and say that it was Hollywood fakery, it would get a bunch of responses back sourcing the real thing.
It's a shame that we're really not going to see much of this world fleshed out, after having the author's rights to his universe stolen.
There is hope that some other new company might form from the ashes. Game companies go through cycles of this all the time.
Hell, just look at what happened with Second Wind. Not exactly a game company, but a similar situation.