Every company that gets bought by another corporation either cranks out a few good games and then dies, or cranks out an okay game and then dies. The eventual outcome is always death.
Bullfrog, Raven, Westwood Studios, Bioware, Origin, Maxis, Viceral Games, all of them.
I love Prey. One of the best games of the 2010s, and really carries the torch for the Shock games.
If you finish Prey, try out the Mooncrash DLC. Criminally underrated. It's kind of a different game, but in a good way. Expands the story and gives out clues to how this whole thing got started. Also had some pretty haunting personal stories to tell.
Lenin's biggest mistake was thinking this whole "dictatorship of the proletariat" phase was going to be this magical normal period that no human would abuse ever, completely ignoring millennia of human history, human behavior, and the dynamics of power that would make that sort of thing literally impossible. Not only does absolute power corrupts absolutely, but even if a leader was immune to such corruption, dictatorships are never propped up by one single leader. They are precariously installed by groups of people who have other units of power, like the military, to keep the system in place.
One of those powerful people can simply say: "Keep this dictatorship in place or I will torture you and your entire family while spreading propaganda about detestable crimes, until eventually I'll feed you to the angry mob and prop up a new dictator."
And that's it. The real communism dream never happens. Corruption quickly floods the state, and wealth disparity continues unchallenged and unabated. It's just more hidden, under the guise of a system of equalative poverty for one class of people and gradients of power for another class of people.
Hell, this even happens with failed democracies, like Russia. Everybody gets behind the new system, but without the right kinds of checks and balances, corruption invades and, eventually, it's a democracy in name only. But, at least democracy never had any notion of a dictatorship built into the philosophy. Democracies are still really hard to keep in place, but communism is a doomed idea from the very start.
Very small still in terms of global users as it is just so insignificant right now, but that will change in the decades to come
Based on what, exactly? Hopes and dreams?
Face it... the metaverse is a dead mall.
I forget that not everybody is using Stable Diffusion over here.
Was the CFG Scale too high on this image? Using weights beyond 1.5? I noticed that it really wanted to make it fuzzy.
He already admitted the donations went towards paying for the events
Those gaps are too wide for just the event costs. And even if it was, I would still suspect embezzlement, in the style of Hollywood accounting.
"Science" with abysmal sample sizes.
The cost of doing business. They will continue to discriminate and it would still be profitable to them.
The judges in these lawsuits don't seem to understand that it's not just about paying money and damages back, but making it financially unsustainable to repeat the crime.
But, what about the golf event money? Where's the rest of the money for those events?
Jirard's donation of the money they have is an attempt to distract from the real embezzlement crimes. They stole money. The math doesn't add up. And now they want you to believe that 100% of the money was just sitting in a bank account for 10 years that they finally donated.
I'm still sad about Gwent, though. The only reasonably priced CCG I've played, with beautiful artwork and fun decks.
As soon as Marvel Snap dropped, it sucked out whatever remaining air the game had left and even the smaller streamers dropped out of sight.