Fucking hate that song. Write a second verse! Weird Al’s “Six Words Long” has more variety!

And the boys on the left are rocking those dresses.

Spend less money.

It’s genuinely that simple. Don’t expect 3x ROI on whatever you budget, and then pour eight hojillion dollars into a seven-year gamble. If all you have to work with is fifteen salaries for a year, I guaranfuckingtee you that’s enough to make a game, with drastically lower stakes for success or failure.

But of course these vultures actually mean, crunch crunch crunch, push out a real-money siphon, gamble on cloning last year’s hits. What do the kids like these days? Horse girls? Sure, let’s built a house opposite that moving ship.

There’s probably an angle where that pose looks dynamic.

It’s not this one.

This one got deep-fried in a hurry.

Shit, I’ll take sequels over as-a-service any day. Let continuing revenue be the result of making new things and games being good.

Microsoft is in way too deep with the US government for ‘it’s us or Israel’ to ever favor ‘us.’

There’s a nonzero chance they close the studio for this. They’ve been on a streak, lately.

Hrot!

I’m curious how that subscription value is gonna look in a few years now that Microsoft has cancelled basically everything and fired a ton of talent.

That’s the best argument against trusting they have any idea what they’re doing. I’ve been saying for like a decade now, they could just not do another Xbox, and call it job-done for turning consoles into PCs. Every game’s on every system because they’re all the same. The goddamn Switch 2 has raytracing cores.

Part of any moustache-twirling capitalist scheme is, like… caring when things make money? Sony going “oops, nevermind” on a failed shooter that took eight years to make is a cutthroat decision. Microsoft killing a studio for releasing a beloved and successful game is just bastardry. Especially if they just bought them, specifically to make that game. Microsoft effectively bribed your publisher to shut you down. You come into work one day, with all the equipment and people still there, and it’s like, nope, the studio doesn’t exist anymore. Somehow.

I’m left wondering if Microsoft even needed to do anything, for the console market to go this way. They correctly spotted what GTA3’s multiplatform releases meant for the industry. But beyond forcing the inclusion of hard drives… did they contribute to that process?

Like a headache with pictures.

Never give Nintendo money.

It’s fine, kids bounce.

Yes, I am aware they exist. I am asking if you expect Steam’s entire business model to hinge on cards you have to buy at gas stations and grocery stores.

The term specifically exists to describe material from the abuse of children.

You cannot abuse children who do not exist.

The entire point is distinguishing the kind of JPGs you go to prison for, versus a drawing of Bart Simpson’s dick. There’s a reason that only one of those things is readily available on popular websites. The other one’s a lot worse. Separating them is kind of important.

The inclusion of Yes still makes me sad that no RTS or 4X ever adapted Olias Of Sunhillow.

Unreal 1 music was fucking incredible, across the board. Forgone Destruction is a tasp against thousands of unwitting millennials.

Mega Man 5’s OST is what Mega Man nerds like most about it.

Cash-only? Off the rack, at CVS?

No porn game is CSAM. The entire point of that acronym is that it stands for “photographic evidence of child rape.”

The legal battle over arbitrary exclusion is a difficult fight by innocent victims.

Not having backups is a confession by morons with nobody to blame but themselves.

These two things can coincide.