That’s fine, I think there are enough From titles to last me. I still haven’t gotten through BB, Sekiro, ER, or AC6. I’ll probably have finished them by the fifties, assuming civilization exists that long.

ZeroHedge: “markets are reeling!”

$SPY: -0.349% premarket

ZH is so painfully lacking credibility.

It’s hard to say what’s appropriate. A lot of people feel like that’s already the appropriate move, given their hugely successful election interference, assassinations abroad, continual war crimes, nuclear sabre rattling, allying with rogue nations, and the resulting destabilization of the global power dynamic. How do you deal with that if not regime change? Putin was so sure that regime change was an American aim that he made it a necessity. Paranoid Russian dictators and self-fulfilling prophecies, name a more iconic duo.

I’m probably never going to like fluff pieces or opinion-based news so let’s just leave it at that. Hope you’re right.

None of us have our hearts in our work these days, but I’d be fired for this level of faking it

The resistance:

watching them whine

Huffpost basically just platforming the worst opinions available. Thanks dumbasses.

Plus, the actual creatives aren’t gone just because their studio stopped making games, they usually keep working in some other role. It’s hardly ideal, but it’s wrong to frame this as a loss of their future contributions.

To equivocate a little, a great team is bottled lightning and having them disbanded because of market dynamics is a loss.

Samesies

This is top shelf.

We should, and it should be called the Logan’s Run law, to give them something to think about

I should have said more, for once. I meant simulation more to describe the Bethesda house style, which seems to be this idea that having apples that can roll around on a table or whatever is immersive and engaging enough that you don’t need Michael Kirkbride hanging around putting weird metaphysical shit all over the place, actually. I wasn’t saying they were good at it, only that it appears to be what they think.

I think they really don’t believe in storytelling in the way traditional game writers do. They think enough simulation can replace good writing.

Personally I’m certain they are wrong, and it’s tragic that they own the Elder Scrolls IP.

It’s not just the stupidest voters, but also the mid-wits who thought they could court the stupidest voters by being almost the worst option

Finally, a genuine connection

Go 'way mom I’m asking Jeeves! It’s for homework!

Types “boob porno sex”

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Downvote farmer detected

I just don’t see how that translates to the game board as it stands without a world war ensuing. There are enough nuclear powers in the world that someone is popping off before we get there.

So you’re imagining a stable power vacuum as the greatest superpower in history willfully shrinks due to the leadership of a foreign asset?

Respectfully, why?