Ok so he was skinny and then got fat, and then got skinny, but it was a lie?

So I guess my question is - why do people watch him?

Thank God for the emoji. I wasn’t sure how to react to this image

And then you are basically hiring an infra team to run the services and have the redundancy, and then with salaries you’re nearing just paying for software again

Yeah when they said no quidditch I immediately thought “okay we’ll just take this dump truck of money and leave them, I guess”.

It sold so well, and they never wanted to do anything more with it. So freaking stupid. The main story didn’t even really take us into the southern area very much, so many things could be done with that for so little!

WHY NOT DLCS?!

They built this gorgeous world and barely put anything in there? I mean a sequel is great but I’ve been screaming since day one that they could make sims level money if they just added DLCs here and there. Look there’s some new classes. Oh there’s a new small 5 quest storyline. You don’t even have to build a new world, the world is great! Just needs more stuff to do.

How?! The second she talks I always hear it

I have, but no major ideas. I’ve started thinking later I may do some consulting and just charge an insane rate, but that’s many years away

Congrats everyone on this spectacular growth! As a thank you, fuck your Christmas! And a happy new year!

God it’s so transparent. I’m a software engineer, and I have first hand built software that has made my business teams and execs wealthy. I have sat there and watched them buy new audis and new houses while I’m told “sorry we can’t afford a raise this year”. And I know I do better than most being in software, but man do they want to keep us arguing about that while they go and buy everything while we squabble.

Iowa tried to do this and the pro-life governor literally said “we’re in an obesity epidemic, we can’t consciously give away free food to kids”

There’s always some big patch that comes out and most things are actually good after that. What makes me real sus is that their patch came like, a day after. As a developer myself… Idk what they could have done in a day that boosted performance that much. Honestly I have no idea. It’s be minimum a week for me to investigate, trace down the longest running things, and then build and test the fix. Not a day

you’re right, I had that backwards

I remember Dallas-Ft Worth had one of those and it was awesome. Something like 20 bucks an hour, and I could go play any game there while waiting for a plane. There definitely needs to be more “Group gaming” areas, and that would be something I’d invest in.

In our suburban nightmare we live in, kids don’t have enough places to go be kids, and one of the things I did was lan/group game with people. Now there’s no space for that, and a rentable place would be ideal

Okay I was just watching something on Sizzler, you know the old buffet chain.

They were in a death spiral just like GameStop, but their marketers realized the same thing, that the company hadn’t changed anything in 20 years, so they could capitalize on the nostalgia of going to Sizzler. Quite literally they could say “Come on in, remember the 90s! Isn’t it so fun?!” Just ignore that it looks like the 90s because we never modernized anything or updated anything, but a fresh coat of paint will make it look new

I’m guessing this is the same thing. We have a company that honestly had 10-20 years to modernize and get with the times, and didn’t do really anything. Sure they fought to kept used games going, and they added funko pops, but honestly did they really try to modernize at all? I think they did some half ass attempts but they generally didn’t do anything.

So here we are, 20 years later, and they realized “Oh look, retro is cool now, it’s nostalgic. Let’s capitalize on that!”

Except nostalgia wears off, it’s not a business plan. Maybe this is the thing and maybe they become some sweet retro arcade, but honestly… probably not. The only reason they can do this is because they stayed in the 360/PS3 era so long that that’s all they have now. What’s going to happen in 10 years? They have PS5s in the retro area? But they barely had any in stock.

Anyway, something to think on. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk. (Here’s the Sizzler Video I mentioned)

“Right to work” was one of those moments I realized how corrupt America is. Something that sounds so positive, even Europeans have been confused by it. “You have the right to work. You get to work, and you should say thank you for that. We also have the right to fire you for any reason, because if you get to work then we get to fire you”

The major publishers declared strategy and top down games dead, but factorio and other small indie games gmhave kept me on for thousands of hours

One of those things that’s like “that can’t possibly be legal right?”, then you remember, we’re in America. Land of the “free” some terms and restrictions may apply

That’s where I am at. Want more money? Release a full complete game. BG3 honestly I could pay 100 for and feel content. RDR2 same deal. Those are complete games, and are worth it.

This Ubisoft trash coming out? 20. Tops.

A full set?! Man you lucky bastard, but they’re coming out with that new sweet one that everyone wants, gonna go for that one too?