Jokes on Trump, being Mike Pence is already a ‘Career Killer’.

At least he didn’t murder anyone in this confrontation.

Wasn’t the government all up in their shit, being so anti mutant and shit? I haven’t seen it in forever, but if anyone deserves to be sovereign citizens, it’s probably the X-Men.

Unpopular truth, but $70 is still underpricing a game if you consider it hadn’t gone up with inflation since ancient times. Still a ripoff, but so are box office tickets to a blockbuster movie or an expensive dinner at a fancy restaurant. I just don’t partake.

Really, if you wanna get angry, get angry at gacha games taking advantage of gambling addictions and fooling a generation of gamers into thinking it’s ok to pay $300+ dollars to a live service that offers worse value than anything sold only once. Oooof

There is a middle ground too, though, AA titles and such. And indies produced by major players. Like, I adore Risk of Rain 2 but chuckle that Gearbox, Borderlands devs, helped produce the game and took over development in '22. You see this a lot lately with the A-list “indie” games out there.

Better believe the big names have noticed, they want a piece of that low budget high profit market.

Yup. Maybe it’ll get better, maybe not. SquareEnix (Square soft at the time) had a similar problem when they lost Sakaguchi around the time of Final Fantasy X, (which was probably more a symptom of corporate interests taking lead around that time).

Around that time, XII had struggles midway in production that caused a change of hands and made the game disjointed; XIII which went over budget and didn’t live up to the title, etc., XIV 1.0 shortly after that, and so forth. But after a series of black eyes (and a near bankruptcy) I hold out some hope, seeing interviews with XIV producer Yoshida, though, and even Sakaguchi admires the guy despite having his falling out with SE.

Of course then their CEO embraced NFTs and dashed said hope… but still, if they keep failing on sooooo many of their cashgrab projects, surely they’ll get the hint? In any case, point is I think some people at these AAA companies get it and their projects are often lauded as huge successes. Nintendo hopefully had a few people still with that spirit.

And that’s how you make Christian sangria!

Biggest shame? Those in the industry get free copies of the games-- accountants, HR, etc. It’s wasted on so many people who gave up on the fun of gaming (except video game trophy husbands like myself! Bwauahaha)

There’s a few divisions in companies that can still have fun, but it’s pretty far and few between (and they generally get overpaid regardless).

I heard stories of Nintendo’s Breath of the Wild having great leadership and a sense that everyone contribute (which lead to success, not sure about the sequel); also Monster Hunter Rise had fun and that lead to a few easter eggs getting into the game. Incidentally, at the same time REs devs complained and Capcom as a whole has been a crapshoot.

Heart leads to great games, though, and a handful of directors recognize that (and have the rep to do what they want without corporate killing it.)

It helps that in my case, the guy was mostly just enthralled in the cult of personality. Union guy, not religious, etc… If someone you know was part of a cult, you can either express concern and try and help, or leave them be. I ended up doing the latter, especially since back then maga was still a new term.

I mean, it’s not r/terriblelifedecisions (even if that really should be). In any case, I’ve seen worse tattoos as jokes. Not everyone has good judgement when it comes to permanent things.

A shitty indifferent corporation that starts with A and is more than willing to sell shady products that malfunction the moment you use them.

Actually I kinda agree, that’s kind of awesome in a terrible, ironic way (and making fun of Twilight is timeless). Flashy disco Zoolander is a killer, y’all!

One of my old MMO friends came out as a MAGA after a year of raiding together. Tbh, it kind of didn’t matter since we were killing shit in a game and it just didn’t come up unless I was mentioning watching certain political satire shows. He wasn’t an outstanding guy, but I’ve played with much worse people and would still consider him a friend.

Don’t play with him anymore, but that was because of his other terrible life choices, going all in on playing League.

Yessss … something positively baffling, like the body temperature of my cousin’s guinea pig when experiencing a slight fever.

Reading these comments, my spiteful genie wish is to invent and proliferate a log base 10 scale, something like earthquake magnitudes or decibels. Y’all hate F or C? Welcome T, where 1 equals 1 Kelvin, 2 equals 10 Kelvin, 3 equals 100 Kelvin, 4 equals 1000 Kelvin, and so on.

It’s easy! Humans live somewhere around 3, as does boiling and freezing, while the sun is between a 4 and a 5 at the surface and the core is closer to an 8.

I mean, it doesn’t work but like, I get it. Moreso, after reading the news or watching any TV or talking to certain neighbors, I get the desire to, idk, maybe want some selective breeding. Just make people a teeny tiny bit less… stupid? Gullable? Irrational? If only there was a way. It wouldn’t work, but I get it.

Obviously it doesn’t quite work that way, is probably immortal and would take an extraordinary long time to even change something as ingrained as all that. Lol