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I made a severe and continuous lapse in my judgement, and I don't expect to be forgiven. I'm simply here to apologize.
After speaking with Ubisoft PR, they sent me this picture of Yasuke and his family. The picture was taken by Rurouni Kenshin and Ubisoft confirms a certain
Hot take:
There is no need for a new dedicated gaming console.
Zero.
Even a a mid range PC can run pretty much every game ever made, and better than a current gen console.
The Steam Deck outclasses the Switch.
The only reason anybody is buying consoles is price,
Ubisoft literally cannot afford for Assassin's Creed Shadows to fail.
The company has taken a massive financial hit, and a lot is riding on this title.
However, in trying to protect it from "the chuds," they might've just guaranteed its underperformance at launch.
Good job.
They want Disney without Walt.
They want Tolkien without Tolkien.
They want DnD without Gygax.
They want Star Wars without Lucas.
They want Harry Potter without Rowling.
They even want Minecraft without Notch.
"It wasn’t a real Oscar, so it doesn't count."
"He's dead anyway, so why does it matter?"
"He only took the role because he was probably desperate for work."
Remind me again who the racists are? 🤔
Everyone is laughing at Norway & the EU for funding Dustborn but a quick search shows the US also provided $275,000 of funding for a "new counter-disinformation game"
The devs of Dustborn just said the quiet part out loud.
The true purpose of “cancel culture” is to find a reason to isolate you from your support system so you’re easier to attack.
It’s coordinated and malicious.
So
@Grummz
talks about the lengths pop culture activists will go to to take you out of the picture if you try to oppose them.
I personally know of some people with very mild takes who were swatted.
I know of some comics people who have been banned from cons.
Others have
The Acolyte was axed because nobody watched it, not because the internet hated on it.
Normies don't pay attention to any of the online drama. They're just over Disney Star Wars.
VERY easy solution for handling gender in video games.
- Male
- Female
- Custom, which allows you to mix and match body types, clothes, voices, etc., and assign pronouns only *if* you want them.
That took me all of 30 seconds. You're welcome.
MrBeast and other big YouTubers and streamers are/were bankrolled by Night Media, which is bankrolled by The Chernin Group.
Hollywood and venture capital money.
Very few people "blow up" on YouTube organically.
Google is broken.
Wikipedia is corrupt.
Facebook is broken AND corrupt.
Can you imagine what Twitter would be like by now if
@elonmusk
hadn’t bought it?
X isn’t perfect. But it’s one of the last places left that you can speak your mind (mostly) and challenge narratives.
17 YEARS before MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech,
WALT DISNEY was the FIRST filmmaker to depict "little black children & little white children playing together" in Song of the South.
On this dark & gloomy day, The Iger Regime is pathetically trying to erase that profound legacy.
Blackstone just bought a major Japanese manga e-publisher.
BlackRock is investing heavily in WEBTOON.
Both at the same time.
Just as AAA gaming implodes.
Theory:
The people who participated in cancel culture for years are themselves being canceled.
It's just being done on the downlow.
No fanfare. No Twitter spats. No hit pieces.
Just... no phone calls. No work.
And now’s the part where people who’ve *obviously* never played a video game in their whole damn life decide to hitch a ride onto that Sweet Baby Inc gravy train.
You know, the same people who told us that video games were stupid and would rot our brains and shit?
Yeah. 😒
Back in the day home computers were ungodly expensive and not that good at playing graphics intensive arcade style video games.
Consoles designed solely for gaming made sense.
Now they do not.
Corey Comperatore was the bedrock of America. Every good quality that built this nation -love of family, service to community, courage under fire - was exemplified in his heroic actions yesterday and every day of his life. May he
#RIP
.
Johnny Depp's legal victory and the likely overturning of Roe v. Wade are part of the same toxic cultural movement, argues Vox senior correspondent Constance Grady.
Here is where the reaction leaves us:
"Living well is the best revenge."
Remember that art fixer bullshit?
Yeah, nobody does. But they still remember the original cover. And now he gets another go at it.
🕷️🧡The first reveal of my brand new Ultimate SPIDER-MAN
#4
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#4
cover (& 2 others) all go on sale EXCLUSIVELY at THIS Saturday morning, Mar 30!
It took a year or two to see it, but there is definitely a “before” and “after” the pandemic.
Nothing has really gone back to what was normal in the “before times.”
A lot of stuff is still broken. Entire industries are burning down in real time. As are entire cities.
And so
Sorry nerds.
George Lucas isn’t going to ride in on a white tauntaun to save Star Wars from Disney.
It’s over. It’s been over, but people kept holding out hope.
Star Wars is just a corporate IP now.
Rewriting Ripley has been trying, and failing, to tie any YouTubers they don't like to the "alt-right."
YouTube confirmed the content does not violate their policies.
All this drama over a show about "space wizards."
@rewritingripley
thanks for reaching out. just heard back and confirmed that this content is not violative & will remain up. we totally understand you may not agree with this decision, but we reviewed this video very carefully against our policies
Kelsey Grammer: "We avoid political jokes [on
#Frasier
], because honestly, they are so locked in a time warp. Contemporary culture does not fuel any comedy that lasts."
Moving to California to be an “influencer” is stupid.
I never understood why so may YouTubers and Twitch streamers did this.
There’s a 99% chance Hollywood will never accept you, no matter how big your following is.
You can work from anywhere.
Live someplace cheaper.
I just got Doxed. My family has been doxed.
Second Wind and former EIC of Escapist, Nick Calandra
@jnickjcal
, has weaponized his Discord server and is encouraging his thousands of patreon supporters to dox me.
They did.
And unlike certain other journalists who don't post
Why are pop culture journos, game devs, comic book creators, animation industry people etc. all losing their minds on social media?
Their prospects aren’t looking good TBH. The entertainment industry is collapsing in real time.
If you’re still working — even for yourself —
Hot take: Most of today's conservative talking heads HATE pop culture unless they can use it to "own" their political adversaries.
The same as the activists and tourists on the left.
It's over 30 years later, and I am still mad they killed Newt and Hicks in between Aliens and Alien3.
How these stories can bury into your being like this is pretty amazing. 😂
Theory:
I believe the insanity is ramping up because they know the end is near.
The money is running out. Studios and publishers are laying off or closing down.
Their phones aren’t ringing anymore.
But they want to take as many people with them before it all ends.
Oh come the hell on!
You couldn’t even wonder aloud if the vaccines caused blood clots or you were a fascist and/or a white supremacist.
Over an experimental pharmaceutical product.
It honestly doesn't matter anymore if Kathleen Kennedy is fired, quits or leaves. The damage has been done.
Disney's packed with a bunch of people like her willing to continue her vision and Disney's not going to erase the canons of the IPs that have been damaged.
Theory: The terminally online react so caustically to anyone who covers games and pop culture from a different point of view because it's been nothing but "the message" for the last decade.
This is all they've known, and they believed the lie that this is what the majority of