Literal definition of Monkey’s Paw:
All the Phil Spencer haters get to rejoice that he is gone. But now he is replaced by a woman who has only ever had AI related positions at Microsoft, and previously worked at Meta.
Even her letter to employees sounds AI generated.
Come on man, don’t be that guy. You’re better than that.
Average early FromSoft game experience:
Though not gonna lie, Metal Wolf Chaos 2 would go very hard.
Probably because not enough people are buying PS5s. You all didn’t rent a PS5, so now small indie company Sony has to dissolve a studio. It’s not the executive’s fault, it’s the consumer’s fault, obviously.
Yeah, I’ve been waiting for a remaster of The Adventures of Cookie & Cream this whole time…
They just dropped an update today with a new map, new raid tool, and new cosmetics for a few characters.
This whole thing with this game seems to be a case of people trying to force the game to die for some reason. I don’t think it’s the best game ever and still needs some work, but it’s better than Concord.
Its a Bloober game, so its going to be mid-at-best and have horrendous performance issues. Most likely a walking simulator overfilled with the only thing Bloober thinks is scary: jump scares. Ansolutely no subtlety in the story either.
Some games in the past were like this but people complained because “I want the goth baddie but I am not an 80 year old man with a white beard named Santa Claus, this game’s romance system sucks.”
There comes a point where it is too real, and when the loading screen comes up and you see yourself in the reflection of the screen, that’s going to create a really negative experience for a lot of people, not just gamers.
Which is why everyone should just play on anti-glare screens! They aren’t reflective enough for that to happen!
The only thing that could have happened really is the yoke could have become misaligned if the tape that holds it to the tube was not holding very well. The convergence rings have lockrings on them that usually wouldn’t be effected by a hit or drop, but if they were loose they could shift as well.
The potential damage could range from slightly misaligned colors (convergence) to geometry warping (caused by yoke misalignment). To fix either of these you would likely need to open the TV to service it manually, which you should do anyways to adjust the focus potentiometer and the H/V Width potentiometers to reduce overscan. Only do this if you are comfortable with line voltage and have insulated electricians tools + gloves, as the TV must be plugged in and on top make adjustments. If you arent comfortable or cant be safe, you will just have to live with whatever you cannot fix with the service manual alone.
Most likely, nothing really changed. Unless it was hard enough to crack the plastic shell, it probably didnt do much of anything to the internals, unless it had a built in VJS or DVD player, as those can be more sensitive to kinetic shock.
As someone that lives in South California, this is not shocking at all. Someone could trespass onto your property, injure themselves by twisting their ankle on a step that isnt painted or something, sue you and win.
I feel sorry for the victims for having to deal with this on top of the loss of a family member. Justice just is not achievable, especially not against a rich person.
Also, this is not really the kind of post for YSK.
Games were more than $60 in the 90s.
But video games were limited by physical copies back then. Supply was limited, and it cost the publisher multiple dollars, sometimes in the double digits, to manufacture the physical goods to sell. But with that you got a usually complete game, as patches werent really a thing and making physical revisions was expensive. You also got the entire game that you paid for, tall the content in the game was available to you from your one purchase. You can lend it to a friend if you want, too.
Nowadays we get sold half of a game that barely works for $70, so you can get the other half by buying the next 14 $20 battlepasses and playing only that one game for the next 5 years to finally get all the content of the game. You also cant let your friend borrow the game.
I don’t need to pay for a dev team that is overbloated with people, a marketing team that thinks every ad needs to have a Beatles song, and an executive that just demands more profit. Dev teams need to get smaller, marketing needs to shrink, and exectuives need to be less greedy. They already make record profits, they do not need more.
The subgrenre of art that this one artist used has existed before that artist even used it.
No artist “owns” an art style. Imagine if Rembrant claimed to own chiaroscuro. His estate would still be claiming monopoly over the art style, effectively handicapping the progress of art as a whole. Nobody could create art with heavy contrast between light and dark anymore because “thats Rembrant’s style only and nobody else can use it.” As someone with artistic ability, “owning” an art style is the most ricidulous idea in art I have ever heard of.
I hate Bungie, but it was only a few textures, and they have been replaced. The rest of the game is not “stolen.”
Screamer is looking pretty cool. Its a revival of a classic racing game of the same name, but its really related seemingly in name only.
Same guy:
What we are going to be doing is focusing on a few features and polishing those to the highest possible level we can. And the first feature I spoke about was: How come the screen’s gone black?
~ Peter Molyneux, Fable 2 E3 live presentation, 2007
Another Silent Hill game that isn’t in Silent Hill? We’re just milking the name recognition alone at this point.
The only way to protect children on the internet is to not allow children on the internet. There is no other way to solve this problem. Parents these days treat the internet like a daycare and when a child is allowed unmonitored access to the internet, bad things are likely to happen. I don’t want government regulation and business to take over the duties that a parent has in raising their children. It is the parents responsibility, not the business’ and not the government’s.
You might convince a few parents to not allow their kids to play Roblox (or any omline game, actually) with an M rating, but most parents just don’t care. Look how many parents buy their children video games like Grand Theft Auto or Dead By Daylight, games that are rated M, without the parents ever even considering the rating or the content of the game not being suitable for children? This has been happening ever since video games began, either due to ignorance or negligence. Changing the rating wouldn’t be nearly as big as the media presence the game has already had due to literal accusation/lawsuits about child abuse. If that media coverage isn’t enough to make any meaningful change to the number of children on the platform then I have no idea what you think will.
An M rating isn’t going to change any visibility on any platform either, unless that platform has data that confirms the age of the user that created the account. Which is horrendously bad. Unless every online game with user generated content or online messaging is instantly rated AO, which is a ridiculously unrealistic ask, store visibility isn’t going to change.
No, software platforms should not be held accountable for the content their users generate. If this was the case, internet service providers could be prosecuted just because nefarious actors used it to plan or commit crime. And then of course entire platforms like Discord, Whatsapp, Reddit, Lemmy, Skype, Facebook, Email providers, etc. would also be included in that. A ridiculous conga line of scapegoats where all of the fault should be on the user that generated the nefarious content. Platforms should certainly do what they can to mitigate criminal activity, of course, but they are not to blame when someone misuses an aspect of their software that isn’t there specifically for nefarious purposes. This is like saying you are party/accessory to a crime just because criminals committing a crime stepped onto your property while they were running away from the scene/police.
Still waiting for playable Papa NieR in 1.22 after they said it had to sell 1m copies.