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They're both good/fun, but they have the worst luck with releases. It's still crazy to think that the first one dropped against Zelda Wind Waker and then the second one dropped against Elden Ring and God of War Ragnarok. Much as I like the second one, it didn't have a chance when it comes to awards/accolades. Also, the hand-to-hand combat sucked from what I remember.

Still: why does it matter? Even if they changed her face for some dumb reason (and not a more valid/likely one like consistent facial animation and rendering), does that mean a single thing to gameplay? You think if the game is shit, a better face is changing anything? This isn't someone's race/weight changing drastically between games, to where it would warrant a question. They scanned a face and most likely did shit to it so they could do other shit easier without having to drag the model out for everything.

Yeah, no publisher is going to get rid of something making them that much money. They'll poison the well with micros as much as they can get away with before people start walking away (not happening anytime soon). WB doesn't deserve every drop of blame for MK1's missteps; I'm sure some of those (like Invasions being a slog) are on the dev team. But we'll never know how much of this stuff is because of publisher mandate or not.

You know it won't. Even if it does, corporations are going to do whatever to "offset" that, to the point you'll wonder why anyone even tried.

Honestly, I would argue it can't be remade because it's "eh". Wesker is the only real highlight to me. RE5 is really just a pale imitator of RE4. That feels weird to say, because how do you NOT try to imitate RE4 with its success? But 5 didn't do enough for me to make it stand out from what I remember. Maybe I need to re-play it. If they do an RE5 Remake, maybe they'll prove me wrong. I thought they couldn't do an RE4 remake, but for a different reason (RE4 is a classic). That became one of my favorite games last year.

🤣 Jesus Christ, I'm just now catching up to Andrew Tate getting arrested because he told a streamer he was going to leave Romania forever, where he was getting prosecuted. That streamer (Adin Ross) told everyone on his stream. Both these people are so fucking stupid.

For real; if it wasn't going to go to Angela Bassett, then Stephanie was the easy second choice. Compared to her, Jamie Lee shouldn't have even been in the running.

IF (and I mean IF) it's better, then that shouldn't matter. ATSV was near perfect. But at least this isn't as big a "WTF" upset as Jamie Lee Curtis winning best supporting actress last year for Everything Everywhere All at Once.

It's crazy Spider-Verse lost. I haven't seen The Boy and the Heron though, so I could be talking out of my ass.

I go a little crazy every time this dude does something big in the news or X. I legit don't get what the long game is. Like, what are you doing telling advertisers to go fuck themselves? What are you doing removing likes and RTs on the feed? That's the 2nd-most reason people click on something. This reeks of "we fired most of our tech team and now have to shave computing wherever we can"

I know that as a game it's not that good outside of the core gameplay, which is admittedly simple. I say that as someone who likes the gameplay and plays MK1 a lot. Story mode is OK at best (hate that they went the MCU route iykyk), and Invasions is straight trash. But I haven't seen any tournaments or been up on any drama to judge from that perspective.

I THINK their logic is this: those games take time and money and care, and even then, aren't guaranteed major sales. Why do that when you can roll these live service dice until you get one that hits? Because one hitting may make up for many that don't. Just like the egregious microtransactions in these games nowadays. The few "whales" more than make up for the majority that are pissed at them. But this gamble is dangerous in a way microtransactions aren't. I think the whole idea of live services is getting a stink on it now, outside of a couple properties that excel at it. If they throw all their eggs in that basket, it'll be a disaster.

Random, but does one have to have watched Dune 1 to enjoy Dune 2? I'm hearing all this stuff about how great Dune 2 is, but didn't see 1.

I think the only hope there is the indies and maybe the mid-level studios. 120 million is cute, but AAA studios are about way bigger numbers, and you need GOW Ragnarok sales every title to get those numbers without microtransactions. We might never be truly free of them when talking about any AAA studio.

I think he meant (albeit with sarcasm) those new outfits. I'm ok with them, but can see how one would think they're butt-ugly. Except for the main Mileena's one. I like that. If I played Mileena, I'd be trying to snap that up over the weekend.

I SO wanna believe he did that as a chess move, knowing they'll be more valuable in the future when Trump is either dead, in jail, or president again. But I know it's much dumber than that: he really just bought them.

Algorithm engagement. That's what. Somehow, someway, losers like that get paid off the anger that comes his way. Whether it be ads or new members. Used to be, if you verbally shit your pants, you'd just get laughed at and that will be that. Now, everybody has an echo chamber AND them getting dunked on is beneficial. Not that much, but enough to make it worth it. It's worth it to shit your pants and be a public loser if you have no other skills these days. If you gather a crowd, that is. I just really wish we had a way to stop rewarding all these all these professional pants-shitters.

I'm close to the opposite end. I see the value in keeping stuff, no doubt. But being able to play damn near everything right now on Spotify makes up for the times where something is behind a legal wall. Those times are so rare for me. Then again, I'm not a music buff. Frankly, I'd have a more "keep your stuff" attitude about DVDs/Blu-Rays. I don't care for them myself, but the splitting up of EVERYTHING you get nowadays is getting annoying.

Wow, I thought they somehow did that thing where they get two photos mixed up, but yeah, that's her.

Oh, so NOW he has nothing to say about Jews?

Literally every time I think "I'm not getting paid enough", some report that a company is laying off hundreds comes out. I don't know what sign the universe is trying to give me. Is it trying to say "go for it; you might not be there tomorrow" or "stay where you are"?

My brain almost made me gag just processing that. Some dumbasses don't get that you have to KNOW the rules to break them. Your captain is flying (frying?) blind.

I look forward to this going forward (win or lose) if it has merit, but you're banking on the collective intelligence of Elon Musk and Gina Carano here. In all likelihood, Elon's posturing and/or being stupid again, and Gina's scratching for any bit of fame she could get now. If Disney has any solid proof they asked her to stop tweeting conspiracy shit and she wouldn't, then that's it. I can't imagine proof of justification in the firing of Carano will unearth secrets Disney just doesn't want to come out.

I will say that this is interesting. If she has a case and it goes through, that'd be something to see. If she's being strung along for billable hours, that'd be funny to see.

She comes from casino money. Why even do this? Is the reality that she got fired to get internet pats on the back from the likes of Ben Shapiro finally sinking in? I mean, if anything I've heard around the time of her firing is true, she was given several opportunities to shut up peddling the conspiracy stuff she was peddling. James Gunn, when he got fired, got given way less chances.