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1 hour ago, iStu X said:

Dude is likely going to lose his job over his dumb stance that has absolutely no grounds what so ever 

If he gets fired I'll be surprised but this is definitely a wild hill to die on in regards to this game.

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Among Us animated seires pulls in more random heavy hitters for the cast

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/among-us-animated-series-cast-patton-oswalt-debra-wilson-phil-lamarr-wayne-knight-1235960433/

Patton Oswalt, Debra Wilson, Phill Lamar, and Wayne Knight.

Technically the interviewer and the interviewee should both have the onus since it's supposed to be give and take.  Emphasis on "supposed to be".  The person asking questions should be trying to get info about whatever is that they think would be important about the subject or what they think they're readers would care about regarding the subject.  The person answering should be give answers about the subject in question especially if its something that they're trying to promote and in the hopes that any answers they give will help generate buzz.  In the case of Stellar Blade unfortunately for better or worse everything seemed to have more of a major focus on the character's look.  I don't believe that this was just something that lays at the feet of the interviewers because one of the very first things that people will notice in the first introduction of this character in the reveal trailer is obvious. (Also by the way man Eve went through a hell of change from then to now eh?).  And It's even more obvious when the rereveal happened that they're doing it to get your attention.  I'm not gonna knock the hustle cause again...it sells.  This discourse is doing exactly what it's supposed to do and its generating buzz for both the journalists who want to point and scream "look at the oversexualization of this character!" all the while Shift Up doesn't do anything to steer the conversation away from it because it's keeping the game in people's minds.  I mean if I'm in Shift Up's position from a business perspective and I think my game is solid...why would I want to tell the press to not talk about the game when it's generating buzz like this for positive or negative?    All the supposed "criticism" about Eve has a high chance of actually working in Shift Up's favor since it'll get people who probably were "meh" on it to try the demo and probably discover the game may actually have some substance instead of passing on it.

Hellblade II has its own discourse surrounding it cause supposedly the game is roughly 8 hours or something?  Only glanced at some of it that showed up since it was part of a bigger overall recurring discourse regarding length of games and whether that makes them better or have more value or whatever.

Toriyama's influence and legacy continuing to spread

This is so fucked.  I"m glad most cops are required to wear camera's now because what in the actual fuck.

Was this cop hopping the footage would get scrubbed?  I don't know what the thought process here was.

Bayonetta plays up the sexy better than Eve does since it's baked into her personality.  I'm not getting any of that out of anything I've seen out of Eve from any of the gameplay or story bits that have been seen thus far.  I mean if it gets people to drop $70 on the game then I can't knock the hustle.  Sex sells but if that's the main draw and the gameplay and story substance to go with it then it's really not going to matter in the long run.  I will be very curious to see what the full game shapes up to be once it's in everyone's hands and the dusts settles.   I'm not expecting this game to set the world on fire unless there's some crazy tech or story beats that really set things off and that may not necessarily be a bad thing...especially since this is Shift Up's first serious high budge game.  I think I'll be more interested to see what they learn from the feed back and development of this game for the next one.

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Yeah I need this.  Ran into the aerial gunships last night and holy shit do things go south if you don't take them out.

South Park being on the nose with social commentary again

Its real...I had to double check myself.

One of the creators of Shadow talking about the process that went into his character design

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Also remember a few months ago that Nintendo had an event that they had to cancel due to threats?   Looks like they may have got his ass.

Kanye is one of those people that someone could say did and said  some of the most wildest shit and you wouldn't doubt it.

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quote from rollingstone article

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At some point, Phillips says Ye had hotel staff come to the room and put on 2022’s The Batman, with the two men watching the movie on mute in silence. 

Joel really not trying to make it easy

42 minutes ago, Darc_Requiem said:

My honest opinion. To stop them from bringing aid in. They were the most successful at getting food aid into Gaza. Now they've suspended aid to the region and not only that, a similar organization has done the same. It's not the an accident. It's purposeful. They "accidentally" took out three vehicles, in an approved zone, with prior authorization of the route by the IDF?  Not buying it.

 

I've seen too many videos of them straight up mercing unarmed people to think this is an accident. People typically just don't care because it's "only Palestinians." Just like when they killed their own hostages that had escaped Hamas. The dudes were shirtless and waving a white flag asking for help. They shot them dead because they thought hey were Palestinians. They were only sorry because they were Israeli. Or when they riddled a families van with bullets, little girl surives calls for help, and those fuckers blew up the ambulance that came to help her. You can unfortunately see numerous videos of them taking unarmed people out. Often people waving white flags. Seeing this type of evil live and in living color is fucking disturbing.

 

TLDR: If any other country was doing this type of malicious and reprehensible shit, the entirety of NATO would be up in arms. Yet we, the US, just shipped them more weapons. That's like me selling brass knuckles to dude that's beating his wife and saying "There's nothing I can do. I'm talked him and said he shouldn't hit her. It's not my place to interfere in their marriage" 🤬

I really hate that this conflict can't be talked about in any sort of nuance and if you put out that you'd want to seen both sides stop being shit to each other then you get called pro/anti palestinian or pro/anti Jewish regardless.  I'm not going to say I envy the Pres position in this either cause at the start of this you couldn't really fault Isreal for retaliating for what Hamas did but then its pretty clear that they've been going overboard and you try to point that out people start yelling without listening.  The right thing to do would be to stop giving them aide since they keep killing innocent people but the moment you do that its gonna piss off the other side right before an election.  Did I ever mention that I hate politics?

18 minutes ago, Darc_Requiem said:

Is this supposed to be some sort of insightful take? Because pre-orders giving people cosmetics for the main character is par for the course. Not only is it not new, it's the norm. This is worse than his Metroid Dread take. I mean people were buying codes off of Ebay so they could get all pre-orde armors for ME2 and ME3. This has to be engagement farming, he can't be this stupid....can he?

He's trying to dichotomize (....not sure if this is a word) the difference between people saying its a game for men but getting preorders bonuses for dressing up a woman...which doesn't really work and if you think about it for a while it ends up going full circle to potentially being offensive.

2 hours ago, Darc_Requiem said:

This nonsense continues. If ANY other country pulled these types of stunts, they'd get ranked over the coals. How do organizations coordinate with you and you still hit them with an airstrike? 

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-68710515

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WCK said it had co-ordinated the convoy's movements with the IDF when it was hit.

This makes this beyond sus imo.  How you coordinating with IDF and still get your people blown up?