Great insight it a number of civilisations that have collapsed throughout human history. Explains their rise, peak and of course collapse in great detail.
It seems like every other week a game studio is massively laying off employees; sometimes after years of development. What I’m reading is that it’s a quick way to lower expenses and pad the investors’ pockets, flooding the market with developers and reducing their value, to then hire them back a few months later at lower...
The reason why everyone doesn’t do it is because it requires significant capital to be able to support a dev team through production for a number of years.
Not to mention they will still have to deal with publishers potentially fucking them over, as shown with the Helldivers 2 PSN fiasco.
That’s literally been their business model since the beginning, it just used to be that the content was Umezawa’s Jitte or Chrome Mox and now it’s Gandalf or Doctor Who.
The real pack sellers are power creeped cards, not the IP of that set.
But it turns out that there’s not a whole lot of reason to get Game Pass if the games suck, and if you want to play a game long term, you’re better off buying it once on Steam instead of paying a subscription.
And X Cloud still sucks ass.
They have no decent exclusives, and their purchase of Bethesda didn’t pay off because Redfall and Starfield sucked ass.
They wasted billions on Activision Blizzard, which it seems like was entirely for the WoW and CoD IPs, and now they’re shutting other studios they scooped up with Bethesda which was purchased for the Fallout and Elder Scrolls IP.
They’re trying to score exclusive IPs for the next gen to get people stuck in their ecosystem.
I’m not usually a huge fan of rogue-likes, but I’ve enjoyed a few, like Hades. I bought Balatro last week and have been absolutely smashing it ever since then. I love the way the game works, each run being so different even within the same framework, and the feeling when your build starts to go off is so incredibly...
Sci-Fi / fantasy is my favorite genre and almost every show they have put out I have liked have not seen all however. Just watched dark matter first two episodes yesterday and they were great....
We’ve all got one. That pile of books waiting to be read, some of them surely doomed to linger for years as other more enticing novels are selected instead. What’s in yours?
The massive 10 book epic fantasy series is a classic of the genre. If you’ve been interested in the series at all, this is the cheapest price I’ve seen for the whole lot.
What podcasts have you been listening to the most during the year?
I’m getting close to the bottom of my backlog on a few podcasts, so I’m looking to get something new in there....
Can somebody explain why game makers don't start their own companies together?
It seems like every other week a game studio is massively laying off employees; sometimes after years of development. What I’m reading is that it’s a quick way to lower expenses and pad the investors’ pockets, flooding the market with developers and reducing their value, to then hire them back a few months later at lower...
A response to the Sarah Silverman suing OpenAI post from yesterday: [AI doesn't read or write like humans, and we shouldn't act like it does.] (agrobertson.substack.com)
A long form response to the concerns and comments and general principles many people had in the post about authors suing companies creating LLMs.
Stop trying to turn Dungeons & Dragons into a Marvel-esque cash cow – it won’t work (www.theguardian.com)
After Buying Up Studios, Xbox Says It Doesn't Have The Resources To Run Them (kotaku.com)
Anyone else addicted to Balatro right now? (www.playbalatro.com)
I’m not usually a huge fan of rogue-likes, but I’ve enjoyed a few, like Hades. I bought Balatro last week and have been absolutely smashing it ever since then. I love the way the game works, each run being so different even within the same framework, and the feeling when your build starts to go off is so incredibly...
Canada's 2024 wildfire season expected to be even worse than last year's (archive.ph)
I don’t have a better source than NatPo. If anyone’s aware of a better one, post it.
Dpad vs analog stick
Which do you prefer? Why?...
Dungeons and Dragons may improve mental health (www.jcu.edu.au)
You Knew This Was Coming (lemmy.ml)
Why does Lemmy have a Malian domain?
Just wondering why lemmy is on a .ml domain. (Which is Mali) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ml
Starfield (Zero Punctuation) (www.youtube.com)
[The Verge] Apple TV Plus is turning into the best place for streaming sci-fi (www.theverge.com)
Sci-Fi / fantasy is my favorite genre and almost every show they have put out I have liked have not seen all however. Just watched dark matter first two episodes yesterday and they were great....
What's in your tsundoku pile?
We’ve all got one. That pile of books waiting to be read, some of them surely doomed to linger for years as other more enticing novels are selected instead. What’s in yours?
God of War Ragnarok PC Port Announcement Is Imminent, Leaker Claims (gamerant.com)
Australian Eurovision performer posts in support of Palestine 🍉 (aussie.zone)
source: www.instagram.com/p/C6sUpWuIf3y/
Wet bulb events. Not as sexy as they sound. (open.substack.com)
If you’ve never heard of wet bulb events, get ready for a new level of climate anxiety. When the air kills you!
You've never heard of the most brutal race in the world. (agrobertson.substack.com)
Excerpt from Shivers, a magipunk novelette/novella I'm working on. Let me know what you think of it.
“Did you hear what I said, Ms. Kawamune?”...
America invaded half the globe for the sake of freedom (i.ibb.co)
Steven Erikson's epic fantasy series Malazan Book of the Fallen available now on Humble Bundle. (www.humblebundle.com)
The massive 10 book epic fantasy series is a classic of the genre. If you’ve been interested in the series at all, this is the cheapest price I’ve seen for the whole lot.
The best board games of 2023 so far [Polygon Article] (www.polygon.com)