Here’s a little sample https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/99258/why-do-corporate-mergers-require-the-approval-of-foreign-governments

That’s great. It’s like you were temporarily a worker’s co-op.

I remember my company at the time also admitted that COVID was threatening the bottom line and many in the all hands and public chats suggested just what your company did.

Instead we got multiple rounds of gutting layoffs mid-pandemic, a mass exodus of core talent, and the founders selling out to some B tier silicon valley fucks who fly in every now and then to complain about morale.

I only had a 360 back in the day, and I feel like I got in and out at the absolute peak. So many great couch coop with roommates memories.

Companies used to need approval to do such things

Username tells me you know your stuff

I never had one but sounds like I missed out. I also wasn’t thinking of rereleases or emulation.

Perhaps this is a weird part to single out, but it surprised me

I mainly played on the 3DS from when I was 6 until I was 15, so I don’t have as much experience with other consoles.
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The 3DS was simply Nintendo’s best era, and I don’t think we’ll see anything like that again given the current direction of their latest consoles…

Curious if others agree. I would’ve thought that it would be the SNES era, but that’s probably betraying my age more than anything.

Great article! On par with gaming publications, and actually probably better than most Nintendo Power articles I remember from back in the day. Great job!!

Not a graphics card guy, but this thumbnail is art

Maybe referring to Flynn Taggart in the novels? Haven’t read any doom in a while, I must confess…

Agree. I have such a soft spot for Duke 3D, though.

Idea: Duke gets woke and goes on a cop killing rampage redemption arc???

Thank you. For once I don’t have to be that person.

Spicy, but I love that take

Yeah really. They should be more like campuses funding a hundred small teams each trying to make something they’re individually passionate about. Hell, even give them the IPs to play with and see what they come up with.

Fear of failure becomes self fulfilling, yeah. You get so worried about making the wrong move and losing money that you can have your spotlight stolen by a challenger doing it fresher for 1/10th the budget.

Read the article, you say? What a radical notion.

I’ve been wondering why my fav retro podcasts have been discussing contemporary games.

I agree. Unless they got very lucky I think the only way they could do Quake 5/2030/whatever is if they gave it the indie treatment, which as vassals of a giant publisher they are unable to do with an important IP.

I recently replayed Quake ii + expansions, too, and it’s also its own joined of fun. Hunting for secrets never got old.

This game looks cool. I had not noticed what you’re taking about in previews, but I love when media subtly subverts expectations around beauty or how certain characters should look.

Like I love a “weak” chin, but character designers seem allergic to using anything but the idealised western proportions for that part of the head.

Nice.

Nice. Did you make this?

Oh yeah reflex is a huge skill gate. I could basically never land a parry in Demon’s Souls, so hopefully there are some nice settings to dial that in.

Interesting. I’ve heard good things about this game from a friend who is way better at games than I am.

Solid farm. Makes me we want to boot up my old world.

Tyyy. Also these are such cool designs. As little as I was actually interested in playing this game, I had to admit the aesthetic was so cool.

I hope the artist is made whole from this, or at last gains some more patrons (https://antireal.info/)

It was really good. I just wanted more indigenous themes if they were going to use the Prey name. It was such a disappointment in that respect.

Fucking spot on analogy

Why?

You get it

They just don’t make memes like they used to, and none of us can just run in without fearing the wrath of strangers. The folks who take games too seriously won.

Maybe not everywhere, but multiplayer games for sure have more serious elements to them than I ever thought.

In a way, this is what I wanted back in the 90s when so few people understood the potential of video games as a serious art form.

We’ll always have the memories from before we knew.

Chewbacca would like a word.

Rofl, owned

You’re answering the questions, but then you’re also throwing in these odd misanthropic asides. Is this a bit?

I appreciate your insights into Japanese IP law and Nintendo biz lore in this thread.

Sicko garners playing their games.

Okay so it’s maybe 45 to 50 per cent half-life 3.

But it was the third complete half-life game. I havent played it (no interest in owning vr kit) and even I take this view.

Quake 3 Arena

I honestly think it’s objectively the best written game ever.

It’s very text heavy, which isn’t for everyone.

It’s definitely for me. I ate it UP, and was still hungry for more.