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Next fest always feels punishing when there's over 3K demos each time. Half the time I've completely missed when a game I was interested in was in it because there's just so much to wade through.
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Then they admitted that the union would likely push against the use of non-union actors, meaning a lifetime limit of 3 projects for those actors or they join and pay $3000 + $200 per year and a percentage of their earnings. The guy that works for the union is pro the union, shocker.
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Not every actor is in the USA, so not everyone can join SAG AFTRA, or else may be requires to pay the fees and dues of multiple unions at once (which would be a huge decrease to earnings). Plus any not-quite actors like how the composer played the main character in Hades 1.
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Source: www.sagaftra.org/interim-inte...
(indicating that all non-union performers are subject to the Taft-Hartley waivers, which have a lifetime limit of 3 jobs, or 30 days of working non-union, before they're mandated to join SAG-AFTRA (solidarity.us/how-to-join)
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"We employed this one union actor while they were striking, but now our next game requires every other VA, even those who cannot, to join SAG-AFRA or they'll be banned from working with us further." is not a win. Requiring people to join a paid union is as unreasonable as expecting them to quit one.
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SAG actors are striking, that's why they can't work. In order to be exempt it would need to be a union production, if it is a union production, every non union member (devs, people working internationally) would be limited to two union productions before they're forced to join or banned outright.
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What about the non-union actors (including devs like Darren Korb or anyone from the UK) who will then be limited to one more game before they're banned from participation (or forced to join) by SAG rules? It's not like there's the choice to go union and still keep all the non-union actors.
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Waiting for "Why rape is sometimes a justifiable weapon of war?" by Russ Anapologist.
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That's just the ending to Don't Look Up.
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Vader: What's that I see?
Mook on the screen: Lord Vader?
Video feed pans over to the death star thermostat
Vader starts raising his gloved hand as the knob starts to rotate towards 'cold'
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God it even looks like he's sitting up to deliver the news like in the meme. 10/10
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May also have been the result of the artist seeing the texture in the abstract out of the game and not understanding the intended scale (because the texture itself *looks* like it belongs to something much smaller).
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This is false, everyone knows you can't light ice on fire.
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For additional context, that's how much he makes every 7.62 seconds. If all his wealth was in a conventional bank account instead of stocks etc he'd be making millions per day just through interest, so he'd never any decrease in wealth that way.
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Like, it's hard to really argue to police language that might make groups feel bad, when the response to those outside having the same response is "Did my words hurt your feelings, snowflake?". Feels a bit all or nothing to me. Plus getting people's hackles up over 'Whiteness' seems self-defeating.
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It's a failure of messaging really. I think if people have objections to 'blacklist' (a term with no racial origins) is problematic, they should also see 'Whiteness' as problematic too. Otherwise it's just "negative language only matters when it hurts my feelings in particular".
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Jesus, even this very thread has anime-avatar neo-nazi (88 and an iron cross in their name and a swastika banner on their profile) replies. And they have the gaul to play the victim here.
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(Parker Solar Probe’s WISPR instruments, assuming the alt-text is correct)
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The alt-text does credit the source, though it also appears to be written by AI in how it makes unsure statements about how the bright light is 'probably the sun' as if there's just another incredibly bright point source in our solar system.
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Firing all the women is part of that probably. The 'congratulating themselves for ending political correctness while firing people for saying the wrong words' is harder to shake.
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"Them being broadly pro-Israel is the reason the way more rabidly pro-Israel party won in this country whose politicians are almost exclusively pro-Israel due to the country having one of the highest Jewish populations and a weirdly powerful doomsday Christian group." still makes no sense to me.
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Isn't that just when someone breaks your kneecaps?
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And by expert opinion I mean third parties also verifying this site's data and it's meaningfulness, given this 'ETA' could be anyone including hostile foreign actors.
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There's whatever you make of electiontruthalliance.org/2024-us-elec...
Plus all of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republi...
If there's genuine mathematically-suspicious statistical data, that's more meaningful than 'we feels like we shouldn't have lost'. But I think that requires more expert opinion.
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Loco Motive's the only game I've seen that felt like it actually had the production values of the 90s LucasArts stuff (and even better VA) though. I say that as someone who does play all the indie point and clicks. I like them, but they're comparatively stilted.
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Calling asylum seekers 'illegal' for showing up in your country is like wanting to shoot people trying to ring your doorbell because they're 'trespassing'. What are they supposed to do, stand at the border of their own country and shout loudly while hoping not to get shot by soldiers?
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Napoleon would totally have tweeted that too if he hadn't been both long dead and probably incapable of writing in English.
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It's uhh, kind of Lovecraftian? An ever-shifting amorphous reality. Works for some games, makes others look worse, but generally without it the games look blander. Emulation enhancements > motion sickness any day though.
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Isn't this more Dark Knight Rises? Begin's plothole was more why does no one boil water in Gotham?, isn't there visible (fear-toxin laced) steam constantly billowing out of the streets?
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Let he who is without a long history of SA accusations throw the first stone.
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They're already planning on sending any 'migrants', not even illegal immigrants, to their Guantanamo Bay black site in Cuba. They've already shuttered half the government. They've already installed their shadowy "deep-state" of Russian-backed millionaires.
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At this point what would 'too far' even be? The next step is the large scale 'detainment' of democrats and citizens that don't toe the Party's line. I can't conceive of a meaningful intermediate step between what they're already doing and full fascist police state.
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The immediate and omnipresent guro vibes are an instant deal breaker for me. Just felt icky during the experience of the demo.
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Can that even work, or does that just get spun into yet more "They're calling all the critics racist!" misinfo? Feels like I've seen creators attempting to stand their ground again culturewars grifting backfire more than it succeeds.
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I know this is Rayman but it feels like its straight out of Spy Kids.
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How is funding handled for exchange students? That's like the only scenario that would make much sense (though a billion would still be absurdly high).
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Christians seeking atonement: "I've been a bad, bad, boy and need to be punished~"
God, looking down: ಠ_à²
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Someone should propose a bill to defund both of them simultaneously then, for hell of it.
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Not a lawyer, but surely if you breach the terms of the contract then the contract becomes null and void for the other side? It seems like a self-resolving issue at least on that one point.
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"If you're so against police brutality, why aren't you trying to make murder illegal too?" is not a win.
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Ah yes, social distancing and masks... completely out of thin air. Which is why every other nation on the planet also do, and why it was standard during the Spanish flu of 1918, the 2003 SARS outbreak, and why movies like Contagion (2011) feature both as expected standard national procedures.
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It still needs to control against "giving it to people in poorer countries increases the chances of survival because they might actually have a parasite that it kills" though.
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Still don't get why render-target reflections are evil. They're like the best looking result (see: Hitman, water in any mid 2000s games), and don't require the headache of mirroring rooms and characters behind the current one. Even raytracing tends to look blurry + smeary.
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On this plus side for him, it's killing off all the parasites he would be getting from the undercooked meat.
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Gotta make sure all content is indistinguishable from slop, and also that all the stolen posts also get fed into the AI training theft hole. Urgh.
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Look at the name of the artist in the middle of the comic, now look at the name of the account you were replying to :P
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I've legitimately kept a £10 no name membrane keyboard for over a decade. Did finally die though. The mouse I got at the same time is still going strong though. Keep fighting the fight, 2011 Logitech mouse.
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Source: www.adl.org/resources/ha...
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No they didn't. If you read their actual article they screenshot multiple overtly neo-nazi uses of pepe memes. It's entirely context driven.