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That was such a marketing misfire. Every livestream of the event I've seen immediately stops giving a crap about the (potentially cool) handheld reveal going on and spends the next five minutes going "hold, on, Silksong?"
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Would you believe this week I heard a local street band play Moliendo Café, entirely traditionally and unironically, and my first thought was instantly Creature Commandos despite that having happened hundreds of time in my life?
Congratulations, you apparently own that now.
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Se me cae la hipótesis porque otros países experimentan el mismo fenómeno. Si la lotería tocó en España en los 80 y en EEUU y Reino Unido en los 50-60 de la posguerra mundial, ¿cómo es que la crisis la pasamos todos a la vez?
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Siempre me ha dado la impresión de que habría sido mejor sin ser una adaptación. Los trazos al original quitan más que ponen.
Pero entonces igual no se habría hecho o no se habría hablado de ella. Igual es el precio que se paga en el siglo XXI para contar esa historia.
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I mean, for one thing here we are, talking about it and amplifying it on a different social network, which funnels traffic to Twitter and makes this take more visible than pretty much any other take on the thing.
We are part of the problem.
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Congrats, you just cracked the political discourse strategy that put Trump in the White House twice, diminished the viability of liberal democracy and started a second Cold War.
Craziest part? We still don't know how to counter it.
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- MKW rolls credits in four hours but has a lot more to do. Why don't people focus on Nintendo pacing more?
- Yes, the new joycon will pinch your fingers. Worth it for the much better docking system.
- The screen is good, but man, transferring from the OLED with both side by side was a bummer.
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- Data transfer was slow but robust and hassle-free.
- I like the noise the Switch does when you turn it on in its dock.
- You can turn it on with the controller now. That's good.
- It sucks for Fast Fusion that Nintendo went with Mario Kart for launch. It's pretty solid but had no chance.
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Keighley's show felt... frustrating and outdated, which can happen with his stuff sometimes. But Sony's event was spectacular and I saw tons of buzz about it.
Again, who is doing the coverage and why are key here. Things are changing, and the incentive to be this cool may just be gone forever.
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I've been obsessively watching Switch coverage since it came out (and I got mine in the mail on launch day).
I'm starting to suspect this is about *who* is doing the coverage.
I will say that Nintendo encouraged this by not sending advance units. The jury is still out on whether that worked.
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I mean, I can't speak for the entire gaming industry, but I'm pretty sure most of it would absolutely prefer you did get excited about it and buy the games.
Don't play what you don't like, obviously, but if that's the only thing holding you back...
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I dispute Plunkett's read in any case. My Youtube is flooded with Switch coverage, just... not from the old press guys. And while Keighley's show is kinda depressing, Sony's Direct yesterday was incredibly exciting.
Gaming will survive, but it sure is shedding a lot of things.
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People don't talk about this much, but this was a time where making these was dirt cheap compared to home console fare. These days a Switch game is not that different from a PS5 game, but all these handheld side projects were very affordable. It was small risk, small reward, so fewer restrictions.
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Man, that sucks.
Everybody keeps talking about EA selling out but it never happens. Since Disney is always part of that conversation I'd also say cancelling a three game deal with them is probably not the way that happens, and MS can't buy another major, so that's a slim field for that.
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Oh, is that what the US accounts are freaking out about?
I woke up in Europe to a bunch of American accounts arguing about this and I had no idea what they were talking about. It truly IS a Twitter-esque moment.
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OK but they're technically not wrong. We DID end up with 120Hz TVs as a standard. And 3DTVs were cool. It's kind of a shame they dropped the 3D compatibility. If anything I'd have loved to see the 3DS tech scaled up universally instead of glasses, but still.
Tangential and nerdy, but I stand by it.
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For the record, joking aside, I see how some of these people see dollar signs thinking about making dark patterns and then charging for services to bypass them, but the tech just isn't there and there's no indication that it's going to be. Nobody is letting AIs make payments for them anytime soon.
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I mean, I can't speak for all malekind, but I can't watch a family member grill a sandwich without micromanaging them. If they think I'm letting an AI agent book a hotel without nitpicking the transit routes to the more likely destinations they are out of their minds.
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Now I think about it, was there ANY game movie in the 80s? As in, a game adaptation, not a movie about videogames like Tron or The Wizard. Was the Mario movie the very first licensed feature or is there some weird example I am not thinking of?
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They would never have gone for Sim City when The Sims was right there in the same IP library.
In the 2000s, at least. In the 90s they wouldn't have gone for videogame rights at all, either befor or after Mario, for different reasons.
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Me choca más que todo el mundo se atasque con la crítica a la cultura y nadie mencione que para 1925 el siglo XX ya se había comido una guerra mundial entera.
Que vale que los 2010s y oriente medio y lo que tú quieras, pero no nos dejamos un millón de personas en el Somme. Te compro el reguetón.
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OK, but what if the absolute lowest settings in the game don't run at 60 on some piece of hardware? Is your concern what the game declares as the minimum spec in the store page? Doom requires 16 Gigs of RAM, the Deck is below the minimum spec.
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OK, so what did you say? Genuinely confused.
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I am very confused by this one.
So PC games should target the game running on the lowest compatible hardware at 60.
So then, to be clear, if the game doesn't run at 60 it shouldn't run at all.
So if the Deck can't do 60 the game shouldn't boot on it. And that's... better?
This thread is a trip.
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Longer than you'd think. Can't get into specifics, but this *can* be a significant constraint on making level changes. I'm talking days of sitting around and waiting if you need a change after final baking has already been done in some circumstances. On something WAY more powerful than a 4090.
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"Anarcocapitalista" y ya.
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I guess I'd add that in-person lessons are a much, much better path past that plateau than any self-learning tools. It sucks to make time for them but man, if you've been looking at online resources only it feels like blasting forward.
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Oh, yeah, that would be a better reason :D
Definitely the near-universal English proficiency encourages plateauing at "I can understand you and order some food, but I feel like I'm five years old trying to put together a porper sentence" indefinitely.
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Youtube! There are a few Romanian resources in there, which is good, because it's not typically a priority for language apps. Even Duolingo was only available relatively recently.
That said, the Romanian gamedev scene is super English-friendly, if that's the reason for the attempt.
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Cool. Go watch movies made by artists, then. Stop having schoolyard arguments about superheroes.
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Sure, bud. Whatever cheers you up.
For the record, I think Snyder is "capable of depth". I just have zero interest in Marvel vs DC fanboy flamewars since I left primary school.
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Steve literally has the bad apples conversation with Fury and makes the point that cleaning it up isn't enough and the whole thing must come down, so theydismalntle all of SHIELD.
They lose their resolve on that one later, but that was ballsy.
But you're not arguing in good faith, so who cares.
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Oh, wait, you're one of *those*.
Never mind, carry on. I thought we were talking about politics in movies and this is not that. I thought I was in a completely different conversation for a moment.
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You mean the movie where Robert Redford plays a US politican who is secretly a nazi and quietly plans a global surveilance system that causes Steve Rogers to go on the lam and culminates with him blowing up said global surveilance system?
Because that's a bad one to argue the imperialism angle.
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But ultimately if there is a political framework behind the Avengers at all it seems to be for a "well-meaning but flawed" type of international action.
Which tracks. That's been the framing of Marvel teams since the X-Men went for a multinational team in the Claremont reboot.
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Civil War is a mess when you transpose it to real politics, mostly because it's adapting a mess of a book from a mess of a writer. The best you can say about the MCU version is they smartly move it away from a political argument and to a personal conflict.
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Then the movie ends.
Next time we see them they're running around fighting Hydra, which ends up with the whole Sokovia mess. We're told later this was all unsanctioned and it's what leads to the entire argument about who (and whether) they should have oversight.
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They... don't? Fury shoots at the jet leaving with the missile after receiving his orders to stop it, then warns Tony who intercepts and gets rid of the missile.
You're really reaching here.
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Because you don't remember Spider-Man 2? They get the flagpole shot AND they end the movie with him swinging alongside emergency service vehicles in an extremely pointed way.
At least they throw more firefighters in along with the cops, which is nice.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGeO...
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Also, which unquestioning soldier is that? Even in the comics "Captain America isn't OK with the government" has been a thing since the 60s.
To a fault, if you ask me as a non-American. In Civil War it borders on weird US government-as-oppression stuff (from a Brit, by the way).
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You seem to remember Raimi Spidey sticking to flagpoles very differently than I do.
I guess "come off that way" implicitly means "to me".
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If there's a lesson in Expedition 33's success is that no matter how goofy and self-parodic it feels at home, you can marketably exoticise cultural specificity.
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Keir, alma de cántaro, no están cabreados con los inmigrantes, están cabreados por no tener casa y dispuestos a sacrificar a los inmigrantes igual que un chamán prehistórico apuñalaba una cabra a ver si hacía llover.
Más que nada por no aguantar al Farage en la tele cada día como a Trump.
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La creencia del centro liberal de que pueden acceder a votantes desafectos virando a la derecha es el error político más obvio y más repetido esta década.
Las coaliciones con la izquierda en España tienen el efecto rebote de salvar al centro de sí mismo.
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Pretty sure I've fought that boss in at least one videogame. The second form throws the overcoat away dramatically and the lyrics kick in on the symphonic metal.
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"Quenfois".