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Best? Not sure, but it's a great movie regardless of what metric you're judging it by.

Whoa... PlayStation Skipping E3 for First Time in Show’s 24-Year History They are also skipping this years PSX. 2019 is the 25th anniversary, so I guess expectations are something independent is planned, with potential the PS5 reveal. Mid to late next year is about the right time for a reveal with a fall 2020 release.

CDPR is just investing efficiently in guarenteed returns which helps to attract long-term investment. It amortizes the performance of peoples investments and helps yield more consistent dividents. Thus people stay invested. (Many investors have to pull investments due to life needs when they really want to vote with their wallets.) As long as CDPR doesn't gut their heavy hitting development teams just because they have lower margins than some side team, the I think they'll maintain their current philosophy. A lot of devs when they lose the old guard start to let margins drive what the company produces, which is essentially shifting the business from funding something of high intrinsic value to something that has a return value through consumer wealth extraction via inflated pricing. I still trust the upper rungs of CDPR for the time being, and I think they'll be able to convince the shareholders to run the Rockstar production model (high/long investment for high return) for the foreseeable future. Albeit CDPR mostly references pre-GTAOnline Rockstar in their financial structuring back pre-TW3 when they were planning that game as the 2077 franchise. The whole, no annual always rotating through IP long dev cycle sort of studio. Their investment in that direction will give them a lot of locked in momentum to stay that course as well. Seeing as rpgs have such a strong history of storytelling, but with not everyone being hardcore enthusiasts over mechanics and gameplay, being able to split off a story-centric digital experience off of what was a split-off deep dive of a card game mini-game within a major rpg, is not a terrible business strategy. It also demonstrates that these sorts of products are highly dependent on a core reputable product that defines the IP. In the case of CDPR even their major titles are all further backed by prior art. We can breath for the time being.

Depends on your taste of graphics, but I highly recommend Hyper Light Drifter.

In the wake of Obsidian's aquisition, it's nice to know the model of independent crowd-funded iso-crpgs is a legacy that other's are following. I think that's a sign of good things to come, in both short and long term.

God damn, I've missed that silver tongue.

Omg is that a Hitmonlee?

I flub spelling and grammar all the damn time. Edit stamps are badges of shame, especially if you clean up grammar after someone already struggled through your point and even gave you a like. Oh the shame!

Wait... mods can edit posts without having the edit timestamp?!?!?!? You've been made! Democratize that feature now!

God I love this band, whole album is a trip.

Fun fact, PoE1 is actually titled Pillars of Eternity I: Dyrwood

They're an awesome band. What's curious about "Theme One" is that Peter Hammill is usually a big component to the band and that's one of the very few (perhaps the only? Can't recall any others) instrumental tracks they did, back in the 70s anyhow. When the band broke up, Jackson, Evans and Banton made a band called The Long Hello, largely instrumental, and at least to me there was always something missing in that lineup, it all felt pretty stale and by-the-numbers. "Theme One" however is a great track, nice lead melody but also there's a drive and energy to it that is precisely missing from that instrumental side project. Good stuff. Also dual sax. Like... what?!! Too kewl 4 skewl.

Anyways... I took a look back an Minecraft recently and it's impressive the amount of support this game receives through MS. Granted that game is a behemoth and pulls a lot of it's own weight, but I think it's a sign of what could come. Likewise the support of Forza has really brought it above Gran Turismo which was the king of console racing games for over a decade. Microsoft. Unfortunately Scalebound and Stormlands got cancelled, but those were also out of house partnerships, so it will be interesting to see how much better treated the studios will be when profits don't have to be fought over. Microsoft can just write off the initial loss of the acquisitions and focus on raw returns going forward.

I was getting really into VDGG a few months back

The market will choose high quality foods, until the only games in town begin betraying the standards that got them to where they are. Que either regulations or a long slow wait for the economics of scale of the good little guy to catch up to the big bad guy. This is why food regulations is not nazism sitting between farm and table.

Check your ignorance.

If being dense is now a form of trolling, than sadly trolls have devolved.

I hope you liked the river scenes as much as I did, especially the transition between the chase to the escape. Yeah, it's a flawed film. But it's very obviously ahead of it's time in many ways.

The Pillars series deserves so much more exposure than it has, hopefully it wins a few awards to attracts some people who hadn't considered it prior.

There is a specific economic sense of class, and there is the more fundamental sense of a class. Class of bacteria, class of 1985, class of suspension bridges. Analogous to a set, category, collection, group, demographic, population.

Best "Ongoing Game" Best "Multiplayer Game" Hmmmm...

Middle girl looks keen.

Agreed, the media and the press are flawed actors. Still, blanket attacks against the journalist class is very dangerous and we are seeing a turn against journalist at the moment around the world.

Ack, say it don't spray it.