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No doubt the team improved on a lot. I think it's some of the new mechanics that now feel a bit half-baked. I think the tone of the first game was also a strong point that was lost. Often games are reviewed on what's beyond or short of the sum of the parts.

Youtubers need to make mountains out of anthills so that they can generate content. Still YouTube is pretty biased when it comes to enforcing policies. It's clear YTs mega-bias played a role, but it's also clear there is a process for justice. There is a reason Alex Jones was btfo'd and this guy got his account back. Why was Alex Jones banned really? I know he was a big conspiracy nutcase but what horrible thing he did that got him banned? I think him calling the Sandy Hook shooting a hoax, calling the parents of the victims fake and liars, and generally inciting harassment against them for being "crisis actors" got the target on his back. YT just decided to enforce their TOS against him and found enough violations to burn through all his warnings. YT & Twitter have huge biases in favor of progressive conspiracy theorists and harassers, but Alex Jones certainly earned his ban,

Maybe MS nets them. I feel like Take-Two would be a better partner honestly. Especially if the Private-Division venture does well.

Youtubers need to make mountains out of anthills so that they can generate content. Still YouTube is pretty biased when it comes to enforcing policies. It's clear YTs mega-bias played a role, but it's also clear there is a process for justice. There is a reason Alex Jones was btfo'd and this guy got his account back.

YT ban, then reinstated. Nothing-burger.

Ahh, I see this was already posted. lmao. Even if upper management is insular, they are the shareholders. Selling would be their out, I don't think MS would need to clean that part of the house.

I want Pillars 3. How in the world is a 3rd getting funded now? I don't trust Fig alone will cut it. Unless

Before the Nazis took it, it was an American flag-salute as America was modeled off the Roman Republic.

Aesthetically I think WH40K is crap. So... SC wins.

I have friends that enjoy RPGs, that have recently gotten really into DnD, who knew I praised Pillars 1, who watched Critical Role, who saw their CR idols praise and embrace Deadfire, and... display no real interest in Pillars at all. Maybe Obs could crowdfund a third game, but final unit sales are also important. If those are dwindling I'm not sure the Eora IP's future is in crpgs... sadly enough. I do want one more entry at the very least... I think Pillars would fare far better if it had a stronger social component. Maybe build a whole PnP scenario tool/builder extension on the game similar to what Divinity:OS2 did.

As someone who is savvy I don't see how I could accidentally delete an email server that I'm not the admin of, and to delete all of Outlook/Gmail would be excruciatingly deliberate. It's easier to believe the server was nuked by some IT clerk who was told to take it down.

One might call it... a brain freeze.

That flies in the face of 1. Civic Duty 2. Ignorantia juris non excusat 3. Due Dilligence

It's more like #VoterSurpressionWave2018

There isn't much SJW about Overwatch, it's a rather hollow game narrative wise and the represented identities are more about covering marketing demographics than pushing an agenda. It seems a lot of the identitarian dens aren't exactly happy with the games cast anyways. It's clear with the new Diablo that much of what the company does circles around marketing prospects, if half your content is emergent based on the social behaviors that your play-base contributes then you only have to create just enough content that you can market and net people.

I still don't get why they had to merge, something about having a stronger stock presence or something to amortize out risk and ride out opposing fluctuations in consumer demands, while maintaining to diametric branding labels or something? I don't know maybe... but the whole merger just seems odd to me. Maybe it had to do with cooperation in competition against the larger EA/Ubisoft. But right after the merger they weren't exactly the same organization just yet, it was only that they combined their stocks under a holding company.

Anyone catch the Munk debate between Frum and Bannon? Note the closing poll is wrong, and the numbers actually didn't change. I found the whole thing very unsatisfying, it wasn't quite a conversation and it wasn't quite a debate. At some point Frum seems to become visibly rattled, and I can only speculate as to why. It's clear that the room is with Frum, but Frum seems to pickup on an impasse related to Bannon's facade. Bannon has this quality of confidence, where he carefully only defends a few "improved flavors" of populism, while bunting away responsibilities on his movements messaging and signalling. Frum can't really call Bannon out on being insincere, and is stuck mostly doing a lot of leg work to re-establish reality and the landscape of perceptions, where as Bannon show's little effort or desire to want the nation's solutions to come from a process intellectual inquiry. I think this is what rattles Frum, where Bannon treats the populist shift as almost a political pilgrimage to unknown territory. Yet in unknown territory we don't even know where we'll need to start fixing things. Yet it's also clear that the people allied in Bannon's movement do have a clear destination and it's not at all aligned with the little man. For every person in the room with Frum, there is at least another half-person at home more compelled by the obscured trajectory that Bannon promotes. So much more is at stake for Frum, and he's just extended credence to Bannon for being unable to step out on a limb and accuse Bannon of dishonesty.

Yeah, Lindsay Ellis is great. I need a new video from her.

I want a movie of that now.

The dark tone of the first was one of the best parts, because it was something you were up against. Pillars 1 Eder is also one of the best voices to bounce perspectives off of in an RPG. Two of the best parts of the first diluted... I actually have to defend Deadfire’s Eder here, because I really liked his dialogues with Eothas and conversations about gods in general. You could really feel this anger of a regular person who realised the truth behind Eora’s powers. Very French Revolution, Occupy etc. vibe to it and I think it’s important perspective to imagine how most folk will react once they see that the emperor is naked. Everything, from his very first dialogue about Berath’s mission, via his personal quest and to ending slides is very coherent, very believable and well done. It shows how a simple farmer/soldier can reevaluate his beliefs and it made me kinda proud to help lead him this way (you know, Scholar/Sage/Rational disposition). I don’t know how is he on the „believer” path but I couldn’t yet bring myself to play as a godly person; for now it’s just various iterations of atheists for me. rumor is that Eder was split between Josh and Eric. If true, I’m guessing the parts where there is an animal involved were written by Josh and those are the parts I dislike the most. I think it's mostly a case of flanderization off of what was established canonically from the first game.

You know what I love about Blizzard, how they sell cross-game cosmetics to get you to invest fully in their suite of games. How can I be cynical when they help maintain the buy-in momentum for their longest living whales.

The dark tone of the first was one of the best parts, because it was something you were up against. Pillars 1 Eder is also one of the best voices to bounce perspectives off of in an RPG. Two of the best parts of the first diluted...

I'd say Wrath/Cat were probably the last great works from the WoW team. SC2 while having some impressive game design, was a rather hobbled game on multiplayer/competitive grounds despite that aspect being the major selling of the game. Valve really demonstrated how a competitive game should be supported technologically wise, and quite embarrassed Blizzard further by their lack of acknowledgement of the DOTA phenomenon. Then obviously the cancelling, well into development, of Diablo 3 and further killing of Blizzard North. Only to struggle with a new Diablo 3's design for years just to find a "second WoW" via the Auction House, only to have to remove the entire AH. Hearthstone gets some credit for succeeding in the card game space, though Magic gets the real credit for leading. Overwatch is just a TF2 clone spurred by the realization TF2 was in it's waning phase and that Valve was busy encroaching on the Dota market which was eating away at SC2. So they decided to move into the void left in the team shooter genre, with a marketing push targeted at a new generation of gamers. So really their last decade has been mostly remixes and follow trends. While polished technically (mostly thanks to the infrastructure WoW built) the actual games have taken on a rather over-engineered skinner box design to trap players within a facade. I enjoyed Overwatch just as a way to scratch the TF2 itch in a different way, but it's staying power was a few months for me. While TF2 appealed to me for years on end. Overwatch really is more of a Dota style game anyways, which also points to Blizzards desperation to appeal to a market bubble in game tastes. edit: grammar

My lord, do I ever hate theocrats.