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The Rick & Morty game is going to be a cpu melter.

I wonder if we'll see anything at QuakeCon

Except it's not a slur, at least not originally. It's simply the foreign name for the people, like how the English call Germans, German, and not Deutsche. It referred to their use of snow-shoes. This whole slur thing got started because of people's own ignorance. Both people not knowing their own history, and people taking other's at their word in fear of not upholding the progressive flag. So what has resulted is the suggestion to use the word Inuit to refer to all Eskimo people, even though that name only refers to one ethnic branch. Essentially denying the Yupik people of their own distinction.

That's dense. Canada gave them an out by using the operative word "all peaceful" and they could have just said they are undergoing such differentiations. Instead they double down on anti-civil rights. Isn't the country trying to tout around woman now being able to drive? How much of a facade is all that?

I'm actually a bit shocked they opted for something new, but maybe they realized putting him into Discovery would be taken cynically and both fan groups would be underwhelmed.

Saudi Arabia Planned to Invade Qatar Last Summer. Rex Tillerson’s Efforts to Stop It May Have Cost Him His Job. https://theintercept.com/2018/08/01/rex-tillerson-qatar-saudi-uae/ Worthy read.

Will that be a new series or part of Discovery?

How is this my favorite headline in years...

Not sure if anyone's caught the whole Sarah Jeong debacle, but it's extremely damning of the new tribalism within the liberal media. NYT doubling down, BBC editing their original reporting to kowtow to the NYT's spin. Vox making it into a stand against the alt-right. Now of course the conservative media gets a field day and can dubiously use it to deconstruct liberalism or leftism to their hearts contents, which really just means decency is being suspended on the left to fight a proxy battle in the culture war now that they've been caught in a bad place. http://archive.is/IRFD1 NYT knows they aren't entirely getting away with this, and it seems they really just don't care. It's either an exertion of power or that they are beholden to deliver a narrative to their consumer base. Maybe both, either way, what a **** show. To boot, right on the tails of James Gunn being fired for his humor, then to have his whole cast take a stand against weaponizing the mob to sway the court of public opinion. Looks like a new double standard has arrived.

Sure you don't want something a little RTS-y? Spellforce 3 hits most of your list, but imagine you have a slightly larger than average party.

Did I spy a vampire cat girl?

I'll never forget MGS4, what an amazing movie.

Final Fantasy XIII was an astoundingly trash fire game given the prestige of the franchise. You'd think they'd "nail" a fun verticle slice before making a whole game out of it, it was clear the were trying to push this massive world building effort with Fabula Nova Crystallis, but in hind-sight it was more of a investment seeking ploy than anything. Multiple of the other FNC entries fizzled away. Agito almost vanished, and they turned it into a mobile game... until... they decided to salvage Agito under a different name! 'Cause you apparently can't just trash all you investments. Then off course Versus became XV because they realized they don't know how to invest in their primary franchise and the only thing they had going for them was this fascinating premise of a game which was meant as a counter-point to the game they were originally more confident about. Apparently Versus was supposed to be a non-FF game to start a new tentpole IP based on the cambat of KH but marketting didn't have enough confidence in it, but realized the design bible of Versus was so good that they need FF to immediately adopt it. In total, everything that was part of FNC was a failure and Versus is the only thing that really climbed out of all that mess. As far as I know the FFXV engine is basically being abandoned as well in favor of Unreal 4 going forward. The odd thing is FF7 Remake is apparently mostly being farmed out last I heard, I think KH3 and the MMO are the only major (AAA) projects that are entirely in-house at the moment. Unless 7R is moved back in once the framework as been set or something. Personally I like 1, 3, 10 and 12. Never got into the ATB entries, maybe I should give them another chance but they are pretty low on my totem pole.

I almost want this to drastically underperform their expectations, because be being the last mover on digital card games while you let your games division sputter out of relevance for so long screams the need for a wake up slap. We better be getting a VR L4D game or something at Gamescon this year if nothing else.

I'll also just mention that as we automate society more, we have to consider the systems we have in place to maintain, repair, expand, deprecate, replace our automation systems. How do we incentivize people to maintain the modern life-blood of the global supply chain. I know plenty of engineers who are into that stuff almost as a full-time hobby, but plenty more who don't. Especially once they get into real industry or the academy. It seems plenty more of society never considers these industries as places for them to spend their identity pursuing. Can societies maintenance be volunteer based without putting people to work? Call me when Amazon, an advanced publicly traded company figures out how to run itself as such.

Wait a second; the program supposedly worked AND saves the government money and they shut it down out of "spite"? C'mon. To be fair results come in after experiment was ended and replaced with current "activation" model which is program that forces people visit unemployment office several times in year for interview which caused that unemployment offices had to hire thousands new workers in order to do said interviews system has failed actually find work for people except those thousands bureaucrats that were needed in order to run it. The unemployment offices put people to work though... if your unemployed population on has skills for certain non-physical clerical work and there is no market for them elsewhere putting them to work to help the rest of the unemployed get matched up with work may very well make sense. If you want it to cost less you slowly put those people out of work with automation, and then backfill other low-priority services jobs as you need to re-employ people. "Saving money" can often times be double-speak for paying less people. True UBI supporters usually though want to return the costs savings to people with the argument that "the alternative to not wasting away people's time is to pay them to afford recreational free-time." But then what about he hyper productive people who want more leisure? Typically they earn their leisure and the less productive people get their business by working recreation and amusement. Just recently Disney World raised it's minimum pay for employees, if we got better vacation for people like what Europe has and increase the demand for recreational services and in general that seems like a net gain on levity for society, rather than just setting people free to their own devices for part of the 40 hour work week. Of course this all favors people who have gotten productive enough by sacrificing the early part of their lives to professional development. In the modern age I think people confuse when people take "all their leisure at once" for somehow being far ahead of everyone else. Which isn't true for even the average white-collar working class family. Certainly some recreation can be destructive and overly indulgent, like cruise ships, but I think improving the impact of recreation is a different argument. We could likewise be talking about funding sabbaticals or anything similar.

^ That's f'ing awesome.

UBI will not work the way people want it to, at least not yet. If you are going to pay people's way, it's usually best to limit what that that money gets spent on, like education or any other form of concrete societal investment. It's clear that some people if freed up will do amazing things, spend those resources fixing their corner of the world or investing in themselves in a manner that is productively desired by the rest of their local society. More often then not though, the funds will only work this way for people well off enough to not worry about the basics. It will fund the upper middle class student the most. There is no way to provide a UBI large enough to trigger the idealistic benefits that people theorize it would bring. It will end up just large enough that prices will inflate, then people who would otherwise had been on welfare find themselves getting by on their government stipend. Then what happens if benefits shrink universally? This is why these sorts of things are handled with loans instead, because people have to pay forward. It's not all contingent on what a few mega-corporations are producing in a non-stable economy. Social benefits need to be tied to what the average person can produce when incentivised to be productive. You can't just test UBI out on some small portion of the nations population and claim it's results are the same as rolling it out at large. Purchasing power is still based around a currencies power, and what capitalized institutions are able to pay out to attract skilled labor will price out people that are getting paid at the minimum level. Where it will work is in geographically contiguous areas that don't have massive divisions between productive output, where low end receivers of UBI won't suffer from market pricing as much.

Honor amongst pedants and all that.

As of late. With Pillars. Was that not the point?

Inflating the currency, setting back people's property investments. You'll never see San Fransisco build new housing of the old guard can't cash out to foreign investors.

We've been in colonized areas, for two games now. I think true frontier is a bit different, never-mind it fits the era. The Americas at least had a very long frontier period anyways, as did Japan which was an isolated island nation for the most part.