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Just back from Solo, over all I quite liked it. I thought it was better than TLJ and maybe a bit better than Rogue One. It had a handful of lines which felt overly forced but the overall structure of the film was an enjoyable ride. I had a drink before hand, and I'd probably suggest doing so just so it's easier to cut the film some slack. Han and Lando where definitely the highlights.

Looking back on the Prey 2 reveal, I actually don't find it's concept as appealing as I did at the time. I think my mind filled in too many details. Most of what was impressive was claims and hearsay.

I would expect that they actually shift people onto Project Indiana instead of starting anything new. It's final implementation push will probably take a lot of work and I think this is the largest project the studio has worked on since New Vegas. Deadfire still has DLC support for the next year, after which I imagine the designers and producer's will start looking into PoE3 based on Deadfire's sales. They may instead try for another short cycle CRPG like Tyranny in-between the next Pillars.

Wtf indeed, It's called doors and breech procedures.

Saving money from going to the hands of the previous owner to spend more money on the people who they are buying. If I wasn't an owner I might actually be glad (assuming my projects weren't being cancelled.) Course most of Human Head studio mostly seemed miffed so I'm just hypothesizing here. Zenimax just wanting the Prey IP but then doing their own thing was really odd.

I feel like he's playing a character, which makes this hilarious.

It's a US and Japan thing as far as I'm aware. Probably Canada. Course Mexico has Dia De Los Muertos.

Deadfire was Louisiana Cainarsky is Indiana No clue what this is or would be.

I know its not an international custom, but you you celebrate Halloween in your country? Should children be prevented from trick-or-treating? Kids sort of a get a pass on lot's of things, maybe they should, but typically parents are out chaperoning such occasions too and typically aren't in costume. So there are adults representing the kids. Usually there is a police presence watching out of hooligan's on such nights. Halloween is mostly held on collections of private property, and I guess you are stepping into the public as you walk on side-walks and the street. Typically these parts of a neighborhood are shared commons though that operate as semi-private extensions of the surrounding private property. Certainly these cases can be studies further. You certainly shouldn't go out and do your daily business with your Halloween mask on.

I want to see more of the gameplay tooling, which was my favorite part of LBP. The sorts of level's people pulled off with that tooling was incredible, I hope they've pushed that even further for this. Right now we've mostly seen environment tooling.

Should Groucho Marx glasses be outlawed too? I feel like if you are performing in costume, you should have a permit. If you are just pulling a gag or hijinx informally, than the obfuscation of your identity is improper behavior in a public space. If you were going to a masquerade, you should put your mask on once you arrive at the private event.

100% support this, hijabs are totes fine. Not sure if Denmark has antifa hooligans but I would expect society to treat that the same.

When your state struggles with made up words instead of real ones.

Now that's the stuff that gives life

Socialism vs socialism, people these days are talking about two different things. Free economies rely on not over-consuming (or should), which is hard when people will consume based on loans. Essentially a populace will consume through it's surplus and abundance, until another group with the credit is owed the chance to consume their fair share. Which means people now must work to make up for their over-consumption. There are two current problems. We want society to be fair so we want to maintain the value of a currency, and thereby maintain the validity of credit. This means not clearing debts, although sometimes simplifying the debt equation. However the people who need to produce will not be able to do it effectively if they can't engage in trade, yet they have little credit and are unworthy of being given more. In these circumstances you have to inflate the currency, but then you mess up loans between currencies. So then finally you must tax the rich to redistribute wealth, that way the working class can be productive enough to pay back the working class. Essentially the rich must invest in those who are trying to productively pay back their debts to the rich. Not doing so is the first problem. The second problem is the cyclic nature of the economy in which middle America consumes on a wide scale the America dream, then in the next half of the cycle a very few get to consume at a decadent level. In many ways it seems better if we just had two middle classes, which kind of existed between two different generations, but the way our populations are skewing this is starting to collapse. So if, wealth redistribution is "socialism," then sure, all modern nations are socialist. But traditional socialism was more than just wealth redistribution even though most today mean it to be wealth redistribution or universal income. The thing is, permanent fixed systems of redistribution aren't fantastic and are quite stifling to growth. We want to more strategically direct our surplus to building out society on the large scale. Whether through government spending, or through large public sector spending. However to suggest this gets you labeled as establishment democrat or neo-liberal, which are far worse. If anything it's New Keynesian, which will be sympathetic to the politics of Bernie Sanders. There is a good reason why Sander's New Deal style democratic socialism / social democracy (depending on who you ask) is taking off, but I believe mostly it just sounds good to people's ears. The real reason is because our nation is moving towards economic default relative to other countries. Currently we are staving things off by letting our middle class collapse. Germany and China save more than they consume (per capita.) unlike the US where most people live paycheck to paycheck and can't save much. Truly saving for many means cutting enough spend to where you're basically living impoverished lives. Minimalism as a style is truly for the rich. Further, social momentum typically means spending enough to maintain your social capital. This is especially true when it comes to spending on the youth. Basically the state of affairs is that the Boomer's where given bad credit, making them feel right in their successes, where their children must rely on taking out loans themselves to get started in life. Which means that the over-consumption of the past now must be paid back by the new generation in order to maintain the value of the dollar. There really is no way out. Right now western's aren't really allowed to invest in China, but China is buying up a ton of western companies and moving their tech and IP portfolios. There is a real reason why Sander's and Trump sync up on the grounds of China. China is a great trade partner, we want to specialize in different sectors and trade. The problem is the US is ahead of the world and China wants to catch up, and will negotiate deals that in the short are great for the west but in the long term are bad. The US has mostly invested itself in the software and services side of things over the past 30 years, and these market's are getting tapped out. Which is why Amazon is really the only name of the game when it comes to the US clawing it's way back out of stagnation. Unfortunately Amazon relies heavily on the consumption of American's and the integration of the global supply chain connecting us to China. So trade deals must be negotiated, because globalism is not going to be turned back. I've kind of gone off track about socialism, but my point is. We don't want classical socialism, and what people think is socialism is not. Wealth redistribution is an economic tool it's not a stable system. No more so than unregulated pure capitalism. There is a reason having the worker's control the means of production leads to balkanizing syndicates, and why it's much better to have publicly traded companies so people can buy into any system. As always people need wealth to even start that, so that is where *some* wealth redistribution comes in. It's also where *prudent* lending comes in. We also need to stop giving bad loans, but doing so is the easiest way to become super rich. Yet people still wanted to vote for Clinton...

I missed something, do people on the forum think that better game sales mean a better quality game? Even with the exception of people not being able to accept the fact that FO4 did some things better than FO3 and NV, there seems to be alt of other confusion on forums within the whole topic as well. Someone mentioned FO4 sales numbers in relation to other FO titles. I'm just bouncing off of that to make meta-commentary about how publishers read too much into relative sales numbers.

TLJ breaks records sales! Black Panther BREAKS Record Sales!!! IFNINTINTIWAR BREAKSRECOARDS SALES!!!!!!! FALLOUT 4 SELLS MORE THAN 3 & NV COMBINED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's almost like the world's population is going up or something. A lot of people falling for marketing doesn't mean ****! Hmph.

Trends in gaming?

Funny how Bethesda Games has become the weakest link of that publishing house.

You think it's a mobile trading game based on that teaser? Am I to believe The Pokemon Company is setting the tone this year?

What better way for Bethesda to break into the battle royale genre than leveraging their survival franchise... Should have seen this coming, if it manages to be online and it's not such a title, I'll laugh because if they are going to pull trite ****, it should at least be market justified. Maybe it will be more like GTA Online, in which case I'll be half impressed, the other half depends on if they make an honest RPG out of it.

I wonder if this new Fallout is "Starfield" Maybe some of the vaults were put on the moon/mars or something. Retro futurism in space? Atomic powered interstellar arks? I could buy that being part of the FO universe. Wow, I'm getting myself hot just thinking about this, probably too good of and idea to be true. See? There I've done it, now I'll be disappointed if it's anything other than this...

I'm thinking you're right...

Honestly the Decima engine (Guerilla Games / Horizon Zero Dawn) seems better, which is what Kojima Prod is using now. Fox Engine relied on a lot dithering for it's performance, which I could never tell if that was a stylistic choice or not from Kojima but he had a lot of his games use it.

The head canon grows