It’s copyright infringement to do so. No need getting the Beehaw admins in trouble; Google paywall bypassing tools and read away.

Probably just for the poetic justice of seizing money from Russia and giving it to Ukraine.

Been playing a lot of The Finals lately. Normally my time would be spent in Destiny 2, but the current D2 season is gonna last for a looooong time, so I’m not in any hurry to grind it out just yet. But The Finals has absolutely blown me away so far. It can be buggy and unbalanced at times, but it’s so damn fun. Demolishing an entire building to bury the cashout station in rubble and prevent a steal is so satisfying.

Embark has also recently said that they’ve got a lot of updates in the works, so I’m really excited to see how Season 2 plays out.

Based.

Ahh, this is their “discredit the media” phase of fascism, I see.

I suppose that begs the question, why wasn’t it intercepted? It doesn’t seem like this was a particularly sophisticated attack, how did they get the drop on the US soldiers so easily?

I suppose that’s not a question we may ever get a real answer to, though.

There is no legal issue

Nintendo is suing

I mean, it’s right there.

Also, you’re thinking of trademark. Might be a good idea to know the difference before calling somebody else’s opinion “hullabaloo”.

While all of that appears to be true, that doesn’t mean Nintendo/TPC aren’t able to make this small studio’s lives a nightmare if they wanted. I have a feeling that the level of scrutiny the studio will be under from now on is going to inhibit any real innovation, as they’re already walking a very fine line as it is.

Yeah, you can usually still find decent flavors if you buy bottles of juice, which I need to start doing again. I’d gotten lazy and switched back to a pod device (which I still hate because of the massive amounts of plastics), and the flavor options are very limited.

I’ve got a feeling that the legal issues, even if they’re in the clear, are going to pose a lot of problems for the longevity of the game. But, I’m really hopeful that this sparks inspiration for other devs to take on the monster collecting genre. Pokemon has dominated that space for so long that they practically define the genre at this point, so it’ll be nice to see new monster collectors come out with their own unique styles.

Good on them for cracking down on disposables. Absolute waste of plastics, and leaves completely viable li-ion batteries scattered around in the streets, and cause garbage trucks to catch on fire.

Shit move on restricting flavors, though. I’m an adult, I like fruity flavors, just let me have something that tastes nice. They restricted flavors here in the US, and that did absolutely nothing to mitigate teen vaping.

I swear, I’ve been seeing so many different spellings of his last name lately. I’ve seen -sky, -skyy, -skey, and now -skiy. I wonder why different outlets seem to be using different spellings.

Well, not for long. Soon she’ll just be another good broke person.

I mean sure, but how often is the virtual keyboard pulled up in any “creative” app? It always auto-hides if you’re doing anything other than interacting with a text field.

What does this have to do with “creators”, though?

If you think E3 was a more welcoming venue for indie studios, you’d be mistaken. Getting a booth or presentation slot at E3 was insanely expensive. If Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft didn’t think it was worth their money to have even a booth presence on the show floor, you can probably imagine how prohibitive it was for smaller studios.

Well, The Game Awards are voted for by the players, not some panel of industry suits.

That’s fair. I guess you and I got different things out of E3, then. I mostly only followed the news on the game announcements, and not so much on the experiences on the show floor.

For me, I only really tuned in for the ads, because that’s how I would keep up to date with the gaming scene before I had the internet in my pocket.

I kinda have the same takeaway for Keighley’s shows. I don’t even really care too much about most of the awards (Like, who cares about Best eSports Coach? Why is that even a category?) except for GOTY and maybe a few others like Best Performance. I’m mostly just watching for the trailers, myself.

I mean, that’s exactly what E3 had always been in the first place, too. Developers/publishers only showed up to advertise upcoming releases. Only instead of 3 hours of ads a year, it was 3 days of ads. Yeah, we got a lot of cool insider interviews from E3, but even those are just ads.

If advertising is the issue, E3 was a far worse offender than any of Keighley’s productions, imo.

What’s wrong with Keighley’s events? I’ve been enjoying them, myself. This year’s Game Awards was kind of a snoozefest, admittedly, but I feel like his shows have a pretty good vibe for the most part.