SpaceX will not be selling itself to Boeing, surprising absolutely nobody

Gabe has said multiple times he would never sell Valve to Microshaft.

Every time I see these “rumors” I can’t help but think that they are a malicious tactic by Microshaft to try and influence their more longshot buyout offers-- Microshaft really really wants Valve, this has been known for at least a decade. And some overzealous young execs are foolishly ready to try and pressure Valve with these bullshit tactics, completely unaware of what dangerous game they are playing legally.

I have no doubt in my mind Valve will never be sold to Microshaft or come anywhere close to it so long as Gabe or his confidants are at the helm. They are ex-Microsoft employees. They built Windows 3.0. They know it’s inner workings and failings very intimately and they only begrudgingly tolerate Windows because it’s the dominant market share. That’s the whole reason SteamOS and Steam Deck exist, to chip away at Microsoft’s attempts to monopolize PC gaming. And that’s exactly why Microsoft is hoarding IP and restricting their most prestigious titles, like Halo, to Windows through anticheat.

Whoever is starting these rumors are either pathetically stupid and attention hungry or are spreading misinformation in a hail mary at the behest of Microshaft.

• for the first week following launch, maybe

To bring gamers a night of more than 110 ads

I, quite bluntly, see no good reason to advise an internet stranger on their security practices when they can learn for themselves.

Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. But I’ve no time to teach strangers the beginnings of fishing, let alone what they need know in order to fish safely.

oh you sweet summer child

enjoy the CVEs

Yeah you can’t say Euphoria is good while also saying sexy female protag bad (idk if that’s the specific “hit” you were referring to).

Like fuck this conceot of delineating media based on sexual preference. It either has sexual content or it doesn’t. As long as the content is above board, it’s all just smut catering to different tastes and anyone who sees one as more appropriate than another is an asinine fool whose ability to vote and lack of critical thinking skills worry me.

As for the actual topic at hand, censoring of a sexual aesthetic rather than smut, I’m actually quite pleased to see that there is such little difference in the attire but very disappointed with how far they went to censor something so fucking mild. It hasn’t hampered the game, but it impeded the aesthetic resulting in a bruised product where the designers’ creative vision has been adulterated. Imagine if they went back and changed the Bayonetta attire for the original game like this, how different would the character look and how would that shift the tone for that character and the atmosphere around them? Their sexuality and attire are directly representative of the character being portrayed. If the argument is that there is no meaningful backstory that ties to the character’s appearance or sexuality, well that’s a matter of either piss poor writing or intentional story “neglect” to hopefully set up for some sort of reveal, otherwise you’re basically playing an erotic Flash game you found on some porn site that’s probably sharecropping your family’s shared PC out to various wannabe hackers.

Anyway, nobody can pretend they did a good job censoring the artwork of a foreign studio to cover some cleavage and hips when wannabe actors are being praised for their work on glorified cable smut-- idgaf that HBO was behind it, they’re behind Max too and I fucking hate that garbage.

And I’m convinced this is censorship. There was all this talk of censorship right up until the game’s release, and now all of a sudden a change is made to the design last minute that obviously does not fit with the aesthetic. If this was “the version they’d wanted to show”, I believe they would have at least left some sign or cleavage easily visible to keep the nuance in gameplay visuals. Instead, we have blatantly obvious censorship with half-assed lies to dispell any notion that there is more fresh drama to be mad about.

Wonder how many dogs the poor woman has to pepper spray in a week

It’s almost as if the quality of video games has been in decline for years and is now reaching a point where consumers have more faith in what they already have than anything else the market has yet to muster.

Imho most of the good/decent newer titles are so big that they are daunting, while the shitty ones are equally big or bigger and marketed similarly. So of course prospective players are more likely to choose the small indie title that they are confident they will enjoy, even if they finish it in less than 50 hours or just 8 or even 2.

Studios and publishers are on a path to ruin rn and unless they ditch companies like Sweet Baby Inc and start getting consulting from firms that actually understand the gamer demographic and how good games are made, they’ll all be doomed.

But who TF cares at this point, there are so many games to go through nowadays that as long as you have a nice little hoarde then you will become bored of video games altogether long before you want to buy some shitty new title out of desperate hope.

Pro tip to all the unfairly ridiculed titty streamers out there doing God’s work (as if any of you were actually on Lemmy):

You could probably skirt this by hiding your face. Then you have plausible deniability as they can’t prove concretely whether it’s you showing skin or topical abstract art expression.

As an added bonus, the content value also stands to potentially go up as viewer’s would no longer be driven away by your over-attended attention seeking mug. That’s what you do this for, right, to make content for your community?

This is truly absurd.

Netflix basically bought the rights to republish versions of established mobile games as “Netflix Edition” titles with ads and in-app purchases removed as a value add to subscribers to get them into their games ecosystem. And now they want… to put ads and micro transactions back? I understand the reasoning behind it obviously-- they need a return on their investment-- but that is a clean about-face from their initial strategy

Poor man didn’t have the manpower to checks notes censor reviews about their steaming pile of shit

Hamantha, Hamantha,

So greedy we wanted more

Here’s what you do: watch act 1 sober, then when act 2 starts you pause the movie and take three big ass bong rips and press play.