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Yeah, like actors. It’s definitely not as CGI as Shrek or Toy Story. I find it honestly really weird to call a live action movie “100% CGI” when there clearly are human actors on screen.

Except, you know, LotR was had biggest CG battles in movie history up until that point and still ranks pretty high today. They definitely didn’t take the easy route by actually filming a lot of scenes outside while innovating on the CG front dramatically to make huge battles possible the likes of which were deemed nearly impossible at the time, though. There were some large innovations in the Hobbit movies too but they didn’t land. And yeah, too much green screens. They should’ve done it the hard way while still using just as much CG.

Project Hail Mary and not CG-stuffed? WHAT??? So they actually flew to the sun and found an actual rock alien in a huge space ship to film with? Because no, Rocky isn’t an actual puppet in every single scene. It’s mostly CG and so is the bubble around the guy. I despise this type of sensationalism so much because it spits and pisses on the work of dozens, if not hundreds of VFX artists doing heavy lifting to make movie magic happen. I haven’t watched Odyssey but I’ve seen all his other movies and Nolan himself said he’s heavily reliant on VFX in his acceptance speech at the VES awards 2011. This is a bunch of BS.

TWICE. They voted for him TWICE.

Pokemon is in the merch and nostalgia business, not the gaming business.

Just goes to show, game exclusivity on a shitty overpriced portable console is a bad business practice.

Does it? How? This is a meme about Steam which has nothing to do with Nintendo. How would a PC game even compete with Pokemon at all when that franchise is only sold on Nintendo hardware but more importantly Pokemon is mostly about merch and trading cards anyway. How many trading cards has Palworld sold?

I have dozens of hours in Palworld and don’t see much of a resemblance to Pokemon anyway.

I remember seeing these things everywhere growing up 20+ years ago. Nowadays there are much fewer of them for some reason.

I highly recommend! It’s a fantastic critique of unhinged capitalism and blind consumerism. Definitely one of John Carpenter’s best. Slavoj Zizek did a splendid analysis of it that convinced me to watch it. Actually, I should give it a rewatch sometime.

Whats even to parody at this point?

He’s right. In his own twisted kind of way. Democracy is in the way of the overly rich to take complete control and become dictators. Being a dictator is their ultimate power fantasy of ‘true freedom’.

I agree that Democracy is not compatible with his definition of giving the richest people on earth the freedom to have planar authority. So we must get rid of them to save democracy and our own freedom.

“The church” as in the Pope didn’t actively hunt witches. In fact most followers of any order were against it and often warned about it. Locals of whatever village or settlement didn’t care, though. They lived their own version of Christianity. I know people love to cite the “Summis desiderantes affectibus” as proof the church ordered witch hunts but that’s not what the document stated at all. It just acknowledged witch craft being a lived reality in parts of today’s Germany so to speak. However some Popes weren’t explicitly against it either. Not like it actually mattered anyway. People tend to believe whatever is useful at the moment and that doesn’t necessarily overlap with “the church”, the Pope or the bible.

Microsoft was always buying companies to drive them off the cliff. Or rather to lead them behind the barn. There’s even an older Simpsons bit about Microsoft’s cut throat methods. Nothing about this is new or surprising.

And CEOs can always be believed. They would never lie for the company. If she said anything else she would’ve lost her job on the spot.

The new Xbox leadership seems competent. Which the Microsoft leadership quickly noticed and sabotaged. At least that’s what I’m stitching together from the timeline of headlines in recent months.

Many aspects of Xbox seemed to improve until Microsoft announced a tighter grip around Xbox recently. Now everything is going downhill faster than ever. It’s amazing how quickly Microsoft is demolishing their gaming branch.

Both come with fecal bacteria because people don’t wash their hands.

Maybe he thought releasing Death Stranding on consoles complete on disc was good enough.

Personally I don’t think he thought much about it at all. Maybe this changes in the future. We’ll see.

Don’t read too much into it. I was merely criticizing the whole ecosystem around it. Because for every “government slapped” story there’s at least one where fans threatened the devs because they didn’t feel pandered to enough. The whole situation is just toxic.

Perhaps you should read the article.

Genuinely surprised they even dared to release a female character in shorts to a Chinese audience. You would think they know how much they indoctrinated their audience with trashy fan service by now. The stories about enraged lonely guys almost ending an entire franchise over not pandering enough to their fantasies are crazy. You don’t want to mess with those guys. It could put your employees in actual danger.

Right now, even if physical discs disappear, you’ll still be able to download game data onto your hard drive.

But even then you don’t actually own them. Didn’t Kojima read the terms of use when he released his games on platforms like Steam? Why not give us DRM free versions of Death Stranding if ownership is this important?