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Nice in theory but if your kid is in the minority good luck enforcing rules like this while also expecting them to fit in and have a good social life.

Zikten posted...

Xmen likes to do multiple teams now. The comics are starting a new arc this summer with 3 teams (each team has its own comic book) cyclops has a team, Wolverine has a team and I think the third team is led by Gambit and Rogue

Comic are their own thing. I'm more referring to the movies and video games over the years.

Cyclops was up there as a mainstay back in the 90s with the cartoon and video games. Anything X-Men had Cyclops. I think that has gradually scaled back in the last 20 years due to the movies focusing on nearly every major character other than Cyclops lol. When it comes to the mainstream I think he'd be like Juggernaut tier now

Remember how it was Cyclops shaking Ryu's hand in X-Men vs Street Fighter? Like yeah Wolverine was more popular but Cyclops was right up there in importance. He was like the Leonardo of the X-Men.

The movies really did a number on how big of a deal he was I think. If the team is fine without the boy scout leader what's left for Cyclops? It wasn't just Wolverine but Xavier, Magneto, Jean and Mystique all got more stories and plot too.

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Hayame_Zero posted...

What makes it funnier is the video wasn't even shitting on the game. They were just high and laughing at shit. It meant nothing lol

This brings back memories haha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSXofLK5hFQ

Blow crying about it is something new to me. This is hilarious
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWqnz-7iQbY

It must be a nightmare being a video game developer who wants everyone to treat their video game as important art.

I don't think being grossed out by a guy who's nearly 40 dating a girl fresh out of (or potentially still in) high school is infantilizing women.

Heavy_D_Forever posted...

I guess I'm just not seeing any fires being stoked. All I see is an insanely racist person being called out for their atrocious views and rightfully being punished for it.

This person is being used to call out Sweet Baby, EA and the Black Panther game.

The only reason this was found at all was due to people searching through the social media of every Sweet Baby employee.

I remember Joe Rogan absolutely freaking out about Australia's quarantine rules. Making up shit like we weren't allowed to grow vegetables.

There was a user here outright telling me that the lockdowns were going to be my life forever now lol

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For sure they do.

But if people are saying it's a failure of the company when someone does get hired after tweets get dug up then that's saying that this should be a universal part of vetting employees.

shnangyboos posted...

You say the fight's already over since she's been fired, and it may be true, but I'd argue that without the campaign, the real problem here, she wouldn't have been.

Are wanting companies to monitor and dictate employment by reading through employees social media?

Revelation34 posted...

They wouldn't outsource if it was cheaper to just use your own staff.

It's cheaper for you to do your own plumbing. Do you do your own plumbing?

It's probably the licensing cost. There's a lot of money they have to share.

Bioware did the same thing two decades ago and transitioned to their own IP. If the fans are there for the studio they can make their own stuff.

deoxxys posted...

One of them said you can't be racist to white people

Pretty sure this wasn't a Sweet Baby employee but a Kotaku writer.

deoxxys posted...

Another admitted to discrimination during hiring practices and purposefully not hiring any white people because "people feel safer around their own kind"

That's the one employee I was already referring to.

godofwar596 posted...

and many people from this company have said some horrible shit about white people in games. Watch

I know of one who ran the indie studio that went viral last week. She worked at Sweet Baby for a whopping 8 months and has worked at EA for a while now.

Who else is there and what's the horrible shit that was said?

Musk can't comprehend that someone would donate money without being motivated by spite. What a sad mind.

Revelation34 posted...

Does that apply to people who grew up with Harry Potter?

Remember when people hated on Rowling because she tried to say that Hermione was never said to be white or black and that she said Dumbledore was gay after the stories were done?

Ah the simpler days before she became a TERF nutjob.

Have any internally employed writers came out and complained about Sweet Baby taking their job?

Kinda seems like the opposite. That they're defending Sweet Baby and that gamers know fuck all about what they're whining about.

The most hilarious thing about these weirdos is that they are in such utter denial that the creatives behind these western games are mostly left leaning anyway. They try to paint these dumb ass conspiracy theories that developers are forced into it to get funding and not that it's something the developers want to do.

Meanwhile at the Games Developers Conference they all voted the best debut game as Venba. A narrative cooking game about a South Indian family.

Tbh kinda feels like the outrage machine for this is already dying down . They can't really even articulate what they're supposed to be mad at.

The content just isn't there. They've scoured the internet and found a couple of quotes. Now what?

GDC is on now and the only 'gamer rage' bait I have seen is a quote from a Starfield developer.

It's like they need to have a constantly vocal person to constantly target and they haven't really found one.

They might dig this up again whenever they find a new AAA game that uses Sweet Baby...but then what? What if people like the game and don't care?

Seems like overall the most effective way to deal with these morons is to just let them get angry in their bubble until they find something new to get angry at. There's a new Star Wars trailer. Maybe that'll get them content.

I always get suspicious when a tweet sources Variety but doesn't link anything. Sure enough it's more grey than that.

This article was from 10 hours ago. I can't find anything else.

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/aaron-taylor-johnson-james-bond-superhero-movies-challenging-1235947114/

Another potential franchise on the horizon for Taylor-Johnson is James Bond. Hes long been considered a favorite to take over the role from Daniel Craig, with The Sun reporting on March 18 that he was officially offered the role and will sign a contract imminently. Sources close to Taylor-Johnson downplayed the report and said he has not been cast as Bond, but technically anything is possible in the future.

There's also Vanity Fair. I'll just post the screen cap since the article is pay walled.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/5/56404473.jpg

Kinda seems like him being offered the role isn't true but they're not ruling out that he will.

BewmHedshot posted...

From the sound of it, turning down settings is not really going to help because the game is heavily CPU bottlenecked in the city locations with tons of NPCs, but it runs fine out in the wilderness on quests when you're fighting shit.

Starfield was like that too. I think it was eventually fixed and optimised. Hopefully that happens here too.

MarcyWarcy posted...

most of what ive read of reviews is journos that are struggling with something that plays like an actual survival horror game. it's got mostly positive reviews on steam atm

Yeah it overall seems fine. It still sounds like the best Alone in the Dark in years.

If people actually want AA games this is what most of them are like. It does seem like the Steam audience is more accepting of this kinda stuff compared to journos and console gamers.

Personally I thought Lightning was fine. But it is kinda obvious Square-Enix expected her character and franchise to be more popular.

But I can say that about literally most of Square-Enix's stuff from the last decade. Especially relating to Final Fantasy.

The thing that is really sad is that doing this for any period of time is cruel. Babies and toddlers are really clingy and want to feel safe being near a parent or adult. They are still incredibly social and want to soak up all of that human behaviour around them like a sponge. They constantly want stimulation. Food too for their rapidly growing bodies.

Who knows how long it took for this poor baby to die. But it also makes me think of all of those mistreated babies and toddlers who have to go through this regularly but aren't left alone long enough to starve. I doubt this was the first time this girl went through it either.

There's just this extra element of these stories hitting hard when you have kids of your own or see a baby grow up over this stage. They're just these innocent and sweet little things who want to be taken care of. It's not fair that so many don't get a chance to even have that. She fought hard for her life but it just wasn't a fair fight.

MEGAsoldier posted...

Most people that talk about Squall have only watched the Spoony vid or just seen a "whatever" or "go talk to a wall" meme rather than actually play the game.

Do you want them to know about the random amnesia plot or how everyone wants Squall to fuck Rinoa for no real reason

Nirvanas_Nox posted...

Lightning struck me more as a Squall clone then a Cloud clone. Either way it didn't work.

Whatever

Giant_Aspirin posted...

i was offered a chance to buy into the initial IPO since I'm a mod. i declined the opportunity. hoping i didn't make a major mistake there <_<

Well do you think the value of Reddit and how it can money will shoot up in the next decade?

If the answer is no then you did the right thing.

Yo_D_oY posted...

That sounds like a 6/10 lol. I'm sure it's a great game but reviewers seem to either give a 9 or a 10 or like a 3 if it's clearly a shit game.

Combat and fun gameplay can make those things not feel like a big deal while playing.

You can play Demons Souls on the higher tier PlayStation Plus subscription. Check if you have a trial or discount or whatever.

That poor little baby. How fucking depressing. I can't imagine how distressed and scared that little girl would have felt being completely abandoned as she slowly starved to death. Life that young deserves better.

Revelation34 posted...

Nothing was moved. My argument has remained exactly the same.

That the companies that did this are pieces of shit for paying somebody else instead of paying their own staff to do work they could have done.

Outsourcing and contract work is incredibly common. Especially in video games.

The entire point is that some jobs don't require permanent staff.

BakonBitz posted...

I mean the SMRPG remake was still incredibly charming. That kind of thing could work, IMO.

I think the difference for me is that the pixel art for Chrono Trigger is more timeless than SMRPG. It's definitely a tough one to nail.

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Would you be happy with a Mario RPG style remake for Chrono Trigger with voice acting? Is that what people want so bad?

To me that just sounds like it would lose a lot of charm compared to the original. I don't think any remake for Chrono Trigger would work.

Apparently James Bond is in his mid-thirties.

His debut book was 1953. So if he was 35 he'd be born in 1918. So he'd be 106.

Of course movie wise the comparison would be Sean Connery. Who would be turning 94 this year if he was still alive.

One thing that's a little bit interesting is that it seems like characters from around the 1930s onwards tend to be timeless instead of being seen as a period piece. Like yeah there are modern adaptations of Sherlock Holmes and Tarzan but I think most people would still think of that original incarnation. I'm guessing the rules around public domain, American copyright and how corporations began to protect and hold into their brands influence this more than anything.

Killmonger posted...

How old would Popeye be?

I honestly can't tell you what age he was ever supposed to be lol

1929 is his debut year. So I guess over 100? lol

She's taking a break on her world tour for about a month to promote her new album in a few weeks.

No idea if Travis will get any buzz as a couple over the next few weeks though. I guess it depends on what they do and if the public see it.

It was hilarious here in Australia. Nobody here would have known Travis Kelce a year ago. Taylor Swift went to Australia pretty much right after the Super Bowl. Suddenly we have news stories about Kelce's plane landing here and that they went to the zoo together. At the concert there were several guys wearing Kelce jerseys.

It was weird shit lol

Mad-Dogg posted...

Resident evil characters actually do age in real time.

Sadly I sometimes wonder if the real time aging thing is a possible reason capcom does not use jill nowhere near as much as they do chris when it comes to showing up in the actual main resident evil games alot. How some of these japanese companies have a reluctance to use older female characters outside of some sort of power/method that keeps them young looking like with soul calibur's ivy.

Speaking of which, it actually was known that bandai-namco did not want to use the classic female characters for the time-skip game soul calibur 5 outside of said super power eternal youth female characters like ivy and tira (age unknown in soul calibur 5, lol). Just gave them all successors, =/, and so they went through the effort of making a brand-new timeline with part 6 just to get the classic characters back to being young and for taki and sophitia to return, lol.

I've wondered that as well.

If they didn't keep re-using Chris so much it wouldn't be as weird lol

dancing_cactuar posted...

52k current players as of posting with a 24 hour peak of 114k.

Pfft less than half of Rainbow Six Siege players which is nearly 10 years old. Dead game.

This isn't a serious post.

FortuneCookie posted...

What? I swear I've seen a cop drawn in the same Pepa Pig style. And I remember a post where someone claimed that Pepa's dad was a pun. Office pigs aren't a thing, are they?

<_<

The cops in Peppa Pig are Officer Panda and Officer Squirrel.

I've heard stories of people playing the Peppa Pig music for cops entering nightclubs and stuff like that. Maybe that's what you're thinking of.

PurpleOutsider posted...

They were eight. It lines up with an early episode, where one of Cartman's potential fathers were the 1989 Denver Broncos, so he was conceived in 1989. They'd be the same age as Taylor Swift.

Oh yes you're right. Damn I'm the same age as them lol

FortuneCookie posted...

I never noticed, but then I never watched the show. All I know about Pepa is that her dad is a cop.

That isn't true either. Daddy Pig works in an office.

I'm actually not sure what show you are thinking of lol

FortuneCookie posted...

Pepa Pig is a girl?

Yeah man she wears pink

After the novelty of playing a survival crafting game with Wish designed Pokemon wore off there wasn't anything left to be excited about.

It'll have its audience like many other survival games on PC do but it's not going to have any lasting power because there's nothing specifically original about it.

Zeeak4444 posted...

How old would South Park be? Guessing late 30s or early 40s?

I think they were 10 when they started. So born in 1987.

So yeah they'd be around 36-37.

If Bruce Wayne was 25 for his debut as Batman he'd be turning 110 this year. So safe to say he'd be dead. Clark Kent would be around the same but who knows how he'd age.

Peter Parker could potentially still be around at 77 years old. Although surely he'd be retired as Spider-man.

Homer and Marge Simpson would be 68 now. Bart would be 44, Lisa would be 42 and Maggie would be in her mid thirties. They could potentially have a huge family reunion at this point.

Even Bluey would currently be 11 years old. Peppa Pig would be in her mid-twenties.

What other examples are there?

Kinda funny to think about how a few of these characters have actually needed to change to stay modern. The really old ones were created under very different times.

The genius of Bluey is that its a kid show set in a world that functions normally.

It's a little thing but it's still overall pretty unique around that age group. Like Bluey and Bingo live in a normal world that doesn't actually revolve around them. What they have are parents who love them, play with them and make the effort to make their world magical and fun while also trying to teach them to be better. Sometimes it's the parents themselves that learn something with their own attitudes and moods too.

It doesn't sound like much but it's seriously unique compared to the other shows. Shows like Peppa Pig and Paw Patrol that has the entire world revolve around those characters. The world itself is teaching them things and everyone else is there to help them and the audience get there.

That's why it resonates with parents so much too. The overall theme of the show is that childhood is magical for parents as well as the children. Enjoy it and make the most of it.

Piplup_Sniper posted...

Is it another FiM situation ?

There is no weirdo fandom no.

hockeybabe89 posted...

Everyone: "We want a FF7 Remake! That would be so cool!"

*gets FF7 remake years AFTER a very nice looking remaster, that is still available to purchase on all platforms*

Lots of people: "Why isn't this remake just the exact same story and gameplay with maybe voice acting and a little cleaner graphics?"

What were we excited for, in the first place, if we wanted nothing to change? Like, this was one of the most anticipated ideas in gaming for many years

It cracks me up when people say they just wanted the same game with better visuals.

Like you're telling me that people saw that PS3 tech demo and didn't want a high fidelity Midgar to explore? C'mon.

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