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My predictions:
Smash fighters
New Donkey Kong announced, our next year
Animal Crossing update
Bayonetta 3 reappears
Indie stuff
WW/TP HD bundle out this fall
More BotW info, out next year


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What's particularly stupid about this one?

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The impacts of Covid have probably hit Nintendo as hard, if not harder than most other companies; to the extent the rest of E3 has felt slow or small, I don't know if Nintendo is going to turn that around.

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Cobra1010 posted...

Those are niche games. What little positive they got from those, Avengers probably broke even or did more damage.

You might be right about Avengers outweighing that, but Tomb Raider isn't niche. That reboot sold 3 million copies in its first month.

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FF14 was an oversight on my part, true.

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Smashingpmkns posted...

Didn't Tomb Raider actually sell pretty well but they had ridiculous expectations for it?

Yeah, and then the third game in that trilogy got shunted off in the process. Reportedly something similar happened with IO after Hitman 2016, which led to them getting let go.

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ultimate reaver posted...

ff7r wasnt doing something right

I thought fans were pretty happy with that?

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Aside from DQXI and FF7R it doesn't seem like they've done much right, while seeming to make a bunch of missteps.

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In a statement after Winner was sentenced, the Intercepts editor-in-chief, Betsy Reed, said: Selective and politically motivated prosecutions of leakers and whistleblowers under the Espionage Act which dramatically escalated under Barack Obama, opening the door for the Trump justice departments abuses are an attack on the first amendment that will one day be judged harshly by history.

When they're right, they're right

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The Trent posted...

holy shit are you threatening us bro you gotta step back

I'm not the one working for the Making It Worse industry

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It's going to get worse

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Dark_SilverX posted...

Resident Evil: Reverse
Dead by Daylight x Resident Evil DLC
Mario Golf

Shit, I forgot Mario Golf

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SSJPurple posted...

How is it that no matter what this fuckboy gets the last say?

It always seems like he gets to decide who does and doesnt get on the court..he been doing it since Obama.

He doesn't right now. The last say, currently, resides with Joe Manchin

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The constitution affords a Senate majority that power. Democrats can complain about it, or use it while they have the chance.


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MJOLNRVII posted...

I'm not sure if this is a joke post, but iirc the Series S can't do physical right?

That's a really good point lol. I had the same thought as doe after reading his post, but duh

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Imo.

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https://twitter.com/ForzaHorizon/status/1404420867212333059

Hell yeah

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It's not about giving participation awards, it's about preventing the "spoiler" mentality that can arise from first past the post.

So to give the example of last year's Democratic primary, a voter could have voted for Warren without worrying about helping Biden beat Sanders in the process. Or conversely, for Buttigieg without worrying about aiding Sanders.

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I kept putting it off because the games on there were ones I already owned, but I got my Series X via all access, so now I'm on the hook through next year.

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Heineken14 posted...

The same could be said for soccer.

To wit!
https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1404441497626361858

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https://twitter.com/drrjkavanagh/status/1404220794096455684

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Morning bump

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GirTheRobot posted...

i might go back and try to finish kiwami 2 because people swear the second game has the best story and side stories.

The last hour of Kiwami 2 is the most absurd thing I have ever played. You should absolutely finish it.

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I played Yakuza 0 on Game Pass in October, and they've piece by piece added the whole series since. It's great.

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Lotta dinosaurs at this show

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I played 7 after 0, and for the most part I was fine, but there's definitely some assumed knowledge about 6 that the game plays on during the latter half especially.


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You saw the unfinished product on 1080p streams

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I know it's silly to do this with E3 not over, but I demand instant takes.

1. Forza Horizon 5
2. BotW 2
3. Lost Judgment
4. Shredders
5. Mario+Rabbids: Spark of Hope

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You're telling on yourself

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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/24/opinion/israel-hamas-gaza-ceasefire.html

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https://twitter.com/Biophany/status/1404039356730515458

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Really excited that they're leaning into creative tools for FH5, and the setting looks outstanding.

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Doom_Art posted...

No one fucking cares about forza holy shit

You have never been more wrong

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This is fantastic. It might be next gen only? They keep talking about the series console

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There goes my likely GOTY

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Error1355 posted...

ok

ok

has every single game on this showcase been game pass too?

All but 3: Battlefield, maybe Diablo II?

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This aesthetic is incredible

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I am extremely here for unofficial Steep 2

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Lathissamus posted...

so should i try the Yakuza games now then? never gave them a chance

Absolutely

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Alucard188 posted...

A Co-op, open world game. Ok. Tells us nothing.

There were some hints in what they showed that it's heist stuff

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DepreceV2 posted...

What time does this actually start? Im still out and about

15 minutes from now

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11.22 suggests November 22nd, no? It'd be real weird to specify a month a year and a half in advance.

Oh, it's 11-11-22. Nice numerology there, but setting a date that far out is just setting yourself up for trouble.

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That's a really stylish trailer

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https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/06/12/1026213/anti-vaxxers-negative-yelp-google-reviews-restaurants-bars/

On the first hot weekend of the summer, Richard Knapp put up a sign outside Mothers Ruin, a bar tucked in Manhattans SoHo neighborhood. It had two arrows: one pointing vaccinated people indoors, another pointing unvaccinated people outdoors.

The Instagram post showing the sign (above) quickly went viral among European anti-vaxxers on Reddit. We started receiving hate mail through the Google portal, Knapp says, estimating hed received about a few dozen emails: Ive been called a Nazi and a communist in the same sentence. People hope that our bar burns down. Its a name and shame campaign. It wasnt just the emails. Soon, his bar started receiving multiple one-star reviews on Yelp and Google Reviews from accounts as far away as Europe.

Spamming review portals with negative ratings is not a new phenomenon. Throughout the pandemic, the tactic has also been deployed to attack bars and restaurants that enforced mask-wearing for safety. As pandemic restrictions have lifted, businesses like Mothers Ruin have sought to ensure that safety by requiring proof of vaccination using state-sponsored apps like New Yorks Excelsior Pass, vaccine passports, or simply flashing vaccine cards at the door practices that have instigated a second surge of spam reviews.

These spam one-star reviews can be extremely damaging. The default mode for viewing reviews is in chronological order, from newest to oldest, which means a spam attack places fake reviews up top, making the most recent reviews that much more influential if youre the victim of a concerted campaign.

While some companies have gotten around this issue on their own sites by verifying that reviewers are actual customers by reaching out to them via email and matching them with what they have on file, industry-leading platforms like Yelp and Google let anyone to rate and review a business.

In April, Marshall Smith instituted what may have been the USs first policy requiring patrons to prove they were fully vaccinated against coronavirus at Bar Max in Denver. He didnt think it would be a big deal to ask customers to show their vaccination cards at the door. I didnt consider the politics, and perhaps that was naive on my part, he says.

Within days, his bar was slammed with one-star reviews on Google that took his average rating from 4.6 out of 5 stars to 4.

We were in the top 10 best reviewed craft cocktail bars in Denver [pre-pandemic], he says. It might not sound significant but if you drop out of the first page of results, its a big deal: youre out of top 10 lists, listicle mentions. We dont do a lot of advertising because people look at our reviews. Weve built six years of good reviews thats been chiseled away over a matter of months.

These reviews dont stay permanently in a businesss history. Yelp roots out spam, though the company does not tell anybody [how its spam detection works] says Bing Liu, a professor of computer science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Liu was a co-author in 2013 of a paper that attempted to replicate Yelps methods, finding that that company most likely used keywords to root out possible spammers.

Smiths Yelp reviews were shut down after the sudden flurry of activity on its page, which the company labels unusual activity alerts, a stopgap measure for both the business and Yelp to filter through a flood of reviews and pick out which are spam and which arent. Noorie Malik, Yelps vice president of user operations, said Yelp has a team of moderators that investigate pages that get an unusual amount of traffic. After weve seen activity dramatically decrease or stop, we will then clean up the page so that only firsthand consumer experiences are reflected, she said in a statement.

Its a practice that Yelp has had to deploy more often over the course of the pandemic: According to Yelp's 2020 Trust & Safety Report, the company saw a 206% increase over 2019 levels in unusual activity alerts. Since January 2021, weve placed more than 15 unusual activity alerts on business pages related to a businesss stance on covid-19 vaccinations, said Malik.

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Huge reductions in boot up and load times

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https://twitter.com/MattiasKaren/status/1404070661497274370


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Sunhawk reads a Wikipedia page about America is my favorite recurring bit on CE

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I don't think it's coming home.

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