Personally I think the reason why Valve kinda stopped bothering with TF2 the way they did is that the various 6s and highlander leagues would have enough of a backbone to tell Valve off if they tried to exert the amount of control on them as valve does with CS and Dota.
Eh, no that’s not the issue. To release a game on a console, and every update you do to the game, it has to go through rigorous testing as required by Nintendo/Sony/MS. For PC this effectively just doesn’t exist. Like testing on console requires you to do stuff like test the game when you have no DLC, all DLC, DLC 1 and 2 but not 3, DLC 2 but not 1 and 3, and so on. For PC the most anyone is required (and this is a stretch) to do is make sure it runs, and make sure it theoretically doesn’t brick anything.
So because the testing requirements for publishing on PC is like practically nothing compared to releasing on a console, companies cheap out on it because they don’t have to spend anywhere as much money as they do unlike releasing it on the PS5, Switch 2, or whatever the current Xbox is. And historically speaking a lot of devs go “Fuck it, let the PC crowd brute force it with all their horsepower” when putting stuff on PC.
The whole thing about the battleship becoming less prominent and the carrier taking over goes back to WWII, and more to the point, Pearl Harbor effectively forcing the US Navy to rely on carriers to be the flagships of their fleets in the pacific.
How did we live without them before 2016?
It was mostly Teamspeak, Ventrello, and Skype before discord took over. And the first reason Discord took over was that paying for a TS or Vent server was becoming a bit unviable, partly because the people who were paying for it was also paying for a server to host a forum, and a domain name for said forum, and all that together was pretty expensive, and partly because the shadows of the 08 recession was (and I’d argue still is) still being felt. Another reason was that Skype was shitting the bed so much that when Discord came around it did everything Skype was doing and more, and doing it significantly better than Skype.
Also the barrier to entry is significantly lower than your average traditional forum, and TS/Vent server that was most likely ran by like one guy, and if he went the whole community came crashing down.
Hell if you really want to get into it, Skype did everything every little instant messager did better, and more when it came about.
and if you’re near the cardassian border just go pick a different one
You do have to admit they got done super dirty by the Federation, and it happened because of the Battle of Wolf-359 had demolished quite a bit of Starfleet, enough to get the Federation to negotiate for peace with the Cardassians.
MACGUYVER. Leto plays the eponymous cia-funded physicist infiltrator. or the antagonist Murdoch. or both.
It can’t be any worse than the reboot.
I will provide a counter argument, Mechwarrior Online, sorta, it’s complicated.
I think you need to watch it again because that’s not what the ending was at all.
The episode has several tragedies going at the end, the most prominent and obvious was that Maritza killed in a random act (I know it was targeted, you know what I mean). The other tragedy, with future knowledge in a later episode, was that Maritza’s plan wasn’t going to work in the first place as it heavily relied on how the cardassian justice system works.
It all comes back to “He who does not work, neither shall he eat”. A line that is often taken very literally, and is very much held by a lot of people.
Idk how the fuck resigning is heroic
Because america is a very aesthetically driven country, so sticking around tends to be a signal to normal people (aka, not us, not anyone terminally online, ect.) that they’re okay with something happening. Resigning is to most normal people the way you disagree with how things are being ran. Also if said person resigning has other ambitions, sticking around tends to end up having certain kinds of ads write themselves.
I don’t think we actually disagree at all. I was basically complaining about how Stormgate is “modern” SC2, a game built solely around “balance” for competitive level play and not at all interested in making a game that is actually fun to play at all. And like you said, that appeals to no one, because people who like to play SC2 will just continue to play that, and people who don’t like SC2 won’t want to play an SC2 clone.
Me every time I see someone contort the reason why Gundam Evo failed having absolutely nothing to do with just borrowing Overwatch’s homework and barely changing much if anything at all. Like I literally got a “But it’s a better balanced Overwatch” from people defending it.
my only experience with the Dark Knight story is from the Nolan movies and the animated adaptations.
Okay, the animated one is a adaptation of the comic book series, Nolan’s batman movies are just heavily influenced by the comics. In that it always shows Batman to be correct in what he does and such.
Dark Knight Returns, and most Batman stories that Frank Millar wrote is I feel pretty much the main reason why people say “Batman is a fascist”. And if someone’s only exposure to the caped crusader was through Frank Millar written stories (and ones where the writer was influenced by Frank’s work) I feel sorry for them, and I do understand why they would think Batman is a fascist. Because that’s just how Frank Millar writes Batman for some reason.
Mechwarrior 4 Mercenaries on elite difficulty. Or hell, go play Mechwarrior Online, 95% of skill in that game is game sense and positioning. And on the aim side you just need to shoot well enough for regular queue, which just isn’t hard compared to CS, halo, or any major mp fps game.
It’s not a movie, but the Seirra point and click game Conquests of the Longbow (video about it) is an interesting Robin Hood story, in that you can be the best Robin Hood, or be the worst Robin Hood possible.
I remembered after I posted, but to be fair here I don’t want to remember the guy’s name.
I think this feels like something fresh because Snyder movies have a really weird aesthetic that I think tainted DC’s heroes.
That’s probably because the Snyder, the writer’s room, or both seems to have only read Dark Knight Returns, Killing Joke, and Watchmen. Especially the first of the three, and you can see it bubbling from the seems in the Nolan batman movies too.
A little bit about Dark Knight Returns since a lot of DC stuff was influenced by it throughout the 2000s and mostly through the 10s. Written by Frank Millar, it is pretty much the “definitive” batman story that pushed all future Batman stories into having a dark/brooding tone. It’s also the center piece of what the popular image of batman is, which was further popularized by the Nolan Batman trilogy, and oh boy this story did not age well at all. Especially since Frank Millar went on to write Holy Terror, if you don’t know about that book, be thankful for the rock you’re living under. It’s a lot worse then you’re thinking.
The thermal drill, go get it.
We have a story about a kid who wants to go back in time to solve his pays and save his family but in doing so inadvertently loses his reality. This kid has to realize he needs to let go, Batman even tells him that much in the beginning.
That’s what the movie is about? Just being a badly done Flashpoint Paradox?
Before global warming, their “solution” to the idea of a supposed overpopulation problem in their heads was ideally war, or just straight up starvation of the working class. But it was mainly war, because it established a pecking order among the rich, and did the job of killing poor people well enough.
Also overpopulation has been a “problem” to these fucks for a really long time.