Not having access to NoP anymore was the worse part of being permabanned from reddit. I love it.

Nature of Predators.

I get why they were scared now.

And it’s intentional. Lay off the workers. Implement AI Slop. Slop does sloppy work. Hire back workers as Temps or Contractors. No benefits. Lower pay.

Like all of Capitalism. It’s a fucking scam. A conjob. A new innovation in fucking over workers. (Ironically the only “innovation” ever directly produced by Capitalism)

Yakuza 0, kiwami, kiwami 2, Yakuza 3, 4, 5, 6, then 7, then Gaiden, then 8.

Then play Judgement and Lost Judgement. Not part of Yakuza’s core canon. But adjacent.

I’m not a huge fan of Borderlands. I like the stories. But I don’t like the loot goblining. Constant hunt for ever higher damage numbers.

There’s only 1 company I’ll pay $80 for a new game. And that is Ryu Ga Gotoku. Cuz they don’t miss. No bad half finished launches. No bad games. Every game is a masterclass in Peak.

After his first term he was a 34 count convicted felon.

And yes. Bush should be hanged. Anyone who has presided over US mideast policy in the last 25 years should be hanged. And yes that includes Obama and Clinton.

Enough war crimes between them to make a Canadian blush.

Real Spiderman points at Spiderman moment here.

Live service garbage has costed the industry billions in losses and costed tens of thousands of devs their jobs. Fad chasing in general.

Everyone wants to make the fortnite killer or overwatch killer. They set billions of dollars on fire and get nothing for it. And it’s the devs who pay the price. Not the c-suite dipshits who threw all that money in the fire pit.

If his dictatorial aspirations are unsuccessful he’s 100% going to prison.

Normal Store Citizen behavior.

You want a fan fucking tastic game that you can put 250 hours in and never regret a minute of it?

The Yakuza franchise. Start wirh Yakuza 0. Play them all. You will laugh. You will cry. You will get so irrationally angry at pixels you’ll want to actually murder them. You’ll fall in love. And cry some more. Your heart will break many times. And nothing will ever be the same.

Ever had a game or movie or book leave you in stunned silence? You spend the next week thinking about it? That’s the Yakuza franchise. It’s silly and stupid and hilarious and it’ll tear your damn heart out when you least expect it.

The base game is fine. Once. Its just fine. Once.

When you beat the game and go thru The Unity to a whole ass different dimension and not one single detail is different in any way. That’s what kills the drive to go onward. Because the game was fine. Once.

The whole story is predicated on a multiverse that effectively doesn’t exist. Except on 1 sidequest for Barrett.

I’m gonna emulate even harder now.

Aguilar is a world renowned hitter. They’ll probably show up in Orion.

Lol

Korea has terminators that know karate. Autonomous killer drones have been in the testing phase for a few years now.

Someone even made Faro Plague machines that consume biomass for fuel.

You think so huh? ~pulls on frock coat~

Is that right? ~puts on tricorn hat~

I don’t think Ralph agrees. ~“You’re goddamn right I don’t! - Ralph the Parrot”~

Is it nepotism? It’s nepotism isn’t it?

I can see the Firefly timeline coming into shape. And knowing I won’t live to see it… damn man…

I hate living in the armpit of history. To be able to see the future on the horizon knowing I’ll never reach it. It sucks.