BlemboTheThird

And yet you could play Color games on the Advance. If they did this on the Switch 2 it would be for greed reasons, not because the tech had advanced in any way.

... You think it's embarrassing that I think that advertising works?? You're hilariously naive to think that it doesn't.

Like I said, sure, we have a higher standard of living than most countries, but there are plenty of options when it comes to moving somewhere with a higher-value currency. And any other option will probably come with some form of socialized medicine and better protections for workers. Oh and they won't have an incoming administration promising to deport everyone en masse and keep them in camps in the meantime.

For anyone who wonders what the stunt was about, just look at this fuckin shit

I generally try to avoid doing the whole "American propaganda" shtick, but in this case... I mean come on. We make some of the most popular, ubiquitous media of any country in the world, and the vast majority of it shows us loving freedom and being cool as hell.

I won't deny that our standard of living is among the highest in the Americas, but the fact that things are getting worse all the time doesn't seem to matter to most people

You know, if this rednote thing really takes off, I don't think I can believe the whole "fediverse is too complicated" thing anymore. People are moving to an app that isn't even fully in English. That's WAY more complicated than picking a random instance out of a list (or more likely, just going to the one big one). I'm getting to where I think the vast majority of people just click on what's advertised no matter how stupid it is, and without ads (not people spreading things by word of mouth, I mean actual "ooh, shiny" ads) mainstream uptake of the fediverse will never happen. Good luck outspending the big corps on that.

Might be for the best anyway. The type of people who respond to ads probably aren't particularly fun to engage with.

Yeah I can't even log in on metapixl

Yeah, this is the guy who successfully played victim when he got fired for punching someone in the face. He knows exactly what he's doing.

I haven't checked it out yet but "loops" is supposed to be that

I'm not so sure. Briefly perusing the AC Wikipedia page, it doesn't seem like they're losing money even on their worst performers. Hell, it says Valhalla, which came out in 2020, had the best release week of any AC game they've ever made.

Even if the games suck, they're not aimed at the sort of person who can recognize that.

Not in their minds. Making something good would cost more this quarter. Might make more profit when the game comes out, but that probably takes years and requires hiring talented game designers, so instead they choose to make a cheap game now and release it to the same type of people who buy Madden every year.

I mean, look at Halo Infinite. Guarantee the execs are wishing they'd released some garbage like a year after Halo 5 instead of spending all that time just to make it passably okay. I doubt that quarter's sales numbers would be significantly lower.

There's a ghost in that house that, for a brief moment, was SO excited about finally being set free, until they just put the damn shoes back in