Focus on what you can control is pretty cliche advice, but it really is all you can do in situations like this. Something I've started doing is a "news diet" where I sit down on Monday and basically skim through the last week of political news. Then I just try and ignore political news as much as possible until the next Monday. It's not a perfect system, but it helps deal with the fire hose style news coverage the media gives to Trump.
Computerchairgeneral
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It's almost impressive how companies can think up the worst ways to experience games when they want to show something off at these events.
While I wouldn't underestimate Hasbro's ability to blow everything up trying to make the line go up, I do think D&D just shambling on for another decade is likely. It's just so entrenched among so many players. Sure, every new scandal is going to have some group swearing it off and going back to old editions or looking at different games, but the majority will just keep playing.
I wonder how Twitter came to be such a negative place? Who could be responsible for such a thing?
Doom 2016 kind of felt like it hit the sweet spot between the two. Just enough lore to be interesting, but still grounded in a simple premise. Then Doom Eternal had so much lore I actually had to check that I hadn't missed a game where all this stuff had been introduced.
This console generation is ending already? Like, logically I know it's been six years, but it still feels short for a console generation. Curious to see if the handheld rumors pan out and what confusing name they give it.
Curious what industry standard Senator Warner is judging Valve against because a social media site, which Warner is comparing Valve to, being filled with Nazis and the far right feels like the standard, even if some sites at better at quarantining them than others. Also, "intense scrutiny" from Congress is kind of an empty threat at the best of times, but especially when Congress is about to be run by the sort of people who aren't going to see this as a problem.
Great, more consolidation in the gaming industry. Still, Sony making some kind of big purchase felt inevitable once the Activision deal was finalized. I guess on the bright side Bloodborne 2 might finally happen? Or at least a remaster? But who knows with Sony.
Turning Silent Hill into Loud Valley.
That's a shame. Rime was a great little game. Got it on a whim and ended up really enjoying it. Hope the developers can find work elsewhere.
Good. Still not completely sure about moving from one corporate site to another, but good to see more and more people are moving away from Twitter.
Well....that was an agonizing article to read. I'd heard of some of the allegations about Gaiman a while back, but it just gets worse and worse the further on you read. And it's really damning when Gaiman's response essentially boils down to "yes it happened, but it was consensual I swear."