How much teeth do you like?

But we all know the old adage:

Guns don’t kill people, helicopters do.

“Also, what are we creating now that will still be valued and discussed hundreds or thousands of years from today?”

Certainly not your vapid tweets, mate.

It gained traction by being free.

I see there are good numbers on release but I would take them with a pinch of salt. Apparently it had between 500,000 and 700,000 concurrent players on release which is already down to 300,000. Estimates of over 7mil unique players.

Now look at The Finals which has 8mil unique players. It had 250,000 concurrent players on release and is now down to around 15,000 6 months later.

Reviews wise The Finals did better on both critic and public ratings. Arguably (in my opinion) the Finals has a less interesting replayability loop but is more polished and higher quality gameplay wise.

The fact is these numbers are sadly pretty common drop offs for f2p shooters, as a lot of people want to check them out but not stick with them. Will be interesting to see how the player number fare when the next CoD comes out on Game Pass.

I think fantastic is overstating it a bit. It feels like a middle of the road CoD. Kind of a boots on the ground version of one of the hero shooter Black Ops entries with a little roughness to it.

Not bad but not great either. For the price though, it’s great value.

That seems like a great initiative. It seems wild it can be completely undermined because someone famous is having a concert.

Were they staying in hotels, or will the Swifties be sleeping on the streets?

Maybe be thought about leaving the cul de sac for one loop. I imagine the madness would take hold at some point during this.

It’s true it does cost to keep things running. But like you say there are ways around this to push server costs onto players, or simply allow offline play with online features disabled.

I think if there were legislation in place then design decisions would adapt. If it were costly to just shut a game down abruptly, there would be player hosted options in place from the start and ideally less spurious “always online” requirements woven into the fabric of every game.

Those are some pixels alright

If they are undocumented, how does he expect to find them?

But my company says it cares for the environment and does environmental things like improving algorithms for patches to reduce computing power needed and therefore save the energy worldwide (an actual example of a recent win by our environment consciousness team right after forcing thousands of people to RTO)

Personally, I imagine the global elite to be Cypher, enjoying a succulent steak while selling out the rest of humanity to robots.

Freedom of speech. Except the speech we don’t like.

I have encountered this “American social issues transplanted” hand waving a lot in Europe. For example, I know a lot of Swedes who say this about a bunch of casually racist stuff (proclaiming Sweden to be very anti-racist). Meanwhile up north you see a lot of Classic American cars which are often casually emblazoned with Confederate flags and even displayed in proximity to Nazi memorabilia. Down south you have a rising right-wing party support fuelled by fear of immigrants from Africa/Middle East (eg. The non-white ones).

I understand you’re trying to educate yourself and that’s great, don’t take this as dunking on you more, as I feel like you’re in the smart minority by trying to learn and reason. It just really bugs me when I hear people say it’s a US problem. A lot of Europe is holding a lot of racist views (and in a lot of cases, horrific colonial history) and then turn around to say things like “why are my football players kneeling, BLM is an American issue”.

I was going to reply to another comment that if Bansky did this, they’d all be jacking each other off to get a look. Turns out that already happened.

If you think that was over the top, wait 'till you hear about the jail time!

It’s a nail two screws in the wall, what could it cost? $100??

This took me way too long to get and sent me on a search to see if Ms. was ever used as a pronoun for women with dead dads specifically.

This is the part of the horror movie where you walk in on the weird devil worship sacrificial cult ritual and it clicks as to why they seemed like odd people. Then they spend Act 3 chasing you down to kill you. I guess we are in Act 3.