KaiReeve

Yeah, the industry seems to be changing again. There's a push towards passion projects and those projects are seeing more success than the big budget games. I think we will either see a new cycle of conglomeration or, hopefully, we will see the executives take a more hands-off approach and let the games make money for them.

Just because you own a sports team doesn't mean you should be head coach.

You're not wrong

I mean, kind of, but not really.

It all started with Halo. Back in the late 90s and early 00s the movie industry was the big money maker of entertainment and there was actually a lot of anti-gaming rhetoric in news and politics. The weekend Halo 3 released it was so popular that it disrupted the box office numbers for a couple of movies. The movie executives decided to stop trying to kill the gaming industry and take it over instead.

So I guess you can blame millennials for playing Halo instead of going to the movies that weekend.

Thomas the take engines

Malario sounds like something you would call Wario if you only knew about Waluigi.

Yeah, Elite Dangerous is an amazing spaceship flying simulator, but that's still all it is for me. Odyssey was supposed to be what transitioned it from sim to rpg, and FDev didn't really deliver on that promise. Ship interiors is the next watermark I'm waiting for before I put in the effort of reinstalling my hotas setup.

My SO hates it when I play dark souls. She says it increases the stress levels in our home.

Careful, manual transmission may be fun, but it's a gateway drug to motorcycle ownership.

Footing is important for melee combat. All the small-foots got killed off in the middle ages because it's hard to defend yourself when you fall down a lot.

1 Toribyte

My sister used to do this with Target.

She was always overdrafting her accounts to the point where my dad actually had to go pay Bank of America $200 to close one of them for her, so she decided 'fuck banks' and would just spend her entire paycheck at Target. Whenever she needed cash she would head to Target and return some stuff.