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Insomniac, the dev team behind the wildly successful Spider-Man games just had a leak. In the leak, it's discovered that they were strong-armed by Sony (who owns Insomniac) to downsize staff despite exceeding sales targets and hitting goals. They needed to downsize to help balance Sony's books, who have acquired a slew of failing or underperforming studios.

Sony owns Studio A, and Studio B. Studio B have underperformed for the last few years, whilst Studio A has outperformed their targets. Because of the shortcomings in Studio B, Sony are now out of pocket, even accounting for the earnings of Studio A. Studio A are forced to eliminate staff roles to make up for Studio B's mismanagement. A well oiled and well performing Studio have to butcher their teams to balance their parent entity's books. It's so fucking short sighted and stupid.

This isn't just a Sony/Insomniac issue either, I guarantee this goes on throughout the industry whenever there's a parent company. It's just how it will always be in those circumstances.

Seems patently anti-player, but pro shareholder. It's so clear cut.

I tend to be pretty pessimistic about these cases. Even if the UK Govt win, Google won't change anything, or if they do the change will be subtle enough to not have any impact

Thing is, Trump didn't actually have a vision. He didn't think he was going to win, and he was using the whole election as a way to enrich himself. There is no Trump vision, he plans nothing.

I enjoyed Frasier, but not because of Frasier himself. I really enjoyed seeing the interaction between him and his brother Niles, along with Roz, Daphne etc.

So if this is just a show about Frasier, then I'm out.

He goes back to Emerald Grove, and he'll be at the bottom of the stairs where you had the encounter with the theiving tiefling child's parents

Nobody has trust in our government. The way they've treated immigrants (both legal and otherwise) is abhorrent. I'm not surprised that nobody wants to come here.

Break the task down into bitesize chunks and then just do the first one. The dopamine hit from completing the first part will help your executive dysfunction.

Example (do the dishes):

1. Move dishes out of the sink
2. Fill sink with hot water and soap
3. Wash one plate
4. Wash one set of cutlery that goes with the plate

Once you do 1, you'd be surprised at how easy 2 is, then 3, then 4 and then the rest of them.

It's a skill, so it's not something you can just click your fingers and do, so work on it, and develop the skill over time. It's tough, but doable

Please get some help. Go somewhere, anywhere to get out of your housing situation. There are shelters, parents, relatives go stay with anyone until your back on your feet. It's never too late to start over

I enjoyed playing a bit of Paladin. It's got some great role playing mechanics too where you can't break your oath

It's a joke

There was a controversy a couple of weeks ago where some AAA developers were saying things like "don't expect our standards to rise now that this game is out" and generally being salty about how good BG3 is