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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • I don’t think e33 is unreasonable.

    For any individual award, sure. It’s an arbitrary decision of taste and people can agree to disagree.

    When you’re stacking up all the awards on a single game, you’re effectively ignoring the rest of the releases for the year.

    The only issue I have is sandfall shouldn’t count as an independent game

    I’m more disgusted with giving “Best Indie” and “Best Debut Indie” to the same title. Why even have two categories at this point? It isn’t even the studio’s debut title.

    Similarly, three “Best Performance” nominees to the same title. You know what you’re doing and it’s not evaluation or recognition, it’s just promotion.

    But then these awards gave Pretty Derby the Best Mobile Game and FFT: Ivalice Chronicles (a thirty year old remaster!) Best Strategy, so whatchagonna do?

    Game awards have always been glorified ads.









  • The problem isn’t female leads, it’ trash-tier writing.

    Worst part about the sequels was the compulsive need to regurgitate elements of the prior series.

    • Empire is back, kids!
    • Death Star Plus
    • And we’re back on Tantoine again
    • Harrison Ford again
    • Getting killed by Discount Darth Vader to buy time to escape the Knock Off Death Star
    • Only a direct hit on the main loud farting sounds

    There’s so much lore from the books and the games and the toys and the cutting room floor of the original movies. And they had a ton of good ideas at the outset. A storm trooper who defects? A six foot tall super trooper in mirror armor? A Sith Lord who isn’t stoic and morose, but hot headed and self-destructive? These are cool good ideas!

    Shame they got drowned out in Disney fueled nostalgia.



  • Like the capitalists want “uneducated” masses

    Capitalists have historically needed liberal universities in order to reproduce, both as asset managers and as propagandists. The modern turn towards “AI can do everything” is a real vulnerability in the material working of the system. The Professional Managerial Class has been a major pillar of modern capital since the Cold War Era. Dissolving it to save a few bucks is a serious blunder.

    Only question is who steps up to take advantage.