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Maybe not imminent. But you do need to have it ready on the chance something happens. It’s pretty silly to completely dismantle a country’s military and only start spinning it up when you need it.
Militaries take a long time to build up, equip, and train. Not to mention keeping the institutional knowledge of folks with the expertise on how to operate, build, and maintain all the moving parts involved so that when the time comes, you’re not starting from square one. If you wait until you get attacked to get things rolling, you’ve pretty much already lost.
Militaries are only unnecessary so long as the other guys don’t have one either
The Gripen is certainly not as advanced as F-35 but its operating costs per flight hour are only 1/5th of the F-35 which is definitely a big consideration when you don’t have a US-sized defense budget.
2·7 days agoNo, it’s pretty one-sided. The game was ready for a soft launch by the expected date. They even have communications exchanges between Krafton’s CEO and their global ops head how to avoid paying out the bonus before firing them.
“Krafton terminated the Founders and seized control of Unknown Worlds in order to avoid the earnout,” reads the group’s latest filing. “Smoking gun documents show that Krafton was looking for ways to ‘cancel the earn-out’ and that its secret ‘Project X’ was designed to either make a ‘Deal’ on the earnout or execute a “Take over.” When the Founders would not agree to Krafton’s demands related to the earnout, Krafton decided a ‘take over’ would be the ‘easier’ route.”
https://kotaku.com/subnautica-2-krafton-lawsuit-chatgpt-2000644792
I think Blue prince would have made more sense than another installment of Donkey Kong 🤷♂️
Donkey Kong inclusion was definitely Nintendo fan tax 🤭
Your can turn off the QTEs for optimizing attacks which I definitely did. Dodging/parrying can’t be avoided but if you turn the difficulty to story mode it’s generally pretty trivial.
The gameplay itself is just “okay”. Turn based JRPG combat with some QTE not much different from Super Mario RPG on the SNES.
I think the attention it has received is based on how well they tie together the quality of storytelling, dialogue, art direction, music, and the universal theme that resonates with everyone:
It’s an interactive cinematic experience that had me in emotional shambles multiple times throughout the playthrough.
If you’re dead inside like me and desperate to feel anything, it’ll do it for you :>
It’s getting made into a movie already so you can probably wait for that worst case :>
Expedition 33 is the only game on the list that isn’t a sequel or derivative of a previous IP so it’s got originality going for it :>
I mean it’s pretty obvious they are. The original reason Krafton gave for firing the founders was that Subnautica 2 was being pushed out before it was ready just so the founders could get their bonuses.
Krafton has since dropped those arguments in the legal fillings and changed their reason for firing them to some nebulous shit like:
“abandoned their posts” and “deceived” their employer.
I mean come on. This isn’t even a both sides issue anymore.
Latest developments makes it seem like Krafton just wanted to save the cash to plow into their lame AI venture.
I mean honestly, when has a video game company actually been on the right side when things came to a head with the founders?
“The termination notices of the founders gave one reason for their termination,” said Fortis, “and that was the supposed lack of readiness of Subanutica 2 for release. Krafton reiterated that basis for its actions repeatedly.”
Fortis called it a “seismic shift in the case” and “a little bit bewildering”. This was also echoed by the judge, Lori W. Will, when the parties met for a ruling on the filed motions, saying: “Well, that’s something that we definitely need to get to the bottom of today, because that is precisely what was cited as the reason in the answer.”
Krafton’s representatives were not clear about why this argument has been taken off the table, only that it has been, and that it’s no longer why they are saying the founders were terminated.
Instead, Krafton is focusing on the argument that the founders “abandoned their posts” and “deceived” their employer. Causing more confusion is the accusation that the founders downloaded files and kept devices with confidential information on them. This only came to light after the termination, so its relevance has been questioned.
Shortly after came this announcement 🙄
Nothing about PUBG and Subnautica 2 publisher Krafton’s recent decision to become an “AI-first company” look good. The company plans to drop over 130 billion won ($88 million) into the project, recently stopped hiring new employees, and started a voluntary resignation program for its employees in South Korea this week.
Far down the ladder from these decisions is Eleventh Hour Games, the developer behind Last Epoch, which Krafton acquired in July. The timing couldn’t have been worse as it happened right after the founders of Subnautica developer Unknown Worlds were unceremoniously fired for what they claim was a move to avoid paying a $250 million earnout.
Silksong, KCD 2, Hades 2, Death Stranding 2 alongside. It’s quite the lineup!
An overall really good year for gaming!! 👍
Maaaaan. Fuck Krafton.
Impressive list of nominees except for Donkey Kong Bananza?! that just looks so out of place. But it’s gotta be Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 all the way for GOTY.
Think it’s going for a Titanic level sweep here
Woah woah woah. Let’s not start world war 3 here! Let’s just be sensible and appease Putin some more and activate article 4 and discuss what we should do instead 🙄
