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Everyone loves avoiding the actual issue. My response to Tim Cain a month ago can be echoed today to anyone who is straw-manning the "ugly character" issue in Western games.
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Jun 3
No one cried āuglificationā and āmasculinization of womenā or āgirl bossesā back in the day when characters like these were in different mediumsš
Whether they were main or side characters, heroes or villains, people didnāt overanalyze and let their fantasizes make them look for or make up imaginary reasons preemptively hate things.
Iāve lived in a time when we didnāt read reviews or looked up artistsā profiles to know their political affiliations or what they said about whom 10 years prior or so.
We played games and watched movies and we made whatever we got out of them and we either loved them and replayed them or we moved on to something new.
I totally cannot relate to the mentality of wanting to be a crusader fighting for a made up fight over non-existent oppressionš¤
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Surveys like this will include people who play Wordle.
212 Million Americans Play Video Games, Including A Third Of Those Aged Over 80 - Kotaku kotaku.com/esa-essential-facā¦
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The problem with this isn't the humor, the problem is that it feels dated. This joke feels like they had the idea when they first started developing the game 5 years ago.
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Posts like this are deceptive. Right is a group shot of women who work at the company. Less than 40 employees in that group shot. Bungie has roughly 800 employees.
May 21
WAS IT WORTH IT BUNGIE?
WERE THE DEI HIRES WORTH IT?
Your 250 MILLION dollar DEI flop just killed one of the biggest looter shooters to ever exist.
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Sabr Path retweeted
I am having a serious schizo problem and I cannot seem to stop...
I am still very curious as to why Mixtape managed to get all the game journalists to give it a 10/10, even getting glowing publicity from BAFTA too.
Especially after completing the experience myself...and thoroughly disliking it. Its just, horrible - and now it makes me further baffled, what do the Game Journalists see in this?
The characters were not likeable except maybe Jenny and Cassandra's father - the MC is honestly a self-centred and selfish person...but ok I am getting too side tracked over that.
Weird:
I got curious, so i did a bit of light digging - and I think I found a possible angle as to why Mixtape got all these high uncritical praises from so many game journalists. This angle is, well its a "nostalgic" angle.
The star of the show, is the current Head of Anapurna Games after the ENTIRE old Anapurna team resigned (the same team that scouted and greenlit Stray and Outer Wilds fyi)...
Current head of Anapurna Games, Leanne Loombe.
Leanne has quite the pedigree on her, based on her public Linkedin. The most important roles relevant for me however were two roles:
1. Board member at BAFTA
2. Board member at Wings Interactive.
Now maybe I am being a little bit of melodramatic or a schizo, but with the BAFTA angle, it explains why BAFTA had been giving Mixtape so much positive publicity via their social media accounts...and I expect some BAFTA awards going to Mixtape too.
As for the Wings Interactive angle - well its the same Wings Interactive that Sweet Baby Inc was attached to, and is also incidentally the same Wings Interactive that Anita Sarkeesian provided consultancy for via Wings' projects.
As we have seen since 2014 or even earlier, anything that has Anita Sarkeesian's influence in it, would instantly be receiving glowing praise or defense from Games Media. This include friends or people who closely work with Anita...like Leanne Loombe.
Furthermore if we know our 2014 History, we would know how EASY it is for Games Journalists band together to give either the most glowing of press for their friends or people who traded favours with them...or the most horrible of smears to those who they personally dislike, or those whom their friends dislike.
With all these strange connections being implied from observing all these public information - should I be surprised that so many game journalists kept giving Mixtape 10/10? No.
INB4 I get some comments:
For those of you who unironically think that I am merely obsessing over Mixtape...let me ask you this question.
Would you take credit ratings agencies seriously in 2008, back as they said sub-prime mortgages were "blue chip investments", when you found out that the financial institutions selling these sub-prime mortgages, are collaborating with the same credit rating agencies...whether because those working at the agencies are personal friends of people in the financial institutions, or received kickbacks for giving good ratings to horrible investments?
Think of that question in your head, then get back to me and if you think I am merely talking about Mixtape in a vacuum...
OR am I instead talking about a Games Media Industry again being exposed as being so broken and nepotistic with some parts of the Games Industry and "Games Consultancy", to the point that they will trade favours with one another for positive or negative press, depending on what each other wants.
This is my opinion at the end of the day though.
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If it were a movie you can just use one of these and click away to your heart's desire.
May 11
If Mixtape was a movie I wouldn't have been able to have so much fun doing this.
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The studio that made Mix Tape is owned by the daughter of the 5th richest man in the world. Not a coincidence
It is confirmed. Mixtape is a nepo-backed astroturfed game.
It is developed by a small Australian studio, Beethoven and Dinosaur, and funded by Annapurna Interactive, headed by Megan Ellison. Yes, THAT Ellison family, where her father Larry Ellison, who is one of the most connected to Israel's elites, donated over $16 million in 2017 alone.
Larry's son, David Ellison's Skydance/Paramount, secured nearly $24 billion in equity investments from the Saudi public investment fund, plus others from Qatar and Abu Dhabi. Meanwhile Larry himself is personally funding portions of the equity commitments in the media deals.
That means Annapurna Interactive, with family ties to the Ellison wealth, has incredibly deep pockets that most indies could only dream of. This is why they were able to secure expensive music licences, massive marketing, and a multiplatform launch. No evidence that Israel or Middle East money touched the game, but the money is in the family and family talk.
Critics are eating it up like slop with near-universal 9-10 of 10 ratings, while the players are skipping it, calling it an overrated walking sim.
Annapurna Interactive markets itself as a "prestige" publisher, which aligns with the "high class" artsy vibe that critics love, but the audience doesn't care for. Their only massive commercial success was Stray, the cat game...
Meanwhile, pretty much every other game published by Annapurna was a flop or niche... and this one is proving the same as well, with barely 2000 people playing the game on steam.
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Remember when @geoffkeighley was expecting people to apologize for Highguard?
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Defending a game that clearly requires a defense for the accolades it's receiving is telling. This is clear proof of the gaming media coordinating an astroturfed campaign to bridge the gap between the actual product and these "perfect" scores.
Mixtape is going to (deservedly) win so many awards and everyone will be very normal about it
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This is why gamers can't trust anyone. He shamelessly made a video showing off his swag he got, and is doing damage control in the comments, stating he's not promoting the game nor did he say anything positive about it.
May 8
Wow these Mixtape packages that
@A_i sent out contain a fully functioning CD player and retro headphones straight from the game. This is so cool!!
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Devs, don't look at Spider-Verse and say "I should put that in my game"
Games are not cinema!
Games have response time and "feel". When you intentionally stagger your framerate, you're ruining your game.
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They don't know what to do with a rail shooter other than keep remaking it. They could have tried to fix Star Fox Zero or try something more strategic like Star Fox Command.
May 8
Nintendo has completed the infinity gauntlet of going back to a game. We have now the perfect guide for if a game is a remaster, remake etc.
I present the Starfox Scale.
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youtu.be/U4cmWQfAonU
New video, responding to a recent video by Tim Cain regarding ugly characters in games.
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Replay of this week's live stream is getting good numbers. I include time stamps so you can skip to the main topic.
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New video discussing Crunch Culture in the games industry
#videogames #gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiegamedev #AAAgames
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Lack of accountability. This is a lesson to everyone. When a project you work on fails, the most productive thing to do is ask yourself: What went wrong? What went right? What can I do better next time?
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