I only use LinkedIn for the job postings but they’ve become flooded with nonsense the past few months. Lots of postings from Ladders, Swooped, and various companies like those. I think I’m about to ditch LinkedIn permanently.
"I still really wanted to be a mum and Elon made the offer around that time and I accepted," she said, explaining Musk in 2020 had offered to donate sperm.
"He was encouraging everyone around him at that time to have kids and he'd noticed I did not. He offered to make a donation," Zilis said.
The following image used by the BBC speaks volumes.
This is far from an Xbox issue. Gaming has become boring and commercialized. I grew up with the Atari 2600, ZX Spectrum, NES, SNES and Genesis. There were a lot of weird, goofy, unique games that took major risks. Games that were obvious attempts to just earn cash were largely ridiculed (I’m thinking of you, M.C. Kids).
Much like music, film, books and all other media, gaming has largely lost its attraction.
Steam is still great because it allows small developers to try new things. From what I’ve read, trying to bring such games to consoles is almost impossible.
As for Xbox, specifically: they have sanitized a lot of the online interactions, trying to make everything family-friendly. Half of the fun of Call of Duty is hearing other players lose their shit. The shit-talking makes it fun. They keep trying to remove it and have made the game a glorified Fortnite.
Budgets generally make it impossible. Any “commercial” game costs enough no one seems to be willing to risk it unless they think it will pay back big. Often seemingly by making the game bigger (thus more expensive) to appeal to more people.
Much like Hollywood.
Combine on the trend mentality and rent seeking (live service shooters?) and it sucks.
I really liked the PS1 and 2 eras.
PS1 was cheap to develop for relative to cartridges, and Sony just wanted games. They published so many cool and experimental things. Even brought over stuff like that from Japan.
PS2 moved away from that some but we still got fun stuff. No one would ever publish Guitaroo Man today.
Once you hit the HD era budgets started skyrocketing, team size, and it never got better.
I agree indie is where much of the fun is. Some big games are still great. But so much cool stuff is in the indie scene.
They could be publishing that. Not every PS5 game needs to look jaw dropping.
MS helped the rise of indies big time with XBLA. Don’t know why they threw that away. But their business plan hasn’t made sense since the 360 era.
More or less, but "You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time." And also that the sticker price is a good indication of how easy it is to get an new one quickly.
The side with $25M helicopters and $4m patriot missiles is at a big disadvantage to the side with $40K shaheeds here. Attrition favours the latter side. Assuming that both sides have stockpiles, the latter side will have more items in the stockpile, and will replenish it sooner. What happens when the air defences run out?
Starting yesterday, browsing Reddit on my phone brings up a large app ad on the bottom half of the screen that cannot be removed. The more they push it, the less I use their crappy website.
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