A good reminder that Fallout: London is very much the exception, not the rule when it comes to these large fan projects. Really sad to hear still, however.

They only want to cover each other’s backs. It’s been obvious from the start but was essentially confirmed by Mike Dean on that podcast appearance. Utterly inexcusable really.

That doesn’t mean there isn’t room for improvement, but it’s certainly a very difficult career due to the inevitable public scrutiny that comes with it, and without much of the financial and social reward that players benefit from.

Not just that, but making it up through the lower leagues is absolutely gruelling. I don’t remember who it was - I think it was on the StatsBomb podcast years ago - but I heard professional referees are among the careers with the highest percentage dropouts within the first year of starting. And it’s easy to imagine why: not just is the job physically demanding and often difficult, but having to suffer through years of hearing Potbelly Pete in the 13th division call you a worthless piece of shit because you sent him off for a two-footer can’t be a pleasant experience. It’s no wonder most are filtered out, especially since as you say they’re far from compensated fairly.

Damn shame the decision Remedy made to get the funding from Epic looks like it has backfired (since as I understand it AW2 still hasn’t turned a profit). I truly hope this doesn’t affect their upcoming games as Alan Wake 2 is one of the best gaming experiences I’ve ever had and I want for nothing more than Remedy to keep doing what they’re doing.

I only know it from the fascist vision quest in Disco Elysium.

I’m interested in all of the spiritual successors, but it should be noted that the standout quality of DE to me was always the writing and the world building, and I don’t think any of the prominent writers are involved in this project. If I remember right from the announcement some months back this project has a writer from Destiny 2 and Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League, with the main Disco Elysium connection being Piotr who was systems designer for ZA/UM.

It still sounds interesting from the article and I’ll check it out when it drops, but it isn’t really the spiritual successor I personally am looking for. That would be something by either Red Info (Kurvitz/Luiga/Hindpere/Rostov) or Summer Eternal (Argo Tuulik et al).

Seconded. Maybe I just enjoy them more than most but I think it’s a missed opportunity to not make more hay with the punnerific nature of “Lemmy”. Like !lemmybewholesome@lemmy.world

I am open to be proven wrong but I do not see him justifying these kinds of numbers.

Happiness and peace of mind.

Civ V will do me plenty for another couple years anyway.

Time is just an illusion anyway. We can’t measure time, because time is the measurement. It’s how humans measure change. Fundamentally a second is no more “real” than a centimeter. You can’t have a bag of either, so to speak. They’re just abstract concepts.

I believe the generally accepted scientific term for the English language is “clusterfuck”.

Reminds me of Cassidy’s foreskin musings in Preacher.

Not feeling good about spending four more years attempting to resist the noose to be honest.

What the hell am I watching

In general I tend to differentiate between creator and publisher in all art. It would have been a more shocking inclusion had it been a movie made by Disney themselves - at least to me. I’m open to being wrong about how much Disney meddled in Pixar stories pre 2006 purchase though. I can’t say it’s a subject I’ve studied at length. I know there is a book about Pixar but I haven’t read it. Do you have any sources?

This article is a great rundown of Pixar and Disney, but while the latter did publish Pixar’s movies through the nineties and early naughties they had very little creative influence over them - especially compared to what would come post acquisition. Even the four “transitional” films (that had already begun production in 2006) are clearly more Pixar than Disney.

I hadn’t seen it before so my first thought was “uhhh… Superman?”

I mean were those buildings even evacuated? He probably killed a fair few innocent bystanders there 😂

Existence.