yeah I think it’s fair to argue there are bigger problems that steam.

severance is one of the best shows anywhere in the last few years. For All Mankind is also really good.

See and Foundation are okay/watchable.

who said steam forums are “the” problem?

for now. feels like lots of potential for enshittification though.

The Processed Tease.

everything feels so unserious this year. I get he had a major injury last season, and (barely) played in the olympics (which he was out of shape for).

but then he had 2 months to rest, recover, and train to be ready for the season opener, and just wasn’t for some reason? perhaps his last good shot at a finals run before he is injured again and/or PG is too old. makes no sense.

It doesn’t work in the reverse direction because it’s an issue of equity in role availability. we have a cultural bias for movies with white characters, especially historical movies, so white actors don’t need to be taking what few roles there are for racial minorities.

on the other hand i think it’s fine for racial minorities to be taking roles in a fictional film that would otherwise be 100% white people.

exactly, it’s well known the original scope was actually TOO big and they had to scale down.

easter eggs don’t make a game deep or replayable.

As far as I can tell, no one. After following each link in the article and cursory googling, to me this looks like Merrill is shooting back at something that isn’t actually happening. Of course people are talking about the large budget, but complaining? I don’t see it.

I think for something that’s clearly not meant to be very historically accurate race swapping is fine. If we always have strict racial rules then vaguely historical movies are always going to be contributing to role inequalities for non-white people.

fuck it dude. let’s go bowlin.

also:

Jakob Poeltl should have been called for 3 seconds

Jayson Tatum fouled Poeltl

Davion Mitchell fouled Jaylen Brown

I don’t think I’ve ever played a game more than 200 or 300 hours.

firstly, I did get a report to remove this post (which I understand and considered), but I think it’s worthwhile to point out to people why you have to think critically about articles like this.

Substack really isn’t the venue for such controversial and possibly damaging work to be done. This desperately needs peer review to examine the survey methodology and data interpretation before we draw any conclusions like the author did.

Surveys are extremely complicated because it’s so easy to bias with the selection of the respondents, how you phrase the questions, and all kinds of other things. While the author clearly did put some effort into that, we don’t know their qualifications (as far as I can tell “Aella” is a pseudonym), and even if we did sometimes qualified people make mistakes. That’s the value of peer review - other experts can examine the process and offer feedback before it gets published.

Publishing such conclusions all on your own is (at best) unintentional fear mongering that can hurt real people.

they did the elam thing for a few years and it was really only good that first time.

all these new formats are band aids over the real problem that players just don’t give a shit about the all star game, and nothing is going to change that. they need to just go the NFL Pro Bowl route and replace the game with a bunch of silly activities.

dunno about budget, I’m just taking in terms of the demand for these types of movies.

I have a feeling it’s because zany animated movies are an easier sell to kids.

what we do in the shadows

arcane

dune prophecy

star trek lower decks

Astronomy Cast