It’s definitely bad if you had planned to wait on ordering upgraded memory, GPU or flash storage because prices and availability were insane during the pandemic, only for it to triple in price. Not bad enough that I am eyeing consoles. I can’t stand the terrible framerate and low FOV they tend to have.

145 million+

I avoided it for a long time. I find it bizarre that it can’t even fulfill its intended purpose. I figured it was because he occasionally talks about controversial subjects and people reported it. Otherwise I chalk it up to Youtube being so insanely enshittified and greedy. I’m not surprised by anything idiotic they do at this point.

Blows my mind thinking how much stuff just gets lost to history but I’ve worked for companies that were purchased and when everyone left, stuff would just get cleared out by liquidators. Even if we were allowed to grab what we wanted almost nobody bothered.

Seems to happen a lot for his vids.This one itself Didn’t show up in my subscribed feed.

Yep! Such a cool game.

Played a bunch of their earlier titles without knowing who they were. Parents were disturbed by Hexen but OK with DOOM. Go figure.

I love that Talarico’s forcing them to examine patriarchal cultural contexts without their realizing it. It’s so funny to me that they are outraged that the source of the verse they love to spout at nonbelievers wasn’t originally gendered either in Hebrew, which is also a heavily gendered language. Maybe they’ll open a bible for once… do some research…

Nah.

it had all the telltale signs from the get go. Bring in fall guy. Suddenly raise service prices to unignorable level. Force attrition. Excuse to kill it and studios. Announce big plans to distract. Gut studios more. Get called out. Explain pivot. Resume gutting. Get called out. Announce vapor ware. Distract distract distract. jingles keys All carefully balanced for the two week news/memory cycle.