It's odd that they would announce a fourth film with a date when there is no way they are releasing all three of the other films AND this fourth film in the same year.
My only guess is that going forward all announcements will be the "truth" and all old announcements will be considered "false". Instead of fumbling around the different dates you just declare truth and quietly drop the false. Aka blame Bob Chapek. (Which is fair.)
I'm not surprised, but I agree with the hot take, so maybe it's only warm.
I think they keep interest in ActivityPub in order to keep regulators concerned with Antitrust at bay. The Fediverse isn't a real threat in Meta's view and keeping an engineer or two on it in order to stay invested is worth the cost.
Threads can say they are making an honest effort to work with the larger open source community and open federated internet. As an added bonus, it isn't actually a lie. Now the effort they're putting in is the absolute minimum, but it's there.
Now I still do think this is a positive. While most people on Threads will probably never leave, it does introduce them to the wider Fediverse. It makes the Fediverse a less scary thing.
The reason being to prevent duplication of Pokemon.
Given that the game is largely single player that seems like a stupid reason to me.
While I'm sure some people do a lot of breeding and IV training for the more competitive scene, be assume lots of people just hack together whatever team they need. Wonder Trade and Home have always been full of random shiny Pokemon.
Google Image Labeler apparently, but I don't actually just remember the game. Looks like it's called Crowdsource now, and you can get points, but it isn't a competition.
If I post a picture of a flower with the caption "Look what grew in my garden!", that's a terrible post from a search point of view.
Later on someone will search for "flower" but I didn't use the word "flower" so now search sucks.
Of course a much more common post is someone posting a picture of text, from Twitter, Tumblr, etc. with, once again, a vague caption. You remember the picture, but not what the poster actually said.
Searching comments will sometimes help, but that depends on the comments being related.
I just tried a bunch of apps that I swear used to have it, it all of them just say "Open in the real app" now. I wonder if low usage here also means developers stopped using them.
Basically what would happen is you'd click a link to Instagram, and instead of opening a web page, it would open the Instagram "app" instantly. If you then tried to do anything more advanced in the app (advanced decided by the developer) it would prompt you to install the app.
I suppose the reason I'm so forgiving of the online features, is that I don't use them. They're a nice little addition for sure, but I do not see them as core to the game.
I think it's embarrassing that they're sooooo far behind. Definitely if they're a thing you're expecting, it's going to sour your view of the game.
Performance is a personal thing.You're not alone, it's a common complaint, I won't deny that. I've played all three of those games, Kirby, Zelda & Mario but never remember having an issue. I'm sure I did, but it never stuck with me. I remember Arceus looking like an GameCube game. But I also remember completing the Pokedex 100%.
I was burned by Super Mario Party, so that franchise is dead to me. Maybe others will burn me too.
I think the Switch 2 launching with just Mario Kart was a huge mistake. No Mario. No Zelda. I can't remember the last time that happened. Donkey Kong is coming soon, and it's supposedly similar to Oddessy... But we'll have to see. There are great DK games, but he's no Mario and it's been a while.
Trump administration officials have suggested that the card will replace the EB-5 immigrant investor visa programme, which grants permanent residency to immigrants who invest at least $1.05m in the US, or $800,000 in designated economically distressed areas.
So since the 90s anyone with $1 million has been able to buy/invest their way in.
This "new gold card" costs $5 million.
So it costs five times as much, it's just a bribe and not an investment. I'm guessing putting together a business plan costs less than $4 million.
So the obvious question becomes... What type of person is willing to spend $5 million, but not $1 million. (And I'm guessing less oversight.)
Oh I absolutely agree there are plenty of criticisms about the company itself and their other offerings, but the games are absolutely top tier.
Their online is miles behind, games from Smash Bros to Mario Maker to Mario Kart could all be improving with better online, but since they were terrible at online I never used them, but those games were still excellent.
A lower powered system or poorly optimized game has some frame rate dips or stuttering, but never in a way that gameplay was affected. I know people will disagree but I've never had an issue with it.
Yes, joycon drift is a real problem. But that's a hardware problem. We should absolutely give Nintendo shit for hardware problems.
Suing fan projects or being aggressive about YouTube/Twitch take down, all fair. Fuck Nintendo for all that.
But all of that is different from their games being solid. I don't blame people who choose to emulate their games, they're awesome games.
I'll give you that Sony might be competitive, I don't see Xbox/Microsoft anywhere close. I think Valve and the SteamDeck are probably 4th in the race, but Valve has to actually make a game. They made great games and should continue to do so.
Nintendo gets away with it because their games rarely have a discount. An $80 game today will be $80 in a year. After several years you sometimes get a limited discount for their best selling games. A bundle or a voucher can be a small loss leader, usually if you buy one of something you buy another.
The other thing of course is that Nintendo makes absolutely top tier games. The fan base is earned. You can buy a Mario or Zelda game, knowing nothing about it, and it's going to be good. Pokemon is the obvious exception here, the mainline games are fine, but would be nothing without the brand. (I also won't forgive them for Super Mario Party, that was a $30 game, not $60.)
I don't expect $80 games to go away, because as long as someone will pay it, it's free money. But if sales slump too much in the long run I do see quick discounts, possibly even for Nintendo games.
While the company would love you to buy it at launch for $80, they're fine if you wait for a (first party) sale.
Look at the first Outer World. At launch sold for $60. Three months post launch, $50. Six months post launch, $40. One year post launch, $30.
If this new game sells the exact same, but starts at $80, they're ahead. Even if the $80 number scares away a lot of people, they're ahead. Only if it scares away a shit ton of people will it be a problem.
David F. Sandberg aka "ponysmasher" comes to mind. He started doing largely horror films himself on no/low budgets. One of his own films got opportunity to become a feature film. That then gave him future opportunities, the largest of which was Shazam! (2019).
Additionally when YouTube Premium (YouTube Red at the time) first launched they also launched YouTube Originals. Many of those programs were created by YouTubers.
The "Originals" eventually stopped being made, but it's not clear if the issue was the content, the service or a bit of both.
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It's odd that they would announce a fourth film with a date when there is no way they are releasing all three of the other films AND this fourth film in the same year.
My only guess is that going forward all announcements will be the "truth" and all old announcements will be considered "false". Instead of fumbling around the different dates you just declare truth and quietly drop the false. Aka blame Bob Chapek. (Which is fair.)