Since your concern is for his mental health and clearly not a selfish desire to get his next game right now, shouldn't you be advocating for him to get a therapist and not a publisher?
Sure seems like taking some time off with guidance from a doctor would help him the most personally, which again, is clearly your main concern.
Everyone enlisted gets treated like shit in the military, at least up until e-7. Age/gender/etc doesnt matter much if everyone is getting fucked roughly equally.
There is a forced class consensus in the service, which is a hilariously unexpected consequence of making explicit "have/have not" roles.
Yeah. The ethos is basically "AI will solve everything, so if we just solve AI, we can ignore everything else. AI will even solve the issues with AI, so we shouldn't waste any time solving them first."
Extremely lopsided balance between factions. Most had interesting mechanics, some basically useless and some wildly overpowered. Apparently the new-ish aqua faction has an overwhelming mobility advantage, things like that.
They added these game changing titans to the game at one point that you could defeat and employ, but this was either just luck of the draw or not possible for some factions.
Combat was meh to boring, generally. The "look at us go" turn based zoom in fights were very boring to watch, and more boring to play.
The game dragged. Just dragged, to finish. I played dozens of times, and I dont think i fully finished the game more than maybe 3 times.
All that said, the games world building, plot, and overall interesting mechanics makes me hopeful for this sequel. If they can keep the fascinating lore going and fix the "game" issues, i'll be there for it.
The article updated. He got 16 and 6 years, running concurrently. Near the top end of the guidelines, which lines up with how cops should be sentenced when they abuse their power.
If you have any doubt that it was justified, here is what he did:
King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg said Thursday that Nelson escalated the situation with Sarey, failed to wait for backup before confronting him, and that the level of force he used was unreasonable: Nelson repeatedly punched Sarey in the head after grappling with him, shot him once in the upper abdomen and then, as the wounded Sarey reclined on the ground about 7 feet away, Nelson cleared a jammed round out of his gun, glanced at a nearby witness, turned back to Sarey and fired again into Sarey’s forehead.
Dude double tapped a man he was in no danger from, after starting the fight to begin with, all brazenly in front of a witness. If he would do something that illegal in front of someone, you can imagine what he was doing on his own or only around other cops.
Notice the weasel words too: "mandatory" subscriptions, "unauthorized" monitoring of prints.
Sure sounds like a system where they can lock a ton of functionality behind an "optional" subscription, and where they will force you to "authorize" monitoring of prints with a TOS change in order to use your printer at all.
It's unlikely that you would get a dowry if you also murdered the peasant women. With how unjust Indians law enforcement is, you likely would not face the same scrutiny though.
And this simple security flaw was humorously left alone until they clamped down on sane use of customers printers.
It reminds me of what happened to the PS3. Sony shipped them with an option called "other OS" that was a full Linux install. Tons of enthusiasts and orgs, including Universities and the USAF, used this to turn hundreds of PS3 into computer clusters for research or to do other interesting things.
Well, about 3 years in, Sony decided to just disable that feature out of the blue. They were of course sued and lost millions because of it, but the fun part is that up to that point, for literally 3 years, they had no piracy on the console. It had a semi novel protection scheme that no one had hacked, a point they touted proudly. Well, about a week after that, geohot, a hardware hacker, broke this scheme specifically because they disabled "Other OS," which allowed piracy on the console.
Its almost like pissing off your deeply technical user base in the name of enshittification can backfire.
Since your concern is for his mental health and clearly not a selfish desire to get his next game right now, shouldn't you be advocating for him to get a therapist and not a publisher?
Sure seems like taking some time off with guidance from a doctor would help him the most personally, which again, is clearly your main concern.