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I mean, some of us haven't, but most voters have the memory span of a goldfish.

I personally enjoyed (didn't enjoy) this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKS3MGriZcs

Username (of poster, not OP) checks out.

But without a Joestar to do it for you, could you handle the Pillar Men yourself? 🤔

Ariel has her voice? What'd she trade for legs in this universe?

Yeah, but most of those layoffs have been in traditional studios making traditional pay games, not GAS studios.

Lucky for him nobody has drawn public attention to it.

RFK Jr: "This is a cool story, right? People will think I'm cool?"

Brain Worm: "Yes! Yes! And tell them about the bear!"

Two reasons:

First, rather than just overseeing the most profitable game in the world, Sweeney tied his leadership at Epic to picking fights with Apple and Steam to try to muscle his way into a broader industry position. With how broken and barely functional the EGS is, it's incredibly obvious there is no way he can muster a team to do ANYTHING like Proton, so his solution is to go full throttle into pretending Windows is fine and not a dependency with existential risk.

Second, the bread and butter of EGS is Fortnite, and the developers at Epic are apparently completely unable to engineer any kind of effective anti-cheat which doesn't involve kernel level access. It is actually easier to save face by pretending the entire Linux ecosystem doesn't matter than to officially support Linux and then have to explain why Fortnite isn't available.

The ironic thing is, if he'd put the money the company wasted on exclusives and free giveaways into actual development, they could EASILY have solved all of these problems. It is fascinating, however, to watch Fortnite players dump literal billions of dollars into the company each year, just to watch it get flushed away into absolutely nothing.

Tim Sweeney (crying): "There's no future in Linux gaming. No! Stop it! Stop enjoying the good thing that isn't from me!!!!"

People post this like the conclusion isn't absolutely correct.

That's disco, baby.

Ken M, is that you?

if I had a hat I would either tip it to you or say my hats off to you

Hat inequity... yet another social ill we need to address.

Nazis and incels need to be dealt with, yes, but the important thing to keep in mind is they are symptomatic of suffering swaths of the population. People don't just do hate because it's fun.

We let big businesses and the rich steamroll entire communities and industries, pay lip service to helping people who've been damaged by capitalism, and then after the election cycles are over leave their communities to rot. They are desperate and turn to the wrong answers because there aren't any others.

We allow entertainment and advertising to blast our society with a particular view of what relationship "success" is, and accept mockery of those who cannot thrive in that narrow definition due to social anxiety or other mental issues as fair game. Those men are desperate and turn to the wrong answers because there aren't any others.

Yes, Nazis and incels are absolutely awful, hateful problems that must be dealt with. And by the time they reach that point, I'd argue they probably can't be saved. But they don't fall out of the sky. They come from normal people whose cries for help went unheard, sometimes for decades, or generations. They're the product of systemic injustices that we can mitigate with outreach programs and getting serious about mitigating the social problems that create the soil they spring from. Stopping them is a necessary band-aid, but the real solution is to address the situations that allow them to thrive in the first place.

I don't get it... is he gonna have it IN the prisons, or just give the awards in absentia?

PM and sales, eh?

So you're saying his lack of respect for programmers isn't new, but has spanned his whole career?