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anime was right
Jun 27, 2008

death is certain
keep yr cool

SKULL.GIF posted:

The comparison was to Embracer's collapse, wasn't it? Not necessarily the reasons behind the collapse. Is TinyBuild also an active acquirer?



same problem

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anime was right
Jun 27, 2008

death is certain
keep yr cool
the west literally just overdosed on free money. its incredible.

RealityWarCriminal
Aug 10, 2016

:o:
Hello Neighbor is a fun one because it's a game no one plays, no one has heard of, but it has physical goods you can buy in gamestop

triple sulk
Sep 17, 2014



mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

Asmrdee

strange feelings re Daisy
Aug 2, 2000

My entire YouTube games feed is clogged with Hello Neighbor poo poo, Minecraft, and Roblox by default. I have to purge those videos aggressively or they keep showing up.

SlimGoodbody
Oct 20, 2003

The gently caress is Hello Neighbor? I've literally never heard of this thing before. My game vid recs are all Elden Ring, Street Fighter 6, roguelikes, and boomer shooters.

SardonicTyrant
Feb 26, 2016

BTICH IM A NEWT
熱くなれ夢みた明日を
必ずいつかつかまえる
走り出せ振り向くことなく
&



SlimGoodbody posted:

The gently caress is Hello Neighbor? I've literally never heard of this thing before. My game vid recs are all Elden Ring, Street Fighter 6, roguelikes, and boomer shooters.
It's this game that looks fake but there's like a half dozen of them

LentThem
Aug 31, 2004

90% Retractible

eXXon posted:

Beer is disgusting swill and based on numbers I can't find and so made up, will be replaced in decades by the rapidly-growing market for makgeolli, the fermented grain beverage that doesn't taste like poo poo.

making an off-topic reply three days later to say that I just had makgeolli for the first time yesterday and it was extremely nice during this awful summer weather

Knight
Dec 23, 2000

SPACE-A-HOLIC
Taco Defender

strange feelings re Daisy posted:

My entire YouTube games feed is clogged with Hello Neighbor poo poo, Minecraft, and Roblox by default. I have to purge those videos aggressively or they keep showing up.
Is there an unsupervised toddler accessing your profile? Or have they become so powerful that the algorithm has started recommending that to adult gamers?

PS Choo-choo Charles is outside my house I gotta get out of here. but first open this mystery box of toys with wild reaction faces

Vox Nihili
May 28, 2008

SlimGoodbody posted:

The gently caress is Hello Neighbor? I've literally never heard of this thing before. My game vid recs are all Elden Ring, Street Fighter 6, roguelikes, and boomer shooters.

"Hello Neighbor is a stealth horror game about sneaking into your neighbor's house to figure out what horrible secrets he's hiding in the basement."

Looks like absolute poo poo and apparently it also features "AI."

Skaffen-Amtiskaw
Jun 24, 2023

Vox Nihili posted:

"Hello Neighbor is a stealth horror game about sneaking into your neighbor's house to figure out what horrible secrets he's hiding in the basement."

Looks like absolute poo poo and apparently it also features "AI."

Excited for the video game adaptation of cult classic The 'Burbs.

SlimGoodbody
Oct 20, 2003

Vox Nihili posted:

"Hello Neighbor is a stealth horror game about sneaking into your neighbor's house to figure out what horrible secrets he's hiding in the basement."

Looks like absolute poo poo and apparently it also features "AI."

What could this game possibly require you to habitually purchase at a physical location??

Zapf Dingbat
Jan 9, 2001


SlimGoodbody posted:

The gently caress is Hello Neighbor? I've literally never heard of this thing before. My game vid recs are all Elden Ring, Street Fighter 6, roguelikes, and boomer shooters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkoGm1t-kOA

edit for summary: as far as I can tell it's an indie game whose scope was too big for the devs' ability or budget but continues with many half-finished iterations in a micro Star Citizen kind of way.

Gwyneth Palpate
Jun 7, 2010

Do you want your breadcrumbs highlighted?

~SMcD

Thinking about how that EV SUV weighs as much as a small semi truck with no trailer

Thinking about the minimum stopping distance for a vehicle that weighs that much

Thinking about how they probably don't have jake brakes

Skaffen-Amtiskaw
Jun 24, 2023

Gwyneth Palpate posted:

Thinking about how that EV SUV weighs as much as a small semi truck with no trailer

Thinking about the minimum stopping distance for a vehicle that weighs that much

Thinking about how they probably don't have jake brakes

Jevons paradox would just mean those brakes suck, so let's not bother with the cost.

420 Gank Mid
Dec 26, 2008

WARNING: This poster is a huge bitch!

Janitor Ludwich IV posted:

Honestly gently caress you Spiderman it's 3 am and I can't sleep because I'm so loving pissed about how dumb you are. I think I'll go play.my hardcore porn game the Witcher 3 to jack off some steam you loving rear end in a top hat

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

a_gelatinous_cube
Feb 13, 2005


I'm glad we live in a universe where The Homer and the Canyonero both manifested into the real world.

Nichael
Mar 30, 2011



Is this canon?

HAIL eSATA-n
Apr 7, 2007


Gwyneth Palpate posted:

Thinking about how that EV SUV weighs as much as a small semi truck with no trailer

Thinking about the minimum stopping distance for a vehicle that weighs that much

Thinking about how they probably don't have jake brakes

they can accelerate from 0-60 in a 2 seconds or whatever but you'll never believe how long they take to stop!!

Gwyneth Palpate
Jun 7, 2010

Do you want your breadcrumbs highlighted?

~SMcD

My braking strategy in a 10,000 lb consumer vehicle: only take routes with stops going up hill

HAIL eSATA-n
Apr 7, 2007


they should put a third axle through the driver's head

Hubbert
Mar 25, 2007

At a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

anime was right posted:

the west literally just overdosed on free money. its incredible.

the spent-it-all crisis overshadows the fentanyl epidemi

RealityWarCriminal
Aug 10, 2016

:o:

SlimGoodbody posted:

The gently caress is Hello Neighbor? I've literally never heard of this thing before. My game vid recs are all Elden Ring, Street Fighter 6, roguelikes, and boomer shooters.

https://www.amazon.com/McFarlane-Toys-Neighbor-Action-Figure/dp/B079RYZDPF/

A really good example of how you can turn short middling internet fame into stupid hunks of plastic for children. a "franchise" with a "product" but no value.

actionjackson
Jan 12, 2003

no lube so what posted:

la di dah, big shot at the dick sucking factory over here

lol

Skaffen-Amtiskaw
Jun 24, 2023

RealityWarCriminal posted:

https://www.amazon.com/McFarlane-Toys-Neighbor-Action-Figure/dp/B079RYZDPF/

A really good example of how you can turn short middling internet fame into stupid hunks of plastic for children. a "franchise" with a "product" but no value.

The final evolution of Funko Pops.

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


Xaris posted:

yup. Embracer is an equity holding co and bought up a zillion indie and med size studios the past several years. check out their Wikipedia page of acquisitions, it’s wild.

there was no way they were ever going to recoup profits on those acquisitions so I have no idea what their game plans is/was besides sucking up gazillions from ZIRP

if anyone was a board game nerd like me, you’d know Asmodee went around buying up tons of small time games and game production places. then Embracer bought Asmodee last year which is kind of insane. Asmodee loving sucks dick too, just giant monsters ripping everyone off

I’m phone posting or I’d put a screen grabs

so just the new EA then

Archduke Frantz Fanon
Sep 7, 2004

Nichael posted:

Is this canon?

the triple point of stan lee being high, horny, and senile

Willa Rogers
Mar 11, 2005

spacemang_spliff posted:

my dad drove jeeps when I was going up

We had a grand wagoneer (the breaking bad one with the wood paneling lol) and a comanche. My dad was always doing work on those things lol. the loving drive shaft fell out of the wagoneer one day when we were driving over the train tracks by our house. Fortunately my step mom forced him to sell them and buy an accord.

We went from the coolest family car ever (1961 to 1970)



to the absolute worst: a yellow shortbus with no windows & whatever sheltered workshop's name was on it blocked out with black paint.

my sis & I would sit on the top of back of the chevy & pretend we were famous & in a parade & wave to people.

Gorson
Aug 29, 2014

That electric Hummer is the best indicator that no change is possible to car culture and the whole thing needs to be torn down. The public is desperate for cheaper more efficient transportation, and you can take the E Hummer as GM's final response to that. People's memories are so short they forgot Hummer nearly disappeared around 2010 because we decided collectively that they were vehicles by jerkoffs, for jerkoffs. Remember huge Hummer dealerships with obstacles you could drive over, and two years later they were all had KIA or Hyundai signs? Just wait 10-15 years and you can just do it all over again because we are so loving stupid.

Twerk from Home
Jan 17, 2009

This avatar brought to you by the 'save our dead gay forums' foundation.

Gorson posted:

That electric Hummer is the best indicator that no change is possible to car culture and the whole thing needs to be torn down. The public is desperate for cheaper more efficient transportation, and you can take the E Hummer as GM's final response to that. People's memories are so short they forgot Hummer nearly disappeared around 2010 because we decided collectively that they were vehicles by jerkoffs, for jerkoffs. Remember huge Hummer dealerships with obstacles you could drive over, and two years later they were all had KIA or Hyundai signs? Just wait 10-15 years and you can just do it all over again because we are so loving stupid.

The premium consumer is healthy.

There's not much money in selling cheap efficient transportation. There's a lot of money in selling $110,000 trucks to the stupidest, meanest douche bags on the planet.

Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice

I JUST WANT A TINY TRUCK

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

Cup Runneth Over posted:

so just the new EA then

not really. EA is a megacorp gaming publisher. Embracer is an equity holding company and not an actual publisher

think of them more like a Berkshire Hathaway but for entertainment

Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice
I actually want this



Street Racoon! What a cool car. Too bad it's right hand drive stick shift and from 1993. only $11k though!

webcams for christ
Nov 2, 2005

Xaris posted:

not really. EA is a megacorp gaming publisher. Embracer is an equity holding company and not an actual publisher

think of them more like a Berkshire Hathaway but for entertainment

but Berkshire Hathaway is very profitable and competently managed

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

webcams for christ posted:

but Berkshire Hathaway is very profitable and competently managed

sure. they're both holdings conglomerates though. neither directly produce goods or services

Abner Assington
Mar 13, 2005

For I am a sinner in the hands of an angry god. Bloody Mary, full of vodka, blessed are you among cocktails. Pray for me now, at the hour of my death, which I hope is soon.

Amen.

Gorson posted:

That electric Hummer is the best indicator that no change is possible to car culture and the whole thing needs to be torn down. The public is desperate for cheaper more efficient transportation, and you can take the E Hummer as GM's final response to that. People's memories are so short they forgot Hummer nearly disappeared around 2010 because we decided collectively that they were vehicles by jerkoffs, for jerkoffs. Remember huge Hummer dealerships with obstacles you could drive over, and two years later they were all had KIA or Hyundai signs? Just wait 10-15 years and you can just do it all over again because we are so loving stupid.
Yeah, my boss and I were having a good laugh about the Hummer EV the other week. I had no idea it existed, only to find out it weighs 4.5 tons (and the battery alone is 1.5 tons of that). loving absolute insanity that it's permitted to be built, but hey, America is a country built by morons for morons.

Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice
The only people who would work at a car company are terminally car-brained and can't imagine anyone wanting something small unless they're poor. Plus the way that safety standards are set up in the US building small cars is strongly discouraged, since they'll almost by default have worse crash test ratings. Plus you'd have to sell them for less, which means less profit, and number only goes up.

anonumos
Jul 14, 2005

Fuck it.
Cheap hybrids are like the perfect middle ground between gas guzzlers and EV. Drastic reduction in emissions, no burden on the electric grid, and can be zippier than the midrange gas models. Like, it seems to be a no brainer, but the "profit ???" sign hangs in every boardroom.

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Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice

anonumos posted:

Cheap hybrids are like the perfect middle ground between gas guzzlers and EV. Drastic reduction in emissions, no burden on the electric grid, and can be zippier than the midrange gas models. Like, it seems to be a no brainer, but the "profit ???" sign hangs in every boardroom.

also hybrids are for hippy liberal losers who eat soy all day. real men drive pickup trucks the size of locomotives with less storage space than a 30 year old hatchback or a pure elon musk electric because of the torque and speed and courageous innovation

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