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Sometimes its important to remember the Stadia, and how the Stadia was a bad idea and a bad product. Which like a bad product should, failed and sorta just crumpled up and died.

It's also important as part of that to remember its terrible performance, controller, and pricing. While also keeping in mind it was meant to be a massive step forward in removing ownership of things players bought.

Though it making Battle For The Grid the first 5 platform cross-platform game was cool I guess.

Edit: Remember when Fallout 76 came out and was a complete dumpster fire where every week a new dumpster caught fire? Do you remember how they tried to get good press for the game without fixing anything? Do you remember the charisma blackhole that was the three way stream of Ninja the streamer, Logic the rapper, and Rick and Morty as Vtuber models? A stream in which long stretches of silence into double digit minutes would happen, they couldn't figure out anything interesting to do, and the game ran like shit.

Edit 2: Remember that time Gearbox wanted to do a live stream to reveal the trailer for Borderlands 2, in which Randy Pitchford walked out on stage high as a kite doing magic tricks and derailed the show for half an hour? Then when they finally got Randy off stage they showed the trailer at like 10 frames a second with no sound.

Yes just to be clear, I am referring to the trope of Early Installment Weirdness where the first entry of a gaming franchise feels s bit peculiar because the gameplay aspects the franchise would become known for are not present yet.

Like one game that I was observing was the first Megaman game ever made as the game is interesting because for starters, there is a scoring system as it’s not really used that much in the game as it would become dropped in later games.

Kris Roberts worked at Rockstar for years, first tuning the vehicles for the Midnight Club games and then leading the design of Red Dead Redemption's multiplayer modes. He says the final six months of development on Rockstar's cowboy epic was the worst period of crunch he's experienced in the game industry, and he argues that the overtime wasn't even really about making the game better. Instead, it was about putting on a show for executives.

For his part, Roberts feels "conflicted" about airing these old frustrations, in part because he pushed himself into "self-directed" crunch on Midnight Club. "I was doing that because I thought it was important or I wanted to be involved at that level and it was me doing it," he says. But things were different with Red Dead Redemption, and Roberts is particularly frustrated by "artificial" incidents where Rockstar would declare "all hands on deck" overtime during weekend visits from executives like Sam Houser and Leslie Benzies.

"I remember a couple specific examples of a Friday afternoon, [when] management would send out an email that said, 'Just so we're all clear, we need to be here this weekend.' Then a follow-up email would say, 'And this weekend doesn't just mean Saturday.' I've made promises to my kids about what we're going to do this weekend. and Friday afternoon at 4:30 you're telling me I need to be here on Sunday regardless of what's going on. That's unacceptable," Roberts says.

"And it wasn't because, 'Oh, if you have a certain number of issues in Bugstar, or 'If you have critical things that must be fixed before the next build,' or 'If you have a legitimate business case for putting in that weekend time then we want you to be here.' It was more like, 'No, we need to put on the show of appearance that everybody's here all the time, because we have an executive visiting or something."

As multiplayer design lead, Roberts was then tasked with communicating these expectations to his team. This was a part of why he eventually said "I don't want to do this" and chose to leave the studio. "It was certainly in the top four" reasons for moving on, he jokes.

1997 berserk soundtrack kinda slaps when you've got nothing else left

- thanks everyone this has been nice

This came to me as I was watching the Passenger 2026 movie.

Long story short, in order for the demon to haunt you, you have to break 1 of 2 rules as you travel.

Don't stop for anything and dont travel deserted roads at night.

I thought about it, and I would never be on the demon's radar because I dont stop for anything when im driving in the first place.

Second, im from bumfuck South Carolina with family in areas where your phone is basically useless. I never drive those roads at night.

So I figured this would be a fun discussion for the sub. Are there any rules of engagement in media that you could easily follow?

Goals and hopes for the week?

Any concerns or obstacles?

Let's find out.

##Topic of the Week:

The words "tourist", "LARP", and a bunch of others have sort of become buzzwords recently, but the idea of some sort of gatekeeping has always been around. As probably could be guessed by my tone, I don't always have the greatest opinion on gatekeeping due to how fandoms often act even without people getting pissy that someone could possibly have things they are weirded out by.

THAT BEING SAID, it is also self evident that another thing that has always been around but amplified by the internet is people speaking in things they either know very little or nothing about. I am not sure if I would even say that these are opposite ends of the spectrum since I see both things happen in the same breath by the same people.

Either way, I am of two minds regarding uninformed opinions. I do have resentment for anyone who does not have the humility to admit when they do not know something and even more resentment when they refuse to correct themselves or learn.

But on the other hand, everyone does indeed have the right to an opinion, and even uninformed opinions can be useful in a way since with very few exceptions, the vast majority of people would not know much about a given topic. So knowing what the impressions are can be interesting and can be a point of reference for a lot of stuff.

Still, maybe we should ease up on being loud and wrong.

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As websites and apps continue to make their products worse in service of 'engagement' and impossible infinite growth, what steps have you taken to have better control over sites that you use?

Ad-blockers are common enough that they hardly need mentioning, but do you have any browser extensions or other tools that go beyond that?

For example, when I'm on my desktop I always stick to old.reddit.com whenever possible, except when a thread is packed with images that are easier to see in the new format.

I also recently got so sick of how YouTube jams Shorts and 'Most Relevant' into my subscription feed that I installed a browser extension that clears all that out and allows me to go back to how that feed used to look: A vertical list (not a grid) with both a thumbnail and a description. I get to scroll down until I see the last video I watched, then go back up and add vids to my 'watch later' list. No more trying to figure out where the actual list begins, no more trying to figure things out with just a thumbnail, etc.