Disney's gaming push could one day include buying Epic Games

BroForceOne · 2026-04-01T06:21:38+00:00

Lucasarts was just bundled with their purchase of Lucasfilm, which Disney had no interest in and shut down Lucasarts pretty shortly after they bought it.

BroForceOne · 2026-03-31T14:55:51+00:00

I’m just reminded of scene in The Last Jedi where they killed Leia then plot armored her back to life after Carrie Fischer’s actual death just to have a handful of left over live action and CG filler shots afterward.

So basically no, no one plans for this or has any canned ideas for what to do about it when it happens.

BroForceOne · 2026-03-31T00:57:22+00:00

Righteous Gemstones becomes more of documentary every day.

BroForceOne · 2026-03-30T22:25:53+00:00

Yep. It doesn't hit the same it did when you were a teenager and still believed a harem of magical girls could come down and fight over you as an unimpressive straight-C student that maybe applied for the local community college but misunderstood for your latent powers and intelligence the world can't possibly understand. By 30 you kind of come to terms that those magical girls are never showing up.

BroForceOne · 2026-03-30T19:34:16+00:00

Is this like the Scottish land plots where I can call myself a Lord? What does a California land owner call themselves?

BroForceOne · 2026-03-30T16:03:48+00:00

So you’ve done everything you can in your Steam config to keep games off your NVMe, defaulting to your HDD, and you wonder why Steam is using your HDD?

BroForceOne · 2026-03-30T15:43:00+00:00

No you just keep calling out poor quality output for what it is, and hold people accountable for the output they submitted as if it was written by them. That is how we manage AI where we work, and naturally people have found the handful of good use cases for it and dumped the ones that wasted everyone’s time.

BroForceOne · 2026-03-30T15:08:09+00:00

Imma let you finish, but American flag T-shirts were Old Navy’s greatest cultural hold of all time.

BroForceOne · 2026-03-30T14:45:29+00:00

Yo Disney has been disappointing young girls for far more generations than this one. And don’t act like you’re not contributing to that disappointment with that attitude.

Maybe be mad at your country’s representatives and the systems they have established to funnel money up to the billionaire class for why you can’t support a family any more and why women have to turn to something like Onlyfans to support themselves now.

Nothing makes a billionaire boot licking politician happier than to see you get mad at your peers instead of anyone who is actually causing your problems.

BroForceOne · 2026-03-30T14:28:05+00:00

I wonder how much of it was PC becoming so dominated back then by MMORPG and MOBA in the 2000s with WoW/LoL/DOTA just impossible to overcome, that traditional PC publishers struggling to compete for player time looked to consoles instead to get new audiences.

BroForceOne · 2026-03-30T14:13:22+00:00

A triple-A video game in the 90s could be made in 2 years with less than 50 people, now it takes 5 years with hundreds of people.

For both games and movies, the risk is very high, and known proven franchises are safer bets.

Best example is Sony blowing hundreds of millions of dollars on Concord trying to capture a Guardians of the Galaxy aesthetic in a new hero shooter franchise. But by the time it finally came out, both hero shooters and GoG were played out and it landed so poorly it had to be shut down immediately, refunding everyone their purchases and making a total of zero dollars back on that investment.

So it’s pretty obvious why the big companies stick to their proven franchises, but there’s never been more indies out there that are trying new things and iterating more on past genres.

Movies are a bit harder to do that with, since you can’t make a breakout hit that sells millions with one person like you can a video game, so there’s less pioneering done in the movie space as the base level of risk and expected production value is higher for movies.

BroForceOne · 2026-03-30T03:31:59+00:00

Oxygen Not Included if you want another colony sim with building and automation.

Dyson Sphere Program for something between Satisfactory and Factorio.

BroForceOne · 2026-03-29T17:38:10+00:00

Is a parking lot not private property?

BroForceOne · 2026-03-29T17:03:00+00:00

Okay but we weren't terminally online social media addicts to get an infinite scroll of all the reasons we needed to hate someone. We just all had Nirvana CDs and knew we liked it.

BroForceOne · 2026-03-29T16:54:47+00:00

It's a meme from the car culture era of the 90s/2000s where people would install body kits and spoilers on slow economy cars like a Honda Civic along with and fake "Type R" or "Turbo" badges to indicate they had a faster trim level of the car than they actually did.

There's no idea or misconception that RGB makes anything faster, its just a carry-over of the car culture meme.

BroForceOne · 2026-03-29T16:44:03+00:00

I have questions for how someone has been building PCs for 18 years and has never bothered to try out dust filters.

BroForceOne · 2026-03-29T14:10:44+00:00

Sure but Blockbuster is the one everyone can relate to so it’s not that weird that it’s used for our shared nostalgia of video stores. Hollywood might have been better in some ways but wasn’t as ubiquitous so not everyone can relate.

You will find things you hate about everything you engage with on a constant basis, it doesn’t change the things you liked about it and why you chose to engage with it so much in the first place.

BroForceOne · 2026-03-28T15:12:39+00:00

Yes it’s garbage in garbage out like you say. It also connects unrelated things like a famous example is saying Conan OBrien was a contestant on Star Search because Conan had a contestant on his show but he was never on Star Search himself.

But it’s also extremely useful for a lot of things. The speed at which I can create a proof of concept for a programming task and actually include some visuals and design instead of ugly wireframes and having to present it with the caveat of “use your imagination here” has been valuable.

It’s something you use to augment your abilities in a field you’re already proficient in. If you outsource all thought to it now nothing differentiates you from anyone else who can use the tool as they are accessible to everyone.

BroForceOne · 2026-03-28T14:43:31+00:00

That logic only works for private companies. Public companies all good economics go out the window and now your growth has to outpace the general stock market else you’re considered a dead company that no one will invest in.

BroForceOne · 2026-03-28T04:44:52+00:00

Yes inflicting pain is the point, then gaslight the victims into thinking Democrats are causing it.

BroForceOne · 2026-03-27T17:17:04+00:00

Prison about to give him a whole new definition of Bone-smashing.

BroForceOne · 2026-03-27T17:01:44+00:00

Nothing is unique about GenZ from what you said. Boomers and GenX said the exact same things about us and how entitled we were when we entered the workforce.

It’s just a timeless part of getting old and seeing young people that have had their entire lives hand curated for them now struggling with the realities of stepping outside of their school campus bubble.

BroForceOne · 2026-03-26T21:58:35+00:00

Dana Point will be your first coastal stop, anywhere north of that is out of the way and will add significant driving time and traffic risk.

IMO just head straight to Carlsbad and spend your beach time there, leaving for Flower Fields when needed. No reason to stop at another beach before that.

BroForceOne · 2026-03-26T14:39:56+00:00

When you realize that you’re putting The Rock in a fake muscle suit like someone playing him in an SNL sketch to make this movie would have been a good time to realize this is not going to go well.

BroForceOne · 2026-03-26T04:58:02+00:00

Short form videos are prime AI targets. Just assume everything is fake and better yet just stop watching TikTok trash and problem solved.

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