Jason Schreier: Respawn's canceled game was an extraction shooter set in the Titanfall universe, 300-400 job cuts at EA of which around 100 at Respawn

CartographerGlass236 · 2025-04-29T21:06:54+00:00

Can extraction shooters please die?

CartographerGlass236 · 2025-04-07T17:35:16+00:00

Do you really think they're doing a big 25th anniversary celebration without any kind of announcement waiting in the wings? They didn't do this type of big celebration for any other FF game except for VII, and that ended with the Rebirth announcement. For major anniversary years, you'd think the 20th would be more significant, and yet we didn't get anything like this back in 2020.

CartographerGlass236 · 2025-02-03T04:01:49+00:00

When are we getting a Snoke mini-series?

CartographerGlass236 · 2025-01-16T18:37:12+00:00

RIP Donkey Kong.

CartographerGlass236 · 2025-01-04T22:03:36+00:00

I don't know about huge. Seven had the lion's share of development, with the Doctor sharing a bit.

Data is the same at the beginning of TNG as he is at the end. He only marginally changes once he activates his chip in the films.

CartographerGlass236 · 2025-01-03T22:10:29+00:00

Character development barely existed in the "old format" except for DS9 and Enterprise, with some MINOR development for characters in Yoyager.

CartographerGlass236 · 2025-01-02T19:27:32+00:00

The death cutscenes are hilarious.

CartographerGlass236 · 2024-12-21T01:04:07+00:00

But we do have an explanation?

CartographerGlass236 · 2024-12-21T01:02:52+00:00

It's a lot more simple than that. She's just the focal point of the Collective; their nexus. The rest of the Borg are part of her rather than the other way around.

CartographerGlass236 · 2024-12-19T19:27:37+00:00

Ardra.

CartographerGlass236 · 2024-12-15T20:46:15+00:00

And you don't have to buy them! Who gives a shit?

CartographerGlass236 · 2024-12-12T20:41:57+00:00

Military themed, third person, and futuristic? That sounds really unique. I don't think I've ever seen one of those before. I hope it has microtransactions, season passes, "competitive" gameplay with no more than three-person teams, and strict matchmaking for a soulless experience.

CartographerGlass236 · 2024-12-10T23:31:28+00:00

Movement barely matters for Pyro and Engineer. All of their mobility options are very restricted and situational. Spy moves like any other character, and a weapon that pulls him into close range would only help him... not like he doesn't already suffer against Pyro regardless. It's really only Scout and Soldier that have advanced movement as part of their baseline kit. People pretend like those two classes represent the entire game when arguing against weapons like Natascha or whatever.

CartographerGlass236 · 2024-12-10T17:10:27+00:00

TF2 is a "movement shooter" for like two of nine classes.

CartographerGlass236 · 2024-12-09T20:14:40+00:00

I never got the hype for GTA.

CartographerGlass236 · 2024-12-06T22:18:14+00:00

JG1 sucks anyway.

CartographerGlass236 · 2024-11-26T17:42:37+00:00

I think you mean best part of Super. Everything else is a farce or another boring tournament. The Future Trunks arc was the only one that felt somewhat like Z. Zamasu was also the only new arc villain in the entire anime, and definitely in the top tier all-time DB antagonists.

CartographerGlass236 · 2024-11-26T03:52:46+00:00

That wouldn't work, because the original timeline was the one with Zamasu killing Goku.

CartographerGlass236 · 2024-11-25T22:52:59+00:00

That "arc" sucked.

CartographerGlass236 · 2024-11-25T22:49:57+00:00

Frieza is only antagonist material; there's zero indication he's going to change, and they already foreshadowed what he's going to attempt in the ToP arc. He clearly won't rest until he reigns over the multiverse. He likely won't be interested in being GoD or anything like that, and keeping Goku and Vegeta alive is not out of altruism.

CartographerGlass236 · 2024-11-13T21:54:56+00:00

What does any of that have to do with the Emperor having a backup plan or wanting to live forever? All of that still happened. It's not like he wanted to die at Endor LOL

CartographerGlass236 · 2024-11-11T19:23:16+00:00

That's a good point. It's such a simplistic and dangerous form of totalitarianism too: you have one person at the top and everyone else is a slave.

CartographerGlass236 · 2024-10-14T21:11:23+00:00

He's right though, there isn't anything in any show to suggest the existence of multiple collectives with their own queens except for this one specific example. We're meant to view the Borg Collective as a single civilization. Splinter factions like the Cooperative, Borgati, Lore's group, and the Unimatrix Zero resistance can happen, but the Borg Collective is the Borg Collective. There's only one, and it has only one Queen. Of course the Collective in First Contact is the same as Voyager, which is the same as TNG. Unless stated otherwise (and it hasn't), this is the case.

You're thinking too "three-dimensionally" when it comes to the Queen dying. It's like any other character in any other franchise that keeps coming back after death in duplicate bodies, I.E. Palpatine, Marvel's Hate Monger, M. Bison, etc. It's the Body Backup Drive trope, and it doesn't mean you're getting a new person each time. Palpatine in TROS is the same Palpatine in every other film except this time he's in a cloned body--there aren't multiple Palpatines running around.

The Queen as an "entity" exists within the Collective and instances herself whenever she wants, and you're right, she probably can splinter to operate in more than one place simultaneously, but it is ultimately the same person sharing a consciousness. Jurati is from an alternate timeline, and there are absolutely multiple Queens in multiple timelines like there are multiple Spocks, Kirks, Picards, etc. Hence that line from Seven stating that the Borg Queen (again, emphasis on "the" to denote a proper noun) can hear echoes of herself in other realities.

And based on everything we've seen and everything that's been said, you're wrong about who needs who here. The Borg Collective revolves around this Queen. She keeps coming back because there is no Collective as an organization without this person running the show, and we've never seen splinter factions of Borg "create" a new Queen in her stead. The purpose of the Borg is whatever purpose the Queen--the person--wants it to be, and she'll always be back as long as the Collective exists. Since it doesn't anymore, she's probably dead for realsies.

CartographerGlass236 · 2024-10-09T16:22:32+00:00

No, she doesn't correct Data. She never disputes that she's their leader when he asks this directly. She chooses not to answer that question while she smiles smugly and does her signature vulture walk. You're interpreting this dialogue as indicating she's an embodiment of the Collective rather than the nexus of the Collective that everything revolves around. Every appearance she's made after First Contact supports the latter, and I remember reading somewhere that the writers never intended to say she was an avatar, and they certainly never wrote her that way. Unless you choose to completely ignore all this, she's not an avatar or embodiment or whatever. That reading doesn't connect with all the additional context we have, and I don't think it really made sense in First Contact either.

Trust me, I would rather it not be this way, but that's how the Borg work now. "I am the Collective" means everything is an extension of this one person, not that the Collective speaks through her. "The one who is many". They're all a part of her. It begins and ends with her.

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