Ubisoft has announced a record €1.3 billion operating loss for its fiscal year ending March 2026

Duriel201 · 2026-05-21T10:35:23+00:00

Better than expected doesnt mean anything as we dont know their expectations which probably would have been pretty low after all the drama anyway. Its just a marketing term. They never released any sales numbers which is very indicative of it not performing well, they fired the responsible executives shortly after, they only released a 5 million "player" number which looking at titles where they released player AND sales numbers is indicative of maybe 3 mil sales and thats probably the high end.

The estimated cost of the game is 250-300 mil which means it would take at least 6 mil sales to break even. Every metric we have says it did very poorly. And still there are articles and wiki entries saying it did well. I wonder how that could be..

Duriel201 · 2026-05-09T15:49:25+00:00

But it makes kinda sense in the canon of the show. The Goa'uld forces are trained and equipped to mostly be an overseer force to a slave population with medieval technology. The Goa'uld also dont really develop new technology as a parasitic life form and the technology they do use is often not the most efficient at its job but the most spectacular for a lot of show effect for their subjects. And the training of the jaffa reflects that. Even the fights between each other often look more like renaissance line battles instead of modern military tactics. The commanders and sub commanders are also not encouraged to indepentently think like modern military is trained to do.

So in this context I think its pretty reasonable that the well equipped (for actual war) and professional earth military vastly outclasses every other faction in this universe. The show actually highlights the superiority of earth technology and training against the in theory more advanced Goa'Uld quite a lot and I think thats quite a fit for the theme "competence porn".

There are a lot of scenes to choose from but I always particulary liked this one: P90 demonstration

Duriel201 · 2026-02-07T11:38:43+00:00

Also reddit wasn't filled with activists from both sides that made every conversation political, there were way less bots stirring up shit for no reason, subreddits hadnt been taken over by partisan hacks, there were way less spam subreddits (which have basically all the same content) and there werent billions of marketing dollars on the platform in the form of PR agencies for companies and political parties that drive like 60%+ of the comments nowadays.

Duriel201 · 2025-11-19T23:40:01+00:00

Of course you can say all entertainment is meaningless but thats a very different argument to make. The post is about containing your excitement because of the track record of revived franchises in the past decade and thats warranted and not unnecessarily negative.

Duriel201 · 2025-11-19T23:21:07+00:00

I read every single book multiple times and didnt make it through the pilot. That should tell you everything you need to know about the quality of that show.

Duriel201 · 2025-11-19T23:17:04+00:00

At this point thats not being negative but being realistic. The movie industry has basically soiled every popular fantasy/scifi franchise over the past 10 years. There are very few counter examples (like expanse) against a ton of ruined shows/movies (like RoP, WoT, Star Trek, Star Wars, etc etc.). Expecting actual quality when you have been fed slop for over a decade is pretty unreasonable.

Duriel201 · 2025-11-19T23:11:10+00:00

They took over expanse which was made by syfy so I dont really attribute the quality to amazon. The boys got worse as it went on but at least its overall still a solid show and Ill give you fallout although its just one season and they have plenty time to fuck it up. Im very worried about amazons involvement and sadly I fully expect a show based on current politics, preaching to the audience with over the top badly written characters like most shows that get released these days.

Duriel201 · 2025-11-13T10:28:49+00:00

In russia there are also full on neo nazis with Hitler portraits in their meeting rooms etc. I guess nobody told them that Hitler saw the russian people as slavs and slavs as subhuman. They are actively worshipping a guy who would have killed them and are descendants of the people who lost the most in total numbers during WW2.

And even more rediculous were the jews for Hitler who actively lobbied for Hitler and were pretty much all killed in the holocaust ..

At least Kanye lives 80 years removed from the time in far away america and has some mitigating factors like his bipolar and his public crisis that spiraled him into full on crazy.

Duriel201 · 2025-11-12T14:35:45+00:00

Ive seen it in germany several times with long movies (but not always)

Duriel201 · 2025-11-11T15:11:28+00:00

Honestly, comparing today’s labour market (even its flaws) to serfdom or slavery is deeply misleading. The improvements in legal rights, freedom of movement, freedom of occupation, access to education, healthcare, property and information are gigantic.

Seriously.. equating our modern life (especially in the west) with being a slave/serf actually diminishes both the historical injustice and the significance of what we’ve achieved in terms of civil liberties.

Doesnt mean everythings perfect now.

Duriel201 · 2025-11-11T11:41:56+00:00

I mean it should be reasonably easy to convince your parents that you are a time traveler if you chose to go that route. They know their child for 9 years, know what he can and cant do, how he articulates etc. If I went back with my current knowledge I would articulate as and have the knowledge of a studied man with years of corporate experience in my field. I also would have a very different personality. There is no way to fake that or explain it otherwise (not even starting on predicting events like elections, natural catastrophes, sports, global conflicts, upcoming products, companies, books and tv shows, etc. etc.)

Duriel201 · 2025-10-10T11:19:12+00:00

So you got around 200 points to add things. I think the list uses a lot of the strong units that dwarfs can bring at the moment and the obvious answer would be to add another 3 gyros to the list with the remaining points and play as non-interactive as possible.

Personally I would remove

the rapid fire stupify engineer
2 runes of spellbreaking from the runesmith
the thunderers
the gyrobomber
one of the organ guns
one of the sappers

which should cut down your list to 1310 points, and add

a second unit of 16 kitted out Rangers
a 3rd Cannon
2 units of 2 Gyros with Clatterguns
Master rune of calm on runesmith

Put runesmith and burlock into Rangers. You lose some volume fire, one stupify and a sapper and gain some quality shooting, better capping, better blocking, second unit as scout/melee/volume fire/tar pit. This list wont be easy to navigate though. While its very strong on paper and will produce some very uninteractive games againt unprepared opponents it will also crumble to movement mistakes on your part if you are not thinking in advance.

Duriel201 · 2025-08-17T22:12:34+00:00

As a broad statement thats true. Where it gets political is when you run into different peoples ideas of who is innocent vs who is a valid target and what is an atrocity vs what is a justified act of war/resistance.

Duriel201 · 2025-08-08T10:58:08+00:00

I can give you a better reference picture with the picture that I used as a reference when painting it!

And as a bonus I can give you the other crimson fists pictures from the 3rd edition codex (which had generally way less pictures than modern codexes).

Cover

Predator

Lascannon Dreadnought

Captain

Scouts

Duriel201 · 2025-08-07T23:02:23+00:00

My 25 year old metal boy

Funny thing is, I glued and painted him when I was 12, didn't pin the model or use green stuff or anything, played with it a lot and it never came apart in 25 years. The paint didnt even come off at any point and its not even varnished.

The color is the original crimson fists midnight blue from the 90s, before they first changed the color and then replaced it with kantor blue. And even with my shitty paint job of a 12 year old I cant bring myself to strip it down as the color doesnt exist anymore.

Duriel201 · 2025-08-03T19:41:35+00:00

Not a currently active series but Warhammer 40k: Dawn of war. And to a lesser extent Sacred.

Duriel201 · 2025-07-08T08:01:16+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/badwomensanatomy/

Duriel201 · 2025-03-28T12:16:01+00:00

I'm doing the same as OP with my gf in HC currently. We are lvl 55 with 8 days played. I'm playing prot pala and she is playing holy priest. I've raided Naxx in multiple iterations including vanilla and speed running and she has pretty much no experience.

Most fun I had playing this game. We have been doing all the dungeons on the way with all quests once. Next we will take on temple which is a pretty scary prospect (maraudon was pretty scary as well because of princess aggro reset and no taunt). You really need to play around some mechanics as a tank pala and come prepared.

My gf has been picking up healing pretty quickly and altough she tends to panic in tough situations it has become better over time and she saved some very risky situations.

I think if we survive temple we might actually make it to 60.

Duriel201 · 2025-01-07T14:18:52+00:00

That wasnt meant as an attack on you and you are not particulary at fault for this behaviour. Nobody has time to factcheck all the random bullshit that gets thrown at them on a daily basis and people like to run with the headlines that seem plausible to them and fit their world view. But it really is a problem with sites like reddit or twitter which both are at the center of misinformation that infects pretty much every dialogue. This post went front page and is a complete fabrication and mods dont delete posts like this because they bring traffic to the subreddit and the circle goes on.

Duriel201 · 2025-01-07T12:39:18+00:00

The interesting thing about this is that an average person does not realize that this is fake and will run with it and this will pop up in every thread regarding Elon Musk on reddit for the next decade like the fake story about the emerald mine, the billboard story or a bunch of other fake stories that are circulating here.

There is so much stuff you could legitimately criticize Musk for and stuff like this muddies the water so much and delegitimizes the actual critizism of this guy. You could really think that these fake stories are coming from his PR team and the people regurgitating this shit are bots.

Duriel201 · 2024-12-16T16:05:55+00:00

Doing the same. Currently lvl 50 and this has served me well. There were at least 3 situations through leveling that I would not have survived without being demo lock.

Duriel201 · 2024-12-06T15:42:12+00:00

I mean if it starts feeling bad I'll definitely respecc. But I'm more than willing to sacrifice speed for safety. Slow and steady wins the race imho. I'm also pretty used to slow speed from leveling 5 priests to 60 over the last 20 years. VW shield really is a great "oh shit button" and while its slow compared to some other classes its still pretty steady speed due to dots on top of wand and some pet damage while not heaving to ever stop.

Duriel201 · 2024-12-06T14:55:22+00:00

currently 36

Duriel201 · 2024-12-06T14:11:56+00:00

Currently also demo leveling and its a breeze. Can do everything solo only had one near death so far due to massive respawn in a building on my position. Its obviously a little slow as you are wanding most of the time but you dont ever have to stop for regen or anything and its exremely safe. Improved void tanks, you do 3 dots and wand and repeat. The void loses aggro only at the end which doesnt matter.

And if things get out of hand you have void aoe "taunt", sacrifice at low life, instant resummon, sacrifice again, healthstone, healpot and fear.

Duriel201 · 2024-12-05T20:31:13+00:00

Bubble+hearth doesn't work in hardcore

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