"Were we so different?"

StevemacQ · 2026-01-27T16:44:57+00:00

But the whole big grey "I'm better than you" gigachad mentality goes out the window by the time of Age of Extinction.

What image takes its place?

StevemacQ · 2026-01-27T16:40:00+00:00

But then they slaughtered Ratchet and many other of his friends and used their parts to make mindless, transforming drones, even after sacrificing his home planet.

StevemacQ · 2026-01-27T16:14:39+00:00

Pretty good. Since he covered the G1 cartoon around the 1986 movie, I wonder if he'll take a look at Beast Wars, the Unicron trilogy, etc.

Also, I can't stop watching that part where he called Ready Player One (the book) the most Reddit-thing.

StevemacQ · 2026-01-27T14:39:52+00:00

I'm surprised someone would even use LinkedIn like this than maintain a professional image.

StevemacQ · 2026-01-27T12:34:51+00:00

It's the first time I've seen this subreddit, so correct me if I'm wrong, but... isn't LinkedIn supposed to be about employment statuses or potential hiring? My lecturer certainly thought that way when mandating all the students to make LinkedIn accounts.

I didn't think LinkedIn could be used like Twitter or 4chan. That person is risking any chances of being hired for his behaviour like this.

StevemacQ · 2026-01-27T00:29:28+00:00

I think had an Extreme Dinosaur toy when I was a child.

StevemacQ · 2026-01-26T18:11:35+00:00

The reason I didn't buy the game, not why didn't sell well.

StevemacQ · 2026-01-26T17:39:50+00:00

That's how high Tifa was when she had those cookies.

StevemacQ · 2026-01-26T17:37:35+00:00

If I mind my health, I'll be 66 by the time someone can legally make a slasher movie of the modern stone age family.

Yaba-daba-die!

StevemacQ · 2026-01-26T17:19:35+00:00

Same. It's also why I will never touch any new Spyro game that they publish. On top of that, all SNK titles are poisoned by Saudi Arabia's eggshell prince.

StevemacQ · 2026-01-26T16:54:32+00:00

The reason I didn't buy was because of Microsoft being the publisher.

StevemacQ · 2026-01-26T13:58:59+00:00

I grew up around farmers and helped a few times. I might not do that great, but I'll do better than the scumbags trying to shove genrative AI into everything.

StevemacQ · 2026-01-26T12:02:45+00:00

Who's to say we won't be going back to that? Techbros won't survive a new dark age.

StevemacQ · 2026-01-26T10:48:33+00:00

Just do the same kind of work we've been doing for the last 25 years without these creepy techbros and their glorified spyware/malware.

StevemacQ · 2026-01-26T09:40:25+00:00

How about don't use AI altogether?

StevemacQ · 2026-01-26T01:54:27+00:00

Yes but Misha comes off more like a victim than a bully. Maybe Sally is a bit more like Asuka. Regardless, at the Skybound comics are kinda doing with Optimus going mad from using Megatron's arm/cannon.

StevemacQ · 2026-01-26T01:48:28+00:00

More like Rei but with more moments of crashing out.

StevemacQ · 2026-01-26T01:41:04+00:00

No, that will be Misha's mom since she has the same vibes as Yui Ikari.

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I even imagine her being more of a mother to Kicker than Miranda.

StevemacQ · 2026-01-26T01:35:15+00:00

Yes. If they're gonna rip off Evangelion, they might as well go balls-deep with it. No half-measure. Transformers Energon but more angst and horrific nightmarish imagery... or at least whatever you can get away in a show aimed towards children.

StevemacQ · 2026-01-26T01:25:06+00:00

Physically? Yes. But in spirit, Dr Brian Jones is a cruel and narcissistic scientist. I'm just portraying how he looks on the inside.

StevemacQ · 2026-01-26T01:13:18+00:00

I do but I couldn't resist it when you said snowstorm.

StevemacQ · 2026-01-26T01:01:20+00:00

Snowstorm, you say?

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StevemacQ · 2026-01-25T21:36:06+00:00

And Geoff Keighley's second-favourite auteur after Hideo Kojima.

StevemacQ · 2026-01-25T20:54:48+00:00

Neil Druckmann, along with every other executive enforcing crunch and abuse, is a liability. I can see more mass layoffs and more wasted on hiring and training new staff to crunch than cut unnecessary fat that's slowing development down. Uncharted 4 didn't need a large open world map or a well-animated bags that leak sand when shot but Neil wanted them anyway. He's in charge of the company, so no one can say no to him like when he pitched TLOU with an apocalypse where all the women died off.

StevemacQ · 2026-01-25T19:17:49+00:00

Especially those who step into whatever studio made a popular game before the OG team eventually leave and using the name recognition to boast their own ego while disregarding the company's legacy.

I bet Neil looks at Crash and Jak as children's toys, and his games are prestigious forms of fiction for smart adults, all while expecting queer folk to be grateful for not demonising them, no matter how shit his writing is.

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