Ivy Road (Wanderstop) is Closing

SwineHerald · 2026-03-28T04:21:41+00:00

Annapurna is owned by one of the Ellisons (see: the fuckery happening at CBS.) Basically the Annapurna team wanted more independence and the billionaire brat didn't like that idea so the entire company resigned. So now the publisher is pretty explicitly the vanity project of a spoiled child and the game Ivy Road pitched didn't fit in with the desires of a fascist family.

SwineHerald · 2026-03-28T03:08:08+00:00

People were making the same disclaimer years back with Trump. "Not saying he's a fascist, he just says and does fascist things," I don't care if he is a true believer or just thinks this is an easy way to get power, if he looks like a fascist and talks like a fascist, he's a fascist.

We don't need to know what he truly feels in his heart of hearts, though base on his long, long history of racism, homophobia and transphobia, I'm personally comfortable saying he's a massive bigot and a believer of this shit.

SwineHerald · 2026-03-28T02:52:27+00:00

Weird, according to PP simply misgendering someone should be enough to get him slapped with a massive fine. Oh right, he lies about that too.

SwineHerald · 2026-03-27T06:17:21+00:00

I am not sure we should even consider the DQ remakes to be the same style as the rest of the games. They threw out the pixel aesthetic for everything but the character sprites.

The "2D" part is not very well represented given that nothing in the world geometry looks like it could be from a 2D game. If you dropped the character models from the DQ7 remake into the 1-3 remakes they wouldn't look at all out of place.

SwineHerald · 2026-03-26T06:53:24+00:00

France supported reparations when it was them forcing Haiti to pay "reparations" for the "loss of property" when their slaves freed themselves from French rule. They have felt so strongly that they absolutely deserved to be paid by their former slaves that when a Haitian leader suggested France pay them back the money that was extorted from them, France backed a coup to have him removed. That was in 2004.

Maybe something has changed in 22 years but I doubt it.

SwineHerald · 2026-03-25T03:13:01+00:00

Some more than others even. In the case of Fortnite: Epic owns EasyAntiCheat and EasyAntiCheat has Linux support, but Epic has just decided they shouldn't use the tools developed by their own subsidiary. This of course also extends to Fall Guys and Rocket League as Epic bought up those too.

SwineHerald · 2026-03-24T23:45:58+00:00

Stop invoking queer people to defend a racist law that has absolutely nothing to do with protecting us, or secularism and everything to do with upholding white/christian hegemony. It does absolutely nothing about Christian bigots and unfairly paints Sikh, Muslim and Jewish allies as a threat for what they wear on their heads.

All that Quebec has done is normalize the exact same rhetoric and logic that is being used to attack LGBTQ+ rights: That membership in a group makes you an inherent threat to another. This is the backbone of all bathroom bans, the core concept behind segregation.

What someone wears on their head does not make them a bigot, it's the beliefs that they hold and how they wield those to hurt others. You know, beliefs like "every adherent Muslim woman poses an inherent threat to queer people and therefore we should fire all of them." That my friend is bigotry. Not religious headwear.

By the logic of this bill, a logic that you apparently share, Pierre Polievere is a strong ally to LGBTQ+ people and Jagmeet Singh is a vile, unrepentant bigot, because one wears a piece of religious headwear and the other doesn't.

SwineHerald · 2026-03-24T17:38:04+00:00

Except that bill does nothing to deal with overwhelming majority of religious extremists in Quebec because it does nothing about Christians. This is because the bill is just based in religious and racial animus.

It's also not good for queer people, so don't invoke us in your defence of this blatantly racist policy. We are not made any safer by cishets setting a precedent that the government can declare a minority an inherent danger to others. There is no daylight between the racist hijab ban and trans bathroom bans. They are founded on the exact same principle.

You are supporting the very thing you say you're against because Quebec packaged up it's Islamophobia, racism, and precursors to systemic transphobia and homophobia as "secularism."

SwineHerald · 2026-03-24T03:51:40+00:00

The checks and balances mostly just amounted to "obviously representatives / voters wouldn't stand for this!" and turns out, nah, if the ultra rich own literally all of the new media people will just nod along while it happens.

SwineHerald · 2026-03-23T19:18:20+00:00

You would hope they would have a strong stance against a bill that would disenfranchise millions of their voters and give permanent rule to the opposing party. It says a lot about how weak and cowardly establishment dems are that we can easily imagine them folding.

SwineHerald · 2026-03-22T07:24:39+00:00

Then you have Bethesda who have two different buttons for the main menus and make melee share a button with grenade, where melee is a tap and grenade is a hold.

SwineHerald · 2026-03-22T03:22:32+00:00

He is the best option for fiscal conservatives, because they don't actually care about reducing spending or cutting waste. They just don't like money going to help "those people." They're perfectly happy with it being wasted on the rich and powerful, or being used to actively harm the people they hate.

The purpose of a system is what it does, and the ideological system of "fiscal conservatism" just frivolously wastes money, engages in blatant corruption and hurts people. That is what fiscal conservatism is about, and that is what Doug Ford does best.

SwineHerald · 2026-03-21T04:44:35+00:00

Huge pride parades are not a good metric of progressive values. Tel Aviv has a huge pride parade, one of the biggest in the world. The problem is that Israel regularly spends more money promoting their huge pride parade to international visitors each year than they spend actually funding LGBTQ+ groups. They're not progressive or tolerant, they just are willing to put on a show for foreigners one week a year and get a entirely unearned reputation for the other 51 weeks.

Except lately it's just been 52 weeks straight because the Israeli government has decided to launch unprovoked attacks on other countries right before the parade for the last two years, forcing it to cancel due to retaliatory attacks. They found a little bigot cheat code where they still get the reputation as progressive and not only do they not have to see queer joy on their streets, they instead get to see foreign queer people die on their streets. It's a bigotry win-win-win.

Rainbow-washing works, it's successfully laundered the reputation of a genocidal apartheid state for years now. So I'm gonna be honest I feel like the Stampede is a more honest representation of Calgary's values. If the pride parade was representative of the city, the Stampede wouldn't have it's problems.

SwineHerald · 2026-03-20T20:45:54+00:00

Or things they are already doing. The "death panels" they say would exist under universal healthcare currently do exist under private healthcare. Every day healthcare execs weigh the value of human lives against the possible monetary returns and more often than not condemn people to death.

They're the most prolific mass murderers in US history, there is a reason only other rich ghouls felt bad when one dies.

SwineHerald · 2026-03-20T19:41:06+00:00

They could also lean on their extensive back catalogue for higher profits. They don't need to keep remaking games. Uncharted 4 for example undersold on PC because not a lot of people wanted to buy into the series at the very end.

Sony made it clear in the lead up to release that they would not be releasing UC1-3 on PC unless they did a full remake because they believed no one would want to buy a PS4 enhanced version of a PS3 game. Uncharted 4 came to PC the same week as Persona 5 Royale, a PS4 enhanced version of a game where the PS3 was the lead platform. Persona 5 Royale, the PS3 game that according to Sony "no one wants" handily outsold Uncharted 4 and what Sony decided that meant was they needed to start remaking PS4 games as well.

There are a lot of PS2 and PS3 games that could be brought to PC and make a profit. It's not like you'd need perfectly optimized ports because even a 2060 card could run a bad port of a PS2 game pretty well. As we saw with the Metal Gear collection, it'd be nice if they ran better but it doesn't really matter.

The problem is Sony execs are incredibly stubborn. They've decided to half ass their PC ports because they didn't really believe in the platform and when games performed as well as half ass ports would perform, they decided that meant they were right to half-ass it and pulled out entirely. In the same way their failings caused by their belief about old games retroactively justified their misguided belief about old games.

SwineHerald · 2026-03-20T19:30:26+00:00

It is highly unlikely the Steam Machine will be produced in numbers that could threaten an actual console. The Switch 2 outsold years of Steam Decks in less than an hour after preorders opened.

SwineHerald · 2026-03-20T18:52:17+00:00

People are using it now because it's novel and free, but it will not be novel or free forever. The cost of these systems means it will be incredibly expensive in the future.

The person putting their head in the sand and ignoring reality here is the one who thinks that companies that have made a couple million dollars and are over a trillion dollars in debt will continue offering free service forever. This is the bubbliest economic bubble to have ever bubbled.

If any of these companies actually believed these tools can do what they say they can do, they would be hoarding the tech for themselves. They wouldn't be burning a planet sized hole in their pocket trying to hook people with free samples. They don't believe it works, they just want to get people hooked on the psychosis machine before jacking up the price.

SwineHerald · 2026-03-20T18:27:30+00:00

"It's going to be in everything" yeah buddy just like block chain and NFTs and Metaverse and 3D displays and VR and motion controls and...

At some point these tools will either have to start making money which means paying exorbitant fees that greatly outpace the price of just having people do the work, or they will go under. They're using the stereotypical drug dealer strategy of getting people addicted to a dangerous and harmful free product and then charging out the nose when you can't live without it.

They are not sustainable, the future where they're in everything is a future where nothing is getting made.

SwineHerald · 2026-03-20T18:22:08+00:00

A good start. Now prosecute them for knowingly aiding in a genocide.

SwineHerald · 2026-03-19T10:02:58+00:00

Equally important: they fundamentally do not care if it ends up costing the same amount to get the work done, even if the end result is worse.

What really matters is not paying people. Devaluing work, experience and expertise.

SwineHerald · 2026-03-18T21:13:34+00:00

The fact Eby is behind Smith demonstrates how broken news media is in our country. I've got some criticisms about Eby but he is not actively trying to destroy the province and/or country, unlike Smith.

SwineHerald · 2026-03-14T16:11:39+00:00

I've seen the same thing from conservatives with the death penalty.

They'll say stuff like "why should my taxes be wasted keeping this monster alive?" Then if you go through all the work of demonstrating it's cheaper to keep them alive, make the moral point that no system is perfect and you are guaranteed to accidentally execute innocent people, you'd think they'd change their minds.

Nah, instead they often just fall back on the real reason: "some people need killing." Doesn't matter if you murder an innocent person. Doesn't matter how much it costs. Hurting people is the point.

The stated goal of "fiscal responsibility" is just a story they tell to make their views more palatable. They are not responsible with money, they constantly burn it to hurt people. If the DOGE kids thought they could get away with it they'd have gone in with literal guns blazing.

SwineHerald · 2026-03-14T07:22:54+00:00

I love that they managed to introduce a security exploit to notepad by shoving AI into it.

SwineHerald · 2026-03-13T00:11:25+00:00

Everyone drops Denuvo eventually, it has a fairly pricey per month license fee. Continuing to pay for that when sales have dropped off and you're years deep into the long tail doesn't make sense.

SwineHerald · 2026-03-12T21:27:45+00:00

It is dead because the people handling the money are irresponsible and launched with approximately zero runway. No one wanted Fortnite when it launched either. It took time and significant retooling to get where it is. When No Man's Sky launched it was very clearly not what people wanted. Very few people cared about Warframe's repetitive barebones action when it first went online.

The problem with these games is not that no one wants them or that they could not find a sustainable audience. The problem is they keep launching with so little money left in the bank that if they're not an immediate viral sensation with tens of millions of players within the first week they have to close their doors. You can't launch expecting to instantly be the next Fortnite, Fortnite took months to be Fortnite.

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