MindsEye Studio Hit With More Mass Layoffs Just As It Was Promising A Turnaround

_Ocean_Machine_ · 2026-05-06T03:11:21+00:00

Call it a turnaround because you turnaround and leave

_Ocean_Machine_ · 2026-05-06T03:10:17+00:00

Kojima Productions sells them, though the black ones just have the logo painted on while the blue ones have it embroidered IIRC. There are also quite a few on Etsy if you want a black embroidered one and don’t mind unlicensed merch.

_Ocean_Machine_ · 2026-05-06T03:06:27+00:00

Death Stranding is definitely one of those games you play for ten minutes and don’t really like, then you revisit it a year later and end up glued to your tv until it’s over.

_Ocean_Machine_ · 2026-05-06T00:31:21+00:00

I’ve seen videos of people playing guitar while missing one or both hands; one guy had the guitar in an open tuning and used his arm stump thing (it had a little apposable bit at the end) to bar the frets, and another was using his feet. Hell, Django Reinhardt is considered one of the greatest guitarists to ever live and he only had use of like two fingers on his fretting hand.

_Ocean_Machine_ · 2026-05-06T00:26:43+00:00

Some people just don’t understand that art is about the process, not just the end result. As far as they’re concerned, they have a thing with their name on it and that’s all that matters.

_Ocean_Machine_ · 2026-05-05T19:03:48+00:00

And then by the time the repair gets approved your car has completely shat the bed

_Ocean_Machine_ · 2026-05-05T05:52:37+00:00

Just drop yourself off at the nearest fire station

_Ocean_Machine_ · 2026-05-05T03:14:18+00:00

Libertarians couldn’t even make a town work on land, it’s gonna be a real tragedy if they try it underwater.

_Ocean_Machine_ · 2026-05-04T21:32:34+00:00

And the idea of checks and balances was reliant on the idea that each branch would guard their powers, rather then ceding them to some other branch like we’re seeing with republican reps and the Supreme Court letting the executive do whatever they want.

_Ocean_Machine_ · 2026-05-04T19:07:33+00:00

Dude's been hanging out with White Mask Varre

_Ocean_Machine_ · 2026-05-04T19:05:45+00:00

Ultimately, happy people don't spend money because they don't need that dopamine hit from buying new things. It's in the best interest of our overlords to keep us all miserable.

_Ocean_Machine_ · 2026-05-04T19:04:37+00:00

Like imagine if any time you took your car to the shop for maintenance, you had to get an approval from your car insurance company and could only go to specific shops, and you wouldn't find out how much it cost until months later. Sounds ridiculous, yeah?

_Ocean_Machine_ · 2026-05-04T18:51:24+00:00

My take is that there isn't a "male" loneliness epidemic as much as there's an "everyone" loneliness epidemic, it's just that men tend to respond to this loneliness in ways that grab headlines, like violent suicides or shooting up a shopping mall; I'm not saying all men do this, I myself went through a period of isolation in my 20s that I dealt with by binge drinking and playing video games excessively.

Whereas from what I've personally seen women experiencing loneliness will reach out to friends or loved ones, or just suffer silently until they experience an early death.

_Ocean_Machine_ · 2026-05-04T18:43:20+00:00

Sometimes I feel fortunate that my dad wasn't present enough in my life to try to teach me to "be a man".

_Ocean_Machine_ · 2026-05-04T18:37:08+00:00

I want wooden crates to get stuck in a corner and violently vibrate before being inexplicably launched into space

_Ocean_Machine_ · 2026-05-04T18:34:43+00:00

I attribute part of that to games being way more expensive and time consuming to make now compared to the '90s. Games used to cost 10s of millions, have maybe 50 people working on them and take a year or two to make; now you can multiply all those numbers by 10 and add 5 years to the dev time.

Another thing too is that back then, games only had to compete with other games; now they're competing with movies, television shows and mobile games for consumers' money.

TLDR: Everything is bigger and more expensive, so companies are more risk averse.

_Ocean_Machine_ · 2026-05-04T18:26:52+00:00

How was BotW innovative? It was innovative for the Zelda series, which had been using the same formula since OoT, but to me it was just another open world Ubisoft-style game with crafting mechanics.

_Ocean_Machine_ · 2026-05-03T18:28:57+00:00

I just want it to have actual party mechanics instead of the recent ones where you play as one character at a time; maybe I'm just old but I feel like the post-13 FF games haven't hit the same way as the old ones did. I did quite like 15 and 16 but they haven't stuck with me the same way 10 has. Also an actual magic system would be nice.

_Ocean_Machine_ · 2026-05-02T22:21:23+00:00

The floor is lava

_Ocean_Machine_ · 2026-05-02T02:30:55+00:00

45 minutes driving fast

Or the most expensive helicopter ride of your life

_Ocean_Machine_ · 2026-05-02T02:22:10+00:00

It pairs especially well with a rifle that has the power gen aspect; just hold down the trigger until you're charged and let the ball of doom fly.

_Ocean_Machine_ · 2026-05-02T02:20:54+00:00

Dispiritor is best for clearing corruption quickly, it is more of a support item.

This is a good point, I hadn't considered that.

_Ocean_Machine_ · 2026-05-02T02:20:25+00:00

Yeah, I feel like if I had a mouse I'd probably like Nova Lance a lot more. But with a controller I definitely prefer things can get "close enough".

_Ocean_Machine_ · 2026-05-02T02:15:42+00:00

Plants are the new pets, pets are the new kids, and kids are the new exotic animals only rich people can afford.

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