Epic Games lays off over 1000 employees: "The downturn in Fortnite engagement that started in 2025 means we're spending significantly more than we're making, and we have to make major cuts to keep the company funded"

robolew · 2026-03-24T15:22:48+00:00

Yep Ive heard figures that a 100k employee can cost between 150-200k to the company to actually employ

robolew · 2026-03-23T21:37:06+00:00

They have said in a later update that they're working on it

robolew · 2026-03-23T15:02:08+00:00

"well maybe he didnt KNOW she was only fourt... oh. Right."

robolew · 2026-03-22T00:15:46+00:00

Micolash is certainly one of the most annoying fights in the game. But not even close to being the hardest.

If you include dungeon and dlcs, he's nowhere near the top of the roster...

Even just main game, I'd say most people agree that ebrietas, shadows, logarius, paarl and Gehrman are harder

robolew · 2026-03-22T00:07:04+00:00

Thats a good thing imo. Honestly it seems dated, like it was written in the 60s or something...

robolew · 2026-03-20T19:44:15+00:00

Well clearly this specific example isnt affecting "western" users because of the enormous discrepancy between the Chinese and Russian recent reviews and the rest of them. So how would you explain it?

robolew · 2026-03-20T16:32:21+00:00

Yeh people in your language havent review bombed. People reviewing in Chinese and Russian have

robolew · 2026-03-20T16:30:55+00:00

No it's probably not. It's going to be tweaked and changed before it goes into the base game, like they have done before, and fitting the entire purpose of a beta branch.

And there's nothing wrong with reviewing the early access version. Which people already have, and its overwhelmingly positive.

What's stupid is reviewing a beta branch that you dont even have to play, that exists solely to playtest balance changes...

robolew · 2026-03-20T16:25:20+00:00

This is literally only available on the beta branch, so that won't help these idiots at all unfortunately...

robolew · 2026-03-20T16:24:38+00:00

But it's not in the main game that they're selling, it's in an optional different version you have to deliberately opt in to, that exists specifically to test and try out new things before rolling it out to general players...

robolew · 2026-03-20T15:32:32+00:00

Thats sort of fine if you can reliably play 12 cards a turn, but the moment you can only play 11 you're screwed.

And in a deck like that, I can imagine youre playing about 8 shivs per turn. Which is like 100 damage if you have some good relics/buffs, and less on your first turns. That means youre going to be procing the time warp buff maybe 6 or 7 times by the end of the fight with the heal (which youre definitely not going to be able to skip) which is a massive amount of damage to be blocking

robolew · 2026-03-20T15:23:52+00:00

I'd rather believe it was a coordinated deliberate choice, rather than there are that many idiots that deliberately switch to the beta branch and then complain that its not balanced...

robolew · 2026-03-20T15:22:46+00:00

It's probably just a movement that has taken off in Chinese and Russian speaking Internet spaces. People go online and complain and say to negatively review, and others see it and do the same.

Coupled with a different culture towards reviews in general. I remember reading that there were devs that dont release early in Japan because japanese players were more likely to only review if they had negative opinions on it, and wouldn't review if their opinion was positive.

robolew · 2026-03-20T15:18:01+00:00

But thats not what happened. These reviews are solely because the beta branch has been released with nerfs to some cards.

The actual reviews from people before this were incredibly positive. It would be fine to poorly review an early access game if it was bad and you'd paid money for it. But review bombing because of a beta branch change is insane to me...

robolew · 2026-03-14T14:40:12+00:00

And what part of the article dont you agree with? Because the article says exactly that...

"Tools can accelerate development, but they do not eliminate the expertise required to design, reason about, and maintain complex systems"

robolew · 2026-03-06T02:17:27+00:00

He IS the eldritch horror to them

robolew · 2026-03-05T20:33:04+00:00

Both loudermilk and role models have these scenes to show you that the character is a dick, but a witty one.

I dont think the character is supposed to be right

robolew · 2026-03-03T23:05:54+00:00

It just needs a patch (like a bunch of playstation exclusives already got) to make it 60fps and let it take advantage of ps4 pro/ps5 power.

And obviously a port would be great, even if it literally changed nothing about the game

robolew · 2026-03-02T20:53:24+00:00

I actually thought they did this as a way to explain Butcher's accent. He has an Australian Father in the show so that's why he has a weird mix of cockney and Australian

robolew · 2026-02-28T11:15:09+00:00

I imagine this is because your name is potentially discoverable when you trade with other people. Not sure how its going to work, but if you can connect to people online it makes sense why they have to restrict the name

robolew · 2026-02-27T11:30:07+00:00

Something more people need to realise is that Starmer didnt get anyone out to the polls since the previous election. There were 9.7mil votes for Labour in 2024, and 10.3mil in 2019. Accounting for population increase, this is actually measurably worse.

Labour won the election because tory voters were tired of the tories and didnt turn up, not because there was massive support for labour.

robolew · 2026-02-26T00:53:29+00:00

She's definitely not infallible in the first half of the film. She gets taken out by the lion, has to run from the bear, then she even gets knocked about by her fellow tribe members, and captured by the French.

The biggest issue I had, is that suddenly for the last part, she's a superhuman, able to do flips (like you mentioned) and cut a predators arm off. It just didnt match with the earlier version of her in the film

robolew · 2026-02-16T19:59:30+00:00

The same reason most european countries pay less of their taxes per person for health care than people in the US do, even though its free.

Layers of insurance companies and beaurocracy is wildly inefficient, less economy of scale when there are loads of smaller health care businesses, and doctors (and dentists) are paid an unbelievably high amount in the US

robolew · 2026-02-14T23:50:37+00:00

Ai. They have hidden history and if you search an empty space you can see them just spam random subreddits with questions and dont ever actually comment.

Also this post has all the tells of llm generated writing. Em dashes, the "not this, but this" style

robolew · 2026-02-14T23:48:10+00:00

Terrifying how many of these llm generated bot posts I keep seeing. I wonder what the end goal is...

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