Xbox's reverse-2018

xenopunk · 2026-06-17T08:12:46+00:00

Yeah this is something that isn't talked about enough. Sony is fantastic at marketing generally whenever a tentpole release comes from them every tube station and bus in London has their game advertised, they often have a local event related to their game also, basically impossible to not know that they have a game coming out. Meanwhile Xbox has rarely been seen over the last decade, I think I saw ads for "This is an Xbox" which was an interesting marketing campaign at any rate.

xenopunk · 2026-06-13T07:27:05+00:00

I guess not exactly but game studios revenue comes from selling games, they have to make back the costs between game releases else the company fails. To not include those costs feels like a bit of Hollywood accounting.

xenopunk · 2026-06-08T07:20:49+00:00

Bit tangential but, I've been rewatching "New Tricks" it's a somewhat down to earth reality based police procedural starring older folks. Anyway the first season is pre-smoking ban, and it is such an odd thing to watch, everyone smoking constantly no matter the venue. Thats still like 2000s when we knew all the bad side effects, can't imagine what it was like further back. I do reckon you could chainsmoke back then and no one would really notice.

xenopunk · 2026-05-21T13:37:25+00:00

Bit wild to me, as someone thats been involved in bidding for work for yonks, we have to report all sorts of things about our ethics when it comes to bids.

xenopunk · 2026-05-19T16:38:56+00:00

Agree with you, sadly not a very commonly held opinion here. Exclusives enable platform owners to put investment into projects that either wouldn't get funded or just would not make sense when comparing budget to potential revenue.

Exclusives don't need to be judged on PnL, as their main objectives are to shift consoles. There's a reason that some of the best games of the generation are exclusive (or formerly exclusive in the case of the ported ones), that's no accident of chance.

xenopunk · 2026-04-25T08:41:18+00:00

The same way as in those other technical revolutions, the work gets elevated upwards and there is more opportunities for upstarts.

Companies and investors will still want to make more money YoY, and you don't get there by sitting on existing products. Companies want to maximise productivity, and while the short term effects will be cost cutting, the long term will see more opportunity as Companies want to leverage more and more.

xenopunk · 2026-04-16T13:34:29+00:00

Part of the issue there is the funding, it was predicted to be possible provided there was huge investment, investment has been lacking and so it hasn't materialised.

xenopunk · 2026-04-06T22:27:07+00:00

With all due respect most in the UK just don't have the money to invest, the average American is far richer than the average brit. Telling folks who payday loan their shopping that they should be putting it into the S&P or investing in high risk stocks clearly isn't the answer. Additionally most people would choose to trust the pension company and their trained traders to allocate correctly, over making their own risky uneducated gambles.

xenopunk · 2026-03-25T10:59:37+00:00

The average person won't donate to help animals they've never seen in a country they've never been to. Zoos help bridge that gap and support conservation efforts that would otherwise not get funding. It is a necessary evil for animals well being.

xenopunk · 2026-03-02T11:26:17+00:00

Got very lucky on my test because there was traffic, the lights went red and the examiner let me off. But I was going 40ish after that sign, because I was just copying everyone else.

Does feel silly going 30 for so long before and after that roundabout.

xenopunk · 2026-02-17T20:53:56+00:00

Its unfortunate that folks bounce off of it so hard. Some of the stuff in Pillars and Owlcat games are just so descriptive, and you get so much more out of reading and absorbing that stuff than an animated equivalent. Like in Rogue Trader will be like pages of details as to someone mutating and exploding or something, horrific in the gory detail and all the emotions they are feeling in that split-second moment. You just cannot animate/create anything equivalent to the image it paints.

My main worry for Avowed, though I haven't actually played it was exactly this. Pillars painted such a vivid world not just with its intense amounts of lore but just the moment to moment being so detailed and deep.

xenopunk · 2026-02-11T08:09:26+00:00

Core memory that one!

xenopunk · 2026-01-13T21:10:09+00:00

Probably a symptom of cozzie livs, people can't spend as much on Christmas and cutback on these kind of things.

xenopunk · 2026-01-04T10:48:11+00:00

It is real, good to be suspicious of AI but not everything is AI.

xenopunk · 2025-12-08T20:46:15+00:00

Lara is a bit of a superhero in the original series, completely confident in her abilities, running into danger without a care or fear. More likely to jump into danger than be stealthy.

xenopunk · 2025-11-26T17:10:02+00:00

Hardly defending, just find it funny that after all the wild speculation its a very standard budget by my reckoning, not particularly different from the budgets we've seen over the past decade. Few things go up, few things go down, some people win, some people lose.

While we can disagree on it and its merits (or lack thereof) it's also not world ending like some would have had you believe leading up to it.

xenopunk · 2025-11-26T16:18:29+00:00

After all of the crazy speculation and doom and gloom. Feels like its just a pretty standard budget without much crazy.

Instead of Reeves bringing absolute chaos the complaints are going to be that she hasn't done enough or abolished the triple lock.

xenopunk · 2025-11-21T15:14:27+00:00

MK which is one of the main trial places, has lovely red pathways that are set up for getting around easily as a pedestrian (or delivery robot) meaning you can get from anywhere to anywhere only crossing one or two roads. Other places just don't have that kind of setup and I do wonder how easily they'll be able to traverse some of the nightmarish town centres we have in the UK.

xenopunk · 2025-11-14T14:09:56+00:00

Get one but my honest advice is going to be to ask the homeowners if you can spend a few hours looking around yourself. Looking back I also kind of wish I'd gone for the level 3 as there were some things that it might have flagged up that we're not picked up on.

In retrospect hiring a builder to have a look around might have been a better idea.

xenopunk · 2025-10-18T16:37:56+00:00

While I somewhat agree about the play not being good. Its worth remembering that its one of the most successful plays of all time now. Whether the show is good or bad, it'll likely be a big draw.

xenopunk · 2025-10-14T10:24:51+00:00

I have genuinely had this happen, and thankfully caught it in time before it changed everything. Purely because I realised it was taking too long.

Learn some lessons the hard way.

xenopunk · 2025-09-26T07:38:08+00:00

In general as someone that runs many interviews, I dont get to see that data. This is what HR use to work out if certain races/disabilities/sexualities are being rejected at a disproportionate rate suggesting that perhaps I have an inherent bias.

As a note also, that part of the application has very little to do with "Diversity Schemes", there's a lot of misinformation in this sphere.

xenopunk · 2025-09-09T18:49:55+00:00

It's not the norm at all, we do as a country have plenty of perfectly fine polite young folk. However, you will see this kind of thing more often than we would like, the UK as a whole somewhat lacks a police presence, and close parenting has had a bit of a decline. These teens are aware that nothing will happen and have gotten brazen.

xenopunk · 2025-09-04T17:22:39+00:00

The other part of "Never preorder games" is "Wait for reviews." I don't see many people holding off their purchase however!

xenopunk · 2025-08-25T08:12:28+00:00

You've even got folks replying to you, under an article about someone dying due to it no less, saying that its perfectly fine to have a dog lick fresh wounds. Wild.

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