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First off just wanna say I have played through VTM:B I think six times in total, sadly I don't think I ever played the Unofficial patch. It's truly one of my favorite RPGs of all time. It's a great game.

That said I have genuinely little faith in the sequel. I don't even think I'm being cynical about big box AAA RPGs and all that jazz, I just don't think this specific project is going to meet expectations. It has had a long and weird development and not in "they overcame impossible odds" sorts of endearing way. Just plain production and development issues.

I think the heat scars of development hell will leave this game creatively all over the place. They lost key staff at the old studio, the old studio had organization switch ups, switched publishers, lost key staff again, and then the game then switched developers. I'm not saying a good game can't come out of this sort of development, but I don't think a cohesive creative vision can. This especially concerning for me as this is a game were tone and mood are paramount to the fantasy fun factor.

I think a great VTM:B style is needed now more than ever and I think most players would really dig it. I especially think younger katz will really like how WoD games are all about forging new understandings self/identity with weird makeshift families will raging against existing often unjust hierarchies. However, I feel like the news surrounding this project since its announcement make me feel like were going to get a "just release something" sort of title. Any MEGACORP AAA publisher like Paradox probably wants this mess offer their books. Again I'm not trying to be cynical or salty.

It's funny "ha-ha" but also funny "damn this sucks dude".

Square Enix, Nickelodeon, Coke, KFC, and more fell for this shit while regular people were laughing about how obvious a con it was.

That's one of the big things I think the NFT craze highlighted. When the suits at MEGACORPS saw a potential way to make money off intellectual property they jumped at it. IP law is really bad, and IP financialization is even worse. They thought they saw a whole new way to create new sort of "premium" product and they all went feral like they were consumed Spirit of Greed from Weird West. They really believe they could make a gazillion dollar from nothing, they either truly thought that or convinced themselves that they did.

Really puts into question the capitalist myth of the genius entrepreneur and the idea that these corporate types are rich because they are smart or deserving in some way.

Big time! It also really highlighted how everyone is despite to get out of the capitalist trap. I really felt kinda bad for regular people who got duped into NFTs and crypto as a whole. I'm not trying to say they are dumb people or have no agency, just saying lots of regular people lost their hard earned cash cause they bet on NFTs and crypto being "the future". Lots of regular people lost cash on the Robinhoods, the Coinbases, and the crypto dotcoms of the world. All of the "smart" "business people" were telling you NFTs and crypto was the future. Just yet another vampire scheme to siphon the lifeforce from working people =,

Steamboy is so beautiful. Love its design.

The modern Wolfenstien titles had a great balance of action movie intentionally over the top macho ultra-violence and then would pretty gracefully transition to these emotionally impactful scenes. I'm still genuinely surprised/impressed by how the game shifts gears from well done cinematic to player driven carnage.

I really also liked how Wolfenstien's faux history showed just how "normal" fascism, hatred, bigotry, all that gross nazi shit would be. Not just normal but celebrated and rewarded socially. The designers really thought about this sort of stuff and it shows. It gave it a sense of weight and reality to it all.

It's good art. Felt to to play, feel good to watch, great sound design, great way to get anti-nazi messaging into the mainstream without compromising being a good game. Left an impression upon me and honestly I think it's one of the all-time great FPS titles.

Still wish Youngbloods was not designed with the RPG-lite stuff, it was just a really bad fit for this series. I still think a co-op shooter playing the daughters of BJ blasting their way around an early 80's Paris in Da'at Yichud Power Suits is a great idea on paper. They just really fumbled the execution, or worse yet intentionally designed bad systems.

I think it’s a case by case basis. If it’s like three Katz and an actual cat working on a big bad project after working their day jobs sure take your time I guess. but if you have a half a billion in funding like Star Citizen or that other elite dangerous no excuses

Oh for sure! I'm all for people exploiting any crack in the system especially when that exploitation is for the betterment of others, don't get me wrong. Very glad that dirtbag queer gutter-pagan are doing right by people.

It's wild to me one or a group can purchase debt, and be able to purchase high amount of it rather cheapy. That's just a bonkers concept to me.

Very true, and I agree! I was just expressing my general discontent with the concept of online/mobile dating platforms and services, or perhaps I should say expressing my discontent with the implementation with dating apps. Much of the videos simulation illistrates to me why I don't like them rather plainly, they don't seem to be good at their expressed purpose. I don't like anything that's not good at what it says it's meant to do.

Online/mobile dating is truly a lose-lose for everyone. Gay, straight, poly, short-term, long-term, it doesn't matter these simply are not designed to help people find matches. They are designed to keep you on the app. I'm not totally on the anti-tech wave but I'm certainly against how these apps are designed. I think in a more just and equitable world they would be a boon for people seeking dates, but the profit incentive for these apps totally warps that.

“Turn off your brain” media I think requires the media to not raise lots of questions. Like playing Fortnite or Team Fortress is “turn off your brain” done right. Just log on and zone out. A movie about Hollywood (even if it’s about the goofy scope of toons/animation) is inherently not “turn off your brain”. “Turn off your brain” requires it not to really be about anything. Which isn’t bad either just saying that Chip N Dale had something to say

It’s a pretty collection of reasonable-ish questions. I think how and why labor (or in this case toons) actually works is not something that Hollywood explores that often.

The most dripless sauceless man of the modern age. Not even a drop of swagger in his body.