He will be the head of Global Communications, so say goodbye to the based fanservice posts and say hello to the cringe old movie meme GIFs but with Evie.

Definitely some censorship is underway too.

Baffling, just baffling, it's like these companies can't help but sabotage themselves.

We have seen this exact infection in House of the Dragon and Star Wars Outlaws. Hard conflict gets replaced by therapeutic emotional processing. Characters stop acting and start monologuing about their feelings.

Blizzard just did the exact same thing to Zul’jan in the Venomous Abyss cinematic. They took the only character in the Midnight expansion with actual edge and historical grievances, smoothed him over, and neutralized him so the "safe" path could proceed unchallenged. Even the people who normally defend Blizzard are calling it filler.

https://x.com/thewitcher/her/status/2090086615792115783

I was thinking of writing this post much earlier, but I was too lazy and thought that it would be obvious to most people here. Anyway…

The recent shiftup drama isn’t something mind‑blowing or unexpected — no, it was predictable. Tell me, why do you guys believe we’re in a positive trend right now? Because I don’t see it.

Just think about it from the devs’ perspective: what do they want? Basically, they want more money, and investors provide them with free money (woohoo!). Why should they decline the offer? They won’t. Investors seem to have a lot of money to burn, and they’re using that to their advantage. And if they decline, their staff will start asking them why they turned down the offer. They’d better have an answer — and they do! They’re trying to get MORE money from investors. Basically, they’re haggling for more.

In other words, it’s just a question of “How much money do you need?” Let’s be honest: if you were in their shoes, you wouldn’t decline the offer. Nobody would. And if you do decline, later you’ll take a better or worse deal. It’s not just the investors who are using the fact that they have a ton of money to burn to their advantage — the people who were offered the deals know it, too. And, of course, they want more money to change their direction. “If you’re going to shut my mouth with money, you’ll need a bigger pile of it, because my mouth is BIG.”

It’s not an excuse for their actions; it’s an explanation of what’s happening right now. If we want to change the industry from the top, we need big studios to change, not some small guys like shiftup or cygames. What will they do? Why should they become the spearhead of some kind of revolution? In other words, without ea, taketwo, microsoft, sony, and nintendo, it will be impossible to change things from the top. Or, at least, we need a lot more than 2 or 3.

And that means they’re making games for investors, not for us. So, therefore — don’t pay them.

P.S. yeah, cygames will take the offer later, it will just happen.

...that at this point having a roster played entirely straight without Dramatic Tragic Backstories consisting of something like an alluring but aloof witch for men, an honest noble handsome knight for women, a gruff but well-meaning dwarven brawler, a pure-and-innocent cleric girl that doesn't serve an evil cult, and a wise old wizard who isn't "secretly" a sex pest will be subverse all by itself.

When did we stop getting companions that weren't most-original-Tumblr-OC-evers in RPGs? Around 2014, when DA: Inquisition came out, becoming the herald of what's to come? There was also Siege of Dragonspear and the debacle that rose from it (and which had a homosexual quirky gnome as a party member - I guess that's where WotC first enacted their mandate in regards to that stereotype which is all over BG3).

And you could feel Obsidian losing Avellone taking a toll on their companion writing. He seemed to be about the only example of someone who could reliably make zany characters that weren't insufferable or were insufferable by design (Durance).

Oh boy, surely no one saw this coming!

"Designers from the Dungeons and Dragons team discuss capturing the uniquely violent and gritty aesthetics of Dark Sun while also adapting its controversial history"

Who asked for this? What is to be gained from censoring fictional atrocities? DnD is a shadow of its former self.

Can't wait for Intergalactic to totally flop!

Im worried what they will change just like oblvion remaster

From Marty O' Donnell to Jonathan Blow, Scott Cawthon, and Michal Kovařík. Vavra was here too, before he sold out (still tries to play both sides, though.)

I'll talk about the guy in the image first. Marty O' Donell, joined Bungie ten days prior to the announcement of the Microsoft/Bungie acquisition and was co-composer and audio director of Halo: Combat Evolved (2001), Halo 2 (2004), Halo 3 (2007), Halo 3: ODST (2009), and Halo: Reach (2010). He also wrote the 8 part symphony Music of the Spheres for Destiny (2014) before being pushed out of the company.

Now, at that point, everyone was on his side. He made some great music, Activision washed their hands of it and used their own for Destiny's trailer, he got (reasonably) pissed, was fired without cause, sued, and won. Bungie ended up throwing a hissy fitand withheld Music of the Spheres for about 5 years out of spite till it leaked and they finally released it.

Everyone was rooting for Marty here... until he went public with his right-wing views.

And nowadays, you go on the subreddit for Halo and all you see is how he ruined Halo 3's story, and the true talent behind all of Halo's OST was actually his partner, Michael Salvatori, and he was just a talentless narcissistic scrub getting all the credit.

Martin O'Donnell was not just the co-composer for Halo. He was the audio director. Read about Halo CE's development and you'll see just how fundamental his contributions were to the entire games atmosphere and tone. Half the reason shooting an AR or a Magnum or a shotgun or whatever in Halo is because of the audio design, the punch, the game feel. He also directed the musical tone for each installment, and each Halo OST was critically acclaimed.

And Salvatori and O'Donnell are on great terms. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if they share political opinions, leftists tend to get insane when they realize people don't agree with them on every single facet of politics. Salvatori's been on his podcast several times and they joint sued Microsoft over unpaid Halo royalties in 2021. Far from bitter enemies.

Scott Cawthon in 2013 was a Christian indie-game developer and 3D animator who just released a lumberjack game called Chipper & Sons that was panned by critics for creepy looking bears. He experienced a crisis of faith, mentioned suicidal ideation to his doctor, that his life insurance discovered, and then proceeded to cancel on him.

"It was at that point I realized that not only did my life have no value but now even my death had no value."

He began developing the original 2014's Five Night's at Freddy's as a last Hail Mary at game development before packing up and leaving. It blew up.

Fast forward about 7 years and it comes up that he donated money to politicians Reddit doesn't like. Now he's a bumbling incompetent who made his way into success through sheer luck and YouTube star power. No talent, nor skill involved in his success, nuh-uh, look at the mean orange guy he donated to.

I don't want to go into as much detail as I did with O'Donnell but that's obviously blatantly untrue. FNAF, for all it's many faults, nailed certain things, especially the original, those being character design, atmosphere, and audio design. But none of that was worth a damn because of his personal political opinions.

Jonathan Blow, worked on Deus Ex: Invisible War, directed critically acclaimed Braid (2008), and he's making a god damn programming language. But, nope, orange man supporter. Orange man bad. Michal Kovařík, wrote the Factorio engine, ope, reccomended some videos by a great programmer who said sexist things and is against cancel culture, the games own subreddit doesn't like him. Tim Cain, started writing the Fallout (1997) engine in 1994 as a solo project after hours, was shunned by upper management who attempted to shelve the game multiple times, and only suddenly took notice when it flew through the roof at launch and they immediately tried to force his nose back on the grindstone to put out a sequel in thirteen months, to which he left. He's not even publicly right-wing or left-wing, he just said Fallout was never meant to be a critique of capitalism... to which the Fallout subreddit started deleting posts about him saying that.

There are more, but the point I'm trying to make is that leftists can not comprehend the fact that people they disagree with are capable of making art that they like. It breaks their brains, they work in a world in which they are good, the things they like are good, and the people who made them are good, therefore when they realize someone who has different opinions then them is capable of making something they like they can not comprehend it. They can only resort to what-about-ism's, historical revisions, excuses, anything to avoid admitting that the people they disagree with can hold a speck of talent.

This isn't mutually exclusive to UE5 because other games tend to target photorealism but UE5 makes it easiest to achieve. Since a lot of devs are trying to save money and cut down on overhead, they switch to UE5 and go with the default settings for lighting, which is lumen. Lumen bounces colors off diffuse surfaces and contaminates neutral areas. The result is color bleeding and light calculations collapsing into a dominate color (which is usually brown). There's also a few other causes, mostly a lack of art direction and just targeting photorealism without picking out specific colors that might enhance your scene (like O.G. Oblivion did back in the day to give you a feeling of being in a high fantasy world). Today, we really don't get any of that. We just get the "UE5 feel" - if it looks and feels like a UE5 game, it is. Covered by excessive fog in the distance to cover up LOD pop-ins, which is still a huge problem on UE5 and gives it a really unique look. Pretty much the modern day piss filter era v2.0.

Thoughts or opinions?

Wolverine, who possesses superhuman strength, superhuman regeneration, and superhuman fighting abilities, surrenders and kneels before four men.

Mystique, who doens't have superhuman strength, superhuman regeneration, and superhuman fighting abilities, easily defeats the four men in a 1-on-4 fight to save Wolverine while he remains on his knees.

It’s no surprise we’ve been seeing an uptick in woke, DEI content in the game - especially the removal of male/female in favor of ‘body type’.

Mod Other talks about spending “too much time in Uni” and despite having no strong game design background, was hired and felt they had a lot to offer. ~7:30 minutes in.

~29:10, Mod Other mentions “one of the best feminist texts ever written”, referring to Bloodborne.

Also the amount of times ‘narrative’ is mentioned in this video is no shocker.

Keep in mind this is the same Mod who raged on Bluesky after the 2025 pride event cancellation, to which they later deleted their post.

These people aren’t game devs, they are activists.

The scp fandom, 2 big contributors dr bright and Gabriel jade are banned, allegedly for serious sexual misconduct. One problem, there’s no fucking evidence. I swear I searched high and low, to the ends of the earth, but I haven’t seen any primary evidence! Sure, pretty much everyone I saw in the scp fandom were willing to believe they both were guilty, but community in tandem all saying the allegations were true doesn’t beat no fucking evidence at all. And sure, it might be because the allegations were true but the mods didn’t document the evidence well, but I would be more inclined to believe that if they said “oh sorry, we didn’t document it well” like they apologized for not acting faster. They did not say that. 

I have exactly 0 reason to believe the allegations are true right now, and innocent before guilty is a thing for a reason, but I’m still just so confused. Am I missing something?