That time of the year again.

Restoration
#Flower_Imitation

A lot of factors to consider here, including that this isn’t a live service game, but I think the constant doomerism from media that doesn’t even ask developers their metric of success is not particularly useful.

Dude disabled replies and quote posts lol

Video game opinions are so bad at the moment. It’s an endless story to click bait specifically targeting a wish to have video games fail and not just let people decide for themselves. And a lot of it is based on misinformed information like this.

The reason this matters is that "Imagine Dragons released a live-service game" makes it seem like a cashgrab, but that does not appear to be the story here. These guys are lifelong gamers. The lead singer programs and releases his own iOS games as a hobby, without telling anyone!

Since this post is aggregating my Bloomberg column, I kinda feel the need to clarify that the Imagine Dragons game is not "live-service" (designed for recurring monetization). It's a $15 multiplayer shooter with no microtransactions.

Here's the original article: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

Have to say - only being 90 hours into Marathon and just feeling like I’ve only scratched the surface of it feels pretty darn good.

Det här var (tyvärr) väldigt klargörande, så många som borde prova att bara dra åt helvete

God I have no idea how people can like KATSEYE after gnarly, internet girl and pinky up but you do you I guess.

Great to see the comms coming in over here as well :) ggs!

*grumpily* "We were all eagerly awaiting the chorus"

View from Artemis II today. Crescent Earth. A view humans haven't captured since 1972.

Nayeon always doing some fuck shit god bless her

New look at Earth.

(Source: Artemis II crew)

3 stars is good actually

a red and black illustration of yotsuyu sitting in front of a red moon surrounded by spider lily flowers

yotsuyu goe brutus #ffxiv

ガルバル

Can you please get Ziegler to post here in addition to Twitter as well? 😇

Panty and Stocking 🩷💙🪽

An illustration of a fictional video game titled "マッドDASH" (Mad DASH) stylized like a 90s arcade game flyer. A woman in leather pants and a bikini top is standing over a sleek red and white motorcycle, pushing her hair back, and looking over her shoulder at the viewer. There are some mock-up screenshots of the game itself, which resembles a mid 90's shoot 'em up.

I love 90s arcade games.
#SummerAdZine

Holy chills they’re actually on their way to the moon guys

IT’S GO TIME BABY LET’S GET TO THE MOOOOOOOOON

Oh my god I had no idea but it has been bothering me so much and yes it is instantly much better holy shit.

Mysigt att bjuda in rasister i regeringssamarbetet.

TWICE MUFG merch showed up today 🥰 Can’t wait for the Barcelona concert in May.

I want them all

Russia plans to illegally annex lands it invaded, even as its military falters. Israel Plans to Control Large Parts of Southern Lebanon, Defense Minister Says

The difference between these two is racism

Rubrik. Mohamsson: Åkesson är inte längre rasist

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