Boycotts don’t work when John Gamer spends hundreds of millions on microtransactions. I could never buy another EA Sports game for the rest of my life, and all it takes is one whale to wipe out ten of me boycotting. The economy of boycotting games is completely broken at scale when whales exist, and companies know how to cater to them.

Hand of Og

As a Spurs bandwagon fan, Knicks should send an end-of bench guy after Wemby if he keeps playing chippy. But I get why they wouldn’t want to give up technical FTs when the last two games were so close.

It kinda already happened: https://youtu.be/6YsNRnZRgg8

Não sei se o jogo original funciona. Pode ser um problema do Windows 11. Só testei no Windows 10 e no Linux.

If the original game launches, I’m not sure. Could be a Windows 11 issue. I’ve only ever tested it on Windows 10 and Linux.

Estranho… Se estiver faltando algum arquivo, tente este link: https://archive.org/details/nba-2k14-mod

Weird, if there’s mod files missing try this link: https://archive.org/details/nba-2k14-mod

Deve ser o mesmo link; divirta-se! Usei um tradutor para isso, então vou colar o texto em inglês abaixo.

should be the same link, have fun! i put this into a translator, so I’ll paste the English below.

“Why do we all have to wear these ridiculous ties tubes?”

The alt text is the funniest part

And, indies are still going strong. AAA died ten years ago, but we still get classics like Outer Wilds

It’s already happening with UE5 games and remakes…

A modern classic.

I checked the wiki and Rogue should also have Axe, if you’re attached to the playthrough and don’t wanna restart :)

Just make sure to buy a weapon that matches your skills. If you put your preferred weapon/armor in Major Skills and keep your Stamina over half, the otherwise clunky combat feels much better. Have fun!

The combat makes more sense if you custom class and put your preferred weapon skill into Major. And keep stamina high. A Redguard with Longblade and the appropriate weapon can kill a mudcrab in two seconds at level 1. You ideally want to start with your main combat skill over 40, if not 50-60. The best part: you don’t need to min-max since the level scaling is minimal. Just pick your favorite armor type/weapon in Major and the rest can be whatever you want.

The game does NOT make that all clear, unfortunately. It took me a few tries to wrap my head around it before falling in love with the game.

I mean, people still hunt with bolt-actions, so it’s plausible he could catch either lol

We must ruin the West

“I just bought more land in the Metaverse”

It’s sad. For almost ten years people have argued about what went wrong with Star Wars.

Too many genres? The EU was scattershot and unfocused at times, but never hurt the brand in a significant way. In fact, it led to some great books and games

Too much politics? The villain of TPM is named after Newt Gingrich, and nobody really cared. ANH was inspired by Vietnam, and was still a box office hit.

The fanbase hates (insert minority)? While the internet has magnified the extreme weirdos, all six films have some mix of assertive female leads and non-white characters. Lando blew up the Death Star, Mace Windu was considered second only to Yoda. Every clone, etc. Still had a successful brand. Clone Wars focused hard on the clones and is put above the prequels by many of the hardcore fans. This isn’t to say there aren’t awful people who acted unhinged, but that goes for basically every large group of people in human history, let alone fandoms on the internet.

The answer is quality of writing. The originals were written well, and had coherent world building. The prequels struggled with character writing and general complexity, which is why they are more divisive. Good writing is the difference between the comedy of C-3PO and Jar Jar. It’s the difference between Luke and Rey. And it’s the difference between soul and slop.

The people at Disney either don’t understand this, or don’t care. It is an organization of Nico Harrisons who don’t understand the fundamentals of their industry. This pattern has been repeating across pop culture since the 2010’s, and was blamed on culture war instead of the real issue. It’s a miracle that something like Rogue One or Andor was ever greenlit.

Also, did you know the box office drop-off between 4 and 5 is the same, down to the percentage point, as the drop-off between 7 and 8? And yet, 5 is the most beloved, while 8 had so much backlash that Disney panicked and turned 9 into damage control, instead of working off of 8.

The difference? ESB is well written. TLJ broke space combat entirely for a cool visual. I don’t want to absolve TFA, which gets off way too easy because of what followed, but this comment is already too long…

Now I’ve got to play Thrawn’s Revenge again…