I think it’s fair to say they’re are some significant similarities between the two industries. They both focus on large, multi year creative projects with unknown returns. I’m not sure emulating Hollywood is the answer, but they can at least look at how existing Hollywood unions have approached addressing any similar problems

They’re good for the short term possibly. But longer term, people will be wary of getting in too deep with them and will seek out other alternatives. A game engine like unity thrives on large numbers of skilled users and lots of games using the engine. One of those users or games could’ve been the next big win. Now that might go to unreal instead.

Companies aren’t run to earn profit based on goods and services generated anymore. They are investment vehicles for wealthy VC to use and abuse until they run them into the ground while they jump to the next disposable company. Someday this will result in no effective company existing anymore, but the investors don’t care.

If governments were actually functioning they’d recognize this danger and crack down on this behavior because it weakens the country as a whole, but most of the politicians are already bought and paid for.

Agreed. If we just set this issue aside and focused solely on everything that contributed to making someone want to shoot up a school we’d save far more lives more quickly. I do believe that we need gun control, but like you I don’t think we’ll get it so why waste our time trying for something that will never happen?

It opens a crack to do it again. And again and again. If it didn’t hurt them they wouldn’t fight it so hard. But I do agree we should be trying for something more comprehensive. That said, I don’t think the country is currently capable of doing something like that. We’re too broken.

I mean it won’t be too long until they don’t need any human VAs at all, so they could just completely ignore the union.

Yep, even if they don’t clone an existing VA, they’ll be able to find others willing to sell their voice for AI, or just have an AI generate a voice from a mixture of different people. The existing VAs will then never be hired.

Accurate and well executed computer voice is a goal of too many technologies to remain unsolved for long. It sucks for the VAs, but there’s no way to go back.

I mean tears of the kingdom make $700 million + and Diablo Immortal made 525 million in it’s first year despite being almost universally rebuked online. Really seems like micro transactions have a really solid, if maybe not top tier return. Lots of companies try to make something like Horizon Zero Dawn and it totally flops instead.

The old ‘most reviews’ sort on newegg.com was honestly the best way to find decent stuff. Well that combined with comprehensive filters to narrow the search down significantly. There are certain products you just can’t successfully search for on Amazon because there’s no way to filter out the irrelevant trash.

As an RTS player who only ever plays for the story and does not care about multiplayer at all, new RTS games with a decent story and gameplay are kind of thin on the ground these days.

I can’t even play C&C RA2 anymore because I can’t get it to run on my PC. Tried several guides, but it refuses to run properly.

Wonder how they plant/harvest. Seems like the panels would block a tractor

Honestly I think the more traditional side of the Democratic party serves the ‘conservative’ angle quite well. They’re the ones questioning spending and how we’ll pay for it, advocating for pro business policies and the like.

The Republican party no longer seems to bring anything of merit to the table, having fallen to Christian nationalism and policies of hate.

Yep. Multithreading isn’t a magic fix for these really complex games. At the end of the day some stuff just has to happen in order.

Dismantling ‘not great’ solutions when our legislature is seemingly incapable of replacing them with any solution at all (better or worse) is just a net downgrade for society. Our government is broken and extremely ineffective.

Which is also why corporations shouldn’t be able to give money to political causes. If my ceo wants to donate to some politician let him. But he shouldn’t get to do that and also direct company funds there as well.

Probably just doing story prep, basic theorycrafting on mechanics, etc. No real work is being done and much of the stuff they do work might get thrown out anyway

I didn’t even think it was in development. Weren’t they only working on Starfield?

Seems like a decent idea. I have a pet theory that it’s not strictly that young people don’t vote, but that there is a relatively constant duration people who suddenly can vote take to learn that that is important. Kids, who can’t vote, don’t bother to think about it. And new voters tend to focus solely on the Presidential election. I think it takes roughly 8 years (two presidential elections) for people to learn that not voting has consequences. If we started kids voting earlier, we may find that they become regular voters earlier as well.

Yes, builds are always going to have a ‘big hit’ that you want to be boosted as high as possible. But the method of boosting doesn’t have to be boring on its own. You can, for example, have other attack skills apply the debuffs.

This is what some of the other D4 classes do. It’s also how I’ve built my class where Meteor is a very high damage method of applying immobilize which grants me extra crit damage and I then hit with charged bolts.

Ideally your ‘boosting’ skills are effective at clearing out trash and you only really need the full boost stack on elites.

Almost all the build guides for Sorcerer use every single skill from the defensive node. Stuff like that indicates a problem with the class to me when players are ignoring the majority of offensive options in favor of 4-5 buff options boosting a singular skill to crazy he’s.

Additionally the impression I’ve gotten from other classes is that several have 1-2 builds that are significantly better than all other options. You can’t get perfect balance, but the ‘best’ should ideally be only ~10% better instead of 40-50%