Thirteen years ago, this small youtube channel made imo very high quality meta comments about literary stuff and video games on youtube. (starting with the mass effect 3 ending and why it’s bad)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MlatxLP-xs&t=67s&pp=ygURVFVOIG1hc3MgZWZmZWN0IDM%3D

Everything from low quality text, to selection of music, footage and the literary content is just… so good. And they’re a comfortable 10-20 minutes each.

But I am also not sure if after he did what he did, there is really that much to say. The important part of that work is mental work and writing, and it will take forever to make even a single video.

That’s a bit different, because he’s selling finished products. He can just check all the boxes from star wars over dnd to collectible card games and order the value pack from a middle man and then it’s all about the location of the shop and the competition in the area.

You don’t have to understand why a specific product works if what you’re doing is essentially providing a mixed physical storefront for a bunch of corporations.

But this lady is now going to have to make important strategic decisions, about which games to give funding, which ones to cancel, what kind of hardware to even envision.

Compare it to valve, who sat down and build their own controller and handheld, because they looked at 20 years of market and product development and thought they could do better and delivered. You have to know a lot about why you want hardware for what purpose and what makes it better or worse for that purpose to do that.

XBOX, theoretically, same as any other big name in media, could be the place where a new media franchise is born that dominates the next 50 years of pop culture. THAT is the kind of position this is.

That they won’t because they can’t “build the next skyrim / WoW” is kind of the problem.

Being a personal fan of video games isn’t necessarily required to succeed in running a gaming company.

What the F***, yes it is.

(that’s arstechnica saying that though, not the new xbox boss person)

openDemocracy’s website has been repeatedly brought down by an army of bots.

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See, from my point of view, the problem is that the website is up, not that it was brought down?

ok.

AA and indy games. A GTX 1060 usually won’t do for UE5 unless you accept severely degraded graphics.

1. well yes, I do.
2. I don’t usually play games like that, I think, you are free to name a few you think this is an issue for.
3. indie art isn’t that “high cost of investment/valuable” anyway. Meaning, they don’t have 500 people creating high vertex count 4k textures everywhere. YAGNI, I don’t believe this is an issue in practice.
4. UE is a commercial engine. With support and dev staff. And subscription pricing and everything. They can optimize?!
5. Yes indies need to use the optimizations or build them themselves. Skill issue.

I’m not calling you wrong, I doubt I could play “expedition 33” in “nice graphics”, but I have 0 interest in JRPGs, so it’s literally not a problem for me.

That’s a weird take.

I still rock a gtx 1060, I have no issue playing a wide variety of games, obviously most classics and many newer indie titles.

The games I “can’t run” are modern AAA titles that put a lot of emphasis on spectacle and pay no attention to optimization.

Yes it sucks for people who want new hardware right now because they have literally nothing, but even then something used from 5-10 years ago will play 95%+ of all games, including many many classics and very popular games like minecraft and fortnite.