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How exactly do you think this next gaming crash will happen? I don't think anybody seriously thinks that we will see a repeat of the first crash back in 1983. My personal theory is that another video game crash is possible, but it will only happen due to a general Recession. And since we keep on avoiding Recessions, it might be a while till we see a crash…

A crash on the same level as 1983 doesn't feel possible as console sales are still healthy at the moment, but I do feel like the third party "AAA" industry is going to eventually hit a wall where these companies will release too many games with absurdly high budgets and sales too low to make a profit that we'll see some form of "reset" within third party companies to reevaluate budgets. The part that sucks is I feel the near daily layoffs we're seeing might already be the start of this happening, these companies are laying off so many people from payroll in an attempt to still keep shareholders happy so they can report an increase in profits, but what will happen when these companies are then left with so few employees they can barely release their huge sellers in a timely manner? "Infinite growth year on year" feels downright unsustainable.

I feel we need the third party AAA space to actually regress back to the sixth or seventh console generations in terms of budgets and risk taking, as I feel within the AAA third party space we also don't see the level of variety we saw around 20 years ago (like imagine if Ubisoft or Activision didn't rely so much on a singular franchise to make them the majority of profits, they could really use the variety of IPs they used to rely on back in the PS2/Xbox/Gamecube days).

I fucking hate tech bros.

I know on KYM we get wrapped up in the whole AI art debate. But their attitude extends beyond something like despising art or creatives.

Elon tweeted this yesterday:

The first human received an implant from
@Neuralink
yesterday and is recovering well.

Initial results show promising neuron spike detection.

There are far too many replies, a lot from other AI/tech/business people, jerking off about "wow! telepathy in 2024! Amazing!"

Acting as if there aren't a slew of scientific, medical and ethical problems with this technology. As if we're still not horribly ignorant about the brain.

I cannot think of a single group with bigger egos. They put themselves on the same level as people like Einstein – all while doing significantly less.
It's like we're speedrunning a significantly more mundane cyberpunk dystopia

An observation I've had for a while has reared its' ugly head again:
Some modern anime fans with this weird aversion to oldies. What's all this blubbering over things being "T O O. O L D."? Literally everyone on planet Earth has seen Looney Tunes or Tom and Jerry as some point. You got no excuse.
Granted it wasn't until Devilman Crybaby happened that I was willing to actually give any manga made prior to the 80's a fair shake, but now I can and I feel like it's helped broaden my horizons, as well as allow me appreciate things I didn't before hand.

I honestly wish I could share certain nuanced thoughts without being afraid people will just assume immediate extremes. And yeah I realize some irony here as fuck am I guilty of doing just that, but I'm at least TRYING to change that.

What a miserable age we live in.

>I honestly wish I could share certain nuanced thoughts without being afraid people will just assume immediate extremes
I understand that so well you wouldn't even believe, communication on the internet is hard especially because this is the only social media platform I use and I fear that I could come out as overly harsh in my points.
>Some modern anime fans with this weird aversion to oldies. What's all this blubbering over things being "T O O. O L D."?
Old = bad, new = good
Modern culture is all about consuming current product and go to next product immediately afterwards
Products of their time contain content that dates it to that era, for better and/or worse.
If you are lucky you can get away with the classics.
I don't care about that too much, Most of what I own for entertainment are some old Movies on Blu-Ray like Cats Don't Dance and plenty of Criterion Collectionmovies(Including The Passion of Joan of Arc, which coinincidentally just became Public Domain alongside Steamboat Willie), in videogames I use my Wii U's vWii(with evWii to fix the Wii mode image) to play Mario Kart Wii online or just play some Red Steel 2.

God I hate Ronald Reagan

I am so tired of the modern American political hellscape, of politicians trying to one-up each other in how divorced from reality they can get, of constantly having to choose between a giant douche and a turd sandwich (where the douche is also covered in poopoo speckles), while bot farms and useful idiots on the internet screech at everyone who isn't on their sports team and accuse them of being Satan 2.0 for the crime of not subscribing to the most extreme version of a political ideology

I just want subsidized healthcare and renewable energy investments, not this shit where I'll have to deal with a vote between a doddering old fuck and the guy who tried to sell steaks at The Sharper Image. It's all so tiresome.

You know i've been thinking. People praise Pocketpair now for what they managed to achieve with so little. But had Palworld failed the small size and inexperience of the team would've been sited as the reason of it's failure. Same works in reverse for big developers where the higher amount of resources can be seen as either an advantage or detriment. If a game becomes successful crunch time would be seen as people working their ass off to deliver the best possible product, but if it isn't crunch time will be seen as inhumane working conditions. Why are people like this?

Ironic Steam reviews are starting to become a bit tiring and not as funny as they used to be. Be it Starfield winning the "Best Innovation" award during the Steam Best of 2023 awards or Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League sitting at "Very Positive" on its opening weekend, I don't think the users leaving these ironic reviews realize the heads of corporate at the publishers aren't going to give a shit that the praise is a joke, they'll use it to their advantage and claim "see, people love our product!"

I hate how broadly tags are always applied to things. Doesn't seem to matter what it is, what medium we're talking about or the context. If something has a tiny hint of a tag, the tag gets applied.

Steam's Nextfest just reminded me of why this is a problem.
I don't like seeing a billion different games in a category just because some have one puzzle in it

After seeing Pizza Tower get robbed TWICE in a row, my faith in the wider gaming public (both the big shots and the consumers) has plummeted even further than I expected it to.
You really can't trust anyone these days…

Ban all pseudo-Wojaks from this site and put penalties on those who post them.

We should have a Wojak Jar that anyone uploading a wojak has to put 2 quarters in

With that level of revenue we should be able to afford an edit button for comments in no time

I would only support this if it includes pseudo-Wojaks too.

What is a pseudo-wojak?

It's basically an image that is not actually a Wojak, but its intentions are exactly the same as those of a Wojak. A caricature of someone or something the poster doesn't like.

You mean like those smuggies? Some of them are funny.

No i am not referring to those.

Update
Well, I’ve finally got the appointment with the doctor for the EMT. Based on the previous CAT scan, they say that both the steroid and medicine treatment have treated fairly well during the past week. They say that I don’t necessarily need to do a nasal surgery, for now. Thank God. But they do recommend me to do sinus rinsing treatment twice a day for the next 3 months. If the results haven’t improved by then during follow up, then they’ll do a surgery. Regardless, I’ve been doing a bit better since then.
My apologies for being out of the blue for the past few weeks. It’s just that I don’t want to quickly jump the gun about health since I really don’t want to jinx myself stated that I’m doing fine so early.
But this experience made me realize on thing. I really need to change my main doctor to some more competent with me. If it weren’t for me trying reach out to another hospital my symptoms would be much dire.

Oh I am glad to hear that!