I always wonder how many of these are actually just patches behind the scene to fix viral trends. Or even more devious, they use the viral trends to patch a specific failure point to make it feel like progress is being made.

Yeah, that seems like the boom before the bust. I know even personally I’ve been buying some things before they become hard to get.

Same, it took an hour or two to click, but once it did it was a lot of fun.

I initially hated eternal, but stuck with it because of how good 2016 was. Glad I did because it’s a blast once you get the flow of things.

I feel like that’s a hard thing to do. Most of the gatcha games I’ve interacted with hide core game mechanics behind gatcha pay walls.

The real issue in gatcha is that many games require money to make actual progress.

Tariffs can work, but they should be targeted and executed in a planned way. Completely decoupling China and US is more likely to break things than fix them.

If you look at Biden maintaining tariffs, export controls on chips, and the Chips act you see a very coordinated and purposeful policy to keep the US at the center of chip design and manufacturing.

Thanks for this, I was confused cause I thought it was still being released.

That makes it a lot less impressive.

It’s such a shame that game didn’t get lore attention. It’s one of the best metroidvanias I’ve ever played and has amazing combat.

Edit: Talking about Prince of Persia Lost Crowns, the Mario rabbids game was also fun but not as good.

His videos have been pretty weak for a while. Happy that he’s been branching out into publishing games though.

Personally I sold a lot of my “total” market etfs/stocks and bought into staples/utilities/dividends just cause I’ve always seen those as safeish.

I’m keeping a lot, probably more than I should, in cash expecting things to get worse. I fear I may need the cash or can buy when things get worse, but that puts me at larger risk for inflation (which seems more and more likely). However, I’m not sure what would be protected from inflation at this point (maybe gold?).

Exactly, the only real first party game was BOTW (and that also released on the Wii u).

There were some smaller games, like 12 switch/snipperclips/fast rmx, but the switch on release (and most of its life) was struggling for games.

Oh yeah, real physical games are better, no arguement from me.

Just calling out that it could be even worse.

The only reason they sold any was because the console released with like one game, which seems to be the same strategy this time around too.

I mean with this setup you can still sell the game and it keeps a used game market. I don’t like not actually “possessing” the game cause we know everything online shuts down eventually, but it’s much better than the “physical games” that actually just have a download code.

This isn’t some bubble popping or realized losses, this is an entire political movement (Trump and Republicans) literally destroying the world economy. This isn’t just going to impact the US, but potentially hurt people in every country.

Its also in no way connected to 2008. What is going on here is independent of that and won’t be seen as a lesson to mistakes made in 2008.

Not sure if it counts as open world, but a souls-like platformer with some great movement is Blue Fire

Just like the camera!

I thought that was only the rumored price. I wouldn’t be surprised if there is a price revision before release up to $500, unless they had already priced tarrifs in.

Given the switch2 is going to cost more, definitely.

Also games are going to be $80 apparently :(

Definitely, and that’s why hard/strict laws or rules can be dangerous. Much like the famous “I know it when I see it” judgment on obscenity.