I’d think this this is par for the course for games that will release on consoles.
They start by showing what they’re working on based on how good they can make it, then as they develop further and tune for performance to help it run on consoles and lower spec PCs.
If there was a huge difference between final trailers and what consumers first booted up on their PCs then that would be wrong - but we can’t expect early trailers to always be a set in stone promise for the final product.
Insightful, evocative, well-written, and 100% pertinent to what is going on these days.
Thank you for sharing this.
Anyone reading my comment who just read a bit of this article or skimmed it - please do yourself a favour and devote 10mins to reading the full thing.
Fully agreed that the sports betting ads are out of control and need to be toned down / regulated.
But the REAL problem I have is with how - in just one year or so - gambling has invaded all sports broadcast. The intermission panels are talking about odds, live odds appear during the game, talking heads mentioning how much X dollars could would make if placed on team Y to win right now etc etc.
Even if you try to avoid the commercials, that content gets to you. And if you have a gambling problem, do you just accept that you can't watch sports at all without risk of being exposed to that?
We treat all other addictive properties with heavy regulation about exposure to the general public. Gambling should be no exception.
Yes especially for taking off - gotta get that neck button undone asap after being choked under a tie all day!
I also recall an author (can’t remember the name) saying that Tolkien in fantasy was like mt Fuji in pictures of Japan. So iconic that it’s either in everything, or not having it be part of the picture seems intentional.
My point is that there could be effort made to develop new IP, new stories - and that if the effort was to be made to put a great game behind those stories, then even better!
LOTR just takes the air out of other fantasy IP, and there is always the risk that they just phone in the game dev bc they think being LOTR will be enough to sell it.
That’s really cool!
Love the little bar graphs filling up
Preach.
I’m honestly still using Reddit but mostly just lurking now, and really prefer Lemmy / kbin due to how completely awful the official app is (using Apollo now just makes me sad).
So I love participating here and plan to do so more and more! Whereas with Reddit, I can see myself opening that up less and less.
We’ll likely always be smaller, but we can be big enough while being better - and that would be fine by me.
So I gave the official Reddit app a try again after all this time on Apollo just to confirm that it was still garbage (it is) and what pissed me off the most was all the “promoted” ads.
Facebook, instagram, twitter, Reddit- just filthy with ads meant to hide in your feeds and look like real content that you are interested in - but it’s completely duplicitous. Like the sponsored links in google masquerading as real sites, it’s just trying to trick you and gain your attention, and by doing so gain your money. It’s sick.
I don’t mind regular ads even - pitch me your product, sure. Just don’t try to sneak it into my life.
So my favourite thing about fediverse so far?
Haven’t seen a single ad. )
Totally. And I’m finding I even prefer the smaller comment sections- less noise of 1000 people saying variations on the same thing (like seriously…do people on Reddit not read other comments before posting?) and I feel like my comments are more likely to be read than just lost in the noise.
I love donating blood and do it as often as I can.
But with 2 kids in daycare it’s so often that my appointment comes and I’m some form of under the weather.
I’ve learned to just re-book in those cases, as if you say “no” to their questionnaire they don’t like you rebook for 3 months. So perhaps they should revisit their policy on that at least? No reason why having to take an Advil for a headache once should mean not donating for 3 months.