I'm glad this game appears to be so well received.

Did they finally make it so that all the skills in the skill trees actually do something? Or is that the next patch.

Better question. Why the hell would anyone still use Norton? Or any of the companies they bought?

Most people ditched Avast and AVG years ago when they started to suck.

This should be an amazing train wreck.

SO, Freedom Force.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Force_(2002_video_game)

So, as producer, he held a big public hosting search -- had on a bunch of people who were far more interesting and engaging than he was -- and then decided he was the best person for the job anyway.

This in spite of his history of being sued (successfully) for job discrimination and sexual harassment.

Great.

I'm just glad Bob Odenkirk is recovering. He is a goddamn national treasure.

Did Remedy add it as an 'Object of Power'? Or did the author have a Reed–Kellogg system breakdown while trying to find the predicate.

I can guarantee that if it hadn't been a major news item -- eBay wouldn't have done a damn thing about the Steam Deck scalpers. Despite being a terms of service violation for many many years -- they not only make it impossible to report instances of people selling things without a posted ship date (because they don't have, and never had the product to sell to begin with because the product has yet to be manufactured and shipped to the reseller'), they also ignore it if you do somehow find a way to report it.

Gotta get them listing fees, after all.

Hey, that thing we shipped? Yeah, sorry, we new it was crap when we shipped it. What? You want your money back? Sorry, I can't hear you, we must be losing our connection. I'll call you back as soon as we get through this tunnel. In the meanwhile -- here, have some loot boxes.

That certainly is a head scratcher. I was poking around their website going 'is this a licensed product? Why would Obsidian farm this out if they have Microsoft money to throw at it?'

Fake chips haven't flooded the China Market, they have always been there. They simply make up more of the existing inventory because everybody already bought all the non-fake stuff.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/238750/discussions/0/3115908865100513179/

80% of the disabled data has already been re-enabled by the community. Once they figure out how to get the DLC dungeons re-activated, then the problem will have been solved in spite of Ubisoft.

They bought it just so that when they close the place down, they can send out a memo saying Sony Nixes Nixxes.

Sounds like it could be cool. I hope they pull it off.

The sad thing is, he used to be a damn good writer. But instead of continuing to hone his craft, he just started to believe his own PR and his output went to shit. People noticed, and stopped giving him props for it, so rather than take that as a sign he should re-assess, his ego latched on to the nearest echo chamber to make himself feel better. At that point, the only places that would touch him were places who were too inexperienced to do a proper background check, or too stupid to care. And eventually he became so toxic, that even those places couldn't keep him on the payroll. So yes, he was a victim -- of his own hubris. And instead of checking that, he's doubling down, which will end well for nobody. Least of all, him.

Oh, even better. He apparently DID file.

https://twitter.com/dmschmeyer/status/1409064248446132225

And it is just as poorly thought out as his blog post. Oh well, hope he doesn't mind paying damages once it gets dismissed and he gets hit with an anti-SLAPP suit in response.

If there are receipts, evidence, and testimony that directly contradict the stories then it seems like this would be a slam dunk court case. Which is why Chris spends the rest of his essay talking in circles and patting himself on the back about why he never went to court? Kicker is, enough time has passed that everyone had already forgotten about this. He could have quietly gone back into the same industry just like every other shitbag who has ever been 'cancelled' and as long as he didn't fuck up in the same way -- nobody would have noticed. Instead, he did this. Pitiful.

Clearly, it must be that, and not all the free keys that appear to have been released.

Take the grind of Destiny 2, take away the guns and replace them with Monster Hunter weapons, slap on an inane story, a $70 pricetag, make it online only -- and you get this game. Some of the combat is fun, but everything surrounding it so incredibly dull that you'll never go back to it after one play session.