GhostMatter

I was extremely worried about downgrading to a phone from four years ago, but it turns out I’m totally fine using it as my main phone.

Man, I don't feel like I'm living in the same world as the author of the article. All my smartphones have lasted me years and years, but they were flagships like the 11 Max. If they had been iOS, they'd surely have lasted longer too.

The thing is, it's pretty much Activision Blizzard's fault here. They destroyed the grassroots competitive scene to make way for the Overwatch League, but that took a bit more than a year. They could've found a way to integrate the existing scene instead. And that was just the start of the League. The game itself was mismanaged with the sequel taking way too long and being misunderstood (with good reason).

There were some many mistakes with the Overwatch League, that I don't think we can use it to generalize that much. ESports was a bubble though, no doubt.

I'm surprised too. This is Forbes staff too, not a random contributor.

Amazing. I am really happy to hear it ended up in the hands of not only a hardcore fan, but also someone who will share it with world in a book.

Recording my next fart would be a better use of energy than Bitcoin.

For me, Firefox has better privacy and more powerful extensions, particularly variations of tree-style tabs.

KHTML was the basis of WebKit and then Blink/Chromium, so the community did make something. It was just overtaken by the corporate projects, for those same reasons you mention.

Private Mode is on Firefox.

I just want the FGC (Fighting Game Community) to move off Twitter (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻)

"Advanced" combat in The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom.

Most of the time combat is a slog and it's the least interesting part of the games. I just get strong weapons and hit the enemies with them, or shoot them from afar. I don't think I even broke more than 5 shields per game, and barely did that slow motion avoid thing. It's much faster to just slash and slash, stagger, slash, etc.

Hell, a lot of the devices in TotK are useless because I can just slash or shoot the enemies myself. Tried them out once in shrines and that's it.

Minority share. Tencent does that a lot. Helps them get a foot in the door for later full acquisitions or potential deals such as the one here.

Went on this website for the first time today. The giant newsletter subscribe pop-up with 404 written in big letters made me think the link I used was dead. Went back to check again and finally understood that it was an annoying pop-up.

Let's take back the means of waifus!

Mismanagement and lack of direction sets a live-service game wayward. How surprising. /s

A lot of studios accepted the sale to Embracer because of the decentralized studio model. I hope they took into account the risk of a subsequent sale to a more centralized owner...

I recommend this Mastodon account for more retro ads: https://botsin.space/@gamemagprintads

The first time I went to their website, I left immediately because I got a big pop-up with 404. Tried again, same thing. Third time, I saw it was just a pop-up asking for then-optional registration.

Thankfully, they changed their pop-up design since then.

I've also been sick for nearly a year following a viral infection, though nothing wrong was found with my heart, so far. I'll buy the game in solidarity, it was already on my wishlist anyway.

Hell, I'm sure most inside the company disagree. If I remember correctly, accessibility teams at Xbox had events planned and were caught flat-footed when the news came out.

That's the case in many places around the world. From your "We need", I'm assuming you're in the USA?

My main problem with this is getting amp links in the results after.

Dave the Diver. I tried it but got it refunded. I'm certain if I had kept it, I would've regretted it. It's not relaxing or cozy, even early on. As someone sick who believed the "relaxing" hype, I was incredibly disappointed.

Afterwards, I even randomly saw a streamer just ragequit the game live because he couldn't stand more easy, slow puzzles. That just confirmed it for me.

Best comment here. Either exec (with overconfidence or deadlines), or security violation seem most likely. Surprising that it's for both platforms though...

So many studios sold to massive companies to "ensure their future" in the last few years, but now that the zero interest era* is over, they're being cut.

Eh, pas les petites tortillas "traditionnelles" au maïs.

There were just so, so many mistakes. Avoidable ones too. The pandemic was unavoidable, but the structure of the League made it more difficult to get through.

It's in the article. Web based stuff with REACT.

Edit: It's REACT Native. Just read the fucking article, people.

Good idea, I'll put it right by "Time Person of the Year 2006"!

The screenshot in the article said the reach was a few months old, last July.

Well, they tried new gimmicks! Like the Dream World, which was closed two years later. And, uh... that step counter.

I agree with this. Overwatch 2 is FOMO galore. It stressed me out.

With Overwatch 1, most content came back later, with exceptions for the charity skin and a few small things.

Tree-style tabs and customizability. Better Android UI and privacy.

Because this is the HP that's focused on consumers, that's their business. The enterprise segment was spun off in to Hewlett Packard Enterprise. They do have commercial printers, but it's not that much larger of a business for them than home printer, from what I can gather.

Do we really want old Blizzard back?

Personally, with all that we learned about the frat-bro culture there, I don't want it back. Hell, if it meant people didn't get abused, I'd erase it.

As if disabled people didn't exist.

I think it's okay, I would have voted against it, but they really need to be careful with their website design.

Wikipedia is your friend for quick information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embracer_Group

Beats Google very often, in my experience.

It's unsurprising, particularly the lateral move to DECA Games. It was an easy target for Embraced to cut costs, plus their last game was cancelled before release (Magic: Legends). It seems like the Cryptic engine would require a large investment to be used for new games, but I might be wrong.

Still frustrating, I'm certain those devs didn't deserve to be laid off. Seems they cut senior devs too.

I honestly don't assume anything about his role at Blizzard. His nickname was with Afrasiabi's on a World of Warcraft item. Also, on the game development side, the Overwatch leadership team's misguided obsession with making Overwatch into a MMO has significantly hampered the evolution of the game.

Anyway, better to avoid parasocial stuff regardless. I liked his updates and videos, and that's it.

It's the main reason I stayed on Firefox for so long.

I spent like a year or two using Chrome more because Firefox was having a rough few years and I wasn't much on my desktop, but that's it.