lol kickstarter is an even worse business model for video games, they have even less incentive to deliver if they get funded

They have a loooooooooong way to go

Yeah France remains one of the most productive countries in the European Union, so they must be doing something right

Here’s an interesting report on France productivity from 2019: https://economy-finance.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2019-11/en_1errapportcnp-10july-final.pdf

Braflix is awesome, it’s my default go-to

No I believe you’re being intellectually disingenuous, because you’re now paraphrasing the comment you responded to, to try and twist the argument in your favour, the previous interaction was :

• Russia claiming X means war with NATO has been a bit of a recurring theme throughout the war.

To which you directly replied

• Please do provide a previous official quote from Russia stating that. I’ll save you the trouble though, cause it doesn’t exist.

I’m not sure I quite like where this is going and I’m not in the mood for arguing over such a minimal thing, so I’d like to end the interaction here, see ya around !

Idk where you’re going with this, I just felt like looking for direct quotes, because you asked for any quote from Russian officials saying that X would mean war with NATO.

While stating :

I’ll save you the trouble though, cause it doesn’t exist.

Putin: NATO’s Approval of Use of Long-Range Missiles by Ukraine Will Mean It is at War With Russia

‘Extremely Clear’: Kremlin Comments on Putin’s Warning About West’s Arms Striking Deep Into Russia

Putin Warns NATO Long-Range Missile Strikes Will Put Them at War with Russia

Russia warns NATO of ‘direct war’ over Ukraine

Enemies must realize Russia could go nuclear – ex-Kremlin adviser

Do note that I did not have to look for “western anti russian propaganda media” like… mainstream news. These are Russian state sponsored news websites.

If you were to judge based on this list, this would be a poor year for video games

Finally! Now I can switch back to the “normal” Steam Beta build for other experimental features, Steam Family was on a separate beta build which didn’t allow me to try other things…

Zen Browser, love the split view feature, and native vertical tabs !

https://zen-browser.app/

He talks to them alright: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/politics/article/2024/09/05/far-right-given-kingmaker-role-in-macron-s-prime-minister-search_6724909_5.html

Marine Le Pen’s phone has rung frequently. President Emmanuel Macron has been asking for the far-right leader’s opinion. What does she think of Xavier Bertrand for prime minister? Nothing good. Le Pen has a fierce hatred for Bertrand, the right-wing Les Républicains (LR) president of the northern region where is elected. And she let Macron know it. So, the representative of the moderate right is no longer a frontrunner for the job.

According to the Elysée, Le Pen was to have her voice heard, like the other party and group leaders in the Assemblée Nationale, on the advisability of appointing the former Brexit negotiator to the role.

A pariah in the July 7 legislative elections, where the spirit of the “republican front” to block the far right was rekindled, the RN has now taken on the role of kingmaker. “What a disgrace!,” commented David Djaïz, former rapporteur for the president’s National Council for Refoundation

Strike on Saturday, that’s the only constant so far

If you’d like to know Barnier’s stances recently :

On 27 August 2021, Barnier launched his presidential campaign.[28] [for the 2022 elections] In particular, he wants a three- to five-year moratorium on immigration to the European Union.[29] He proposes to "immediately stop regularizations, rigorously limit family reunification, reduce the reception of foreign students and the systematic execution of the double penalty ". On economic issues, he wants to raise the retirement age from 62 to 65, increase the working week and tighten the conditions for access to social assistance.[30] Many media organizations noted that Barnier sounded like a eurosceptic and Brexit supporter now, a sharp turn form his previous positions.[31][32]

Well he’s shown that he clearly does not want to run a left wing program, and would rather befriend the far right than giving up his power. That being said, he could try but nobody from the left union trusts him.

He’s essentially stuck in a corner, the only thing he’s done since the results of the parliament elections is try to gain some time, it’s been almost 60 days of no government.

Yeah idk what else can be a testimony of a game being a “hut” ; I don’t trust metacritic scores either

Yeah I went to Wikipedia to check the numbers :

The group’s “main catalogue”—songs released between 1962 and 1970—consists of 213 songs

So that’s like 50+ songs that were “hits”, wake me up when Gearbox releases 200+ games and 50 of those are nominated for at least one awards

That was what I was trying to convey thanks for being better at words haha

I remember when gearbox released a video about working on ROR2 after they acquired the IP. The CEO or creative director or whoever was talking about understanding people’s expectations, and called them “users”. Not players, not fans, just “users”. I thought this was a good enough warning that they had no idea what they were doing.

I think it was this video but I don’t remember the timestamp : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzD3jWETeW4 the fact that this is barely a documentary on the history of the game and itself a disguised and for their upcoming (at the time) dlc was another forewarning sign…

On the other hand, since it’s Ubisoft, you’re guaranteed a 70% sale 8 months after release for each of their games. I don’t know why anyone would buy their games on release when they all get deep discounts less than a year later

Unless it’s because so many people fall for their scams that they can afford those kind of sales

This interaction reads like a tennis match

That’s a good analysis, the 5th republic and it’s constitution is completely outdated and has allowed Macron’s numerous democratic abuse