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  • Arkane was a tragedy, a company that made it’s name from immersive sims forced to make a multiplayer, live-serivce game was destined to fail from inception.

    I’d like to make this clear, I don’t like Bethesda for a lot of reasons I won’t get into right now, if there is one thing they’re still somehow good at is making money. Microsoft has never cared about review scores so long as their quarterly earnings were met/blown away.

    Bethesda does a lot more than make one or 2 games a decade, they’re a successful publisher and recently a questionable developer (personally hated Starfield and Fallout 76). They have more in common with EA than they do Bioware in a business sense.


  • No, Bioware was sold off by the founders to a private equity firm who eventually sold them off to EA, a company who even then was notorious for shutting game studios down arbitrarily. A sports game company that killed game companies for less, they were always an odd fit and the fact EA kept them for as long as they did was an anomaly.

    Bethesda ownership wise and structurally speaking has remained the same from it’s peak till today. They have plenty of more flops to give and probably won’t care or learn from their mistakes like Bioware because of how unique Bioware’s situation was.



  • Was in a similar situation with an Ex, she got super into insta, which on its own was fine but it was difficult to deal with how worked up she’d get for what seemed just so mundane to me. There was some new random cause or social issue every other day and every issue was black and white, just 2 sides, no expectations.

    It reminded me when I was a teen on FB in the early years where everyone seemed to be some form of slack-tavist. People seriously underestimate how much these apps and algorithms can effect others.



  • I honestly don’t get how so any people feel they have a leg in this race.

    Personally haven’t been on any of the major platforms for years, but as an outsider looking in, I blame social media. It openly encourages this kind of mob behavior and amplifes the most insane voices with reckless abandon.



  • Unrelated, your name made me chuckle, thanks for the smile.

    To the point, I’ve noticed that too, it’s so overwhelmingly obvious that none of the support she’s getting is authentic, it’s clear people are using this for their or culture war nonsense and it’s concerning as the precedent this case could set can have some serious consequences.

    It feels like a lot of people aren’t taking this seriously, the arguments/discussions people are trying to make around this can snowball into something disastrous.


  • It’s a weird situation, most insanity pleas are fought with the defense having to prove they were mentally unwell and incapable of being willingly responsible for their actions but because of the lead up to the crime, it’s being handled in reverse.

    She killed those kids but doesn’t want to go to jail and pleads not guilty by insanity so she wants to be institutionalized. The plaintiff argues she wasn’t insane and was in control of her actions due to how functional she was till the last minute before the crime would have been possible as she orchestrated the conditions to allow her to commit the murders. It’s an interesting case that’s getting muddled by the publics personnel beliefs and is also being co-opted for political purposes by right-wingers as proof the 19th amendment was a mistake.

    It’s insane to see how we even got to this point but it’s being compared to the OJ murders for a reason.



  • There is a tiktok movement that believes that despite all evidence and witness statements, phone logs, and surveillance footage that somehow the husband is responsible.

    This is supported by vibes, astrology and folk magic, it’s very strange. The court case isn’t even about who’s responsible for the murder, it’s about if the Defense has a valid insanity plea to keep her from jail or getting institutionalized.