News Thread XII: Xbox Humiliation Ritual - Part 12 the 12th

Thanks to capitalism, despite making more money than movies and tv, nobody in videogames can stay employed or earn a living.

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Frantically trying to find out if the people I liked there are ok

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this was also a decade ago when all the players mentioned were teenagers and/or self-described heels all of whom also got backlash and reprimand for this sort of thing, so it didn’t last long at all. it’s been implicitly or explicitly banned in fighting game scenes since

not that i agree that would’ve been reason to dismiss the whole endeavor anyway

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you’d think the influx of Saudi money would be the primary reason to avoid fgc stuff

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Wonder if they had classic Namco style Pacman baseball art ready, because the little scaled down A logo on his hat that’s in a totally different style/resolution/not even lined up properly is making me laugh

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personal experience in games work has created strong correlation for me between compliments from a superior and impending layoff lol

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I hope this means they’re lowering the costs of digital games compared to physical games vs raising them. Please give us the early PS3/Vita era of pricing where digital games actually cost less :folded_hands: :folded_hands: :folded_hands:

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New Yoshi game is $70 physical and $60 digital.

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Noteworthy, this is only new for North America and was the case in Europe and Japan since the Switch 2 launched.

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oh god they’re setting up like a Mario Extended Universe™, aren’t they?

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April 1 tho?

we’re going back to the times of like old ladies in the 80s calling all videogames ‘mario’ but they’re making it canon

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that’s when it comes out is the whole thing a joke that’d be so good

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when i was like 4 or 5 i used to call Luigi “the Green Mario” until some other slightly older kid angrily corrected me “he has a NAME it’s LUIGI”

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the job market is tough these days — nice to see that fox can still find work

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I’m glad Starfox still has work

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hahaha when I was five this was me but calling all cure stuff ‘Robert Smith’

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