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This is so strange. Wasn't it not long ago that studios were crowding into very specific release windows ( usually november iirc ) so they could maximize initial sales? Maybe the digital release era has changed things. I mean, I get it if your game was in the same niche or smth, but "companies might tank" seems a little much.

Either way, if this is true, eoy 2025 is in for a dry spell when it comes to new games.

Edit: Also I find it hilarious how all these "industry analysts" keep popping up suggesting ominous things despite Rockstar not saying a peep about the game besides the trailer. Almost as if they were paid to do it.

It's a good game. I replayed it a lot throughout its lifetime and wouldn't say they pulled an NMS or even some redemption arc, but they definitely fixed a lot of it, at least compared to 1.0-1.2, and they even reworked some systems. The storyline and sideplots have largely remained the same (thankfully) and they also added a pretty good DLC with a nice thick plot (albeit somewhat disconnected from the game).

Edit: It's fairy processor-heavy, you'll need a contemporary CPU.

Funny, I went blind into RDR2 and, not knowing about John's story, the epilogues felt so weird and out of place. I still can't really get into his story, maybe because on a subconscious level it feels like it broke the closure I had from Arthur's. But yeah, RDR2 really is a fantastic game. They nailed pretty much everything.

I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, this pretty much confirms that the leading parties have been colluding to manipulate elections. The ideal situation would have been him getting his ass whoopped by being voted out. On the other, there was a non-zero chance that he might actually have won.

Either way, the shitshow is not even close to being over. These parties make up 32% of our current parliament, and they're likely to grow after this stunt, so we'll have to deal with this crap again during the next election cycle, or sooner.

This is so sad. I thought the whole paper mail infrastructure was essentially eternal due to its importance.

Letter numbers have fallen since the start of the century from 1.4 billion to 110 million last year.

110 million is still A LOT of paper letters. Shame the service will be gone.

PostNord has weathered years of financial struggles and last year was running a deficit.

Again, I thought this was a national strategic resource, regardless of profit. Over here in europe's armpit the national post has been running at a loss for nigh on 40 years, and it's still kept afloat, for better or worse.

I would be tempted to say that it will now turn to shit, but in Discord's case it was pretty shit already.

The game is not without its flaws, but goddamn if it doesn't look, sound and feel fantastic.

Can't say I'm surprised. There were credible rumous that the US pressured our gvt to release them. Word on the street is that they "traded" handing these two over in exchange for the US shutting up about the arrest of the russian puppet candidate. These both happened in the same day, so there may some truth to that. Honestly this wouldn't feel like that bad of a deal - one manchurian candidate for two instagram pimps. It's immoral, cowardly and corrupt, but these are the times we're living in.

Just remember this every time a US official blabbers stuff about other countries' election interference.

Times square? Damn, I thought they were strapped for cash and barely profitable.

Good for them I suppose, but just remember that corps are not your friends. Even GOG is part of a stockmarket-listed entity that has fiduciary duties and can turn to crap in an instant. Keep your games offline and archived folks.

That moment when you're too far right for the far-right.

This feels like Romania, due to the general architecture and the fact that Uruses are goto cars for the "nouveau riche" over here.

Anyway, tell her to take great care OP. A 20yo in an Urus on romanian roads feels like a recipe for disaster.

I know there's some use cases, but it feels like they're pandering to smaller and smaller niches. But I suppose tablets are more and more niche these days.

And yeah, I know about the y700, it's a good device, but I've been looking for a nexus7-like device on and off for the past couple of years and find it fascinating that if you were to release it today if would blow most other tablets out of the water. A ten year old device ffs. Anyway, I mostly read stuff, so a 7-8 inch high-res budget tablet is the dream. I've done the compromises: a large tcl nxtpaper phone, an e-ink reader, a budget lenovo tab. They're just not the same tbh.