https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribalism
it's going with the "us vs them" mentality mentioned in the post. and I see you with your self-upvote there, I really love kbin for that transparency

you either agree with me, or you're in the other tribe

I couldn't seem to find it in the article, but I hope it wasn't like I previously saw: silkworms being boiled alive en masse

hot dogs in your area

I remember seeing that some asian countries included plastic finger condoms with their chip bags. But that increased 0.0001 cents of added manufacturing cost per bag/can is too much for the rest of the world, best they can do is add more air in them.

I still go back to older consoles/handhelds because of some of their libraries, and, judging from releases, publishers do, too

high fidelity doesn't equal pretty graphics; it's just a chosen art style. the problem surrounding all this MK switch stuff is they had to compromise on their art style, and make it much much less cohesive with the original intent, to get it to run on the system. An MK designed with the switch as a high priority would be a very different-looking game

given that, 3/10 is still a meme score meant to drive traffic to their site

and, a final thing to add, I haven't come across any concrete evidence IronSource created malware since being caught, and haven't seen any concrete evidence of Unity containing malware. I just assumed they merged with them for the spyware and analytics software they fostered since then. Don't get me wrong, I really don't like Unity's business practices, but I don't want to hate them based on what could be lies spread by motivated actors.

oh, I'm pretty aware of the entire saga up to now. and the malware company created a malware suite in 2010, after which they did the typical PR spin of disavowing personal responsibility for by stating it was bad actors, and has kept their heads low in scummy digital advertising practices for about a decade up until 2022 when Unity brought them aboard to "synergize their tools" (paraphrased by me from the original announcement).

The current CEO was an ex-exec at EA that was taken on board at Unity at 2014, and another EA ex-exec also came over as Unity's CFO in 2015 (who was replaced for ambiguous reasons sometime before 2020). 2014 was around the time when they made many small scummy changes, like stop giving out lifetime licenses and altering the ToS in regards to existing lifetime licenses, and minimize dev support for recently-expired subs, while at the same time starting their pattern of frequent smaller updates to the engine after moving to Unity 5 - instead of larger, less-frequent ones (to work into their minimization of expired-sub dev support). It was around the time I swore off their engine after spending years of my life on it.

If any of this is wrong, I'd appreciate being corrected with more updated info - The CEO stuff I'm acutely aware of, but the IronSource+Unity stuff was only tangential to that for me, and after I already cut ties. I just don't like bringing all this up so frequently from how topical it's become recently; it's a sore spot.

Kiryu facing his internal demons in Silent Hill would be a chaotic mess of tonal dissonance. I need it.

"You'll own nothing, and you'll like it"

it really is that predictable

looks like it's just trying to get closer to the greeble in the pic