Pour one out for the people who worked on this game for like half a decade

It is genuinely unfathomable just how hard the culture industry has turned everything into slop. No one can tell me that music, literature and movies weren't better ten years ago and not still better ten years prior. And the consumer has gotten so numb and stupid that they don't even realize it.

you'd need to be a fucking soulless ghoul to ever consider playing dubai so like what

The real tragedy is that we don't need to live in a post-scarcity star trek utopia (which is a physical impossibility anyway). Everything any human could ever need is already in abundance on this planet. You don't need more than community, good food, and art. It's only capitalist ideology that deludes us into thinking we could ever need or want or have anything else. And it's capitalism itself that makes us unable to have these things and makes us unable to enjoy them when we have them.

Disney makes like a third of their revenue from their parks and it's like the only thing they've got that's still going strong with both their streaming service and their films being pretty big flops. Having to rehire and retrain 14k workers would have been so time intensive it would have been incredibly time intensive and would have probably forced them to close down the park for a really long time, not to mention losing thousands upon thousands in reservations, etc. Firing them was rally never an option at all.

wait a sec im going to try this on my year old suspended account

"our artificial intelligence has read every book in the world and is still dumb as shit"

I dunno, maybe the Pathologic games or something like Outer Wilds. It's just so incredibly rare in the videogame business that people with real interest in the world and things other than videogames come together and are able to make a game like Disco Elysium on their own terms, which probably also explains why the studio imploded so fast after it released. It's simply not compatible with the industry. And really, even classic "rpgs with good writing" like Planescape Torment feel like pathetic nerd scribble in comparision. Disco Elysium really is the only game that I'd consider to actually have writing that'd stand up to actual literature.

in 1945 facism was merely supplanted by facism lite now more efficient without the need for speeches or rallies

Within the next two decades, all of art and entertainment will be produced under three companies solely as loss-leaders to get people into their eco-systems. People simply don't have enough disposable income to support these industries and the money that is there is concentrated in a handful of big properties. It's basically inevitable.

Starfield is set 200 years in the future in a world in which we made earth completely uninhabitable and the two big factions always at war with each other are san francisco liberals and cowboy-cosplay libertarians. I don't think anyone at Bethesda even has the capacity to imagine anything other than 20th century american capitalism.

steal everything you can come on do it