If anything this is an overly optimistic representation of consumerism given that they limit work to 8 hours and encourage 8 hours of play

The point of that is to allow risky projects the opportunity to succeed in comfortable financial circumstances.

Risky projects are risky because there’s a potential financial loss to funding them. This is one of those times

Cases like this abuse the system to scam people while using the ToS to skirt legal implications. So it is fraud, just dressed up as a gambling.

If they put all the KS money towards the game unsure how it’s fraud. The fact that they couldn’t finish with the funding they got from KS is the risk that all KS projects come with

Again, it’s not a preorder site, there is no guarantee that someone who pledges on KS will receive anything. I’m just saying to adjust your expectations and pledgers should think about the risk when they’re putting down money

Kickstarter is not a preorder site. The risk of Kickstarter is the same as investing in anything else, that whatever you’re funding goes belly-up and you lose what you invested

Yeah this screams “Let’s use AI for the sake of using AI”. If they wanted simpler summaries on complex topics they could just start an initiative to have them added by editors instead of using a wasteful, inaccurate hype machine

They want cultists though. Easier to exploit

Heh, almost missed that the initials are BFG

The only real source we have is the union, as TCGPlayer/eBay are not going to talk about it.

Their Bluesky account currently has the same info, but maybe more will come out

Oh it’s undoubtedly going to fail, but it should milk enough money out of their users to keep them going while their investors cash out

The card art for this one was only used for serialized Elesh Norns so the number is just whichever one Scryfall managed to get scanned

What in the AI hell is that image?

I’m sure they’re less interested about buying Chrome than they are about buying Chrome’s market share

As a Forza Horizon fan my curiosity is piqued. I like being able to shift vibes from an intense race to just cruising around the landscape, and Mario Kart is a very different style of racing so it’d be a very different experience

MTG JP is doing a special summer promotion with The Wanderer and they want to advertise it. Japan is a huge market for CCGs but it’s also very competitive so they get special promotional stuff like this pretty often

People are reading the headline and assuming they’re talking about older single-purchase games, but the article is actually referring to mostly MTX-driven games that get continuous updates.

And the data further shows, in Newzoo’s own words, that these 908 million “PC players are heavily skewed towards older, live service games.”

Remember that even things like Rocket League are about a decade old at this point, and games like LoL, Dota 2 and CS:GO are even older

Except they haven’t actually backed that up with a way for you to jump servers. If the central Bsky server goes down, it takes the network with it. Until they actually let other people host, it’s just meaningless posturing. Without a way for people to leave their network you are as captive there as you are on Twitter

I feel like the opposite, while Opal was the straw that broke the camel’s back here, there are a lot of less powerful decks that heavily depend on it (Affinity, Asmo Food, Lantern Control, Hardened Scales, Hammer Time) whereas Breach is really only necessary in Breach combo decks. It occasionally gets used in Prowess or Ruby Storm but more as a flex card. It’s also just a busted card banned in several places anyways, it’s not like it’s a fair card taking the fall for something else.

I feel like it worthwhile to at least see if Opal can stay unbanned without Breach in the format, and if it continues to be a problem hit it on the next list

This deck isn’t living past March 31. The question is, what’s going, Breach or Opal?

It’s literally worse than piracy, since the AI companies are also trying to sell shittier versions of the works they copy from

Like selling camrips except done by multi-billion dollar companies ripping off individuals and stores are trying to put them right next to the original DVDs in the store

So according to Republicans the FCC shouldn’t have the power to regulate net neutrality but it should be able to force streaming companies to carry specific programming.

Time for some Satanists to start some public broadcasting?