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The end of the Gamespot forums

Gamespot is moving to a new CMS (Wordpress), which is good for them, but bad for everyone who used the social stuff from the old custom made CMS that was made for Gamespot in the early 2000s. Aka, the forums. They are keeping the accounts and usernames for the new site, but any user generated content does not seem to be coming along, as they said they will be sunsetting them. At the very least, it's not happening immediately, they said there's a window of time, and they will let us know when it will be sunset. I don't think there's anyone at Gamespot left that even knows how to handle all the code that runs the social component of the site, which is why the new site doesn't even have them or link to them. It will likely be replaced with Fandom software (if anything). I’ll miss the social media aspects of this site like the blogs, user videos, and forums, it’s what I grew up in since 2005. I found the site through a Bellsouth directory when looking for videogames. ...

State and stupidity of Xbox

I’ve been seeing some defenders of Xbox and Microsoft say that closing down the game studios whose games underperformed is the right thing to do. I think this read of it infantilizes the executives and makes the people getting paid less than a percentage of what they make seem like they have real control. If an executive approves a game about a polar bear wielding samurai swords, then the executives will also make sure that their marketing department will launch proper support to sell the game, and their finance department allocate appropriate budget for the title based on market conditions and the expected timeframe the game will take to develop. The people making sure the polar bear can swing the samurai sword should not, at any point, be worrying about those other aspects. Bad executive decisions tend to fail. Good ones don’t. There is more to being a game executive than micromanaging a game studio, in fact, if they are doing so, then that means they aren’t doing the rest of t...

The Mandalorian Motion Picture

You know how the Star Trek movies at least tried to make it be more cinematic and do more, crazier, and important things compared to the TV show? This doesn’t. The Mandalorian and Grogu movie was indeed two-three episodes stitched together. I was hoping the critics and those who saw the movie before me were kidding, but no, they were right. There wasn’t even an overarching theme to the story. It was just three stories happening back to back, not even concurrently. But the puppetry and art was cool, they even had stop motion animation. It was indeed lots of cool scenes in the movie. Music was great too. The live action cinematography was really bad though, felt like it was directed by George Lucas with how many bland shot reverse shots there were. Every scene with Sigourney looked awful. In all, the story didn't have much going on at all. Even bad Star Wars movies like Rise of Skywalker and Attack of the Clones had stuff going on, even if I didn’t like and actively hated ...

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