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The problem isn't really the "black vs. white" dynamic, but the fact that they are glossing over the fact that it wasn't just the local militias vs. U.S. troops, a lot of regular civilians also died during those days. Something that is almost entirely ignored within the narrative. That is a rather conscious on the part of the filmmakers.

Black Hawk Down is a fantasy, pro-military propaganda selling the myth of the "warrior brethren" to paint over the carnage which actually occurred in those days. A lot of regular Somali civilians were killed, something that is largely missing from the hurrah narrative.

Not a new photoshoot, but does anyone have the rest of this shoot? If there are more pictures out there, of course.

I don't care about Trudeau. In more broad terms, most companies won't want an employee or someone who is associated with their brand using the N-word. Of course the real bullshit is that Spotify is now pretending they did not know about this. Either they did not do their due diligence prior to giving him the 100 million dollar contract (which is impossible) or they are majorly full of shit. It's the latter obviously. They thought they could get away with it and only started pulling episodes after people shamed them on social media. Spotify is not a good company, but I already knew that due to how they screw over small bands and artists.

I don't know many companies who want to be associated with the use of the N-word...

This is one of the most stupidly misunderstood films in recent history. Remember that Trumpers boycotted it because it supposedly lampooned them. Meanwhile, if you actually watch the movie itself, the "deplorables" are the heroes and the villains of the piece are actually a bunch of bloodthirsty upper-class progressives.

Spotify has already yanked 110 podcasts off their platform in which Joe Rogan uses racial slurs. And probably more are to follow, since they had originally pulled only 70. So I guess they are going through his entire back catalogue looking for offensive stuff? Why exactly was this exercise not done when they originally signed the deal with him?

This game is getting some bad reviews because most of the developers working for the games company are white. This is beyond stupid. Also, how exactly is this supposed to work? "We have three Asian characters and two black characters, so make sure we also hire a proportional amount of developers/artists"?

I'm always surprised she doesn't have a much bigger profile. She isn't brand-new either.

Well this is what I mean. Whenever they have gone that route, it has mostly been to create little niche things. They have never used it as the core concept upon which their entire game is built.

Seems like she goes by Anna Blaze. But a reverse google image search does not turn up much.

That's why it's a holy grail. It is something that has been tried many times, but so far hasn't been achieved. Part of the problem is that most of the companies trying are smaller/indie set-ups. I think to make huge strides in this type of game-making, you would need one of the major companies to pump some real money into it. I do think we could already have achieved good things had more been invested in this type of game-making. Instead it is mostly used for stuff like world generation. And occasionally for something cool like the Nemesis system.

This is all bullshit on his part of course. There is no way little Zuck will torpedo his own company's stock by taking it entirely out of a 450 million people market. And if he did, one of his competitors would fill the void and would be more than happy to conform to EU rules.

Don't threaten us with a good time, Zuck.

I still need to play Origins. I had given up on the AC franchise, until all of the good reviews for AC: O made me give it a try.

I know but to me the canon protagonist is Kassandra. I much preferred the voice work. I also think Alexios works better as an NPC.

Did you play AC:O? IMHO, Kassandra is a far superior protagonist compared to Alexios. In general I find it odd to assume a game is going to be rubbish just because the main character is female. Or male for that matter.

The full extent of Gina' cancellation is that her character wasn't asked to return to a popular SW show. I also don't get her reasoning, TBF. Pedro Pascal is the biggest name associated with that show. I am going to assume she must have been aware of him having a trans sister when she made that bad joke of putting R2D2 sounds as her pronouns. Not insulting people who are in a position to make or break your career seems like pretty straightforward to me. If your boss is overweight, you wouldn't exactly make fat jokes around him, would you? Well you shouldn't make fat jokes anyway, but you get my meaning.

Who is this?

Women's breasts don't suddenly go up entire cup sizes at the age of 27. So if there is a noticeable difference - and I do think there is in some recent shots - then that is either an illusion created with the help of chicken cutlets or some for of augmentation has been done.

No Man's Sky is another example of a game that tried to use procedural generation as the entire basis of their game-play, yes. Well the golden grail of a procedurally generated game would be one that gives each player - and through each new playthrough - a completely unique experience. So the world is unique, the enemies are unique, the NPC companions are unique, the story is unique... A small indie game that has experimented a bit with procedurally generated story lines is Wildermyth.

What Whoopi said has no basis in CRT. It's part of much older, largely anti-semitic thinking.

Procedurally generated means that much of the game is created within the engine itself. Thus the modeling/animation does not have to be done by the video game creators, they instead create a game engine that does this for them. One early and famous example of this was Spore. You can read more about how they used procedural generation here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_Spore#Procedural_generation When Ken Levine left to do his own thing after Bioshock Infinite, he wanted to go create the holy grail of gaming: a procedurally generated game that still had a strong narrative (by using what he calls narrative Lego's). You can read more about that here: https://thenewsmotion.com/ken-levines-ambitious-new-game-is-reportedly-in-development-hell/ Most of the games that had used procedural generation up until this point have largely been sandbox type games that don't have much story. This is the direction I thought a significant portion of the games industry would go in in the past thirteen of fourteen years. Instead they have mostly continued to make games the same way, only occasionally using this new way of thinking. e.g. in the Nemesis system for Shadow of Mordor. But I believed that by 2022 procedural generation would be the bedrock upon which many games are entirely built. Instead it is still more of a gimmick or an afterthought. Especially with ever increasing computing power of the game machines, it would make sense that this is the next frontier for gaming.

In general I am pretty sad about the state of the video games industry. Ten years ago, I would have imagined that super-exciting stuff would be happening right now. Especially in terms of procedurally generated games. But the industry as a whole only ever embraced that development in a very limited way, instead doing things largely the old-fashioned way, only with ever ballooning budgets. Had they made better/different choices in the past like 10-14 years, the video games industry probably looks very different right now, even from a purely technological sense.