Actually, yeah I can. Every time a fucking bean-counter makes a living humans life worse at their job to save the company a buck is a great time to blame accountants for doing their fucking jobs.

Further cementing my point. If they’re not making new stuff and this deal gains them no new listeners: it’s a bad deal.

You, as an individual, buy enough of their stuff to support them month-to-month? How generous of you.

Now that the snark is out of the way: Clearly an individual doesn’t make enough money to do that, and if you’re the only new fan they gain that’s still nowhere near enough to make a living.

should’ve asked for a sliver of a percentage

I think it’s really clear that Rockstar is trying to avoid a repeat of past soundtracks and licensing issues and they want these up-front with no royalty payments to make in the future, so they don’t have to keep re-negotiating licensing (and having to remove/replace songs in old games).

I still think this guy was being smart for asking more, even if he asked too much. You’re right, he shouldn’t have high-balled, but he was smart enough to understand getting a percentage or royalties was probably almost assuredly out of the question.

Exposure doesn’t pay the bills.

It takes upward of 200 streams of a track on Spotify to earn a single penny. 20,000 streams to earn a dollar.

(For me and my personal expenses, this would mean I would need 40,000,000 streams per month to pay rent/pay bills/eat. I’m dirt poor and live a dirt poor budget. 40,000,000 streams to pay $1400 in rent is INSANE.)

That “exposure” can still add up to “not paying the bills.”

Also, if he gains no new listeners? He would have made a huge mistake not angling for more money.

This guy is being smart, and the rich just want people to THINK that exposure is worth it. Even Oprah pays in exposure and its bullshit. The company has got the fucking money to pay it they just don’t want to.

If they’re a 1-hit wonder, maybe that’s why they want more up front: In case they gain no new listeners from the GTA 6 soundtrack and continue to be a 1-hit wonder.

It’s like why football players have insane-sounding contracts: Because in the future they won’t be able to make the same kind of money.

Sounds to me like homie was smart and thinking long-term.

and there’s no way Rockstar is going to be paying $99 million dollars for just songs.

GTA V/Online produced $8.5 billion in revenue.

I mean, I guess you’re not wrong, (how else could they be milking it for this much money but being cheap?) but it still makes them fucking cheap bastards.

Despite that, I’ve heard from friends there’s been some major changes since the sale… and they’re not good.

Not live service, but an update broke a lot of stuff and people aren’t too happy about it.

They did, indeed, come out on top.

welp, glad I never bought Risk of Rain or Risk of Rain 2 then.

Fuck.

Godspeed, Naomi.

Matrix CEOs somehow not arrested.

Honestly, that feels like the beginning and end of this story.

Secure communications that are actually secure exist in the EU, are funded by the EU, and used by various EU govermnents (Germany and France have both used Matrix).

Tell me again how this is motivated by trying to get rid of encryption and not that this guy wouldn’t respond to warrants?

Signal and Matrix respond to warrants. WhatsApp responds to warrants. VPNs respond to warrants. They do their best to reduce the amount of information they keep on their users so that the amount of information they have to hand over due to respond to a warrant is minimal (Well maybe not WhatsApp). Often sites have “warrant canaries” so people can know if they’ve been served with warrants.

Tell me again, what’s different here? Because it seems to me like the EU is fine with privacy and encryption but they’re not fine with people ignoring warrants.

EDIT: And just a reminder, Telegram isn’t real secure itself. Homegrown encryption that hasn’t been audited. No E2EE by default, not easy to set up for casual user, and to my knowledge, still no E2EE in group chats at all.

This guy "As a black man"ed the whole disabled gaming community what the fuck.

He lives up to his name, Craven, for deleting all his social media in response to this.

Anyone who gave this guy a fucking dime needs to sue the living shit out of him for fraudulently misrepresenting himself as getting money to these disabled women that never fucking existed and this fucking chode just pocketed all the fucking money.

What a giant piece of shit. I hope someone knocks him the fuck out and people just leave him out cold in the street because fuck him.

I have never read much of game reviews and game news nor “top” listicles, so maybe that’s why I’m less aware of the critical acclaim.

EDIT: and to be clear, it’s nice to know my opinion is in good company and not weird.

I honestly only ever see people talking about FFTA, I almost never see people mention FFT for playstation.

Could just be me, but I don’t exactly run into lots of folks who are even aware it exists.

I’m weird and I have a real soft spot for the original PlayStation 1 Final Fantasy Tactics as well. Both solid games, imho.

Metroid Fusion and Metroid Zero Mission

Tav: Shouldn’t have wished to live in more interesting times.

Yeah this title wasn’t begging for a remaster.

It was interesting, at the time, but far more interesting, thoughtful, and artistic indie games have popped up since.

It’s artstyle isn’t as unique as it was on release, nor is the gameplay. It’s no small wonder it did not do well.

This guy must have been huffing his own farts thinking this was a good time and market to do it in.

It’s never been tougher for indie games, and people are outright bored by linear narratives. Braid is presented with events out-of-order but it still tells a linear story.

Much more complex narratives exist now, and Braid just can’t compete on that level.

Tom Nook is a rotten bell-grubbing bastard.

But its a cute fun game. I only ever played the one on GameCube and a tiny bit of New Leaf. I liked finding old NES games on the GameCube one and playing them on the in-game NES.