The satire conversation reminds me of an excellent old joke: a KGB spy and a CIA agent are chatting over drinks. The CIA agent compliments Soviet propaganda, the KGB agent replies "oh, but it's nothing compared to American propaganda". CIA agent gets upset, retorting "There's no propaganda in America!"
That twinkle Graham "I Love It When Corporations Sit On Their Own Balls" Stark gets in his eyes when he talks about corporations shitting the bed with lights on is very endearing.
If anyone in the comments usually doesn't watch the post-show commentary (hard to imagine, I know) be sure to watch today for the full-Checkpoint theme, a certified Checkpoint Banger~
I kinda want the post show commentary to always end like it did this video. That theme does indeed slap, but idk how well a call to action after free-form addendums flow.
Sweeney definitely strikes me a as a man with zero grasp of irony, and has already proven himself tasteless and disconnected so it's really not a stretch at all to imagine this happening.
I genuinely thought he had already actually done that one; it's so similar to the tone-deaf self-righteous martyr-complex bullcrap he's already posted that I've lost track.
11:00 this sort of thing is actually fairly common. I studied corporate finance at university 20 years ago and one of the things we were taught (with the evidence to back it up) is that when a corporate acquisition is announced the acquired company gains in stock value, while the acquiring company generally loses value, implying the market thinks the acquisition is a bad idea. The reason for this is that mangers often make acquisitions that aren't in the shareholders' interests. One reason they might do this is that diversifying a company's assets makes it less likely to fail, which is a good idea for executives, who have a lot of their own wealth tied up in the company's success, but that's a bad reasons for shareholders because they can diversify their assets far more cheaply by buying shares in many companies. It wouldn't surprise me if ego didn't play a big part of it too - executive want to expand their empire, and buying companies is an easy way to do that, especially since they're spending the shareholders' money to do it. While it's common to argue that a lot of publicly traded companies' more antisocial behaviour is driven by a desire to please shareholders, I think a lot of it may be executives acting in their own interests, as the expense of shareholders and customers.
I like how the Helldivers devs commit to the bit. They have a strong theming, so why not go all in. The timing of Helldivers popularity is especially funny now that the US elections are coming up. Who do they have running this time: Old giuy one step away from kicking the bucket and a convicted criminal that happens to look like a orange. What a thrilling lineup to choose from.
If you enjoy the Helldivers "bit" highly recommend the video "The Federation of Super Earth" by "The Templin Institute" its an in universe explainer or the federation with tongue so firmly planted in the cheek it comes out the other side. It's perfect.
The beginning of Dune notes "in politics, the tripod is the most unstable of all structures". If that's the case, maybe a reductive binary isn't the best way to handle the issue. I feel like there's another obvious example of that, but, wouldn't you know, it just escapes me at the moment. Oh well. I'm sure structural inertia won't cause any problems as it becomes apparent that our simplistic models are insufficient approaches to reality as we collectively grow and learn and use our newfound understanding of the world around us to better the lives of ourselves and our fellows to the mutual benefit of all.
lol. I have a feeling I'll be voting differently than most commenters here, but I too appreciate the hilarity (even if I think the convictions are absolute horse shit).
Putting in Bradley's music in the post-show is a great addition! Especially when done only in-context or when subtly informing us that the post-show is approaching its conclusion. The music doesn't overstay its welcome or interfere with the discussions, so good editing Heather!
On average mergers are bad for companies, but on average mergers are good for the members of the C-suite who push them through, and company executives have responded to those incentives.
That really is the issue with capitalism. The system in theory operates very well provided the incentives are to make things better. But the incentives haven't been to make things better ever since the stock market came into being. They're incentivised to run things into the ground.
@@ASpaceOstrich one of the many contradictions of capitalist production is that a company cannot ever make the best product they can, because the best product would not need to be replaced every few years or be impossible to repair, so big companies have always aimed to barely put out better quality products in order to kill their competition while avoiding them being so good that it pacts their profits. This has being going on since the industrial revolution, before finance capital, but it got out of any control as soon as the financiers figured out how to magically multiply money by inflating the perceived value of parts of companies.
@@fercanche2279 Mm. And marketing means its best not to put out high quality products. Any money you spend on improving quality your competition will spend lying to customers about how theirs is higher quality. Since it isn't practically illegal to lie about products in marketing. And thats not even mentioning things that they can do to increase profits that don't necessarily directly harm the consumer. Using foreign slave labour and underpaying foreign workers being the most obvious example.
The thing that scares me the most about embracer is they now own ghost ship games, and If they shut down Deep Rock Galactic the internet community is going to fucking riot.
It's like Stephanie Sterling says. Corporations are not satisfied to get some of your money, they only want ALL of your money, and anything less is not enough.
Regarding Apple's response to the Digital Markets Act: I got a good laugh this morning when, in a UA-cam ad, an Apple talking head tried advertising the app store to me - not, as I put it to the friend I was laughing about it with, any particular app, but the idea that using the *Apple* app store was the simplest thing you could conceivably do on an iPhone. "Big babies," was how I put it, so it's very gratifying to have that throughline carried over to tonight's top stories.
Though as fart as I am aware (which relatively little to be fair) nobody calls GitHub "Gub," but that is actually a Legendary Bandit pistol in Borderlands 2 which drops from the side-boss Laney White located in The Fridge. This has nothing to do with anything else in this episode, but Graham activated one of my special interests and as a neurodivergent person I am compelled to share.
The new switch emulator is Suyu. My name is Sun Yu. The logo for Suyu look like the ying yang on the korean flag. I am korean. This is all very surreal for me.
5:41 fun fact they are also trying to charge competing store fronts a 27% revenue fee. You know despite the 30% store fee being the whole reason the EU made them allow competing store fronts.
you could probably eat cake every day if the cake is small enough and/or has the right additives to taste like cake, look like cake and yet also everything you need for your day. On a more practical note, depending on the size of the cake you can probably still eat it without much concerns.
It would be great to hear that theme posted as a standalone track. Make a music video for it as a sort of Checkpoint promo, which also contains the full music from start to end. It SLAPS, truly rocks :)
I absolve Kathleen from my following statement since I have no idea what her history with business and commerce is. Maybe her misgivings about Embracer were super informed. Unlike mine. I feel like a crazy person. From the moment Embracer started their shopping spree there were just countless armchair business analysis all over the word, myself included, never mind literally everyone to have a gaming podcast (so +1000 right there. Mentioned mostly because some of them have HUGE audiences that would have also heard these opinions) all giving the exact same feedback. That feedback being: "This is bad. There's no way this Embracer thing doesn't end in disaster." I paraphrase of course. The outcome was obvious to everybody. Yet somehow all the common sense in the world means nothing in these situations and people are allowed to do these demonstrably harmful things with no push back. Because they have money. And this shit happens everyday at every scale. It's maddening! Why are the people with the money always universally moronic and unable to make good decisions? It's almost like their only skill is their own latent sociopathy and they just don't know what to do with their ill gotten blood money after they've got their hateful little paws on it. It's like mugging someone for your rent money then blowing it all on smack and ODing in the gutter instead of paying your rent! These business types are great at mugging people but then don't have the two braincells needed to not fuck up step two. And no one cares to stop them, because those folk who could are also weird sociopaths who don't give a damn about people besides themselves either! Blargh!
I mean most of your “Why?” Questions all have the same answer, the line must always go up, simple good business and profit is not enough, must always grow.
They're bad for the market. Bad for the consumer. Bad for the planet. Bad for the companies themselves. But they're generally very good for the executives directly involved and in some cases they're good for investors.
I always assume all the company purchase/mergers have nothing to do with what the purchase can offer, but is only about reducing competition and increasing their oligopolistic share of the market.
On companies buying smaller studios, what would make the most sense to me is that they expect to be able to sell it off later for a price similar to what they paid, and in the mean time, either the profits they get from them directly, the market influence they hope to exert, or the saved opportunity cost from denying a competitor the chance to buy that company would likely give them a better return-on-investment than other things they could spend that same amount of money on. The prices I see in headlines are just ridiculous if they don't expect the bought company to have some inherent value they can get back in the future when they're done with it.
The myth that emulators are illegal seems to be so prevalent that the emulator developers themselves believe it, so they keep doing shady shit, presumably because they think that they're already in a legal grey area? They really need to be aware they they aren't in a grey area. Like, they could sell their emulator on hardware in physical stores its so legal. Its like making a VCR or a DVD player or a photo album. Its perfectly legal to make something that can display or run media made by someone else. Even if that someone else doesn't like it. And yes, this absolutely applies to video games. Maybe if they aren't convinced they're already on the wrong side of the law, they won't keep doing shit that actually does put them in legal trouble. Though running a profitable patreon isn't one of those shady practices. Emulators are a product you can legally sell. In general, copyright law doesn't care at all about monetisation. That's a myth.
A cake conforming to EU standard would not be conductive to weight-loss. An EU cake standard would be likely to contain the phrase "minimum ratio of [sugar|butter]".
@@ClanWiEMonarchy is practically gone anyway. The King only rules on paper and is basically restricted to diplomatic engagements, ceremonies and being a living tourist attraction. The King has the power to reject proposals from Parliament but never has because by the time it reaches his desk it's firmly the "will of the people" (more or less) and doing so would probably spark a second civil war.
I just hope ConcernedApe is doing ok. Haven’t booted Stardew in a hot minute, but he (?) is working SUPER hard, so I hope he (?) is happy, and not staggering under the weight of expectation.
Sometimes the overbuying is a matter of having "too much" cash on hand and thus wanting to sink it into something else to diversify and have additional revenue streams. Sometimes it's a matter of generating news to pump up stock price to pad your own pockets even if it will never work in the longer term.
The fall of game companies is due to two things (which as also reflected in the general corporate world): 1) making the companies public, and 2) the philosophy that the only purpose of companies is to make profits for shareholders, not to provide value to their customers or (especially) employees.
With regards to the cake you would also very quickly find out about the extensive import/export paperwork required to get regular cake delivered to Graham. As the Brits have discovered to their chagrin these are almost (though not quite) as byzantine as the cake regulations themselves
That was immediately where my brain went as well. I looked him up just to confirm that it is indeed the same developer who gave his name+likeness to the character.
they said "Checkpoint will be out a day late, hopefully getting some late-breaking news we'd otherwise miss" (I'm guessing it's the Apple 'concession' being announced).
Part of me still thinks I shouldn't assume I could do better than the people in charge...yet, please, make me a fucking CEO so I can fix even ONE of the glaring issues they create. At least let me interrogate the auto industry leaders, because I have so many explanations to demand.
Eating cake for breakfast and not getting fat is possible but most people aren't into the daily amount of exercise needed to burn off all those calories.
Pretty cool large corporations can control how you use hardware you bought and own. But yeah it totally just a piracy thing. Not a problem that Nintendo refuses to provide legal ways of playing games on other hardware, and will make the work arounds illegal. Why wont the world simply bend to the whims of Nintendo? The law already has.
The satire conversation reminds me of an excellent old joke: a KGB spy and a CIA agent are chatting over drinks. The CIA agent compliments Soviet propaganda, the KGB agent replies "oh, but it's nothing compared to American propaganda". CIA agent gets upset, retorting "There's no propaganda in America!"
That twinkle Graham "I Love It When Corporations Sit On Their Own Balls" Stark gets in his eyes when he talks about corporations shitting the bed with lights on is very endearing.
Iannoise.wav
ok Grahams 'Trumpish' accent for the CEO notes during Helldivers 2 was hilarious
That got me cackling, not gonna lie.
It lives next door to Droopy Dog Bond Villain
THIS WAS THE BEST JOKE EVER, EVERYONE KNOWS IT.
Grahams Trump impression was very good. Please do not do it again.
Now I'm envisioning Trump+ Salesman Dave
Tim Sweeney does seem like the sort of guy who'd say "Fortnite not being allowed on the App Store is the civil rights issue of our time"
If anyone in the comments usually doesn't watch the post-show commentary (hard to imagine, I know) be sure to watch today for the full-Checkpoint theme, a certified Checkpoint Banger~
I kinda want the post show commentary to always end like it did this video. That theme does indeed slap, but idk how well a call to action after free-form addendums flow.
Where is the link to the full song to play?
@@jasoman3899The magic search term is "bradley rains checkpoint theme bandcamp" on your search engine of choice.
The idea of Tim Sweeney paraphrasing "First they came for..." is very funny but unfortunately easy to picture 😅
Sweeney definitely strikes me a as a man with zero grasp of irony, and has already proven himself tasteless and disconnected so it's really not a stretch at all to imagine this happening.
I genuinely thought he had already actually done that one; it's so similar to the tone-deaf self-righteous martyr-complex bullcrap he's already posted that I've lost track.
@@stevethepocket i mean he already did "where they burn books, they soon will burn people," so yeah ai also already thought he'd done that
@@outistynnanyt5153 That sounds familiar; I was probably getting it mixed up with that.
That full mix of the Checkpoint theme does slap! Coolest news theme I've ever heard.
I like the irony of Suyu company name sounding like "sue you", hope that's intentional, makes it even better as Nintendon't satire.
11:00 this sort of thing is actually fairly common. I studied corporate finance at university 20 years ago and one of the things we were taught (with the evidence to back it up) is that when a corporate acquisition is announced the acquired company gains in stock value, while the acquiring company generally loses value, implying the market thinks the acquisition is a bad idea. The reason for this is that mangers often make acquisitions that aren't in the shareholders' interests. One reason they might do this is that diversifying a company's assets makes it less likely to fail, which is a good idea for executives, who have a lot of their own wealth tied up in the company's success, but that's a bad reasons for shareholders because they can diversify their assets far more cheaply by buying shares in many companies. It wouldn't surprise me if ego didn't play a big part of it too - executive want to expand their empire, and buying companies is an easy way to do that, especially since they're spending the shareholders' money to do it. While it's common to argue that a lot of publicly traded companies' more antisocial behaviour is driven by a desire to please shareholders, I think a lot of it may be executives acting in their own interests, as the expense of shareholders and customers.
That full mix for the Checkpoint theme is indeed a good song, thanks for that.
I like how the Helldivers devs commit to the bit. They have a strong theming, so why not go all in.
The timing of Helldivers popularity is especially funny now that the US elections are coming up. Who do they have running this time: Old giuy one step away from kicking the bucket and a convicted criminal that happens to look like a orange. What a thrilling lineup to choose from.
If you enjoy the Helldivers "bit" highly recommend the video "The Federation of Super Earth" by "The Templin Institute" its an in universe explainer or the federation with tongue so firmly planted in the cheek it comes out the other side. It's perfect.
The beginning of Dune notes "in politics, the tripod is the most unstable of all structures". If that's the case, maybe a reductive binary isn't the best way to handle the issue. I feel like there's another obvious example of that, but, wouldn't you know, it just escapes me at the moment. Oh well. I'm sure structural inertia won't cause any problems as it becomes apparent that our simplistic models are insufficient approaches to reality as we collectively grow and learn and use our newfound understanding of the world around us to better the lives of ourselves and our fellows to the mutual benefit of all.
lol.
I have a feeling I'll be voting differently than most commenters here, but I too appreciate the hilarity (even if I think the convictions are absolute horse shit).
That intro to the intro music feels like the way a checkpoint made-for-TV movie would start if such a thing existed. Or made any sense to exist.
That was a pretty sick drop, and the way it is edited in makes Graham the most nonchalant DJ to ever do it
What Graham left out is that the patch notes from H2 also include an update that allows fruit trees to be planted by strategems!
When it Bradley Rains, it pours
Putting in Bradley's music in the post-show is a great addition! Especially when done only in-context or when subtly informing us that the post-show is approaching its conclusion. The music doesn't overstay its welcome or interfere with the discussions, so good editing Heather!
On average mergers are bad for companies, but on average mergers are good for the members of the C-suite who push them through, and company executives have responded to those incentives.
That really is the issue with capitalism. The system in theory operates very well provided the incentives are to make things better. But the incentives haven't been to make things better ever since the stock market came into being. They're incentivised to run things into the ground.
@@ASpaceOstrich one of the many contradictions of capitalist production is that a company cannot ever make the best product they can, because the best product would not need to be replaced every few years or be impossible to repair, so big companies have always aimed to barely put out better quality products in order to kill their competition while avoiding them being so good that it pacts their profits. This has being going on since the industrial revolution, before finance capital, but it got out of any control as soon as the financiers figured out how to magically multiply money by inflating the perceived value of parts of companies.
@@fercanche2279 Mm. And marketing means its best not to put out high quality products. Any money you spend on improving quality your competition will spend lying to customers about how theirs is higher quality. Since it isn't practically illegal to lie about products in marketing.
And thats not even mentioning things that they can do to increase profits that don't necessarily directly harm the consumer. Using foreign slave labour and underpaying foreign workers being the most obvious example.
The thing that scares me the most about embracer is they now own ghost ship games, and If they shut down Deep Rock Galactic the internet community is going to fucking riot.
It's like Stephanie Sterling says. Corporations are not satisfied to get some of your money, they only want ALL of your money, and anything less is not enough.
Yep!
Regarding Apple's response to the Digital Markets Act: I got a good laugh this morning when, in a UA-cam ad, an Apple talking head tried advertising the app store to me - not, as I put it to the friend I was laughing about it with, any particular app, but the idea that using the *Apple* app store was the simplest thing you could conceivably do on an iPhone. "Big babies," was how I put it, so it's very gratifying to have that throughline carried over to tonight's top stories.
Adding the music at the end was a nice touch. I like it
Though as fart as I am aware (which relatively little to be fair) nobody calls GitHub "Gub," but that is actually a Legendary Bandit pistol in Borderlands 2 which drops from the side-boss Laney White located in The Fridge. This has nothing to do with anything else in this episode, but Graham activated one of my special interests and as a neurodivergent person I am compelled to share.
….welp guess I’m doing a borderlands 2 run this summer
@@IncredulousPasserbyGreat game! Still active community too with a modding scene that is only growing.
Im going to be calling it The Gub from now on. Thanks Graham 😂
Inb4 "the Pub"
I absolutely love the little proud grin into the camera after Kathleen's Sea of Stars joke.
Graham, that's a terrifyingly good impression
Love it when post-Checkpoint is longer than actual Checkpoint
10:56 immediately thinking The Escapist under Gamur.
The new switch emulator is Suyu. My name is Sun Yu. The logo for Suyu look like the ying yang on the korean flag. I am korean. This is all very surreal for me.
If you're not afraid of Nintendo ninjas... You could apply to be the emulator mascot!
5:41 fun fact they are also trying to charge competing store fronts a 27% revenue fee. You know despite the 30% store fee being the whole reason the EU made them allow competing store fronts.
you could probably eat cake every day if the cake is small enough and/or has the right additives to taste like cake, look like cake and yet also everything you need for your day.
On a more practical note, depending on the size of the cake you can probably still eat it without much concerns.
It would be great to hear that theme posted as a standalone track. Make a music video for it as a sort of Checkpoint promo, which also contains the full music from start to end. It SLAPS, truly rocks :)
13:25 indeed, for the helldivers being too popular problem, that's when you need an actual technical consultant
10:33 💯it's like we've been doing the same tech bubble over and over every few years since the late 90s
Suyu? Keep your lawyers close at hand. I’m entirely certain Nintendo will do exactly that soon….
Excellent and hilarious "orange politician" impersonation from Graham
I absolve Kathleen from my following statement since I have no idea what her history with business and commerce is. Maybe her misgivings about Embracer were super informed. Unlike mine.
I feel like a crazy person. From the moment Embracer started their shopping spree there were just countless armchair business analysis all over the word, myself included, never mind literally everyone to have a gaming podcast (so +1000 right there. Mentioned mostly because some of them have HUGE audiences that would have also heard these opinions) all giving the exact same feedback. That feedback being:
"This is bad. There's no way this Embracer thing doesn't end in disaster."
I paraphrase of course.
The outcome was obvious to everybody. Yet somehow all the common sense in the world means nothing in these situations and people are allowed to do these demonstrably harmful things with no push back. Because they have money.
And this shit happens everyday at every scale. It's maddening!
Why are the people with the money always universally moronic and unable to make good decisions? It's almost like their only skill is their own latent sociopathy and they just don't know what to do with their ill gotten blood money after they've got their hateful little paws on it.
It's like mugging someone for your rent money then blowing it all on smack and ODing in the gutter instead of paying your rent! These business types are great at mugging people but then don't have the two braincells needed to not fuck up step two.
And no one cares to stop them, because those folk who could are also weird sociopaths who don't give a damn about people besides themselves either! Blargh!
I mean most of your “Why?” Questions all have the same answer, the line must always go up, simple good business and profit is not enough, must always grow.
@@nibblitmanY'know? In biology, when something strives always to grow uncontrollably, we call that 'cancer'...
*looks pointedly at economics.*
Late stage Capitalism and how it is burning down the world in a nutshell.
They're bad for the market. Bad for the consumer. Bad for the planet. Bad for the companies themselves. But they're generally very good for the executives directly involved and in some cases they're good for investors.
I always assume all the company purchase/mergers have nothing to do with what the purchase can offer, but is only about reducing competition and increasing their oligopolistic share of the market.
Remember G- it's only European approved breakfast if it's from the Cake region of France
On companies buying smaller studios, what would make the most sense to me is that they expect to be able to sell it off later for a price similar to what they paid, and in the mean time, either the profits they get from them directly, the market influence they hope to exert, or the saved opportunity cost from denying a competitor the chance to buy that company would likely give them a better return-on-investment than other things they could spend that same amount of money on.
The prices I see in headlines are just ridiculous if they don't expect the bought company to have some inherent value they can get back in the future when they're done with it.
The myth that emulators are illegal seems to be so prevalent that the emulator developers themselves believe it, so they keep doing shady shit, presumably because they think that they're already in a legal grey area? They really need to be aware they they aren't in a grey area. Like, they could sell their emulator on hardware in physical stores its so legal. Its like making a VCR or a DVD player or a photo album. Its perfectly legal to make something that can display or run media made by someone else. Even if that someone else doesn't like it. And yes, this absolutely applies to video games.
Maybe if they aren't convinced they're already on the wrong side of the law, they won't keep doing shit that actually does put them in legal trouble. Though running a profitable patreon isn't one of those shady practices. Emulators are a product you can legally sell. In general, copyright law doesn't care at all about monetisation. That's a myth.
A cake conforming to EU standard would not be conductive to weight-loss. An EU cake standard would be likely to contain the phrase "minimum ratio of [sugar|butter]".
That cake better respect Protected Designation of Origin!
Of course. I mean - you wouldn’t make a Black Forest Gateau using cherries not from the Schwarzwald, would you?
We Suyu so you can't sue us
Because the EU is primarily a trade alliance, the EU does actually have many regulations about what counts as a cake.
I had to laugh at the end part here. I was just thinking "this theme song is great." when I heard it.
Ngl, that Helldivers CEO tweet was fun.
I am SO!! mad at that Sea of Stars bit. Absolute top tier work.
G talking to invisible Kathleen is interesting
The theme song does slap! Can we have a link to the full thing?
Damn, rest in peace time splitters 4. 2 was my jam back in the day.
Would be nice if you linked the full version of the theme in question.
Euro Cake Standard is my new indie band
I miss being in the EU...bloody brexit.
Have you and your fellows considered revolution?
@@adcon00 pull a double-whammy and use it as an excuse to get rid of the monarchy, too
@@adcon00Ironically that's what the pro-Brexit movement framed it as. Because nothing makes people forget logic faster than blind patriotism.
@@ClanWiEMonarchy is practically gone anyway. The King only rules on paper and is basically restricted to diplomatic engagements, ceremonies and being a living tourist attraction. The King has the power to reject proposals from Parliament but never has because by the time it reaches his desk it's firmly the "will of the people" (more or less) and doing so would probably spark a second civil war.
@@adcon00Also we already had a revolution, specifically a civil war. It's what switched us from an autocratic monarchy to a parliamentary monarchy.
It does slap.
When Graham was singing the Theme , i fully thought he was singing Dr Alban - It's my life . XD
Algorithmic punch!
As a stardew player i was frantically trying to remember what Bile Titans could possibly be.
It's on floor 766 in the mines. Takes a few tries to get them to spawn, though 😂
@@KingOfDoma that seems correct honestly. Might need it to be while one of Mr. Qi's special quests is active
any days a good day when I don't have to watch Beej try to stare into the 4th dimension while giving self-justified rants XD
The European Union could really stand to share in a sense of fun.
Is there a link to the full mix of the cheakpoint theme song? That was awesome!
So can we like get that extended mix of the checkpoint song anywhere?
Graham does an incredible trump!
I'm british...and even though I've watched the video, I read that as 'Graham does an incredible fart' 😂
@@Bexahlia5933Still accurate.
Graham is actually just quite good at impressions in general - he's done quite a few just off-the-cuff here and there
No, More Leggy!
No, Leggy Down!
I don't play Helldivers, but I sure do appreciate the attitude of its developers.
I just hope ConcernedApe is doing ok. Haven’t booted Stardew in a hot minute, but he (?) is working SUPER hard, so I hope he (?) is happy, and not staggering under the weight of expectation.
When I play helldivers I like to run around and collect cool rocks
Sometimes the overbuying is a matter of having "too much" cash on hand and thus wanting to sink it into something else to diversify and have additional revenue streams. Sometimes it's a matter of generating news to pump up stock price to pad your own pockets even if it will never work in the longer term.
The fall of game companies is due to two things (which as also reflected in the general corporate world): 1) making the companies public, and 2) the philosophy that the only purpose of companies is to make profits for shareholders, not to provide value to their customers or (especially) employees.
Ok but where can one get the full checkpoint theme though?
embracer group does great pr for socialism
late-stage capitalism in general does great P.R. for socialism
Checking all the points!
Graham's portmanteau for Git Hub sounds like a Borderlands 2 gun, and it is a lousy gun for a legendary pistol.
With regards to the cake you would also very quickly find out about the extensive import/export paperwork required to get regular cake delivered to Graham. As the Brits have discovered to their chagrin these are almost (though not quite) as byzantine as the cake regulations themselves
I don’t even need Eurocakes, send Battenburgs
I will wait that 16 years for TS4!!! I will wait!!
Another great one in the bag.
I support emulation as I am jack of buying the same games I bought 30 years ago and that the games companies still want to milk.
Holy Hera, y'all could release a music album. That intro caught me. With permissions from the artist(s), obviously.
Where can we find the full Checkpoint theme music?
Shame about no discussion about Bobby kotick attempting to get a group to buy TikTok.
Any body know how to find the full checkpoint theme?
I did a double take when he said bile-titans were in Stardew. Apparently too many of them, as they are being reduced.
"Time to leave, Dr. Doak."
That was immediately where my brain went as well. I looked him up just to confirm that it is indeed the same developer who gave his name+likeness to the character.
Is there a place where we can listen to the full version of the theme? sounds like a good song tbh
Hey wait a second… it’s Friday
Daylight saving was last weekend. They'll make up for it in November.
they said "Checkpoint will be out a day late, hopefully getting some late-breaking news we'd otherwise miss" (I'm guessing it's the Apple 'concession' being announced).
So how can I get a copy of that song?
I was telling my Ukranian buddy about Helldivers 2 and he tells me that Russia calls the Russian style of government "managed democracy"
Part of me still thinks I shouldn't assume I could do better than the people in charge...yet, please, make me a fucking CEO so I can fix even ONE of the glaring issues they create. At least let me interrogate the auto industry leaders, because I have so many explanations to demand.
Eating cake for breakfast and not getting fat is possible but most people aren't into the daily amount of exercise needed to burn off all those calories.
Could be a naive take, but maybe giant, profit-driven, corporate video game publishers shouldn't be able to buy development studios?
BIG FUN
LLR soundtrack album?
Certainly not a pound cake, then!
Buying companies in huge amounts is sometimes used as a way to artificially increase growth for a company so it looks better for investors.
Anyone else going to search for “Euro Cake Standards” after that one bit, or is that not advised?
No, but I'm not gonna yuck anyone's yum - search away if you wish.
good show
Anyone else suddenly wondering if Apple was also pushing for brexit?
Wait so... Kathleen is sitting in for Graham and Graham is sitting in for Beej?
Pretty cool large corporations can control how you use hardware you bought and own.
But yeah it totally just a piracy thing. Not a problem that Nintendo refuses to provide legal ways of playing games on other hardware, and will make the work arounds illegal.
Why wont the world simply bend to the whims of Nintendo? The law already has.
Players could always front up the $$$$ for their own servers. Happens a lot with "dead" games.
Bradley did great music. What's he do now?
arrowhead going full "professional gaslighting" to the player base is never not funny.
**the Ministry of Truth would like to know your location** ;)
@@empath69 sssshhhhhhh, it's fiiiiiiine
also, Cyberstan