I think this interaction between Laimu and her chat really tells the best version of what 40K tells you about it's own setting: Laimu: Where is the best place to be in the 40K universe? Chat: Dead.
"what we lost" I love how efficient they are at creating and then running into the ground new dog-whistles, the absolute self-restraint-lacking freaks.
Man imagine responding to games including more women and non white/straight ppl or being about more than like 7 things as something being lost Like how much of a small minded bigot do you have to be
With 40k becoming more well known, these reminders of the fact that it isn't actually what some people want it to be are becoming necessary again and again and this one was delivered incredibly well, both in writing and actual delivery.
My favorite point is that the Emperor isn't a fascist but a noble person who desperate, frightened people tortured to make into a god even when he despised it and it's actively keeping him in pain and torment.
@@fredericchristie3472 I would not call him not fashist, that guy did repress knowledge and education among his subjects and launched a brutal war of military conquest against all other humans in the galaxy and extermination of all aliens, let alone the way he treated his own subjects, including the thunder warriors. But it is a pretty big point of the setting how, even with that, he was still not even remotely on board with what the game of telephone that is history in such a big galaxy made of him
@@fredericchristie3472 Ah yes, the dude who conquered *the entire fucking galaxy* with the stance "Obey me completely, or be annihilated", a very famously not fascist thing to do.
@@Stukov961 To be fair, this is a universe where every direction is full of things that want to kill you. (Which is also a fash worldview but whatever). Preemptive action against, say, Orks may be totally justifiable. It's at least understandable. The point is that the Emperor is way better than most of his weird fascist minions, and the guys worshiping the fucking C'tan :D .
@@softlyspoken4503 thought he didn't suppress knowledge and education, except of the chaos gods. And the rest was very much out of necessity. If he DIDN'T forge humanity into a single united group, they'd all have been wiped out pretty quick. His stance was basically factual, and not a personal threat. I think the message works better when that initial start is agreed to be necessary and then a series of mistakes lead to a horrible fall and then it all continuing, rudderless, into a dogmatic ruin of what it could have eventually become.
I'm so stuck between "oh no what a terrible state of affairs, human beings are using a creative medium to tell stories that have meaning and significance about their lives and experiences, what a terrible shame /s" and "lol this chump thinks WH40K isn't moralistic and political"
These are the same people who think The Iron Ork, Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka, is not at all even possibly a parody of The Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher. Satire tends to go over their head.
@@kizikucalegon8673 To be fair, according to the writer, that one specifically was a coincidence. "Mag Uruk Thraka" is literally just tolkien's Black Speech, and basically just means "Big Orc Boss". I do remember Warhammer Fantasy had stuff poking fun at Thatcher though, so its not like the sentiment isn't there. And obviously the Orks are based on football hooligans, which tend to lean fascist anyway (Hence the "Stormboyz").
"I had almost forgotten what it's like to be the target audience " says man who regularly gets 99% of what he wants but gets irrationally angry if he sees a rainbow flag in the background of one scene.
@@fra.cassiowhich is a blizzare take because farcrys whole schtick is "what if an American outsider fucks up this situation he was thrown in" instead of staring locals of the places it features
100% appreciate, respect and cherish your good community managers. I have seen far too many crisis' that could have been avoided because of bad or non-existent community management, and a fair number of great outcomes that only happened because they had a good manager. They can have more impact on the success or failure of your game than any other single individual and they absolutely deserve that raise.
Silver lining in the flappy bird situation is that it was picked up by such an obvious scam rather than a genuine attempt at a revival without the creators consent.
Man, Graham's/ cam's points on Warhammer are highly relevant because I've been thinking through exactly the same thing while playing. It is sweet as hell though.
More than the news stories themselves, I'm here for the writing. The outros, especially, have been so funny lately (I'm guessing Kathleen has been writing them). Keep up the awesome work everyone!
i feel like the artist who's art was used in a cutscene, the person that was in contact with the artist was likely laid off. because if i remember correctly shortly after the controversy the first round of layoffs happened
Please, for the love of god have Cam write more stories, his stuff is incredible, and I'd throw my wallet at my screen for him doing an entire podcast.
The Warhammer story did immediately make me think of the crapshot The Figures "I may be a brainwashed foot soldier of a far future regime so cruel and wasteful that's indistinguishable from the cold war parody it was once rooted in..." and "But that's not heresy, it's late stage capitalism at best..." Cameron's 40K writing is always a joy to hear.
Pardon me while I cover my ass. This is not legal advice. So I seem to recall a story in another TH-cam video about companies frequently just paying invoices without really checking what they're for. So if a large company like Hasbro steals your IP, just send them an invoice. Name your price.
@@angreed66 Nah, the whole gray area of it all is why most proper companies pay for the use of fan-created work. No one who is forward-thinking wants a class action pool developing that might result in it officially being illegal to use fan works without pay.
There were definitely Flash-based browser games that used the same gameplay mechanic which predate flappy bird. I used to frequently play one where you were a helicopter instead of a bird. Roflcopter, maybe?
Yes, but somewhere in there would be a link to tuberculosis and to be honest, I would be interested how within WH40k tuberculosis plays a role and how it contributed that WH40k exists as medium.
The whole Space Marine 2 story just reminds me that while 40k is fun, but also not very good at being the satire that it's intended to be. 40k is too interested in making you genuinely invested in character who are, unequivocally, genocidal mega-fascists. The mix of trying to make you genuinely like and be invested in these characters while simultaneously using them to parody real-world evil is a fundamentally dangerous mix, and a needle that 40k is genuinely not able to thread consistently enough. Like, you can see why fascists like 40k. They are failing to understand the setting, but the setting is also failing to rebuke them well enough to actually he very good satire.
I blame the space marines. 40k is filled with weird fucked-up factions each evil in their own special and interesting way, but way too often the camera is fixed on the shiniest most special boys in the universe stomping the faces of the few factions who are obviously worse than the empire of man. Can strongly recommend Mechanicus as a 40k game that is not that.
It turns out that when placed in the hands of a publicly-licensed company catering to the whims of their shareholders, satire forgoes its subversiveness to garner larger consumer appeal! :D
Graham speaks so confidently I wondered why he never participated in Kill Team. Then I remembered Cameron exists. Don’t spoil that Marneus Calgar shows up, Cameron!
The comment on the asmonmold video has been confirmed to not be the person they stated as he tweeted from his official twitter account saying it wasn't him
“I had almost forgotten what it’s like to be the target audience” says the white male gaming TH-camr. Wonder what color the clouds are in Asmoneffoff's world?
Asmomgold is… weird to me, because josh strife Hayes seems to like him, but I like Hayes, and I can’t get into asmon, and then also this story? Can someone summarise his thing for me? XC
@@The_Murder_Party Asmongold is one of the gamergate people complaining about woke games and waging culture wars against inclusion of non-white and non-straight characters or any female character who has the audacity to look like a normal woman instead of a sex object in games.
To be fair to him, a) games have also been alienating to older gamers these days (I don't play a lot of AAA stuff because it just isn't hitting) and b) there has been a lot of (well-needed and great) improvements in diversity. And when you're used to being 100% of a target demo, being merely an oversized one is actually really hard to get used to. Doesn't excuse being clueless and unreflective and also sort of fashy though.
@@The_Murder_Party one of his teeth fell out during a stream and instead of going to the dentist he threw it on the floor and smeared the resulting blood all over his wall. which he didn't clean. to sum it up, that boy ain't right
Thank you Checkpoint for adding the phrase “A person I have only ever learned about against my will” to my stock vocabulary. That’s gonna get a lot of use.
Hearing about everyone from Annapurna Interactive leaving together really reminds me of the worker solidarity when all of Deadspin quit. Whoever wrote the lower third for the Flappy Bird story (I assume Beej), I get that reference
The reason I actually initially quit destiny a year ago was because their then-current community manager (hippy) who wrote the dev blogs was fired at a really awful time in the first wave of layoffs. I loved those dev posts, they kept me connected to the game when I wasn't playing, and frankly firing a community manager paints a pretty bad picture on the wall. I hate being proven right about things that suck.
A large part of that role is to be a canary in a coal mine, and that pendulum swings both ways. If the team is firing an actually good community manager, then trouble is ahead.
While I agree that the Australian Govt changes are largely okay here, the R rating one is a little bit... nuance deaf in how far it reaches, but even that isn't really the problem. The trouble is that currently they're all on a "Please won't somebody think of the children" bend, and most of what they're considering won't be as inoffensive as these ones. Ready yourself for the Checkpoint story in six months where "New Animal Crossing game earns R rating in Australia for "bell betting on high low card game"
Yeah, my first thought was "oh great, it will be impossible to buy a ton of stuff in australia now because companies just don't bother when theres an R rating" and my second thought was "or they'll do an australian version where they literally delete that part of the game, which isn't much better". The warning is perfect. The mandatory R rating for literally any game with anything that even vaguely resembles gambling (which is going to be a massive chunk of games) is ridiculous. Especially given they won't ban sports betting which is a national disease.
No game was ever improved with the addition of fake real gambling. If you have to do it to progress then you're wasting my time using statistics. If there's nothing worth winning from it then you wasted your time adding it to your game. So I'm not sad to hear that devs now have a real reason to avoid putting it in their games.
@@TheEvilCheesecake The classic pokemon games would have been worse without it. Balatro is built entirely on fake gambling, and the poker/other minigames in Red Dead 2 are a fun diversion. I'm sure there are plenty of other examples.
My knowing nook is really just a library that's been sized down for apartment living. Look? Oh no, don't look at it, you'll see my piles of shamefully not yet read books.
After the "prevent your homeland from being overrun by bugs" line, I've decided that Space Marine 2 is actually useful propaganda against spotted lanternflies
Speaking of gambling I remember a Sega Megadrive game from Japan that the final challenge of the gambling game was to go into small tent and bet on russian roulette with yourself. You had to have at least $1million to play. The game 100% ended if you lost.
Other story which of course broke on Thursday (again, to avoid Checkpoint) was Maxis deciding what the Sims community is really after was Roblox like monitisation
Excellent! And yeah, getting addicted is generally sad. I would say there was one good time where I dove into WoW to keep myself busy and away from problematic people. It kept me calm and saving money instead of listening to vapid lies.
The thing is, the first time a company pulls a stunt like Unity did with the runtime fee you should try to get into a new platform / engine if you can (something often far easier said than done.) Partly because the terms themselves were completely egregious but also because once it has happened once you have to assume it WILL happen again, and ultimately be even worse down the road
Which half of the business do you think will survive? The ones who only want to earn money? Or the ones who created some of the most unique and high quality media of the last decade?
@@TheEvilCheesecake Honestly, ask me that question two/three years ago, when I was in the minority of people's thinking; The greedy ones. However, this year in particular, it feels like for SOME bloody reason people are FINALLY starting to wizen up to this shit and actually be upset with it, and in turn, not allow, or buy garbage games that don't respect them. Look at the state of Destiny, It's always had a trickle of players leaving for Warframe, but since the last Expansion dropped it feels like more players than every have been leaving Destiny in an exodus.
I believe the "working with my predecessor" line from the new Flappy Bird people refers to working with Kek, the person who made the game that Flappy Bird is probably based on. This is not me defending all of the garbage surrounding this.
Remember folks: The same kind of person who supports your every piece of content by sheer virtue of it being yours, shoves every penny they have into your merch, and viciously fights your detractors on social media... is usually also the person who most wants to cut off your toes as a keep-sake.
Note: Due to some scheduling requirements we recorded a day early this week and the Nintendo/PocketPair story hadn’t dropped yet!
Classic Dodging CheckPoint move
I hope someone will explain it in depth next week?
Can’t wait till next week’s hot take on it 😊 Wondering what side Beej will fall on. Is he on big Nintendo’s payroll? Who is to say….
I just wanted to note that I'm pretty sure everyone finds out Asmongold exists against their will.
can't believe they pulled a unity on you
I think this interaction between Laimu and her chat really tells the best version of what 40K tells you about it's own setting:
Laimu: Where is the best place to be in the 40K universe?
Chat: Dead.
I remember when flappybird was hated on its own merits.
😂
Ah yes a simpler time of our youth.
"...the end of the video, which is coming up at the end of the video."
Sage words Graham.
🙂↕️
You can really tell he's a professional with years of experience
Another episode of "Starkly based Graham" and "Say it Lauder Cameron!"
That Warhammer story was SO good, big kudos to Cameron for that one!
That was really good!
I'd strongly recommend everyone watch Cameron's recent Darktide streams for some of the most thoughtful musings on 40K you'll find anywhere.
truly good stuff.
Good
It was a good Hamwarmer story.
"what we lost" I love how efficient they are at creating and then running into the ground new dog-whistles, the absolute self-restraint-lacking freaks.
Man imagine responding to games including more women and non white/straight ppl or being about more than like 7 things as something being lost
Like how much of a small minded bigot do you have to be
With 40k becoming more well known, these reminders of the fact that it isn't actually what some people want it to be are becoming necessary again and again and this one was delivered incredibly well, both in writing and actual delivery.
My favorite point is that the Emperor isn't a fascist but a noble person who desperate, frightened people tortured to make into a god even when he despised it and it's actively keeping him in pain and torment.
@@fredericchristie3472 I would not call him not fashist, that guy did repress knowledge and education among his subjects and launched a brutal war of military conquest against all other humans in the galaxy and extermination of all aliens, let alone the way he treated his own subjects, including the thunder warriors. But it is a pretty big point of the setting how, even with that, he was still not even remotely on board with what the game of telephone that is history in such a big galaxy made of him
@@fredericchristie3472 Ah yes, the dude who conquered *the entire fucking galaxy* with the stance "Obey me completely, or be annihilated", a very famously not fascist thing to do.
@@Stukov961 To be fair, this is a universe where every direction is full of things that want to kill you. (Which is also a fash worldview but whatever). Preemptive action against, say, Orks may be totally justifiable. It's at least understandable.
The point is that the Emperor is way better than most of his weird fascist minions, and the guys worshiping the fucking C'tan :D .
@@softlyspoken4503 thought he didn't suppress knowledge and education, except of the chaos gods.
And the rest was very much out of necessity. If he DIDN'T forge humanity into a single united group, they'd all have been wiped out pretty quick. His stance was basically factual, and not a personal threat.
I think the message works better when that initial start is agreed to be necessary and then a series of mistakes lead to a horrible fall and then it all continuing, rudderless, into a dogmatic ruin of what it could have eventually become.
"Everything I have learned about Asmongold has been against my will" Me too G, me too.
Asmongold, the reason I side eye anyone who's a big fan of Moistkritical (I do not know enough about either man to consistently tell them apart)
Same! 😢
And G isn't helping me not know things!
Re: "I forgot what it felt like to be the target audience"
THERE'S A NEW 40K GAME EVERY WEEK WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT
In fairness most of them are terrible :p
Cam could honestly write an entire media analysis video essay channel and he'd be fantastic at it.
I'm so stuck between "oh no what a terrible state of affairs, human beings are using a creative medium to tell stories that have meaning and significance about their lives and experiences, what a terrible shame /s" and "lol this chump thinks WH40K isn't moralistic and political"
That is a pair of moods and I'm here for both of them at the same time.
These are the same people who think The Iron Ork, Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka, is not at all even possibly a parody of The Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher. Satire tends to go over their head.
@@kizikucalegon8673 To be fair, according to the writer, that one specifically was a coincidence. "Mag Uruk Thraka" is literally just tolkien's Black Speech, and basically just means "Big Orc Boss". I do remember Warhammer Fantasy had stuff poking fun at Thatcher though, so its not like the sentiment isn't there. And obviously the Orks are based on football hooligans, which tend to lean fascist anyway (Hence the "Stormboyz").
Thank you Nelson and Cameron for your awesome contributions!
"I had almost forgotten what it's like to be the target audience " says man who regularly gets 99% of what he wants but gets irrationally angry if he sees a rainbow flag in the background of one scene.
It reminds me of when FarCry 5 came out and there were people saying "there are no games being made for Americans anymore".
Is that also Asmongold
@@fra.cassiowhich is a blizzare take because farcrys whole schtick is "what if an American outsider fucks up this situation he was thrown in" instead of staring locals of the places it features
Also, like, asmogold is basically an alt right videogame grifter at this point so what's there to be expected
Gold and Beast are two youtubers I only learned of against my will and wish to forget.
Man, Checkpoint is so cool. I don't have a smarter comment, I just think everyone should know.
I am blessed with the knowledge imparted to me by this comment.
100% appreciate, respect and cherish your good community managers. I have seen far too many crisis' that could have been avoided because of bad or non-existent community management, and a fair number of great outcomes that only happened because they had a good manager. They can have more impact on the success or failure of your game than any other single individual and they absolutely deserve that raise.
Oh no, I said Warhams. That's what I call Warhammer.
You call Warhammer 'Warhams'?
So if Warhammer created a steampunk game it would be Steamed Warhams?
"Did I do it wrong?"
No, Graham, you did it perfectly. Again.
Charlie Kirk's small-faced attempt to turn "weird" around on Tim Walz is just more proof of how much that accusation bothers them.
*Graham reads the stage direction*
Some say you can still hear Kevin Sorbo screaming "DISAPPOINTED" to this very day
no that's just me every time i'm forced to read something the Sorbo has hammered into his twitter.
@@TheEvilCheesecake Facts. Its a shame how he turned out.
Silver lining in the flappy bird situation is that it was picked up by such an obvious scam rather than a genuine attempt at a revival without the creators consent.
Man, Graham's/ cam's points on Warhammer are highly relevant because I've been thinking through exactly the same thing while playing.
It is sweet as hell though.
More than the news stories themselves, I'm here for the writing. The outros, especially, have been so funny lately (I'm guessing Kathleen has been writing them). Keep up the awesome work everyone!
Was not expecting to see my governor in a gaming news item. Or that he is a gamer with good taste.
I truly appreciate the niche BC ferries humour for us Island residents.
I sometimes forget that they are from where I am from, and then they drop a reference like this and I remember
i feel like the artist who's art was used in a cutscene, the person that was in contact with the artist was likely laid off. because if i remember correctly shortly after the controversy the first round of layoffs happened
Yea, the laid off lawyer was the one that was calling out Bungo, and mentioned he was going to work on it when layoffs happened
Lots of "Privileged Manchild doesn't fuckin' get it" headlines this episode
That man was strong to give up on Flappy Bird.
*laughing* "Ahahah...stop!"
"No."
What a beautiful relationship. :-D
Please, for the love of god have Cam write more stories, his stuff is incredible, and I'd throw my wallet at my screen for him doing an entire podcast.
The Daily Show and Checkpoint are also both Emmy winners!
Wait, no
They should be
I LOVE when people whose content I love come together and write for the same show!
What luck that you work at the same company anyway!
The Warhammer story did immediately make me think of the crapshot The Figures "I may be a brainwashed foot soldier of a far future regime so cruel and wasteful that's indistinguishable from the cold war parody it was once rooted in..." and "But that's not heresy, it's late stage capitalism at best..." Cameron's 40K writing is always a joy to hear.
Now that ya'll have a full week to write it, I'm expecting 151 Puns for the Palworld story next Checkpoint
Pardon me while I cover my ass. This is not legal advice. So I seem to recall a story in another TH-cam video about companies frequently just paying invoices without really checking what they're for. So if a large company like Hasbro steals your IP, just send them an invoice. Name your price.
Except that fanart lies in the grey area where the legal basis is closer to the company owning all that fanart as derivative works.
@@angreed66 Nah, the whole gray area of it all is why most proper companies pay for the use of fan-created work. No one who is forward-thinking wants a class action pool developing that might result in it officially being illegal to use fan works without pay.
Gun to my head: I coulda sworn Flappy Bird was from, like, 2006 or something.
Maybe other people had a touch screen phone in '06, I certainly did not
@@voland6846 I mean, neither did I. Time is weird.
@@stephenbradford8524 time is a weird soup!
There were definitely Flash-based browser games that used the same gameplay mechanic which predate flappy bird. I used to frequently play one where you were a helicopter instead of a bird. Roflcopter, maybe?
The writing and delivery of the Warhammer story felt like something John Green would say after learning about the setting.
Yes, but somewhere in there would be a link to tuberculosis and to be honest, I would be interested how within WH40k tuberculosis plays a role and how it contributed that WH40k exists as medium.
John Green and Cam do have pretty similar existential vibes.
The whole Space Marine 2 story just reminds me that while 40k is fun, but also not very good at being the satire that it's intended to be.
40k is too interested in making you genuinely invested in character who are, unequivocally, genocidal mega-fascists. The mix of trying to make you genuinely like and be invested in these characters while simultaneously using them to parody real-world evil is a fundamentally dangerous mix, and a needle that 40k is genuinely not able to thread consistently enough.
Like, you can see why fascists like 40k. They are failing to understand the setting, but the setting is also failing to rebuke them well enough to actually he very good satire.
I mean, it's only failing because it isn't trying.
I blame the space marines. 40k is filled with weird fucked-up factions each evil in their own special and interesting way, but way too often the camera is fixed on the shiniest most special boys in the universe stomping the faces of the few factions who are obviously worse than the empire of man. Can strongly recommend Mechanicus as a 40k game that is not that.
It turns out that when placed in the hands of a publicly-licensed company catering to the whims of their shareholders, satire forgoes its subversiveness to garner larger consumer appeal! :D
Don't blame me. I play Space Orks. We're just out looking for a good scrap.
40k is media soup, so it's not very surprising it can't hold up a a true satire.
I love Kathleen casually being a real G
Graham speaks so confidently I wondered why he never participated in Kill Team. Then I remembered Cameron exists. Don’t spoil that Marneus Calgar shows up, Cameron!
It amazes me how these keep getting funnier every week
Nintendo obviously taking notes from Unity, ducking the scathing gaze of Checkpoint with their dodgy lawyer actions.
i never thought i'd hear kirkboy's name uttered on checkpoint
“Funny but slightly uncomfortable” is what I am here for!
The comment on the asmonmold video has been confirmed to not be the person they stated as he tweeted from his official twitter account saying it wasn't him
“I had almost forgotten what it’s like to be the target audience” says the white male gaming TH-camr. Wonder what color the clouds are in Asmoneffoff's world?
Asmomgold is… weird to me, because josh strife Hayes seems to like him, but I like Hayes, and I can’t get into asmon, and then also this story? Can someone summarise his thing for me? XC
"I am feel uncomfortable when we are not about me?"
- Assmonagold probably
@@The_Murder_Party Asmongold is one of the gamergate people complaining about woke games and waging culture wars against inclusion of non-white and non-straight characters or any female character who has the audacity to look like a normal woman instead of a sex object in games.
To be fair to him, a) games have also been alienating to older gamers these days (I don't play a lot of AAA stuff because it just isn't hitting) and b) there has been a lot of (well-needed and great) improvements in diversity. And when you're used to being 100% of a target demo, being merely an oversized one is actually really hard to get used to.
Doesn't excuse being clueless and unreflective and also sort of fashy though.
@@The_Murder_Party one of his teeth fell out during a stream and instead of going to the dentist he threw it on the floor and smeared the resulting blood all over his wall. which he didn't clean. to sum it up, that boy ain't right
That Crazy Taxi mod looks sick.
Thank you Checkpoint for adding the phrase “A person I have only ever learned about against my will” to my stock vocabulary. That’s gonna get a lot of use.
Hearing about everyone from Annapurna Interactive leaving together really reminds me of the worker solidarity when all of Deadspin quit.
Whoever wrote the lower third for the Flappy Bird story (I assume Beej), I get that reference
Cam's 40k story knocked my socks off, I loved that and am now going to re-watch it with several friends once they become available. 10/10
The reason I actually initially quit destiny a year ago was because their then-current community manager (hippy) who wrote the dev blogs was fired at a really awful time in the first wave of layoffs. I loved those dev posts, they kept me connected to the game when I wasn't playing, and frankly firing a community manager paints a pretty bad picture on the wall. I hate being proven right about things that suck.
A large part of that role is to be a canary in a coal mine, and that pendulum swings both ways. If the team is firing an actually good community manager, then trouble is ahead.
While I agree that the Australian Govt changes are largely okay here, the R rating one is a little bit... nuance deaf in how far it reaches, but even that isn't really the problem. The trouble is that currently they're all on a "Please won't somebody think of the children" bend, and most of what they're considering won't be as inoffensive as these ones.
Ready yourself for the Checkpoint story in six months where "New Animal Crossing game earns R rating in Australia for "bell betting on high low card game"
Yeah, my first thought was "oh great, it will be impossible to buy a ton of stuff in australia now because companies just don't bother when theres an R rating" and my second thought was "or they'll do an australian version where they literally delete that part of the game, which isn't much better".
The warning is perfect. The mandatory R rating for literally any game with anything that even vaguely resembles gambling (which is going to be a massive chunk of games) is ridiculous. Especially given they won't ban sports betting which is a national disease.
@@ASpaceOstrich "Gambling? I'm out!"
No game was ever improved with the addition of fake real gambling. If you have to do it to progress then you're wasting my time using statistics. If there's nothing worth winning from it then you wasted your time adding it to your game. So I'm not sad to hear that devs now have a real reason to avoid putting it in their games.
@@TheEvilCheesecake The classic pokemon games would have been worse without it. Balatro is built entirely on fake gambling, and the poker/other minigames in Red Dead 2 are a fun diversion. I'm sure there are plenty of other examples.
Conservatives and failing to understand media, name a more iconic duo.
Conservatives and casual racism >_>
Christians and responding "what a load of liberal garbage" when presented with a quote of something Jesus said in the bible.
Conservatives and voting against their own interests.
Conservatives and accusing people of doing things that they are doing themselves?
I'm convinced that the one consistent conservative aspect across all cultures and nations is a complete lack of media literacy.
Great stinger on this one!
Thanks for the news, as always!
the absolute curb stomping Graham (while possessed by Cameron) laid down about the Warhammer stuff was very very satisfying to watch.
I know Kathleen saying “I’ll take your name to my grave” was supposed to be reassuring, not threatening, but…
My knowing nook is really just a library that's been sized down for apartment living. Look? Oh no, don't look at it, you'll see my piles of shamefully not yet read books.
Another fine Canadian Heritage moment.
it is midnight where i live i just cackled dementedy at the horus joke my windows are open all my neighbours heard me
Remember Alf? He's back in pog form.
are you planning on learning some references that are not old enough to vote.
@@TheEvilCheesecake No.
Great note and analysis around Warhammer
Annapurna: We'll make our own company. With whackbats and bookers.
My favorite internet game news show! 🤩
Thank you for your hard work
After the "prevent your homeland from being overrun by bugs" line, I've decided that Space Marine 2 is actually useful propaganda against spotted lanternflies
I do love you two playing off each other...
Comment for engagement!
Hey I played Watchdogs! Once, at a friends house…
Husband nodding and laughing to all the 40k bits. Great job all
The flat cut to "I'm sorry" got me way too much.
Came here from a Daily Show clip and feel oddly validated now.
"haha stahp 😅"
"no. 😈 "
love it!
Speaking of gambling I remember a Sega Megadrive game from Japan that the final challenge of the gambling game was to go into small tent and bet on russian roulette with yourself. You had to have at least $1million to play. The game 100% ended if you lost.
That sure was an impressive call for engagement.
I am very engaged, I do want to comment and like.
I'm no insider, but the wind I hold my finger to has been saying there was pressure from the owner to preferentially hire would-be scabs
It's ridiculous that the casino in pokemon is seen as not on par with, but worse than, lootboxes.
Other story which of course broke on Thursday (again, to avoid Checkpoint) was Maxis deciding what the Sims community is really after was Roblox like monitisation
Excellent! And yeah, getting addicted is generally sad. I would say there was one good time where I dove into WoW to keep myself busy and away from problematic people. It kept me calm and saving money instead of listening to vapid lies.
Props to the people who all quit their studio at once. That take a lot of courage
Engagement for the Engagement God! BROTHER!
The thing is, the first time a company pulls a stunt like Unity did with the runtime fee you should try to get into a new platform / engine if you can (something often far easier said than done.) Partly because the terms themselves were completely egregious but also because once it has happened once you have to assume it WILL happen again, and ultimately be even worse down the road
19:07 I believe the kids pronounce it "skih-bih-dee"
Accept my humble offering of engagement to please the algorithm gods!
Thank you for the video, here is my engagement nuggie for the algorithm
I saw on a warhammer discord that the comment was confirmed not to actually be him. Not good sourcing, but maybe look into this a bit more
And we couldn't watch your videos without you!
RIP Annapurna people who wanted good negotiations and didn't get it.
On the other hands; Congrats people-at-Annapurna-who-will-hopefully-be-getting-jobs-at-or-starting-a-company-that-actually-respects-them!
This!!!! @@KingTaltia
Which half of the business do you think will survive? The ones who only want to earn money? Or the ones who created some of the most unique and high quality media of the last decade?
@@TheEvilCheesecake Honestly, ask me that question two/three years ago, when I was in the minority of people's thinking; The greedy ones.
However, this year in particular, it feels like for SOME bloody reason people are FINALLY starting to wizen up to this shit and actually be upset with it, and in turn, not allow, or buy garbage games that don't respect them. Look at the state of Destiny, It's always had a trickle of players leaving for Warframe, but since the last Expansion dropped it feels like more players than every have been leaving Destiny in an exodus.
I believe the "working with my predecessor" line from the new Flappy Bird people refers to working with Kek, the person who made the game that Flappy Bird is probably based on. This is not me defending all of the garbage surrounding this.
I continue to believe that Cameron deserves cookies.
Cameron and Nelson write some good stories
Remember folks: The same kind of person who supports your every piece of content by sheer virtue of it being yours, shoves every penny they have into your merch, and viciously fights your detractors on social media... is usually also the person who most wants to cut off your toes as a keep-sake.
Brother. Brother, Brother! Brother... Brother? is not your fault Brother
did cameron help graham with the warhammer story lol or did graham just come to the same phrasings and musings he did in the darktide stream?
oh my god lol
Cameron wrote it, well spotted.
I heard "rotating co-hosts" glanced over, was confused as to why yall weren't spinning, then facepalmed
good episode as usual!
you know the episode is good when the warhammer lore comes out
Man these outros are getting pretty meta....
Comment for engagement with the algorithm. Thanks for the show!
Graham, you did it just right.